In the late EU timezone on the 18th December 2014 a large fight went down between members of the N3 coalition, the Russian alliances of Against ALL Authorities, The Afterlife, C0VEN and Soviet Union and the ClusterFuck Coalition.
The N3 fleet consisted of T3’s, Logi support and assorted tackle and numbered around four hundred pilots. The combined CFC and Russian alliances numbered just over three hundred and consisted mostly of Ishtar’s and Logi support for the Russians, while the CFC brought a mixture of their harpy assault frigate doctrines and a large bomber wing.
The fight was spread over three systems with the main one being 0-O6XF where a number of russian SBU’s had become vulnerable to attack. The N3 coalition destroyed these in quick order with the help of a small portion of their super capital fleet and a wing of Archon carriers. While they were doing this a Skeleton Crew Maulus ‘fuck you’ wing jumped into the waiting arms of the CFC bombers and were wiped out en masse.
The Russians Ishtar fleet and allied CFC harpies sat on the ingate to 0-O and refused to jump through to the waiting T3 fleet of the N3 alliance. The N3 alliance chose to jump through and into the Russian/CFC fleets, however they were then cross jumped by the Russian Ishtar fleet into 0-O6XF. This turned out to be a mistake as the TIDI created by 400 ishtar’s and legions trading places allowed the N3 to start murdering the CFC harpies that were stuck on the gate in C-VZAK.
The Russian Ishtar’s tried to return to the gate while firing on part of the Nulli Secunda fleet which had not jumped into C-V, mainly the Logistic wing. Their attack on the Nulli forces in 0-O was hindered by the fact that the NCdot alliance had also decided to show up in force with a Proteus fleet, which came in via titan bridge right on top of them and started tackling anything within range.
The Russians, now severely outnumbered and outgunned, decided to leave their CFC friends to their fates and extract as much of their forces as possible to a nearby friendly POS.
At the end of the fight the N3 Coalition had lost 7.13 billion ISK while the Russian alliances had lost in the region of 11.2 billion. The CFC came out the best, losing just 5.3 billion ISK. However considering that the Russians and the CFC were working together, you should probably add their total to that of the Russians, which would bring you to 16.5 billion ISK loss for the combined CFC/RUS alliances, this will give you a better overview of the outcome in regards to ISK.
The strategic objective was also won by the N3 coalition when they managed to destroy the RUS SBU’s in 0-O6XF.
The full battle report can be found here.
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