On the morning of the 21st December 2014 a group from the Hard Knocks Inc. corporation (who by the way live in a class 5 and do not run PVE anomalies in it), Lazerhawks and Exit Strategy. managed to snag a group of capital ships who were, along with a couple of webbing Loki T3’s and a Vindicator, running the local anomalies for the bountiful ISK which can be made in a C6 class wormhole.
The alliance that got caught was the Grand Sky Wizards, who are a small alliance who also pride themselves as being part of the PVP culture of high end hole living.
The most interesting thing about the kills is that the aggressing fleet were in frigate or destroyer class ships.
I spoke to Noobman, one of the main FC’s for Hard Knocks Inc. who gave me the low down on what happened;
MaxDel of Quantum Explosion, members of E X P L O S I O N, found them, it was a frigate and dessie only wormhole, which is un-collapsable. So Grand Sky Wizards decided to risk it and bear’d with the frig hole open any way. This is very stupid because the hole connected them straight into QEX home system. We used bombers because it was a frigate hole. In a c6 Magnater they were doing over 1200 DPS each. We literally melted the caps.
MaxDel who scouted it told me where to go and I found bodies to throw at it. I originally contacted LZHKS To supplement my own fleet. My goal was to muster 30-40 bombers. It was around 11 pm in the US and we needed numbers in fleet. I usually just hop on the LZHK TS and ask if their dudes are interested. HK and LZHKS were unsure how many people they could get so late at night so I contacted Dark Armata, who runs an AUTZ C6 corp.
We formed in Amarr so everyone could buy a Bomber or support ship if they needed to. Couple of LZHKS and Exit Strategy.. guys were planning on using Focused Void bombs to neut out the Archons.
Total number in our combined fleet was around 50, we had somewhere around 35-40 bombers. A lot of the bombers died to sleepers but we managed to take down all the caps pretty quick before we ran out of DPS.
For those of you who do not know what effects the Magnetar C6 wormhole would have on the attacking fleet, here is a table from the EvE Wiki;
In the C6 version you would receive a 100% increase to your damage output and also to missile explosion radius. This, as Noobman said, would boost the damage of the standard bomber to around 1200 dps each. Having around 40 of them this is a massive 48k DPS against largely stationary targets, to which you would be able to apply your full damage potential.
Video of the fight from the Hard Knocks Inc. perspective;
All in all, the Grand Sky Wizards alliance lost around 27.5 billion ISK in this one engagement and included the loss of a Naglfar and two Moros dreadnaughts, two Archon carriers, two web loki tech 3 cruisers and a Vindicator pirate battleship. All of the ships lost had faction or deadspace modules fitted, which explains the high loss in ISK when you look at the numbers of ships which were actually destroyed.
No-one from the Grand Sky Wizards was available to comment on the losses at the time of writing.
Full battle report can be found here.
Video of the fight from Exit Strategy.
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