Yesterday, an engagement took place in the system of EFM-C4, Insmother between members of the Red Menace Coalition and the Geminate Coalition. Once the dust settled, the approximate total ISK lost exceeded 90 Billion.
The reason behind this fight was an act of aggression by Triumvirate. [TRI] on one of Red Alliance‘s [RED] low-end mineral moons in the system with the hopes of achieving a “good fight”. This fight is the first since the “friendly reset that occurred a few weeks ago” according to Greg2010 from [RED], with the apparent reason for the reset being that “once eastern campaign came to its end, we decided to do friendly reset for content.”
As the fight occurred over their asset Greg2010 provided the following information:
We formed about 150 people in Dominixs with triage and dreadnaught support. TRI formed about 110 people in Rattlesnakes with their own triage and dreadnaughts. We cyno’d into the system after the POS came out of reinforcement whilst TRI took gates. They warped to us at approx 40-50kms, we managed to bubble their dreads at the gate and began fighting their snakes and triage.
TRI had a interdictor in our staging to bubble our own capitals. Once we managed to kill that dictor, we jumped in with dreads. TRI put together some support for their dreads and managed to kill our dictors at the gate and warped to us. We pinged supers and escalated, killing all TRI dreads. However, we lost critical amount of DPS and couldn’t break snakes’ tank, so we got our supers safe and disengaged.
On a final note TRI is a very good enemy, and Wyverns are awesome 😛
From the timeline of killmails shown on this modified battle report it is clear that for both entities the triage was the initial primary with [TRI] scoring the initial blow on this front before the [RED] dreads landed on grid and began obliterating the [TRI] Chimeras with the support of a Leviathan class titan.
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It was noted by information provided by Cpt Patrick Archer from [TRI] that one of their chimera pilots screamed on comms “I TANKED, I TANKED!!” following the survival of a DD by the leviathan; making it the most excitement he has heard in the last few days.
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Once [TRI] managed to get their own dreads on field, they quickly began clearing the [RED] capitals with six being destroyed before they lost more of their own due to the quick escalation by [RED] and their neut fit battleships.
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[RA] supers appeared on field and the [TRI] fleet began focusing on the Dominix’s which quickly fell. The [RA] fleet was focused on killing the remaining [TRI] capitals. This therefore prevented [RED] from being able to break any more of [TRI]’s Rattlesnakes following this loss.
Cpt Patrick Archer provided some additional information regarding the fight:
We were preparing to go dunk on Suddenly Spaceships down in The Forge after they hit a blue tower.
Moments before we left, one of our members notified us of the fact that he had solo-reinforced a Chromium (lol) moon in EFM a day or so ago. Intel suggested that RA had posted a max number CTA for them and their pets.
Since we take all the content we get, we figured we might as well test the waters and have a nice brawl with RA.
The regional gate is of course an issue, but we knew that from the start.If this is the outcome of a fight over a Chromium, we’ll see what the future brings. 🙂 All in all we had a great fight, shout-outs to RA for bringing the fight and to our brave solo-dread to ref it in the first place.
Clearly for both groups it achieved the purpose of a “good fight” and looks like it could be the beginning of many between the coalitions in the region. With the introduction of the so-called “FozzieSov” beginning tomorrow following the Aegis Patch release it will be interesting to see if this escalates into Sov based fights. With Geminate Coaltion losing 56 Billion ISK compared to Red Menace losing 36 Billion ISK it looks to be a bloody one which could draw large groups following the escalation shown by [RA].
We will be sure to keep you posted on how the regional fighting develops in the future.
I would like to thank all groups involved for their responses and hope I did you justice.
Just to note Geminate Coalition is primarily made up of Legion of xXDEATHXx [X.I.X], [TRI], SOLAR FLEET [SOLAR] + Advent of Fate [CORD]. Red Menace Coalition is primarily made up of Dream Fleet [DRF], [RED], BLUE Alliance [BLUE.], Independent Operators Consortium [IOC] and Lux Aetherna [LUX]. The reason the alliances mentioned above were contacted and focused on is due to the numbers provided by each alliance in the engagement.
Update: According to a source in [TRI] they are not part of GemCo but only blue to a few of their members, primarily [X.I.X], and run their own standings not following those of the coalition. It was also noted that they reset standings with [RED] a few months ago not a few weeks.
A brief clip of the carrier pilot simply stating that he did tank is shown below:
Update 2: [CORD] alliance executor tru drksniper stated that they are also “only blue with XIX and a select few renter alliance’s requested by XIX. We are not part of the GEMCO coalition and manage our own standings.”
Another video has been provided below:
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