2008-08-15 Battle of PNQY-Y, Requiem's Bérézina

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(2008-08-15) Battle of PNQY-Y, 261 total ships killed.

Well, OK so.

We got word that RQM+ATF+UNAT+CAN was doing a big regroup from all sources, requesting basically same ships. Since Wednesday/Thursday we saw capitals of CAN/UNAT finally arriving in Fountain and coming pretty close to snagging few on the path, but alas no luck.

So, thinking the intel on the regroup was accurate -- PL+SOT formed early and went with the LOL option of HACs + Recons with alt carriers as backup. With about 108 in fleet we bridged over to PNQY and dropped on an ATF cyno that went up. Moros, Phoenix and Ark came through with Ark and Phoenix being the lucky ones to get webbed and primaried. Both fell shortly with so many HACs shooting them.

Next few hours seemed to be pretty quiet with only smack being fired across local... But soon around the 20:30 mark we got word of carriers/dreads undocking in all nearby systems and a fleet of 60 or so CAN/UNAT support 4j away. So fired up and now with 110 in fleet with mainly HACs and 15 alt carriers delegating fighters we sent few Muninns/Zealots to different planets ready to pop cynos at any POSes with few dictors ready.

Sure enough, cyno dropped and loooots of carriers came through with plenty of dreads. Maybe 20 Carriers and slightly more Dreads with carriers aligning and warping to the station we were camping with 2x T2 Large Bubbles surrounding it. As carriers entered warp, our dictor managed to catch perhaps half of the fleet behind.

4 Carriers were unlucky to be pulled in a different bubble outside of rep range of everything else, and fell in short order. As the first carrier was entering structure, the fleet of 60+ CAN/UNAT support jumped to PNQY from 9-v.

Unfortunately, 2 Titans were cloaked off the gate and as CAN/UNAT uncloaked and started to shoot the bubble -- double-DD went off. One drake survivor was reported managing to get back to gate and jumping back to 9-v.

As system lagged to hell, RQM+co support was undocking from the station. Double DD lag seemed to push module lag to 5-15 minutes and quickly, all support who undocked died -- probably never loading. And with medical incapped -- being pushed to whatever cloning bays out there.

After support was cleared off the outpost, a staring contest took place with about 60-80 HACs vs. 20-30 Carriers... Obviously not much was killed on either side with 4-5 logistics on PL+SOT side aside from the few undockers who never loaded before dying I'm willing to bet.

Luckily, RQM+co was not done yet and they warped 10-20 support to the outpost at varying ranges with 15-20 fleet BS going to grid load positions 260km below the station. I'm, not sure if it was lag or unfortunate timing on warps -- but support landed good 5 minutes before the fleet BS went to grid load and thus were pretty much all dead when the fleet BS arrived.

I imagine that grid was taking a while to load as a solo Eris made the trip from 230km out to the fleet bs and bubbled the fleet while all the HACs warped to 0 with close range ammo + sensor scripts loaded. As bubbles went up, result wasn't too pretty for RQM+co.

Once again as we warped off -- RQM+co tried an undock from station. However, lag must have been pretty bad still as we had time to finish off the grid load fleet BSes and warp back down to undock and still manage to kill 6-7 BSes...

As carriers started docking, it appeared RQM+co were ready to call it a night. A little birdy whispered a pos pwd to us @ a tower with Nyx and couple caps at it... so we setup and warped 2 titans and a Machariel over to inside the shields .

Unfortunately -- titans missed and the Machs bump wasn't quite enough to push the Nyx before the PWD was reset. Unfortunate this meant the CAN Phoenix was pushed out as well... And he was quickly tackled and destroyed by 70+ HACs and 15 carriers worth of fighters.

We hanged around trying to catch more people logging on and bouncing off the shields while incapping more services, but seems like the night is pretty much calmed down now.

Epic, Epic night. One of those few to remember in ones EVE life, thank you so very much RQM+co -- that was fun! Sorry the lag didn't go your way tonight . Hope you had fun thou too!

[NotARealName]

For the life of me I still can't understand why RQM still hangs around, or why PL hasn't gotten around to sieging PNQY. RQM is clearly outclassed here.

[bobtheknob]

I'd say let them have pnqy and keep chaining them!

[Vladic Ka]

I'd say let them have pnqy and keep chaining them!

This is exactly what is happening. The numbers and ship quality rqm and co. are bringing is falling dramatically.

[Euriti]

For the life of me I still can't understand why RQM still hangs around, or why PL hasn't gotten around to sieging PNQY. RQM is clearly outclassed here.

Tbh we just want fights.

[bobtheknob]

Some lulz from SHC

RQM achieve nothing last night lol, in my carrier we killed some support, but thats all.

Our cap FC went mute on ts as the first carrier went down, so we had no direction, luckily a grunt took over and we got back into a defencive sphere and held the undocking point at the staion, while PL shot into us Smile

Lag was terriable at the start (when the dd's went off, thx shaddo for that eye opener) but after about 30mins it cleared up nicely.

Sorry we couldn't bring a better fight to you last night PL, not sure what was going on lol.

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[John Smith]

Look at eve tv suck his cock.

[theTwilitehour]

For the life of me I still can't understand why RQM still hangs around, or why PL hasn't gotten around to sieging PNQY. RQM is clearly outclassed here.

Really if there was a weaker alliance near you that let you keep slaughtering their fleets you would rush off and siege them rather than enjoying consistently crushing them? Especially when you have no desire to "secure" the space for carebears...

[k]

All the corps in RQM are worthless except Havoc.

[Carebear]

For the life of me I still can't understand why RQM still hangs around, or why PL hasn't gotten around to sieging PNQY. RQM is clearly outclassed here.

One thing I have learned is that there is a lot more to politics than meets the eye. Its not as simple as PL vs RQM. Otherwise they would have done it already.

PNQY is within reasonable distance from the MAX stuff, and if timed incorrectly, it could result in a huge loss. Take the day that RQM lost their titan for example. The entire region was littered with gbc folks killing any tcf and capital ships that did not cyno out. Had TCF stayed in system for a short while longer, or had IAC not suicided themselves to slow down bob a few systems out, then there might have been 30+ capital losses insted of the few.

So I think PL is waiting for a perfect time to strike, and PL has plenty of time to find a window of making a attack

[Yorda]

One thing I have learned is that there is a lot more to politics than meets the eye. Its not as simple as PL vs RQM. Otherwise they would have done it already.

PNQY is within reasonable distance from the MAX stuff, and if timed incorrectly, it could result in a huge loss. Take the day that RQM lost their titan for example. The entire region was littered with gbc folks killing any tcf and capital ships that did not cyno out. Had TCF stayed in system for a short while longer, or had IAC not suicided themselves to slow down bob a few systems out, then there might have been 30+ capital losses insted of the few.

So I think PL is waiting for a perfect time to strike, and PL has plenty of time to find a window of making a attack

You should probably stick with mining.

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1 day 2 hours remaining until self-destruct.

déroute [de?ut] nf (Mil) ? rout (fig); total collapse;mettre en déroute ? to rout;
en déroute ? routed

[Vladic Ka]

Is that from thier forums?