Carebear stare
The “Minmitar Republic” (sic) started hostilities with the New Eden Research Alliance, effective 110.08.23. As we’d not had any prior communication from them, we don’t know their specific objectives, though we suspect them of belonging to that psychotic class of pod pilots just looking for fights.
Just before the fight started, one of our experienced combat pilots played a few can games with them and shot down a MINMI ship (a Cormorant, if I recall correctly). After the war actually started, they wanted to play docking games at Rens 6-8 BTT. The same pilot from earlier turned that around on them, taking out a Vexor, Rifter, and a pod. Apparently, they had not expected the “carebear stare”.
Our jubilation turned to frustration, as some inexperienced pilots made costly mistakes. Mission-fit battlecruisers do poorly in PvP, particularly when pilots use them for scouting, and so we lost a Ferox and then a Drake in the Jita area.
I’d like to say that everybody learned their lessons, but I doubt it. As I went stationside tonight, some of the more hardened pilots had begun to put together a fleet to go after MINMI. I hope to hear a positive report tomorrow on that op.
Photo credit Hen3k Hen3k via Flickr
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Date: 2009-08-23
Categories: Journal Entries