Jul 032012
 

Totally late, but at least I got round to finishing it – however short it may be.

Anyway, few weeks ago, Ganked 28: TEETOO rolled on out into the cold unforgiving reaches of New Eden.  The theme for the night was Frigate hulls, but only if there was a T2 variant of said hull – and yes people could bring the T2 if they so wanted.

We departed from Agil – as I fancied going Querious, Delve, and Period Basis.  I did not know up front that the CFC/Honey-badgers had started to move in already.  Passing through northern Querious we killed yet more fail bombers, turns out CVA doesn’t have the franchise on these! Eventually we ended up in 319-3d, a couple of weeks before the rest of New Eden dog-piled in, where we shot a few dude’s who just kept being bad around us while we were on a bio.

We moved onwards again towards Period Basis shortly after the break taking down some retarded HUN pilots who fail at smart-bombing along the way, following which some TEST bro’s who fly with us on occasion got in touch and let us know they too had a frig heavy gang rolling around and I said come at me bro.  Just before they did, we found this, and killed it. TEST then failed to jump in, instead NULLI jumped in and we shot some things, with TEST dribbling in instead and we shot them too until eventually NULLI’s inability to want to fight without logistics overcame our fragile frigate hulls. 

After a short regroup break, our valiant group headed out again.  I scouted us into Querious and caught some more fail locals.  We slowly bimbled around passing 1DH- without the TEST swarm even knowing we where there, until Kalaratiri jumped into Y-2ANO in Fountain and found a gatecamp waiting for us – that he found it as a result of the blowing him up is another issue entirely. What followed was a brilliant fight with plenty of explosions and tons of good fights offered in local. I was hero-tackling expensive toys and went down keeping a lachesis pinned, so Daneel took over and did a bang up job of keeping the guys fighting as we kept going in order to win us the ISK war.  He firmly did that!  Kudos must go out to the Aurora Shadow guys who fought us and did so in an “honourable” way, ie no logistics! 

All in all it was yet another good night, and we all made mention of the fact that frig nights or cruiser nights seem to be the best times we have, people are much more willing to fight us…

Vidya Footage

Ranek Auscent made this:

 

As usual, the wonderful folks over at Somer.Blink – who are celebrating their 250 TRILLION ISK milestone – sponsored several prizes for the evening.

Scouting Distinction – 1x Stilletto, 1x Crow, 1x Taranis, 1x Malediction (Kalaratiri, Green Gambit, Lady Irradiance)

Corpse Collector – Eris (Nicola Abre-Kai)

Spot Prizes – Sentinel (Dracoth Simertet, Luscius Uta, Edward Tivruskii, sens1, SMM Scotland1993, Scyleth, ABrownie, Bernadette Kasenumi, Solivan Dallocort, lolololol01)

Combat Distinction – Arazu (Certissian, Hackbert, Major Trant, Nutjob O’Crazy, Velox Versutus)

Combat Excellence – Sleipnir (Luckyccs) Awarded pretty much because on his way home after our first whelp he blitzed 3 guys who were trying to end him.  

Heretic – 50 Tormentors, 50 Navitas, 50 Bantams, 50 Probes (Y’talana Ktra’a)

Jun 072012
 

The recent weekend back in the “real world” saw the Diamond Jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth the Second, and to mark the event Ganked 27: Kotuku was held – kotuku being her majesty’s title in Maori.  The theme for the evening was missile boats, due to the Inferno update which saw missile graphics improved to the highest levels of awesomeness!

We formed up in Rens in the mid afternoon – what with my plan being a slow wander South by South East – and of course, had the usual messed up conga before we headed out in to the wild blue yonder.  Our first null-sec stop was 7Q- in Great Wildlands and on our arrival we began to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee in local, mostly because there was no one to explode. Something which proved to not change at all as we passed through empty system after empty system, until one of our scouts informed us of some form of shiny in 7-I.  Suddenly we went pro and had a prober race to the system, meanwhile another scout got eyes in G-0 in Curse, of a possible fight between some dudes that we may be able to crash. Turned out RaidenDOT (who are not dead yet) and Initiative Mercenaries were doing “something” in that system, so we ran over – promptly scaring the shiny in 7-I away – and camped the G-0 gate in KLMT-W instead.  Now its pretty possible those groups were working together as suddenly some ‘Nados appeared on the other side of the gate, however they soon went away and Abaddons un-docked to take their place…

This was when we decided we would rather live than whelp so early into the roam, and started burning off, not before we took down a few devoters that tried to catch out gang – we did lose a few ships but not as many had we stood and fought, and after being chased for a while we moved from Curse into Scalding Pass, were we came across more gangs, which didnt help us at all as we kept getting split up.  Eventually, after getting over the shock of how busy Curse and Scalding have become, I ordered us to reform in Sendaya. Funnily enough some 60 ships had survived whatever the hell Curse had become, so I was pretty happy.

Part One was over.  It could have been done much better on my part, but the prospect of massive whelps early on just isnt something I get off on, I much prefer some foreplay first, followed by a nice long sweaty session full of explosions.

Following some reships and what not we moved out from Sendaya, with Providence as our target this time.  We ran over a flashy Tornado on the way, however when we hit Providence the region seemed to be doing a good impression of Great Wildlands. NO ONE WAS ACTIVE. Until we found a couple of ratters in VKI- and used magicks to find them, and kill them. Provi after that was a tad quiet – again – and we had to resort to running down to HED-GP in Catch to find a fight. We killed a Rapier, pilot got mad and brought a bunch of stuff to kill us. We killed some more and then we either died or ran away, I forget as I did actually die as I was sat on their warp in…

Part two had ended. Was generally disappointed in Providence, as usually the locals find their balls and fight us, but even their bombers were failing this week…

Eventually a 3rd roam went out – it pretty late and we had been going for hours by this point so we had few pilots with us – and we headed up through Great Wildlands towards the North, however we did not see much until we arrived in N-RAEL, where we killed some shinies, decided we were too tired and drunk (THE QUEEN!) to go on, therefore after some glorious op success we gave up and called it a night.  All in all a really fun day was had by all.  

*Note on “The Queen”, this is basically a toast and when someone says “The Queen” you repeat it and take a drink. I think over the series of roams “The Queen” was said at least 50 times…  

Geddonz was back from Cuba and vidya’d for us:

 

As usual Somer.Blink sponsored several prizes for the night:

Scouting Distinction – Launcher + Probes + 1 crow (Max 3) (Josh Lebanoni, BBsoerjabi, Jamie Banks)

Corpse Collector – Flycatcher + Manticore (Nyu Trustan)

Spot Prizes – Caldari Navy Hookbills (luckyccs, Combat Mink, Nyu Trustan, Kuhal Dalan, Gribbly Lazair, Beanhead2, Uclanchar, Jedi Master06, Jason Bouryne, Mourning Souls, Nyquist Dispute, Jenny Marcus)

Combat Distinction – Osprey Navy Issue (Max 5) (Canidy, Scyleth, Daneel Trevize, Krytan Reborn, Green Gambit)

Combat Excellence – CNR or a Fleet Phoon (This is up to Blink) (Nicola Abre-Kai)

Heretic (lol I cant use missiles) – Keres (Yanni39)

Best local spam relating to HM Queen – Caracal Navy Issue (macH eoN)

Apr 292012
 

Today’s write up is brought to you by the letter A, the number over 100 and Somerblink, who kindly sponsored several prizes for me to award to attendee’s of the roam.

Last night was the 24th Ganked roam, and the theme this go round was Amarr, so golden spaceships firing magical lasers were a go. And some random vessels from those attendee’s who cannot fly Amarr.

Our chosen destination for this evening was Syndicate, and after much crying from me because Dotlan was broken – which meant I had to use my EVE strategic maps book to do some initial route planning, good but I cannot use it on my second monitor now can I – we moved on out.  However it was not long before the “crazy” kicked in inside of my mind, and upon being informed of a cyno in Ostingele towards a station, I did what I normally do and warped us there…

Right on top of a “deathstar” fitted pos. Much hilarity ensured as the fleet bailed off asap and we went to the sun and killed some flashy duders, while the rest of the fleet arrived. Eventually we actually moved out towards TXW-EI my chosen entry point to nullsec, but as it turns out, RnK those masters of the smartie BS cyno trick live in that area, and so I made a call to turn us around and enter via MHC-R3.

[ 2012.04.28 20:24:42 ] Mangala Solaris > this fleet made me run away :(

We then wandered the eastern half of Syndicate. Which was pretty quiet except for a few Agony Empire bombers who died before their bombs actually landed.

SEBO POWER!

[ 2012.04.28 20:58:00 ] C’rith Nemes > Whoever tossed that bomb sure as hell missed the main body of the fleet.

Major Floor promised to offer them some advice on doing it right. Hope he did.

We got pretty bored meandering through eastern syndicate, as despite our best efforts we could not find anything to kill that would not either run or dock, although on that note, we did try to wtfbbq a carrier on a station while convo-bombing the pilot (Drivvin) who got very mad in local, DESPITE docking and depriving us of a mail. 

[ 2012.04.28 21:33:17 ] Drivvin > u little fucking faggots…thats sooo petitionable
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:27 ] Max Teranous > hehehe
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:29 ] luckyccs > go ahead
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:31 ] Nicola Abre-Kai > you seem mad
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:32 ] Jaymes Welty > REPORTED
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:33 ] Bunniy > .(\__/)(=’.’=) (“)_(“)
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:34 ] HerrKommandant > lol
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:35 ] Vora Dumem > http://i.imgur.com/r2zvK.jpg
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:36 ] Exoth3rmic > if you don’t want to talk to us
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:37 ] Luscius Uta > u mad bro?
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:38 ] Exoth3rmic > that’s not my fault
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:38 ] Sarcos > mmm tears
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:39 ] Bunniy > .(\__/)(=’.’=) (“)_(“)
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:40 ] Vincent Death > OMG WE ARE SO SORRY
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:41 ] Drivvin > ur gettin ur lil chaeting punk asses gagged
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:41 ] Max Teranous > i wanted to talk to you!
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:44 ] Bunniy > .(\__/)(=’.’=) (“)_(“)
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:46 ] Ranek Auscent > i wanted to talk to you :(
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:47 ] Ralina Foley > Not our fault if you have crappy computer
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:47 ] Fintarue > u mad?
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:47 ] Liara Bathana > u mad bro?
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:48 ] Algot Tram > UMAD BRO
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:48 ] Combat Mink > u mad bro
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:48 ] Mahalleinir Daishan > u mad bro>
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:48 ] Yaaar Smackdaddy > u mad bro
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:48 ] Mactabilis Maero > u mad bro?
[ 2012.04.28 21:33:49 ] Ceofore Aideron > umadbro?

(Lots more “u mad bro” followed)

[ 2012.04.28 21:35:10 ] Drivvin > lol
[ 2012.04.28 21:35:12 ] Drivvin > idiots
[ 2012.04.28 21:35:16 ] Drivvin > unsub
[ 2012.04.28 21:35:23 ] Drivvin > u reak of fail

He then went on to compare killboards, so a lot of local spam became Ganked regulars linking their stats for a laugh, and then the best bit of the local chat with this amazing duder:

[ 2012.04.28 21:38:42 ] Alec Stacer > Driven, your blues would like you to act like an adult

Obviously we moved on and back towards MHC, where lo and behold we found an Agony basic class – that had actually set out on time! They bubbled the 6E- gate so we jumped in and shot them, but they jumped out, so we jumped after them as soon as our aggro had gone, as they had bubbled themselves again.  It was a slaughter. Just not a slaughter of the Ganked fleet. I did feel a little dirty, but then I heard that it was possible the Agony gang had some bad intel about our fleet composition, and I felt less dirty.

[ 2012.04.28 23:28:23 ] Phantom OfKrankor > [23:28:11] RageChild > Agony got bad Intel on Ganked being a frig fleet

Following this “GREAT SUCCESS” we took a quick break then moved out towards the only named system in Syndicate, however we did not get much further than that. And a brief explanation of why follows:

1) Cloaky bubbler in system.

2) Bubbles up.

3) Bubble is refreshed as scout lands, but before they see anything on scan.

4) Scout calls bubble as 10km off gate.

5) FC warps fleet to a “clear” gate – heh, its only a bubble and only 10km off gate.

6) As we warp, cloaky drops a cyno and in comes ROOKS N KINGS in smartie BS having been bridged in by their titan. 

7) It was a slaughter. Of us.  TiDi kicked in and we could not do a thing – I do admit that I was laughing my ass off though, as it was just a typical thing to happen to us after such a buoyant earlier fight.

Yes we had them happen to us again.  It cost us over 100 ships, and quite a lot of anger and tears in fleet and the RVB Ganked channel, but in the defence of the scouts and myself, this particular trick is a very difficult one to be on the look out for, especially with neutral eyes and even more so with our very open Ganked comms. We win some we lose some. 

To those who think that the fact that after this we had 40 or so folks remaining that obviously I am terrible then yes I am, but this happens once in a while a major whelp occurs and folks go home, yet MANY of those very folks return the following week despite any bad vibes they felt the week before, having calmed down they realise that they did in fact have a good time. But just to be nice, I am currently drafting an article that sets out everything that one can possibly experience on a ganked, along with a basic primer on some of the terms used by myself and others on our comms. As I am just that nice.

Anyway, long story short, we went back out with vastly reduced numbers. Killed some stuff, died to the Agony roam, and then logged. Then I stayed up to 6am drinking Cognac…

In other news Geddonz and Jaymes Welty both did vidyas of the roam:

 

And now for prizes!!!

Scouting Distinction – Sisters Expanded Probe Launcher, 10 Sisters Combat probes per award. Max of three. (Akuma Nixen, Fintarue, Eviliain)

Corpse Collector – Heretic. (Exoth3rmic with 17 pod mails!)

Spot Prizes – 10 Slicers. (Ceofore Aideron, Judontknowme, Bernadette Kasenumi, Mactabilis Maero, Belkadan, Lemmingster, Rokhaard Indiz, Max Teranous, Nyu Trustan, Serina Bae)

Combat Distinction – Zealot. Max of five. (Shu’jiha Shiznae, Algot Tram, Combat Mink, Vincent Death, Ranek Auscent)

Combat Excellence – Damnation. (Daneel Trevize)

Heretic – Harbinger. Most killmails with a non-Amarr ship. (Nutjob O’Crazy)

A HUGE thanks and shout out to the folks at SomerBlink once again for providing these prizes!

Apr 242012
 

As per my title really.

I had a small crisis of conscience on whether I was going to continue to play EVE, but a few things happened including an excellent brawl in RVB sponsored by SomerBlink and of course my usual Ganked shenanigans.

What does this mean for my randomly updated blog? I’ll be getting back into it as soon as I can find some words to write.  And find vidyas of all the Gankeds since I last wrote about one.

Mangala

Mar 062012
 

House2twist took the reigns of  Ganked this past weekend, as I apparently needed to get outside and experience “real life” – which by the way I did and it was tons of fun.

So it falls to him to provide words for the Ganked roam. His chosen theme was nano + DPS. 

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House2twist writes:

21:00 GMT, Vaajaita, 141 people wanting to pew pew.

Roll out towards Pure Blind for some funzies and see what we can round up. Everyone is in nano-d ships, but being the intelligent people RvB-er’s are some thought I meant to use EANM’s not nano fibers. Either way, there were a lot of us and we were hoping to do some damage.

First jump into lo-sec has an aggressed proteus and drake on our out gate. We do what all ganked people want to do and shoot them. The drake goes down but the proteus was able to jump back and get away on the other side. We continue on. We keep moving until we hit X47L-Q where the goons decide to come out and play.

We were outnumber by their fleet who also had plenty of logi. Being the crappy FC I am, and not fitting arty’s to my nanocane, I had everyone stay in close instead of kiting. We took down 2 machariels, some scimis and miscellaneous other things but eventually the bulk of us died to their RR.

After this the fleet dwindled down to smaller numbers. Around 50 were left and reshipped into proper nanocanes and such with artillery. We headed out towards BWF (like we always do) and tried to rile up nulli. And we did. 

We hit MR4, and they were ready, also with a arty cane fleet but with scimi support. (Logi sucks, don’t be a vagina and pew against us for real). I get fleet aligned and pulse MWD’s to get some range and start picking off what we can. Unfortunately, they outnumber us and have scimi support so its hard to break them. We kill a few things but again succomb to RR

Overall, it was a great night and I just need some practice FC-ing. Also, it would probably be a bad idea to live stream our shenanigans on the interwebs before we even leave.

House out.

Mangala’s Note.  House did a good job regardless of how the night went overall, plenty of kills and some stunners amongst them to boot!

Feb 122012
 

Not really going to write much about last nights Ganked.  Suffice to say taking out over 100+ arty thrashers is as fun as it ever was.

Despite this:

Which was a very very well executed trap by Rooks ‘n’ Kings.

And look they did not even scoop our corpses:

Following the above, we reshipped, lost a few members and then went back out, and slowly meandered from Syndicate to Fountain to Delve to Querious and eventually Catch, ending up in HED-GP.  Along the way we had to smack everyone to get any sort of action, and in HED, we did not get any till half of the few we took there had logged off and gone to sleep.

I am seriously doubting the will to fight of so much of null, those people who spend all their time claiming to be pro, and yet will not fight a rag tag group of thrashers lead by yours truly. I think I’ll do some words on this during the week, so stay tuned.

Anyway, Geddonz frasped, so enjoy it! He does a great job of condensing 7 hours into 10 minutes.

Ash Veratis also frasped:

Feb 062012
 

Let me tell you managing 220 people, some of whom have never flown together, some of whom have never flown in anger, is an experience.

Yes folks, it was Ganked 15: All Back of the Bus last-night and it was a memorable one.  

First off we had advertised the roam on the EVE sub-reddit and it had also been arranged that EVE Radio would be in attendance, as a result we opened up the fleet to the listeners of Tranquillity’s premier radio station, which resulted in over 220 in fleet at its peak.  Which was a glorious sight, especially as 90% actually turned up in the hulls suggested by myself: Brutix, Cyclone, Ferox & Prophecy.

We managed to leave Rens back on time – and hit the low sec meetup to grab our blinkies, then piled into Great Wildlands and moved down towards Curse, with not much happening along the way, until we get into K-B2D3 where there was a large gang featuring Machariels!

It was here that the size of the fleet, the general unruliness of comms and my obvious sobriety came into play, with a total clusterf*** resulting from messed up fleet warps, to scouts calling stuff for other scouts to bits of the fleet trying to be warpins – and failing; we did score some kills, but lost a fair few folks along the way while doing so. But thems the breaks I suppose. I know now that my limit for “command” is around 150 at most for a Ganked, maybe 100 for more serious affairs.  

And so we moved on, having realised that -A- had retaken HED-GP and are usually good for the under the shirt, over the bra action we all really craved we headed there.  Your’s truly decloaked first when we jumped into a gang of Zealots off a gate, luckily House2Twist took the reigns again and did a marvellous job from then on including a good fight in HED itself.  Awesome work as ever!

By this time the fleet had dwindled downwards to much more manageable numbers, however apparently there was a sporting event in the USofA and many folks logged to prep for that. The best of us stayed on and ventured through Querious and into Delve, were we messed up some locals – we hoped they would bring friends but they didnt. Since we had not yet died, we decided to visit Test again, this time we went to Fountain.  Took us some time, and some local spam, but the locals agreed to fight us.  

We who are about to die salute you!

Except we did not die, we fought a drake heavy gang with logi support that jumped into us, and won. Well that was a new one for us.  

Suddenly it was 2am and we meandered out of Fountain and through Aridia and into high sec space again, 30+ of the original 220+ left standing, having roamed over 100 jumps from the south east corner of empire to the north west corner of null, taking over 100 names along the way.  

Overall a brilliant night as ever, very messy early on, but that improved along the way, and I know I need to drink more at the start of the nights now…

Next week we return to Saturdays, with the Kaley Cuoco Principle. I shall see you in Stacmon at 21.00 on the 11th February.

Videos:

Jaymes Whelty’s Us V TEST

Geddonz of the whole night:

strongfarce (Not sure who you are in eve fella) did a couple of vidyas:

Jan 242012
 

Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake,

That was basically my scan of the Ganked 13 fleet, of course some funny guys flew other things, including your’s truly who was in this:

[Tengu, Flying Coffin]
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Nanofiber Internal Structure II

Shadow Serpentis 100MN Afterburner
Federation Navy Stasis Webifier
Republic Fleet Warp Disruptor
Large Shield Extender II
Photon Scattering Field II
Invulnerability Field II

Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile

Medium Ancillary Current Router I
Medium Ancillary Current Router I
Medium Warhead Rigor Catalyst I

Tengu Defensive – Supplemental Screening
Tengu Electronics – Dissolution Sequencer
Tengu Engineering – Capacitor Regeneration Matrix
Tengu Offensive – Accelerated Ejection Bay
Tengu Propulsion – Fuel Catalyst

Yes, folks I really flew that on a Ganked, no one ever said the ships had to be cheap!

We moved out with the aim of visiting Providence – and this time nothing would stop us. 120 ships is quite the key to any door…

Apart from a speed bump or two along the way the path to 9UY4-H and the homicide of a fleet member, Providence was eerily quiet, almost too quiet. We passed through 9UY and headed deeper, but with no signs of anyone anywhere really, until a scout found some fella’s holed up in a pos, a kronos amongst them. It would have been rude to not say hello.

And what a hello we gave them.

[ 2012.01.21 22:22:18 ] EVE System > Channel changed to Local : K1I1-J
[ 2012.01.21 22:22:29 ] Hoarr > LOCAL SPIKE
[ 2012.01.21 22:22:32 ] tgl3 > WHERE
[ 2012.01.21 22:22:35 ] Robertson Nolen > HIGH
[ 2012.01.21 22:22:39 ] Varamuin Aroota > AS FUCK
[ 2012.01.21 22:22:39 ] wiLik > JITA
[ 2012.01.21 22:22:40 ] Hoarr > ON THE SUN
[ 2012.01.21 22:22:40 ] House2twist > WHAT?
[ 2012.01.21 22:22:44 ] Varamuin Aroota > DERPAHERP
[ 2012.01.21 22:22:54 ] silent terror > wait what we’re in null? FC!
[ 2012.01.21 22:22:54 ] Robertson Nolen > IS THE MEANING OF LIFE?
[ 2012.01.21 22:23:13 ] Varamuin Aroota > DRUUUUUGS
[ 2012.01.21 22:23:28 ] Bunniy > locl spik guiz!
[ 2012.01.21 22:24:02 ] Mangala Solaris > whats a spike?
[ 2012.01.21 22:24:16 ] Korenchkin > y u no come out to play?
[ 2012.01.21 22:24:32 ] silent terror > oh hai!
[ 2012.01.21 22:24:37 ] Hoarr > lol
[ 2012.01.21 22:24:39 ] Hoarr > gonna melt
[ 2012.01.21 22:24:40 ] Mangala Solaris > fight us
[ 2012.01.21 22:24:55 ] Bunniy > we takin over this space!
[ 2012.01.21 22:24:59 ] Sofia Fraga > heya guys
[ 2012.01.21 22:25:10 ] Luc Fawkes > GOOD NEWS EVERYBODY
[ 2012.01.21 22:25:14 ] Luc Fawkes > We’re going to clean up your PoS!
[ 2012.01.21 22:26:07 ] House2twist > don’t mind us.
[ 2012.01.21 22:26:10 ] House2twist > training gang
[ 2012.01.21 22:26:18 ] Diana Valenti > all your bases belong to us!
[ 2012.01.21 22:26:41 ] Sofia Fraga > today?
[ 2012.01.21 22:26:53 ] Mangala Solaris > yup we are training
[ 2012.01.21 22:27:00 ] Mangala Solaris > please come out and train us
[ 2012.01.21 22:27:03 ] LizzVicious > what do i shoot?
[ 2012.01.21 22:27:05 ] LizzVicious > again
[ 2012.01.21 22:27:11 ] House2twist > anyone wanna 1v1?
[ 2012.01.21 22:28:18 ] Calyse > we’ll leave the pos alone if you sacrifice the kronos~

Upon landing at the POS we noticed:

  1. It was at a TCU;
  2. It was a small POS;
  3. It had 2 small lasers for defence;
  4. It was a small POS at a TCU with 2 small lasers for defence.

So we did what any drunk group of blood thirsty pilots would do and let our missiles fly.

[ 2012.01.21 22:33:00 ] Mangala Solaris > RVB HAS TAKEN THIS SYSTEM
[ 2012.01.21 22:33:09 ] Mangala Solaris > WE ARE NOW RENTING IT FOR 10B a month
[ 2012.01.21 22:33:11 ] Mangala Solaris > or that kronos
[ 2012.01.21 22:33:18 ] Mangala Solaris > your choice

Reinforcing their tiny, insignificant pos over the space of 10 minutes seemed to make the locals very confused. Ganked is not an alliance…

[ 2012.01.21 22:36:56 ] entroncas > we wait for u here in 2 days
[ 2012.01.21 22:37:05 ] Anunna Morgan > DEAL ;)
[ 2012.01.21 22:37:23 ] Diana Valenti > challenge accepted
[ 2012.01.21 22:37:32 ] entroncas > just because u gather 115 man fleet doens’t mean ur ally still pathetic as it is
[ 2012.01.21 22:37:38 ] tgl3 > umadbro
[ 2012.01.21 22:37:38 ] Growler Dude > puta espanya o com?
[ 2012.01.21 22:37:48 ] Mangala Solaris > guys weve been told
[ 2012.01.21 22:37:51 ] Mangala Solaris > what alliance?

I do wonder if they – in their obvious delirium from all that ratting – have formed up a defence fleet to fight us off and they are sitting around getting more and more worried about when we will show up, and in what…

This little excitement kept us going till we got word of a couple of ratters in a station system that DID NOT dock up when a neutral entered, so we raced over there and helped them learn a very valuable lesson.

Word then came down of a CVA group heading towards us… 

[ 2012.01.21 23:20:25 ] Certissian > guardians and a bunch of abaddons
[ 2012.01.21 23:20:51 ] Certissian > i just passed by, looked like 20+ bs plus 3+ guardians

Make that 8 guardians. 

And what a fight it was.  CVA’s response to our little incursion jumped into our group of drunk missile spammers. And it was glorious! I rattled off the Guardians as primary and 5 of them melted in no time at all. Then I was primaried and melted along with a couple of other tengu’s in our fleet.

[ 2012.01.21 23:40:05 ] AssassinationsdoneWrong > Manga I think dey don’t wike Tenguus :(

Luckily House2twist stepped to the plate and took over calling the remainder of the fight. He did a marvellous job, helped by the CVA HICs bubbling their own fleet. However they had the ability to reship fast, so we were whittled down until few remained.  

We had WON! We had found a fight and died after many kills to our names. 

And my scanner now read:

POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD, POD

All in all a really really fun night, lots of boozy antics on comms, couple of fun kills along the way, and then CVA bringing it to a close in the best way possible. 

Jan 092012
 

Just a quick post to admit that I have been both incredibly lazy, and heavily engrossed in SWTOR, and therefore not creating blog posts.  However a new year is here, and I have things to say, so watch this space.  For now I will leave you with video from the past few Ganked events.

Nov 172011
 

The holiday season is nearly upon us, which means plenty of beer and plenty of time for spaceships, which when combined result in hilarious explosions, and there is no better way to partake of these two wonderful gifts than an RVB Ganked roam.  Or several in a row!

Here is the program for the coming holidays:

19th November 2011 – Ganked 6: Judean People’s Front.
The theme is lasers.  Preferably on Amarrian ships, but you can stick them on whatever.

26th November 2011 – Ganked 7: Get back in that kitchen.
Anything you want to field, as long as it is battlecruiser sized or smaller.

10th December 2011 – Ganked 8: Viagra+Crucible=Penetration.
Destroyer Hulls.  Post Crucible buffs.

17th December 2011 – Ganked 9: Chesnuts roasting on an open Fire(tail).
Republic Fleet Firetails. Everywhere.

26th December 2011 – Ganked 10: Boxing Battleships.
Will we get hotdropped? (if you cant/wont fly a BS come if anything else. Id prefer BS though.)

7th January 2012 – Ganked 11: We’re going to need a bigger plane.
Battlecruisers. Tier 3 preferred.

14th January 2012 – Ganked 12: We come for our people.
Rifter hulls. Because.

21st January 2012 – Ganked 13: Quack, Quack, Quack.
Drakeswarm (and other assorted missile boats).

I will send round individual mails to the ingame mailing list “RVB Ganked” about these, as well as make posts for each on the RVB forums, and a post in the Ganked thread over on Failheap, as well as keep the RVB Ganked in-game channel updated. So guys, keep your eyes peeled, stock up on the beer and isk (isk=ships=explosions) and we will have a bloody good holiday!!!