Good evening dread builders!

It's been a little while since our last AAR! I've been traveling a lot and am moving the first week of September, so it has been hard to find the motivation to crank out a Reddit post. But, today, Warlock sent me some really dope screenshots of a fight we had, so I had to make a post.

Lowsec BRs are a little confusing, so I'll give you two options,

• Battle report A - A true breakdown of all of the fleets
• Battle report B - Broad strokes of "who was kinda shooting who"

Let's break down the fight!

Context

Minmatar Fleet is back in faction warfare full time, with Providence now on the menu. Sice the map kind of went to shit during our campaign, we led a large effort to capture back Auga, Kourmonen, Kamela, and hopefully one day- the holy land, Sosala.

With docking access secured, the largest point of tension has been the Kamela fortizar, which Minmatar Fleet has reinforced several times.

• Timer 1: FL33T vs CVA
• Timer 2: BBC vs CVA (we didn't show)

CVA has started getting annoyed with us over this. A bunch of stinky Minmatar rats are back and bringing down the property value in Kamela. They're gnawing at walls, stealing food, and being a menace.

Something has to break, the pressure is on.

Fog of war

With timers like this, there's a lot of fog of war. There was a large charity event going on today in Miyeli, which made it very hard to tell what people were actually forming for. With most lowsec engagements, most people are "lightly" blue- they have a target priority list, and they might shoot you if there's nobody else to shoot.

• Many folks believed CONDI were coming. They turned out to be forming for the charity event.
• Many folks believed Snuffed Out were coming. They ended up living rent-free in everyone's heads the entire time.

That made the timer very interesting, because at any moment a cyno could open and someone blindsides you.

Engagement

The engagement kicked off with CVA and FL33T max forming to beat eachother with sticks. Both sides actually formed similar numbers.

• FL33T warps to titan, Khermes forgets to exempt in his Revelation
• FL33T bridges in ~50 TFIs and ~25 guardians at 20km of the Fortizar
• FL33T forces Khermes to jump with them to punish him
• CVA + RMC came in at zero on the Fortizar
• CVA kills Khermes, Minmatar cheers
• CVA warps to FL33T at zero, logi and all
• FL33T brings in two faxes
• FL33T and CVA start beating the hell out of eachother

Dropping a FAX in k-space is usually a statement: escalate, or die. It's hard to kill a FAX without dreads. CVA brought a FAX… and two dreads. We're in business.

Escalation

CVA threw down the gauntlet on FL33T, and the escalation chain was set.

• FL33T bring in 10 Revelations
• CVA bring in 5-15 (slowly) RNIs + mixed dreads
• FL33T bring in 10 additional Revelations
• CVA bring in their remaining dreads
• FL33T undock 20 more dreads and send it

CVA had better dreads than us here. We've been getting more bang for our buck out of yolo'ing T1 Revelations everywhere we can since they're so cheap. Luckily, we evened it out by bringing a bit more than they did.

All hell breaks loose

Cynos start to go up, and additional groups start to pile in.

• CAMELOT bring in a tornado fleet and start blapping TFIs.
• AHBA bring in a T1 battleship fleet and start shooting CVA.
• BRAVE bring in a CFI fleet and start shooting ???
• SRS bring in a loki fleet and more dreads, and start shooting CVA.
• BIGAB / SEDIT bring in a Barghest fleet and start shooting capital ships on both sides.
• INIT bring in Zealots + Kikimoras and start fragging out capitals / subcapitals.

CVA quickly realized they were on the short end of the stick and started extracting what they could.

Additional skirmishes

There were quite a few skirmishes that broke out after the main grid started to become difficult to engage in.

• SEDIT dropped a few cruise phoenixes at >175km, and were immediately pounced on by every group for being a coward.
• SEDIT + BIGAB pelted FL33T a few times with Barghests, largely to help protect their Phoenixes
• FL33T <> INIT had a small skirmish between TFIs and Kikimoras after they caught a Revelation that bumped.
• AHBA <> CAMELOT <> SRS had a few skirmishes since their tornados were starting to become a problem.
• FL33T warped onto BRAVE to give them a kiss, but they left.

Everyone came up for air at the same time, realized the fight was over, and kindly went home. The purge was over.

Conclusion

CVA definitely got the short end of the stick on this one, but they took it on the chin and brought an insanely good fight. Kudos to them.

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GFs all, until the next one!

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