A Bad Day for the NC

[`mongoose]

Hardly a body blow but both major NC entities took a bit of a beating yesterday.

Firstly, RzR left details of a major cap move along with the route they planned to take on their main forums resulting in....

Against All Authorities - Killboard

-a- and ROL dropped on their fleet and managed to gank about 18 dreads and 6 carriers for the loss of 2 caps I think. I managed to ninja my way onto two mails in my stealth bomber of doom.

This was pretty much annhilated however, by a PL, CH and SoT demoliton of MM, MH and WI later on in the evening...

battle report from SHC.

Pure Blind, X-7OMU.

3 Pandemic Legion staging posses coming out of reinforced between 02:00 and 05:30. NC call alarm clock CTAs to kill the towers, two of which are faction larges and fully faction fit.

The first tower to come out was a minmatar large, NC cyno'd about 120 capitals in at range (120-140) from the POS. At this time PL had formed about 144 in fleet (PL only fucking blobbers), mostly remote rep battleships. As they're killing our POS, we kill a Nid that warped about 15k off of their staging POS. We then tried a couple warpins but they failed pretty terribly, the first time costing us two battleships, the second time costing us a bit more.

The switch to capitals is called, PL manages to gather about 70 dreads. Hostile support lands on our station while our caps are still inside and the NC caps begin to align. We switch back to RR BS quickly and break the support camp outside the pos, redock and begin to undock dreads. Most of our dreads make it off the station undock before their dictors land, however a few get left behind.

The NC warps dreads to kill ours tackled off the station (it's a kickout) and some epic fucking dictors on our side manage to keep their main cap group stuck on our 2-11 pos which they had reinforced as we were switching. The capitals that we had undocked were called to warp back, we engaged and started shooting dreads.

Siege green, stack all stront.

While the majority of their capital fleet was held down on our tower 50 AU away, we began in on the ones that had made it to the station. The rest of the NC fleet slowly bleeds in over the course of the first siege cycle. As the bulk of the NC fleet lands, our glorious allies Cry Havoc, Eternal Rapture and Sons of Tangra arrive, adding another 30-ish dreads to the fight, helping to even the odds.

Both sides lay into eachother for about an hour and a half, by the end of it the NC had managed to jump in multiple waves of capitals (2-3 for some people) and PL dreads were on their last siege cycle. Lag was pretty bad, nobody in PL petitioned the node to be reinforced and guns on both sides were stuck for the majority of the fight.

The final tally right now looks something like this:

Capitals:

PL: 7 losses
Cry Havoc: 10 losses
Eternal Rapture: 3 losses

Total: 20 losses

vs.

Northern Coalition: ~80 losses (killmails are still coming in, 63 on the PL board alone)

Lots of action around at the moment it seems.

insert mandatory "Those caps have been replaced already" statement here

D