2024-03-17 09:30 - F4R2 Keepstar AAR
Courtesy of alphaempire via Reddit
Summary:
- Imperium assaulted Pandafam Keepstar and mass pinged across all alliances - including INIT who is not in Imperium.
- INIT vs Frat/BFL kicked it off in Curse as multiple fleets were pre-positioning for various Pandafam forts. INIT were in Tengus/Vagas and Pandafam largely in Paladins/Pancakes/TFIs.
- As these fights were progressing, Imperium started attacking the jammer in F4R in Sacs, Zealot/Deimos, and CFIs to prepare for the Keepstar timer.
- Pandafam F4R defense primarily used Rokhs, Barghs, Ravens, Nightmares, Vagas to defend.
- INIT Tengus then came in F4R to help support vs the jammer.
- Imperium and friends killed the first jammer, sacrificing dps against defenders as they were focused on the module that would stop capitals from coming in. Defenders (Pandafam) were shooting Imperium with full dps.
- As Imperium and friends celebrated the jammer’s death, a stranger typed in local: “I anchored another one.” A second system jammer started to online this time with bubbles on it and Pandafam fleets sitting at optimal range with short range ammo loaded.
- Ultimately, Imperium and friends warped to an Imperium Fortizar to disengage, but Pandafam kept pressuring and this time Pandafam fought on an Imperium Fortizar… Imperium and friends decided to take advantage of the grid that was in their favor. However, due to unknown reasons, two Imperium Zinitras, Black man, and Halal Csillag decided to not stay tethered on a safe Fort and started getting hit by 675 Pandafam subcaps. The impact was swift, and the battle report clearly showed the toll.
- Imperium called off the assault, disengaged and ordered all caps to dock/leave, and subcaps exited or logged off in the system. F4R Keepstar repaired. INIT in the mean time went off on a high sec adventure.
- As a side note, there was an interesting Imperium supercapital that was tackled in HY-RWO by Frat and BFL, where Imperium had to use supers against Frat/BFL subcaps. The resulting battle report can be found here.
DECOY formed Retributions & Dictors and headed towards our former home, G-0Q86. Our plan was to engage The Initiative and prevent them turning up to the fight; but we ended up fighting in this system anyway. We watched the fight happening from afar, and brought our team to execute the stragglers and provide support for the larger fleets on grid.
Once the fighting in G-0Q86 was over, we made our way across to F4R2-Q to do the same tactic here. In the end, we got around 40 kills and zero losses 