Plus Ultra #34

 Wai,

Cracker weekend: Dodixie beat Rens by 3 tries (!), we carked a ratbag POCO + an equal ISK value of their shit-tier response fleet, and I finally got to play with the CEO's 'Crimson Harvest' heavy assault cruiser (HAC) fit.

The POCO deal went sweet as, we munted its shields the other night, and since they've been talking stink non-stop, we threw a lone Marauder on it, for the armor timer, to bait them out to fight. They came out with some Blackbirds and Scythes at first, and we just waited in a BLOPs fleet ready to drop on them while the Marauder was popping their cruisers. Once they put a Leshak and Vedmak on grid, the rest of us eggs cynoed in. The Leshak must have aligned away as soon as he saw the cyno lit, because he was warping out before we could lock him up. I still got to help cark a Scythe and other stuff as they all retreated. We finished with the POCO, planted our own, and then cynoed home again.

The Crimson Harvest sites are a real trial: you warp in and immediately get scrammed ("no running away, now"), multi-webbed ("stay put, eh"), neuted ("you don't need that capacitor"), and disrupted ("try to hit me now"). Oh, and the bung rats eat drones any chance they get. The CEO came up with a HAC with passive, buffer shield tank that doesn't need cap to keep up, and using heavy assault missiles (HAMs) to target armor resistance holes.

Works absolutely cracker! I don't think I've had shields munted past 45% yet, even when totally capped out, and the rats are polite as to not kite far out of HAM range, especially when I'm triple webbed. Cark the webbers first, then either disruptors or neuts next (whichever's giving you more pain) and save the drones for the last ship of every wave. I bought two of these from the CEO, so if you want to run some for the Winter Nexus, I bet this will be the meta for us going forward.

Since Kartsev and Lumi have collected a number of the shortcut keys for both factions, I've got a dozen more or so to do, but the ISK is beaut for highsec combat sites. The loot is iffy, much of it depends on the eventual market value of it, so I try not to be too optimistic on that, but the bounty ticks are on par with running lowsec combat anoms.

Cheers,

Dad