A War Story

Dred Nots has a bit of a history with war decs.  Nothing extensive, but we have declared war on others in hi sec and in low sec.  Some were successful, some were not.  As always in Dred, what we do, we do for teh lolz and in that regard, we have never had a failed war.  

My personal experience with war decs predates the first Dred Nots war experiences.  As a young pup, the first real corp I joined was Cadre.  I had met them with an alt in FW and joined the corp when they left the Republic and struck out on their own.  One of the first things we did was assist with a war effort for the Wildlands.  Our role was to assault the hi sec industrial machine, while our allies assaulted the main fighting force and infrastructure in Gee Dub.  We accomplished this through war decs.  

Our primary objective at the start of the war was to reinforce one of their POSes.  It was my first time out in a BS for a fleet.  Despite it being a structure shoot, I was on edge the whole time.  We always rolled dirty and never flew with logi in those days.  We had scouts along the route from null in case they formed up a fleet to respond, and had a scout at the station where a few of the indy dudes were holed up.  The null seccers eventually did form a fleet but they were too late, and when they were finally reported heading our way, we had reinforced the POS and were heading to a forward base to dock for the night.

The next day is when their shit hit their fans, and splattered all over everybody.  I logged in and was immediately invited to fleet.  They wanted canes, but I only had my BS and a stabber with me.  Without hesitating, I jumped in my trusty (lol) stabber.  Apparently the tangos were out doing a mining op.  We burned towards their mining expedition at full speed.  Our scout said they were out in two hulks and were at 0m/s.  As we hit the final outgate to our destination, the FC confirmed with our cloaky scout that the two hulks were in the belt and still at full stop.  Our scout said yes and the order to jump in and warp was given.  Upon landing on the tangos, I noticed that there was not two hulks, but one hulk, and one orca.  Shouting and laughter erupted on comms and I pointed the orca right away despite the other pilot having been pre-established as primary.  I ended up missing the hulk kill but that orca pilot went home very sad that day. http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8211383

Immediately after the orca went down, another scout watching the POS we reinforced started yelling on comms.  They were out repping the armor on the POS mods we had also shot.  They were in a Panther, a Sleipnir, and a Scimi.  This could only end well.  We made best speed back towards the POS stopping only to grab as many webs as we possibly could.  All three ships were less than 2,000m from their POS shields.  Again, as we were on the final outgate, our FC confirmed our scouts location and gave the order to jump.  Our scout gave us an excellent warp in and we landed in the middle of their group of ships.  Webs and points were instantly applied to all three, and we made short work of these travesties:

Panther - http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=11895250 (eve-kill kills aren’t lost we just can’t find them =P)
Sleipnir - http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8211693
Scimi - http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9502443

The sleip pilot decided to come back in a snipe tempest and exact some revenge... unfortunately that didn’t end well for him either
Tempest - http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8211700

All in all it was a very good start to the war.  In those first two days we had done well over 2B in damages.  It was a lot of fun, but unfortunately it only lasted a week as the null sec assault had failed.  My corpies at the time all proclaimed that this kind of war was unheard of.  They said usually it is all stalemates and docking games.  Whether that was true or not, at the time I had no idea.  All I knew was that this war dec had given me one of the most fun weeks that I’d had in game up till that point.  

Good stuff,

Dred