The Battle of Teimo...Stone Burner in Action

I posted in November about an EWAR heavy fleet that I would like to try using calling it Stone-Burner, on Monday EVE 00:30 I got my chance to fly in what I could call a Micro Stone-Burner.  There was not enough EWAR on the field to make it a true Stone-Burner fleet with only 6 EWAR ships, but with 7 Talos' and 7 more heavy hitting BCs and 4 logistic ships it made the fleet one tough nut to crack.  There real winner of this fight though was our FC from Monkeys with Guns., a smooth talking Aussie Larnkness.  Having flown with him a couple times before and after I know that I'll always trust my ships in his hands as in the heat of battle he gives good clear orders and is able to keep everyone on track with what is going on. He also doesn't panic as so FC and when many in the fleet thought we should flee, he got us turned around and flying our ships right turning the advantage back to us. 

    

Larkness Monkey with Guns Member

In my eyes Larkness had us winning this battle 20 minutes before it even began because he is such a good FC.  Even though many of the fleet members didn't understand how our fleet work he did was able to get us in a position to be the most effective for the fight.  He used strategy and tactics to win the day.  While looking at the battle report it shows that we out number the Squids 2-1, we are in shield battle cruisers and frigates and they are in heavily armored battle ships and Navy Faction Cruisers. We have 4 logistic ships one tech 2 and three tech 1 they have 4 guardian class Armor Logistics and 1 Oneiros all tech 2.  To match our EWAR they also have 4 EWAR ships, three cruisers hulls and one Bhaalgorn Battleship,  a nasty pirate faction ship that can suck the cap out of our fleet leaving us dead in the water. Also like us they have a Loki Tech3 Strategic Cruiser  providing them with Fleet Boost that increase their scram and web range. On the outside looking in we should win cause we have the numbers, but looking at ship types and what both fleets have it can be close fight and go either way if there are any slip ups. 

             

Minmatar Loki Tech 3 Cruisers               Blood Raider Bhaalgorn Battleship  

Our first goal is simple we want them to come to us. Here we can use our speed to our advantage. What happens is a war of attrition where we wait on our side, they on theirs.  This is where Larkness wins us the battle. Our coms are filled with cries of "Kill them all" and "We should go get them." but Larkness keeps us under control and on our side in position waiting. All the while he is telling our tackle frigs who they need to tackle and hold down. And with the Infrastructure Hub taking damage we know that the Caldari do not want to lose the system so they are going to come for us.  After 20 minutes they do come us, and we are ready. Our second goal is to burn off gate and pull them with us keeping our DPS and Logi out of range of their warp scrams while our fast frigs hold them. We know that if they get us webbed and scrammed we are dead. 

The plan comes together fast as they began to jump into us and decloak using three fast frigates to try and tackle us, we quickly counter by locking them up and sending our own frigates at them. As their battleships uncloaked Larkness was calling primaries, seconds and traceries, while we didn't pop any ship super fast and we needed to switch targets because of their reps. In the first minute of the fight we traded losses,  us Vexor, them a Myrmidon, we would also trade frigate losses. That would be our last loss. Larkness' skill of beginning a great FC would come into play as he regrouped us and we began pull range and use our speed to out track their guns. Second we began to work signaling out their ships pulling them out of range of their logistics, this and our fast switching of targets we were able to keep their logistics off guard, as well as being able to lay damage on to them killing one Guardian and the Oneiros.  This is where we missed up in the battle, our tackle which in the beginning was great began to breakdown and we lost points and ranges and they began to get ships warped out to saves.  If we could have kept that tackle then we could have killed off the whole field. 

One of the guys got the fight on video so I have it linked here. 

We came out of the battle only losing two ships and killing 11. It was a good fight all around and a great example of how a good and controlled FC can turn the tide. 

Battle Summary from Dog net