…is the only way to describe this image.

Yesterday was absolutely filled with PvP combat for PonyWaffe, it’s as if we’ve been diggin’ a well and struck sweet, sweet pewpew gold all around Fountain. It started with a gatecamp fleet a few jumps out from our home system, bubbling up the gate and camping with fellow DAWWW members Elite Aeronautic Development Syndicate [EADS], a mainly-German based PvP group that has been around for a while with other groups, the first time that I can recall flying with them. We did get a covert-cyno kill, too, fitted to a stealth bomber.

Nothing wrong with getting to know each other over some co-op red/neutral trappin’. Click here to see our winnings.

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Sometime later, myself and a few other PonyWaffe pilots joined up in a well-led TEST home defense fleet. Forcing a not-so-much Sniper HAC fleet to run was relatively easy even if the majority of the match was out of our BC fleet’s range, and roaming around for a few more kills in neighboring systems was fast and exciting. The efficiency was heavily in our favor, although after a while the fleet got stale when the only targets left were Rifters.

Click here for the initial fleet battle results, and here is another related kill that was in another system. I think there were more, but I can’t find them at this time.

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And later, again, another fleet was started, this one by PonyWaffe leadership to go hunt some ships in response to neutrals and reds sighted in the area. This one, however, I was fitted up in an interceptor for the battle for the first time. The majority of the time I was giving tacticals on gates to the rest of the fleet, and just buzzed around for fun. At one point I ended up in a solo engagement with a Rifter and got cocky/close. I ended up scrambled and was entering structure as a friendly Zealot appeared on-grid and helped pop the frigate engaging me, thanks -FA-!

It’s hilarious how surviving a close call can restore your cockiness almost instantly. The rest of the PonyWaffe fleet ended up clearing a lot of Rifters in the fight. Here and here are the two fights that we were able to enjoy.

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Finally, and probably the best of all, there was one last fleet that was again started by PonyWaffe, and ended up merging with another blue fleet with our FC maintaining command of the fleet. Back in a battlecruiser, we jumped on a hostile hurricane that was being engaged just a jump-bridge out of our home system, getting these few kills first (link) before merging our two fleets into one. Afterwards, with two separate hostile parties looking to ramp up for another engagement just one gate over, our FC led us exceptionally well into another fight. I was on the hostile side of the gate with the rest of the fleet ready to jump into battle. Of course, I was primaried from the start of the fight, and stupidly I had my drones set to aggressive from ratting earlier that day (!), leaving my ship entirely vulnerable to their aggression with my being trapped right on a gate!

…until I realized that I was never pointed from the start. I recalled drones, and as I started to drop into half-way structure, warped to a tactical on the gate breaking their locks from me and forcing them to move to a second target as I was out of range. Unfortunately, being in 60% structure with shields still repping up from ~5% when I returned to the gate, I stayed within jumping range and far from combat, as the hostiles tried to kite our fleet out of range, not giving me any chance to shoot anything at all, much less get a target lock. So I just Control+F9’d and posed for a few awesome shots (like the one above) of the fleet battle with my fiery Hurricane in the foreground. So I guess you can say my evidence of bad-assery with the above image is pretty lame in it’s context, but a blast was had regardless of the truth. Here is the end result of the fight.

If interested, you can find two other “wallpaper-worthy” screenshots here and here.