My illustrious eve career can be summed up with about 90% of my time in pvp being the opportunistic small pirate/null group looking for the good kills, but then getting severely out gunned and chased away from an area.

The concept of being a sort of scavenger for fights on a Savannah rings true if our evolutionary development was stunted, we were designed to be scavengers but behaved like hunters only to be reminded by local lions or other large hunters that we are indeed out of place and need to be crushed, eaten, or chased off.

The Nyan Cat Pirates and our alliance Nyanpire (really just our corp) has been experiencing a paradigm shift. We have taken a number of people through the gauntlet of failure over the last two months (since we started the alliance and reboot the corp) and as a result of grown and lost members accordingly to the taste of the players we recruit. As expected, since our core leadership lives in Australia and Japan, our USA timezone players find themselves on their own… hence the last post about the coalition we joined.

But the real purpose of this post is to talk about our post-DT operations, our Aussie Prime and how we’ve enjoyed an interesting paradigm shift from shitty scavenger to the hunter and chaser (with an exception or two here and there). When you’re out numbered you have to change your concepts and allow your more experienced pilots to let loose and to field ships that will balance the field.

The Nyan Cat Pirates have fallen in love with Sleipnirs. They have become a work horse of sorts for us and we seem to be able to put a large number on the field when we need to.

With a few out of corp friends we put together a fleet of 10 with scouts and battle cruisers. Of those were a pair of nano-drakes, a nano-brutix, four Sleipnirs, a Cereberus, Links (Loki), and a Talos. There are dozens of ways we can improve the fleet but the amount of DPS on the field was sufficient to take a good fight somewhere and we set out to follow reports of a Darkspawn gang that included an Abaddon, Absolution, Astarte, and a few Myrmidons. We didn’t want to spook them and we wanted to draw them into a fight. We turned to the classic bait concept but they kept pressing ahead of us rather rapidly. They actually dumped their abaddon in a system and pushed on with their battle cruisers. This was suspect to us, this was our first taste of a paradigm shift in the region, we had no idea we were actually chasing them… it didn’t dawn on us they were running from us for a few more jumps.

By then it was too late and we missed a good fight. I felt their DPS was great and the mix of ships they had would have tanked hard. They would have given us a run for our money, and we would have had to rely on our ability to skirmish. Fighting smart is something we have learned and are refining from being a smaller corp in a pond of bigger enemies and threats.

Of course there are times when you can’t project as well. We watched a small T1 cruiser gang run by EXE (Executive Outcomes) come down into our pocket. They were looking for something quick and dirty (perhaps to kill some ratters), and regrettably they didn’t find it and I am ashamed to say we likely ruined their day.

They came in with a Moa, Rupture, Coercer, and Merlin.

Our fleet was a previous configuration from trying to draw another fight: The results are here

I personally didn’t get an opportunity to even get into the fight as I sat on the other side to prevent them from crashing back into the previous system. EXE had seen our ships and likely felt they could get a bait team down to bring an end to us and get a good shiny kill.

After most of our guys had logged off for the night, myself and one other corpie were on and they returned. This time they brought an Abaddon, Harbinger, and a Cyclone. It was clear to us that they were there to bait and use their Abaddon to cyno some caps or a support gang onto some victims. We kept eyes on them and contacted an Aussie bro to bring down his links and an alt in a DPS boat.

We formed up with a Drake, Sleip, Loki (Links), Talos, and kept a Falcon nearby for when they point whatever they wanted to kill with the drop.

We took the fight on the same gate we had killed their T1 cruisers on. The Abaddon came in first and showed damage, fair enough. To mitigate its DPS we just ECM’ed it with our drones and turned to work on the harbinger. As we turned to the cyclone I fudged up and got into his scram range. The second my Sleip was scrammed the cyno was up, and two Archons jumped in one being CPL Madison (Moa from the previous battle report).

Strangely I was scrammed, neuted, webbed, jammed by etc. This wasn’t a good fight for us, we called our douche card and got the sleip clear.

I cleared the field and left the rest behind.

Like I told my guys in hindsight we had a few advantages that we should have utilized. I have killed ships under a carrier before with a small force. Here are the mistakes we made:

(1) The Falcon was 5/1 Amarr/Minmatar Jammers. We could have actually likely jammed the carriers out and continued working on the ships.

(2) We should have gotten off field and back on quickly with our Drake friend to keep them willing to fight.

If we would have followed this pattern we might have gotten all three ships.

I believe the Talos and I both weren’t ready to trust his Falcon alt to that level, but his pro-jamming saved the day in that fight.

Live and Learn… one harbinger killed… no losses.

We are turning it around. We aren’t great but we’re getting better. We have a green killboard holding near 78% on the good. We are having people login after DT ready to fight and wanting to get involved. Even a few of our American bros losing sleep or trying to get up early to catch fights with us. Things are looking up. The talent we have isn’t going to waste!

If you’re looking for an Aussie corp or an alliance for your US TZ or Aussie TZ pvp corp and want to fly with us contact:

Ezeria Mistanta, Brockmist, or Lyam260 in game.

Keep on NYAN’ing