Eve online FOB takedown - Leshak Trio 008
TL;DR - a bunch of new tactics
first bit is ganking the response fleet and miners (no sign of hauler)
second bit is ganking the FOB
[00:00] introduction, with a quick mention of adding members to fleet by dragging a bunch at once.
[07:50] warping dps team to asteroid belt (to gank response fleet)
[09:50] fob begins to drain it's capacitor (wasting it on the pod)
[12:31] realizing i need help taking out 2 ♦ logi (warp in the rook at range)
[18:30] using occator to probe down ♦ miners at their safe spot (sending orthus in)
[20:00] around now i could have ganked the last of the response fleet, but didn't so i could have fun blapping the miners
[25:00] hit F1 on my leshaks' guns on the FOB
[25:26] i couldn't be sure if the miners warped off or despawned (thumbnail picture too small) but at this moment the defense fleet had fully spawned on grid with the fob as my leshak trio started to plink away at the pirate stronghold.
[27:54] using rook to combat probe the augoror, and test mjolnir precision vs inferno fury (same difference really so rip precision)
[33:13] warp the orthus to the rook for DPS support
[36:00] oops! forgot to sic the drones on the new defense fleet arrivals
[37:25] toggling on "quieter weapon sounds" for audio (i'd turned it off yesterday)
[37:54] the ♦ ships begin to switch targets to my support team but i don't notice yet
https://i.imgur.com/jk42oPM.jpg (thumbnail screenshot)
[38:09] and i end up panicking because i didn't set up the watchlist for that squad...no harm no foul just wasted time trying to get them off field haphazardly.
[38:15] FOB goes pop (so 13 minutes 15 seconds to kill it)
[38:26] thankfully the rats switch back to the spider tanking BS team
[46:30] i send in the occator to scoop the loot
mistakes: i should have had my support team in one squad and had those guys on mutual watch list; i should have really gotten the leshaks' infiltrators on the new arrivals much sooner.
questions still: so if i gank the response fleet, will another spawn if i don't shoot the miners too and the hauler appears at the fob?
confirmation needed: with the response fleet dead, and combat team on top of the FOB, the rest of the miners despawned even though i had someone on grid with the latter? did they warp to another SS?
(hopefully the video will show what happened)
followup: i think i might switch the rook's active hardeners to passive amplifiers, like i did for the orthus.
debriefing: you know, if it truly takes 50minutes to carefully kill a FOB, why not just use my cerberus team and be done with it? oh sure, i could YOLO in and hope the RNG doesn't spawn a nasty defense fleet and eventually a nasty response fleet (hauler spawn) - i could take a fob down in 15min.
It'll take a month more of training but i have the ships fitted almost for that...the prep work is just getting a 264km bookmark off the fob using a pod and that shouldn't take long at all.
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pirate stronghold playlist - • Pirate Strongholds
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/ video-making - my playlist
http://www.iciclesoft.com/eveonline/dps/ - DPS graph
https://bitbucket.org/ulph/eve-o-prev... - the thumbnails
http://eve-plh.com/#/home - local intel program
https://www.colorhexa.com/ - color help
"lowsec overview" - ingame chat channel for my "belter" overview
https://newedenmarkets.com/item/34 - tritanium (you can get history from 2004)
https://getsharex.com/ quick screenshot program