[FEEDBACK] Wolfpacks Sep 17th/18th
#1
Posted 18 September 2011 - 10:35 PM
#2
Posted 19 September 2011 - 12:11 AM
#3
Posted 19 September 2011 - 12:38 AM
Yesterday's class was very well structured and all of the information clearly presented. I really liked the 'live fire' bubble exercise, and would have enjoyed doing it again (or perhaps doing some other live fire exercises). It was good practice doing it under controlled conditions and made me feel much more able to deal with things today (though I guess we couldn't really do a Holy Hand Grenade simulation... )
Both Glepp and Azual were excellent FCs, and our scouts were amazing. I'm really looking forward to taking the Covops class with Dzu, and doing the Advanced course once I get more experience.
Today was most definitely a memorable day – thank you so much to Azual, Glepp, Dzu and everyone else at Agony who made it possible
From the Book of Armaments, chapter two, verses nine through twenty-one:
And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the Lord did grin. And the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths, and carp and anchovies, and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit-bats..."
And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out.
"Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."
#4
Posted 19 September 2011 - 12:49 AM
The live-fire exercise was incredibly useful - it's so much easier to catch details of what's happening under controlled conditions. I also feel like the classwork is well-adapted to the practical issues of 50 students. You can't realistically give each student a lot of individual guidance, but there's a lot of moments for individual discovery created. That's hard to get when you're in a regular fleet op and things happen much more quickly (and en masse).
And speaking of en masse.... Holy Hand Grenade was brilliant. Not just for the sheer wow factor - but it's also good to have the experience of being one-shotted.
BASIC-20110805 | WOLFPACKS-20110917 | COVOPS-20111119
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#5
Posted 19 September 2011 - 06:37 AM
Student | BASIC-1808071900 | WOLFPACKS-20110917
Alumni | BASIC-20110625 | BASIC-20110805 | BASIC-20120108
#6
Posted 19 September 2011 - 06:42 AM
Second time was Ninja Unicorns (the guys that got a nice drop on us in the last basic roam) - however they failed pretty hard - they baited us with a Proteus and a Devoter and we managed to kill the Proteus, while they only managed to kill a handful of Thrashers (Battlereport- we killed the Myrm before this happened). Executing this properly is difficult, thats why glepp was so impressed by the HARK drop before.So tell me more about the second holy hand-grenade, I had to drop off after we got to the Stacmon after the first one.
As always Agony, I found this class to be informative and fun. I look forward to Cov-ops and the Advanced class.
#7
Posted 19 September 2011 - 07:59 AM
[20:58:13] CCP Unifex > loving the Tweed thing
#8
Posted 19 September 2011 - 09:16 AM
#9
Posted 19 September 2011 - 11:41 AM
WOLFPACKS-20110917 | ADVANCED-20111216 | FLYBYS-20120324
Agony Lectures
Basic Fleet Command Seminar | Bubbles in 0.0 | Scouts and Skirmishers in PVP | Small Ship PvP | Soloing for Success
#10
Posted 19 September 2011 - 11:47 AM
#12
Posted 19 September 2011 - 12:10 PM
Wolfpack -20110917
#13
Posted 19 September 2011 - 01:02 PM
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#14
Posted 19 September 2011 - 03:33 PM
#15
Posted 19 September 2011 - 05:21 PM
After that, I left the fleet in the capable hands of Azual Skoll, and I'll leave the rest of the AAR to him. Seems someone tried to handgrenade you a second time but weren't quite as successful as HARK...
We stopped off in 31- for a bio while I had a quick chat with the scouts to assess the situation. While we were docked up, the Ares protectiva gang we'd been toying with earlier made a breakout attempt into 2P-. Ksharaa (iirc) gave chase and managed to catch a straggling drake in A-S, while I brought the fleet into action as quickly as possible (really impressed with the fleet discipline by the students btw, we were moving very fast)! The Ares Protectiva gang briefly considered bailing out their drake friend, then turned tail before we had even arrived in system.
With the rest of the Ares gang gone, we headed down towards the Ronin gang who had moved down the pipe towards 8V-. Our scouts reported a 25 man FIGL battleship gang with heavy logi support coming the other way, so we waited off gate in X-M to let them pass (I held the fleet at 100km, hoping to alpha any tacklers that burned out to us). A couple of what appeared to be scouts came through, and then a mega was reported in warp to the X-M gate... but the rest of the FIGL fleet was apparently leaving back the other way! Our scouts got into position and I bounced the fleet, and the mega was toast.
We continued down the pipe, nabbing an NCdot sabre and a FIGL thorax on the way. Our scouts reported another BS gang fighting the FIGL BS gang in TXW, and we were hoping to crash the party. When we reached 8V, one of our scouts reported a devoter warping to our gate and we got in position to tackle - and then a proteus appeared (non-cloaky, but I never heard it called on the far side). We started burning down the proteus, while we got backup points on the devoter.
I'm still not sure if the proteus was with the devoter's gang or not - he had a cyno fitted, but he didn't light it and was instead burning (very slowly under multiple webs) back to gate. Note that ships cannot light a cyno while moving. Eventually the devoter bubbled up (I guess he had been trying to get in range of us?) and a cyno was lit - I'm not sure which of the ships lit it, I had assumed at the time it was the devoter but perhaps the proteus had just decided it was now or never as he entered structure. HORN bridged in another hand grenade gang, while I called for everyone to burn out and keep firing on the proteus. We will made it out with most of our fleet, while the proteus died with a little help from the HORN smartbombs (we still got the final blow however!) Oh, and somewhere in there we managed to kill the manticore who had been bombing us all night.
We started heading back, snagging a FIGL myrmidon along the way before burning (very quickly, again I'm really impressed) back to Stacmon. With the hour getting late, we stood down the fleet there.
Awesome gang everyone, definitely a memorable night! I'm so glad we got the proteus too - that alone paid for every loss of the night twice over!
#16
Posted 19 September 2011 - 05:31 PM
#17
Posted 19 September 2011 - 07:11 PM
#18
Posted 19 September 2011 - 07:15 PM
BAsically, they have a bunch of smartbombing battleships sitting on a titan somewhere in bridge range (titans can open a jump portal to a cynosaural field, letting ships "bridge" over (same as going through a gate, but you come out at the cyno)). They pop a bubble at our outgate with a sabre, which is reported by our scouts, trying to catch it. Then they put a cyno fit ship at the point where we will land on that bubble. We warp to the gate, they light a cyno while we are in warp, and start bridging through their battleships. When we land, we land right on top of them as we are caught in the bubble. Then we die, while they laugh.getting hot dropped by RnK. While I do know what happened and how its excuted, I'm still not sure exactly what happened. One second I was in warp, there was this great flash, and the next moment I was waking back up in Stacmon.
I had a good laugh too though.
[20:58:13] CCP Unifex > loving the Tweed thing
#19
Posted 19 September 2011 - 10:52 PM
A special mention to a cloaky we had. I don't remember the name, starts with a D I think ? finishing with dru. Not dzu, someone else. A student maybe ? His information gathering and positioning was the key to most of our successes. I think he was in a buzzard.
That was jandru (sp?), tlak's alt. And yeah, absolutely - tlak was invaluable, and tended to be exactly where I needed someone before I even asked for somebody to be there. Big props, especially considering he was dual boxing.
#20
Posted 19 September 2011 - 11:38 PM
It was Tlak Chilk and yes he did a great job. o/A special mention to a cloaky we had. I don't remember the name, starts with a D I think ? finishing with dru. Not dzu, someone else. A student maybe ? His information gathering and positioning was the key to most of our successes. I think he was in a buzzard.
#21
Posted 20 September 2011 - 04:26 AM
#22
Posted 20 September 2011 - 10:14 AM
Wolfpack -20110917
#23
Posted 20 September 2011 - 01:53 PM
I haven't seen any video yet, not sure anyone frapsed it.Has anyone got a link to any of the videos?
#24
Posted 20 September 2011 - 07:59 PM
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#25
Posted 20 September 2011 - 08:13 PM