Death by Kitties feat. Gate 'Shoot 'Em Up' Ping Pong

I've been excited for Sugar's rawrcats fleet for ages, ever since I first heard about it. I love me a Jag remember- in fact, its pretty much all I fly now cause it works so well with the fleets :) ANYWAYS... for those of you who don't know, the Rawrcats is a fleet made up of Jaguars, with a few Scythes, a Maller and a couple of Loki's. I admit... I had my doubts about 20 odd Jaguars, but it turns out that few people are prepared for a large gang of assault frigs-its not exactly conventional... hehe.

As those of you who live in the are are aware, or those who are perceptive, Molden Heath has changed. I think its for the better, but some think its worse... I don't know. What do you think? There's a few bigger corps that have come in and set themselves up, no one daring to argue, and they like blop dropping and just mainly being pains in the ass. But today... oh today we got some of them back with our own blop... of JAGUARS! Hah! Take that cowards! :P

It was great fun getting started. The fleet looked amazing- visually anyways, and I can't remember the last time I saw so many frigs! It was epic :) And such a mix of people too! A few from 7-2, a couple of guys from R1FTA, Suleiman from Tuskers and a few other individuals, as well as various members of our own corp- with Diz, naturally, as the FC of choice. He was elected for it too. If that's not high praise, I don't know what it.

Originally, we started heading for Skarkon, after some gang or another (I can't remember much from the morning- it seems so long ago now! Haha. And it was 8am mind you :P). The usually devoid-of-life-we-can-actually-kill Molden Heath turned out to be the most fruitful area of our venture. Jumping into Audesder, there was a CRONOS gang doing some sort of planet-y thing (I've since found out it was orbital bombardment according to Sugar's blog :P hehe). They tried bailing when the big bunch of Jags showed up on their overview, no doubt flooding it with red, but we were just too well spread out when it came to pointing things. Me? I ended up splitting my guns to get on a number of kills (5/7) and made sure I had at least 3 ships locked on my screen at any one time (in order of primaries and secondaries) to allow for easy point switching. It was great fun :) We ended up getting 2 Myrmidons, a Blackbird, a Nado, a Drake and 2 Osprey's. Great start!

A Noir/Hash (6-pack) gang was the next intended target- battlecruisers galore. They were on the Muttoken gate in Aedald (or vice versa, I can't remember which), and we jumped on them in all our feline glory, logi and support in tow. Targeting the flashy red ones was the first task- Jags can only take gate guns for so long (as I know VERY well... xD)

Anyways, we jumped them, they decided to jump through to the other side of the gate. A little less than half the gang jumped through with them, targeting the same on the other side. Pity I only got on 3 of the 8 kills really :P The fight was so extended I think my part in whoring on the kills wore off by the end! Or maybe I just didn't have as many points or shots as I expected... go figure :P

-Oh, and we totally got a Vexor, Augoror, Drake and Maulus on the Aedald side, and 2 Hurricanes and 2 Drakes on the Muttoken side. Epic ^.^

We realised at this point none of us really had enough ammo if things kept on being as awesome as they were already. We all headed back to Bos and reloaded everything, trading and buying happening left, right and center, with the odd bio break. That done, we casually went to Klingt and killed a Rise of Legion Deimos that was happily ratting.. You know.. as you do (and we've all decided we enjoy killing ROL when we get the chance :P... I think. Or maybe that's just me :P)

By that point- and here I rely on Sug's attention to details, we had 20 Jags, 5 Scythes, a Maulus and a random Hawk. (AUTHORS NOTE: I decided for myself that hawk counted because a hawk mixed with a lion creates a griffin... which is sort of a cat-like creature...?? Maybe..?? XD)

As we continued, heading towards Amamake, someone decided to do a side step into L4X-1V, and on scanning, two ships were discovered... mining. A Venture, an Iteron Mark II and his friend, a Hurricane. Hellz yeah!!! Squad 1 (the lucky buggers :P) went in to get tackle, and we all filed in after them, managing to get all three of the ships and their pods. Fun fun :P

Mateber and Ofage produced one of the coolest fights I've had yet. Sort of a mix of ping pong and a shoot 'em up. There was a gate camping fleet... that started to ditch as soon as we spiked local. Or tried to :P Much like earlier, a little less than half the fleet jumped into the other side with them, grabbing tackles and shooting, while the majority stayed on the first side, shooting and targeting the same ships as they jumped to and fro. It ended up being a long drawn out battle, with one lucky bugger lasting far too long- Count Chamberlain in one of the Augoror's. He jumped through I don't know how many times, and at one point got reps. We had one FC- Diz on the first side, and Suli jumped onto the second side to FC and the other group. It worked out alright, although it got to the point with the last Aug that Diz just said fuck it, and asked for one Jag with long point and a Scythe to stay behind in case he jumped back through when the whole fleet jumped in to help kill it. I offered my services- after all, sitting on gate and pointing stuff in the Jag is considered my specialty :P Plus, most of the Jag's had scrams as opposed to disruptors (In the end I only think three or four of the Jag's had long point XD). Two of the Scythes ended up staying with me while the rest of the fleet jumped into Matebar and blapped him no problem. We ended up shooting a few other randoms as well as the gate camping group, and all in total we got 2 Mallers, a Thorax, 3 Augoror's, an Omen and an Oracle. Great fun :P

Rambling along, incredibly pleased with how the fleet was progressing, we ended up coming across another gate camp in Hagilur, but these ones successfully got away. Well... mostly. Lets just say it was not one poor Oracle pilots day :P

We got to Amamake and started playing stupid station games. No thank you. Luckily, the call was made to just give it up, and for our efforts, we ended up catching an unfortunate Iteron Mark V in Otosela- who tried to get away using a cloak and  MWD and failed dismally- to our fleets amusement. He ended up being a pretty good kill, with some specky stuff in the cargo hold. Here I steal a sentence from Sugar's blog- because she knows about such things (and hopes she doesn't mind! ^.^ hehe)- "died with his whole load of Einherji (fighters) on board. Fighters are expensive things and bulky to move." To be honest, I just saw the kill and felt proud. Hehe. Shows my priorities hey? :P And for the record, I have no idea where the loot goes on these big fleets. Probs to Sug and Diz in this case cause they put together all the ships. Makes sense. This is coming from a pilot that relies on loot to survive :P Go figure.

We got back to Bos with no really great events of note, and the fleet was disbanded. But funnily enough, it was this time that Naoru (I think) spotted a Thanatos just sitting on a station in Oddelulf. People shipped up and thought 'why the hell not?' Pity it wasn't meant to be really. 1. He was always in docking range and bumping didn't work, 2. He ended up successfully shooing us out of system by saying he was going to bed, and then undocking again  as soon as we left... For our troubles we ended up getting a Rise of Legion tengu on his way through Bos though. Totally worth it :P

After a few more people trickled out and went back to their own places, the corp decided to try its usual gate camp, settling down and basking in our catty awesomeness. And people ask me why I fly Jag's.... :P At one point during the early stages of this camp, a Procurer randomly jumped into system from Heild. I was in station at this point and listened as the rest of them missed point (the bugger was quick off the mark, and Heild is a big gate) and watched him warp off to Teo. With a hint of amusement at my own futile hope, I warped to the Teo gate (where I figured the Procurer had already jumped through). To my surprise, he was there and without even thinking, my hand instinctively fell to the mouse, clicking just as I pressed my F2 key. I can remember marvelling at my own tone of surprise as I called out 'point'. I can only imagine how it sounded to my corpies ears. Haha. Like... 'umm... I think I have point.. here... guys... On the umm... Teo gate... what???' (Or something like that :P) Was a great moment when he died though. I ended up hanging around with point right up to the end of my shield (cause of those friendly gate guns :P), when the first person warped in and got a secondary point. Hero surprise tackle FTW! xD


Apart from the Proc, we ended up getting a Coercer, a Rifter, a Bestower and a Catalyst in the first hour or so. Plus all their pods- which was agreeable to my slightly shinier sec status (I'm back to -9.9.... *cries* XD) For my evil piracy, I paid later. Forgetting what the bright red skull at the top of my screen meant, I jumped into Teo happily with my lots of loot (aforementioned as my main source of income)... and almost banged my head into the wall as I watched myself get completely obliterated by CONCORD. How rude!! They didn't even offer a ransom! Even slightly more embarrassing, this tragic event was seen by a noob in an Ibis sitting on the gate... which I debated shooting at just for shit and giggles while I died horribly. Ran out of time on that one though. 17 mill worth of Thrasher and loot... Hmmm.. oh well. :) I've had worse.

I logged off to spend some time with mah hunny and ended up getting back on briefly- later- to pick up some items I had left in Teo. I didn't even suspect a thing as I bounced out of Bos no problem in one of my basic Ruptures, docked, organised stuff for a few minutes and then undocked again, warping straight back to Bos and not even thinking about jumping through. Figures that a gate camp had decided to show up in the few minutes I was in high sec (the rest of the corp were off doing some sort of black ops thing in Egbinger I think). I lost the rupture to a gate camp made up of a Stabber, 2 Drake's, a Gnosis (>.<), 2 Scythe's and a Ferox. Go figure- beaten at my own corps game. Oh wells. Again, I've had worse. And at least I didn't have any loot this time :P (Luckily, I'd decided to leave it there for Bella to pick up!). I dutifully docked, didn't acknowledge the 'gf's in local, repoted the camp to FMH channel- where I got laughed at :P and logged off. Enough of EVE for now.... Hehe. I knew at that point to quit while I'm ahead! xD

Anyways, the rawrcat fleet ended up being an amazing triumph, and thank you again and again to Sugar and Diz for organising it. But I think the greatest thanks should go to the dear ships that- funnily enough- I already see a few other people flying all of a sudden around MH :P Thank you to the underdog of assault frigates- the Jaguar. May you ever be underestimated and then completely amazing in your defiance of your dated label- in other words... go kill stuff good! XD