Preventing on the Keepstars | The Historic Gaming Noob

PandaFam continues to brush on in Fountain.  They’ve taken many of the ihubs within the area and, save for the few behind the KVN-36 line, the area is generally theirs at this level.  Nonetheless, a bunch of our buildings stay behind within the captured area, together with some Keepstars.

Keepstars are the anchors of any protection, the sturdy factors that an attacker should finally assail if the don’t need the defenders to have a secure harbor behind their strains from which they’ll function.  PandaFam can not allow them to linger, so that they have began setting as much as kill them.

When our Keepstars in Fountain begin to fall, it’ll be an enormous enhance to the morale of the attackers.  If you happen to have a look at zKillboard, lifeless Keepstars are comparatively uncommon.  Just a few didn’t get recorded as a result of server points, however there may be solely a web page or so of kills to scroll down.  (There was a time after I was on the kill mail for nearly all the lifeless Keepstars, and I’d wager that I’m nonetheless on nearly half of them.)  When one facet begins dropping Keepstars, it’s typically an indication they’re dropping the conflict.  So the narrative that the Imperium goes to lose, is dropping, ought to hand over already goes to be sturdy.

We’ve a ridiculous variety of Keepstars in Delve.  It’s going to be an extended, gradual grind when the enemy assaults there in earnest.  However a number of the Keepstars out in Fountain are assured to be destroyed.  Getting all the way in which to the far finish of the area to defend the one in J5A-IX doesn’t appear viable.  And PandaFam is establishing their very own buildings from which to assault the Keepstars.

Nonetheless, the coalition has give you a method to not less than make taking these buildings expensive.

I went out with a Ferox fleet underneath Asher that was set to check out one of many Keepstar protection plans.  There’s a Keepstar out in IGE-RI that PandaFam has began reinforcing.  We got here out to attempt to defend the armor timer.

Getting there took gates and one titan bridge because the Ansiblex community in Fountain is not there.  Our capability to maneuver round within the area could be very a lot curtailed.

The enemy confirmed up with carriers and battle cruisers.  Their tremendous carriers, normally one of many important weapons when attacking a Keepstar, are down in FAT-6P in Catch with their important titan power, awaiting their time within the invasion.  So carriers want to choose up the slack.

The carriers stood off and despatched their fighters in at us in an important wave.  We loaded up lengthy vary ammo and began capturing them as they fell inside our weapons.

We tore up a whole lot of their fighters.  Complete teams went down, whereas broken units had been recalled.  That was when their Feroxes got here in.

We swapped over to Spike, the longest vary ammo, and Asher moved us in order that they had been inside our fireplace envelope, at which level his again seat started calling targets and we commenced to blowing them up as quick as we may lock them.

I went out on the fleet in an alt as a result of he had a doctrine Ferox useful, however I sort of want I had gone on my important, as a result of there was some severe kill board padding available.  My alt ended up on 126 kill mails, together with the ultimate blow on two targets, which doesn’t occur fairly often on a fleet with greater than 100 ships current.

Two kill marks on my Ferox… and plenty of wrecks up above the Keepstar the place the hostiles had arrange station.

The battle was a whole lot of lock and fireplace, with a number of the hostiles reshipping and returning solely to be known as and blown up a second time.  The battle report confirmed that we blew up nearly 500 ships and fighters.

Sadly, for all of the carnage, we misplaced the target.  PandaFam moved the Keepstar into its ultimate timer.  A Sunday Keepstar struggle will entice a whole lot of pilots.  Folks prefer to be on these kill mails.

In the meantime, it appears unlikely that we are going to be as profitable with Feroxes once more as we had been this time round.  The enemy isn’t prone to be so beneficiant in feeding us kills.  Subsequent time they’ll have some counter to our protection, which suggests we must give you some new twist of our personal.

However this time we did okay, even when we misplaced the target.  We took out fleet again to Delve.

We must see how subsequent time performs out.

Addendum: Our Keepstar in J5A-IX went down simply minutes after this publish went reside.