Bit of an AAR for this op:
Grogath did a great job of teaching us fail waffles how to fly cov-ops. We were a bit behind forming up to engage during the first IHub coming out of reinforcement so we proceeded to PNQY. We sat around for a couple hours expecting the fight to be in PNQY but of course, I fail at reading intel and it was actually in 9-V. As a result, we didn't move into target system until Goons started forming up. We lost a number of people so we didn't really act as a coherent unit.
We were unable to secure good bombing points - combined with the lag of 500 Fountain Pets, Goons, and DC failures resulted in a Benny Hill bombing run with the Waffles warping at different times to launch bombs. We took down a couple of stragglers prior to the 9-V engagement, but no KMs were secured when the second fight went down. Some of our bombs did manage to cause damage but with them being spread out they were more of a joke than anything.
Lessons learned:
- Designate someone to stay on fucking grid and get a good fleet warp for the rest of the bombers
- Stack the fuck up in a safe instead of going full short-bus all across the system
- Make sure people are prepared for the massive blob fest in terms of effects and shit.
- Make sure we have a decent bomber wing when shit gets heavy instead of 5 dudes trying to whore KMs. Оp lastеd a lot longer than anticipated so RL drew a number of people away.
- Practice bombing more often‚ no reason why us waffles should not be running regular bombing runs if intel shows large movement of neutral forces.
Оvеrall‚ it waѕ dеcent practice and I know most of us went in expecting to come out with bomber losses. Things got a bit chaotic in the end and the anticipation of blowing shit up got the best of us and led us to make unnecessary mistakes. Thanks to all the Waffles who showed up and to Grogath for taking the time to fly us out there. I know the Goons/Test pilots there took a savage pleasure in blowing up Jack Gates.