[Novalance]

some group called A L P H A Declared war on us, having a little look at them they are not a very big alliance, there's no names that look familiar, they appear to operate in low/null sec in large roaming cruiser gangs about 17 jumps from us. I noticed a Corp Mail about conduct against haulers/miners, is this related?

I'm not content to sit in station and tell the people who never listen not to engage and stay docked up,
so I hope this time we'll fight back if we have to.
I can also ask my friends if they are interested in defending us.

[Three of Seven]

If they are small and they aren't roaming with T3 ships, I think we have a good chance.

[Bar'ol]

EVE Online bullies! I tell ya!

[thexpl0r3r]

Behind this Alliance is Project Alpha corp (PRAL) which used to be part of 'I Know Right" (IKR) Alliance, which is allied with Vendetta. They left IKR at the beginning of May and Vendetta wardecced them. They have few recent kills with Marmites, which are allied with Devil's Warriors and all are at war with Vendetta (sounds like a Soap Opera, I know). They are currently involved in 72 wars and have 26 pending ones (So Gunges is right).

Yesterday while I was mining DJHX Kushdealer (dps) was in Brap along with his alt DJHX Hazedealer (logi). This guy is a gate\station camper and he used to be very active in Dodixie. He would go suspect in front of the station and once someone engages him two logis would show up. Few nights ago he was camping Adrallezoen gate in Brap flying Hecate.

There is 43 of them and they fly all kinds of ships https://zkillboard.com/alliance/99007462/ (see Top Ships section). Perhaps we could test our Stealth Bomber fleet this weekend if they show up?

Edit:
@Nova Nope, it's not related. We had two corp members hitting a Retriever in lowsec CODE style.

[Crimson]

Wait, whats this about corp members hitting a Retriever in low sec? Were they part of the people who WarDEC'ed us?

[thexpl0r3r]

Wait, whats this about corp members hitting a Retriever in low sec? Were they part of the people who WarDEC'ed us?

No, it's unrelated. That was just about not going the CODE way.

[Adhar Khorin]

Thexplor3r, that's a great intel rundown, thanks. Interesting to know they're running Logi as traps.

Love the idea of using stealth bombers, though in our corner of space all the red stars popping up in their local window will be a bit of a heads up (Side note for newer pilots reading this, wormhole space doesn't show pilots in local, so a fleet of stealth bombers are more stealthy.)

I'm up for being heavy tackle, have an arbitrator fit for it with a couple of tricks.

[Three of Seven]

Looks like A L P H A fight close up, they build their Thorax's with Blasters + Antimatter, armour tanking them. In other kills, they are using tech 2 drones to do damage. So it looks like distance is going to be the thing to beat these guys, that or tech 3 cruisers, they seem to struggle with those.

[thexpl0r3r]

So DJHX Kushdealer showed up tonight in Brap... Local chat was fairly normal and civilized however the feeling we (Connas, Liquid, Dave Puhkastu and I) had was something like.. "Will you walk into my parlour?' said the Spider to the Fly." and in spite of saying he would fight us alone (assuming with his alt logi) he wouldn't undock, so we decided to do other things. This was their fleet in the end...

Credits in order of appearance:

DJHX Kushdealer - Thorax
DJHX Hazedealer - Augoror
Oter Zhex - Augoror
Mac Ivey - Talos
S7ellar - Thorax

[Three of Seven]

Well, they are never going to make it a fair fight, I wouldn't.

[thexpl0r3r]

Well, they are never going to make it a fair fight, I wouldn't.

Heh, I wouldn't expect anything less however Kushdealer sounded similar to Sweettie, guy we fought at Dodixie that attacked 8-9 of us, but he sure didn't act that way. Still it was good experience, assessment and timely and honorable retreat on our side... and we also identified their fleet and MO... Kushdealer and logis bait and Thorax and Talos waiting to jump in.

[Novalance]

well we need to get ourselves sorted out, this means:
1) We pick our Fleet type (Armor/Shield)
2) Pick our Fleet Composition
3) Practice, practice, practice!

Then One day, maybe just maybe we'll be left alone and join/create our own alliance?

[Three of Seven]

First kill of the war goes to Kassa



Did a dance with some of the guys round our neighbourhood, finally caught one, you know what they say though.



EDIT:

Got many more - https://zkillboard.com/war/550231/

Oh what a night

[Novalance]

the Other Corp that declared war is currently in bawilan, one is flying a Deimos, can't find the other
Names are: Lodannap (Deimos) and Johnny Shootos

Well Done on taking those guys out, serves them right I mean who goes ratting during a war? >.<

[Kerry Malone]

Finally - a plus!!