Ok, here is the pre-mission briefing.
I'm happy to announce that Grande imperial Fleet will join us and there is a good chance they bring up to 13 more ships, all VA level. So this should be a no PuG fight.
There is basically two strategies we will use.
The elegant, probably quicker and more honourable solution:
1. Kiting. In order to get the fragments under control 2 cruisers will set their engines to a high power setting and spam fire at will to draw aggro while at the same time trailing warp plasma. Both abilities should come with two copys each.
The other cruisers and sci ships "hover" above and below the entity and focus fire all the time. Also debuffing the thing with sensor scan, gravity well, etc... any debuff goes.
Escorts job will be to turn the fragments which are still trailing the two kiting cruisers into sand with their powerful frontal attacks by flanking runs. Build for AoE, so use scatter volley for maximum effect.
The Harg'pengh torpedo is a good choice to damage the entity twice with one shot.
The most important advice is: DON'T PANIC!
There will be moments when a few fragments slip through and kill your ship, just return to your assigned job as quickly as possible and keep calm.
Second strategy is more conservative:
2. AoE spam frontal attack.
Everyone go into close formation 6-7km away from the entity (any closer and the fragments get you) and just fire everything you have. Here as well use any AoE as much as possible (Fire at Will, Scatter Volley, Gravity Well...).
We need to put up a literal firewall.
This strategy is plan B, which we will fall back on if the first one doesn't have the desired effect or if coordination proves to be ineffecient.
Which brings me to:
Voice communication!
GIF fleet won't even let anybody participate in this without vent access. While we are not that strict, I would appreciate if you download the ventrillo client, so you can hook up the chat. You don't need a mic and contribute actively, but it will be of great help if you use the chat to get a greater awareness of what's going on on the whole map.
If everyone is fighting alone despite 19 allies on the map we won't get anywhere...
Server access will be provided before the event if you have never joined the Grand Imperial vent server before.
Any further Questions should be mailed to me as soon as possible, regarding ship setup, weapons, etc...
Good hunting.
