WS matches

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Dragon army vs Scrin

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Commander: Saffyry
Participants: AntRam, Dahlb, Wertza, Karabas777, Dethflash, Shanelus, samaeldraco, booklovr78, Juantamanera06

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Dragon army vs Olimpo

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Commander: Typerim
Participants: star_campo, SpectNight, DanielL, kllL33RcAmElTOE

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April :

Dragon army vs Black Skai

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Commander: Nyx, Antram

Disclaimer: Enemy had a spy in our corp

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Here are the toons for this White Star:

Toon A:
@saffyry (Toon Leader)
@JackRigger
@Grandar(Nikita)
@karabass777
@samaeldraco
@Juantanamera06

Toon B:
@AntRam (ws-commander, interceptor)
@Typerim (Toon Leader)
@LatencyKills
@booklovr78 (blast shield)
@DanielL (interceptor)
@Raul230380 (Area Shield)
@Phoenix

Toon C:
@Shanelus
@Nyx_2 (FC)

White Star search will take place later today.

These are the loadouts for this WS:

Toon A: @saffyry (Toon-Leader): BS: Barrage, leap, destiny, barrier Miner: Barrier
@JackRigger: BS: Battery, teleport, emp, unity TS: barrier
@Grandar(Nikita): BS: Battery, teleport, fortify, alpha rocket Miner: barrier @karabass777: BS: Battery, barrier, teleport, destiny Miner: Barrier @samaeldraco: BS: Battery, destiny, bond, teleport Miner: Barrier @Juantanamera06: BS: Battery, destiny, TW, teleport, barrier Miner: TW

Toon B:
@AntRam (ws-commander, interceptor): BS: Battery, omega shield, TW, omega rocket, barrier, teleport Miner: TW
@Typerim (Toon Leader): BS: Battery, teleport, barrier Miner: barrier @LatencyKills: BS: Laser, barrier, TW, teleport, destiny Miner: Barrier @booklovr78 (blast shields): BS: Battery, unity, suppress, barrier Miner: Barrier @DanielL (Interceptor): BS: Battery, teleport, suppress TS: Barrier
@Raul230380 (area shield): BS: Battery, suppress, unity, barrier Miner: Barrier
@Phoenix: BS: Battery, teleport, emp TS: Barrier

Toon C:
@Nyx_2: Miner: Barrier
@Shanelus: Miner: Barrier

Any support slots that are not specified can be chosen by you unless your Toon Leader specified otherwise. Recommendations can be found in #ws-guides. If you do not have a specified shield, or the role raider or interceptor, please equip omega shield. All miners should have Mining Boost and Mining Unity equipped if unlocked. Other helpful mining modules include: Crunch, genesis, and enrich. No Sanctuary: reminder that we do not use sanctuary unless specifically permitted by a ws-commander or Fleet Commander. If you have any questions please let me or a ws-commander know.

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Dragon Army vs Dark Skai
Defeat 4-73

We faced Black Skai this White Star.
To be frank, this White Star was a bit of a disaster, but offered a good learning experience. We started with a generic White Star, without any newer or special strategies. This was due to it being my first White Star in a couple weeks, as I've been away in The Hatchery for awhile. The enemy was very well coordinated, and started with leap attack utilizing a couple pre-prepared vengeances. We successfully repelled this attack minimal casualties. However, a couple ships escaped, and went to raiding. Unfortunately, due to a planning mistake on my part we had not secured our lvl 10 sector ahead of time. Due to this, the enemy were able to slip in and through a couple other mistakes on our part, are good strategy, were able to kill the majority of our miners. As another downside, both our raiders will killed during the night. This, and the decreasing success rate of raiders, have made me begin to think that It might be better to go with less of a light fast raider, as a strong raider(s) that can hold it's, or their, own against one or two bs', provide teleport pressure, and act as a potential leap target. The enemy kept up pressure throughout the White Star, putting us on the back foot. We had to run defensively. We had a lack of a defense by our gate however, and the enemy set up a strong position there, in the end managing to delay our ships enough to cause the supernova to kill most of them. They didn't manage to actually kill many though, and had to condemn many of their own for this purpose.

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Things we can work on include:
Adjusting our defensive strategy for better protection. I take much of the blame for this, as I failed to direct ships into proper defensive positions. Not making moves that might jeopardize a plan/strategy/defenses. Notifying a ws-commander before going to bed. Having a well rounded defense.

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This White Star has caused me to reevaluate how we run White Stars, as the opponent was a similarly teched corporation, yet we still faced a crushing defeat. I'm planning on creating a new formatting/editing the current WS guides in order to begin moving towards more structured WS runs. Also, as The Hatchery progresses into White Star area, we will begin running more White Stars in a more tiered format, so that lower lvl players don't have such a hard time of it in our White Stars, and makes it easier for everyone to secure a fair battle and win. Overall, this WS was a good learning experience. As always, please let me know if you have any ideas for how to improve our White Stars, or are interested in partaking in a leadership position in one. Over the next few weeks we will be slowly adapting how we run White Stars in order for more effective runs.

Dragon army vs Grunthal Gang

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Commander: FC: Typerim SC: Samaeldraco

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Dragon army vs Providence

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Commander: Typerim

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Dragon army vs DESERT DEMONS

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Commander: FC: Nyx SC: Saff

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Battle plan

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We're facing Desert Demons this White Star.

Our main planet will be Lovey.

Miners will mine out all of E5, E6, D5, D7, C5, C6, and B5.

@Dethflash#5877 will genesis E6,
@AntRam#1961 will enrich E6,
@Nyx_2#8763 will genesis E5,
@samaeldraco#3347 will enrich E5
@Juantanamera06#0983 will crunch E5,
@saffyry#2879 will enrich a sector of their choice,
@Ender#3504 will crunch C6,
@booklovr78#9083 will crunch C5.

Miners will initially be in one group, but after finishing mining out E5 and E6 they will split into two groups.
Group 1 will mine out C5, and D6. Group 2 will mine out B5, C6, and D7.
Group 1: @Nyx_2#8763, @booklovr78#9083, @Dethflash#5877, @samaeldraco#3347
Group 2: @Juantanamera06#0983, @Ender#3504, @saffyry#2879, @AntRam#1961

Please follow the miner plan included.

@booklovr78#9083 will escort mining group 1.
@Dethflash#5877 will escort mining group 2.
@karabass777#9480s and @Shanelus#9984s' will also escort mining group 2, shanelus dispatching to Lovey.

@Juantanamera06#0983 will rush to Lovey, using cerbs in E5 as a leap target for @saffyry#2879.
@Ender#3504 may join them, depending on the enemy movements.

@samaeldraco#3347 will position in C5, and @karabass777#9480 will position in bottom D5.
@Nyx_2#8763 Will escort above all the miners, taking up position in upper D6.

@Shanelus#9984 will move to put teleport pressure on the enemy and will provide a leap target if need be. Initially will set up in D5, and will move according to the enemy movements.

We're facing a corp with higher tech than us once again, @WS1. This corp is also dahlbs new corp, so with his inside information, odds will be against us, so we will have to try our hardest to succeed.

Antram will be getting a pet, please make no move to get in his way or kill the pet.

I recommend being in invisible mode on discord for much of this WS, as dahlb has access to our discord and can see who is online when.

Reminder to activate shields 1 minute prior to warping in your ship.

Reminder to use many waypoints, plotting your next one as late as possible while never stopping. Do not stop to kill cerbs.

Reminder to not equip sanctuary.

If you have any questions please let me or any other ws commander know.

Best of luck everyone!

Battle Summary

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Dragon Army vs DESERT DEMONS
Victory 70 - 58

Dragon Army vs DESERT DEMONS
Victory: 70 - 58

We faced DESERT DEMONS this White Star.
Desert Demons is also the corporation that dahlb left and decided to join, and was in this White Star.

We ran a ten man White Star rather than our usual 15 man this week. We also ran using a leap strategy utilizing a pet, and tried some other new stuff in the command structure and general running format of White Stars.
Due to this, and the opponents tech lvls, and dahlbs insider knowledge, it seemed as though we would be on the back foot during this White Star.

We utilized miners with leap for and easy return to the gate, and provided proper time warp and barrier coverage using battleships during the mineout, and were able to generate over 60 relics on our lvl 10 planet and return for transports relatively quickly.
We also had an early transport dispatch and grab the first relic on the lvl 10, leaping back in time to return with the other transports.

The opponent utilized a similar strategy, equipping leaps on their miners, and capturing a pet of their own.
We used and empty sector to protect our pet from recoil immolates, and store some backup pets if need be. It turned out that we did need the backup pets, as we accidentally killed one of our pets after using suppress in an attempt to prevent it from killing a miner. Area shields seemed to be the way forward to protect against similar incidents.
We tried to recoil immolate the opponents pet multiple times, but they were able to successfully move the pet from the sector in time each time.

The largest fight occurred at our lvl 10, before the miners dropped off. The opponent used their pet to initiate leap to their Flagship and landed near our lvl 10. Luckily we were able to pull the resident battleships back to the lvl 10 in time, and utilized leaps and barriers to get backup on and around the planet, and were able to repel the attack with only one casualty.
Due to this attack, the opponent was also forced to send their miners back to the gate without leap, as they didn't have a ship to initiate leap at the gate. This gave us a slight advantage in gathering relics, as we were able to get transports out there faster.

We successfully managed to extract all our relics, using a second trip for the final 6, and were able to generate and extract 3 relics on our lvl 1.
The opponent had generated similar amount of relics, and the relic race was going to be close. We utilized a cancelled leap with Shanelus' raider in order to stop in the opponents convoy line and was to able to destroy a transport with 6 relics. We had some other leap strategies planned for Shanelus' raider, but sadly enemy movements prevented this ahead of time.

This was more of a passive White Star, as the fight at the lvl 10 was the only real large fight, and due to our use of suppress, the opponent didn't fill the bar, so at the end of the White Star we helped them fill it up with some combat in our lvl 1 sector, and they were kind enough to pass up an opportunity to kill Antram's transport and it's one relic.

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Things we can work on include:

Leveling up our tech, perhaps in specific scenarios, in order to be more similarly teched with our White Star opponents.

Progressing the formatting of our White Stars further.
We used some new formats this White Star, and they worked quite well, but can still be improved further for subsequent White Stars.

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Overall, this White Star was a pretty good one. The enemy had a higher overall tech level than us, but everyone warmed up to our new strategies and formatting quite quickly, and we were able to secure a victory.
The DESERT DEMONS were a formattable opponent as well, and the White Star was a close one.

Great job @everyone!

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