Bring Me The Head Of Kirith Kodachi II - Results

Take That Tama!

Boom!

So the event went off last night and the very first thing I want to do is thank the kind souls who came out in my defence, all 11-15 of you in my fleet. Over 230 people in local at the height of the event and almost all of them intent on my death.

Our little defence fleet was overwhelmed quickly at the spot I picked, 100 km below the Pelille III station with a nice view of the rings, and I didn't realize I screwed up my voice comms when I disabled it in one client and not the other. I was talking, guys, really!

As for the attackers, there seemed to be at least three main fleets - Noir (30), Rote Kapelle (21), and Rooks and Kings (25) - and a few smaller groups and lots of individuals judging by the killmail. From what I can tell on my screen and reports I got from eyes around the system, the three big fleets played cat and mouse with each other for about 10 minutes after I landed until Rooks and Kings made a move to land on top of me and at once shoot me and rep me if anyone else came by. Whether that was a tactic to try and ensure the most damage award or simply to see if anyone was going to up the ante with an all in assault or hot drop, I don't know.

A few times my shields were depleted and I went into low armour but the Guardians of RnK kept me going until finally, around 9:40 pm I hit structure and then it was quickly over. Final tally on my killmail was 162 involved parties. The pod was popped without much adieu as well.

I did have fraps running most of the time so I will have a video in a week or so up, and a couple screenshots are coming.

On to the Prizes!

• Final Blow on Chimera: Pirate Faction Battleship of winner's choice provided by Somer Lotteries - Supertintin57 of Rooks and Kings
• Most Damage on Chimera: Blood Raiders Ashimmu cruiser + Sansha Succubus frigate + Imperial Navy Slicer - Trooper H of Rooks and Kings
• Kirith Kodachi Podmail: 1 PLEX provided by Somer Lotteries - Rhamnousia of Rooks and Kings with 283161 points of damage (13.79% of total)

• Most damage on Carrier killmail done by a Tech 1 or Faction Frigate - Caldari Navy Hookbill with modules donated by Merchantus of Pheonix Rising Fleet, MODE Alliance - Nidia Masters of Noir. Mercenary Group using an Ibis rookie ship
• Second most damage on Carrier killmail done by a Tech 1 or Faction Frigate - Minmatar Republic Fleet Firetail donated by Gallente Hero Channel- Zen'tau of Blue Republic in a Rifter
• Most damage on Carrier killmail done by a Tech 1 cruiser - Fleet Issue Stabber donated by Eve Stratics - Jediknarf of Insidious Logistics in a Caracal

I'll contract the prize I have in Stacmon out tonight when I get home from work and I'll contact Somer Lotteries for the two killmail prizes today.

For the final three categories below, I'll require pilots to submit themselves with killboard links as I don't have time to browse all 250+ killmails to see who the winner is. Evemail or email me if you think you qualify.

• Final blow on most valuable kill (besides the carrier) during the event - any T3 Strategic Cruiser with 5 Subsystems of you choice, donated by Lone Star Explorations
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• Pilot on most killmails during the event - Navy Vexor donated by Planetary Genocide 
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• Most Noob Ships Lost during Event - Two Primae donated by Project Halibut channel

Thanks to everyone who came out, hope you had a good time or at least got some good screenshots (Angus).

Related: Interview at Eve Stratics with yours truly.

Bring Me The Head Of Kirith Kodachi II - Location Announced

Yee haa!

Its less than one week to Bring Me the Head of Kirith Kodachi II. To recap:

Essentially what I will be doing to taking a Caldari Chimera carrier to a celestial object (i.e. planet, asteroid belt, customs office) in a low sec system [Pelille] and letting people shoot me until I am dead. I will be fighting back of course, and since my sec status is so low you will not take a sec status hit for shooting me this time.

This all happens in Pelille on Sunday, Aug 21 at 9:00 pm EST (which is Monday, Aug 22, at 0100 Eve Time). 

 And prizes, boy do we have prizes:

Here are the prizes for BMTHOKK 2 in August.

• Final Blow on Chimera: Pirate Faction Battleship of winner's choice provided by Somer Lotteries
• Most Damage on Chimera: Blood Raiders Ashimmu cruiser + Sansha Succubus frigate + Imperial Navy Slicer
• Kirith Kodachi Podmail: 1 PLEX provided by Somer Lotteries

And some other prizes donated by pilots:

• Final blow on most valuable kill (besides the carrier) during the event - any T3 Strategic Cruiser with 5 Subsystems of you choice, donated by Lone Star Explorations
• Pilot on most killmails during the event - Navy Vexor donated by Planetary Genocide 
• Most damage on Carrier killmail done by a Tech 1 or Faction Frigate - Caldari Navy Hookbill with modules donated by Merchantus of Pheonix Rising Fleet, MODE Alliance 
• Second most damage on Carrier killmail done by a Tech 1 or Faction Frigate - Minmatar Republic Fleet Firetail donated by Gallente Hero Channel
• Most damage on Carrier killmail done by a Tech 1 cruiser - Fleet Issue Stabber donated by Eve Stratics

And there is more in negotiation with other sponsors.

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!

Noir Mercenaries has stated they are coming to attack the carrier and another well known PvP force has stated they are coming and "will be bringing around ~30 pilots with the intention of killing *everything*". I suspect I won't have to ask my defenders to turn they guns on me to award prizes this time around.

See you in Pelille next week!

Bring Me The Head of Kirith Kodachi II - More Prizes!

Planetary Genocide has donated a Navy Vexor to the prize pool. Haven't decided what to award this one for... suggestions?

Bring Me The Head Of Kirith Kodachi II - Sponsor

Nateryl of Lone Star Explorations approached me today to let me know that Lone Star Explorations leadership as agreed to sponsor a prize in the event on August 21st:

> Any t3 with 5 subsystems of your choice. I'll contract one to you or the
> winner once they know what they want. Can't wait for the event too, Ill have
> to pod myself out of the wormhole again :P

We discussed what the prize would be for and we came up with this:

Final blow on most valuable kill (besides the carrier) during the event - any T3 Strat Cruiser with 5 Subsystems pf you choice.

For the purposes of the event, the duration will be from when I log in the carrier until the action dies down in a couple hours. API verified killmails only.

Thank you LSE!

Bring Me The Head Of Kirith Kodachi II - I'll Need More Shields

From: Kirith KodachiTo: Alekseyev Karrde,

Hello sir,

I just wanted to extend an invite to you and your alliance to the second BMTHOKK live event on Aug 21, 2100 EST in Placid region.

I know the outcome of the first event was not ideal but I had no idea how it was going to go down and these things happen. If any NOIR choose to come participate, I hope they come with my destruction in their mind rather than my defense. :) We could use a professional PvP force to organize the attackers.

Either way, good hunting,
Kirith

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From: Alekseyev Karrde
To: Kirith Kodachi

 

 My response, which you can put on your blog verbatum:

Bring Me The Head Of Kirith Kodachi II - Response to Eve Commune

On the latest Eve Commune podcast they were kind enough to plug the upcoming event and a few people were at the first and commented on how well the Noir Mercenaries fleet combined with the fleet from the Gallente Hero Channel (organized by Mike Azariah) decimated any attackers in short order.

When I organized the first event I had no idea how it was going to go down. The possibilities ran the gamut from a few people showing up to getting super hot-dropped by Pandemic Legion (who was near Providence at the time and within operational distance of Teshkat). I just didn't know.

So when Alekseyev Karrde contacted me to say that Noir was celebrating an anniversary and would show up to help defend, I thought that was great, more ships for the carnage. Then Mike Azariah announced that he was bringing the Gallente Hero Channel. And others chimed in. The support for my defense was heart warming to be sure and faced with the spectre of a capital hot drop I eagerly welcomed all defenders.

However when the event went down, the number of defenders outnumbered the attackers by about 10-20 pilots at least, and were far more organized. The Noir fleet had about 15 Drakes and ~5 supporting logi, and the Gallente Hero Channel was more eclectic but had a supporting Archon carrier, and combined that meant the attackers never stood a chance in their disparate fleet wings and smaller ships.

Eventually I asked my defenders to turn their guns on me as I needed to die to award the prizes. I suspect Noir was disappointed overall with the result despite getting lots of kills and I can understand that for them it was a bit anti-climatic as the challenge was just not there.

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However, this time I'm hoping things will be better. I've sent an invite to Noir to return but asking them to come looking for my kill to start. The first event was considered a success and I think more people will show up looking to get in on the action. I also am making backup plans so that if the defense is looking too overpowering I can even the odds myself (don't worry defenders, I won't attack you). I can't guarantee a pitched fun battle for everyone as this is Eve and you never know what you are going to get, but I do know that the more people that show up the better the event will be.

So get some cheap ships, grab some friends, and come fight the carrier. But just watch out... I still plan to fight back.

Bring Me The Head Of Kirith Kodachi II - Prizes Announced

Here are the prizes for BMTHOKK 2 in August.

• Final Blow on Chimera: Blood Raiders Ashimmu cruiser
• Most Damage on Chimera: Sansha Succubus frigate
• Podmail: Imperial Navy Slicer

As usual, donations for the prizes are welcome.

EDIT: Moar prizes!

• Final blow on most valuable kill (besides the carrier) during the event - any T3 Strategic Cruiser with 5 Subsystems of you choice, donated by Lone Star Explorations
• Pilot on most killmails during the event - Navy Vexor donated by Planetary Genocide 
• Most damage on Carrier killmail done by a Tech 1 or Faction Frigate - Caldari Navy Hookbill with modules donated by Merchantus of Pheonix Rising Fleet, MODE Alliance

Bring Me The Head Of Kirith Kodachi II - Date Announced

Even decapitated I'm better looking than Roc Wieler...

First off, let me apologize to my European readers who were hoping that the sequel to the wildly fun and successful BMTHOKK live event would be on the weekend in a more accessible time zone. Unfortunately, the kids are at an age where getting two quite hours in the afternoon for me on a weekend is impossible. I tried to arrange it but I have a lot of family obligations and its not really fair to load my wife with more child care work after she's been at home with them for five solid days already.

That being said, I picked a date and announcing it today! The date will be...

Sunday, Aug 21 at 9:00 pm EST (which is Monday, Aug 22, at 0100 Eve Time).

For those not familiar with what happened last winter, you can catch up here in old posts. Essentially what I will be doing to taking a Caldari Chimera carrier to a celestial object (i.e. planet, asteroid belt, customs office) in a low sec system (to be announced closer to the date) and letting people shoot me until I am dead. I will be fighting back of course, and since my sec status is so low you will not take a sec status hit for shooting me this time.

The prizes for Most Damage, Final Blow, and Podmail final blow will be announced closer to the date as well.

Some people will come and defend me, I'm sure, like they did last time, and generally a lot of ships get blown up and fun is had.

If you are a fan of the event, I'd appreciate spreading the word on your podcasts and/or blogs and/or internal forums. :)

Feel free to use the above image or this one, done by the inestimable Rixx Javix:

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