As with most good hit there is a back story to this one. sm666 had a yummy fleet that he kept on growing on the ranking page for quite some time. And as with all fleets on the ranking page I started to track it, he made lots of mistakes the biggest one being he kept it always on the same moon. Wasnt hard to find, if you saw it in the ranking fleet it was on that moon. Big big no no if you want to keep your fleet.

Well as i knew where it was I tried for it a few times. But one mistake he did not make was to keep it down while he was offline. So I would launch and he would send me a message worded exactly the same way each time: So how much deut did that cost?

It was clear I would not be able to get him the same way as most other fleet. Kudo to him for being a sligthly better prey than most. So I devised a startegy where we would leave him alone so he would start to be lax with his online time and fleet dowt time. Except it didnt quite worked out, we stopped spying him for a week and one morning we wake up and he had pop a moon in our alliance (not one of mine). Well from that point on my startegy of leaving him alone to make him believe we had quit on him was out the door.

So I started to spy on him regularly around his FS return time in the hope of catching his fleet before it made the ranking page update and hopefully in a blind spot where he would be offline. Well as it were I spied his moon today and saw a good amount of res. Nothing like his full fleet and res but still enough for me to take it and as it happens I had just moved deut to get another target I spotted a few hours earlier. So I jump in my fleet and spy again to get a full report with tech and all. Surprise surprise his full fleet just landed! Well you know the rest I launch and:

Attacker Loss: 68.280.000 Defender Loss:841.366.000
winnings Metal:28.051.667 Crystal:12.865.069 Deuterium:40.475.929
Debris Metal:318.868.200 Crystal:200.601.000



But that is not the good part still. As you can see he has lots of res so I want to make a few follow up but he gets online oh say 3 min after the hit. But damm I just crashed his fleet he has no cargoe I can see and he did use up all he had left on his planet to build rec. So I say screw it I am trying to get those res from under him. I send attacks on his moon and planet to hit around the same time hoping to catch some of that. Well dont ask me how but he pulls 2 EC out of his *** and start moving his res around moon to planet, I had miss timed my attack by 3 minutes between them so he had a window sort of. Only one of my attacks hit something but as it happens it did hit the 2 EC so talk about poetic there.

All in all it was a few hours of good fun. I got 294M out of the DF and my alliance mate got over 100M he got the rest.

Until next time sm666. I know you will rebuild and learn from your mistake you should be even more interesting on our second go around.

After that, sm666 must have moved some stuff back on to that moon...

oh well... so long sm666 and thanks for all the fish ...

REDACTED. No CR links on the forums. ~Weresloth

Dr-J

@ gallaorn :
Finally, I can see another person (apart from me) who likes to give a small introduction part of his strategy to get this fleet. Good to have some "behind the scene" info which makes the forum more lively.

Last but not least, congratulations for the attack !!!