Story:
To start blue team saw the big red fleet coming from a mile away (we had an awesome covert ops player watching you guys every step of the way). We decided to limit our ships to frigates and cruisers only. Milindia called for everyone who could, to ship into a sniper ship, me included, which equaled about 5 caracals a hurricane and dessie sniper. Well the plan was to have the main bulk of our fleet engage red on a gate and have the snipers warp in behind at optimal range and just deliever as much pain as possible. But every time we tried to move the sniper fleet Peggy Hill in her rifter was 100km off the gate we wanted to use
and our covert ops was constantly reporting that all of red fleet is pulling in their drones and leaving the gate camp in: Merollez/Alentene gate, Tourier/Merollez and Alenia gate. Red started getting a little pee'd off about waiting for an engagement but if red would've sat still we would've been able to engage. Anyways eventually we get all of blue fleet at optimals on Alenia/ Tourier gate. Red fleet is on the other side. The most expensive BC lost on Red team that fight jumps through solo and as a harbinger it pops rather easily. Then the rest of red team engages. Milindia promptly calls out targets which we erase using the main fleet as points and the snipers as effective dps (brilliant plan Milindia). The fight is going good for blue as even though we were mildly outgunned we had the drop and the optimals to come ahead until as the fight went on for roughly 10 minutes our covert ops sitting on Alenia gate in Tourier calls out Drake after Drake after Thrasher after xinfinity. Unfortunatly red is able to reship faster than we do and they also decided to bring 8 drakes which we just couldn't point and pop so we ignored. The battle was quickly becoming one sided, Milindia was calling for BS but it was taking to long to get them in the battle so the decision was made to retreat and regroup on the Alenia gate in Alentene. Milindia promptly d/c'd and another FC took over. Both red and blue were having a blast though we were PO'd that the 50+wrecks with loot in Alenia was going to red. So with our 2 ravens and multiple other battleships we warped back onto the Tourier gate in Alenia and smartly the Red team pulled out immediatly. We manage to loot about half of what was destroyed and flew home (damn neutral salvagers). Red continued to do a smaller fleet roam but I don't know how that went. Anyways that battle was epic and as we were counting killmails we saw how the Red team spent absurd amounts of isk on all their fits. (Cruisers that cost more than a BC, Frigates that cost more than a cruiser) But this was good cause even though we lost more ship we lost less isk and we enjoyed the feeling of superior tactics and t1 FIYA POWAH managing to duke it out with the amount of isk fielded.
I hope to see another of these kind of battles during my time in RVB espically since it wasn't a planned fight.
Post your comments and favorite killmails or things you liked about the fight.
/Timural
PS: Both teams are great.
(and I was left with 2 aurora Ms in the beams 
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). The real problem is therefore, the different number of heavier tacklers, which is due to dps, due to the uneven length of supply chain, that the blue command has forced on blue.
Blues are poorer, we fit much less rigs and less t2. Losing the field like this is double bad for us. If we had kept the field, I can imagine that many of the dozens of pilots who participated would have fit t2 next time!
My PC shut moments before the fight (overheated graphics card?) and when I managed to come back, I jumped to Alenia and I saw a ton of blues primary-ing my arbitrator. Down goes my poor arby but guess what, I had a Drake fitted and ready in Alenia 
