The Flaming Brotherhood

The Tuskers, as a corporation, do not hide anything. We have three parts of our forums open to the public, including the recruiting posts, the customer relations where anyone can past any complaints or any comments about our corporation or our members, and the academy section where many of our members have freely posted up guides to ships or tactics which they have wrote.
Through combination of blogging and our public channel, anyone who wants to find out about us doesn't have to look too hard. We are open to the fact that we are based out of Hevrice system, and we are more than open to the fact that we, for the most part, prefer smaller ships like cruisers and frigates to bigger hulls, like Battleships and to some extent BCs (this does not mean that we cannot pilot them effectively, we even have a couple of members able to pilot carriers).

We have never claimed ownership over anything such as our HQ system. This is why it surprises me a little when different corps attempt to "kick us out" of Hevrice. Every once in a while, a new kid on the block and his friends will attempt to do this, posting up BC and BS camps at our main station, and attempting to kill us. When this happens, we usually do what we always do, undock in our small ships, evade the camp, and go on our merry way. After a few weeks they get tired of it and leave us alone.
The most reason iteration of this has been the corporation "Flaming Brotherhood". They have been posting up camps, along with with of their neutral friends (which we sadly cannot engage freely as we will incurr the wrath of the gate and station guns). Credit given where it is due, they have been somewhat successful at times, catching a cruiser here and there, but for the most part they have been simply a nuissance and a source of entertainment from the local channel.

Baiting the Bait
Exuse me if this is somewhat lacking of details, but although I meant to post about it sooner, I did not get around to it until now.
A couple of days ago, Caster Rom, Leo Solunar, VaJo Mithrandhir, and myself were in Hevrice looking for a bit of action. With a couple of the Flaming Brotherhood online and in Hev, we undocked to find Ollie123 in a prophecy outside of station V. A prophecy is, for the most part, considered an inferior battlecruiser to the rest for the fact that it has only one use, its HUGE tank. Despite of this tank however, its DPS is minimal and is a lesser threath in a fleet fight. Quickly realizing this was bait, a decision was taken to attempt to get an engagement away from the station (a favorite spot of theirs, where they can dock up and play station games. We, as a corp, HATE station games).
I undocked in my ferox (unfortunatley, wasn't completely fitted out as it was missing the resist rigs that were on the way down with our corp hauler), a generally underated BC, and warped to the nearest planet to wait. With my 3 corp mates waiting in station in a Ferox and two Brutix, we patiently waited for ollie to take our bait.
Just as we began to tire of it, ollie and his prophecy appeared on my overview, and after burning 20 km's towards him and pointing him, the call went out through our vent server to undock and warp to me. The fight was on!
As my corpmates undocked, they fount something interesting undocking from station as well, an Armageddon Battleship piloted by ant1312, another Flaming brotherhood member. Thanks to our nimble ships, my corpmates arrived at the fight before the battleship and through the combined power of our four BCs, the prophecy's tank eventually broke.
By now, the armageddon had arrived, as well as a couple of neutrals which we figured were with them as they had been spotted together with them. Eltharo's thorax was called primary, with the potential of over 500 DPS if fitted for gank and not much tank, we knew it would pop quickly but could otherwise pose a dangerous threath if left to do its damage. With it gone, we turned on ant1312's Battleship. The fearsome armageddon is a lethal battleship, favored among many and feared among even more pilots. However, thanks to the great DPS potential of our ships, it went down within a minute before it oculd have a chance to kill any one of us.
Our final target and kill of the battle would come only 2 minutes after the fight started, a neutral brutix that was helping them out. Just like the rest, it could not take all of our DPS and it too quickly fell to our combined firepower.

By now the rest had time to warp to the station and grab a new ship to rejoin the fight. The fight escalated when ant1212 (ant1213's different account) joined the fight in a Rokh. As we began to work on his shields, Ollie rejoined the fight in his own Hyperion. Knowing that ant1213 (originally in the 'Geddon) would rejoin in even another BS, the call was given to grab the loot and get out. On top of this, furb killer, a neutral party to this fight (or so we believe) took the chance to get in on some killmails and warped at a distance, pointing and shooting things without doing much damage simply to be on the KM. As we tried to get out, my ferox was warp drives were disrupted and, after a few moments of fire from the battleships, the hull cracked and exploded.
With this, we decided to conclude the engagement, as we had no intention in following the escalation more and more. We had destroyed a cruiser, two battlecruisers and a battleship in exchange for one battlecruiser. Having grabbed the loot (or most of it) as well, we came out winning, and I would trade my own battlecruiser any day for those kinds of exchange.
Having a little chat with flaming brotherhood after the fight (you know they can be decent chaps when not smacktalking), they recognized our good tactic during the fight, and said that they would no longer be expecting us to undock small stuff. An advantage of flying frigates and cruisers, when you undock in a battlecruiser or bigger, most of your foes (if they know you well) won't be expecting it and you will have the advantage of surprise, a small thing that could, in an equal fight, win you a battle.

When noob ships attack!
I won't go into much detail as Wensley has already done a good job on his own blog, as well as including a video of what happened. Yesterday we fount ourselves in a similar position. A few members on with flaming brotherhood and friends camping us. Only this time it was a single pilot flying a proteus (t3 cruiser) with only a falcon as backup. Our force was mobilizing, the proteus being too good an opportunity to pass up. However, when we finally engaged, the pilot was ready for this and his falcon alt quickly jammed our bait ship and allowed him to warp before the rest of us could arrive at the site. As some of the flaming brotherhood members began to come on and sit outside of the station in their usual battleships, a plan was deviced to fit up noob ships with T1 modules and attempt to take them down. The main purpose of this was to have fun, a break in the routine not only for us, but for them as well...but hey if we happened to get a kill all the better!
I will leave you with a link to the video taken by wensley...unfortunatley our comms was not recorded, but I can guarantee you we were all laughing and joking on vent as this went on...great fun was had by all!

Video curtosy of Wensley. Don't think I need to tell any of you, but do visit his great blog!

Another one bites the dust!
I cannot comment much on this since I was halfway around the galaxy. However, sometime yesterday a combined Tusker fleet of Battlecruisers and Battleships engaged a similar force of three battleships belonging to The Flaming Brotherhood in Hevrice. The specifics are unknown to me, as I was not near the battle, but in the end our fleet destroyed two tempest battleship as well as a Dominix BS while taking no losses. Another heavy hit to the flaming brotherhood. Great job Tuskers, keep up the good work!

A word of caution to our future "enemies" that try and kick us out or camp us. Yes it is true (and it is general knowledge) that we prefer to fly and engage in frigate and cruiser sized hulls. A small force of this is a deadly swarm to any ship. However, do not let that fool you. Simply because we prefer to fly these smaller ships does not mean that we are not as lethal in bigger ships. But by all means, keep underestimating us...makes it all the more fun for us!