Brothers in Victory and Defeat!

[Ezreq Blodvaerd]

Sometimes there is no "CURE" for the Borg incursion, other than the determination to fight another day!

[Morgan Shackelford]

Nice screenshot

I want to thank everyone who joined in this group last night; Augurson, P'rett, Mavendorf, Blod, Vital, and Mercer.

That third forcefield. Damn. We tried probably about 15 times or so, with slight variations in our approach each time; who was guarding what lantern, which kits we were using, etc. Came very close on many of the attempts, and finally pushed through to get the field down - unfortunately by then many of you were running on empty and had to call it a night.

I wasn't going to stop, though, particularly after we had finally gotten through the major mission cockblock. What I might lack in experience and leadership on this particular STF, I made up for with pure stubborness. I dragged Vital and Mercer through the rest of the mission along with two PUG members and we finally won the day. I think my total ass-in-seat time was probably about 6 1/2 hours or so.

I am glad we perservered; because we learned something invaluable from one of the PUG members on how to clear these forcefields.

You can place individual members on each lantern, out of aggro range of the Borg beam in, but still in rifle range to protect the lanterns. Taking out the nodes is not necessary to kill the workers. 4 members to protect the lanterns from workers, sniping from a distance; while one person runs through and sets off all the lanterns as soon as they come up. It worked incredibly well on the 4th forcefield; we brought it down in a single attempt. I am eager to try it on that 3rd field - it should work just as well, once we determine squad placement.

Basically - fighting the Borg reinforcements suck, so - don't fight them. Don't aggro them; snipe the workers as they approach, and viola - forcefield down.

[Vital<FCF>]

Longest STF of all time! I think we all broke the record of dieing in one mission. It should be an Accolade or something. Call it "Body bags". Also, only one respawned area worked. So, when we died we had to run from one side of the map to the other. What a mess that was. I think we spent more time running then we did fighting.


The borg didn't want to stop respawning over and over again. Glitched big time. Getting doubled teamed by Elites wasn't very nice either. That's were that picture came from. We attacked a small group then, 2 seconds later another group spawned infront of us with the same amount of borg and ran us the hell over. The patrols were also respawning. But after we got to the four shield and brought it down, (Only needed one try) everything worked out nicely.


That mission will go down in 7th Fleet History as the most FUBAR mission of all time.