Factional Warfare in general

blkmajik · Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 9:30 pm Post subject: Factional Warfare in general

Can we start a new FW thread? All the info here is stale. A quick update on what's going on. Admins, if you want to split this into the start of a new thread, it might be a good idea Smile

Ok then

- Major

Caldari KB: http://killboard.caldarimilitia.org/
Gallente KB: http://www.quafeultra.com/killboard/
Amarr KB: http://www.amarr-empire.net/killboard/
Minmatar KB: http://www.minmatar-militia.org/kb/

Right now, the Militias are getting at least as many, if not more kills per week than most 0.0 alliances of equal or greater size. It's a GREAT place for any PVP addicts who don't like to put up with alliance politics and baggage. There's always a fleet forming or near by, and always someone to shoot. Caldari have recently been the most significant winner of both the battle of the killboards and for system occupancy. This is obviously because they have Jita Laughing

The Amarr and Minmatar situations seem to have gone somewhat stale, and many of the major players in both groups have started moving to the primary Caldari/Gallente fighting grounds. Gunship Diplomacy, the primary corp in the Amarr militia since its first days, recent took this a step further and actually joined the Caldari Militia.

The local pirate factions still play a significant role. Some, such as Swiggwaffe, have taken on the role of paid Mercenaries for the struggling Gallente. Swigg and Beyond Divinity can almost always be found in or around Tama, along with dozens of other smaller pirate gangs deeper into FW space.

JustinMead · Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 1044 Location: Snigg - PL

Slazenger Harris · Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 11:45 pm Post subject:

Verite Rendition · Joined: 11 Jun 2008 Posts: 410 Location: F.R.E.E.E. Agent

http://go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/corp/Veritefw/FWinfluence.png

There's really nothing else to say.

blkmajik · Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 2:18 am Post subject:

Can you clear up your relationship between Swigg and some of the Gal corps then? I thought it was pretty clear you were working with them. I mean, you camp gates together and don't shoot each other, and have standings to not get shot at their towers (not sure, but I thought I saw Swigg inside a Wolfy POS once). And are you guys gonna finish up in Derelik any time soon? It's too quiet in Tama and you guys drop the best loot Sad

JustinMead · Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 1044 Location: Snigg - PL

Swiggs, and I'm willing to put isk down for this statement, have never blued a Gallante FW corp. And I highly doubt they were camping gates with them.

Swiggs have a very short blue list. PL, SoT, and one other major lowsec alliance (sorry but I can't remember Razz

).

There move is gonna be a semi-permanent move, so you won't see them anytime soon Smile

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Nexus Kinnon · Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 2:46 am Post subject:

I know for a fact that SWIGG has worked with WOLFY in the past, mainly because I was on TS when they were discussing it Laughing

afaik it was only temporary but I didn't spend much time in swigg
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JustinMead · Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 1044 Location: Snigg - PL

well fuck me, I stand corrected Embarassed

Even when I was in swigg I had no idea they were in the G-Fed Laughing

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Deja Thoris · Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 3:22 am Post subject:

Invicta are trying our hardest to thin the numbers of FW since it seems like the gallente and caldari militia are just engaged in an elaborate dance designed to avoid each other while ensuring maximum blobbage. We're out and out pirates at the moment since we gave up the fight to maintain our sec statuses.

We wardec'd dark rising a while back who at the time were a 200 strong gallente FW corp who move around in large numbers. They generally use snipey bs while we being blinkies need to keep the rr going to live so theres a lot of cat and mouse while we try to land right on them and they try their hardest to stop that happening.

Our pew pew relationship started here http://www.pawsofevil.com/kb/?a=kill_related&kll_id=19153 when they cynoed in a bunch of carriers in a slightly ill fated move into costolle. We were just returning from a bs roam and I poked a scout in their to see a woefully placed cyno. Sure enough their 6 or so carriers bounced hither and yon so we tackled one and managed to get people into carriers in time to get some rr going and down a nidhoggur. A little later they engaged us on the costolle gate where we ganked a couple, sure enough their carriers landed so we deagged and jumped out. They chased us to the next gate where 6 or so bs cunningly tried to pin us in from the other side. We engaged them and killed them and a cyno went up, their carriers jumped in to kill us. Once again we deagged and jumped out losing a bs since we couldn't rep the damage.

At this point we thought they'd be fun to wardec but the snipey bs kept presenting a problem to us since we are fairgame to everyone else and we generally have to engage DR and gall FW together. CH also got in on the fun and wardec'd them also. We decided it would be a good idea to try to provoke an engagement with inties and carriers only trusting the inties to tackle and the carriers to keep each other alive while delivering a bit of fighter spankage. We had the inties loiter in OMS on the villore gate while about 50 people snuggled up at the wartarget POS. Eventually a wartarget BS jumped into our inty fleet and got into trouble, then all the people at the POS warped in to snipe our inties. We opened up a cyno, dropped carriers and tackled all we could.

http://www.pawsofevil.com/kb/?a=kill_related&kll_id=19858

This was an awesome fight (for us) marred by huge lag which gave 2 of our carrier pilots cold sweats since we couldnt lock them for rr and a neutral gang of close range neuting bs decided to come to shoot at us at the same time.

Last notable engagement was after the wardec ended and we were roaming near OMS in a logistics heavy group. Gallente militia decided to engage us. http://www.pawsofevil.com/kb/?a=kill_related&kll_id=20778 Numbers are a bit off on this since we only lost 2 ships, I'm pretty sure they had at least double our numbers but thankfully they spent most of their time killing this rupture http://www.pawsofevil.com/kb/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=20770 which took over 80k damage Very Happy

In general theres lots of pew pew to be had but my feeling is generally that we have to beef up quite a lot and move around either quickly or in large numbers or we will be stomped by the larger gangs. Having chased both caldari and gallente militias around an awful lot it seems that caldari go to oms and wave their cocks about until it seems like gallente are about to fight and then they turn and run back to nourv. Then gallente go to tama and do the epeen wave until the caldari get it together to chase them back to villore. This back and forth should take place to Benny Hill music. Stragglers die and sometime when both militia fuck up they actually end up fighting, as if by accident.

I have no idea about the plexing aspect of FW, it seems to me to be boring and pointless and I don't think there are too many people entertaining themselves with it atm. They should make it so opposing factions cannot dock in each other stations, that would be a tangible reward for plexing and would stop dockfags somewhat.

Thats my 2 cents on FW as I see it. Thanks to DR and the militias, you keep us on our toes and give us something to shoot, I hope we do the same for you )

blkmajik · Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 4:13 am Post subject:

Equium Duo · Joined: 06 Jul 2007 Posts: 2290 Location: INIT. MADH.

Any more info on the minmatar/amarr struggle??

My corp Gauss-Codazzi is gearing up to enter the fray and fight for the minmatar! So any general intel on the area's would be mostly appreciated.

What are the main systems in the amarr/minmatar area's? (their respective tama/OMS)
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Deja Thoris · Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:05 pm Post subject:

Tellenta · Joined: 14 Oct 2007 Posts: 1846 Location: Invicta

Armyofme · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 409 Location: TDG

deja i cant belive you forgot about athi Crying or Very sad

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