Factional Warfare in general

[GarstTyrell]

The RF of the auga pos was fairly spur of the moment (the bs fleet I had originally was going to be used as a backup fleet for another fleet baiting) but was an attempt to force a large fight. Unfortuantely minmatar had forgotten that the point of a FW pos is to get a fight, and cared much more about stronting for fucking alarm clock ops and restronting while Amarr mixedup the time regarding the server coming back up from downtime vs the stront timer. Well saved your POS at least vOv

It was pretty obvious that we werent going to get the large scale fight we wanted on the second day when we came back and almost no minmatar outside of the corp that owned the pos was there + star fraction vs a smaller amarr fleet from the first two days. Shit stront timers pretty much assured that.

O'Donnel: yes we killed two carriers, read my post right above yours with the question.

As for why we called off the attack: 1) general militia's inability to master the align/warp commands or RR pretty much resulted in losing the firepower of a growing number of already limited battleships over the course of the battle 2) monday morning 6am alarm clock ops fuck that

looking for fights in fw of the size we used to see is fairly pointless imo. Assuming that the gallente were going to come for the pos fight I asked the caldari to come as well and got at best maybe 5-10 people who trickled down and filled some x's in my fleet. Im not on the caldari front but it seems to me like the resurgence of the gallente (why the gallente I have no idea) is the only really viable faction at the moment with minmatar discouraged and not really logging in and most of amarr and especially caldari packing up for 0.0
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[GarstTyrell]

well my internet or shc just failed and ruined my in depth reply so ill give my lazy tldr version:

1) minmatar cared more about stront timing for 6am alarm clock ops then for using the pos to get a fight which is what fw is about so we didnt get quite the size of the fight we wanted, the second and third day almost no minmatar showed up besides the pos owning corp
2) yes snake we killed two minnie carriers
3) we called off the third attack when as we kept losing our already limited number of battleship x's to militia idiots who cant fucking understand the concepts of: aligning, warping, staying in RR range, or not taking GCC and then spreading it like plague to the entire fleet through rr.
4) militia is just about dead, especially caldari as most people are packing up for 0.0 or bored/discouraged (minmatar) except gallente who are for some reason more active than ever it seems.
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[GarstTyrell]

double post, delete
apparantly my internet cant master the concept of the 'post' command either
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[Nypon]

[Evil Synns]

The only reason Gallente knew about the pos was our spys reporting it from squid intel.

We did send 1 person down there on day 1. Seen the mini's had the tower safe. Seen the minis warp their carriers off the pos shield, at which point I slapped my forehead.

Second day I was ready to come all guns blazing, but again good work from the pos owners. The POS was restronted and that was the end of it.


Didn't fancy coming down to be shot at by a POS. So we held back.


How about you put a pos up somewhere and we can come and shoot that? MCB did it and we got no fights either.

Caldari are beat. I've long spoken about the FW cycle, but this is different. MCB are taking a 10 man gang out but they log off before we log in. Then its 5 hours of boredom before the squids come out again. Their main FC is quiting. They are running lottery to win Freighters /o\ and I don't see them up to much in their militia channel

Its very depressing.
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[Snake]

US TZ is much the same. Caldari gangs never come out, and the ones that do tuck tail and run back to nourv so fast that we can't even get a fleet up. We chased a 15 man MCB gang around last night for about an hour before they snuggled up in dock range of the station in Eha with a carrier.

I haven't had a good fight in weeks. Shit is depressing.
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[GarstTyrell]

tbvh I have no idea why gallente is so busy or is attracting so many corps. I know from speaking to the caldari that a majority of their active pvpers are leaving and that seems to be true of all militias except gallente. I guess half of you could pick another faction and join it
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[davidalpha]

The recent Gallente miltia revival is caused mostly by us having been the underdog for a while. A lot of the new people ive spoken too were attracted by this. Also when missions were still 'sploitable we gained a lot of good corps. Soon enough well collapse into ourselves again
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[Forte]

Helgatild has just been recaptured by Minmatar Militia. No resistance was met from the Amarr Militia.
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[Forte]

Floseswin has just been captured by Minmatar Militia. No Amarr Militia resistance was present.
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[milesvt]

Couldn't you have just edited that into the previous post?
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Olivor

[Forte]

System count is now:

Caldari 85
Minmatar 32
Amarr 38
Gallente 16
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[smegma]

Please keep system flips to yourself. Not sure atm why it matters tbh. This is about fun and the pew pew.

Had a blast last week (multiple ones in fact). Took loads of fleets (gangs really, not that many active pvp'ers in cal mil atm) out and about in BR and surrounding area. Can't remember much from the start of the week but an improtu drunkfleet™ on wednesday night had me loose four ships including a stabber FI. Tried to take on a huggin. Started loosing, got away from him. Then the beer kicked in again and told me that having another crack at him whilst in half armour was a really good idea.

Most gang outings were sucessful apart from two. We lost one engangement on the OMS gate Heyd due to the aborted shutdown causing half of the gang to logoffski and having a lot of noobs in gang who refused to shoot the primaries

The other engagement we lost might have been due to the large RR BS gang we tried to take on .... or it could have been the carrier supporting the large RR BS gang .... or maybe it could have been due to the titan supporting the carriers, that was supporting the RR BS gang.

Highlight of the week: Killing Galactica in his FNC and getting his pod. ♥

Much fun had by all though.

Gents, the Cal mil has a lot of newer, (and dare i say it) carebeary pilots coming through who don't have much PVP expirience and hardly any FC's available at nearly all times, so give us a break. We ar trying to bring you the pew pew but we're not dumb enough to jump straight into camped RR BS fleets ...... hang on. Yes we are.
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[Forte]

[smegma]

Meh. Plex flipping means nothing. It hasn't before and hopefully never will.

Carry on Forte, carry on. Be sure to hug DJ at the next fan fest. It seems like you have a lot in common. You never know love could be in the air.

Last month nobody cared who had what plexes ............. not sure if they care now either.

Not sure if it shows what side is 'winning' either (if there is such a thing in FW) or which side is bored of mission running and wants to something just as tedious (which we caldari are rather good at i might add). Yes i have run plexes before. Felt like i needed to wash afterwards though.



...... you sure your not DJ's gal alt? ♥
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