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Your FW is better than my FW (General FW discussion)
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GavinGoodrich
Perkone
Caldari State
#1 - 2013-04-02 01:01:24 UTC
I'll start. Anybody missing drakefleets yet? Bear

Haaaaaalp my head's on fire
IbanezLaney
The Church of Awesome
#2 - 2013-04-02 02:07:56 UTC
Never really got to be in any big Drake fleets.

Did a small alliance drake fleet about a week before the BC changes to derp what we had sitting around.

We derped them all - mission successful.


Ferox is my preference now.

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Inora Aknaria
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2013-04-02 02:46:40 UTC
Lots of amarr still don't have me on their overview when I kill them.
Deen Wispa
Sheriff.
United Caldari Space Command.
#4 - 2013-04-02 03:17:01 UTC
GavinGoodrich wrote:
I'll start. Anybody missing drakefleets yet? Bear


Let's do a switcheroo this weekend. Caldari flies Myrmidon fleet. Gallente flies drakes.

PS- Don't miss drakefleets per se but miss BC gangs

High Five. Yeah! C'est La Eve .
IbanezLaney
The Church of Awesome
#5 - 2013-04-02 04:44:11 UTC
Inora Aknaria wrote:
Lots of amarr still don't have me on their overview when I kill them.



I nearly had a bad day due to that a few weeks ago.

Everyones like - Shoot 'x'.

And I was like wtf - Overviews empty. Nothing there dudes. Can I have some of what you're on?




Turns out - was something there. Shocked


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Andiedeath
We Aim To MisBehave
Kenshin Shogunate.
#6 - 2013-04-02 06:02:19 UTC
Definitely miss Battleship fleets!!! Bring back the good old days.

Drake fleets not so much... ;)

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Super Chair
Project Cerberus
Templis CALSF
#7 - 2013-04-02 15:01:02 UTC
I miss RR navy domi fleets, fighting them that is :D



I miss RnK and cry havoc hotdrops too
Princess Nexxala
Zero Syndicate
#8 - 2013-04-02 16:19:19 UTC
I for one love the fact there are less blobs running around. Fleet fights are meh.

nom nom
March rabbit
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2013-04-02 17:07:51 UTC
GavinGoodrich wrote:
I'll start. Anybody missing drakefleets yet? Bear

hell yes.... sometime i miss our 150+ alpha-tempests fleets from 0.0. sometime i miss 40-50 drake gangs from 0.0/low-sec....

The Mittani: "the inappropriate drunked joke"
Takseen
Federal Defense Union
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2013-04-02 20:33:05 UTC
Deen Wispa wrote:
GavinGoodrich wrote:
I'll start. Anybody missing drakefleets yet? Bear


Let's do a switcheroo this weekend. Caldari flies Myrmidon fleet. Gallente flies drakes.


I can fly a blaster fit armor tanked Drake with heavy drones, right?
Hobgo Togenada
Tinfoil Hat Club
#11 - 2013-04-03 16:34:47 UTC
All FWs awox...

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Ginger Barbarella
#12 - 2013-04-03 17:11:02 UTC
GavinGoodrich wrote:
I'll start. Anybody missing drakefleets yet? Bear


My first awesome null roam as an FW noob years ago was in a Drake... we took on a Naglfar (I think) and popped it. Good times. :) I promptly died quickly and horribly to a 'cane. P

"Blow it all on Quafe and strippers." --- Sorlac
Sexy Cakes
Have A Seat
#13 - 2013-04-03 18:28:20 UTC
My FW brings all the boys to the yard.

Not today spaghetti.
Deen Wispa
Sheriff.
United Caldari Space Command.
#14 - 2013-04-03 18:32:40 UTC
Takseen wrote:
Deen Wispa wrote:
GavinGoodrich wrote:
I'll start. Anybody missing drakefleets yet? Bear


Let's do a switcheroo this weekend. Caldari flies Myrmidon fleet. Gallente flies drakes.


I can fly a blaster fit armor tanked Drake with heavy drones, right?


This is why Gallente FCs get burned out so quickly ;)

High Five. Yeah! C'est La Eve .
JAF Anders
Adenosine Inhibition
#15 - 2013-04-03 20:45:53 UTC
... I actually do really miss drakefleets.

The pursuit of excellence and stabbed plexing alts.
Bad Messenger
Rehabilitation Clinic
#16 - 2013-04-04 10:16:00 UTC
world changes, drakes are not so popular anymore and neither is FW, big fleets and FW is not the thing.
Mehashi 'Kho
New Eden Motion Pictures
#17 - 2013-04-04 13:23:01 UTC
GavinGoodrich wrote:
I'll start. Anybody missing drakefleets yet? Bear

Yes, so much yes. Maybe not drakes per se with the rebalances, but bc+ fights absolutely.

A pleasing sign on the horizon is that recently i've seen a few squid gangs flying bcs again, excellent stuff! It's great to remember that while fw sov fighting is all frig to cruiser, we are not restricted to fighting in bloody plexes ALL THE F***ING TIME!!! (seriously it's like building a wall around your engagement options, an appeal to some fc's on both sides slipping into this mentality, think outside the plex once in a while.)

I can tell you on our side there are many people who love a chance to brush off the cobwebs on their bcs and bs.

From my own perspective, I don't enjoy flying with other people in small ships, you can't react (skirmish / kite / flee) as you need to while tied to another player, you tend to get them killed and they tend to get you killed. However, once you get to heavy cruiser upwards kind of level I love working with other people. Thing is, with the warzone as it is and everyone having a hard on for frig/dessy fleets, I'm not getting many opportunities to fly with others. More enemy bcs and bs in the area would help with that greatly! :)
GavinGoodrich
Perkone
Caldari State
#18 - 2013-04-05 15:41:20 UTC  |  Edited by: GavinGoodrich
Since the t1 cruiser buff, most bigger fights seem to revolve around that. Just remember if you plan on undocking a hard counterfleet, if you don't bait 'em out or they see you too soon--don't expect a fight. With the exception of occupancy--most of the fights in lowesec are consensual. I.E. fleets have to willingly commit most of the time.

It's ironic to see the risk adversion with many FC's regarding t1 cruisers (Galls, Pirates, yes even Squids) hasn't changed that much. 0.0 became a lot more loose and aggressive with it, but it's about the same here. Open up and get you a brawl! There's no need for 4 logi + ewar + links + whatever as a hard counter a kitchen sink fleet with little/no support roaming around. That's just a recipe for blueballs.

*edit* remember like 2 years ago when I hotdropped my triage alt on every other fleet I was on. Someone referred to it as pandora's box. It's hard to get away from that image once you start Cool Everyone that knew me expected triage, even when I wasn't using it. I'm really trying to avoid that right now for the sake of fun brawls.

Haaaaaalp my head's on fire
JAF Anders
Adenosine Inhibition
#19 - 2013-04-05 18:26:48 UTC
A lot of folks probably still have [REDACTED] still watchlisted.

I've got a serious question for you, though. There was this one time last year where you brought some BS out to chase a Julius bunker busting gang out in Athounon / Mercomesier. Thing was, the constellation was under incursion. Incursions mean cyno jammers. Both our gangs wait for one to jump into the other while an unfortunate Rote Kapelle alpha 'nado fleet rolls through most of your EWAR. Coincidence of all coincidences, the incursion ends while we're all on opposite sides of the same gate. We finally brawl, you drop, we counter drop hard, a carrier dies on each side, you guys bail off, RK comes in and they blap most of our small stuff and leave. All this to say... did you plan on fighting in a cyno-jammed system, or did you plan on not having it and reacted when incursion miraculously dropped?

GavinGoodrich wrote:

*edit* remember like 2 years ago when I hotdropped my triage alt on every other fleet I was on. Someone referred to it as pandora's box. It's hard to get away from that image once you start Cool Everyone that knew me expected triage, even when I wasn't using it. I'm really trying to avoid that right now for the sake of fun brawls.

The pursuit of excellence and stabbed plexing alts.
Super Chair
Project Cerberus
Templis CALSF
#20 - 2013-04-05 18:48:04 UTC
JAF Anders wrote:
A lot of folks probably still have [REDACTED] still watchlisted.

I've got a serious question for you, though. There was this one time last year where you brought some BS out to chase a Julius bunker busting gang out in Athounon / Mercomesier. Thing was, the constellation was under incursion. Incursions mean cyno jammers. Both our gangs wait for one to jump into the other while an unfortunate Rote Kapelle alpha 'nado fleet rolls through most of your EWAR. Coincidence of all coincidences, the incursion ends while we're all on opposite sides of the same gate. We finally brawl, you drop, we counter drop hard, a carrier dies on each side, you guys bail off, RK comes in and they blap most of our small stuff and leave. All this to say... did you plan on fighting in a cyno-jammed system, or did you plan on not having it and reacted when incursion miraculously dropped?

GavinGoodrich wrote:

*edit* remember like 2 years ago when I hotdropped my triage alt on every other fleet I was on. Someone referred to it as pandora's box. It's hard to get away from that image once you start Cool Everyone that knew me expected triage, even when I wasn't using it. I'm really trying to avoid that right now for the sake of fun brawls.




The goal of the fleet was to hotdrop, it was announced before the fleet even left ichoriya.
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