Warfare & Tactics

I'm going to say some stuff that will probably make some of my militia pilots and corpmates irate, but it needs to be said.

There is simply no need to continue beating up on an opponent that is not as coordinated and experienced as we are. Everyone around here already knows that Gallente is superior in virtually every facet of FW. We are overachievers, in fact.

I'm just coming back into the game. I no longer have the sort of time that I used to have for this game. When I log on, I just want to create fun content or be a part of it. Logging on and seeing 30-50 pilots plexing a system with no competition. Moaning on comms about why the enemy hasn't shown up. That's not fun. Being a cog in the machine. Trying to get a word in with 5 other people talking over each other. Not fun. Being in a large group where I can't get to know my fellow gamers. Where I can't teach and/or learn from my fellow pilots. Sucks.

The ethos of FW was always about a place where you can have an impact. Where you're not just a number. Where multiple groups of pilots can have an impact. A place where our personal actions truly matter and will have a ripple effect throughout the warzone.

Man. Things have truly changed over the last two years I've been here. Nowadays, people are more interested in trying to get 500 kills a month rather than find meaning and impact in some of their battles.

We blame CCP for the current mechanics without taking any responsibility. We grief the competition and constantly kick them out of their space because we can. We tell them that it's not our fault we're highly organized and that they need to step up their game. But to accept personal responsibility for the current ecosystem we've created. Never.

An interesting narrative that we tell and convince ourself of nowadays.

This narrative sounds familiar to another large group of pilots in another region of space....

While I agree with your first points about why I joined the warzone/FW/Eve ( I really hate 20+ fights) and probably one of the main reasons I haven't been playing much at all (other than PvE'ing) since the Huola campaign, I disagree with putting blame on ourselves.

Why would we even try to blame ourselves for being the best/doing the best we can? What I liked about FW was the ability for 100 man fights and the 5 man fights. They both have their uses, and both are important. (the 5 man fights much less useful now with the huge difference between oplexing+deplexing)

I have my own thoughts on the subject seeing as GalMil was part of a pretty long and hard time period at Tier 1 vs Tier 3/4 against TEST and other CalMil groups. There was a significant risk of losing Eha at the time and better men than me went ABCD to defend it against all odds. We've been at T4/CalMil at T1 for maybe a month and they've already failscaded? We were even facing the swarms of deplexing AND oplexing alts back then. All these excuses I'm hearing about deplexing alts or similar are ones that we had to face before. Maybe this will be CalMils forge.

The issue at hand is not how Caldari militia got where they are today. It's how they will act in the future.





(pro hint: start fighting outnumbered and stop bringing griffins)

Interesting point cheesus ;)

And just to add my 0.02 ISK... I don't think it's improper to push an advantage to 100% warzone control. Factional Warfare is the most lucrative PVP-oriented activity in the history of Eve Online, besides perhaps wormhole space, and is vastly more accessible in terms of skillpoints.

The failure of the Caldari Militia to provide any meaningful resistance is the direct result of successive generations of inept leadership and egotistical fleet commanders, who believed that they could win the war effort on their own without coordinating with fellow Caldari membership.

By purging the warzone, we give a chance for new leadership and new personnel to step up to the challenge. We gladly accept any new comers to the facwar zone, friend or foe, and we will be happy to share with you our ample supply of antimatter charges ;)

And with that, we have just liberated the Ladistier system. The Presidential station shall return back under Federation control.

Well done, people.

My sides.

That aside though, grats on the clean sweep!

Edit - Should just add that I don't really understand the criticisms being aimed at the Gal offensive from their own side. It's true that if you want a certain ecosystem then you have to take certain ecological measures but really it is CCP's job to play gamekeeper, not the pilots in FW. It would be odd indeed if one side didn't aim for a territorial victory when they had the chance. I'm just surprised it didn't come sooner.

It probably has something to do with Caldari being an un-cooridnated mess that can't pull anything close to a proper gang while Gal-Mil are quite capable of fielding decent sized HAC fleets.

Its not all about plexing alts, people have to have a reason to stay in a militia that isn't just sitting in a plex 24/7.

Add pirate factions to fw \o/

and before things were like that FW was dead because the war was irrelevant. People are just whining. If you lost you lost, it is no one else fault except of your side. Organize and go take back something, and stop whining.

The war IS irrelevant...
No one is whining. We are just baffled.
We lost a label and you make it sound like we lost an arm and a leg.

gf.

The war WAS not relevant before dockign rights were associated with the war results. I was in minmatar militia back then and it was a full whatever scenario since absolutely NOTHIGN on the war result mattered. Now is much better.