Warfare & Tactics

i just had a pos stolen thought id tip other young players to watch for this one:

A) I get war dec'ed by a corp ive never had any contact with
B) figure my science pos in empire is the target
C) scramble to empty structures of contents unanchor them and store them at station
-so far so good-
D) empty pos fuel and set to unanchor tower
-heres where it goes awry-
E) 30 seconds before tower unanchors member of the wardeccing corp enters system
F) 20 seconds before it unanchors uninvolved local lurker uncloaks 15k from me and the tower and gets a good running bump on me just as war dec guy pulls up in a hauler
G) tower unanchors, hauler grabs it before i can get to it and _POOF_ easy money

So, im not mad or nothing i figured the tower was lost the minute i anchored it, BUT after some reflection on it, when i had the choice to build up a formidable defensive tower or a dickstar at least, or take it down and try to escape with it, i wussed out and tried to run with it, which played right into the hands of the enemy. So there you have it, take what you will from my experience, but my advice to you other small/solo indy corps guys is build it up, hold your ground, if you lose it you lose it, but at least you didnt basically give it away. go down fighting.

Much love to you all fly safe :)

I would agree but im the only one in corp...

Somehow, I don't think you actually read the OP at all. Which makes you an idiot for posting when you had no clue what was going on.

To the OP, yeah, that is an interesting tactic. It's a bit of a gamble on their part, that you would take it down rather than sticking it out, but I guess it was less of a gamble than it could have been since you're a tiny corp. A bit of a warning to any other small corps who get wardecced by them though. What corp was it that did this to you?

Nice grab, yea.

I agree with the OP's idea that if you think a POS is going to be a target, instead of dismantling completely, take everything you actually care out of it and make it into as much of a nuisance to reinforce as you can. If you were doing the POS right, you were making money with it, so you can easily afford that, too.

(Ignore or report the flametrolls. Answering them just feeds them.)

With precautions (adding the aggressors to watch list, doing this at an unusual time, etc) it may have worked. Still, better to go down in a blaze of glory

not the first time this has happened... Check C&P and you'll find atleast 20-30 of these threads. Most folks don't even think to watch out for those wonderful little war deccers.

All of this. Eve needs more players like the OP.

One thing to learn about EVE is that whatever you do, there's always a fairly good chance that you lose it. What matters is not whether your towers get occasionally blown up - what matters is if they get blown up so much that you are not making profit (or whatever your goal was putting them up).

Heh, I remember someone tried doing that to me once, something very similar, and I was expecting it, so I suicided their hauler as soon as it uncloaked. Before going with the suicide option I was thinking that if someone tried bumping me off, I could have a bumper on hand as well, but suiciding seemed more appropriate. I figured that even if they did nab the tower before I could pop them, it would either drop in the wreck I could scoop, or would go "poof" and no one gets it, but the hauler popped easily well before it got in "scoop to cargo" range... Now that we have the ~Tornado~ that would have been even cheaper / easier.

Nice read, nice comments apart from one moron could there be hope for these forums yet?
If I might add a small tip. If you orbit some thing rather than sitting still it makes you alot harder to bump.