Warfare & Tactics

Ill answer from the amarr militia side as best I can. I'm a fairly casual player though so my impressions are based on that.



I think you are going to find this a mixed bag. I never really ran in the npc corp much looking for fleets so I cant say for sure. You best bet is to try to get some kills against the wts and try to join a corp.



I think there is a fantastic mix of ships. Usually bc and down. Occassional big fleets with caps but that is more the exception than the rule. But you can expect allot of afs cruisers pirate faction cruisers destroyers etc. I think the mix of ships is really great in faction war.

Yeah there are allot of bombers running missions but I just ignore them for the most part and they don't bother me.

IMO Not too many blobs on the amarr minmatar front. It used to be blobbier imo.




I can't say whether this is throughout the militia or just how I have been playing but faction war right now is allot less formal fleets with scouts in every system within 5 jumps, and much more casual gangs and solo pilots. There are larger battles too but from my experience its more casual overall.



I think it has improved. Lots of them will do small gang stuff and they do not just do allot of gate camps. They will often come in plexes to fight. I think fighting pirates and other neutrals has been an improvement. Maybe they also agree that fw has gotten a bit less blobby and are more willing to engage. You would have to ask them.




This hasn't changed. Whether they will change it for inferno I don't know. But I think its shooting the enemy npcs that kills your standing.

Well - I'll see about joining a corp - main reason I want to join is just because I used to do it and want to see for myself how the changes work out



Sounds good, although I don't know how things were in the meantime - during my time in the militia there were still lots of nano-gangs running around in the beginning because it wasn't nerfed yet. Later we used to use all kinds of gangs, with the blobbier fights usually taking place in RR BSs and about 80-100 pilots on each side max.

I had Caps in the area at the time (lol - still have a Dread there) but only used them in a handful of fights and they were a very rare sight in FW during that time - mostly fielded by pirates or other third parties in the area.

I assume cap use has increased in the meantime but has become less now again?




Sounds very good - is that the same accross timezones? With you mentioning less blobby and formal fleets, I assume nephilim xeno has left ;)?




Well - the reason I was asking for the pirate situation was because of the new docking mechanics, I will need multiple characters in the area to keep access to stuff in flipped systems - so I thought I'd maybe put the noobish alt in one of the militias and join some local pirates with one of my higher SP characters.



I hope they change it - I'd hate messing up my standings beyond repair and on the higher SP characters, I've used up cosmos agents to fix standings from the fist time I was around.

Are the roleplayers in the Amarr Militia still hurf-blurfing around feeling themselves entitled to 'run' the militia? PIE was a fine bunch, but I remember CVA KOS-listing pretty much every corp I used to fly with (Gdip, TDRS, Slackers/ Helljumpers etc...) and especially some guys in 1PG being complete loons. It wasn't about being KOS-listed but their unbearable amount of idiocy and butthurt. It would help me in deciding which militia to join.

Thanks btw :)

I used to fly with Garst FCing a couple of times briefly before I quit FW - was mostly when no mercy was decced by the star fraction - it was fun and not really overorganized back then imho, but then, that's personal perception.

I scouted some of the former choke-point systems earlier today and was surprised about the rather low activity and the amount of T1 frigs moving through - looks like my noob alt would be fine.

A bit disappointed there aren't many pirates around - besides heretics, there always used to be some in Sahtogas (their name escapes me currently - but they were pretty bad and provided nice KMs).


Joining Amarr/Min would certainly have advantages as I still have a couple of hundered BMs there.

Hopefully, I'll also hear some more about gal/cal, too.

My god, you must have the ugliest face in Eve, +1.

Thanks all for your helpful replies - most question have been answered and I'll probably have to find out the rest for myself.

One last question though, as I feared it would derail the thread into a smackfest if asked in the OP and that would help me which one to pick:

What militia is considered the weakest currently? I remember the behaviour on the Min/Amarr front was cyclic, but I stuck with Amarr because it was by far the smallest militia back then. I like a challenge and hate to join the winning team.

Read some pretty bad things about Caldari when checking recently, which would make it a challenge, but I disliked their attitude during my time (biggest militia but all farming and plexing all the time), so I think that's the least likely option atm unless that changed...

I'm afraid station lock out and the sov warfare via plexing might kill the cycle :(

You'll almost certainly want to be on the winning side here unless you are so space rich you don't know what to do with your isk.

But even then you have to understand that with every kill your enemy gets they will effectively get several times the amount of lp you will get for killing them. That assumes the same exact ship and fittings. If none of that sickens you then join amarr! But if you are the least bit rational you will join minmatar.

As for caldari and gallente I really don't know. Gallente have the upper hand now but caldari have some long term advantages. 1) most people don't want to be locked out of jita - if a big alliance joins they will almost certainly not fight for gallente for this reason let alone all the individuals who will be deciding against gallente for this reason. 2) Lots of people just pick the faction of their race. I know caldari used to be the most popular race and it likely still is. So that front may be more interesting.

LOL thanks I will take that as a compliment. When you are as cantankerous as I am you have to focus on the few positives people throw you.

Gallente/Caldari side has tons of pirate groups. And don't forget that even if targets run dry, you can roam into Syndicate which is rich with targets.

I don't believe the Amarr/Caldari are outnumbered nor outmanned. They just aren't as organized. I know without a doubt that the Caldari have large numbers. I've crunched the numbers and in terms of manpower, they have it. So it's not that they're weak in terms of numbers. It's just that there isn't 1 or 2 individuals who is willing to do some politicking and unite the major corps and egos involved. I know there are a couple people who have tried and from what I am told, people didn't listen to them because they lacked the credibility or came off as tards :)

But, it's not a coincidence that the 2 militias with the most alliances are dominating the landscape. Allowing alliances in FW have greatly helped people get more organized.

Just to give you some perspective. My corp is new to FW as of 3 months ago. We've risen in the KB ranks from 18 to 6 to ranking #3 in kills and I don't even think we're that good...yet. So if we can do it, there's no reason other corps can't do it regardless of faction.

But one of the factors that has helped my corp succeed (other than my sage wisdom and leadership ofc :) )was the kind hand of our older Gallente brothers. I really do believe that if you took some of the Caldari corps that are struggling right now and put them on the Gallente side, they'd learn so much more and grow into decent combat pilots. Lots of solid Senior and Junior FCs and there are some great small gang pilots.And as Vordak alluded to, the cross co-operation is what makes us strong.

Individually, each of the caldari corps would get murdered by what is referred to now as the Jesus Blob. But if they start working together as a team, you would see some major epic fights and quite frankly, they could blob us at will.