Warfare & Tactics

The following posts are a summation of two different battlereports as seen from the perspective of the Gallente Militia. In typical FW style, quite a bit of theatre is injected for good measure. So let’s begin…


FIRST BATTLEREPORT

Friday Night Rumble In Lowsec Placid – Triple Threat Match; Gallente Militia vs Caldari Militia vs Rote Kapelle.

Rough approximation of each fleet;

Gal Mil fielded: 9 armor BS, 3 Guardians, 2 Scorps, 1 Falcon, 6 BCs, and a dozen cruisers/frigs
Cal Mil fielded: 13 armor BS, 2 Rooks, 2 Blackbirds, 1 Scorpion, 1 Damnation, 5 Tackles
RK fielded: 12 Tornados, 2 Zealots, 2 Rapiers, 1 Lachesis, 3 Tackles

Doctored Battlereport; http://dog-net.org/brdoc/?brid=10175


THE BACKSTORY

It had been a long week of bunker busting where we had knocked out at least 30+ systems and there were another 10 or so systems left to do this Friday night. Despite the grueling structure grinding, the spirit of Gal Mil pilots was still relatively high on comms as we were keeping the end goal in mind; cashing out at T4 and blotting out the sun with our Navy Domis.

One of the interesting obstacles to this week’s bunker busting was the fact that the backwater systems of northern lowsec Placid was experiencing an Incursion. Incursions means nasty Sansha rats who could hit harder and focus fire better than a Cal Mil gang. These rats would be a major threat to us on the stargates if we were fielding paper thin Tier 3 BCs for our Bunker Busting. Thus, we shipped into armor Battleships with Guardians. While we would’ve preferred a more mobile fleet for our structure grinding here in Nullsec lite, we realize neither our enemies nor other external forces would not make it easy for us to reach our end goal of being space rich. We had to adapt.

As we mindlessly shoot the Ihub of Mercomesier, we receive intel of a 20-man war target gang slowly making their way to our system. Their fleet comp comprised of roughly dozen armor Battleships, some tackle, and a crap ton of Ewar. 2 Rooks, a Scorpion, and a couple Blackbirds, I believe?

Now, an armor BS gang vs armor BS gang fight is a lot of fun and it’s something so few of us experience given the age of the Nano Blap. But we knew we had no chance in hell of taking them on given the large amount of ewar ships they were fielding. It would simply neutralize our logis and we’d get ROFLstomped.

Trapped into a dead end system, we could do nothing else but continue to work on this Mercomesier ihub and then follow that up with the ihub in the Athounon system next door; the final dead end system. We could only hope they get bored and start to lose pilots who needed to log.

Unfortunately, Squids would wait patiently and start positioning their fleet around the outbound gate eagerly awaiting to pounce on us. I'm shadowing them in local and looking at their fleet comp. Even though they had a lot of Ewar, I was a bit surprised at the lack of logi complimenting this BS gang. The thought of a spider repping BS gang complimented by Ewar came to my mind. But who does that anyway? So my next thought was...

[ 2012.08.04 05:34:33 ]Deen Wispa > so where's the triage support? :)
[ 2012.08.04 05:34:48 ] Super Chair > we jam your logi
[ 2012.08.04 05:34:50 ] Super Chair > never fail

I suppose. But having spent 6 months in FW, I realize that the one thing both sides share in common is the desire to beat the other person into the ground with no remorse nor regret. And more times than not, that means going overboard with the fleet comps. There are no gudfights in FW. Only winning.

Now, with Gal Mil's network of 2,000 spy alts in Cal Mil, and another 50 double agents and handles seeded on their comms, we knew better than to believe Super Chair. We figure they'd have cap support somewhere. But nothing we could do for now so continue on with the busting we must.

I decided to take my leave of their local and rejoin the BB gang. Twenty minutes later, our scouts started laughing their butts off on comms. Apparently, a Rote Kapelle Tornado gang decided to show up in Squid's local and lay waste to 4 of their 5 ewar ships. The news of this was such a morale boost to our fleet. We could only hope that RK would do the job that we could not do. And even if they didn't, we felt more confident of taking on the Squids new gang sans the Ewar

Still though, we had to continue with the BBing and pray to God that RK wouldn't learn learn of our fleet. Turns out we weren't so lucky. Their Loki pilot jumps into our system. Knowing that our times up, the FC calls for us to warp to the gate and jump on contact into Mercomesier. We would then warp to the Reschard gate in Mercomesier. Both RK and the Squids were waiting for us in Reschard. It is at this gate that we would make our stand against both Rote Kapelle and Caldari Militia and the following three way tango would ensue.

ROUND 1

The RK gang which included a dozen Nados, a couple inties, a Lach, and two Rapiers jump into us. We immediately down the Lach (which had a Cyno) and start grabbing tackle on everything else. We kill off another Nado before they finally start burning out into their preferred range. We knew this would happen which would immediately put our slow Armor BS gang at a huge disadvantage especially with the Squid Armor gang still looking to jump us at an opportune time.

Preparing for the eventuality of being kited beforehand, we discussed the idea of using rolling warp-ins on the Nados. While we did have several inty pilots in fleet, I was dissapointed to learn I was the only one who knew how to use the concept of a rolling warpin for this exact situation. And even I was a bit noobish on executing the concept. Unfortnately, most people aren’t interested in learning these useful fleet tactics. Why fly such an unglamorous ship and be denied of j4B isk worth of juicy KMs in an epic fight like this? But I digress.

To be continued...

2nd Battlereport:

The following is a thoughtful and exhaustive analysis of the current state of Gallente Militia and our Warzone Control.

























Today, we cashed out at T4. We're space rich and rolling naked in our isk.

That is all.

Well written. It was a DAMN fun fight. I always thought a 3 way would make me feel dirty and used. Glad to see I was wrong!

So this is what Jaf's been going on about. Shame I missed it, but hey man... Call of Duty.

And then it will swing back to our favour, and then back to yours. Thats how the mechanic works. Once you take all those systems back, do you honestly expect people to defensive plex 70-90 systems?. Ill assume you dont and at that point those systems will eventually fall back into vuln for us. Unless they ruin it and add lp for defensive plexing, at which point whoever has more plexers will win by default without a single pvp event making any difference at all.

Tbh we joked about 'TO THE FORUMS' when we hit tier 4 since it seems that every single battle caldari wins ends up in W&T, usually bolsterbomb, spouting some illy perceived nonsense.

Also, im good for a year with he assets i just acquired.

Also, u mad?

Gutted I missed that fight, but unlike some of the Gallente ugly ducklings like Daiyo, I need my beauty sleep to stay looking this good.

Nice write up Mr. Deen.

Fun fight. Can't wait for next time

/facepalm
No it is not. It is relation of offensive pelxing to defensive plexing. And since amount of offensive plexers is MUCH hihger and activity also much higher then it related mostly to offensive plexing.
Do you even FW? Obviouslly you dont so gtfo



Most of frog dumps happens at tier 3 while most of caldari dumps at tier 4 which means that caldari get stuff TWICE more cheap (this only frog T4 happened because you crapped pants and panicked that you will never get chance to achieve T4 otherwise). Now go to fking market and compare prices. 2 Navy scorps cost much more that 1 navy domi. Are you even able to understand numbers? There is no way how you might get more ISK per lp. Fact that somebody in CalMil is bad at economy does not change fact that you are bulls**ter. Rest of you theory is funny but unfortunately not support by fact in any way.



In other word you are confirming that you were bulls**ting and get no income from LP dump yet and that's just Your future hopes (except perhaps couple of your domis that you claimed that you sold).

AIMASPAI

Close...

Damar bite me. So as its usual with monsters when they bites somebody that person turns into copy of monster (vampires, werewolves, etc.).
Now I am slowly turning into DAMARRRRRRRRR