Warfare & Tactics

So lets just say, purely hypothetically, that I have just come back from a few months hiatus to find my alliance destroyed by another alliance.

Lets say, hypothetically, that I wanted to conduct an insurgency campaign relying primarily on hit and run tactics, black ops ships, and extended periods of isolation from friendly space.

Hypothetically this enemy alliance I would be engaging has the most pilots of any other alliance, and near limitless resources.

How would one hypothetically hurt the pilots of this alliance the most, while incurring minimal losses on ones own personnel?

What ships would be best suited for these sort of hit and run tactics deep within this hypothetical alliances sov? Currently I am thinking, hypothetically, that stealth bombers, interceptors, and e-war ships may be best suited to this task along with a pair of blockade runners for ammunition and equipment resupply.

Oh, and lets say that hypothetically, I have the financial support of a number of other entities so cost is not an issue.

Hypothetically, my force would be limited to between 10 and 25 pilots, though it may extend to 50.

Any advice in terms of tactics, ships, or equipment for this hypothetical scenario?

You mean the naga, as in running sniper fleets?

The only problem is, this would be an extended deployment probably upwards of a week at a time, in the middle of a major alliances sov. Couldn't a tornado fleet be fairly easily nailed down in one system?

Hypothetically of course.

Stealth "im trapped in goonspace someone come help me pleeeeeeeaaaaaasssssseeeeeeeee..." thread? Hypothetically of course.

You said everything being in the system for afew days, so a cyno would be pointless.

Hypothetically CCP could lock this thread for being crap.

Spread all you're pilots available out over this hypothectical alliances main ratting systems in cloaked up recon's or bombers, log in after DT and just go do something else, every now and then come back to you're afk cloaker, run a scan and see if you can scare a ratter who has ventured out, rinse and repeat.

You do not hurt an alliance's members by giving them small gang pvp but by stopping them earning isk.

put an alt into pizza and learn the trade

I'm guessing anyone having to ask this amount of questions, would not be up to completing this insurgency.

hypothectically anyhoo

15 man group, regardless of financial backing, is unlikely to be more then a nuisance to either of the major power blocks unless you hit moons. The reality is that only a portion of their finances come from ratting/plexing, and its spread out over multiple regions. While you could **** of a few members by afk cloaking a few systems, its unlikely to have an impact at the strategic level. A small alliance, with only a handful of systems, this could make a big dent, but not to a powerblock.

You could run nados in their primary staging system, if done well, they are extremely annoying to the enemy, and you don't need to worry about being camped in, as you are already the only place you need to be. But again, for a major block, even if the players are clueless, you just aren't going to do enough damage to have a strategic impact, and when they need to move fleets for strategic ops, they can put enough snipers on grid to force you to stop.

If you really want to mess with them, you need to start hitting moons. The reinforced moons generate no money, and if you pass intel to opportunistic groups that can form a decent sized fleet, you force the enemy to either constantly form large fleets to save POS timers, or you kill their POSes. Sure they will just kill the tower put in place, and restore there own, but its will hurt their bottom line a lot more then some ratting disruption, provide opportunities for opportunistic entities to inflect meaningful losses on them, and are forcing higher level FCs/Leadership to deal with the problem your creating rather then doing something more productive. Even if no one can defeat them in a pitched battle, forcing them to constantly form 500 man fleets to fix what you've done is incredibly draining and frustrating for the pilots if they don't get fights.

Edit: If your not serious about really impacting the enemy, and are actually only interested in feeling good for sticking it to them by waging guerrilla war and getting kills, there are plenty of ways to do that, just say so.