Warfare & Tactics

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The Old List of Militia Jargon:

Squids = The Caldari. Direct all pew pew and local smack talking towards these guys
Minnies = The Minmatar are great allies and they never turn down a good fight
Pie = Pirate
Eyes = A pilot with visual confirmation of a fleet's identity, composition, destination. Also called a scout. There's also the Cloaky variety.
Cloaky = A ship with a cloak.
Shiny = Expensive ships. Best bait.
+1= The pilot that stays one jump ahead of the fleet for scouting purposes.
Long point = Warp Disruptor
Scram = Warp Scrambler
Fleet Tackler = Properly fitted Ares or Stilleto.
Points hot = Prepare to point target
Hold Point = Do not point. Generally for interceptors and other frigates to avoid aggression and jump after the target.
Force him through = One person should point the target and force the target to jump through the gate.
Secondary Point = Indicates another fleet member has pointed the target. This also means the person that had the initial point is clear do disengage.
Gate Activation = When the gate lights up when someone jumps through with hopefully something the fleet can gank
Gate is hot = The gate has hostiles
Deagress = Cease aggression. Generally used when you or the fleet is planning to jump out of combat.
Yellowbox = Locking/Being locked
Redbox = Attacked/Attacking
Comms = Ventrilo, Teamspeak
Vent= Ventrillo
TS, TS3 = Teamspeak
Battlecomms = Alternative way of telling people to shut up
Intel = Information regarding a system or targets. Comes in the good, old and bad variety.
Friendly Intel = Is intel regarding a friendly player or fleet. Avoid doing this at all costs. If in doubt, best zip it.


Important Systems:

Dodixie: The Militia's favorite location for quick shopping. Pricing of modules can be from competitive to ridiculous sometimes, depending on how exotic are the things you are looking for. Dodixie is booming and prices and selection are slowly improving.

Oursulaert: Old school Gallente pilots have fond memories of Ours 3. Check region prices for ships if you happen to be nearby, you may be surprised.

Villore: Your last stop before low sec. The system also has some useful things for sale if you can't get to Dodixie. A 0.5 system like Villore is the easiest high sec for you to be ganked in.

Old Man Star: Generally your next jump. I strongly urge you to not jump into Old Man Star from Villore unless you are in a fast ship or have done some reconnaissance beforehand. The system generally can go from dead to World War 3 in a split second or vice versa so rely on fresh intel. Villore and Heydieles gates are heavily camped by pies around the server down time.

Heydieles: The nerve center of the Gallente Militia. Generally where you'll find the bulk of our pilots, unless we're out in fleets. If you are looking to get some action, this is the right place. Although we generally have control of the system, its not usual for large blobs to make their way there. A major alliance dropping a titan in front of the station? Nothing out of the ordinary. I recommend making an insta warp for your new home at M19. It will save you a lot of ships. Surprisingly you can buy very conveniently priced things here too.

Abune: Generally the fleet's first destination. Abune and Oinasiken are primarily major baiting grounds, so don't expect to get a lot of 1v1s here unless you've been around for a while and know to pick your targets. The entire pipe is infamous for the eagerness of both sides pilots for easy kills and its not out of ordinary for twenty people blob on a frigate in a slow day.

Nisuwa: There are old tales in the militia about the bitter vets and drunkards that reside in Nisuwa. Normally they are giving the squids a really bad day or exhausting the station's supply of red wine. You can always hope they are too drunk to manage to undock.

Enaluri: This is Squid Land. Either expect a very big fight or for them to stay docked up. A good opportunity to train your local smack talking skills.

Intaki: Major plexing effort taking place around Intaki. Come test your skill and wits in what I consider the largest war of attrition outside of null sec.

Tama: The Squid equivalent of Old Man Star. The pies around here are a lot more ballsy than the OMS offspring.

Keep in mind:

1) We are severely outnumbered at the start of the day as most of the pilots and fleet commanders are asleep or have a life.

2) Plexing has become serious business for the Gallente Militia as of late. If you are looking to get noticed, this is a good area to shine in.

3) Caldari and Amarr NPC navies will attack you in their respective high sec systems. They will not point you but will web and neutralize your capacitor. Their deadliness is dependent on the security of the system. 0.5 lowest to 1.0 as highest. Keep in mind Gallente and Minmatar navies will also engage you if your security rating isn't suitable for that location. I also strongly recommend AGAINST docking in these situations, unless you are in a very fast ship.

4) Concord space tends to be popular space for ganks. Combat between FW pilots there can happen uninterrupted.

5) Hang out in low sec long enough and you'll feel like that its safer than high sec. With good reason.

6) Squids generally only engage if they are sure they will win. Plan accordingly.

Overview settings: How to make a warzone a lot less confusing!

A properly set overview is very important. Not only it will help you sort through your targets better will also avoid accidents such as friendly fire.

Open your overview settings and uncheck these options:

Pilot is in your alliance
Pilot is in your corporation
Pilot is in your militia
Pilot is in your fleet.

Your overview will only display pilots that are either neutral or aggressive towards you now. In case you want to see your comrades on your overview you can make a new tab with these options checked and other options unchecked. A quick way to inspect the fleet you are with. Don't be shy to make as many tabs as you'd like. I personally use a 'Travel', PVP, Drones, Fleet and Mission tabs. Using your PVP tab while directional scanning with active overview settings check will make it less confusing as well. You can optionally also uncheck targets that have good standing to you or your corp.

When you are very satified with your overview settings remember to save them. You never know when you might need them again. This will save you a lot of time and make you feel a little bit less naked at your next undock.

The art of scouting:

Under construction.

It's called Intelligence for a reason:

Under construction.

Big dos and don'ts:

Under construction.

great guide cheers

Great guide, glad to see it made the transition to the new forums.

One thing I'd like to add: a format for reporting intel in fleets. I actually picked this up from an Agony Unleashed class, so credit goes to them. It's worked fairly well in FW.

When reporting intelligence to your FC, it's useful to include certain details. The following should be included:

- Who is speaking (when you're reporting over voice)
- Where you are (system and gate/station/celestial)
- Local count. This includes the # of WTs and Pies in local.
- What's on grid.
- What's on scan. (This will take some discretion and experience, as a lot of your scan results will be POS'ed up, no threat, or are ships that are always in system.)

To make life easier on the FC, it's good to be consistent in how you report it. Giving the above details in that order every time is a good way of keeping comms clear, especially when multiple scouts are reporting intel from different systems. Too often, precious time is wasted by back-and-forth questions like "Who's speaking?" or "Where are you?" Blurting out randomly "I've got a bunch of WTs here" is next to useless.

Examples of good reporting:

"Bob here in Oinasiken on the Pyne gate. Ten war targets in local. Three drakes and a dram on grid. Nothing else on scan."
"Jane in Kedama on the Nisuwa gate. Three in local, one pie. Nothing on grid. Hurricane on scan towards the Hirri gate."

Examples of bad reporting:

"Uh, I've got a bunch of reds here on gate with me. They're shooting."
"Some war targets just jumped."
"****, there's a gatecamp."
"Check! Check check check .... I'm dead."

Certain details can be ommitted sometimes. For example, if a system is empty, there's usually no need to report that nothing's on grid or on scan. Example:

"Bob here. Abune's clear."

When giving intel, be prepared for follow-up questions. The FC, for example, will often ask about the corporation that the WTs or Pies belong to. The FC may also ask you to check another gate or direct your scans somewhere specific.

Lastly, and this is easier said than done, try not to panic. It's usually not just the FC hearing your report but the entire fleet. Shouting and cursing won't help fleet organization any. Giving calm, level-headed reports goes a long way to keeping fleet comms efficient.

Nice post and good timing.

I recently returned to New Eden and I made this account to have some 'small' ship fun. I was debating FW's as a way to relearn eve pvp. Starting off with a basic tackling frig. Secondary is to get me use to pvp so I'm more ... comfy ... living in Null-sec on one of my old accounts.

I do have a few questions:

• When are the busy times for EST USA? I will be playing the role of tackler for quite a while so fleet ops will be better over solo play.

• What is the best way to get involved. I made Freako the CEO of my alt-character corp. Will I have issues finding fleets in a VERY small player corp?

• Would it be possible for a FC to send me a PM with play times, preferred tackling setups (scram and web .. i assume), etc?

I should add that based on the original email ... I'll be outnumbered as Gallente. That is good news for me ... target rich environment. I appreciate your time.

~Freako

Any smart person using TS or Vent will be using TINT overly for TS/Vent for on screen IDs of person talking or using Vent's built-in overlay (which sucks since it covers over anything where it is placed on screen).

Freako X,

1= All day except around down time pretty much.

2= Best way to get people to like and trust is to fly with them. Actions speak louder here. Any corp, old or new, fresh or veteran, big or small can join our fleets. We are paranoid but not snobbish.

3= Depends on the ship. We don't really consider anything other than an interceptor like an Ares or Stiletto to be fleet tackle. Anything else gets killed too easily in fleet fights. If you want to be an interceptor pilot, I recommend spending a lot of skill points into navigation, and targeting skills. You can ask for fits once you are settled.

4= We don't have a certain time we fleet in. Depends on the occasion and with what we have and what we'd be up against. Just stay sharp and the fleet will show up eventually. There's also little roams going around all the time, its not always massive slugf ests. You'll get the hang of it eventually.

Go W-BR/Amarr if you love chasing Dessy plexing gangs after DT. For whatever reason minnies love to plex, don't know why its pretty pointless cause they only fight if they can gank.

Once the US/TZ starts coming on their ship size increases and you can get some nice battles. Plus Amamake always has some idiot in top belt. (Nod of honour to the Kestral that went pie on our 12 BS and Logi fleet of belt camping awesome.)

Great post, except this part:



This isn't entirely true. Though near every spawn will be like this, some *will* warp scramble you. I had this happen to me, I petitioned it (based on posts like these saying it doesn't happen...) and was told it's how they work.

A couple of days ago I sailed past some Gallente FW guys camping in Caldari highsec. Several were pointed by the NPCs.

The Navy will not point you, never have, however the Police will point you. Subtle yet big difference.