Warfare & Tactics

Yet, the reality is that fighting over home systems in large fleets is a waste of resources. Why fight in a home system where the enemy has access to quick reships, OGBs, and other homefield advantages? You get a much better fight when both parties are 2-3 jumps away from their staging system.

Is losing a home system a crushing morale blow that might cause some groups to leave their militia? Perhaps, but plexers can easily get around such inconveniences and why would you want PVPers from the opposing militia to leave and get even fewer fights?

Technically I'm in every militia and have been for 2 years now. Just not with my current main "Major killz". Well, public main...

Anyway.

No one should believe the Gallente militia leaders, corporations and alliances are specifically superior. Well, not that much superior.

For example. Leaders in factional warfare believe they lead but that's a fallacy. When you can recruit pilots into your corporation and almost never have to log on, speak with and help direct and a corporation still grows. That's easy mode. So, management is not the most important part of a successful factional warfare entity (outside of the nest it's different).

Factional warfare content and player driven content can is shared (militia system). By that I mean a corporation without a fleet commander can have one by being in a militia. Which provides more content for a corporations membership.

Alot of leaders in the gallente militia believe the aforementioned fallacy. Most have never been tested outside of factional warfare and those who have can tell you it's VERY difficult. Which is why most corporations that are born or grow in factional warfare fail when they leave (they get a swift kick in the nutz of reality). There's more stress.... ALOT more stress involved for leadership and they have to be VERY active and actually work. Politics becomes ALOT more important; active fleet commanders; good management and corporation/alliance structure. Delegating is the ultimate goal for the leader and most find that difficult. If an entity cannot survive without 1 person. Then that entity will not survive for long.

HEh! Funny part is when a corporation fails and comes back to factional warfare and blame it on 0.0 or lame tactics. Instead of poor leaders or lack of leadership, mistaken belief and or sh!t/scared pilots.

So, I don't think much of the leadership in the Gallente militia or at-least non-fleet commanders or at-least the REALLY good ones.

What the Gallente have the Caldari do not is ALOT of competent pilots and competent pilots naturally gravitate to established entities and other competent pilots. Contrast with the Caldari who lack on every level and it's sad. With that said. I joined Caldari milltia because it was the worst of all the militias. I figured if you want to be better you might as well fight your betters. After all. Can you really consider yourself "good" if you're engaging ret@rds?

Mind you. The Caldari has produced The space perverts, Draketrain, Happy Endings, Inglorious-Basterds, Wolfsbrigade and has hosted fleet commanders like Lacco, Gavin, and Progod for extended periods. Notice only one Caldari alliance was mentioned. That's because I have no idea why they exist and Caldari have only produced one worth mentioning.

To wrap this up. I used factional warfare for my purposes. No matter what moves were made I did it to strengthen my own corporation. So no matter what happened my corporation would come out ahead. I worm tongued but never did much to help others even when I was in an alliance with them (other than fleet commanding , frog stomping and yarring). By that I mean I would say without saying and suggest without suggesting and hedge against others decisions and probable outcomes. I would also suck d!ck and hype people if it helped my corporations position or amused me. As far as an alliance though. I'm not a believer in the alliance model. I rather have a big corporation of 500 players, than an alliance of 500 players. Easier to manage, less talking heads (more control).

TLDR: Read my first post and scroll down to that "TL;DR". The above would only help understand factional warfare as it is now on the leadership level. So, it may help future corporation heads and corporations in making decisions in the present and future. If you choose to stay in factional warfare then things are easier as far as leadership and management. If your goal is to build in factional warfare and leave. Well you need certain structures in place and alot of delegated positions and leadership already built (at-least 2 fleet commanders is a MUST).


- killz

There may be no need in your opinion but A LOT of corporations strive for "good" status. Not many achieve it though. Its up to the individual if he/she wants that for their corporation. If people like that did not exist then alot of my content would be loss and this game would not have grown as much as it has. More sheep with hoop dreams for the farm is a good thing. Wolves need to eat too...


- killz

We in the Gallente Federation have a saying that is as important today as it was years ago.

"A single Derp Atron is weak, but a group of Derp Atrons is strong and can defeat shiny T3 gangs."

The pilots, corporations, and alliances in Gallente FW are like the Derp Atron. Alone, we are weak, fragile, and vulnerable, but together we are resilient and strong.

I saw what you did there. If you want to call out the Derp Atron, then call it out. If you do, we're gonna de-blue you, your corporation, and your hello kitty alliance too!

I cannot express how badly I wish there was a strong centralized cal mil location we could roam to and get fights.

Too far to go just to be fighting frigs and destroyers

SamuelofR247 > sorry bro, you're not on my target list tonight


Then he blocked me, yeah man cal mil is definitely looking for fights.

Nenna is only a mere 3 jumps rakapas

They were already formed up for caldari, and despite not being in an optimal fleet for fighting us they still came and tried. You seem to miss the point though, being that there is no real place to go and fight cal mil.