Warfare & Tactics

Gather round children. It’s time for a bedtime story, a long long bedtime story by the looks ... and possibly one with a few chapters yet to be written. Tonight I’m going to tell you about the leet hisec wardec corporation and the poor defenceless carebears. This story has a theme that is as old as time itself, and in various forms has been told to my father, his father before him, and his father before him.

Why do I tell you this story now? Sure, it can be a brutal and uncompromising story, but it can also be comically funny and entertaining. I'm telling you at this time because I think you’re ready for it, because it’s real and true and happening right now, and because the leet wardec corporation just named their POS in my honour. Yes, admittedly they changed the POS name to ‘Stupid null bunny’ … possibly not intended to be entirely flattering … but they did make that change to recognise the very special nature of our current relationship. I'm also telling you now to seek your thoughts on how to approach this whole curious little issue.

The story begins, as so many do, with us quietly mining in a hisec pocket. Ice and ore in Minmatar Asgeir, a quiet resources system near where we run most of our industry. We have a fleet of fenrir, orca, exhumers and very expensive implanted clones quietly gathering resources while the general hubbub of eve washes on by.

Suddenly, out of the blue, up pops a chat invitation from Anthologee, someone we did not know. So I accept and greet him courteously, as I’ve taught you to always do. Without any preliminaries he advises me that if we do not pay him isk, 200M isk to be precise, his corp (Couster rebels) will wardec us and ruin our enjoyment of eve. I thank him for his kind offer, decline the invitation to pay him isk, and suggest that now would be a convenient time to wardec us. I was not too fussed about the prospects of a war, since we had heaps of time to get the expensive ships to safety and to bolster the defences of our POSes if needed.

A couple of days later it becomes clear that the 'Couster rebels' gang were not terribly honourable people, and were not at all good for their promises. They'd not wardecced us at all and had even, passed us by and wardecced other small hisec carebear corps with POSes in our systems. I was very disappointed at missing the opportunity to learn about hisec warfare from these experts in the field. Thinking, perhaps, that we were not a juicy enough target for them I anchored a few more undefended POS towers around the area and even tried taunting them a little. Still nothing, clearly my one-man hisec carebear corp was beneath their awesomeness.

Then, seeing that they had a couple of wardecs in action - against other hisec bears - I had us join with those defender corps. Within 24-hours 'Couster rebels' was empty except for Anthologee, they had all jumped corp to hisec NPC corps. One of them, Vicious Ascendant, had started another player corp 'Highsec ransoming inc'... with virtually identical specs to 'Couster rebels'. So I ask a few friendly agents some questions and find the original 'Couster rebels' gang scattered across the cosmos, with their main people quietly hiding in a Vorsk station.
Figuring we might still be able to obtain those much needed lessons, and that their new corp was intended for them to regroup and recommence their wardec ransom efforts, I place my first-ever wardec - against them. During the few days of this war they engage a Jita ganking corp as allies and even move one of their Jita alts into their one-character corp, perhaps to tempt us way over there. Needless to say Vicious Ascendant has been pretty well permadocked and his 'Highsec ransoming inc' has since been closed down.

At around the same time another of their people, Anthologee, starts up a second, very similar, corp - 'Highsec Ransoming Incorporated [RENSM]'. We did not wardec them, preferring to provide them the opportunity to regroup in relative peace so they can provide us with our lessons at some later time.

Having failed to get any traction on the wardecs we resorted to a little self-education on the art of ganking - import a bundle of catalysts and give it a try. One of their NPC corp evacuees was sticking around Vorsk and mining regularly. That effort has provided some more education for us ... retrievers are easy to solo-gank, procurers and covetors not so. The hisec mining veterans in Vorsk also have lots of nice little tricks to make themselves relatively safe from ganking - altho nothing is safe from a large enough gank-gang. It's been a good learning time - a couple successful ganks, a whisker of structure from a two-for-one gank (barge and hauler with the one gank-catalyst), and one fail-gank (procurer's tank just laughed at my DPS).

By this time we'd identified a collection of their alts and some of the hisec alliances they were hiding in. So I decide to wardec one of those alliances - Fearless Flying Frogs [FRO.G]. I'd formed myself a new little corp for that purpose - appropriately named 'Terribad Gay Failtard Carebears [FAYL]'. A one-person deccing a medium-sized alliance is a bit of pushing-it-uphill, but 'why not?' I figured, we have little to lose. I knew where they were based, I had found a number of their POSes (their corp as well as other alliance corps), so I figured it'd provide a little more hisec combat education if nothing else.

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Sounds like they're getting what's coming to them. You've probably deterred them from bothering you, but there's no kill like overkill.

Yes, probably overkill … altho not many kills at all 



Thanks. That’s certainly in keeping with my observations so far. I wasn’t really aware that they were primarily extortionists, but thought that either the isk or the war would be equally attractive to them.

I did watch them take down some poorly defended POSes during the other wardec, but never did see them tackle anything able to fight back or counter-hassle them.

I’m probably not up for much of a pitched fight. Given my numbers I’m more inclined to trying to pick one or two of them off here and there. I’m thinking I will continue to play for a wee while longer, it’s quite the learning experience for me.

Read "hisec" and quit reading.

Yeah, thanks. Gave FW a thought a wee while ago, when going thru my latest "What next in eve?" phase. Did some reading around these forums and decided against it. Mebbe one day, but not now.

I can take some heart now with my wardec guys tho. They are going to great pains to send me abusive eve-mails telling me how bad I am (true) and how great they are. I guess it means they love me after all. I feel vindicated.

Thanks also to the folk who've mailed me and not posted here. Doing stuff solo it's nice to get helpful advice and little bits of encouragement ... in between all the 'douchebag' comments in the other eve-mails I'm receiving :-)




I am entirely solo in this effort, and have advised the leet-PvP guys of that. I'd hate to have them worrying about being outnumbered or blobbed.

Mind you, I'd happily blob them if I could muster and play enough alts to do so :-)


Let us all never forget that ...

runners win in EVE

Thanks. I wanted to try make it a little, somewhat entertaining story. More fun to write and, hopefully, better on the reader too.




The corp has pretty well gone to ground, and their alliance is 150+. I have located a couple of other alliance activity centres, long way aways, and have managed a couple blitz miner hits. Supposedly easy kills, altho I did spend a fair biy of time worrying their drones would dice my bomber.




Thanks. I like this idea. I have no shortage of covops scout scanner alts and some orca / freighter alts ... all out of corp. So it's no major hassle doing this, once I find them. The difficulty so far is finding who their active people are, and I don't know that I want to watchlist all 150+ of them.



lol, we used to do this a lot in previous life, but I think I'll give it a miss right now. A bit too worried I'll mess the timing and lose my ship. Mebbe I should have added 'cowardly' into my new corp-name.

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Just curious if they still have that tower up. Is there scram batteries? Could just use a sentry drone boat if you get bored, and want to replace boredom with a more extreme boredom. You know.... Everything extreme is always better.