Warfare & Tactics

Dont you know that many of the GalMil guys are RPers? There is a reason many of us only fly Gallente ships and only carry French exotic dancers.

We cared about warzone control once. We got a medal for it. We no longer care about warzone control.

Ouch, that gets expensive to pod yourself when in most cases in FW your pod costs more than the ship+T2 fittings even with 50% reduction and without implants.

TEST will fail at having any meaningful impact on the warzone and will just add their names to a long list of failed groups trying their hand at FW like Fweddit and nullsec groups like B2K that have all gotten dunked by the self-proclaimed best small gang pvpers of FW.

I predict it will only be a few months before TEST is back in nullsec and the Gallente will be able to claim victory.

Pick a highsec region and make all the pocos burn. Oh man. The highsec war dec alliance tears.

Chestbeating for thigs that didn't happen, after you lost the system? Only in Calmil

Well sorry to interrupt, but It's not only Caldaris - you're forgetting that there were times when Caldari were pushing hard for some of the Gal staging systems - Vlillrier in summer of 2012, ewoke in eha during winter and then mixed alliances in Nenna afterwards. Those produced a lot of fighting because we were willing to fight too, actually we had to fight.
That's what people are saying all the time - 'winning' fw really can only be done through taking staging systems because very few entities have the numbers and the will to lock the whole warzone. I'm rather certain that Galmil couldn't do it even if we wanted to simply because we don't have the numbers. Also, even if you 'win', that 'victory' is more of a bragging rights thing than any kind of meaningful defeat of your 'enemy'.

Obviously it would be ideal if the fights were spread more evenly throughout the warzone but with current mechanics why would anyone bother? If your resources are limited, by trying to keep whole warzone under control you're only spreading them thin. With (de)plexing mechanics as boring as they are and the threat of pilot burnout, why not focus on systems that count? That's what Galmil has been doing for a while now.

What I'm constantly trying to point at when I say that Test's influence is limited in fw at best, is the general problem that is plexing alts which are the ones really dictating sov. If you check the stats you'll see that even with their sheer numbers, fact that they are new to FW (and thus probably much more interested in trying plexing out than any of us old fw farts) and free frigates programme, Test are well behind in VP's created in comparison to State Protectorate. Even though, and I must admit that, they are very active, the real momentum for sov push is still being created by general milita (read: probably 90% alts) and that's very unlikely to change, unfortunately. If this was a period of Minmatar dominance in Amarr/Min warzone, you'd see minnie plexers all over placid/black rise and while testies could plex all day long, they would achieve very little.
The best tactic to achieve sov dominance is precisely the one used by plexing alts (and according to what you said Winmatar) - have fleets of guys in cheap stabbed frigs which will run away from fights. It results in sov and lp gains, and drives your opponent crazy if he's in it for the fight. That's why fw has been broken for quite a while now, but as we both know it - that is unlikely to change any time soon.

As for having more, evenly spread fights, there was a 'frontlines' idea which would probably make sense and incite fighting for every system that is on that 'frontline' which might be interesting, much like timer rollbacks, changes to upgrades to systems etc.

Hah, you seem to have missed our brilliantly chartered manifesto for factional warfare, the ten point document which includes, amongst other things, our timetable, vectors of attack, doctrines, supply lines, fleet porn links, and other irreplaceable things that offensives cannot live without. If you had read this, I daresay you would be applying to Calmil as we speak. Truly, our aim for total FW dominance knows no bounds, and anything less than total victory will be considered abject failure.

Yuri Antollare is so good that he doesn't warp to plexes, plexes warp to him.

psh. best way to get fights.