Warfare & Tactics

so this was it? The tide seems to have turned once again in FW Gal vs Cal. First systems where captured (freed ;)) by Gallentean forces. Many of the uninhabitated systems fell prey to new Gallente farmers, many of them over 50% contested already.
Now how will Caldari Militia react? They all balled up in Innia and Heyd, while GalMil took a more diversified approach with several "home" systems, which could not have been taken besides Heyd. Activity of TESTies has declined, so as many null alliances which came to FW they ultimately falter to the stubborness of the dedicated FW-players!(?) On the other hand, CalMil showed some force with new and fresh FCs....so there is hope at least.

Personally I think cal mil should celebrate by shooting eachother since the gallente don't fight.

I use my apathy to destroy the Gallente. Can you feel it? Probably not... never mind - I give up. Just shoot me, if you have the audacity that is.

I might just care.

Well finaly , its about damn time .

Mission runnin at tier 2 just isnt worth it so i'd rather plex , and now since you gals are on the " march " it will give us more room to do so , and get rid of alot of farmers in the process


So yeah , have fun


( didint want those systems anyway ! )

I was just judging their victory by their stated goals. Its funny how bitter old roleplayers think there is an actual victory at all.

Only in your mind, which is no more or less valid than any one elses victory by whatever standard.

There is no objective victory in FW though, which is a good thing for those of us with chemically balanced brains that actually want an opponent to fight.

I know you guys down in lad would like to log on and see empty system after empty system like it was in your 'good old days', fact is the current system is not perfect but its hugely better than the initial FW iteration you remember being relevant in.

Only in your mind. Fact is back then you could hold all the systems, which had no meaning and very few cared other than literally 2-3 people in each militia lol. Another fact is, there can be no capitulation in FW, so there can be no total victory by definition.

No fucks were given

In all seriousness though, who cares? It's a cycle, this is how it goes. Up, down, up, down. Sort of like a squid slurping nobs.

Eha III - State Protectorate Logistic Support, Better Known as "The Frontlines", or "Fortress Eha":

Today Luminaire General X Gallentius outlined the Federation Militia's efforts for defeating the former 0.0 Alliance known as Test Alliance Please Ignore, or simply TEST.

"The Gallente Strategy for defeating any entity, whether the entire Caldari Militia, Ev0ke, Khanblob, TEST, is and has always been the same," revealed the General. "You must attack an opponent's center of gravity, and the difficult thing with TEST in this long battle was figuring out what their center of gravity was."

"Center On, not around!"

Luminaire General X Gallentius continued. "Our intel sources at first identified three potential 'centers of gravity' for TEST - 1) 'We don't care, our killboards are red', 2) 'We achieve everything through Talwar blob', and 3) 'We are here only for the LP'." The trick was trying to figure out which one of these potential centers was their real center of gravity. Their killboards were, in fact, very red. They did achieve lots of goals through their infamous Talwar blob, and they made lots of LP running plexes and missions non-stop for months.

However, as we engaged TEST in fights over the last couple of months, we found that none of these potential centers of gravity were, in fact, their real center of gravity. They did care - as evidenced by massive amounts of chest thumping and forum warrioring. We even heard some of their chief donators say "We can't financially afford to keep losing this many ships!" from time to time. Their Talwar blobs were neutralized with our various tactics including Sniper Corms, Monitor Coraxes, heavily tanked Cruiser gangs. And finally, even after they achieved massive levels of LP, they were still in the warzone."

"The turtle, err, dinosaur has no clothes"

Luminaire General X Gallentius rambled on - "Finally, we figured it out. Their center of gravity was the ASCII art they posted in local. We tried to counter it, but being pvp'ers we were no match for their nonstop ASCII posts blotting out local. We lost many good pilots to their spam and it was not looking good for our side. Finally, however, we noticed what everybody else in the universe was afraid to say - their crown jewel of ASCII art, the corporate dinosaur, is really an angry turtle. Once this truth was out, there was no denying it. Not even the most loyal TEST member could hide from this fact."

"Once they saw this, our intel says that they started questioning every other foundation of their alliance. Killboards don't matter, but improving your pvp skills over time does matter. The cold, hard, fact was that TEST's pvp'ers and FC's really hadn't improved over the two months in being in FW. Blobbing is not the best way to win FW. And, finally their members realized that they could make more isk/hour running L5 missions in Tamo (or simply running Incursions, whatever) than they could participating in FW."

"So, here we are - with Fortress Eha still under Federation control - staring down a paper tiger with 10 times our number sitting docked up afk in Innia. I suspect we will be here long after TEST leaves, but you never know. This is FW and many strange things have happened before and will happen in the future. Good day."

First and foremost, Gallente dont march. We just kinda stroll.

Second and rearmost, we need another null entity to come to FW to "recuperate." I got spoiled by TEST and am tired of having to go actually make an effort to look for fights.

The WELCOME mat in Eha is out.

Also - can someone tell me what to do with this LP I accidentally earned while fighting TEST? I have too many unused faction ships already. I have no idea what to do with the LP. What should I sell?