Warfare & Tactics

gallente leadership are, for the most part, all cowards

without getting into too much detail: its a lot easier to take out daily fleets and gangbang some helpless proles than to split the giant gallente blob and get some decent fights going

every hero needs a villain

but more than that:

isnt every heros strength defined by the strength of their adversaries?

the gallente i knew were the gallente who made khan/borg and test their senoritas

...now its more like the gallente who just sit around and crank eachother off

The giant gallente blob that was fighting 8vs40-70 for a couple of hours last night. And still capping plexes. But if you want to keep spouting nonsense feel free.

Is this for real or am I biting on troll bait? Whatever, I'll bite.

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what i find ironic about this is that i commonly see eve players patting themselves on the back for being "smarter" than the average gamer who plays wow or cod

but then i get clowns like crosi and deacon, who instead of responding to the actual message only make cowardly blanket-statements like calling it "nonsense" or "troll bait"



do you have reading comprehension problems? it validates the view that galmil has no decent competition.

as for my gallente blob statement, ill repeat: gallente can form a huge blob if something decent is happening that is worth logging in for

for example: when tempest legion and death by design were reinforcing pocos in nenn, huge fleets were formed to fight them

what you said is akin to goons saying well, we only have like 50 man fleets most of the time. when everyone knows goons could get over 1000 scrubs together if they really wanted to

lol, yes it is US that are making blanket statements.

Link please?

All this lack of worthy enemies makes us Gallente lazy. Me, at least.

You should be grateful, thats more than they deserve.

That's because of the TZ you mostly play in.


EU/AU seemed to come in fairly equal numbers for a good fight.

But many of the US TZ groups need to bring 30 people to shoot one frigate and then cry 'BLOB' if you have a 2nd person come to help you.

Of all the things that didn't happen, this was one.

There's really no need to fictionalise things. You were successful enough without there being the need to make things up. At no point did you take a contested plex with 8 guys against 70.

That's a pretty significant revision from:



40 is certainly a more realistic number and, as you say, your 8 man team was capping plexes while the Caldari forces were off doing other things and weren't contesting them.

I don't want to take anything away from your achievements in Kehjari, I'd just prefer they be framed in the more accurate terms of your second post.




I don't think going after the tower really had a big effect on the situation. Indeed, I'm pretty pleased that we managed to hold our own throughout Saturday, avoided previous slow reshipping problems and kept up with the meta much better than in the past. Three things really kicked us in the nuts and led to the final result:

1) DUST - On Saturday, pretty much the only system control gains your chaps made were from DUST, which we treated as irritating but no big deal as we were holding our own in space. By the time we called off the defensive op on Sunday night the DUST figure had grown to 20% and had proved decisive. Getting a grip on the DUST side of things is something CalMil definitely needs to sort out in the future.

2) AU tz - we are very weak in manpower terms from late US TZ through to a few hours after DT. We lost 10% system control during this period. Not sure what, if any, solution there is to this apart from drinking more Victoria Bitter and hanging corks from our hats. Alternatively, we need to move our EU/US tz to a position of dominance to compensate. Certainly something to work towards but not an overnight project.

3) The last meta switch - while we did much better than previously in staying on top of the meta and switching into the right ships for the right job quickly throughout most of the weekend we didn't develop any sort of adequate counter to your tristan/navitas doctrine. With even numbers we had some luck with thrashers but that stopped working as soon as numbers were against us and even when the numbers were equal we had no counter for your doctrine in the novices. That's something we need to add to our tool-bag, as well, obviously, as thinking ahead to the next doctrines.

Compared to the AU tz 10% and the 20% from DUST the couple of percent we missed out on from reinforcing your tower doesn't really signify. The move was, I think, worth the shot.

All in all I'm pretty pleased with how we performed this weekend. There are things we need to build on, for sure, but I'm confident we are moving in the right direction. In any case, I certainly had a blast flying against you guys over the last two days, especially after a quiet month in the war-zone, and look forward to the next big battle. I hope you had fun too.