Warfare & Tactics

Stalking I have to say I am enjoying this a lot. Keep them up :D

Mantis, my old friend, it is good to see you are still active. I would never believe my general would kick you out of anything if it had not come from you sir. I am sad hearing this.

Very nice read though and good to see you around.

BT

Chapter 10 Hull Breach

Long priding themselves with working closely together the Amarr were falling backwords in the face of hundreds if not thousands of three week old characters plexing them out of their homes. What was supposed to be a united front to face this new threat failed as no one corporation of the the three towers of Amarrian power really had enough manpower or time to lend support to each other.

Coming under immense pressure leaders of corporations under a very real threat of losing access to their assets lashed out at the leaders of the other Amarr corporations for ‘not doing enough’.

Resources were stretched, fighting between the leaders of Amarr power houses in private intel and leadership channels was rampant as each started pointing fingers at the other for lack of help.

Add to this the recent tier system and it was not uncommon for someone in one faction to have an alt in the opposing faction to run missions and plexes for himself. In other words one such pilot was by default fighting against himself or rather his faction in order to feed his wallet. In pure roleplaying terms pilots were committing treason against their own factions to line their wallets.

Who has time to sit there and defensive plex a system getting 25% of tier 1 loyalty points when I could be alt tabbed on my Minmatar alt making 300% more loyalty points with nothing more than a stabbed rifter and a one week old alt?
Amarrian Retribution command was livid. I mean here we are defending against an Iron Oxide gang four times our size trying to flip Oyonata to ease the pressure off of our home system when a Wolfsbrigade pilot enters local. Thinking he is the forward scout for a reinforcement fleet we rejoice only to see him type in local ‘leave my alt alone’ as another TLF pilot enters local and pops a mission. I mean REALLY?!

Flyinghotpocket was never known for his diplomatic skills and the frustrations we felt from this new situation really could only be summed up in two words screamed at the leaders of all the other corporations through shared intel channels. F#@K YOU.

A corp mail went out. We couldn’t do this alone, we needed our allies, the ones that didn’t follow the isk train and were loyal to their causes. Time to go back to the Caldari warzone.

This, was the last time Amarrian Retribution undocked from Sahtogas station.

To Be Continued…..

This is a very entertaining read. You have a fantastic memory too.

Chapter 11 Another Caldari Connection the 2nd Caldari Campaign

Remember when I mentioned that Amarrian Retribution already lived a nomadic life prior to Inferno? It was, is and always will be easy for us to become mobile VERY fast. While the golden gates of Sahtogas will always be our home we do realize that worst case scenario we can always move all our assets in a hurry to pretty much anywhere in lowsec. Again this was another thing that served us well with the changes that came post Inferno.

Corp mail went out as it was time to take a break from the failing Amarr warzone and rejuvenate our own pockets with some MUCH needed isk. We had to feed our own war machine. And while it would be so much easier for us to just create minmatar alts and ride the isk gravy train like everyone else. That is not how we operate. We pride ourselves on being loyal. And loyalty meant moving to another warzone and banding up with old allies to fight together rather than seeing our own hands push the Minmatar cause forward.

Destination?

Blackrise baby. It was time to drop the infamous Amarrian Retribution Take Over.

Ladiester was under attck again. The Caldari were in just as bad a shape as the Amarr where as the Gallente were sitting very pretty post Inferno with system control. This was not going to be easy but it was going to be doable as all we needed to do was funnel the combined resources of Narsanite Watch, Amarrian Retribution and Superchairs Project Cerberus.
Doing what we do best we dropped behind the ongoing front of the Ladiester battle. Smack Dab into Eha which was at the time deep behind the enemy’s main warfront. We tend to excel at this harassing tactic and as more and more campaigns are revealed in this history you will see this tactic used again and again.

Acting like modern day Paratroopers we planted our flag and started eating away at systems in Blackrise, mainly attacking the rear operating base of Vlillier. It is a win win situation really. If the Gallente decide to ignore us that means we can flip a lot of systems and help push the tide of tier control in favor of the Caldari. If they decide to react even better that meant relieving pressure from Ladiester and Narsanite Watch giving them time to breath and do what they do best, expand Caldari control from that side of the warzone.

The Gallente ignored us at first. That was a big mistake. People that knew us on the gallente side warned them not to ignore us. Mainly Val Erian and XGal knew exactly who we were and what we did and started to divert some defensive plexing to Vlillier.

I was ecstatic, for once I can bring all my newly learned skills to my old Caldari stomping grounds. No longer was I going to be chewed up and spit out by old Gallente rivals like Chatgris, Xgal, Princess Nexalla and Loren Gallen. This time I would have a fighting chance.

On a personal note a few fights I personally had with the above mentioned Gallente pilots will always be burned in my mind. I mean these are the same pilots that used to kill me in my little noobi merlins and kestrels long before I joined Agony and Amarrian Retribution. This time it was an even fight.

A few particular fights worth mentioning:

Xgal in Oicx. Just one comet versus another in a large plex. I won that fight, it was the first time I ever won a fight against Xgal and he was no longer the boogie man he once was when I was just starting out in Caldari.

Princess Nexalla in a small plex in Alrdranette. I was pumped to see him enter local and see his thrasher on short scan to my plex, it was payback time for all those raptors of mine you killed. Payback was good, and the hookbill beat the thrasher.

Chatgris in a medium plex in Oicx, well you can’t win them all, his arbitrator spit up and chewed out my poor hookbill so that’s one I never beat.

So is EVE, The monsters of yesterday with time become the opponents of today.

Pressure was applied HARD to Vlillirier. And for a time we really gave the gallente a good run for their money as system after system fell to the caldari from the pressure being applied from both the Placid and Blackrise fronts. Vlilleier however proved to be a hard nut to crack as fight after fight showed the Gallente were NOT going to let that system fall.

Vlill fight video 1

Vlill fight video 2

Things were looking good for a change and through a lot of co ordination Caldari were able to hit teir 4. WE SO NEEDED THIS. I remember being at the State protectorate station trading in my hard earned LP at tier 4 feeling like a kid in a candy store.

Finally our warchests were being refreshed with much needed isk as we lost so much in the weeks leading up to and after Inferno that we were really starting to feel the pain of poverty.

Vlillirier slowly etched up to the upper 60%’ of contested. But just when things were looking good the Caldari did what the Caldari do best.

A few things from the other side:
1. The ability to look past the semi-official Eve Online "Economic Cost/Benefit Analysis" is what makes corporations like Amarrian Retribution stand out above the crowd. +1
2. Moira. pilots Abannan and Garan Nardieu were the real heroes of Vlillirier.
3. While frustrating going against T2 logi+boosts, I had a blast. The real challenge is helping pilots get past the "I'd rather quit than lose while giving full effort" mindset that most pilots in Eve seem to have. Getting our guys into the proper mindset during the Vlillirier campaign helped us tremendously when Evoke. showed up in Eha, and then again when TEST+Caldari showed up in Eha again 6 months later.

Chapter 12 The Dark Amarr

What you lookin' at? You all a bunch of f%@$ing' a&%holes. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be! You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your f&$%ing' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." So... what that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So say good night to the bad guy! Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There's a bad guy comin' through! Better get outta his way!

What have we become? I mean really what are we? Deep in Ostingele on a cold lonely night this question was brought up on comms.

I mean we were NOT what the Amarr 7th fleet was originally. Amarrian Retribution was a 100 man corporation made up mostly of people that wanted to live in Sahtogas and run level four and level five missions for the Imperial Navy. Even they stopped logging in a long time ago. All that was really left of Amarrian Retribution was a small core of pilots dedicated solely for PvP. I mean a maximum of ten pilots give or take a few. The CEO of Amarrian Retribution stopped playing EVE a long time ago and all we had were a few people that had director roles running the show.

Every single pilot in our corporation is cocky and arrogant in local, in intell channels and on comms. Anyone of our pilots is a ticking time bomb and the few minutes away from doing something that will cause a wardec with someone or the other.

We are the exact opposite of diplomatic. And even if cooler heads exist in our corporation the two spiritual leaders of Amarrian Retribution would much rather wardec someone than try to work it out. ESPECIALLY if things cool down and Amarr are in control of the warzone. Wartargets become scarce. So why bother being nice to people that didn’t and don’t bleed with us?

We need people to kill. If a lack of targets, clear set goals or an active campaign is plaguing us we just all kind of stop logging in. We keep in touch with each other and are never more than a steam or text message away from each other. It’s a very tight group. It’s called chemistry. We have it. We know each other and how we will all act during a fight.

Almost everyone in our corporation is just a very very angry person. This rage needs to be channeled into a fight, if it’s not it just comes right back at us and we rage at each other. Being angry is a prerequisite for joining us. So is having very thick skin. It is not a normal day on comms if one of us does not ragequit EVE and/or comms for one reason or another. Usually it’s not winning a fight. But ultimately we ARE LOYAL to our chosen faction and despise any action taken by any other pilot/corporation that show a priority higher than the greater good of the Amarr.

We somehow feel entitled to it because dammit We know we are good. We know we bleed hard for our systems. Of all the other Amarrian pilots and corporations the only ones we really hold up high are the ones that bleed with us. We have entire Amarrian corporations set red because one of them Awaoxed another amarrian pilot. Yet even among our Amarrian reds we have people that are with them but earned to be blue with us because they bled with us.

We are not asking much, all we ask our allies to do is bleed with us and ABOVE ALL be loyal to the Amarr cause. Don’t shoot a friendly fleet because you just happen to be in a fleet with Predator Elite and need to be in his fleets for him to hand feed you capital killmails. A capital killmail or even twenty of them are not worth you shooting a friendly amarr. At least not to us.

So………who are we? I guess that makes us the bad guys doesn’t it?

“You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"

We lose so many friends and allies in the Amarr militia because we just don’t have patience for things like running minni alts to farm plexes, awoxing an amarr pilot because your bored and would really like to have that killmail.

Twisted? Yes maybe we are but hey, at least we stick to be loyal.

I guess that’s when we decided to shed our skin and become who we are today. We needed a darker emblem, something that exemplified what we are to the minmatar and the people that eat away at the Amarrian greater good. Those people needed to be checked.

We chose the theme of revenge.

Because really anything we do is going to be a reaction and revenge against crimes committed to either our own twisted moral code of what an Amarr pilot should be, or to avenge for the Amarr for all the weak tactics you used as a minmatar, all the griffens, all the ‘let’s only take a 3 to 1 odds fight’ All the stabbed farming you did.

We were no longer Amarrian Retribution. A new corporation was born deep in Ostingele that night.

And our loyalty to the Amarr cause was already being questioned as people started to accuse us of becoming farmers chasing that sweet Caldari LP and turning our backs on the Amarr warzone.

Is that so? Fire up the carriers guys time to go home.

Amarrian Retribution died that night. We became the Dark Amarr.

Our leader?

The Angriest of us all

Kim Jung Pocket

Enter Amarrian Vengeance

"The Lord loosed upon them his fierce anger, All of his fury and rage. He dispatched against them a band of Avenging Angels"
- The Scriptures, Book II, Apocalypse 10:1

Time to pull out the dotlan maps and see what our minmatar counterparts have been up to while we were gone. And like it or not the rest of our Amarr allies really did,,,,need people like us.

To be continued…………

In the third Amarrian tower of power Kamela Wolfsbrigade was long gone to other parts of EVE and Kamela was always the launch point for any new pilot joining the Amarr.

It’s proximity to Amarr made it easy for resupply and only one jump from Kourmonen means you didn’t have to go far to be in the thick of the Amarr Minmatar PVP melting pot that is Kourmonen. In a twist of fate worthy of the most unrealistic bollywood movie guess who decided to join the Amarr and hold the Amarr flag in the Kamela Tower.

Agony Unleashed.

I remember when we first discussed Agony Unleashed on comms with my fellow corpmates. They scoffed and told me ‘Dude, they are just another group of nullseccers that will get their asses handed to them and leave fw.’ I knew better than that. I was part of them at one point in my EVE career. I knew exactly what each and every Agony pilot was. They thrived for being the underdogs. They had a full set of educational material known as Agony University that taught a large majority of the EVE community how to PvP. They were like EVE University but for PVP.

Don’t Believe me? Feel free to visit their website and take a look at what they teach.

I knew exactly why Agony was here. Being in Amarr FW was the hardest of all four factions and they sure as hell weren’t here for the isk because Amarr lp was worth pennies compared to the other three factions.

They were here to fight outnumbered. They were in it for the challenge. They were very dignified opponents that threw out GF’s no matter what and always respected their opponents. Trash talking was a no no in Agony.

With the new players entering the field including our new found corporation of Amarrian Vengeance the minmatar where about to get the resistance they desperately called for after months of warzone control.

Be Careful what you wish for.

Feeling the pressure the Amarr were under CCP finally gave the Amarr Minmatar warzone a much needed adjustment. The map of the warzone was about to change forever.

To Be Continued….

He hasn't got to the eszur/etc campaigns.

Also, he neglected to mention how three of us with an army of alts flipped ost overnight and camped the station the next morning.....

Any account of that evening will be pretty inaccurate due to sleep deprivation. I recall at least one pilot calling in sick after the math was done, alts joining corp just to dps the bunker, and flipping it mere minutes before downtime.

Then some hazy memories of camping the station and two enemy corps not undocking for a least a day and a half until they could get someone online to drop them from the militia.......