Warfare & Tactics

The Minmatar soon wised up though. And suddenly without any real system control fights going on anywhere else at the time it was easy for the Minmatar to funnel all the force they had to retake Aset from us.

We fought hard and banged the intell channels for support from all the three Amarr towers. InExile, Fweddit, Agony anyone and everyone willing to come help us keep Aset.

The only problem here was any force projection from our allies was going to be temporary. We where the only ones that go all in and move everything we have with us when we go out on a campaign. If an Agony pilot went down they had to pod all the way back to Kamela to reship. If a Fweddit or InExile pilot went down he had to pod all the way back to Egglehende to reship.

Unlike the minmatar they had rapid reshipping options in Isbrabata as we did for the short time we held onto Aset.

In the end though. We failed. I say we because if was a combined failure for all the Amarr to lose that initial fight. It took our leadership a few weeks after Aset was recaptured by the Minmatar to grab each and every Amar PVP corp leader and explain to them WHY we needed to control Aset. We were basically scattering the Minmatar and making them choose which front they wanted to focus their blob on.

It took a long time for us to get everyone onboard our vision of how to split the warzone. Not everyone promised to lend a hand but they did promise to turn up the pressure coming from both Egglehende and Kamela. That’s all we really needed was someone to distract the LNA/Iron Oxide/TRIAD blob long enough for us to set up a new status qou in Metropolis and ultimately to the Amarr Minmatar Warzone.

Being what we are we decided this fight was far from over and Aset will fall no matter how many ships we have to throw into the fire to get it done. Another forward operating base was set up for Amarrian Vengeance in Kurn. Time to dig in this not going to be an easy campaign.

We couldn't do this alone and it was time we reached out to the most Loyal Amarr corporation ever a corporation that would be MORE than happy to fight Ushra Khan.

It was time to call Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris.

To Be Continued......

Chapter 15 We come for your people

“all we ask our allies to do is bleed with us”

Fweddit and InExile Delivered on their promise.

They pushed Eszur the home system of TRIAD hard with plexing fleets. TemFed even pitched in promising to hit Lantorn and keep Sasawong busy defending his home system. Zarnak Wulf the so called King of Vard plexed up Vard like crazy.

ShirakSkunk works quickly moved into Vard renforcing Zarnak and started to plex Dal. Dal is crucial for the Minmatar as it is a major mission hub so any deplexing alts the Minmatar had where pretty much tied up deplexing three crucial systems.

Soon the pressure was on the minmatar to react to the flare up of multiple threats and they couldn’t focus their entire blob on Aset. This is all we needed really because this meant we could do our thing without facing the entire Minmatar militia.

During our second push in the Eugidi campagn we borught along a few friends.

To my surprise Amarrian Vengeance leadership have extensive ties and relationships with the old Amarrian Guard. PIE it seems were more than happy to kick Ushra Khan in the teeth with us. While the Initial support from PIE was small, once a few of them tasted Ushra Khan Blood they started to come out of the woodwork and focus pressure with us.

Cynthia Nezmor was also called upon. All I can really say about Cynthia Nezmor is that she/he is like the Amarrian stig (from Top Gear fame) we never heard her/his voice on comms and PvP’ing with her/him/it is done through text chat. But don’t be fooled. Cynthia Nezmor is a one man army. Don’t believe me? Ask any Minmatar pilot who Cynthia Nezmor is. Best part? She is so full of rage and anger getting banned multiple times from EVE for one thing or another said in local. Now this is our kind of pilot. Additionally if you are in a minmatar corporation odds are pretty high that a Cynthia Nezmor alt is either a director or pretty damn close to becoming one.

Another ally was a small polish corporation full of nothing but balls deep courage for the cause. They were small and unheard of but they fought hard for Sahtogas and will always be deeply respected by us KOZA Z PIEKLA a Polish gang of Amarr PvP’ers. They have a permanent place in all our Intel channels.

Last but defiantly not least we needed a strong Euro time zone presence and Space Brewery Association was there to cover that gap.

Ushra Khan was reeling from the sudden withdraw of Minmatar support and the sudden counter attack by the combined above mentioned forces coming from Kurn. Cynthia Nezmore provided us with all of Ushra khans internal corpmails and let me tell you. The begging and pleading they were doing in those mails for help from LNA/Iron Oxide/TRIAD was hilarious. It seemed they really were more fragile than we thought.

Ushra Khan curled up back into Isbrabata, defensive plexing it like crazy and giving up on keeping Aset. They focused everything they had on making sure the contested rate of Isbra was low. This was perfect for us as it only meant Aset was reclaimed faster than expected Fweddit provided the hammer needed for the IHUB bash. Once again we moved assets there and so did the newly founded makeshift alliance of the above mentioned corps.

Ushra Khan was definitely not the Ushra Khan of 2010. They were a shell of their former glory and most of the people willing to PvP where new pilots so they really never stood a chance when they were all alone.

There was little they could do detached from the rest of the Minmatar and to be honest. In my humble opinion Ushra Khan did not fall victim to Amarrian Vengeance’s elite PvP as much as they kind of shot themselves in their own foot by deploying so far from the Minmatar power hubs.

Nothing they did seemed to stop us. We were to much for them. Finally, in what can only be an act of desperation. They dropped a carrier on our gang. After the Amarr settled in next door in Aset Isbrabata fell. I almost feel sorry for some of those new pilots fighting for Ushra Khan…….Almost

At the end of the campaign we made new friends, people that bled with us during the Eugidi campaign. That is the ultimate bond and we were happy to have our new found allies get a taste of what we do and decide they really liked it and wanted to be part of any of our future campaigns.

Amarrian Vengeance got a taste for something new. Something good. Something we decided we wanted more of. Amarrian Vengeance got a taste of the sweet victory that came from flipping a home system of a major minmatar corporation. The Minmatar should have never let us taste that kind of blood as the decision to let us flip a home system would ultimately come back and haunt them forever. They say once a Tiger gets a taste of human flesh he must it must be killed. It aquires a taste for it. It become a Man Eater.

And thus the Bond between Amarrian Vengeance and PIE was born.

A bond that will serve us well in our future campaign

To Be Continued……

Wow colt slow down there buddy. I really couldn't be everywhere at once so really I am trying my best to highlight the History of Amarr Militia from my eyes.

I am not disputing nor confirming anything you wrote there. But I couldn't write about something I didn't witness and/or see with my own eyes.

Dont worry we are going to get to all that. We are following a very tight timeline to keep it as accurate as humanly possible.

Funny you should mention dark time for the amar though. As it seems we reached that point in our history where the Amarr are about to take a very dark turn indeed.

To Be Continued...........

Stalking i really tried to help you with the timeline here and i guess the aset campaign you kinda went afk for it so let me tell the accurate time tables.

We moved into aset, with KOZA Z PIELKA holding it for many years prior. we held aset for a month. during the week before the new stargates were created they used a carrier against us. (that video of us killing the carrier, you can see MINOR plexs which means before the new plexs).

We only held onto aset for a week after the new stargate was created as support from arzad (iron oxidie) was now only 6 jumps away and not 69.

The militia pushed elsewhere and TRIAD withdrew their FOB in isbrabata

we moved out of aset the day it was captured by the minmatar to kurn rejoined militia the next day, and we fought for isbrabata and reclaimed it within a week, aset too.

the rest of ushra'khan was at war with LNA so, LNA would routinely come up and hotdrop ushra'khan and other minmatar. Ushra'khan moved to eszur.

Also just an interesting fact- at the time inferno hit sasawong had more vp than any minmatar corporation. And there were several long standing minmatar corps. I don't think there was another minmatar pilot even close to sasawong. The fact that certain minmatar pvp corps were claiming they were winning due to "superior tactics" was pretty unbearable to hear.

Plus there was a very real difference in npcs that allowed minmatar/sasawong to capture more plexes leading up to inferno and right after inferno. Not to mention the fact that the disparaty in rats lead many pilots to choose minmatar militia instead of amarr for the easy isk from missions. This lead to plenty of bitterness that ccp would hand this huge advantage to the minmatar. I just want you to understand that there were in fact amarr groups interested in plexing and trying to play the game right beside amarrian retribution.

Amarrian vengeance/retibution did take a hard line even against people running minmatar missions with alts. Missions do not effect warzone control. So yeah that lead to some unnecessary inter-militia strife.
IMO pre-inferno amarr plexers never recovered their morale from the initial screwing ccp gave us by putting such huge consequences on a broken and imbalanced system. This lead several/most people to just admit the game was broken and pursue faction war as easy isk. Those who did quickly trade sides to minmatar could make all the isk they would ever need in eve.

That said I was proud to fly with Imperial Outlaws who I believe was the only corp whose pilots stuck with amarr through every hardship and never changed militias.

There are corps that have, and I don't mean to exclude them. But I wouldn't say "plenty" have.

This has been a fantastic read so far and I really cannot wait until the next chapter.


Makes me want to put on the colors of PIE again and venture forth in my slicer!

Imperial Outlaws; as far as I remember lived in Arzad along with Iron Oxide at the same time I met the guys from Amarrian Retribution.

They were in a constant fight with Iron Oxide over plexes at the time (pre inferno). But no matter how many plex fights were won during the American timezone for Imperial Outlaws, all there plexing work was deplexed when they went to sleep and the Euro time zoned Iron Oxide logged in.

This was very clear from one of the first videos I posted. In it you clearly see and Imperial Outlaws fleet fighting for a plex in Arzad way before Inferno hit. You can even hear FIRST GENERAL in that video so plex fighting was not unheard of. Just not the pure focus of everyone as it came to be after Inferno.

Plex fighting for most before Inferno was kind of like a pass time hobby when things were slow with roaming instead of an all out philosophy or a reason for being.

I hesitated about mentioning Arzad as Imperial Outlaws home at the time I met Amarrian Retiribution.

But the end result of the pre Inferno push is everyone from Imperial Outlaws and everyone that lived in Auga moved to Egglehende.

Just to be clear I am not saying everyone that initially moved to Egglehende didn't know how to plex. They just didn't have enough to bring to the table to fight the combined forces that seemed to be falling out of the sky at the time.

Cerain let's not turn this thread into one of your four page debates please.

If you have another story to tell by all means go tell it in another thread. But please leave this thread be.

I have no problems with people chiming in and correcting any mistakes I make. Remember this is like three years of memories So i am bound to make a mistake here or there. But derailing the thread into a debate? No thanks.

Chapter 16 The Dalamo

Forth! And fear no darkness!
Arise! Arise riders of Theoden!
Spears shall be shaken! Shields shall be splintered!
A Sword day….a red day….and the sun rises!
Ride now! Ride Now! Ride for ruin…….and the worlds ending!
Death!.........Death!
DEATH!!!!!

December 7th, 2012 Ushra Khan finally gives the word to abandon their home system of Isbrabata.The Eugidi Campagn is Over. The Amarr took an entire metropolis constellation from the minmatar with Aset as its main base.

What started out as a simple diversionary tactic applied by Fweddit, InExile and TemFed to pull minmatar reinforcements away from Ushr Khan started to snowball. With corporations like Shirak Skunkworks (excellent pvp’ers by the way)moving into Vard and Sasawong pushed back to defend Lantorn. It was starting to look like another crack in the minmatars armor was formed.

Over the course of a month the area in and around Dal became a hotspot for PVP as the above mentioned corps turned the diversionary tactic into a full on assault.

Dal

A very important part of the Minmatar Crown. An Extremly important mission hub cutting the minmatar off from that was a crucial step in stemming the tide of farmers pushing the Amarr down and keeping the Minmatar at high tiers.

One must remember the recent influx of new corps into the Amarr (mainly Fweddit and Agony) have not yet been properly applied as a united attack force. I mean sure they flew together from time to time and had skirmishes with the minmatar as well as pirates here and there throughout the warzone but to properly channel all the Amarr into one offensive fighting force to achieve a single goal that was yet to happen.

That changed with Dal in January 2013. For the first time in ages the Minmatar got a taste of what a unified Offensive Amarr force tasted like. After months and months of being splintered and barely resembling a united Militia the Amarr rose as one and charged as one at a single goal.

Many of the current Amarr refer to the Dalamo when they stare defeat in the face. Properly so I might add it reminded us all that if we put all our hands together the Minmatar will scatter to the four winds. Stripped of all the farmers the Minmatar are actually not as strong as one might think. Sure they can afford shiny toys but in reality they really don’t know how to use them as shown here in this video how they couldn’t properly fly armor hacs the way they were supposed to be flown. All they really have to their advantage is numerical superiority.

That numerical superiority however was not going to be enough when all three towers combined there force projection on Dal.. (Notice the combined coolness of Almity target calling and comms discipline being quietly reinforced by Agony pilots as they give Almity reassuring pushes)

The only problem with keeping the momentum up enough for Dal to fall was the availability of ships. Again losing a ship for anyone in fleet meant a three or four system jump to reship and come back. We needed Dal to fall as fast as possible as we were not sure how long we could keep this combined momentum going and the last thing we wanted was to waste this golden opportunity as Amarr slowly started to lose interest and drop from the combined operation.

Enter Super Chair.

Remember our friend from the Caldari that was with us in both Caldari campaigns? Allies are good and smart allies are better. Thankfully Super Chair (a very well known Caldari FC) decided Caldari pvp was slow and he wanted to join us and have some fun.

Plexing Dal was a 24 hour fleet operation. The fleet for Dal never went down and command of the fleet went in shifts between RTSAvalanche and Muad Dib from TemFed to Almity from InExile to Superchair and Flyinghotpocket of Amarrian Vengeance and even a few from Agony stepped up when burnout set in on some of the Amarr FCs. The fleet never stood down and was kept up for days until Dal was burned to the ground.

Super Chair went all out on this one and I believe the Dalamo never would have happened if it was not for one simple fact that many on the field overlooked.

Super Chair was tired of seeing people lost to go reship miles away. So Amarrian Vengeance spent close to half a billion in ships mass fitted and ready to rock and carrier jumped them into Seiside. Rail Cormorants and blaster merlins were put up for public contract at jita cost. More than 200 prefit and ready to go Merlins and Cormorants were put up on public contract in Sieside and that made a world of difference.

People that lost ships fighting in the novice and small plexes had only to travel one jump from Dal to Sieside to buy a ship of contract and jump right back into the fight.

With control over every size plex possible now the fleet was kept alive for more than 72 hours.

It was a complete success and for the first time in ages the minmatar got a proper dose of combined Amarrian might they gave a good fight dont get me wrong. It was just extremly clear to all Amarr that over the course of three days they could not push away the combined onslaught.

Every single Amarrian corporation was part of the Dalamo. No exceptions. Together the Amarr could do anything now.

here are a few battle reports feel free to look them all up if you want.
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To be continued……