Warfare & Tactics

~Great Work

Very enjoyable to read.

Would be great to have a perspective and similar writings from:

1. Iron Oxide
2. Triad
3. LNA
4. Global Isk Network / White Lotus
5. Shirak Skunkworks
6. Koza
7. 24eme Legion Etrangere
8. Agony Unleashed (go on Greygal :)
9. ILaw / Feydakin
10. Fweddit


The emotive stories about the FW played by those with vested interests are what highlight why FW is one of the last true vestiges of compelling and interesting gameplay for remaining Bitter Vet's, Casual players and those looking for real immersion into the Eve world.


Keep up the good work Stalking Mantis & AVNG.

I will continue to enjoy not shooting at you when we are in a Predator Elite's fleet, when we are War Decc'd, etc...


Just wish I had more logged on game time in order to participate more.

Sarge

Sarge watches Stalking throw a shiny Gauntlet crashing on ground.

Sarge waits for someone to pick the gauntlet up.


...waiting... waiting....

Very nice read! Bring up so many memories.
And as someone else pointed out, flying with you guys always made me feels like a newb, despite having a pretty good killboard and a firm grasp of tactics.

/me facepalms

Do you even dotlan bro?

Fall of Sisiede

Fall of Kamela

?
Is all april 2013. I wrote about September 2012 till March 2013. After march 2013 I have no clue because I went to calmil and Hopeless addiction with S0re disbanded. Kam fell end of Jan 2013 or so first time (okay it fell already July or August 2012 first time...).
Btw yes agony was better than Nulli and CVA (okay tbh 2 week old lowsec noobs performed better^^) but they were not so ultra elite like Shirak or Fedaykin. I fought with em many times in Kam and Kourm. They were really cool bros and I enjoyed it. But tbh Agonys defense of Kam ended somewhere end Oct 2012/beginning Nov 2012 and you may guess who did it from Nov2012 to March 2013.

:P
It fell already in Jan2013 :P
I remember batphoning Pinky too late and fweddit came in with a panzer fleet to defend Ihub but it was too late.

Edit: No I batphoned Pinky earlier but somehow help came too late :P

Btw: A story about hilarious LNA. Fweddit comes with Panzer fleet to defend ihub, LNA runs away because LNA never gives you a gf and comes back with sniper nados and nagas on range^^
Ofc LNA will always troll you how pro they are...

Edit2:
Hm... remembering some funny stuff from that time with Agony in Kam.
Maud first time in ts with agony and Greygal on.
Maud:"HOLY F.... Greygal is a chick!"

Chapter 20 The Coming Of The Ark (Continued)

The extent of Pandemic Legions spy network is no secret to anyone in New Eden. You can even debate that Pandemic Legion never took an active interest in planting a spy in Iron Oxide. Either way there is never a shortage of people in EVE willing to sell any Titan pilot out to get a pat on the head from Pandemic Legion as he sets up the kill for them.

What makes this Titan’s so special is the fact that the spy/sellout (whatever you judge him to be) didn’t even have the roles to offline the POS shields. So it seemed from the outlook of that video that Iron Oxide command did have proper security measures in place to prevent someone from doing exactly that by limiting the distribution of roles in a corporation. So this begs two questions to be asked:

1-Why did a Titan Pilot from corporation with such proper security measures accept a fleet invite from anyone instead of making his own fleet?

2-Why weren’t any big red flags raised in the head of the Titan pilot when he logged in, warped to the POS and saw the big red phobos that just happened to be there right outside the Pos shields in plain view?

Let me go ahead and answer the first question for you. Call me an assuming analyst but this was not a deep cover spy insertion operation from Pandemic Legion by any means. This was a sellout plain and simple. Snowman1 was in and out of that Titan pilots corp since 2012 almost a year before they even had a titan. Someone somewhere wronged him either in the corporation or the alliance level and he decided revenge was to be delivered through the guns of Pandamic Legion. Don’t take my word for it though, that’s just my opinion.

As far as an answer to the second question? My guess is as good as yours.

I have been around faction warfare for while. I know exactly how the process of getting a FW corp Titan goes. It is never an individual effort. Countless hours are put in by everyone on an Alliance level to contribute to the cost. I’m talking about almost a year’s worth of Tier 4 LP farming from EVERYONE pitching in to buy the Titan.

Long story short? WTB Iron Oxide TeamSpeak corp chat from the moment the Titan logged on and for three days after the incident. Because you I assure you EVERYONE on an Alliance level must have been extremely upset that a year’s worth of missioning/plexing hours was just lost at Planet 6 of the Arzad solar system. tl:dr dissent was going to be rampant at this time.

I will not risk upsetting ISD by posting an individual killmail for that titan but feel free to look it up yourself to see the fit for yourself (Eporer, May 2013). There is no secret what Iron Oxide was using that Titan for, they were using it for the same reason LNA is using theirs in Houla now. LINKS, Titan level links giving Titan level link boosts to the defensive fleet of Arzad.

Amarrian Vengeance Leadership was quick to jump in on this golden opportunity. High level leadership talks ensued as we BEGGED all Amarrian leadership to help back our plan to strike hard at the heart of the Minmatar resistance, Strike and take over Arzad dealing a deathblow to the Minmatar. I cannot overinflate the importance of the timing here as this window to strike was fast passing and soon Iron Oxide leadership would regain composure after the hard blow dealt to them from Pandemic Legion.

Sadly not many Amarrian Corporations shared our vision. At the time Arzad was surrounded by Minmatar controlled systems with the closest system under Amarr control being Sosan (two jumps away).

NO ONE in the Amarr Militia believed it could be done. It was too hard, too much dedication would have to be given to such an endeavor. In fact even with the Titan loss. Arzad has been under the firm control of the Minmatar for years. It was a fortress and no way in hell where the minmatar going to let it fall.

We discussed this internally at length and decided this window of opportunity was TOO GOOD to let pass. Come hell or highwater and no matter how much we lost as far as isk and ships we were going all in. We were going to stab straight into the heart of the Minmatar with or without the Amarrs help.

We had the will, we had the heart. And I assure you EVERYONE in Amarrian Vengeance would be more than glad to empty his entire wallet into the corp wallet of Amarrian Vengeance to make it happen. This was personal, this was a deep vendetta against Iron Oxide. It was time the Amarr were avenged. It was time the unworthy were judged and the pure redeemed.

Of all the amarr corporations that said it was impossible only two others shared our vision and gave us a reassuring tap on our shoulders and the nod to proceed, Black Watch Guard and Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris. The Faithful.

We will forever be indebted to these two corporations for sharing our faith and vision in this. This was our time, this was the time to strike.

Templar Dane drew up our detailed and in depth battle plans on May 9th, 2013. This was not going to be an overnight campaign. This was going to be a hell-march. I order to take Arzad we had to March up from Sosan, Take Tarraran to have a rapid reshipping base next door to Arzad and eventually take Arzad. By His Light, and His Will.

Earn these shields boys!

The Faithful knew what needed to be done to achieve this. It was time to bleed for Impress.

"So the Lord sent forth the Chosen,
to bring forth the light of faith
And those who embrace his love
Shall be saved by his grace
For we are his shepherds in the darkness
His Angels of Mercy.
But those who turn away from his light,
And reject his true word
Shall be struck down by his wrath
For we are his retribution incarnate
His Angels of Vengeance"
- The Scriptures, Book of Reclaiming 4:45

To be Continued……..

Excellent post Slade. Sometimes just seeing what things are like on the other side of the pond is all people need to be more synchronized.

What was mentioned in Chapter 19 was never meant to belittle any Amarrian corp. Quite the contrary actually as any insightful reader will notice a common recurring theme in most of Amarrian Vengeance campaigns; they usually have some diversionary force harassing the minmatar and splitting their resistance as they are forced to choose between projecting force in one place or defending against a newly opened front somewhere else.

In fact I truly go out of my way in some of these posts to point out the helping hand that is given to us time and time again by both ILAW and Fweddit.

While this thread is about the story of AVNG I really wish it to be a gift for everyone that fought for the Amarr during the past two years. It is everyone's time to shine and stand up and be recognized for what they did.

None of these victories could have happened without a combined effort. For everyone from Imperial Outlaws that joined the fleets and lost time and ships for the Amarr to Almity burning himself out commanding fleets to Shalee working feverishly behind the scenes. Thank you all.

Besides there is a time along the upcoming timeline where I join ILAW (trying not to get ahead of myself).
I witnessed all the love Shalee puts into the corp. From the inner corp forums to posting fits and running behind the scenes logistics and putting doctrine ships up on contracts for everyone
I heard with my own ears Almity literally time and again start to lose his voice barking orders leading fleets for well over three hours.

No where in this series will you ever see me point the dirty end of the stick at anyone. In fact if anything I really want everyone that pitched in one way or another to be recognized.

P.S. While it may seem I am coming off as abrasive to everyone in Amarr in Chapter 20 and throughout what will be mentioned in the Arzad takeover, I am doing it to drive a very important point home to everyone. That point will be made clear in the next few installments.

All My Best.

Chapter 21 The Longest Mile

With our marching orders sent out while the wreck of Iron Oxides Leviathan was still smoldering and burning in orbit around Arzad Planet 6 we set out for the hell march.

Iron Oxide were no fools, they always understood the importance of controlling systems adjacent to Arzad. ESPECIALLY Tararan as it is the only system next to Arzad with a station. You would think flipping one system for AVNG would be a piece of cake, -spoilers- it was not.

Add in to the mix what seems to be a constant infatuation by the Russian Alliance of Smile and Wave with Tararan. Something about those Tararan moons just drives them crazy for that system.

We started slow at first, trying our best not to bring any attention to our plans, but with everyone from our 3 makeshift alliance (Amarrian Vengeance, Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris and Black Watch Gaurd from here on out referred to as the faithful) on board it was obvious Tararan was being plexed by an organized fleet or two. Resistance to our plexing efforts was slow at first but slowly picked up as the few Iron Oxide Pilots that were burning the Euro midnight oil on EVE came in to fight.

Best part of fighting Iron Oxide is you always see their boosters enter the system before they do. We have all of their booster alts marked so when we see one come into system we know he is not there for mining. The thing is very few Iron Oxide pilots were on in our US time zone so aside from the occasional loki linked slicer or two (being more a nuisance than a deterrent really) the first few days didn’t meet much resistance. But once the system started creeping into the upper forties as far as contested rate, Iron Oxide really started turning up the resistance.

Loryanna from Iron Oxide really stepped up the pace for running gangs that proved to be more than just an annoyance for us. As the steady march up traran slowed morale was dropping. But we all had faith and kept plugging away.

With time our little gang started to grow as many amarr pilots dropped by for some PvP fun in Tararan while we plexed the system up. LNA from the Minmatar kept sending gangs nightly to fight us in the US timezone led by Blackbeard and Bahumet 420. Thankfully the assistance from LNA to Tararan was not focused so after beating a gang or two of theirs they called it a night and we went back to the all important business of plexing.

By the time Tararan hit about 70 to 80% Iron oxide had a permanent booster in system safed up inside a Smile and Wave POS (My memory might be mistaken but it defo was a minmatar POS). with Pinky Feldman semi busy irl from EVE my direct connection to Fweddit leadership was somewhat shady at the time because he was the main link between IWHIP and AVNG.

I took a chance and reached out to someone that I never interacted with before asking for some much needed help (I tried to be witty). Thankfully I caught him in a good mood and the Cavalry soon came down and made short order of that POS. Thereby removing the permanent boosts in that fleet for the final push.

Iron Oxide was much weaker than they had been prior to the Titan loss. Their Morale was definitely a factor here as on May 19th, 2013 after only ten days of plexing by an ever growing around the clock rotating gang made up mostly of the faithful and a few people that enjoyed PvP’ing with us from our intell channels. The biggest deciding factor in the assault of the Faithfull was the strong Australian TZ coverage provided to us by Black Watch Guard.

All in all PvP in ships lost in tararan in the Month of May 2013 went up 400% from the previous month.

It seemed fortune favored the brave and we took Tararan By His Light and His Will. Something tells me Iron Oxide really only thought the Tararan take over was just another system lost to the Amarr. I truly do not believe they realized that our sights were zeroed in on Arzad. I mean who would dare attack Arzad? Plus we never were really blatant about our plans in local. The less prepared they were the better in my opinion.

With a forward Operating base set up right outside the gate of Arzad. It was time to push the Limits of Endurance of everyone in our small makeshift Coalition of the Faithful. All the way through the campaign we all felt something special pushing us on we all knew we were fully committed to the cause now and this was the point of no return.

"Surround yourself with the faithful, Stand together, for there is no strength like it under the heavens."
- The Scriptures, Book of Missions 71:21

To Be Continued……..

The Dalamo push was one of the most organized campaigns the Amarr had ever undertaken. FHP, ilaw, j4lp, and friends were all coordinating and decided to make it happen together from the start. Ilaw/skunkworks were the diversion, team hotpocket were the special forces, and j4lp was the heavy lifting. I know that during this time, the Amarr faction generated more VP than all other factions combined and individually we had alliances that were outplexing entire militias.

The majority of fweddit split pushed Minmatar space with some of our members setting up POSes to reship from in backwater systems and groups like dirt n glitter led by Tristan DaCuhna deploing to the Aset pocket and taking over the entirety of Eugidi. I remember the week of the push we mostly hung out on comms pushing timers down in different systems as we had streamed movies that we all watched together.

Arzad push saw team Egghelende mostly burned out from remember the dalamo, but once team pocket got it to where it needed to be and the horns were blown, we saw the opportunity and came back.