Warfare & Tactics

So the squids starting appearing all over the war zone and we're finally getting numbers, and I say very lightly, some confidence to fight. Waffles comes back and after one to two days all the squids are gone like leaves scattered in the wind. The biologist are saying this is a sever epidemic that could have left the squids once again in the endangered species list.

All jokes aside, what happened to all the squid entities. You guys were finally getting together, making friends, and starting to actually support one another. Now, I'm lucky to find a solid number of you guys out and about...WTB pew pew that isn't just pirate groups

I'm just chalking this up to global warming.

Sounds about right.

1. They are in perpetual Tier 1 right now, and even their home systems are getting hit by plexers. So, they are balling up a bit.
2. Plexes are harder. Their guys are probably turning more to missions to make their isk instead of being available for fights in plexes.
3. In our area Sniggwaffe has returned and put a big damper on Squid activity in Kinnaka. Many squids seem to pile up in Kehjari instead, or go to high sec.
4. The inability to adequately contest Enaluri last weekend (it was a "marginal draw", started at 10%, ended a bit below 10% contested level) has probably lead to a bit of "I'm going to go do something more interesting than beat my head against the wall" thinking.

Looked pretty fail from my POV. Maybe you guys did better at other times.

Glad you got your doctrines straightened out.

Yeah looked at the kb and it's mostly Dei-telum in Kehjari. Templis must have moved to Icho or to the "East" since a smaller portion of their kills are in our area and more of them seem to be over there.

Yeah, I didn't receive that memo, could you put me on the mailing list for future correspondence. Cheers!

I'll forward the link to you next time.

I don't want to be too much of an ******* because I like what you're trying to do with Calmill. But a few corrections :p

You can still run into squids occasionally, but we are used to a time when places like Enaluri, Innia, OMS/Heyd, Rakapas, Eha once upon a time, were major CalMill systems. Now the great pillars of Caldari strength lay in ruin, we struggle to find exactly where they all are? Not Kinakka or Innia, not in Heyd or OMS, not in Tama or Rakapas, rumors are there are some squirreled away in the Kurala constellation, but people arent sure exactly where. Conversely Galmills influence extends across entire regions of the map, with multiple home systems that have stood for literally years.

WRT to Enaluri, and taking nothing away from those that live there, it is the newest home system of the Gallente. In terms of where supporting corps/allainces are and logistics, it would be closer to the easiest target to strike than the hardest. That would be on a good day, the day the Enaluri thing began however we had just wrapped up in Heyd, further stressing the logistics. Also the incredibly low contested rate throughout put a serious dampener on any militia wide assistance.

From the fights I saw, things were pretty rough on the squids. I saw their Kestrel fleets die to our AF fleets, and our Kestrel fleets kill their AF fleets. For large periods of time Miras group were sitting in a large/medium baiting for RZR (I'm not sure how this fits with 'testing' system push doctrines.) In fact I'm not sure I witnessed any gallente fleets lose a fight, I did see a couple of derps from T3s trying to be funny, but we wouldn't be throwing those into the isk analysis would we? Seeing as this was about testing doctrines :p

Again though I'm not on 24 hours a day so not saying we didnt lose some fights, just it wasn't my take away impression.

Also, you brought up the AU tz issue in the document, but it never brought up the proposed answer, please, I'm curious :)

Perhaps the easiest of the hardest targets (i.e. Gallente home systems) but certainly not amongst the easiest targets on the map. It's also right next door to Nenn.




I guess I'm mainly thinking of fights like these:

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(edit: the forums are mangling these addresses by inserting amp;amp; into them three times for some reason - you'll need to manually delete that addition to get the BR.
edit2: bear in mind that the BRs only include those pilots who appeared on killmails, not all who were involved in the battles, so most of the Gallente fleet is missing from the first two as there were almost no Caldari losses.)

What's really significant here to my mind is seeing doctrinal uniformity across a Caldari general militia fleet, decent amounts of logi on field, and wins against fully logi-ed up Gal fleets (with T2 logi in two cases). These are all new experiences for me in system battles.

I also wouldn't discount all the T3 losses. In a battle where you bring a T2/T3 cruiser fleet plus battleships and faction battleships against a T1 cruiser fleet and lose a T3 in the pitched engagement, that's just a straightforward loss.

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I'll give you the Zealot as a derp though - he warped into our fleet completely unsupported and didn't stand a chance. The Loki, not so much. The second Loki, I can't remember but that one may well have done something stupid.

On the Kessies vs AFs, we were happy trading a handful of kestrels for each of your assault frigates, so don't have too much of a problem with that phase of the fight as our numbers were a bit low. Not so happy about the battles where we lost assault frigates to your kestrels. One related thing that came out of the weekend was how much we need to work on our skirmishing. You guys are able to do great work slowing us down when you are outnumbered and that is something we really need to emulate (and which connects to the AU tz stuff below). Item 77b on the 'to do' list.



The fact that you interpreted this in this way is interesting. We were actually sitting in the larges and mediums looking for more practice with the cruiser doctrine. I'm not sure why you thought we were baiting at this point but it does explain why you didn't come and play during this period. Obviously, baiting in plexes would have been entirely counter-productive to our aims for the weekend.



It's a very tricky one as it's not something that is easy to correct for n terms of doctrine or strategy, since it’s really a manpower issue which is almost impossible to exert direct control over. We had some success holding back the attrition of system control through most of the first AU tz by using a hero-FC who was willing to go without sleep and managed to keep the loss to a manageable level. However, it was bought home to us just how important AU is when, after he stood down, we lost something like 4% in just the hour after downtime. Long and the short is, it’s a work in progress but some militia-wide work on skirmishing will go a long way.