Warfare & Tactics

Honestly, if most of the Caldari that resided in Okkamon had been interested in solo and micro gang work instead of monster blobs and gatecamping lowsec gates (though not very well) we wouldn't have taken their home system (or even wanted to). But I told you all that a few weeks ago, so whatever.

Thanks for the fights and the system.

I suppose the question of whether they should be free is a matter of taste. They should certainly be there whether they are charged for or not.

confirming we are too greedy to hand ships out for free (unless you make it to the top 10 of our killboard in alliance, someone is going to get a nice Orthrus this month).

Calmil has to deal with Jita dwellers - people that never move their hangars from Jita and then go there to reship whenever they lose a ship on a roam or a defense effort.

And people constantly asking if Tama is camped. Sometimes I wonder if it's just troll bait.

All this system capture crusade is going to end with a Burn Jita except it won't be because of Goons.

I think they have been reading our internal forums again. Already prototyping high sec camping fleets. We are giving you until the end of this month to evacuate high sec Black Rise.

Wait...what? You might be seeing an app soon Thanatos.

People did Alucard, don't try to bring that down on us. Many groups, my alliance included, assisted in Enaluri. However, many groups didn't want to simply because they actively refused to help with any of our campaigns, IE Oicx or Eha or Innia. In response to the reshipping thing, we have a LOT of ships now, but we were not expecting that kind of attack at the time so our response was delayed. I handed out hundreds of ships, from cheap to expensive, and we did the best we could. As far as AU goes, I adjusted my sleep schedule in order to be online to assist with that, but only on one night did I have enough numbers to deal with what was in Okkamon (kudos for the good fights X Gallentius). I know people hate the excuse, but Summer is here. I have multiple characters in Gallente and I can say for a fact that the time of year has hit Caldari harder than Gallente. Normally Caldari has 250 online during AU timezone and upwards of 500 during EU. That's sitting closer to 100-150 during AU and 200-250 during EU. That's a huge drop in activity. We've lost farmers, Jita spinners and combat pilots alike. When I log in at night and find that Gallente outnumber our active militia online by 50 it doesn't leave much hope for assembling a fleet to deal with what they have.

Those 50-100% more squids in local were very often afk in station, just watching the action, or not interested in participating. The number of people actively in fleet participating was far lower than the number in system at any given time. For example, when I swung by to try and see what I could do in the AU timezone last night, there were a good 5+ people in system, and I had 5-7 in my fleet. If those 5 in system joined us we would have had a fighting chance at dealing with your 13+. However, those 5 were not around to join. I would have absolutely loved to fight Yuri's fleet last night but I couldn't (ended up doing so anyways and whelping a bunch of stuff against his greater numbers, but it was a gf nonetheless). It's very similar to back when you guys flipped Innia. You would bring 40 to the system to plex it, and there would be 40+ Caldari in system, but in actuality it was a fleet of 20-30 people and 20 24/7 afk station campers.

Haha, I'm Cal Mil through and through Thanatos. The last thing you'll see is me pulling a Khan and flipping to Gallente, either solo or with my alliance. I just hope that this campaign is over because frankly, I much prefer the small gang skirmishes and solo stuff with your guys in the Kurala constellation (and elsewhere) to masses of Derptrons and Derplins and other such nonsense. Give me smashing fleets of 10 AF's against each other any day over a 100 person engagement filled with ships made to be as cheap as possible.

You act like you don't have any spies in Cal Mil that can see the same numbers I can in militia chat, or that your FC's don't come in to places like Innia and post gif images about us all being docked up. I'm not disclosing anything you guys don't already know, or couldn't already figure out by simple means without needing actual spies or inside intel. It's not like I'm saying we have X pilots that can fly Y at this specific timezone. I'm commenting on the raw numbers in our militia, numbers that are easily visible to anyone that cares enough to check.