Warfare & Tactics

or they get bored and move to amarr for some reason :P
I'm sure squids will come around, i mean believe it or not the gallente side is going through the exact same thing.

Every militia is the same at one point or another. I've been in FW for just about the entire time I've played this game. One thing is certain is that each militia always had it's ups & downs and I've been in them all. I've seen internal fighting with war decs in every militia and seen lots of blue vs blue squabbles as well as more trolls than I care to count.

It's just the nature of the beast as there is no way to keep people in order or provide focused goals as FW militia's are nothing more than a headless alliance. Considering that most player run alliances are pretty fail and often suffer from the same kind of end fighting, how could you expect it not to be worse in FW?

You can't even kick known spys out of FW. I could use an alt corp join the apposing Militia and TK blues all day. As long as the corp I was in held up it's positive standings there is nothing anyone could do about it.

TBH it's amazing IMO that any Militia can actually get their acts together for any amount of time prior to the inevitable top corps of the moment either fizzing out or leaving for l33t null sec pvp, causing that militia to fail cascade until some group of players helps pull them out of their dip.. This happens over and over and side always swap as in whom ever is the strongest at the moment.

Like hell they will. If any organised corp comes to Caldari side, the frogs stay docked and employ their well known strategy of "bore the enemy to death" until they can come out again and proceed to their usual hobby of ganking noobs since that's the enviroment where they thrive. Just look what happened with draketrain. No fleet fights were given after few attempts and froggies proceeded to wait it out because people like Lacco and Shana Tirii are quick to walk away if there is no fun to be had..

So if I wanted to join fw, where would I start to look? FW is pretty much the only thing I've not done in eve yet.

Not enough people able and willing to PvP (as a team), amongst other things :<

One consistent complaint I've heard from varying CalMil pilots over the past year is that they lack cohesive, reliable intel. Even when CalMil was very active earlier this year, it seemed as if each of their corporations was doing something different, and not passing intel between each other. This is something we exploited a lot.

For all of the things GalMil does wrong (and believe me, we derp a lot), one thing we tend to do right is communication. We have shared and mostly-reliable intel channels as well as readily-accessible voice comms with varying levels of security. In addition, we generally have a culture of friendly competition where it's not unusual or suspicious for the member of one corp to drop into another corp's comms just to chat. As a result, we often join each others' roams and our fleets tend to coordinate and exchange intel.

Good communication gets you the following benefits:

- Targets. It's much, much easier to PvP if you know where to go to pew pew.
- Numbers. If a target is too heavy / too numerous for you, there are often pilots around willing to fleet up and even the odds.
- Support. If you run into unexpected trouble, a fight turns sour, or a falcon uncloaks, there's often a few pilots in the area available to help.
- Evading gatecamps and gank attempts.

Now, there is drama that comes up sometimes. Personality clashes are inevitable. But by and large, GalMil has a rather strong and friendly community between its major corps.

When we flipped Enaluri, one of the complaints a CalMil pilot voiced in local was Gallente reliance on 'blobs' and dirty spying tactics. Speaking from a personal perspective, I've never had access to spy data during PvP. Our FC at the time, one of the more well-known ones in GalMil, was also ignorant of any infiltration by us in CalMil's channels.

In battle, it's easy to mistake an enemy's penchant for having the right numbers at the right place to leaked intel or the presence of spies. I think we really are just better coordinated.

In short, my advice is this:

- If you fear spies too much, you'll never develop a relaxed community of PvP-centric pilots. Who gives good intel versus who gives bad intel can be ascertained quickly enough. And making that judgment call is a small price to pay for having reliable intel channels.

- FW corps can (and do) go it alone, but good things can come from working with others. Splintering into a multitude of corps in FW is inevitable due to personality clashes, time zone variation, small gang versus fleet roamers, and differing interests. But there's a world of difference between a bunch of isolated corps, and a community of people at least loosely working together.

its not that they dont have any strong leaders, they have several. the majority populace just wont accept singular leadership. they generally wont accept advice either.

That's pretty much the same with almost every militia and half the alliances in the game. It's got to be more than that.

true again, problem is that cal militia does shout for leadership, but when someone steps up to the plate like i did, no-one was interested. in my relatively short period of time in cal militia, i have seen a number of people step up just to get slapped in the face and give up.

I've been in and out of the milita for years. The last time I went back to Caldari Milita it was in the worst shape I have known it.

IMO the biggest porblem is the quality of FCs. I didn't really appreciate it at the time but the success of WolfsBrigade was down to the organisation and FCing. We were able then to field properly configured fleets with player input, organisation and logistics. We could go toe-to-toe with the pirates corps and win. Being in a fleet was fun.

The sole tactic now is shield nano BC. You get on the filed, set keep distance to the anchor and shoot the primary. Biggest blob wins. Most of the time there is no fight because the smaller blob knows it will loose and doesn't fight. There is virtually no mental input required from the player. Being in a fleet is not fun.

Although the FCs can probably produce the odd battle report where they have been up against a organised pirate corp and won most of the time a Caldari Milita fleet is massacared by a organised pirate fleet that knows what it's doing.

This in my opion is the problem. Poor FCing and tactics creates an environment where there is nothing to aspire to as a player and it doesn't take more than about 6mths before most people will move on to improve their game.

There are some talented small gang players in the Milita and it's a great place to spend 6mths but the milita generally lacks quality at the top.