Warfare & Tactics

Just an FYI from someone that was around the days FW was announced and deployed.
The request to allow alliances to join FW was made from the very first days CCP announced FW. Not by 0.0 alliances and their members that happen also to be in CSM, but from RP alliances that were living in high sec (and low sec of course) and had until then sacrificed a lot (and without any help from CCP like FW is) in order to be globally (within eve of course) recognized as a pro-[insert Nation] alliance.

There were not many (CVA, CYI is all i can remember) but those were dedicated and got shafted big time.

0.0 alliances and their members have the opportunities and the know how to make a lot more than anyone in FW (operating in low and high sec). I sincerely doubt that FW is the juicy fruit they want to sink their teeth in.

On the other hand there are alliances living in high and low sec, that were interested in FW and now have a chance to join as an entity and not forced to disband their alliance.

I think most of us know this, but those RP alliances tend to take very little interest in FW these days so it makes us question why now is CCP adding this with zero explanation as to what the intentions are. Do they have intentions of letting FW grow into something bigger with the up coming war expansion or what ever they are calling it or is this just being added because it was the oldest requested thing for FW so it's just a rabbit on a stick to drag us a long a bit longer?

I think now that the knee jerk reaction of "OMG" Sov empires will join and blob us to death with 50 super carriers is over, I think people see it might be not so bad, but what is CCP's plan with this or do they have one?

BTW.. I'm pretty sure CCP also promised pirate factions would be involved in FW as well. As long as they are just acting on old request when is that due to be added. I'd love to see pirate factions added (with no missions) and give them space in the boarder areas around the various FW zones.

Please read post above. PL will consider FW a waste of their time and money.

Again see prior post

I for one look forward to our new ______(Insert Name)_____Overlords with limitless Drake Blobs and Cap hot-drops.

I cannot help but remember "For want of a nail" in yesterdays fight in Siseide. Minmatar fleet was already in system to bust the bunker. However, we had four people who managed to secure a minor plex and make system non-vulnerable.

Minmatar had numbers but they did not enter minor plex until they had 8 vs 4 odds. By the time they entered it was too late and plex was capped. This delay enabled Amarr to form a response and ultimately minmatar lost four capitals to the bunker. If they had brought fight initially on equal terms they might have won and in such case would almost certainly still have those capital ships...

Four capitals lost, all because of four destroyers. Good trade off in my opinion *

*Well, three destroyers and one worm but it sounds better that way.

You can't shoot the bunker UNTIL the system is vulnerable. What Damar said is that they were waiting on the bunker for the system to go vulnerable. The Amarr managed to run a minor to pull things back slightly, which meant the minmitar were on the field waiting for the bunker to be shootable and it wasn't. This delay in time allowed the Amarr to raise a defence fleet.

FML - having watched the videos, I would LOVE to have been there

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjFNMliB584&feature=g-u&context=G268b970FUAAAAAAAAAQ

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTXyszYVAJM&feature=g-u&context=G28ce55aFUAAAAAAAAAA

Come to Gulm,Lulm and Bos.

Now THIS is an interesting discussion point for alliances. Amarrian Retribution is currently in a coalition with a number of the other major Amarr FW corps to orchastrate plexing activities. If these corps were in an alliance, would that further improve the organisation?
Regardless, people are having good fights and as per the links I posted a few posts back, there was a good BS/cap fight.