Warfare & Tactics

OK first of all, Mad props to Lock Out, First General, Tekitha and a number of others for making this happen (Ammon Dei, Red Squad to name just a couple) – A LOT of work went on behind the scenes to make this work.

Now, to all the moaners and whingers complaining about not being involved with this........get a grip for gods sake.

2 corps pulled this off, Shadows Of The Federation and Wolfsbrigade (with the addition of a few very close friends who made the difference between it being successful or not) and it had to be done this way to minimise the chance of the plan being leaked.

There were less than 10 people who knew what was being planned and both corps purposely didn’t tell our own corp members what was going on, even as we were moving all the pieces into place.

How many of your own corp members would jump into 3 billion isk + ships and being told to insure cos you are going to die and do it no questions asked, how many of your own corp members would fly 15-20 jumps in there pods without being told why other than just because we said to do so with no explanation, how many corps members would keep comms discipline from beginning to end and do exactly what they were told to do, I could go on and on about this.

SOTF and WBR have a long history of being friends, enemies, emo falling out and in all honesty couldn’t play the game in 2 more different ways that how each corp operates and gets results.

However after all this is said and done we have a massive mutual respect and trust of each other (banter aside) and there are not many corps in this game who are enemies and shoot each other in the face 99% of the time who can pull something like this off and more importantly have the trust in each other to be able to make it work.

This was probably the most expensive fleet ever assembled within Faction warfare which was implemented by (arguably) the 2 biggest and most successful EU corps in any of the militias and the plan worked thanks to the factors above.

Also, Big props to PL for taking this in the way they have done, they get a lot of stick and negativity generally but in this instance have been fantastic in there response to us and we FW noobs appreciate it.

Instead of whining to everyone else about why you weren’t involved look at in the mirror and ask yourself the same question, respect, relationships and teamwork are earned and not freely handed out just because we share the same factions.

Gallactica – CEO
Shadows Of The Federation

I fully endorse Gallactica's message.

Since not that many people read the wolfsbrigade homepage where i've made two posts about the operation i'd like credits to go to:

to Lock Out - massive love and respect!
to Tekitha - love you too ;)
to SOTF and Gallactica in particular for being a great guy.

as well as a shout out to the other supporting pilots in our fleet who are not called out by name here.

Last but not least :

Shout out to PL - who, like Gallactica said above, usually get a lot of stick but are being massive sports about this.

Fixed that for you :P.
Props to SOTF, Red Squad (XDMR in particular. Long time no see.) and the few guys from Zero Heavy (0000) etcetc for getting the titan kill.
As Vordak said before, The bitterness stems from a group idea being carried out without half the group.

I personally think this event is going to hurt the militia more than it does PL.
Because, ya know, Titan Replaced or Pilot Purged already most likely.

But Bridges burnt between FCs and CEOs are hard to fix.
I'll be interested to see how this goes. Gotta refill this bucket of popcorn, though.

FW has always been a fun political landscape. Congrats on the Titan, it's about time! I'm only sorry I couldn't suicide my dread into it!

May the Space lanes be good o you!

@ Mystical Knight - no-one asked SOTF or invited us to a "meeting" to discuss anything.

Are any of us whining about that? Nope, really don't give a rats ass either tbh.

Plus there has to be bridges there to be burnt in the first place......

People are being way too anal about this.

Also killing a PL Titan does put us in the "successful" catagorey within FW, how does your CV look?

Pretty much. Everyone just wants to Monday Morning Quarterback this op in all its minutiae. Ignore the haters.

I doubt this puts FW on the map. Killing a titan will give these two corps a few extra members but beyond the 15 minutes of fame, people aren't going to join FW thinking they will get kills like these on a constant basis. If you're a FW pilot, killing a Titan is a once in a lifetime opportunity. So don't join FW thinking this is a daily occurrence. It's not.

If anything, SOTF and WBR are fine examples of what FW is; a bit of everything.

One moment, you're killing dessies in a plex and giving yourself combat experience without getting blobed.
Another moment, you're in a BC gang going against neutrals.
In another, you're on comms waiting for the greenlight to slug it out against a well known pie gang and their cap fleet.
And in those once a blue moon occasions, you will get in on a kill like this.

FW is what you make of it.

Props to Wolfie and Shadows for their win. Any win for FW is a win in my book, whoever makes it happen.

I think they are probably pretty chill about the whole thing, this guy was in BDIC after all.

Mad props on the kill, have they become less super gate campy yet?

Lol'd, but seconded.
They may be two well organized, strong corps, but they don't represent the militia as a whole.

Many thanks to you (alliance) and Ammon (corp) for putting our KB efficiency through the roof!

Oh yeah, thanks to WBR and SOTF for their minor roles in this fight.