Warfare & Tactics

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First off, I only took issue with the fact you said that caracal's sucked. I fully agree that effective gangs should fit according to a doctrine.

To the main topic: That's the point. If you have a gang working together, the caracal is IMO a better ship than the rest, and at least it can definitely hold it's own. Don't bash caracals and moas, bash the fact that people won't fit for a fleet goal.

The rest of your post, we could go back and forth. I was on grid with the fleet the whole time, the oracle could have crushed one of the thoraxes just as easily as my caracal, etc. I am not saying that a cruiser gang of even caracals should be able to take on a tier3 bc gang. I am saying that the caracal is a top tier contender for medium plex fighting.

But the point is the caracal's damage projection should not be overlooked (and the AML caracal also packs a decent tank). That's why I kept doing well for damage while all those thoraxs and vexors and ruptures take time to approach their time, for drones to lumber over, the caracal is applying dps from range.

One day I hope to do the same with caracals that I did with drakes earlier in my militia.

Says the guy with 50 kills in an exequror! Serious who flys those and gets kills!

Yes and No. If anything, the Squids outnumber Gal by a bit especially on US TZ. It just doesn't seem like it because of what the KB shows. I have seen some very tight 10-20 man squid shield gangs rolling around and we can't always muster the personnel to fight them.

Having been in GalMil for a few months, I can honestly say that the thing that would kill GalMil is our own complacency, arrogance, or political infighting (see SOTF/WBR drama lama stuff). If we get through that stuff, then we will be fine. Historically, the strength of GalMil is our ability to put any schisms aside and fight as a mixed unit.

I have guys in my corp who are very arrogant and think very little of the squids. And I often have to remind them to be humble and always stay vigilant.

And I hear others within general GalMil who hesitate to be more inclusive to various smaller corps because they haven't "heard" of them yet. I would hope that we can be more inclusive of other smaller corps as GalMil has been towards my corp when we started several months ago. If GalMil does, then we will have new allies and friends. It's nice to have household names that have anchored GalMil for years but I'd like to see new stars rise up as well and continue the wonderful gaming community that is GalMil

I didn't say I follow his recommendations, I just said he is right all of the time.

Sometimes you gotta fly what you have fun in. ENIs are the Gallente hull all real Gallente pilots want to fly - They are stupid fast (2400 m/s not overheated), and put out ridiculous DPS (799 dps overheated).

What I see, however, is that these same "faux" Gallente pilots who cry for more speed on the forums can't stomach the lack of a huge tank on the battlefield. They are afraid to lose ships (and therefore, they are not real Gallente pilots, IMO).

ENIs are cheap w.r.t FW LP but many Gallente pilots don't get it. For example, there is one prominent Gallente FC (who shall rename nameless but has the initials "JF") who regularly spends about 300-450k FW LP to get enough isk to purchase one Vigilant when he could have purchased 10-15 ENIs instead. But that's his choice. Somehow losing a Vigilant at a gate camp is considered honorable, but melting several WTs before dying in a fire is not. Go figure.

But i love my CNI, it looks cooler


But yeah that ENI is properly flown I would say.

http://state.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=13202023

We had CNI, 3 moa, Rupture, blackbird, vexor while you guys had 2 sfi, 2 eni, bb thorax (edit: and vexor). It was a nice 7v7 and if not for you burning to our BB and killing him we would have incurred less losses (we held the field) it came down to the last 2 cruisers on each side and your vexor bailed leaving the other cruiser to die It was a good fight though, and people hate on moas and caracals so much

Maybe this is what I've been missing about EVE. I lament on these blogs and to others elsewhere that there is no recognition of racial/factional expertise in weapons, ships, tactics, etc, because everyone is just flying whatever is the current hot ship with the current best PvP fit for that ship. All the while I'm trying to find the best way to fit the best Caldari ship I can fly with the best/most appropriate Caldari fit of weapons and modules. Is FW the place I should be? It seems to me that a significant problem for Caldari FW would be that players don't see Caldari ships and tactics as particularly useful for PvP (other than the tengu, obviously), so don't fly them, but if I were to fly for Caldari State, would that be where I would find at least a few like myself that see this as the whole point of EvE?

I know people would hate to be forced in any way to fly their own race's ships, and I'm not suggesting that should be the case, but I think bonuses for flying your own race's ships would help - it would result in people learning and flying the tactics for those ships. I'm thinking kiting with long range missiles and railguns and ECM in the Caldari way, rather than the standard PvP way with MWD, blasters/autocannon, close-range battles that favour one race over another and result in everyone flying those races ships instead of their own. I don't know what the ultimate answer to all this is, and I suspect whatever that answer is will be howled down by the majority and never implemented by CCP, but if I can find a little segment of EVE that at least respects these ideas and tries to follow their spirit, perhaps that will keep my interest...

Most likely though I dont know anyone who dutifully sticks to just one races ships.

"I fly Caldari boats since my enemies need a handicap" - Bad Messenger

There are a few of us on both sides that do. I will sit in a Cane or Naga when I am forced, but otherwise I just fly Gallente. There are lots of others the same way. I know Gallente arent the best or most optimal in all situations, but that is kinda part of the fun of it is making non-FOTM ships work. At least for me. It may resuslt in some lol lossmails, but I have found some different fits that work too - or at least kinda work. :)

I guess I am kinda an RPer-light in that regard. Who'da thunk it?

lol yeah that seems about normal for most of the EVE community. I guess we all start off as one race, decide we want to be another race, and then discover yet another race's ships are better for what we want to do. I have a number of accounts with a variety of different races all so I can experience the whole different racial/factional thing, trying as much as possible to stick with the ships, weapons and tactics of each race but I find it quite hard due to the fact that often the best mix at least for PvP, is a hotchpotch of skills, modules and ships from all four races, which of course not one of my pilots can fly, or at least well. Which is why I was looking for anyplace I could do the real factional warfare thing, complete with correct ships per race, etc. I thought the statement made earlier that most Caldari fleets are shield repped meant it was at least a good bet that I was on the right track, but I'm not sure now.... Still I wouldn't mind giving Caldari Militia a go, if indeed the Caldari side is lacking pilots. Not sure how much of an asset I'd be though... :)

Thanks heaps for the feedback. I'll hang around here for a few more days, see if this is where I need to be.