Wormholes

I am very curious to hear when other groups decide to fight. Do you take a fight to take it because its space pixels or do you want overwhelming odds.

For Sky Fighters, we take almost any fight and go pretty much any where to get that fight. Yesterday we went in Hard Knocks hole and had a pretty awesome skirmish with them. They only dropped 1 carrier and made it a cool fight. We know they could have easily logged on 10 dreads and wiped us but they didn't so I tip my hat to them for that. Polarized did the same thing by only dropping a dread and a carrier when we went in their home a few weeks ago. We fought Disavowed in a connecting C5 which made for a fun fight as neither side could escalate but so far. Other groups, some well known large groups, have immediately tried to roll the connection or posed up when we have entered their home. Then other groups have simply have logged on every capital they had to make sure a fight didn't happen.

I'm not trying to suggest every group should fight every time as I know that is not possible nor smart. I'm also not trying to suggest you should fight fair as this is eve and there are no rules. I am just curious as to what makes you to decide to take a fight or not.

Not an easy question to answer really but i will talk you through my train of thought before i take in a HK fleet.

First of i will try and fight everything regardless, my choice is never really should we or shouldn't we fight but rather what fleet comp we bring to a fight. What matters most is our scouting, where we are and what we can see.

These are what i feel the most important questions.

1) What can you see, number or people and what they are flying currently.
2) Will we be fighting in there home system or in a neutral system in chain. (there ability to re-ship get support)
3) Is the chain fully scanned / or have we rolled into a new chain and found a fight. (what possible unknowns do you need to keep an eye out for)
4) What grid will we be fighting on or can we draw the fight onto. eg: On our side of a WH/there side, in a site, on a pos ect ect (using WH mechanics system effects to your advantage is vital)

If your scout can answer all these questions you should always be able to devise a strategy / fleet comp that allows you to engage your targets.

There are so many more questions that your scouts need to be able to help with so you can make the best choice to fight and what to fight with. If you have spotted the enemy first and you think you have overwhelming numbers, you will be jumping them in a site your job is easy.

The tough choices in WH fights come when you are caught by surprise and you must respond, in my opinion the hardest choice is when an aggressive force has taken control of a hole in your system and they have bubbled up. This means you have limited information about whats on the other side, they are clearly prepared so even if you get eyes into them they could have ships hidden logged off ect. Also the bubble effectively makes any capitol you put on grid in danger as you wont have the safety of jumping and reducing a WH ending a loosing fight early.

Hard Knocks are more than comfortable fighting anything in our home system by virtue of the fact we can reship faster then our enemy and adapt faster to developing fights. Take our fight with Sky Fighters, we where able to commit or archon into there bubble because we could back it up if needed. During the fight our tengu's had major issues with ECM drones so we where able to send someone for a smart bombing BS and we could also refit key ships to help us in the developing fight. And when we saw that Sky had warped in a number of dreads to there side of the hole we could re-manage our fleet to deal with them if we needed to.

The question all WH FC's need to ask is not can we fight but rather how do we fight this.

In direct response, weekdays from 1900-2200 (3 hours dinnertime) and then from 0100 to 0300. Cake and Tea are sponsored by corp. Sometimes we fight outside of those hours, mostly to defend white women for alliteration's sake.

The other when: When hostiles are both lockable and it's not totally stupid to spring that trap.

We're small fish, so we don't really do capital fights, but we'll take most fights we can get unless its just ridiculously uneven numbers. We're not a big organization so if we're out with 5 dudes and run into a 20-man T3/logi fleet, we're not going to engage, but if numbers are not skewed dramatically we'll throw down.

We fight as much as possible. We apologize to those we didn't fight this week as we were moving... End-of-Line should be back online by the weekend and open for pew.

As it stands, we fight as long as not outnumbered so as to be suicide, as I am working on doctrines that will allow us to fight large packs of t3s and... do damage if not win.

So, we like to fight, and we don't like risk-aversion.

Thanks to those bros who showed up but let us move in peace after an exchange or two, including a fun fight of 3 v 3 with Semper Ubi Sub Ubi at the sun.

Who cares about KB's - take the fight for the fun of it.

Got to spend that WH isk somehow right?

Agent was REALLY trying to leeroy that archon in, like it was insured or something. 2 rounds was still way fun though.

I never look at it as when to fight/not fight. I look at it as "do I want to have fun?". This means that there is almost no fight I won't take.

Did Bane just make a serious post?

Thanks for the fight HK, had to repay Agent for that neut legion...

Pretty much what Exo said. People need to be a little more understanding when it comes to some groups just not having the numbers once in a while. Hell, the other day we ran into SSC. We formed up a fleet and went to their wormhole, but unfortunately they didn't have the numbers at the time. That is no fault of anyones, so I convo'd one of the SSC bros to let them know they can roll their wormhole without interference from us. No shiit talking. No games. Just move on and keep looking for the pew.