Warfare & Tactics

With Iron Oxide reinforcements started being jumped into the station from corporations like Defiant Legacy and Heritic Army Amarrian Vengeance pilots were lashing out hard at everyone from general militia chat to leadership channels. We needed help we needed reinforcements. We were upset that Mnemic was taking general militia fleets out to chase a condor three jumps and camping the houla gate instead of bringing much needed bodies to Arzad. In all fairness he did finally sway to our calls and he did finally bring much needed help from time to time.

The Arzad fleet was a standing 24 hour fleet now. AVNG was giving out free punishers to anyone from general militia willing to come plex with us. Low sp and battle experience of general militia pilots drove our fleet commanders up the wall. Everyone had the limits of their endurance tested as no one fleet commander stepped away from fleet until the next timezone corporation of the Faithful came online. Time zone coverage was crucial as Amarrian Vengeance covered the US TZ, PIE covered the Euro TZ and Black Watch Guard covered the MUCH NEEDED AND CRUCIAL Aussie TZ.

We traded plexes with Iron Oxide for weeks, I personally lost over 3 billion in ships that month. God only knows how much the rest of our coalition lost. But we were committed and I would have gladly lost another five billion in ships to see Arzad fall.
Towards the latter stages of the campaign full out brawls were the norm with fights for EVERY plex lasting well over twenty minutes as both sides dug in deep and jumped right back into a ship when they lost one and threw themselves back into the fight.

It would be foolish of me not to show respect to Iron Oxide in this thread as they really did give EVERYTHING they had in every single plex. On any plex fight it was normal for each side to have well over 5 or 6 logi ships making any progress made by killing the other side’s ship a slow and excruciating prosess. One griffen took 103K damage before going down in one of the brawls for a minor plex.

As the contestation slowly rose over the course of three weeks to the higher levels of 60% it was apparent that the Euro timezoned Iron Oxide were slowly losing the double Aussie/US timezone wars, slowly but surely.

By the end of the third week fatigue was showing on both sides but we started to see signs of the Iron Oxide fortress cracking. The lack of ships being jumped in to replace ships lost by Iron Oxide was a relief and we knew they almost reached the cracking point. We needed one final push. One final miracle.

That miracle showed up late one night towards the end of May 2013. It was a huge Fweddit Fleet led By Almity from InExile. Cyno’s went up off the Tararan station as fweddit carriers landed full of ships for their fleet. Everyone on our comms rejoiced as five words where uttered ‘they are here to stay’.

Almity reached out to us to drop our fleets in local and join his. Any and all hope Iron Oxide might have had of keeping the system was lost when one Fweddit pilot in particular ‘scort tofusin’ started streaming live a….well….how can I put this………a painting session. He was not a fast painter either. It would take him an hour or two to paint the Fweddit logo, the pilot showed he had about ten empty canvases reserved for the stream. It was fweddit psychological warfare in a strange twisted fweddit way. It made a very loud statement to Iron Oxide, that statement being the fweddit fleet was going to be there for a long, long, long time if it took him close to two hours just to paint one canvass. Iron Oxide broke with the deliberately slow brush strokes of Scort Tofusin.

As the system became vunerable and the final hub bashing fleets arrived Fweddit had one final surprise up there sleeve. They cynoed in a Charon class frigheter and asked the IHUB bashing fleet to kill it at the IHUB. When it died. The killmail showed the cargo full of Slaves bought from Jita.

We won. The offensive no one believed would succeed spearheaded by the most faithful of Amarr pilots came to an end.

It was my one of my proudest moments in EVE. It was the defining moment for Amarrian Vengeance. The reason we existed has been achieved.

Arzad fell.

To Be Continued…………..

I've generally enjoyed your story to date dude o7, yes it is full of propaganda stuff and there are some mistakes but a good read. But then I get to this chapter, something that I have intimate knowledge about and I find that you really don't have a clue what you are talking about and I have to doubt the rest of your story now. Did you just guess at this?


First off you talk about Iron Oxide being in control of this titan. At no point was it. The two player corp which owned the Titan joined Iron Oxide in late December 2012, it came with the Titan, set up their own POS to base it in and no other Iron Oxide entities had any access or control over the Titan. We merely formed up outside the POS shield. Eperor would bring the Titan to the edge of the POS and bridge us, that was it. Snowman1 was not wronged by anyone, he didn't like FW, rarely flew with us, was often on suicide gank KM with goons around the Jita area during his time in Iron Oxide and finally decided to go off and do something different. In short the man was a c*nt who never fitted in and before going pulled this stunt against someone I assumed had been a long term ingame friend.


Completely wrong. The Titan and corp came to Iron Oxide in December 2012, not a penny of Iron Oxide or any FW derived funds were paid in the purchase of this ship. Frankly I don't know who were behind it's purchase, but it wasn't us.


I was the only other FeO pilot online during the incident, Eperor actually convo'd me mid gank to tell me what was happened. He was upset and I felt sorry for him, he was a crazy Russian with a crude sense of humour and would bridge with us on his alt during our time together. He tried to be upbeat about it, but he never played with us again and eventually left the alliance. As for the rest of FeO, yeah it was a bit embarrassing, but personnally, your opening comments in this thread about Wolfsbrigade rang cords with me from this time. I wouldn't wish what happened to Eperor on anyone, but frankly having a Titan was fun for a few weeks but quickly became a major pain in the arse. We would spend hours sat on that POS shield waiting for a drop. I did not enjoy it. I guess I'm saying "we didn't want that Titan anyway" lol


Eperor never boosted for us. I see links on the LM, but he never boosted, he only ever bridged. I'm not denying we had links in Arzad - T3 links, before T3s were nerfed, we had no need for Titan links.


If this happened, it was based on the wrong assumption. FeO were reeling at the time and the Titan loss was a blow, but the real reason was the decision of Weazls to leave FeO and go pirate in Molten Heath which occurred just before the Titan loss. Up until that point the three main corps of FeO - Weazls, Penguins and CTRL-Q had been so close knit we were like one big corp. When Weazls left, they didn't just take 50 odd people, they took around 10 'Key' player - you know what I mean when I say key - the people that make things happens, FCs, booster alts, Logi, Scouts/Probers, Falcon pilots. It took time for us to readjust from that and bring new people on. But incidently, the battle for Arzad actually brought us back from the brink of disbandment. Yes we lost the system, but FeO came out of it strong. GF

Chapeter 23 The Angels Sleep

After the fall of Arzad everyone in AVNG was beat. We were exauhsted after almost a month and half on nonstop serious plex fights. I personally did not want to see another acceleration gate in my life. We felt everything this corporation set out to achieve has been achieved. The fall of Arzad really came as a shock to everyone on both sides. Niether did we nor did Iron Oxide believe it would have ever happened.

And although many an EVE blogger attributed the fall of Arzad to Fweddit. I think the main point that needs to be made here is that Fweddit is an Army. No Army goes into the field of battle without a much smaller force going there first and paving the way. Rangers, SEALS, SAS, Ghurkha, Delta, Green Berets, Spetznaz call them what you want. Point is, Special Forces always land first.

In the Arzad Campaign much of our frustration stemmed from the point that we were taking heavy losses as we spearheaded the Assault. We took more losses in the Arzad campaign than any other campaign we ever had. Imagine a small regiment of troops being pounded by a hostile Airforce and Artillery literally screaming on the radio for fire support.

In the end no matter how many harsh words are pushed out towards our allies it is best to understand where we are coming from. While many would look at our methods as crazy and reckless and even suicidal, the leadership of Amarrian Vengeance are no fools. Our strikes and campaigns are calculated risks. The ultimate goal really is system control.

While many a corporation in EVE pride themselves on silly things like killboard efficiency and billions of isk killed. We pride ourselves on solo kills, fighting against three to one odds and watching two words pop up in any Minmatar system: Amarr Victor. For those two words mean one thing and one thing only our goal has been achieved, another system has been reclaimed.

With this in mind and with the fall of Arzad it was time for a well earned break. A 3 month break to be exact as out killboards went blank and our corp chat went silent…….

The Angels Slept.

To Be Continued........

i didnt even know people made videos of arzad. those were nice to see and here kreiga and templar fc'ing.

I'd like to make some comments on the Arzad campaign.

First big GF.

Second, the fight was actually won by the likes of Amarrian Vengeance, Templar Dane, Mnemic and the general Amarr that spent so long fighting us in the weeks before and props to you. When Fweddit arrived on that Saturday afternoon, we had actually got the contestation level down to single figures. But we were absolutely exhaused by it. I personally had been taking days off work to run all nighters in the previous week.

So when Fweddit landed, there was like 9 or 12 of us online and we just collectively went - "F*ck it, they can have it" We logged off and took the weekend off, dropped from the Militia for a few days and moved our assets to Huola.

My biggest disappointment was the comments made by some Fweddit members who appeared to assume that nothing had been achieved until they arrived. That couldn't be further from the truth.

As far as the painting and the freighter of slaves - nobody in FeO saw any of that, we had logged off. It was a shame someone didn't let us know about the freighter, because we might have pulled together one last leeroy fleet for that.

In Amarrian Vengeance we pride ourselves and our successful Campaigns by the Medals awarded to each member of our Campaigns.

With that in mind and keeping up the tradition Here is the Medal For The Arzad Campaign.

As a side note and for giving away almost 30 days of my life to this crappy game by taking time off of work for Arzad I was able to awarded the extremely rare and coveted 'Man With No Life' Medal. Thanks FHP I neckbearded hard for that one, the cans of soda and empty bags of chips where knee high next to my computer.

FHP theirs is way cooler than ours. Just saying. (Seriously that's a nice inscription).

Next maybe not spend EVERYTHING on inquisitors and get a better medal shop to make the new ones.

For the rest of EVE reading this,

Alright enough circle jerking back to the story.

Chapter 23 The Lions’ Den

Something has to change.
Un-deniable dilemma.
Boredom's not a burden
Anyone should bear.

Constant over stimulation numbs me
but I would not want you
any other way.
TOOL

There is one constant in the universe. That constant is change. After waking up from a three month hibernation I came to in Sahtogas station noticing something was wrong. Something smelled funny if you will. After catching up with a few friends in Intel channels I found out that after Amarrian Vengeance went into a slumber, and most of its members scattered to pursuits other than EVE the general consensus among all of my corpmates was that we were done with eve. The Arzad Campaign took too much out of everyone in AVNG and no one was in a rush to get back to EVE. As the weeks passed by it became apparent that AVNG really was over.

The vibes from FHP over steam chat were that everyone really was done with EVE. In our minds after taking Arzad we won EVE.

I undocked a frigate and went looking around the warzone for a fight. It didn’t take long to get one and after getting my first fix of the PvP shakes in three months I decided I still like the PvP in EvE way to much to give up on the game.

I dropped my corporation roles and drifted in and out of EVE alone in the NPC corporation of the 24th Imperial Crusade to make sure I had my PvP fix anytime I logged on. I actually dropped from a very large amount of Intell channels as well. Not being the most active during the three months that followed I soon found myself in a very familiar situation, this situation changed the three month ho-hum attitude.

Jumping into Kurn from Oyonata I noticed a few rifterlings pilots in local and a few plexes open. After a quick directional scan I saw two frigates in a small. Immediately calculating my vengeance would be able to sustain their dps I warped to the plex no soon as one of them landed a scram on me the inivitable happened, local spike! Ah it was a trap. Over heating my rockets I was able to kill one while spamming directional to see how much time I had before reinforcements landed. With one tackler down the other was not as confident to stay in scram range of the vengeance. Thinking this is my chance I warped to the IHUB for my escape just as another condor entered the plex. Thinking I got away I was only snickered at by the Gods of EVE as my ship bounced off the IHUB, slowing down proper realignment just long enough for the condor to land and point me as I was aligning out. The rest of his fleet soon landed, nothing extradonary only a slasher and a rifter for brawlers. The other two were condors. My Vengeance made short work with the slasher and rifter but the two condors proved to be a problem even with javelin rockets.

It seems another Amarrean Vengeance pilot got himself in another tight spot. And what happens when an Amarrian Vengeance pilot gets himself in a tight spot? Why they get saved by ILAW that’s what happens. (God have you people even been reading this thread? :D)

Shalee Lianne entered local and I saw her Slicer on scan. I typed in local that I need these two condors off my back at the IHUB and she swooped in and killed one before the other decided it had enough pew for the day. After thanking her and a few pleasant commentaries in local she asked why I left AVNG. I told her AVNG is kind of over. She waved at me and left bless her she saved me having to send the alt to amarr to buy another deadspace rep.

Then midwarp back to Sahtogas it dawned on me. Why Not ILAW?

I sent an application to Shalee Detailing in the application my love for long walks on the beach and listening to vocal trance while wearing bright green spandex and surprisingly we shared a lot more in common that I thought so she accepted my application. That and Shalee has one quality I refuse to NOT mention in this thread. YOU HAVE NOT LIVED UNTIL YOU HEARD HER SAY LACHESIS ON COMS.

All joking aside ILAW was the perfect fit really. So many FW veterans there I would feel right at home not wanting to take on any leadership role whatsoever. My time of leading ended with WBR. All I want to do now is PvP.

A few logistics taken care of and bam! Egglehende was home.

It seemed something has changed in the Amarr warzone during my absence though.

Something very interesting indeed.

To Be Continued……

To be fair, the Amarr militia itself is a pretty hard counter to most fleet doctrines. The strength of conviction in our faith and purity of our lasers has won many more victories than I think most people realize.

His name was Scort Tofusin.