Crime & Punishment

Ladies and Gentlemen of Crime and Punishment,

On this day in the great year of 2015, The 2nd day of August, Praetorian Directorate is officially NO LONGER in good standing with the forces of Break-A-Wish Foundation, Forsaken Asylum, and The Pursuit of Happiness.

A Beachhead has been established

We are about to embark upon this Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many weeks. The eyes of the universe are upon us. The hopes and dreams of crime and punishing people everywhere will be watching. In company with our brave associates and brothers-in-arms on other timezones, we will bring about the destruction of the Sengier war machine, the elimination of the carebear tearany over the oppressed peoples of High-Sec, and the saneness for ourselves in a free universe.

The time of Praetorian Directorate being defended by three great mercenary outfits is no more. Winter is coming to the fatherland and all who think differently shall be enlightened!

I was interviewed by CCP regarding this matter

Who's Praetorian Directorate?

Do you anticipate needing to deploy your full contingent of neutral Nestors and guardians, or so you expect a partial deployment to be sufficient?

Edit: Laughing Mexicans was great though where in god's name did you find that?

Sounds like he deserves it. Will he hide or fight? You should at least make it interesting with some off-the-wall doctrines, if these people actually undock.

I've never heard of these people. If they are mostly in Caldari or Amarr space that would explain why. I don't pay much attention to highsec corps; there are so many and most of them don't do anything.

When we (that is Break-A-Wish Foundation) declared war on them what essentially happened is that none of the mercenaries they had on retainer would assist them against us. Some of them being blues, others being semi-blue and not actually wanting to have to deal with us in order to help out someone as douchey as Sengier.

So he had to reach outside of his normal pool of Mercs to get any help whatsoever. He got P I R A T who are mostly Russian, so aren't actually very useful and later Guardians of the Galaxy, who are laughably bad. Although P I R A T are semi-competent I don't expect them to get involved in the giant dogpile of wardecs that PD have incoming.

Praetorian Directorate themselves have minimal combat capability, they can't actually defend themselves or their assets against any single merc group that they previously had hired without significant help. They won't be able to do much at this point except die.

The major reason the entire thing is so funny for us is that Praetorian has been so reliant on mercenaries to do their fighting that they can't do it themselves despite their large numbers, substantial funding and high SP characters. They take an enormous amount of time to form any kind of fleet, don't use sensible doctrines and run at the first sight of trouble.

For example their 30 man POCO defense fleet literally scattered when we landed 4 vindicators and 3 bhaalgorns on it.

That was a big fleet they had, and yet they still retreated. Wow.

Lol

http://i.imgur.com/FMPKRw9.png

I know you guys want to pat yourselves on the back on a job well done... Maybe you should...


But the truth of the matter is Sengier killed off his own alliance. He managed to quite efficiently insult almost every member in a leadership position. Stubbornly refused to appoint a diplomat when we told him he was too rude to deal with anyone and consistently ignored all of my warnings when I told him this would happen.

Do you know why that fleet scattered? Because Sengier started flipping his **** on teamspeak right when you guys showed up with those vindis/bhaals. Efficiently killing off any ability to communicate. If I didn't know better I would think he was in on it with you guys... (Also it was a 20 man fleet out of which at least 5 were t1 frigates. You're also conveniently forgetting to mention the 14 logis you had backing you up. )

Honestly as a member of his alliance I will admit that the hatred was well deserved. He was rude to everyone and when no one was willing to fight in his vanity war he was surprised.


Had a good laugh at that video too.


Only thing that is not really accurate is the thing about numbers and experience.

I can't speak for all the other corporations but the majority of my pilots are inexperienced newbies that at least mean well and try to learn. Also high skill points does not necessarily mean those skill points are useful for combat... or that the player has actually done any pvp.

About the numbers... greatly exaggerated by this point the ally was pretty inactive. Did we have more raw members than BAW at almost any hour of the day? Yes we did. But don't make us sound like we had hundreds... We could hardly form a 20 man fleet and not all of those were actual real pilots.

Wait weren´t all of you - including PIRAT and Guardians - busy popping those 800+ Newbs from Frederik Hohenstaufen Corporation?

http://imgur.com/ryOw3n9 sorta related but this is something you dont want to see in the morning