Warfare & Tactics

I often wounder if pointing out to the Caldari militia as a whole that there is good cash and places to build in low-sec would get them to live out in low-sec. That's a big part of there problem, you always hear about them going back to hi-sec to rebuild one on the Gallente side very few go to hi sec to make there money and get there ships. We have a connection to our space its more than just the area we go to die in, but also were we make our money build our forces and stage our corps.


Just my 2 isk

And there is the difference my friend, i dont hate you, i feel sorry for you.

It's easy to make fun of Damar but I really think he needs help.

One of my corps main gripes while in Caldari militia was, there are too many people in fleets with stealth bombers and not real ships. In my experience, SBs just get dead. 4 Horsemen was the only corp, that we saw, actually fielding real ships when we made our short tour in FW.

Qcats were good for some GFs though...

Those wacky Finns

Most new players are fascinated with the idea of cloaked pvp. They don't realize that they have to uncloak (and thus risk their ship) to shoot something. A lot of FCs tell these players to GTFO of fleet if they bring these and cannot bring something else because 1) there's no guarantee that player will uncloak to shoot something when fight happens, 2) said player probably can't scout and tell the difference between a friendly, pie, neutral, wartarget, it's all the same to these players , and 3) That player gets 5 light drones on them, realizes they cannot cloak and dies in a ball of fire


In other news, some SLAPD guy lost his slicer to a manticore (it was using torps)

And just an observation, but I was gone about 3 weeks, and since I came back the last few days, the fighting has picked up a lot while I was gone. Lots of Squids back in our neck of the woods - using novel tactics and fits, and fighting in and around plexes.

I really like the new plexing mechaninc. They did a good job on that.

Speaking for my corp, I've always been big on pushing a low sec base and I've personally lived in low sec just about my entire time I've been in this game. Yet when we set up this corp due to the fact at the time Enaluri was always being camped by "l33t" station game group that did nothing but sit on the undock with a RR carrier and 4 or 5 other heavy ships with tons of remote sensor boosters it obviously wasn't the best place to bring a bunch of noobies.

I decided to base us out of high sec in Onn for that reason as at the time Cal Militia was very inactive and you Gals were basing 1 system away from Enaluri. Having that many un-friendlies with-in the same system and 1 jump away just creates a bunch of gay station humping games and limits movement. Not the best place for setting up small gang roams or getting new guys interested in undocking for PVP.

TBH now that we are in high sec it actually works out very well, due to the fact we have access to 3 low sec entry points with-in 2 jumps and 3 more with-in 5 jumps. Something like 8 jumps we can hit Tama or Hysera, which means we can move around the map and turn up un-expected with-out anyone knowing where we are for the most part.

Not to mention it's very easy access to Jita which makes resupplies very painless by alt freighter and location wise it's great for our guys to make their ISK as they can grab FW missions from multiple agents less that 5 jumps in any 1 direction. The only draw back is we picked up a high sec war dec which TBH wasn't that bad as it was good learning tool for our corp.

Now on the other hand when the bulk of Caldari was basing out of Nourv that was pretty damn fail IMO, as it had only 1 easy access point being Tama which was almost always camped.

I do have thoughts of moving our corp to low sec, but not in the typical Caldari areas. If I have my way it would be one of the following: Ostingele, Ouelletta or maybe Murethand or OMS. The problem though is in regard to FW income we kinda need to be tied down to Black Rise as it allows guys to log in for a short time and go grind some ISK if they can't play long or are bored.

@ Mutnin - logistics is probably one of the most important aspects of running things successfully in low sec.

As you know we base from Nisuwa, and we are very very fortunate to have people in corp that do the selfless (although sometimes isk rewarding) job of making sure that we are kept in the right ships with the right fittings etc etc (not teaching you how to suck eggs but you know what I mean).

Most and in fact now probably all of the Gallente corps live and have lived in low sec for a long time now and it becomes second nature just getting on with it and the differences from high sec.


Also you can't do it by yourself no matter how good you think you are - you need at least 3-4 other people at the top running things in different areas and I don't mean specific jobs either - you need people that are loudmouth brash bastards, people that are impulsive and just want to get the job done as well as the laid back ones that gently steer things in the right direction.

Probably the single most important people in fw corps are fc's, they are the lifeblood of your corp and without them it simply won't work no matter how good your corp is - everyone has there "main" fc's in a corp but you need to continually push others to step up and do it as well no matter how good/bad they are tbh, station spinning kills pvp corps.

It sounds like your doing it the right way Mutnin and keep at it mate. And genuinely if you need any help drop me a convo (that's not meant to sound patronising and those that know me know I mean it).

Anyhoo just some ramblings from a hungover FW CEO.

As you are a member of a militia where bulk of the pilots have 2nd account for that ever important t3 link machine, I find it quite hypocritical to whine about people using ECM. Reality of warfare in cal/gal front is that long-time members know each others link machines and cannot be arsed to take an uphill battle as it would just reward people like Dopified/Madbuster who go to immense effort to never ever lose a ship.

All ships are designed for kiting and tackling at 40km range, no matter the ship size or do you seriously deny this?