Pieter Tuulinen
Caldari Colonial Defense Ministry Templis CALSF
6573
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Posted - 2016.10.23 02:44:08 -
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Analysis:
- Drifter Battleships remain eminently beatable with little to no losses by regular capsuleer fleet assets. Some of our ships were expensive, but none of them were ridiculously or prohibitively so.
- Drifter Battleship classes Artemis and Apollo have done little to alter their tactics to forestall these losses. Sleeper assets coming on field during the engagement of a Drifter triplet seems to affect the balance of power negligibly.
- Drifter fleets deployed Fifty-Three (53) Battleship class vessels within a four hour engagement window. (This is actually skewed low, because only after two hours did we crack their deployment pattern and interdict their movement through Sazre completely.) Despite the complete destruction of all 53 Battleship class vessels, Drifter 'command' never turned off the tap. They kept coming. They kept dying. In the end fatigue drove SERAPH forces from the field.
Conclusions:
- Minimal Drifter tactical evolution.
- Zero Drifter materiel evolution.
- Fifty-three (53) Battleships does not represent the bottom of the bucket.
Despite a sound thrashing meted out to Johnny Drifter, my fears are not assuaged. If anything we have to step up the scale of the killing until we can, at least, convince them to stop pushing sausage into their end of the machine.
For the first time since I started the conversation, he looks me dead
in the eye. In his gaze are steel jackhammers, quiet vengeance, a
hundred thousand orbital bombs frozen in still life.
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Pieter Tuulinen
Caldari Colonial Defense Ministry Templis CALSF
6576
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Posted - 2016.10.24 19:59:22 -
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Vollhov Jr wrote:This will lead to a retaliatory strike on the part of Drifters. Do not wake the beast while he sleeps.
The State is an ally of the Empire, but if the Caldari Navy drove 53 Battleships through Amarrian space without at least notifying the Empire beforehand, I'm willing to bet that the Imperial Navy would have things to say about it.
The Drifters are an enemy. They absolutely do not have permission to pass through Imperial space and we decided to raise the price of admission this weekend.
For the first time since I started the conversation, he looks me dead
in the eye. In his gaze are steel jackhammers, quiet vengeance, a
hundred thousand orbital bombs frozen in still life.
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