Ralnik
Mutineers
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Posted - 2010.07.28 19:56:00 -
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Edited by: Ralnik on 28/07/2010 20:00:53
 Originally by: Lloyd Faradan
Heya,
My month-old corp was war-decced by two merc corps that fly nothing but HACs and T3 cruisers. As far as I can see we basically have these choices:
1. Fight in frigates until the stargates get clogged with our wrecks.
2. Fight in appropriate ships for our skill level, cruisers, BC, frigs, etc.
3. Disband the corp.
4. Join Faction Warfare?
I don't want to do number one ONLY because the mercs apparently get paid (I think 25m) per kill they get on us. That's just plain mean as far as I see it. If that wasn't the case I'd be more inclined to fight if only for the practice, but it would be a slaughter every time. Frustration!
I don't want to do number two because then we'd run out of isk and be unable to replenish it. Even if we get lucky and manage to kill an Ishtar or something we'd still be out hundreds of millions of isk in BC that we couldn't pay back.
I don't want to do number three.
Does option four end the wardec or does it continue on? Do I have no options here?
I obviously love EVE and I obviously want to continue playing and loving it as much as I want that for my corp mates as well, but it's a little bit like technologically deficient natives fighting back against powerful aggressors, and we don't even have the numbers to make that work since they outnumber us both in pure pilot numbers as well as active pilots on during peak times.
So... is there some option or angle that I haven't looked at for this?
My second month in game with my original toon and my corp of 3 RL friends was war dec'd by a 50 man corp because we can flipped one of their miners. 
We had had 1 other war dec by another guy that had taught us a little bit, so we decided to go on the offensive and hit them on our terms not theirs, to keep from being camped in stations. (learned this hard way with the 1st WD)
We ended up out killing them by the end of the war dec in both ISK and ship kills with a Ishtar kill and a Megathron kill as icing on the cake. (was nice kills for 2 month old noobs)
Granted we were not fighting Mercs but just some average corp so they weren't that great at PVP which made things a bit easier on us. I would suggest though if you decide to fight them, make them fight on your terms and never fight on theirs.
Always stay mobile and try not to fight them straight up, look for targets of opportunity that are split up away from the rest of them but be careful of traps.
The reason I say stay mobile is because it will force them to scout for you, which will split them up allowing you to set up kills on targets of opportunity. If you stay in a home system or two, it allows them to keep their numbers maximized and you want to avoid that by keep your gang together so you have max numbers while splitting their up.
Another thing we did as a corp during our war dec was move into low sec. This put us at an advantage because we were a smaller more mobile corp and flew cheap t1 frigs & cruisers. The other corp was flying BC's, Hacs and so on which put them at a disadvantage because they had to worry about pirate gangs. (we befriended a few of the local pirates as well, which helped us out a bit)
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