Kuan Yida
Minmatar
Huang Yinglong
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Posted - 2011.09.01 22:57:00 -
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Edited by: Kuan Yida on 01/09/2011 22:57:33
The Imperial Crusade, unable to prevail in battle against an evenly matched but outnumbered Minmatar militia foe, resorted to bringing in over a dozen supercarriers as well as carrier support from -AAA- into Kourmonen system last night. The Minmatar fleet was subsequently slaughtered and scattered.
There is no need to call the Amarr cowards (that is self evident). War is war, honor be damned. But to involve such a powerful rogue and unlawful group from outside Empire space presents a dangerous precedent. You can be sure this action will have far reaching repercussions and consequences.
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Kuan Yida
Minmatar
Huang Yinglong
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Posted - 2011.09.07 18:13:00 -
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Edited by: Kuan Yida on 07/09/2011 18:13:53
Eran: I believe my recollection is clear. To my knowledge, and certainly never when I was present, has the Minmatar Late Nite fleet called in an outside Super Capital fleet to hot drop Amarr carriers. They have dropped their own super carriers, which is a different case. We do not resort to requesting outside assistance.
My issue is not one of fairness or even "fun." I am not complaining about the loss--we win, we lose, it is war, and all outcomes remain unknown until the final die are tossed.
We take our duty to combat the evils of the Amarr empire to heart, and seek to destroy your ships using every advantage... except using the involvement of outside forces, which I believe can create dramatic changes to the local balance of powers. Witness the drop by Raiden against the Amarr capital fleet, or the arrival now of Pandemic Legion and their hosts of supercarriers into our war zone. This is all the fallout of your actions.
As to our own use of capitals, the dropping of carriers at all remains an internal controversy. Carriers are almost (but admittedly not entirely) used when we have evenly or outmatched damage, but cannot match Amarr logistics. It is not a matter of "victory" per se, but in order to engage the Amarr we generally need to present a weaker target.
There are of course exceptions to this. We wish, as always, to win the fight. However, dropping carriers is often counter-productive to this effort, or you would see it far more often. If carriers are suspected often no engagement occurs at all. Or once a carrier arrives on the field, rather than remain you will (sensibly) retreat, depriving us of additional kill opportunities.
In any event, I maintain that the repercussions of the -AAA- drop-- the subsequent Raiden drop, and the arrival of PL -- are ones that will affect both our forces for some time to come.
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