Originally by: Taedrin

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Edited by: Taedrin on 10/11/2006 18:42:49
You have a couple of choices before you:

1) Take the war in stride, and engage your aggressors.
2) Hide
3) Disband

I'll presume that (3) is not an option.

The easiest thing to do would be to take option (2). The way you hide is by spreading your entire corp out amongst all of empire. This strategy follows the idea that if your enemy can't find you, the enemy can't kill you. And if your enemy does find one of you, the enemy hasn't found all of you. Remain like this for as long as the war dec lasts. Each week of the war costs your aggressors money, and while it's not a lot, sooner or later, your enemy will fold. Make a game out of it - how much money can you make them waste on the war dec, while not being able to find any of you?

Option (1) is considered a lot more honorable, but may not be viable since you don't have much experience. However, this can be a good thing for you. There are 2 little bits of wisdom that apply here:

• When life gives you lemons, make lemonade


• The word "crisis" is just another way to spell "opportunity"

The idea here is that you need to take this war dec, and turn it into a learning experience. Teach yourselves how to PvP. Get everyone to jump into their T1 frigs and have fun. Granted, because you are so much weaker than your opponent, you need to learn some tactics. Read up on Sun Tzu's Art of War - lots of wisdom to be found there. A few strategies to get you started:

• Choose your battles wisely. Don't attack your enemy when he is strong, attack him while he is weak. Forget honorable combat. Do everything (that doesn't involve hacking, or breaking the EULA) that is in your power to win. Example, don't take on a gang of 20 cruisers against your 20 frigates. But DO take on a gang of 1-3 cruisers against your 20 frigates.



• Be sure to share intel between corp members. If you get blown up by the enemy, tell your corp when and where it happened. Keep note of this information, as you may be able to use it to your advantage. Try to figure out when and where your enemy is active.



• Attack your enemies supply lines. If you know your enemy does missions in a certain system, learn how to probe out missions. Camp the gates in that system so that you can kill them when they have to do a mission in a neighbor system



• A mistake is only a mistake if you do not learn from it. You must gain wisdom from your own defeats. Instead of wallowing in self-pity, analyze a lost battle. Determine what it is that you could do to improve, and what you can do to win the next battle.

That's all for now...

[EDIT] improved layout a bit by adding a bit of whitespace

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