Smakko
Ad Astra Vexillum
Brutally Clever Empire
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Posted - 2007.07.17 23:17:00 -
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 Originally by: Jaakar Eldaris
What are you gonna do when you can't out-blob your opponent? When you need to have proper target calling and other such skills that you can't hone using your current tactics. The way you're set up now, every pilot could pick a random target and still win. You won't have any true pvp experience in my book until you can fight a force who matches your size and hope to win.
This is not a flame mind you, you guys do what you do well. I think blobbing repeatedly like you do though is eventually just going to attract a larger or similar sized blob to your front door, and they are just gonna pwn you directly in the face.
Pilots don't learn from being in a giant blob, they learn by getting out there, taking chances, and yes sometimes losing.
QFT.
But really, we've head this stuff already. The problem is execution. The FC calls out primary but really it just ends up in a lot of friendly fire because no one bothered reading Fried's guide on how to setup a PvP overview, or they're trying to remote rep redboxes, or what have you. I mean, we have to maintain at least 3:1, and more like 5:1 odds because most of the blob is just Velators and Reapers. No matter how patiently our extremely patient leaders go over what we need to do to successfully win battles, it just all seems to go right over our heads. If you could only see our alliance forums, where Friedrich, Edbert and others have so wonderfully crafted various educational documents to bring even the fuzziest of carebears into a functional knowledge of space combat tactics. In fact, (and please don't tell my alliance mates) I'm starting to doubt this whole tactic of being patient and kind with fellow alliance members. Perhaps things would happen faster if we berated people viciously, kind of like what happens in Military boot camp or something. You know, like breaking down people's egos first before remolding then into hardened warriors capable of walking through a fiery hell and then defeating their foes.
But more seriously, we are getting alot better, and even venturing out in smaller gangs once a month. Last week, only two of our scorpion pilots fit dampeners instead of ECM.
And to answer your question about what we're going to do when a superior blob arrives in our home cluster, we're just gonna have Freak Johner tank them in his Moros till we can grab the x's from Alliance chat and group up in the POS. After that we'll rely on the new combat desync feature to cripple about 50% of all ships in the furball, which will hurt our enemy's T2 and faction fitted battleships much more severely than our swarm of Blackbirds.
I'm new to BRUCE, but gd what a great group of nice people. I'd be happy to lose 100 blackbirds and 1000's of 4M SP clones at the service of my newfound brothers and sisters in arms. After that I might have to go mine some veldspar in ZNO for a few weeks to get my wallet back up, but after that I'm right back in it.
Looking forward to seeing you all in space. Sorry if there was ever smack in local, it is frowned upon in a severe way in our alliance, and there can be no excuse but that some people can't keep their mouths shut sometimes, and I think most people who have experience fighting us would say we're almost always bastions of sportsmanship. As for the apparently uneven (and seemingly unsportsmanlike) odds, again, I apologize, but frankly we're mining all the veldspar we can, and at this rate we won't be able to buy any more high-sp combat characters for a few months... so until then we're just gonna have to continue resorting to pad local with 1 week old trial alts.
P.S. Adago Villon is the luckiest battleship pilot I've ever seen. He kept desyncing and relogging in one battle I was in and it looked like he was warping off and back into the furball repeatedly until I realized he was warping off in a random direction. At first I was like -wtf he's coming back into the fight with 50% structure? That guy is hardcore!
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