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Princess Jodi
Vendetta Underground
Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.10.12 14:53:00 -
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A reasonable read of the operations, but I saw it a bit differently. After MC's 60+ Cap Fleet steamroller was running over D2 et al, MM and Razor were wise enough to pull back important assets and wait for them to leave. While you guys were happily moving in to your ill-gotten stations, most of the Coalition was biding its time and preparing to move back in. I was the one who formed that first '20-man BS fleet' on the new soverignty rules day...I was testing our own outposts modules when I decided to go for it in OE-4. We got there to find another fleet from Mostly Harmless already shooting the modules. Both fleets stayed till out of ammo and out of station services.
When you attacked S-E, it was no accident that there were ships ready to destroy those offline spammed POS's. Again, Rule of Three helped by blowing up towers.
Only after those initial cleansing ops happened did lag play any part in the fight. A few battles were severely affected by lag, and yes that caused the Capital fleets to stop committing until lag/desync got better. Rule left the battlefield at that time as we moved to shoot Rise for a few weeks.
As a Coalition member, I never lost faith that Razor and MM would get their space back. We just had to wait for MC to go away before we could act. So in spite of the reasons listed for your loss, the truth is that you were only going to hold that space for as long as MC was there to protect you. When they left, your doom was sealed.
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Princess Jodi
Vendetta Underground
Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.10.12 18:46:00 -
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It is quite a flight of fancy to stay that we should have stayed and fought of MC as a group. That's something that has never been done in Eve, and as recent events show MC is actually more to fear than Bob. Asking a lot of smaller alliances to fully commit all their Capitals to defeating MC right after the huge D2 alliance just died? Absolutely politically impossible.
Wonderful observation about deciding to live next to a Merc Alliance. It was obvious to most of us that MC would not stay forever. I'm actually surpirsed that they kept
ANY of the stations they conqured - probably only did so because no one was willing to pay for them after they saw the Resistance begin.
Aside from the obvious reasons to fight, I was personally motivated the most by the SmackTalk comming out of T1TS. It made it even sweeter to SmackTalk them back as they were eleminated.
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Princess Jodi
Vendetta Underground
Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.11.07 15:12:00 -
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For Rule of Three's part, the decision to help was simple: Cow was a bunch of smack-talking lametards who had the audacity to shoot spitballs at our freinds while hiding behind MC's legs.
Whether that was the actions of a few or an Alliance policy doesn't matter. It happened and was allowed to continue. The day that Station Services could be shot for the first time we formed up and came to help Razor and MM. We stayed till the usurpers were vanquished and our freinds were back in their homes.
The MPire of Fatally Fallen Cows was doomed from the start. It was the utmost in vanity to think that they could hold the North. I'm glad to have been a part in the Reconquista.
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Princess Jodi
Vendetta Underground
Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.11.07 18:13:00 -
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Well, I'm quite flattered by all the flames, but you guys are the ones that have it wrong. Rule helped Razor and MM on many occasions. Yes, we were a minor player - about as minor as Cow was on defense. By the time the outcome was certain we were off in Rise space helping to soften them up.
Sorry if you feel a need to flame cuz we didn't have 100+ Capital ships there, like MC did.
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