Dungar Loghoth
Caldari
Black Omega Security
Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2007.11.30 20:13:00 -
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A few factual errors:
Red Alliance held a lot more than three territories at it's peak. If you look on the political maps, it's probably closer to 6-7.
Red Alliance didn't seriously start taking territory back until after Goonswarm moved south. I don't want to diminish what RA did - they did have the vast majority of the capitals at the time. I think the only places they actually controlled was Cache and C-J in Insmother; it was only after Goonswarm moved down that they began evicting KOS. TCF joined in about the same time, though after Goonswarm I believe. I just don't want it sounding like either Goonswarm or TCF are band-wagoners. RA probably could have killed off KOS by themselves, but their biggest problem was timezone coverage, not numbers. They could field a very battleship heavy, very skilled fleet, but only during their primetime. TCF gave them European coverage and Goonswarm gave them American coverage.
The Smoske/Goonfleet's first steps into 0.0 thing weren't even close to one another. D2 tower-spammed XZH before that, and after a solid month of what is still the toughest fighting I've seen, Goonfleet withdrew. It was only after Goonfleet left Cloudring and was regoruping it's assets in Empire/Syndicate that BoB came down for two weeks (10 days , but I'm feeling generous) and blew up a few unrelated towers. I can honestly say after the Cloudring campaign, the vast majority of people took a break from EVE, and those that didn't ****** around with BoB on their VCBee alts. The claim that they kicked Goonswarm out of Syndicate is not only insane but unsupportable.
The part about RFS attacking LV while they were helping ISS is also wrong. Goonswarm and LV had a POS NAP going so they could go and fight in Catch instead; I think everyone at that point wanted to play a little bit where the stakes weren't personally so high. After MC pulled out of Catch, Goonfleet knew IAC and AAA would be able to kick out ISS by themselves, and LV knew it was hopeless as well, as they were not willing to come with capitals. So we went back to fighting in Detorid, where Goonswarm put up three large POSs in DG-, which I assume LV figured was for carriers to assign fighters from, store ammo, and refit/repair ships; a violation of the POS nap in the strictest of senses, but not anything near enough to pose a threat to LV's 20-some large POS majority.
The POS nap was only broken when LV tried to kill the last tower in DG- (I think they killed the other two or Goonswarm pulled them down, I don't remember). I'm sure most people remember (or have seen the video) that morning when the tower came out of reinforced and LV lost 15+ capitals to RA/Goonswarm. Shortly after the POS nap was really broken and like 2 weeks later LV was dead booya
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