UnFriendly Fire
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Posted - 2004.03.10 23:16:00 -
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Edited by: UnFriendly Fire on 10/03/2004 23:22:10
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I find it ironic that you state the CFS, an alliance that used to be made up of 80+ corporations, one that often didnt know who its own members were, which communicated over a board where half of the internal discussions were done on the public part of the forum and the other half read by the rest of eve on the private forum, and whose announcements or changes from above took 3-4 days to reach the members, as the most organized alliance in Eve. Perhaps just as ironic as you placing them as the 2nd "strongest military alliance" while in the same breath calling them the least effective military alliance in Eve.
CFS lost to CA in the first war between them due to inexperience and ideals. The only PvP the member corps had before then was dealing with small pirate corps that were in the FIX. Completely different tactics were required, and for most of us the war with CA was our first fleet actions with large forces on both sides plus the sheer surprise of CA attacking threw alot of people off. We were inexperienced and fighting our first large scale battles, and we got our butts kicked in them, though not as bad as Lallante ever crowed. But we kept coming back to try again. Also, ideals hampered us, since for almost the entire war we fought defensively, most of us never even tried to attack curse since we were a defensive alliance.
All of this lead to a very ineffective military, gettign kicked back down everytime they tried to regain their feet didn''t help either. Granted we inflicted casualties, but never won the war, ingame or and particularly on the forums.
As it is, the CFS now is leaner but more experienced, they don''t seem to be stuck on the defense, they''re more willing to attack, and have got some capable pvpers. With a much smaller military they are much more effective.
Honestly, I''d say MoO is strongest, even if I''m not sure its an alliance. Whenever they passed through our area they''ve always done alot of damage for their group size and use very good tactics. Even if I can''t stand the smacktalk of some of their junior members.
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