Alica Wildfire
Minmatar
Federal Investigations Agency
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Posted - 2008.10.12 12:49:00 -
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The problem with the Heretic in war is not so easy and maybe I'm just a very small warrior from the lines, but I downed on of them and was downed by them. Why? In the heat of battle you often have to react very fast and many of the militia forces have few or no experience with that.
A few days ago my group came to a gate where we saw a lot of blinking neutrals that were fighting some targets. We could not see if the wartarget was the target or the alliance of this event and I simply got the order to go and tackle. That I did, targets were names, suddenly I saw "Mirrorgod" on my locks and warped out as fast as it was possible.
The rest of my group was downed in the event, we downed nobody. After this the Heretics were set blue on our display so this could not happen again.
So, it's like in every war: friendly fire isn't, and in the heat of a battle those things may happen. I could see the Warnings on local the second I warped out cause war in a Rifter is a very fast thing and I usually don't have time to read the local while fighting.
I can't say that I'm happy about losing an allied force such strong as the Heretics just cause some friendly fire. I never blamed them for downing my ship(s).
DIVIDE AND CONQUER, that's written on the wrecked bow of an amarr vessel that I did hang at the ceiling on one of our militia bars. And this will happen.
We may outnumber the Amarr, shure. But we are not winning the war. You can count the few veterans on our side while the Amarr have very few green pilots in their ranks, all ships I helped to down are piloted by veterans and fitted with T2 stuff most of us neither can handle nor afford.
To pocket away the loot may be a problem. But neither I nor the people I fly with do this. I never got back one of my cheap T1 fitted Rifters, but am happy to have been supported with money to be able to come back.
Other people may have huge amounts of isk stored on their accounts, but I have not and many of the pilots I know neither. Cause many of us do their duty the moment they reach the faction standing needed for military duty and not a minute later.
It is a funny thing that some people see a "veteran" in me yet and it's telling stories about the level of our average pilot cause I am no veteran at all, just one of the green pilots from the ranks that have yet seen a fight. If one like me has sometimes command over wings and is seen as a veteran, then we really need help. Thats for shure.
So are you really shure you want to hand us over to the overwhelming power of the Amarr slaverarmy and call us thieves and triggerhappy yahoos?
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FREEDOM, PUNK & AUTOCANNONS
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Alica Wildfire
Minmatar
Federal Investigations Agency
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Posted - 2008.10.12 13:59:00 -
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Edited by: Alica Wildfire on 12/10/2008 14:00:08
 Originally by: khamn
Friendly fires always happens when people who fight 'together' don't have set mutual blue standings and practise NBSI (or 'flagged-KOS'). End of story. Negociate standings or assume your loss ...
Exactly what we did. And if my word counts on this it will stay for I don't fire on Mitar ships if they don't show hostile actions or I'm told otherwise from the FC.
But there are many corporations involved in this war and the first thing that should be done is to blue all standings. Maybe this is more of a problem than triggerhappy pilots. I was on duty in militia fleets and the FC was announcing clear that nobody should fire on neutrals if they really, really don't know exactly what they do. And this we did. Or better: I did, for I can't speak for anybody else.
But it's a shame to lose guns on our side. The Amarr are dominant on most occations but numbers. And to bring down the Amarr from the Top Rankings of the statistics is a question of honour for me. I try to work on that the next week. Even if I can't hope to survive a battle with Veshta Yoshida a minute. There must be a way...
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