EVE War News
Boot2TheHead
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I'm hoping I can make a thread for EVE that is specifically about the war. It'll probably be yanked by the mods. The EVE ON thread has lots of people asking about how to train their character and such and only some news about the war.
So please share your reports from the front if you got em.
So please share your reports from the front if you got em.
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Seriously, I'd like a news-only thread. I love reading about the war.
BOB vs D2 sounds interesting, and it sounds like LV managed a win against CA yesterday, but overall, not much going on in the south, just systematic system clearing.
Things like who started it and why, what territories have been gained and lost, and highlights of the more spectacular battles?
We are the monsters under our beds.
Op 1. Joined up in a 180 man fleet, we were going to support a 100 man RA fleet of dreads that were sieging POSes by camping a gate so LV couldn't get to the RA dreads. No hostiles for an hour, Remedial asked for 40 or so people to stay, and had a noobie Goon take FC and lead us off in search of LV. The guy was dreadllama, was moderately drunk, away we went. Get to our destination, nothing. Everyone starts spamming 'jv1v' as our next destination, which at the time was full of enemies. So dreadllama gets permission to go there, but is so drunk he can't manage to call gates green. Another guy took over travel boss, and we end up going into jv1v with 100 people, mostly frigates/cruisers, vs the LV camp. Dreadllama proceeds to call primaries horribly, because he couldn't figure out how to pronounce names
Op 2. Another big fleet, ended up 161 at final encounter-we went in search of LV, couldn't find them. Kept travelling farther and farther, and ended up camping BoB's home system for a bit. Found out there was a fight between D2 and BoB in y-2 or y2-, about 10 jumps off, so went up there. Got the green light to jump in, over 3 minutes later the traffic control let us in. I lagwarped out, but there was a D2 bubble on gate, and as people decloaked BoB's minmatar titan DDed everyone, and we lost 118 ships or something ridiculous because everyone was set to fight LV instead of BoB. The remaining 40 or so attacked BoB at the D2 place, but pretty much failed to load grid and had lots of fun lag, whereupon the POS d2 was sieging killed me while I couldn't do anything :/
Those were two of the big victories reported so far against the goons-one to a suicide op led by a drunk noob, the other at the end of a 60 or 80 jump trip looking for enemies
BoB finished off ASCN a month or so ago and then started making moves against the North, with MC support. Meanwhile, Redswarm and co have been grinding down LV for like eight months or something. BoB then announce that the north isn't worth their time or some similar BS and go to help LV. This is the cue for basically everyone to go schitz. BoB move into LV space to help fight Redswarm. Most of the North blobs on down to BoB space to join in the party. BoB goes "ohshit" and heads home to beat off the attack. D2 loses a titan due to BoB infiltration. LV loses a titan under construction due to being blobbed to fuck by Redswarm, but choose to blame it on the node crash and "GMs cheating" despite the fuckups being their fault and the small matter of being outnumbered at least 2:1 by the attackers (hint guys, you were fucked anyway). More fighting, AAA kill random shit, pretty much everyone piles into the war (mainly against BoB), Redswarm takes another station, D2 bring out a second titan (jeez, bet nobody saw that coming, and lots and lots of ships on all sides die. Utter carnage.
BoB will of course spew propaganda everywhere but even when you count LV they're fighting a war against massively determined enemies on two fronts while horribly outnumbered. It's going to be messy.
Edit: Can we please not use the slang terms? Not all of us know them.
We are the monsters under our beds.
Also, Mittani's reporting that the Juba CEO is telling all the LV members to pull up roots, stop protecting POSes, and go on the offensive.
For every one thread that contains a positive statement regarding BoB on the EVE-O, there are over 8,000 threads whose main purpose is to decry how terribly BoB is going to crumble. To complain about BoB propaganda infesting the forums is downright silly.
Seems to be BoB focused.
Still I have questions.
1) How long till LV is not a factor anymore?
2) What then? Will GS and RA turn north?
3) How will BoB's number of Titans be compensated for? Seriously, when they are well piloted how do you pop the fucking things? It seems like BoB uses them exclusively to jump in, DD a fleet of smaller ships, then jump out.
4) Is D2 going to hold? Where is Iron in all this?
5) If RA can put its full force into BoB, will this make a difference?
edit: IRON are in a tug-of-war over Querious with anyone that dares stick their face in. We're basically (with a number of other alliances) creating an extra front for BoB to fight on, diverting their forces a little more.
and yeah, when RAGOON are done with LV, and can get stuck into BoB, i imagine that will make a huge difference.
I didn't say they were particularly good at it, just that it irritates me that they think everyone's so dumb. And that most people are.
[edit] To the numbers:
1) From reports, it sounds like not long?
2) North? When they can finally blob straight into BoB? All I can say is, if they do, their priorities are fucked up
3) Generally by avoiding and ignoring them, I'd guess
4) Yup. That's what they do.
5) Yes.
Perhaps we should start a PR campaign to get people to refer to BoB and LV as "The Imperials" or "The Empire".
"The Coaltion" and "The Alliance" is a little to Starlancer to me anyway.
We seriously have to do this. It would be the funniest PR rout ever. I'm more then satisfied currently that we've managed to get the war called "EVE War I" (which people think it should be II but they've been steamrolled) rather then letting SirMolle get it called the Pendulum Wars. This is largely because (1) it goes against him, and (2) holy fuck that's a stupid, cliched and illogical name.
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
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Acronym reference chart.
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