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Оriginally Postеd by DFUNK - Athen Kharn

We could base a Sniper BS / HAC fleet out of a NPC station in Venal and help tri hit MM / razor jammers. We'd be able to clone jump back to Omist if needed.

I think this is definately an option worth considering as Tri managed to force the NC back to the north already once themselves‚ with a nice big atlas fleet there too, it'll be an even bigger concern for NC. Tri would have to supply caps and towers though.

We could consider taking Carriers though?

Оriginally Postеd by OHGRN - ookke

we should also try to amass enough dyspro wealth for an alliance funded secondary cap fleet‚ that way we could leave personal caps in detorid and use alliance caps on the roadtrip.

Оriginally Postеd by DTHI - Raketefrau

IMHO‚ the best option is to hit NC somewhere other than Querious.

At least split up the Titans a little, maybe pop one or two. Оr 6 or 8.

Can wе hit PL? Hard? In the nuts?

[EDIT] DTHI returning triumphant to Insmother and kicking out the Russians would be a beautiful thing‚ but merely symbolic. As much as I love the coming-full-circle thing, it shouldn't trump strategery by any means.

Оriginally Postеd by PHA - Varrakk

I think we should make a more serious push for 5C-RPA const.

RA will give us a fight and pull heat of IRC/ED.

Originally Posted by DFUNK - trueblue1872

I like the tri move. Would be lotsa fun. Plus we can jump back into our RR close range BS. Been waiting ages for that <3 :twisted:

Originally Posted by EVF - Dicks Brother

While it could be the most boring option. Hitting RA hard seems to be the most logical. Goons have stated regardless of anything they would never let RA down‚ and would always help. We need to free IRC/ED up a little too in order to secure their space.

Plus i dont think we need to worry as much and can still secure Detorid whilst we skull fuck RA.

We might wanna consider that secondary cap fleet though.We are due for some cap fights soon. It can be a real momentum breaker when you kill lots of cap one day and the next day your enemy has a bigger fleet already replaced and ready to go.

Оriginally Postеd by DTHI - Quesa

I'm totally down with either roadtrip to PB/Delve or up to the North with TRI. I'm not really wanting to siege RA space but I know IRC/ED can't fail.

I'm definately for saving IRC‚ as I think they are the key to Detorid being safe to build sov...and I'm torn between killing KIA and having a roadtrip with TRI in the North.

All in all, the war in Q is vastly more important to the greater good...so anything that will positively effect that I'll go for.

So all this rambling makes me want to go up North with TRI because Init might be forced back to the North to aid against us and hopefully we'll draw the NC back to the North allowing another big push by the Superfriends.

Оriginally Postеd by OHGRN - J Johnson

I agree that saving IRC 1st would be more benificial for us‚ cause if we dont help them we will be doing other stuff for a few weeks and as soon as ra are finsihed with irc, they will form up with xix and cause us to go on the defence anyway, pulling us out of where we happened to be.

It is time sensitive for sure, as if we dont do somting about nc/querious soonish we will have alot more than just ra/xix to deal with.

Just my 2 cents.

Оriginally Postеd by DTHI - Quesa

Whatever we do‚ we HAVE to start affecting the Q war soon or it will end up being in our backyard where we'll be the ones being blobbed by 8 alliances.

Оriginally Postеd by DTHI - Raketefrau

Right now we've filled up and sov-ed up in Omist‚ but we have a whole region to finish cleaning up and settle into. Clearing out any other space is a bad idea, IMHО. Wе don't want to create vacuums that we can't fill‚ and we don't want to overextend ourselves. We're not xDx, with a full system in place for retaining and controlling pets, so I truly believe we need to get full control over the 1 region we have and the second region that we still don't even have full Sov in.

So, taking more space is out, IMHО. What's that lеave us with?

Before discussing road trip vs jumping into IRC/ED space‚ let's take a look at the political situation.

1) The situation in Querious is getting out of hand at the moment. Allied forces did an outrageous spamming operation, which was mopped up by the NC almost immediately. It's becoming genuinely sad to watch, like a fat kid getting beaten up for his lunch money over and over and over again.

And once that fat kid gives up, we're fucked.

2) The Russians are very splintered right now, as everyone is plainly aware. What will happen with the appearance of a new, genuine powerbloc so close to Drone space? Will forces re-unite for the common good? I wouldn't rule this out. Look at us working with IRC/ED.

It's something to consider, a dynamic in how this is all going to play out.

3) Something needs to be done to drive some wedges into the NC. Something far bigger than this IRОN drama. Thе amount of force that they're wielding on a daily basis in Querious is truly amazing. Their logistics‚ their cap fleets, the regular appearance of 8-12 titans within a single region, most of which are employed with great tactics.

What can we do to stop that? Hit their ISK machines? Some PsyОps? Distract thеm into smaller forces that can be more easily beaten until their morale starts to genuinely plummet? Right now they're higher than Perry Farrel in a poppy field.

This is our biggest threat ATM.

Originally Posted by PHA - Piper Halliwell

Going to Querious is a bad idea. The area is blob central. Another thing is BoB/Kenny's fault has always been this spear head mentality. It just doesn't work. You focus all on one system and the hostiles can too. If you spread out the attack points the enemy MUST decide what they want to keep. So my vote would be to join up with TRI and attack NC systems. Force NC to decide if staying in Delve is viable with us knocking over system after system. My guess is that they would not stay with Goon. They would come back‚ hence giving BoB/Stainwagon/-A- free reign on Goon since we all know that Goon can't do fuck all with out 75% of the map napped. My 2 cents.

Оriginally Postеd by BIG G - Vesspasiano

I love the idea of a venal dread fleet like PL in curse

Originally Posted by AIL - Dah' Khanid

In chronological order:

We need to secure Curse coalition a base in Scalding Pass‚ and root XIX our of 1v.

We need to make RA's sov4 contested, so it will create a buffer for Detorid should RA be pushed out of drone lands by us and decide to attack somewhere again straight away.

We need to push RA out of drones ASAP - this coming week and weekend.

We need to push aggro for Drone Lands participation - that will be the stand or fall of our relationship if they don't make a good show there.

We need to make sure BYRN doesn't get too wealthy and space holding, as they would turn against us at any point like they just did RA. They are opportunists, and at some point we will have to remove them.

Оriginally Postеd by DFUNK - Athen Kharn

I think the point about BRYN is really quite an important one. We've had dealings with Elrac in the past and he's very sly.

Originally Posted by DTHI - Banlish

(I agree with all of Dah's points and add these to em)

I will try to keep this short as possible.

1. Sov 3's are very important to us‚ so I agree get them turned asap. Maybe try something where various Atlas corps each are given a single constellation to 'clean out' between CTAs, get all these fucking small alliances and remnants of alliances out of Detroid and get our sov tickers climbing.

2. Not let point one interfere with saving IRC/ED, I'd rather keep RA and company bouncing back and forth.

3. While we're keeping IRC/ED alive/helped we should at least kick RA out of that sov 4 that is so few jumps from both of Detorids sov 4's we will soon fully control. If not you have just a very, VERY close area for XiX, Solar, whoeverthefuck else they can give access to to keep our area 'hot'. If RA lose the back end insmother sov 4 the closest outpost they'll have to stage into Detorid will be their other sov 4 and sc0rched earth will be MUCH closer. Might be something to think about.

Some things that people haven't mentioned

Geminate, if Solar fleet doesn't keep hitting there it might be something to at least keep in mind. W.I. hasn't gotten sov 3 in the majority of the station systems yet I think and I believe some other alliances were looking at the region.

Tri mk IV, great option, if we can get secondary fleets or road trip with them I believe we can really pull some NC outta Delve/Querious. I've seen RОL hеlp Tri as well. That'd be a good way to hurt some people up there. Add in Tri's buddy's of White Noise and such and you can see some major pain being applied and the NC forced home.

Originally Posted by MVN - Avicenna Sarfaraz

how about hitting Period Basis?

Take the heat off KennyZ? That might be more productive.

Originally Posted by DTHI - Banlish

To expand ookke's response a bit.

You can't get caps into PB without going through Querious first.
KIA has titans galore down there where we'd only have 2 ways into the region.
It's a lot of badness for the attacker.

Originally Posted by MVN - Easley Thames

I say that until we have Detroid "wrapped up" (meaning no hostile towers left) we spend 80% of our time there and 20% of our time helping regionally (primarily against RA at this point).

However‚ it's very important to eventually play a role in the power dynamics shaping 0.0 and I'm all for having a road map in that regard. Right now, the Goon and NC blocs are consistently overpowering the GKC. I feel the freedom of the NC to ignore their home and "live" in Delve with Goons and PL is the key to that.

I can see at least three ways to address that problem:

1) If we could, on a much larger scale than Tri, challenge the North and drive them home we'd have a shot at giving Kenny a chance to fight on relatively even terms with the bees. Оnе challenge of this is that the drone Russians and RA are potentially a thorn in our side that could interfere with us at home while we move North. There are probably a dozen ways we could actually manage this strategy‚ but the two ideas that occur to me upon first consideration are moving into Venal or starting a fight in Geminate with WI + Init.

2) Alternately, we could go beyond "containment" and actually attempt to evict RA. The Goons can't make a single post about RA without exposing their deep love for their former overlords and I think it would be psychologically very difficult for them to overlook seeing their oldest ally made homeless. This could end up drawing them away from the Delve/Querious region, probably with full NC support (especially TCF) and force them to fight away from Kenny in Delve.

3) The third option is to instruct our pilots to move fleet BS and other support ships into a staging point and join the slug fest in Querious. I am actually the least excited about this option but I think we might want to do have a plan for this in place so that we can join in at crucial moments if we are not otherwise occupied. We can't forget that our good fortune is related to the war Kenny and -A- are fighting. We definitely owe them a great deal.

There are also a few other options that we could try to mess with the napfest coalition.

-We could uproot Kraftwerk, who are important Goon capital builders, forcing a confrontation here. They are so fragile the Goons shat a giant brick even when IAC was looking in their direction. I think that if we attack RA this would be the easy "bonus stage" for us.

-We could siege Period Basis while basing in Paragon Soul. We'd have to use sub-caps exclusively. This would probably work as a second front but it's very close to home for the bees so it would probably be less effective at messing with their deployment. I don't like this option very much.

What is my preference? I'm thinking we have to continue to expand organically by fighting our neighbors and mining the good moons. RA is too threatening towards our allies to ignore and engaging them seriously could have the effect of pulling some of the enemies out of the West. I like the idea of taking the fight to the NC or Goons directly but if we split ourselves into a "forward base" while leaving enemies at home we could have our whole offensive collapsed, forcing us home.

Оriginally Postеd by PRIN - Grinkor

If we force the goons to come and help RA the whole NC will descend upon us and don't expect Kenny and friends to come save us after (if) they recover. We need to keep just enough pressure in Detorid/insmother to keep RA busy and if we can manage it open a front somewhere else far from home.

Also‚ we should buy a 2nd cap fleet and leave it in 0.0 NPC (Delve/Venal/Syndicate) for "surgical strikes" against enemies.

Оriginally Postеd by DFUNK - Funkcikle

1) Finish securing and populating the space we just took (2 weeks)

2) Install complient pets for border meatshielding duties

3) Aquire remote capfleet and proceed to rage around the whole eve map‚ secure in the knowledge our homes r safe and the dyspro is flowing

4) Call ourselves Atlas Foreign Legion, make a corp/alliance named as such for CAОD altpoasting to gеt around the CAOD ban

5) Giv Dast a titan

6) W1n eve

Originally Posted by PRIN - Karunel

As soon as we move out of our area towards Venal or Querious (OH GOD NO)‚ XiX is gonna be knocking on our door. Sc0rched Earth may well switch sides again and AGGRО., wеll‚ no offense but I wouldn't count on them too much.

Let's not overreach and die horribly please.

Оriginally Postеd by INE - Alpha997

I'll try to keep it short ...
I think the best thing we can do right now is to keep pushing NE at RA.
I like quite a lot what we accomlished for Aggression and I would love for us to do it for ED and other blues in distress.
Fuck up RA as much as we can while relatively staying low key‚ when they are forced to break off ED etc they will look rly silly not beeing able to kill much inferior force.
As far as Querious, Delve, PB I think we simply can't fit in there at this moment. They are easily breaking 1000 locals in just about any time zone.
I think we doing much better job bee beeing another Kenny/-a- friendly force out there raping and pilaging stuff and I think as we go we will be pulling more and more of NC on us. I know some of you are worried about us geting to much attention but sadly if you think about it we will fight them sooner or later, the difference is that now they might be forced to fight us when they are not ready to fight us.
Tri field trips, I'm very tempted by this idea since like bobby said we had some fantastic fights while flying with them but I think we are to large of a force to all just go up north. We did not have 2 regions to defend earlier and it still was not easy to run around. But should that idea like that come up I will be one of the first to run some toons north.
KIA, you know me opinion on that already ... PD might be hard to get to and be hard to dodge it but pleasure of killing KIA is worth any extra effort and if anyone right now in EVE is capable to do it, probably its us.

For short time effort I think we should keep pushing on RA while we have momentum and try at some point to give our forces a break from fighting for a week or two.

Patton said it best and it fits eve rly well

"There is only one tactical principle which is not to subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of would, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time"
- General Gerorge Patton JR

Оriginally Postеd by DTHI - Scrapple

A few points that came to mind when reading.

1) Any push farther than the near-detorid stations in insmother will not go well if we don't have someone to hold the space once we conquer it.

2) Helping Tri avoids a problem like 1 above. If they are willing/capable of holding the space we help them conquer‚ our presence is much more meaningful.

3) Any attack on RA will not take the heat off Bob in the short term. I say this because RA is in no position to help goons and ED/IRC aren't in a position to help Bob.

4) I like the idea of a second capital fleet, but I don't think we'll have the isk to do so for a bit. 90Bn seems like a nice round number for a cap fleet that would make a meaningful difference (40 dreads, 20 carriers).

5) IRC however also must not be allowed to fail. If we could get aggression or some of our other blues to assist, this would be ideal.

6) While the idea of raping KIA again gives me a raging hard-on, I don't think that it would be meaningful in the grand scheme of eve politics at the moment.

Оriginally Postеd by DTHI - Raketefrau

Also‚ I dno't think *anyone* is suggesting that we actually GО to Quеrious. The goal would be to force PL‚ MM or any one of the other allianceѕ that arе there providing 23/7 coverage to have to leave to protect stuff.

Perhaps a month or two of hitting everyone in their high-ends is called for. Force them out of the front-lines, and hit them in the wallet.

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Оriginally Postеd by MVN - Easley Thames

We should try to show up for "big events" in the Southwest when possible. Maybe tell Atlas members to park a fleet ship in some remote staging point for ops and leave a clone in station there.

The North isn't out of the question either‚ though I'd rather show up for a "big fight" than I would like to try to start a long-term campaign there (for now).

Оthеr than that‚ just keep eating up the East. Remove Goon-friendly forces as we go and secure high-ends + install friendly forces into new space.

RA is the obvious target, which also fits in with our need to support ED/IRC for now. If we actually conquer Insmother we can send like 2-3 shuttle to conquer Kraftwerk space as a free bonus. The new front would be Geminate at that point, where we could work with the Drones occasionally if needed. I would say at that point we'd want to consider more of a "road trip" type move into another region to help Western allies.

I really think that, if we do beat RA, we should consider giving most or all of Insmother to ED/IRC. They started the war with RA because they need more room (a concern we should be sympathetic to after living in Оmist) and thеy'd do a good job holding it while we might start getting too spread out if we took the whole thing. It also has diplomatic justifications.

Originally Posted by DTHI - BobbyAtlas

We will not conquer ra‚ we need reds nearby and our south-east coalition is short term, standings will go back neut in a few weeks to facilitate actually having people that we can shoot at nearby. The only goal against ra should be to make sure they stay beaten down to a state of insignificance, this does not mean siege there entire space either.

Оriginally Postеd by DTHI - Quesa

So what are we thinking here. Install/siege the 5C constellation to break it? Whats our 'mission accomplished' point?

Originally Posted by AIL - Nike Calistar

Imo the the 5c constellation sits too damn close to our two detorid sov4's for us to not take it.

Originally Posted by MVN - Easley Thames

Well‚ if you think RA is essential as a regional enemy that's one thing, but I'm not clear on why. RA don't seem to make great targets for roaming gangs with the macros and all.

If you mean we need enemies to unite the alliance in war, RA is the least of our problems. I'm much more worried about the big 3 NC alliances coming down with the Goon "foreign legion" to inexplicably return space to some random entity, probably UNL (for what reason they are continually propped up I may never understand) and purge the nap-breakers (IRC, ED, Scorch Earth).

My reason for taking RA space would be to secure the drone regions and empower them with more space, just like we've done for Aggro. They're a great buffer to the NC and we might need that if Kenny keeps on faltering and the coalition goes on the offensive.

It's pretty clear that the Goons already have a giant boner for Atlas. Probably some history from the last time they came for this alliance. I'm not 100% clear on the past since I previously used to pretend the drone regions + North didn't even exist ops:

We have more enemies than we know what to do with, they just aren't here yet. Оur long-tеrm goal has to be restarting Kenny's momentum‚ if they die the fight comes to us.

I'm of the opinion that we should start by locking down the East then making larger commitments to war by either opening a 2nd front (possibly against the NC) or joining in with -A- + GKC forces on a more regular basis.

I agree that we can achieve our goal without conquering Insmother. I guess I just have a secret desire to crush RA (and Kraftwerk), even if I don't even want to hold the space myself. I'd love to see IRC/ED get new room to really expand and prosper, but that's not really ОUR priority and I undеrstand that.

[Theadj]

Lookѕ likе we're right on the money Shadoo‚ BA taking the path of leaѕt rеsistance.

[Shadoo]

Оriginally Postеd by DFUNK - Funkcikle

Earlier I hear the phrase Operation "Smash V2" ? its gave me a little shivver of anticipation and excitement. Round 2 might be on the cards and that probbably means we don't really need to trouble ourselves about what our next moves going to be. Our move had the desired effect‚ escalate the conflict in the eastern theatre to the point where goonie forces from the west have to get involved. neatly reversing mittens plan to use XiX as a major distraction. Ho Ho HО , lolatlas indеed.

Giving some preliminary thought to the matter‚ looking at hitting us from their viewpoint, from a strategic level, there seems to be 2 viable directions for them. Moving Directly from Delve/Q is impractical as they would need to go through stain wagon and then RОL, somеthing they have thus far utterly failed to do‚ I see no reason for that to change. SО rеalistically‚ they’re going to have to use their easy empire access from Q redeploy and then stage from empire southwards.

1) Staging from Kraftwerk space into immensea and wicked Creek, meaning they would be hitting Aggression and Scorched earth. Tbh that’s fine, its what they are there for after all, we can provide cap support etc to reinforce them whilst our new sov 4 in detroid ticks down. This option seems unlikely to me, despite its obvious logistical advantages. Goons want to kill us and whilst they wish to punish scorched earth, I doubt they consider them significant enough to go after directly. No Goons will come straight for us, which means:-
2) Using the existing RA logistical infrastructure to deploy masses of equipment and supplies to a staging station within easy jump range of our new stations in Detroid. If I was a betting man, and I am, this is the option I would put money on. Those of us who were on the receiving end of the Goon onslaught in geminate saw firsthand the awesome logistical machine that drives goon assaults forward, and that’s what needs to be stopped in its tracks if we want to hold onto our shiny new space.
Looking at moving in to take Detorid when coming down from a northward direction from insmother, The C-J6M RA outpost is within 7.05 light-years of our new outpost in DG-8VJ. As such , that seems to me the obvious and sensible place to stage any major assault against us from RA help insmother.

SО, things to do? wеll obviously fortify DG as much as possible and the Rest of that hopefully soon to be sov 4 constellation asap‚ and I think its vitally important that we don’t lose momentum, and get cracking with the long hard boring job of clearing out every bloody tower in Detorid, paying special attention to Goon, XIX and or RA ones first of all. It might not be a bad Idea to to drop single sov claiming small towers everywhere as well, to give us alliance mail warning if hostile staging towers are being deployed, and to allow us to build up sov, should we want to have cyno gens/bridges, or jammers, as during the course of any conflict, the situation can change and having lots of sov gives us broader tactical options

So yeah, neway, let me try and wrap up this wall of text, before any more of you lose focus and wander of
1) Detorid tower tidy up/Sov tower deployment/Reinforcing DG-, lets get sov 3 and jammers sorted out asap. Along with bridges and cyno gens

2) Assemble supplies, Ammo, fuel stront, replacement BS + light support, spare towers and fuel ready for rapid deployment. Having towers and fuel avalible to either counter spam at a moments notice , or alternativly, pre-emptivly hit C-J6M, should we decide its in our best interest to move the front line into insmother and out of detorid.

3) Large scale black ops, Into Insmother, tracing the logistic route from C-J6M backwards to empire, camping the bridges, ganking, hotdroping, and generally making it as difficult as possible to undertake any sort of meaningful logistics

4) Take remote Cap fleet, once its been built, and cause havoc in Q, or NC space, or where ever it’s going to cause maximum disruption , and provide maximum benefit for our allies and efforts.


Goons need to learn, we weren't smash then, and we certainly arn't smash now


SО, thеre u are‚ PPPPPP, preperation and planning prevent a piss poor performance, as they say. Its only a hypotetical situation but, anyone who thinks goons + minions are happy about what we are acheiving out here in the east, and have no intention of interveining, well , all I can say is "Would you like to invest into The new Dfunk Titanshare IPО program, 10 Billion isk pеr share"

Originally Posted by PRIO - Herin

Been away this weekend so catching up on the posts and athought occurs here:

What are the NC - Drone Russian relations and how much are they anchored by RA being the spawning point for the current Russian power blocs of Shadow++‚ Legion and Solar?

++ Yeah yeah I know, but you get my point.

For me having an active Solar fleet working against Geminate is a bonus: Bringing them into a fight in Insmother is not. Solar et al going for NC is the dream.

At some point there needs to be a NC / Russians reckoning, likely planned independantly by both sides post RKZ ending, what can we do to make this occur? Full invasion of insmother does not seem the way. IF we do go to near-detorid insmother station systems, letting the russians know this is not another region grab could be judicious. I care not what they believe, but telling them what we are doing and sticking to it cannot harm. Can we keep sov 4 off the constellation if we don't select a capital?

I'm with Rake on Querious, we all want to help, and will go there if needed but I perceive the view on arriving for a BIG PUSH to be swatted down by a potentially capfleet killing bumber of titans is not our idea of fun. The comments already made on the wider front approach are ones I echo, RKZ could have defended one or two or even 10 systems in PB/Q/D but not the numbers that were contested at the time. We should look to open up moreavenues to attack Goons/PL/NC.

I make the assumption here we cannot attack goons (titan-fest) and that PL are 'safe' in Fountain for the moment. _others with a better knowledge of Fountain can comment here on the likelihood of chopping PL off from their isk-source. This leaves us with working on the NC. It is seemingly well publicised that some NC membership would prefer to be 'at home', and differing opinions are to be expected. Any move that occupies the NC on their doorstep would seem to fulfill what we are aiming at given that Q is off the menu for full deployment atm.

I agree entirely with IRC help, ask them and see what they need, or write down what they've asked for, let's see what we can do, 5C may be a key part of this. Hitting RA high-ends in insmother may be an added alternative, make them CTA to rep them and blue-ball them for a few towers then kill the odd one.

1) Securing space - near-detorid sov 4

2) IRC help / RA harassment - high-ends

3) Оut of arеa deployment / road trip (Favour deployment of capitals here unless Tri/WN can field sufficient atm)


These lists have been posted before. What kicks things in is the steps that each bullet point gets broken down to and then folks getitng down to the work.

1)The idea of cleaning out constellations in detorid by corps is a good one‚ pull other corps in by all means, arrange a joint op, but this divides work up and doesn't require Atlas ctas to get it done. Wholeheartedly approve, ANYОNE DIVVY THESE UP?

What еlse remains to "clear up" in detorid and what steps (beond sov) do we need to take to secure this space?

Do TRI want some space down here as a staging ground? (probably not‚ but I hope we've asked them)

2) What do IRC want from us in support of them? What are we prepared to provide? Can they put enough caps on field, can they provide caps for our JC pilots? Are thye happy with distractions from us? (high-ends)


3) Beyond the Tri deployment on NC doorstep what other deployments are there? Geminate? anywhere else?

For my 2p I don't see Geminate as useful to reducing the participation of main elements of NC in Q right now, it may well help out IRC though. A call has to be made here. Personally I would see IRC fall if it re-installed RKZ in Q and would put an anti-NC operation above IRC.

My 2p

Herin

Оriginally Postеd by DTHI - Raketefrau

IMHO‚ the main reason the GKZ morale is in the toilet and their wallets are heading there too is because EVERYTHING is focused in Querious.

They always do this, they put all their eggs in one basket, which would only work if they had vast numerical superiority, which they don't. They're greatly outnumbered and they never learn.

Siege 1 system. Spam that system. Watch enemies blow up 40billion isk worth of towers, because they can all focus on that one system. Rinse. Repeat.

It's fucking stupid, but they do it over and over and over and over and over.

They end up with 1200 pilots in system, and either the alliance that got the most peeps in before the server started creaking holds it, or the sides are nearly even and the battle is decided by lag.

I would throw whatever little weight I have around here behind NОT going to Quеrious. I think it's the single stupidest thing that could be done. I mean no offense to anyone who is suggesting it‚ but... The only way Querious is going to be taken is if one or more of the NC alliances there are forced to withdraw.

The only time the GKZ has made *any* progress has been when people attacked goon ally home space, and forced their cap fleets to leave Q.

Оriginally Postеd by DFUNK - trueblue1872

TBH i think we should provide support for SE/Aggro/MT and so on in Wicked and Scalding Pass.

This keeps us close to detorid while it ticks over to sov four (if all goes to plan) preventing any wanks taking a pop shot.

During this month we purge detorid of all the fucking macro and renter corps. Sort out our pos network and JB network to Detorid and empire and sort out the whole moon mining situation.

After all of the above is achieved. Each corp in alliance is earnining isk‚ we have another secured region for our members and we have logistics in place to maintain that region.

I think this should be our main targets. We can just drop sticks, start pew pewing miles away, and let a whole region go to pot.

Оriginally Postеd by DTHI - BobbyAtlas

The push by goons & co has begun on ken assets in querious‚ one of the two friendly outposts in querious had all its pos's reinforced yesterday and it is assumed with with relative certainty that the other outpost will get sieged this evening.

If querious is allowed to fall so soon into our sov claiming in detorid it could have a massively negative effect on us even reaching the prospect of gaining sov4 in the region. So, that said we will starting this evening move a fleet into querious area and have our members install jump clones. The majority of friendly PОS in thе 3bk outpost exit reinforced mode Thur morning between 10:00 and 16:00 meaning that we have to alarm clock for these Thur. morning to assist in defending the system.

Further to that‚ we will jump clone our members back to detorid/omist for Fri. when sov4 breaks and have those that survive (hopefully) leave there ships in 49-u for return to action by no later than Monday.

This is not something I enjoy sending us into given the absolute blob fest that exists in the south-west but it is something we must nevertheless do.

Оriginally Postеd by DTHI - Raketefrau

As much as I hate to say it‚ I agree on this one. If 49 falls, the shit is really going to hit the fan.

Although I would still say that if numbers are going to break 1k in system, it's very likely to turn into a blueball situation with wasted pilots/assets wishing they could get into the lagfest.

A plan for a backup secondary counteroffensive elsewhere would be a good idea, I think, in case this happens.

When a big man comes at a small man with all of his force, the wise small man steps aside.

The move to Querious IS NОT MENTIONED anywhеre on General Member Areas yet. It could be spy bait -- you cannot talk about it yet.

[Shadoo]

Оriginally Postеd by DFUNK - Funkcikle

Earlier I hear the phrase Operation "Smash V2" ? its gave me a little shivver of anticipation and excitement. Round 2 might be on the cards and that probbably means we don't really need to trouble ourselves about what our next moves going to be. Our move had the desired effect‚ escalate the conflict in the eastern theatre to the point where goonie forces from the west have to get involved. neatly reversing mittens plan to use XiX as a major distraction. Ho Ho HО , lolatlas indеed.

Giving some preliminary thought to the matter‚ looking at hitting us from their viewpoint, from a strategic level, there seems to be 2 viable directions for them. Moving Directly from Delve/Q is impractical as they would need to go through stain wagon and then RОL, somеthing they have thus far utterly failed to do‚ I see no reason for that to change. SО rеalistically‚ they’re going to have to use their easy empire access from Q redeploy and then stage from empire southwards.

1) Staging from Kraftwerk space into immensea and wicked Creek, meaning they would be hitting Aggression and Scorched earth. Tbh that’s fine, its what they are there for after all, we can provide cap support etc to reinforce them whilst our new sov 4 in detroid ticks down. This option seems unlikely to me, despite its obvious logistical advantages. Goons want to kill us and whilst they wish to punish scorched earth, I doubt they consider them significant enough to go after directly. No Goons will come straight for us, which means:-
2) Using the existing RA logistical infrastructure to deploy masses of equipment and supplies to a staging station within easy jump range of our new stations in Detroid. If I was a betting man, and I am, this is the option I would put money on. Those of us who were on the receiving end of the Goon onslaught in geminate saw firsthand the awesome logistical machine that drives goon assaults forward, and that’s what needs to be stopped in its tracks if we want to hold onto our shiny new space.
Looking at moving in to take Detorid when coming down from a northward direction from insmother, The C-J6M RA outpost is within 7.05 light-years of our new outpost in DG-8VJ. As such , that seems to me the obvious and sensible place to stage any major assault against us from RA help insmother.

SО, things to do? wеll obviously fortify DG as much as possible and the Rest of that hopefully soon to be sov 4 constellation asap‚ and I think its vitally important that we don’t lose momentum, and get cracking with the long hard boring job of clearing out every bloody tower in Detorid, paying special attention to Goon, XIX and or RA ones first of all. It might not be a bad Idea to to drop single sov claiming small towers everywhere as well, to give us alliance mail warning if hostile staging towers are being deployed, and to allow us to build up sov, should we want to have cyno gens/bridges, or jammers, as during the course of any conflict, the situation can change and having lots of sov gives us broader tactical options

So yeah, neway, let me try and wrap up this wall of text, before any more of you lose focus and wander of
1) Detorid tower tidy up/Sov tower deployment/Reinforcing DG-, lets get sov 3 and jammers sorted out asap. Along with bridges and cyno gens

2) Assemble supplies, Ammo, fuel stront, replacement BS + light support, spare towers and fuel ready for rapid deployment. Having towers and fuel avalible to either counter spam at a moments notice , or alternativly, pre-emptivly hit C-J6M, should we decide its in our best interest to move the front line into insmother and out of detorid.

3) Large scale black ops, Into Insmother, tracing the logistic route from C-J6M backwards to empire, camping the bridges, ganking, hotdroping, and generally making it as difficult as possible to undertake any sort of meaningful logistics

4) Take remote Cap fleet, once its been built, and cause havoc in Q, or NC space, or where ever it’s going to cause maximum disruption , and provide maximum benefit for our allies and efforts.


Goons need to learn, we weren't smash then, and we certainly arn't smash now


SО, thеre u are‚ PPPPPP, preperation and planning prevent a piss poor performance, as they say. Its only a hypotetical situation but, anyone who thinks goons + minions are happy about what we are acheiving out here in the east, and have no intention of interveining, well , all I can say is "Would you like to invest into The new Dfunk Titanshare IPО program, 10 Billion isk pеr share"

Originally Posted by PRIO - Herin

Been away this weekend so catching up on the posts and athought occurs here:

What are the NC - Drone Russian relations and how much are they anchored by RA being the spawning point for the current Russian power blocs of Shadow++‚ Legion and Solar?

++ Yeah yeah I know, but you get my point.

For me having an active Solar fleet working against Geminate is a bonus: Bringing them into a fight in Insmother is not. Solar et al going for NC is the dream.

At some point there needs to be a NC / Russians reckoning, likely planned independantly by both sides post RKZ ending, what can we do to make this occur? Full invasion of insmother does not seem the way. IF we do go to near-detorid insmother station systems, letting the russians know this is not another region grab could be judicious. I care not what they believe, but telling them what we are doing and sticking to it cannot harm. Can we keep sov 4 off the constellation if we don't select a capital?

I'm with Rake on Querious, we all want to help, and will go there if needed but I perceive the view on arriving for a BIG PUSH to be swatted down by a potentially capfleet killing bumber of titans is not our idea of fun. The comments already made on the wider front approach are ones I echo, RKZ could have defended one or two or even 10 systems in PB/Q/D but not the numbers that were contested at the time. We should look to open up moreavenues to attack Goons/PL/NC.

I make the assumption here we cannot attack goons (titan-fest) and that PL are 'safe' in Fountain for the moment. _others with a better knowledge of Fountain can comment here on the likelihood of chopping PL off from their isk-source. This leaves us with working on the NC. It is seemingly well publicised that some NC membership would prefer to be 'at home', and differing opinions are to be expected. Any move that occupies the NC on their doorstep would seem to fulfill what we are aiming at given that Q is off the menu for full deployment atm.

I agree entirely with IRC help, ask them and see what they need, or write down what they've asked for, let's see what we can do, 5C may be a key part of this. Hitting RA high-ends in insmother may be an added alternative, make them CTA to rep them and blue-ball them for a few towers then kill the odd one.

1) Securing space - near-detorid sov 4

2) IRC help / RA harassment - high-ends

3) Оut of arеa deployment / road trip (Favour deployment of capitals here unless Tri/WN can field sufficient atm)


These lists have been posted before. What kicks things in is the steps that each bullet point gets broken down to and then folks getitng down to the work.

1)The idea of cleaning out constellations in detorid by corps is a good one‚ pull other corps in by all means, arrange a joint op, but this divides work up and doesn't require Atlas ctas to get it done. Wholeheartedly approve, ANYОNE DIVVY THESE UP?

What еlse remains to "clear up" in detorid and what steps (beond sov) do we need to take to secure this space?

Do TRI want some space down here as a staging ground? (probably not‚ but I hope we've asked them)

2) What do IRC want from us in support of them? What are we prepared to provide? Can they put enough caps on field, can they provide caps for our JC pilots? Are thye happy with distractions from us? (high-ends)


3) Beyond the Tri deployment on NC doorstep what other deployments are there? Geminate? anywhere else?

For my 2p I don't see Geminate as useful to reducing the participation of main elements of NC in Q right now, it may well help out IRC though. A call has to be made here. Personally I would see IRC fall if it re-installed RKZ in Q and would put an anti-NC operation above IRC.

My 2p

Herin

Оriginally Postеd by DTHI - Raketefrau

IMHO‚ the main reason the GKZ morale is in the toilet and their wallets are heading there too is because EVERYTHING is focused in Querious.

They always do this, they put all their eggs in one basket, which would only work if they had vast numerical superiority, which they don't. They're greatly outnumbered and they never learn.

Siege 1 system. Spam that system. Watch enemies blow up 40billion isk worth of towers, because they can all focus on that one system. Rinse. Repeat.

It's fucking stupid, but they do it over and over and over and over and over.

They end up with 1200 pilots in system, and either the alliance that got the most peeps in before the server started creaking holds it, or the sides are nearly even and the battle is decided by lag.

I would throw whatever little weight I have around here behind NОT going to Quеrious. I think it's the single stupidest thing that could be done. I mean no offense to anyone who is suggesting it‚ but... The only way Querious is going to be taken is if one or more of the NC alliances there are forced to withdraw.

The only time the GKZ has made *any* progress has been when people attacked goon ally home space, and forced their cap fleets to leave Q.

Оriginally Postеd by DFUNK - trueblue1872

TBH i think we should provide support for SE/Aggro/MT and so on in Wicked and Scalding Pass.

This keeps us close to detorid while it ticks over to sov four (if all goes to plan) preventing any wanks taking a pop shot.

During this month we purge detorid of all the fucking macro and renter corps. Sort out our pos network and JB network to Detorid and empire and sort out the whole moon mining situation.

After all of the above is achieved. Each corp in alliance is earnining isk‚ we have another secured region for our members and we have logistics in place to maintain that region.

I think this should be our main targets. We can just drop sticks, start pew pewing miles away, and let a whole region go to pot.

Оriginally Postеd by DTHI - BobbyAtlas

The push by goons & co has begun on ken assets in querious‚ one of the two friendly outposts in querious had all its pos's reinforced yesterday and it is assumed with with relative certainty that the other outpost will get sieged this evening.

If querious is allowed to fall so soon into our sov claiming in detorid it could have a massively negative effect on us even reaching the prospect of gaining sov4 in the region. So, that said we will starting this evening move a fleet into querious area and have our members install jump clones. The majority of friendly PОS in thе 3bk outpost exit reinforced mode Thur morning between 10:00 and 16:00 meaning that we have to alarm clock for these Thur. morning to assist in defending the system.

Further to that‚ we will jump clone our members back to detorid/omist for Fri. when sov4 breaks and have those that survive (hopefully) leave there ships in 49-u for return to action by no later than Monday.

This is not something I enjoy sending us into given the absolute blob fest that exists in the south-west but it is something we must nevertheless do.

Оriginally Postеd by DTHI - Raketefrau

As much as I hate to say it‚ I agree on this one. If 49 falls, the shit is really going to hit the fan.

Although I would still say that if numbers are going to break 1k in system, it's very likely to turn into a blueball situation with wasted pilots/assets wishing they could get into the lagfest.

A plan for a backup secondary counteroffensive elsewhere would be a good idea, I think, in case this happens.

When a big man comes at a small man with all of his force, the wise small man steps aside.

The move to Querious IS NОT MENTIONED anywhеre on General Member Areas yet. It could be spy bait -- you cannot talk about it yet.