Friday, September 18, 2009

showing us what the inside of our skulls look like

"please refresh my memory....did we dec privateers to actually kill shit....or to lose as many t2 ships as we can in the most failtastic way possible?" - pentinor

as of 9-12-2009, prons has been at war with the privateers. i think that Lies thought they would be a logical target to keep sharp on after we curbstomped repo. unfortunately, this has not been the case

instead of giving us little head on skirmishes, they're doing to us what we did to repo. hit and run guerrilla warfare taking out 1-3 ships at a time with overwhelming firepower then vanishing into the shadows

frankly, it's absolutely frustrating to be on the receiving end of such punishment

the losses we've taken at the hands of the privateers raise some obvious issues:

- we don't have the intelligence network necessary to fight guerrillas, even around our home systems. whenever we found ourselves in a trap, it was a complete surprise. that really shouldn't be the case
- our pilots are considerably overconfident in t2 hulls, resulting in rather large losses in rather embarrassing situations on the killboards
- when we start losing fights in embarrassing situations, pilots quit logging in, diminishing numbers leading us to lose even more fights

my hat's off to the privateers. before this war, i had no idea that they have such an effective organizational practice. basically, the executor corp provides and endless stream of wars while corporations come and go freely from the alliance to join in and step away from the carnage quite easily. this allows them an endlessly fresh band of guerrillas to unleash upon their targets who are typically 0.0 alliances and their squishy empire operations industrialists

while it can be argued that the privateers may have been a "bad war" to fight, i think the merits of showing us our weaknesses makes it one of the best wars... so long as we improve ourselves from it

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