Posted - 2004.03.15 16:03:00 - [1]

 

I know I am probably going to get a warning for posting something from a locked thread, but I probably posted it in the wrong place anyway.

I know that forum fighting is probably far more impressive to the casual gamer, mostly because it is the only insight they have in to what is happening in the big battles in low sec space.

Unfortunately the forum warriors almost always drag what could be an interesting set of reports in to a smack slagging match, and the 'facts' become just an excuse to trade insults.

In an attempt to shed some light on what actually happened during F-E defence of their claimed space I posted the following.

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Ok, I am getting pretty tired of the endless smack about the action around F-E space.

I am going to clear this up as best I can, although I know my opinion will be flamed as biased.

In the early stages m0o were seen to be bringing a fleet to Obe through empire space, using players to ferry those ships.
At this point F-E was quite excited, we were able to see m0o were gathering a reasonable fleet and we were going to see some action soon.
F-E recalled its forces and began to run a defence fleet in p3en, ready to await the m0o attack. At this time it was also noted that Evolution forces were moving down towards p3en from Venal.
We prepared ourselves for an attack on two fronts, but unfortunately nothing came of it.
It was becoming apparent that our strength in numbers was putting the enemy fleets off. Now, m0o seem to think that is somehow unfair, that we were stacking the odds because we were scared. We did not choose this war, and it is not our job to ensure the enemy has a big enough force to fight it.

Slowly we became bored and so we started attacking m0o pilots around the stations in Obe, a risky strategy, but ultimately rewarding.

Shortly afterwards the tables were turned. Whilst low on numbers and with most of our pilots logging on in Obe, m0o had adopted our station lock down tactic. A few of F-E were already in space, scouting the stations and calling opportunities to undock. M0o moved their forces to p3en, camping the Obe gate. As our forces increased and were able to undock we decided to take the battle to m0o, even though jumping in to a camped system is tactically not always the smartest move.

We jumped our fleet in and took down two battleships before the enemy fleet retreated.

Most of the smack has taken place on the forums, and unfortunately it has hidden what was actually a pretty reasonable engagement for both sides.

I, and I know others from F-E, had reasonable conversations with most of the people from m0o - the majority of the 'smack' which makes the whole encounter seem so unsavoury has happened between just a very few people from each side.

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Now, as it stands this is my clearest understanding of the facts based only on what I saw. Now I confess my report may be seen as being biased, and I accept that, but at least it is smack free and honest (ie, it is how I believe it happened based on my perception of events)

As you can see, no-one got omfgpwn'd - the successful defence lead to the attacker moving to find easier targets, as would be expected.

F-E did end up with a positive kill ratio, but the enemy forces were not decimated, they decided a tactical retreat was the best course of action

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