GOON VIETNAM
"Who's the commanding officer here?"
"Ain't you?"
Welcome to the Esoteria campaign war update/standing orders dump thread. Wars have to be sold. We seem to have forgotten to sell this one.
CAMPAIGN OVERVIEW/WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING HERE:
Why you are probably confused: Dominion is coming, with it completely new sov mechanics. So why are we invading Esoteria and fighting Sys-K - and why now, before the patch? "War is fun" is a shitty reason when everyone knows that POS war is manifestly not fun. The usual rationale of 'dying for director's moon goo' doesn't even work, because there's no moon goo in the cards - and moon goo is getting nerfed to fuck in one month, anyway.
The actual goal of the war: Induce a failure cascade in Sys-K in order to remove Stainwagon as a threat to us post-Dominion.
Why the hell do we care about Sys-K: Immediately after Dominion, we expect to be invaded, by either IT, -A-, or both, along with Stainwagon support.
Stainwagon is a powerbloc of its own right comprising Coven, Stain Empire and Systematic Chaos. -A- is, itself, large enough to count as a bloc. IT has yet to succeed in anything well enough to deserve the term 'bloc', but with Stainwagon and -A- support, they pose a much greater threat.
Note the size of Coven and Stain Empire compared to SysK. Coven is a bunch of irrelevant Polish types. The bulk of what makes Stainwagon into a bloc is the numbers of Sys-K, which provide support and fodder for the extremely nasty and top-notch Stain Empire cap fleet. If Sys-K is shattered, 'Stainwagon' becomes nothing more than a nasty cap fleet.
Sys-K's numbers are a threat to us. In Delve II, even at the end, Sys-K regularly sent 40+ people to help in KenZoku's fleets. Sys-K often had the single largest turnout of any hostile alliance in the mishmash of 21+ alliances we fought, at the end. We can expect a similar turnout from them in the post-Dominion invasion we expect.
The good news is that Sys-K is the weak link in Stainwagon, as they are mostly a renter/farmer alliance of idiots and terrible caod posters. They're not militarily a threat unless propping up a more serious attack of their allies. They have also bloated up considerably over the last few months, which means that their alliance identity is fairly weak. Best of all, they have not faced serious personal adversity or attrition until now; their main war has been attempting to mess with the much smaller Brick Squad in Stain NPC space, rather than having to defend their homes.
Why now, rather than after Dominion? Waiting for the enemy to come to our doorstep passively is idiotic. If we expect to face Stainwagon, IT and -A-, we should try to even the odds by kneecapping Stainwagon before the post-Dominion invasion of Delve begins. We'd prefer to have a proactive rather than reactive stance, and generally our wars work out best when we're being unpredictable and nasty.
Can we accomplish this in one month? We don't have to. If Sys-K and all of our enemies are mired in an ugly war in Esoteria, they're going to have a hard time invading Delve. We'd rather shit on their porch than have them shitting on ours.
GRAND STRATEGY/OK GREAT HOW DO WE KILL SYSK:
Dickstars: We are adopting a spam strategy based on our favorite weapon, the dickstar. The goal of the war is to break Sys-K, first and foremost, not territorial conquest. Our initial pos deployment predominately was deathstars, but this has shifted as of today to a "let them shoot dickstars" strategy.
Wearing out Sys-K's Allies: Sys-K is propped by by -A-, ROL, Stainwagon, and possibly Atlas. All are coming to the party, but they don't want to 'do Sys-K's job for them', which is exactly what they will have to do to keep Sys-K alive and out of cascade. You can expect to see a lot of ancillary assaults by Sys-K's allies, including the Querious hits that ROL performed the other day. As soon as Sys-K's allies tire of doing 110% to keep Sys-K up and running, Sys-K will cascade.
Griefing: Sys-K appear to be an older breed of e-honor pubbie. Their posts on CAOD harken back to the 2005 era; they write a lot of words and seem to treat things very seriously. I don't think griefing has much been emphasized in the war so far, but Sys-K are the type of mark that a griefer fantasizes about. We need to get to scamming, shitting, and ruining their gameplay. They are the kind of people who will quit EVE entirely rather than be faced with a vicious, ravening horde of goons, so let's get vicious.
STANDING ORDERS:
1. Stockpile war supplies in TPAR.
2. SMOKE WEED
3. Do not try to run the pipe from TPAR -> A1 alone. It's camped.
4. Prepare for and expect intervention in the war by Atlas/ROL/etc.
5. Volunteer for GSOL duty; we're onlining a lot of dickstar mods.
6. Begin griefing Sys-K in whatever way you can. Be creative and cruel.
7. Join the GIA. We still need more recruits. Email
giabootcamp@goonswarm.net and get in on the action from the other side.
Originally Posted by karttoon
When we kicked off this war we predicted one of two ways things would happen when we began our POS spam. Either sys-k would be forced to go this alone with limited support from their allies and buckle quickly, or they would enlist the help of everyone in the area and attempt to defend this space, alleviating the pressure off of the eastern front against The Legion of xxDeath. The latter was the most probable outcome, and we have now seen every hostile southern alliance involved in defence thus far. For those of you who have been bleeding from the ears from the lack of a real war, you should not be disappointed.
phreeze and co on the propaganda machine one new word per forum.
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