Originally by: a fuzzy person

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4/17/09 UPDATE

We had a damn good night, starting at 21:13 when we overpowered the RKZ forces in I6M and killed a R64, replacing it with a ZAF tower. We then proceeded to go down the R64 spreadsheet and reinforced just about every R64 they have. The A-E R64 was mistimed by LadyScarlet herself, so it'll come out at 3:11 tonight. Depending on the balance of forces, we should be able take it out.

Later US TZ did some more reinforcing work in TN25, which is as we speak falling - it seems that Frontal Impact can't withstand this sort of sustained pressure. Finally, we went to Q2 and nuked the guns off the R64 towers which were already in reinforced, just to ensure a kill.

Downtime op: We blobbed up under a jammer in Q2 with 6 titans, killed the two RKZ R64s, replaced them with small GS towers which we then reinforced ourselves to ensure a good US time for replacement. This also saves the Sov3 in Q2- which Davey was sperging about so hard. Total R64 swing thus far: +3 into the column of the good guys.

As you can see, we've shifted our focus to drill down on RKZ's R64 income. The spreadsheet has been updated; when a R64 is in reinforced, it makes no moon gold. Expect to keep them in perma-reinforced until they're all gone and replaced.

4/18/09 UPDATE

Yesterday was good fun. As mentioned at the tail end of the last update, at downtime we had a big win; later in US time we succeeded in replacing our Q2 placeholders with real towers.

We punted on the Sakht dyspo because -A- and RKZ called a massive CTA, though in hindsight we probably could have made a fight out of it, given our numbers at the time - however, the bulk of our forces were in TN25, and they had been busy all day 0wning that system.

We picked up a R64 in A-E, which came out at 3:00 evetime; I was in fleet for this and it was a weird experience. When we first showed up in system RKZ warped a mostly-Barbie gang of frigates, interceptors and assault frigates onto our capitals, which we'd cyno'd at the planet due to a lack of staging tower. Our battleship blob gunned them down. Then we went to this tower and blew it up, bubbled the defenders inside the tower and pretty much killed them all once the tower popped. Again, mostly smaller ships on the hostile side. In an NPC-sov station system.

It felt like we were invading Syndicate and that these insolent Molle-followers had mocked one of our sacred dead.

Anyway, we proceeded to RF more R64s as the night went on, hitting C-7 and 5V-. There's more work to be done here.

TN25 seems to be collapsing for FI. We killed a bunch (3-5? more?) towers here as FI's ability to maintain towers seems to have collapsed; they're not repping or seeming to do much. Maybe it was just one night's lapse; regardless, RKZ blobbed Tn25 briefly, shot 5 RAWR towers in a very slow and inefficient way (dread fleet in a tower doing nothing for 1 hour + at the start) and then left. Imperian dropped 5 more towers for RAWR at downtime so the count is now 17 F to 18 H and changing rapidly.

Oh, also, PL lost a titan who ****ed up a logoff and didn't realize it until he returned to his computer an hour later. Welp!

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Originally by: not a glove, but a mitten

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4/19/09 UPDATE

The main event on 4/18 was in Tenerifis, where XIX and -A-/Atlas had a huge slugfest battle resulting in a ****load of capital and support kills on each side. XIX came out on top with an Atlas Nyx kill despite being heavily outnumbered and even had one of his (triple-boxing, heh) titans put into structure. Apparerently there's a big slapfight on ru-caod about who 'won' the fight, but the upshot is that our enemies have failed in their 'big push' to remove Death.

On our side of the war, without -A-, we might as well not have enemies. We ran around pretty much unopposed yesterday after an early-euro total and absolute **** of the Kenny/Barbie fleet in TN25. After RKZ losing horribly, we proceeded to blow up several (I don't have the exact count, check the kb) FI towers. RZR ran around in Querious and blew up an EXE cynogen pos which had no stront in it; FI had some towers abruptly run out of fuel which we destroyed before they could be onlined again.

With the exception of the 49- and Sakht R64s, we have most of the hostile R64s in RF.

This morning in 4/19, we had a downtime op which has already resulted in a ****load of TN25 tower kills; TN25 will be RAWR sov tomorrow. This has been something like five **** days in a row, not gonna complain~

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Originally by: 420 420 420 420

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I think the fall of TN25 on 4/20 merits an entirely new thread.

Theatre Updates:

CAPITAL AND SUPPORT PILOT SHOUT-OUT:

Due to the surge in participation in the last week, we have shifted to Pos.jpg situation remniscent of the Delve Purge, where there are 30+ hostile towers in reinforced on any given day compared to 0 or 1 allied towers. You guys have been awesome about turnout and should congratulate yourselves on the abrupt change of direction in the war. We went from slowly losing to affirmatively winning inside of five days, and that's because you x'd up and pew pew'd, or pres butaned, or whatever.

DELVE FRONT:

With the exception of RKZ having towers in 1-SMEB and EXE towers in M0O, there isn't a Delve front. We took back the A-E R64 last week (see prior thread). Those two systems are being used as cyno/staging points by our enemies, but have no R64s or stations or bridges, so at this juncture they're not relevant.

PERIOD BASIS FRONT:

Apparently SirMolle told everyone on his side that the war was going to be won or lost in Querious. Trolling removed. If you are going to copy and paste from another forum, please ensure that the content would pass the forum rules found at http://wiki.eveonline.com/w/index.php?title=Forum_Rules - Mitnal In point of fact, the war is being won here, in Period Basis.

As most of you know, the bulk of the forces arrayed against us could be divided in three; KenZoku, -A-/ROL/etc, and ****ty pets. Most of the ****ty pets live in Period Basis and despite the fact that they are key to KenZoku's plans, RKZ remains to pretentious to show up and defend their vassals unless a RKZ R64 is at stake. We have concentrated our efforts on this front in the past week.

RKZ has gone from owning 6+ of the R64s in Period Basis to owning 3. This morning after downtime we captured the second 0OTX R64 for KIA. Frontal Impact failed under the sustained pressure in TN25 and that station has been captured by Morsus Mihi today; much fo the past two days have been spent blowing up FI towers there. Many reports have come in of FI being in total cascade, suiciding, insurance-frauding and self-destructing ships, most notably an Orca yesterday. Yesterday KIA began dropping towers in E2 and GR-, the other stations in the TN25 constellation. All 8 of the FI towers in GR- have been reinforced; half of them will come out in US prime due to a failure to time stront. GR- is lost. E2, held by Beach Boys, only had 6 towers; it will likely fall on the same day as GR-.

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Originally by: war update PART DEUX its french because <3 tcf

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QUERIOUS FRONT:

Progress is also being made here, though it is not the focus of our efforts. In the past week we have consistently kept in reinforced the RKZ R64s, with the exception of the pair in 49. We have retaken several of our lost Querious R64s, including ZAU and Q2- earlier this week. This morning at downtime we ninja-sieged the P4 prom moon and destroyed it while hilariously outnumbered, though we got chased off before we could tower it ourselves. By all rights we shouldn't have been chased off; our 12 dreads were suicide fit and -A- dropped 60 people on top of our 30 support. -A- proceeded to fail to tackle a single capital, which simply, uh, warped out.

Probably the biggest impact of our actions in Querious recently will be felt in Period Basis:

First, the FI cynogen in IGE. This was a critical tower, part of thier capital route to empire. Sov3 system, unjammed due to its beacon; RZR ninja-sieged it two days ago and it had no strontium. Whoops. Likewise the EXE cynobeacon tower in G-3BOG, which was destroyed after downtime yesterday by RZR. That system is neutral today. This snips EXE's capital escape route to empire, which has raised a hue and cry - they can get carriers in and out, but not jump freighters. This will render the Period Basis front much more grim for the pets, as fuel importation will be a nightmare, and evacuating assets will be nearly impossible without significant aid from RKZ. And we know how good Molle is about titan-bridging his allies around.

THE FORCES AGAINST US:

KenZoku is back on the downward spiral of membership loss due to your efforts. Let's keep that up; you can watch this yourself on the link at the top of the thread.

-A- keeps getting pingponged between Eastern Tenerifis and Querious due to XIX. In general, their interest level in repeatedly saving RKZ's incompetent **** has been dropping, since RKZ appears unable to accomplish anything on their own initiative.

One of the reasons why they have been so markedly ineffective on the Period Basis front is that -A- capitals are staged in LGK, five midpoint jumps from Period Bais. We can clean up that region without virtually any concern for non-RKZ hostile capitals.

In 'other side of the galaxy' news, IRC/ED are being invaded by Majesta Empire/The Initative, some of the suballiances in the NC. I'm not really keeping track of this because XIX seems to be doing just fine in Tenerifis.

TCF is returning very soon. This merits a ~heh~.

NEAR-TERM STRATEGIC GOALS:

*Take every R64 from our enemies.
*Keep every uncaptured hostile R64 in reinforced so it cannot mine.
*Complete the conquest of the TN25/GR-/E2 stations in Period Basis
*Keep Delve secure while Sov4 happens.
*Retake 3BK/49- after the PB stuff is sorted.

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP:

1. Show up on ops.
2. Train for strategic ships: Dreads, Carriers, Fleet BS, Dictors
3. Join the GIA
4. Push Butan for GSOL
5. Stay on Jabber for impromptu op announcements

Amusing side-note. When last week's war update was posted on 4/14, when I said we were in trouble unless we got our crap together, RKZ and EXE immediately crossposted it for morale. For some reason they failed to crosspost all the other updates, wherein we welcome them to the ~0wn zone~ so I have helpfully begun to post them on CAOD.

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Originally by: Avernus

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Interesting read. Is the 4/14 update on the Eve-O forum as well? If not, could you post that up?

I actually find it to be good reading, curious as to what started it off though.

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Originally by: still fuzzy on 4/14

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PERIOD BASIS FRONT:

http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Period_Basis

Slow progress here. KIA, ZAF and Morsus Mihi have been chewing on EXE and RKZ soverignty. RKZ has a number of R64s in this region, almost all of them owned by DICE, which is presently the most functional corp in RKZ - as they have cash. All of them had been guarded by Sov3 and jammers, but as the map demonstrates, KIA/ZAF have spammed those systems and snapped the Sov3s on a number of them.

EXE at one point had a substantial bridge network in Period Basis that led to Delve but that has recently snapped with the loss of HIX4 (and, earlier, 1-2JP4 and 0-NTIS). That bridge (from the EXE stations) took them to the doorstep of TN25, a Frontal Impact station 1 jump from HIX4 where Morsus Mihi has been engaged in a spam war with FI.

In sum, while Period Basis is a vastly lower priority than R64s in Delve and stations in Querious, it's moving in a positive direction.

DELVE FRONT:

On 4/21, we get Sov4 in the W-4 constellation, where the bulk of our stations are. Over the next few weeks, the rest of Delve flips to Sov4, including the NOL constellation where we built two new outposts. Essentially all of Delve is Sov3, jammed, and connected by jump bridges. We have a working empire bridge network from NOL -> A2-V27 -> Empire.

This is paradise. However, it's going to be on fire if we don't turn things around in Querious.

Already we have lost an R64 in Delve itself, in A-E which is NPC sov and unjammable. RKZ has spammed 1-SMEB and EXE has spammed M0O as possible bridge/cynobeacon routes.

THE FORCES AGAINST US:

Our primary enemy in this fight is not RKZ, which has begun to have serious systemic issues, but -A-, ROL, and their associated pets. Their numbers and timezone coverage have allowed RKZ to stumble forward, zombielike, and staunch their losses:

http://evemaps.dotlan.net/alliance/KenZoku

As you can see, RKZ has stabilized at around 2660 members, where before they had been steadily losing. This is a natural consequence of them having retaken 2 stations from us.

-A- has been pingponged somewhat between the 49- front and 9-98, 46DP, and eastern Tenerifis where XIX has been making inroads. That front is being distracted by ED/IRC's invasion of RA, who had been helping XIX vs -A-. In general, however, -A- turnout has decreased markedly over the past few weeks. If we can get goon participation back to normal levels, we should be able to overpower them. However, until -A- is pried away from supporting RKZ, we're not going to see a RKZ failure cascade, which is our end goal.

OUR STRATEGIC GOALS:

* RETAKE OUR LOST R64S: A-E, Q2-, ZAU, 5V-, 49-, C-7
* RETAKE 49- AND 3BK STATIONS
* DEFEND DELVE UNTIL IT HITS SOV4 (4/21 ONWARDS)
* BREAK RKZ FOREVER AND HARVEST THEIR TEARS

WHAT YOU CAN DO
1. Show up on ops.
2. Show up on ops.
3. Show up on ops.
4. Show up on ops.
5. Show up on ops.
6. Join the GIA.
7. Why the **** are you still in NPC Delve? No one should be in 319. 0-H is for formups.
8. Help GSOL with push butan duty.

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Originally by: Serj Darek

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At least Mittens cares enough to keep us informed. :)

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