[Poetic] The War in Fountain - Centaur and Pegasus
The War in Fountain - Centaur and Pegasus
I know that The Mittani is often explaining how capturing sovereignty is an after thought; that first you capture moons, then you crush the morale of the enemy, and then you go about the business of shooting sovereignty structures. There is, of course, some truth to that. Sovereignty, on its own, doesn't amount to much other than a bill to pay.
In terms of the morale of your own side, capturing territory is tangible e-peen. You can quantify it. Moons, sure they're quantifiable also, but only to a select few. What moons the CFC owns, that's information that is not disseminated widely. Thus any claims on the moons front by leadership has to be taken on faith by the front-line troops. And since we all know the size of the spin-zone from both sides, even CFC troops take the words of their leadership with a grain of salt. You'd think we were through Fountain and into Delve, to hear The Mittani speak of our successes. That might be some hyperbole, but he's definitely spinning our successes out of proportion to what can be seen on the ground. The CFC is definitely ahead in this war, but not by much, and our gains can once again become losses if we get too far ahead of ourselves.
Couple that with the fact that I've not seen any specific ops related to moons. I've never defended a moon. I've never been on an op to take a moon. Thus, whether we actually hold any moons or not is still a hazy mystery. (There might have been such ops that I've missed, but even if there have been some, they've been few and far between.)
The other benefit to taking territory is for logistical reasons. Now with Centaur under our control, it will only be eight days or so before we can set-up that jump bridge from J5A-IX to 4-EP12. At that point we probably stop deploying from B-DBYQ and start staging from 4-EP12. I would be surprised if a redeployment order didn't come down soon after that jump bridge is set-up. Capturing territory allows us to attack Fountain more effectively. If there are moons to defend and take, easier to take and defend them from within Fountain than from Cloud Ring.
Not much has been happening since the Z9PP-H crash. Apparently we tried to set-up an outpost in J5A-IX. Test & Pals destroyed it. A 20+ billion ISK loss. I'm curious why we would even bother setting up an outpost in J5A. Like I said, in eight days, when we get the jump bridge between J5A and 4-EP functional, it will make more sense to deploy from 4-EP. Any outpost that we could have set-up in J5A would see little use after the jump bridge is installed. Strikes me as a waste of ISK. Since we have not tried it again since losing the outpost egg, I'd assume someone else decided it wasn't worth bothering as well.
BoodaBooda wrote a heartfelt State of the Alliance today. Test finances are crumbling, and he's admitting as much. He appeals to the membership to start donating. They've only cleared up about half their ship replacement queue. He asks people to care. He asks people to log in. I'm not going to poke fun at any of it. I was touched by it. Hell, I almost wanted to toss them a billion ISK, and I'm not even a member of Test.
I hope Test Alliance can get their shit together. I'm doubtful, though. They just don't seem to have the strength of community. (Which is a subject for another post, Why Reddit makes for a poor community ? the ties that don't bind.) And then there's the fact that Test & Pals all run as separate entities, thus coordination is made much more difficult than it should be, they aren't as effective as they could be.
Test & Pals have a bunch of problems to work through, and very little time to do so.
Read more about the War in Fountain:
The War in Fountain - Battle For J5A-IX and War Poster
The War in Fountain - What Are The Russians Doing For Us?
The War in Fountain - Fweddit Chooses a Side
The War in Fountain - Test Alliance Has a Bad Day
The War in Fountain - The Depth of Gameplay In Sovereignty Wars
The War in Fountain - The Importance of J5A-IX
The War in Fountain - Divide and Conquer
The War in Fountain - Gnrrr. History.
The War in Fountain - Cracking Down on Pornfleets
The War in Fountain - Blueballing
The War in Fountain - Old Montolio Had A Jump Bridge, EI-, EI-O0O
The War in Fountain - Hemorrhaging ISK
The War in Fountain - Fish or Cut Bait
The War in Fountain - Metrics of Success
The War in Fountain - Isn't That What Happened To BoB?
The War in Fountain - The Z9PP-H Node Crash
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