Aussie gonna aus
On the bright side: firesales and evacuating carriers!
Aussie gonna aus
On the bright side: firesales and evacuating carriers!
No Mercy will survive, they're a good corp.
Hello? Oh, hello! I'm sorry it's a very bad line. No, no no... but that's not possible, she was sealed in to the Seventh Obelisk after the prayer meeting. Well, no, I get that it's important... an Egyptian Goddess loose on the Orient Express. In Space. Give us a mo....
... don't worry about a thing, your Majesty; we're on our way.
Originally Posted by pratell
Oi. We ain't goin anywhere either.
The corps that left largely just didn't want to reset our ex-allies.
Some of them loved Vince, some of them hated Garst, some of them just really really liked running missions.
the usual round of people looking out for selfish interests and then saying one thing and doing another. The departures had nothing to do with raiden's attacks, whom although I was out for a couple weeks, im told stopped harassing us long before that.
In any case yes we are no longer a strong au tz alliance however nor are we failcascading or anything of the sort. We are moving forward positively and are still active and growing. On the plus side this has helped us to find out who really believed passionately in our vision of what we want to build in eve, and those who were just being FOTM. Learn from this experience and move on etc etc but in all seriousness we are scaling back our ambitions and resolving to never again get muddled in the same bloaty decline that has occurred in pretty much every 0.0 alliance, including ourselves for a short while before we put a stop to it and got back to our roots which precipitated this whole situation. Taking the hard road and actually living up to your word/ideals (in this case resets and not joining in the new nc mark 2) is always challenging and most people are not up to the task. Our reaffirmed goal is to find the people who are interested in challenging pvp and share passionately our vision of an alliance who are always working to improve ourselves without absorbing f1 lemmings/grunts/bloat.
What separates Merciless from any other 0.0 dedicated pvp alliance is hard to keep to a short tl;dr paragraph, but basically the alliance is formed to be an escape from the same pitfalls that other alliances have fallen into. We lost our way during a rushed and very action packed initial 6+ months of life that many alliances would spread over years, but never fear, we have learned from our mistakes and given time we will be coming back stronger than ever.
Last edited by Garst Tyrell; August 16 2011 at 08:31:45 PM.
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Say hi to Eli for me would you please, thanks.
Hope all is going well for you guys and all the best.
Last edited by Sil; August 17 2011 at 12:07:38 AM.
None of the above for me!!
Merciless will be fine once Venal/North activity picks up again....I admire all those in the alliance for their dedication to the cause. Cheers for the good fights. o7
If you hadn't been blued up with NCdot and whatever all alliances, shooting tech moons, flying Ahacs and triage Abaddons, I would believe you that you weren't FOTM. The own alliance failcascading and losing almost a third of your corp members is nothing I'd call growth too.
I wish you good luck for your next endeavour (and +1 for not joining NCdot, although I don't see why anyone would join them really). But damn that was a bad post.
Write yesterdays BR already.
We reinforced the cartel titan staging pos friday night in order to get us a sunday euro fight where both Cartel and us could turn up in force for a nice fight.
Sunday afternoon a couple hours before the pos came out of rf, cartel struck first and titan bridged twice onto us in k3jr and then attempted to camp the station for an hour or two while our numbers were low. Shortly before out cta formup time cartel retreated back to 6nj8 to prepare.
We formed a sub 40man abaddon CTA fleet, tds with comps available for refit in the cargo, and moved to 6nj8. Cartel was set up with 20+ arty pests for sniping and had the in gates bubbled; with 40 in local we expected a more even turnout from them. Bridging wasnt an option with no titan online so we jumped into the bubble and began to shoot it while tanking their arty sniping. I made us a warpin and we started the fight by fleet warping on top of them at 0 as the bubble died, tackling a few ships for first blood.
Afterwards we moved to the pos and began to shoot it. As a minnie large it resisted our lasers natively quite well and we would spend the next 2 hours shooting the pos off and on while fighting various cartel reships.
Their initial reship was a 20 man bomber gang that rushed a warpin on us with shrapnel bombs. We had spread out in time due to good scouting from my alt so we suffered no losses or real damage, but managed to catch about half a dozen of them quite easily.
They then reshipped to sniping pests again and called in co2, who titan bridged about a dozen random sniper hacs/bcs over. Working together they attempted to snipe us on the pos. I was going to get us some warpins to crush them again, however in the process of doing so I had to rush and tackle a warping pest with my bomber alt. As we landed for secondary points I tried to warp out but our friendly hictor bubbled for no reason and trapped my alt which promptly died to pos guns, 100% avoidably. With that we lost our main prober and ability to engage the snipers despite some weak attempts at later probing by backup scouts. As a FC that really halted my momentum and I raged a bit about the friendly bubble killing my alt.
We returned to the pos and resolved to simple shoot the pos and tank the 2 enemy gangs while we did so to get it over with. We brought in 4 alt dreads (much lower than the 8 you need in an ideal situation to one cycle an out of rf large pos) which sped it along but after one cycle we docked them up safely to minimize risk. At this time we suffered our first loss (other than my alt), one of our neuting/cyno bs that stayed on grid against orders and died to the defenders avoidably as well.
We then sat there and shot the pos into half hull slowly (much too slowly in hindsight) without dreads while co2 left to go home and cartel reshipped to abaddons/carrier. We were able to easily tank the snipers at range due to ample logi, tds crushing their dps, and the fact they were firing sniper ammo.
At this time with the pos in half hull cartel warped back to 0 on us. They had too many dictors and too small of a fleet which was a red flag to me however we engaged anyway without intel to go on otherwise. Immediately after they landed local spiked by about 90 IRC and we proceeded to do our best to break tackle and escape. All our key ships and about half our abaddons escaped fine, the other 9 dps bs we lost to the 150 hostiles slowly as they ran them down on the pos grid literally over 10 mins. We docked in top station to wait on IRC blob to leave. This was not a three way, they were called by a desperate cartel who like everyone else gives up the good fights mentality anytime you get into a fight more serious than just welping drakes on eachother. I was disappointed to see irc turn up but I should have expected something like it and was vindicated in hindsight by not keeping our caps committed.
As IRC started to leave we realized that they were flying 90 scrub bcs with no logi or support ships, not the abaddons initially reported and we resolved to go after them and bait them into a fight on the undock. They warped to 0 on the top station where we proceeded to engage them with our survivors (missing half our planned dps by this phase would have made killing them all doubtful in hindsight, but tank should have been fine). After we aggroed they immediately bailed out running to home leaving a few stragglers for us to kill. GF irc thats about what I expected from you.
At this time our hictor was tackled on the bottom station by cartel so we warped in and ended up in a pissing contest with cartel whose reps we couldnt break as they undocked more carriers, and they couldnt break us. We stared at each other for a few mins before they undocked a drake to their armor fleet which we promply executed. After that it was obvious we couldnt win so I burned us away from the station while tanking them until we broke tackle and warped out.
By this time irl was pressing most of us and we had lost our momentum so we logged in top station to scout ourselves out later. The pos I heard was being repped by guardians but since they would have to offline it to rep the half hull I imagine they will just kill it off and anchor a new one if they care to since it cant be restronted with hull damage. I regret I havent cared enough to go scout out what happened to the tower yet so no closure there. Thanks to IRC's intervention and our op dragging on, cartel held the field.
http://www.merciless-alliance.com/ki...d&kll_id=29386
Last edited by Garst Tyrell; August 29 2011 at 07:34:35 PM.
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Wow IRC. Clearly not unexpected, but if I outnumbered someone 4:1 and my enemy would even want to fight and are not snipers/nanos, why would I not engage.
Our roam formed earlier with about 15+ in a long range drake/pest format and went hunting. We fagged around a bit and moved to e-0 where we spent time killing bubbles on all the rapecaged gates to give us some breathing room. We found the irc permagang with about 20-30+ bcs hiding in their pos which they would do for the next hour. In the mean time we managed to get a 22 man PL ac hurricane fleet to jump into us and we began a session of rewarping on eachother. I figured it was a suicide welp cane gang from local smack (they reset irc?) but they spent enough time dodging us and making warpins I guess they wanted to win. In the end they warped to the sun, which I misinterpreted as a trick to get us to warp on them at 0, however they were just using it as a warpout and we landed 100 off. Luckily they burned towards us which let us start to pick them off. Realizing that wasnt working for them, they warped off to get safe. They made it back into m-o when I misjudged their intentions immediately after warping from the sun, and docked up while we went straggler hunting off and on for 30 mins.
http://www.merciless-alliance.com/ki...d&kll_id=29494 (no losses so most canes missing, a few more died in m-o/taisy later)
After a brief break into taisy we caught another few pl canes and started to head home. The IRC gang grew some balls and warped half their gang (all drakes) down to the e-0 gate. I thought they were jumping into us from the scout's report, but he was wrong so we burned back to gate and jumped into them. As we did so the rest of the irc gang warped down to engage us and the second fight was on. Except for our unfortunate scrammed huginn we got to range and started to pick off primarys and chase their tackle off with our drones, sadly killing none of their frigs. Just as quick as it began the irc gang gave up and warped back to the pos. We meandered around a bit while roughly heading home but didnt manage to snag anything else before we made it back and docked up.
http://www.merciless-alliance.com/ki...d&kll_id=29504
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Garst - this isn't personal, but your Battle Reports are kind of hinting at Merciless' lack of relevance at the moment.
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On the train this morning I saw a stunning Thai girl, wearing a mini-skirt, legs slightly apart. I kept thinking to myself, please don't get an erection, please don't get an erection. but she did.
So what if it's just War? Doesn't always have to be Politics.
Why all the hate ?
Go go Merciless, probably the last alliance up there trying to play a challenging game
I would come back if I could actually ship spin
Wheras the acquisition of more botting space for your Russian overlords is incredibly relevant amirite?
If I want to read about small gang PVP I read FHC, if I want to read about sov warfare elite PVP, I read Kugutsumen.
Seems that all threads but low sec/WH lack real interesting content though, can't deny that.
There is a reason for this.
If you were a superhero you'd be The Incredible Fucktard with your ever-ready sidekick Douchetard Boy. Together, you fight intelligence and common sense where you go.
Well not everyone is running round in a superblob atm!
I have always found Garst's reports interesting and informative about the region's goings on, who cares how relevant they are to you now? :-p
The reason Merciless aren't relevant is because it's not really about being relevant. With a handful of notable exceptions, current 0.0 relevance pretty much equates to taking space and deploying large numbers of supers. Part of the reason we lost so many corps at the end of Northern War IIIXV seems to have been because when the dust finally settled and our former blues had finished dividing up our assets between them, it became apparent that we were not going to persue relevance.
Swings and roundabouts really, some people like epic fights with hundreds of participants, others prefer grubby backally knife fights. Tried the former, prefer the latter.
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