Guerilla Warfare

I dont remember what sector I was in last week. It was an uneventful two weeks, trapped there by a raid that was as watered down as a mermaid's skirt. They neutered the draconian fleets in the drac outposts this last raid, by giving them a maximum distance range from the center platform.

No need to maneuver to take them out. Cutlass with booster2 could pick the level 28 outposts apart for 80k points (50k for fleet, 30k for center platform). Raid prize? A beautiful new submarine called the barracuda. Its basically an underwater seawolf, with lots of potential. I'll build them when I'm done with the submarine advanced lab researches. Also gave us new drac armors. Some are pretty sweet.

I revisited sector 214 this week, to hit salvage and play nice. I left as a friend and returned as a friend. First day back though, FC alliance hit my fleet. Sloaney and I both left our longships on Lady Hatchett's front lawn, to say hi. We didnt attack her or anything, and weren't planning on it. When we were away, though, she told FC that we are bad guys and one raycfc sank our fleets. Well, game on!

Samulin and Sabba and several others that I enjoy talking to were still in the sector. They migrated from 429 a long time ago, but settled in 214 with HSE alliance and TST and FoF. FC is a newly arrived visitor alliance with a huge ego and no balls. I insulted them relentlessly for the first couple days. No response, and my bubble was popped for a long time. So I saw a guy collecting salvage with his orange HH fleet. I sent the scorpions after him and sank him without trouble. It was a siege missile fleet, and a very pretty one at that.

JC-FC asked me why I hit him, which was exactly what I wanted. I told him (and the rest of the comms) about how I arrived as a friend but FC started a war with me, personally, and they are a garbage alliance. He defended his alliance by coin repairing his fleet and launching fleets before posting his coords. I didn't even bother looking. Just kept sinking fleets near him.

Next day he tried my base and killed half of a howitzer. I leave a warehouse near the front entrance to lure my targets into a false sense of accomplishment as their fleet dies. My base guardfleet has an assault mortar HH with hailstorms and full armor, and a few assault cannon ships that get in close. He killed a gunbarge and sniped a warehouse before sinking. Perfect.

Next day he hit me with two of the same fleet and lost both of them, but dealt a little more damage. I wasn't online for that hit but he utterly failed anyway. I relentlessly trashed their alliance for days, making sure every timezone player got to hear about how bad FC is. Eventually it sunk in and the sector started to turn on them, and stopped laughing at their jokes. FC began to lose their haughty braggard attitudes by day 4.

Day 5 arrived and I was stealing their cargo and killing their cargo killing fleets and miners, while laughing and joking with my old friends in 214. Spirits are high, as the main group of FC leave the sector without  a word. Hilarious, I never even had to hit any of their bases. It's not that FC is actually a garbage alliance... I just don't like them because they hit me without saying hello first. And they did it for Lady Hatchett, who left after 2 days of my arrival. She's such a good sport.

By the end of this week, there are 25 dead FC hammerheads in my channel (at my entrance) and a couple dozen more random ships... from levis and wolfs, to FFs and Dreads. No one has gotten to the second row of turrets this week. Base guards are wonderful.

As FC left, nMe alliance filled their empty ocean spots. I picked a fight immediately and got told how much of a mistake it was. As more of them arrived, I realized that I knew most of them from our previous travels and even liked a few.

nMe is one of the better alliances that I've come into contact with, they hit in-sector but defend the sector from outside threats. They don't like whiners and don't put up with drama. Lady Hatchett stopped in on her daughters account to demand they not attack her friend. Chewy-nMe basically showed her his tall finger. She made an announcement that she was moving that account and never coming back.

I made sure to tell her how much it bothered me with a sharp go f urself, in comms. She got ignored by everyone else.

Samulin told me that my comms style is interesting... I ignore the good points against my character and basically choose to respond to the right things. He said people that argue with me in comms are fighting against my guerilla warfare style, doomed to lose. I say goodbye to 214, once again, as a friend. Maybe next time I won't get attacked first day, but hope I do.