[Official Event]: First Fight, Tau 44 - Chapter I (22nd Sunday January, 20:00 UTC)

[Omi]

To add to what Wesker said, GRN| leadership (which is entirely me at the moment, since the rest of my HC seems determined to resign, burn out, or otherwise quit en masse for greener pastures - something I can't really blame them for) couldn't really give a sh*t about cap fights. The faction has been centered on snub play since I joined it precisely because we've never had the numbers to field combined-arms fleets without relying heavily on indies to shore up things for us. The only people in the faction looking for a cap brawl are Wesker, Jayce, and maybe Antonio.

Wesker is right, and it's not something you're going to fix. The official faction has maybe four or five people total still playing in it, and I am not about to demand they climb in battleships with no snub/CD support to feed themselves en masse to a stationary Valor and a boatload of Redemptions and Zephyrs when they could do something else instead of wasting their time. I don't like relying entirely on indies to back up a core cap fleet, since they're unreliable at best and uncontrollable at worst. CR| and co. can continue to field whatever ship classes they like, but ultimately I would rather log a snub 99% of the time than bother to haul a Valor out, even with people like Wesker and Antonio to tell me how I'm meant to use the thing.

We had a ton more indies than I think anyone expected today, which I'll admit surprised me. That said, we could have had at most three official GRN| Valors there today, since the only indie one that showed up was armourless and didn't even bother engaging once it realised the Tau-44 bases (like most GRN bases for the past few years ) are so outdated and neglected that they don't sell the proper armour upgrades for him. In that scenario, we would have had three nerfed Valors, one armourless Valor (lol), and 3-4 indie snubs of a variety of skill ranges to go up against 6-7 (maybe more?) Nyxes, 2 Hydras, 2 Thanatoses, 1-2 Zephyrs (lost count) and 2 Redemptions. It's pretty much anyone's guess who should win that.

I don't mean to throw out an ultimatum of 'snubfight or no fight', but in recent weeks I have a hard enough time motivating myself to log into the game even with the promise of a pure snub brawl. After years spent being the CD bitch in a VHF for fleets full of loud cap pilots, primarily cap-focused fight holds about as much interest for me as watching paint dry for an hour, so if you want the GRN side to bring caps over anything else in future then I'm the wrong person to approach about it.

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