MC Contract Announced. Preluded to BoB invasion

[Slayerik]

http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=465381

North is gonna get bloody real soon.

[Yoru]

I hear popcorn futures rose 20% this morning... :)

[Vedi]

Fantastic!

Any bets how this will go? I think we can safely assume it'll be much tougher than ASCN.

[Yoru]

I'm guessing a long drag-out knock-down stalemate between MC/BoB and IRON/D2, with the border shifting to the Outer Ring/Cloud Ring areas.

The real determinant will be the East - if BoB commits to helping LV to maintain a buffer against AlcoRedGoonCurseSwarm, they may be stretching themselves thin. If they don't, that flank will be exposed when LV crumbles and Drunkgoon looks for a new target (most likely BoB again).

[5150]

Interestingly FLA has [so far] managed to avoid the attentions of anyone (other than Triumvirate that is)

I dont know if this is because FLA have managed to do some behind the scenes deal or that (especially after their recent problems) no one considers them dangerous enough to worry about just yet.

Having said that it probably wont be long before D2 and/or IRON request FLA's help them out and at that point things could get messy for FLA.

One problem I do see for D2 is that, like BOB they appear to claim much more space than they can actually control so it will be interesting to see if D2 have any 'slave corps' (other than FLA and IRON, I'm talking about Mordus Mishi (or whatever their name is) and friends) and how they stand up to the task

[Slayerik]

Interestingly FLA has [so far] managed to avoid the attentions of anyone (other than Triumvirate that is)

I dont know if this is because FLA have managed to do some behind the scenes deal or that (especially after their recent problems) no one considers them dangerous enough to worry about just yet.

Having said that it probably wont be long before D2 and/or IRON request FLA's help them out and at that point things could get messy for FLA.

One problem I do see for D2 is that, like BOB they appear to claim much more space than they can actually control so it will be interesting to see if D2 have any 'slave corps' (other than FLA and IRON, I'm talking about Mordus Mishi (or whatever their name is) and friends) and how they stand up to the task

One thing Ive noticed about Morsus Mihi, they defend Tribute pretty damn heavily. In passing, I always expect to run into at least one of their large bubble camps. My guess is, though fairly uneducated, is that you might as well consider them in the war. Its just too close to their home.

The other thing is, other Northern Groups will start sending PVP gangs just because there are targets nearby. Due to the NAPs, our alliance had been going down to Curse lands and owning noobs. Now we can save ourselves 25 jumps :)

[Simond]

I'm guessing a long drag-out knock-down stalemate between MC/BoB and IRON/D2, with the border shifting to the Outer Ring/Cloud Ring areas.

The real determinant will be the East - if BoB commits to helping LV to maintain a buffer against AlcoRedGoonCurseSwarm, they may be stretching themselves thin. If they don't, that flank will be exposed when LV crumbles and Drunkgoon looks for a new target (most likely BoB again).

LV just lost 15 dreadnoughts to RA's 2.
LV are proper fucked unless they miraculously manage to find a clue.

[Slayerik]

MC also war dec'ed RAZOR and MM. So it really looks like a BoB/MC vrs the entire North.

[Yoru]

I'm guessing a long drag-out knock-down stalemate between MC/BoB and IRON/D2, with the border shifting to the Outer Ring/Cloud Ring areas.

The real determinant will be the East - if BoB commits to helping LV to maintain a buffer against AlcoRedGoonCurseSwarm, they may be stretching themselves thin. If they don't, that flank will be exposed when LV crumbles and Drunkgoon looks for a new target (most likely BoB again).

LV just lost 15 dreadnoughts to RA's 2.
LV are proper fucked unless they miraculously manage to find a clue.

Yeah, I heard about that this morning from the office Goons. They were wondering how bad of a blow 15 dreads was. :)

[tazelbain]

Maybe with a little more prodding, it'll become a galaxy-wide war.

[Yoru]

So is MC still technically "neutral", or are they basically a client state of the BoB Hegemony?

[Sparky]

I'm guessing a long drag-out knock-down stalemate between MC/BoB and IRON/D2, with the border shifting to the Outer Ring/Cloud Ring areas.

The real determinant will be the East - if BoB commits to helping LV to maintain a buffer against AlcoRedGoonCurseSwarm, they may be stretching themselves thin. If they don't, that flank will be exposed when LV crumbles and Drunkgoon looks for a new target (most likely BoB again).

LV just lost 15 dreadnoughts to RA's 2.
LV are proper fucked unless they miraculously manage to find a clue.

15 dreads and a carrier.    According to Eve-o that's the most capitals ever killed in a single engagement.  Got on 7 capital killmails myself so I'm really chuffed.  But yeah that's got to be a blow to LV morale.

[Raging Turtle]

So is MC still technically "neutral", or are they basically a client state of the BoB Hegemony?

They do a lot of non-BoB contracts but yes, they're another BoB buffer state, and tend to do what BoB asks without question.  It's generally win-win for both sides.