Executive Outcomes: Circular Firing Squad
Executive Outcomes (EXE) has been one of KenZoku's most loyal pets.
Until the final days of the Second Great War, they held space in Period
Basis and comprised a significant portion of KenZoku's fleets. Their
leader, Mo'Chusile, consistently tried to put a brave face on the
mounting losses of KenZoku and EXE. His updates on the progress of the
war became infamous for the way in which they glided over the failures
of their side. After the debacle in H74, Rivisa, one of the EXE
membership, had enough with Mo'Chusile's flawed updates and spoke truth
to power. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this unleashed a classic fit of
e-rage, culminating in Rivisa being kicked from the alliance.
Mo'Chusile's
terrible attempt to spin H74:
We tried to take H74 and
the plan was good, execution was terrible for multiple reasons. One of
the big reasons was that everyone was informed very late, on the day of
the op just a few hours before about the amount of tower spam we had to
do. The next reason was that all tower teams (aside from the exe team,
because we are awesome) either cheated ;) (AAA put up 4 smalls and one
large) or failed in getting the 5 towers up in time. Grade of failure
was different, but at the end of the night, instead of 45 towers
standing safely for US TZ and with timers for saturday euro TZ, we
ended up with 29 standing, and 10 of them having terrible timers for US
TZ the same night, so the next morning we had 19 towers up. The next
failure was to dismiss the fleet for the night less than
enthusiastically and not communicating to our pilots that with a good
effort on the next day we still had a safe tower majority. After that,
it was all over before it even started.

All in all, we beat
ourselves there. A little more careful planning and preparation,
everyone (but us :smug:) should have spent some more attention to
dropping towers over partying on TS while shooting offline PL towers,
and the first day would have ended totally different. And on day two,
the coalition had a whopping 160 people in system in the morning, which
hadn't been a problem for us in before at all...
Anyways, to make sure
the next thing we do goes right and isn't hampered by silly mistakes
from the start, we will take time to prepare it properly. In the mean
time we will defend key targets when necessary, and otherwise see to it
that we rack up the most kills possible in the most fun ways. And then
in a week or two we will strike again.
P.S.: The one good thing
H74 showed was that during EU timezone (thursday 1700) we are still
able to outnumber and control the hostiles. So now we just run the next
one a little better
Rivisa
calls out Mo'Chusile:
This isn't a "change
this or I'm leaving post", I'm going in either event (probably shortly
after Mo reads this), its just an honest (e.g. blunt and rude)
assessment of where EXE has got itself in the last 5 months.
Its gone up today, not
just as a response to your post (though it provides a nice framework
upon which to make my points) but to spare you having it splashed all
over COAD. Saturday it might made it there, Sunday at an outside.
Monday? Nope its safe. We are now completely irrelevant, goons don't
even want to laugh at us anymore.
Deluded, syncofantic
fanboys (o/ warone) can stop reading here, and just hit reply and
splurge their vapid drivel now. Don't quote
anything, unless you're actually responding to a point. Honestly, people will realise
it's me your responding to; when was the last time you saw anybody else question Mo's judgement.
Seriously, when?
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I pondered where to
start with this. The fact that this latest clusterf*** took place on
Friday, and you did the usual "Mo thing" e.g. hide and say nothing then
leave it a couple of days and then post this glib dismissal at 2200 on
Sunday night seems a good, if not pivotal, point to address 1st. This
(circle jerking on the very rare occasion we win a fight, and hiding
when it frequently goes tits-up) is almost the exact
opposite of leadership,
in case you're confused about what you've been doing.
Quote:
We tried to take H74 and the plan was good, execution was terrible for
multiple reasons. One of the big reasons was that everyone was informed
very late, on the day of the op just a few hours before about the
amount of tower spam we had to do. The next reason was that all tower
teams (aside from the exe team, because we are awesome) either cheated
;) (AAA put up 4 smalls and one large) or failed in getting the 5
towers up in time. Grade of failure was different, but at the end of
the night, instead of 45 towers standing safely for US TZ and with
timers for saturday euro TZ, we ended up with 29 standing, and 10 of
them having terrible timers for US TZ the same night, so the next
morning we had 19 towers up. The next failure was to dismiss the fleet
for the night less than enthusiastically and not communicating to our
pilots that with a good effort on the next day we still had a safe
tower majority. After that, it was all over before it even started.
Oh so it was just a
mistake, and lessons will be learned and it all be different next time?
This would be more credible if they weren't the same mistakes that have
been made over and over since February. Time and time again, fleets
have stood down only to lose the moon have just taken. Seriously why
will it be different next time, beyond that fact that you're saying so;
are you going to see the FC's suddenly stop being concerned about
logging off? Different FC's? Or is it just blind, desperate hope on
your part?
Quote:
All in all, we beat ourselves there. A little more careful planning and
preparation, everyone (but us :smug:) should have spent some more
attention to dropping towers over partying on TS while shooting offline
PL towers, and the first day would have ended totally different. And on
day two, the coalition had a whopping 160 people in system in the
morning, which hadn't been a problem for us in before at all...
What are you smug
about??? That EXE didn't display horrific incompetence? Jesus H Christ,
you have to be truly desperate to clutch that that tiny little straw.
Actually I hope you are, it's that kind of despair that might get you
to reassess what you personally have been doing wrong, and
maybe how you could do it better.
Quote:
Anyways, to make sure the next thing we do goes right and isn't
hampered by silly mistakes from the start, we will take time to prepare
it properly. In the mean time we will defend key targets when
necessary, and otherwise see to it that we rack up the most kills
possible in the most fun ways. And then in a week or two we will strike
again.
So the same people, will
try the same things, in the same places while clinging to the delusion
that this will produce a different outcome? That's not faith, it's
mental illness.
Quote:
P.S.: The one good thing H74 showed was that during EU timezone
(thursday 1700) we are still able to outnumber and control the
hostiles. So now we just run the next one a little better ;)
Confirmed this with the
russians have you? Cos I'm pretty bloody certain that if they aren't
interested, EXE won't be doing anything, just like Friday. I've saved
our convo log from Friday, in case you may have forgotten why I would
reach that conclusion. Which brings me to neatly to....
Quote:
I dont care about the outcome
Erm, why not? There are
only 2 outcomes; winning and losing, everything else is semantics.
It's trolling to tell
someone how shite they are, if you can't offer some constructive
criticism on how they could be less shite. So here's a list of where to
start.
Molle/BoB's
leadership:
Since Z-M there have only been 2 reasonable conclusions that are
supported by the indisputable facts. Recap them for you shall I? (fake
edit who's fucking writing this, yoda??). PB was lost in a weekend. It
is a record for the fastest fall of a sov 4 constellation in eve
history. Aside from being yet another example of making a plan and not
sticking to it ("let PB fall, focus on Querious" 2 days later "oh shit
DEFEND PB")
This came about because
Molle called for the jammer to be cycled. Either he is frighteningly
incompetent and so continuing to follow an agenda of which is set by
him is this. Or an almost equally awful
conclusion, it was done on purpose to sabotage any defence, the
rationale being if the carebears have no where to rat / mine then they
will turn up to ops (which never works btw, people who turn up are
always the same faces; having no where to rat or mine doesn't change
peoples preferences and doesn't increase participation and hideously
self inflicted defeats do hurt participation).
Lack
of direction:
Vague, platitudinous bullshit like you just posted about "in a couple
of weeks something unspecified" is exactly what I'm talking about. Pick
a goal for fucks sake, preferably an achievable one that can be acted
on soon. There are plenty of low sec high ends that still with in the
tactical capability of this alliance, to be taken & towered by
EXE for EXE's benefit. It wouldn't stop you asking BoB for manpower
while doing this. What might stop you is the answer would, once and for
all, define whether they see EXE as a partner or a servant. Afterall,
noone wants to find out that it's not actually dark, it's that your
head is stuck in an elephants butt.
Op
participation:
While the goal of getting 50 EXE dread's is both laudable, and shows a
real commitment on your part (subsidising it as massively as you have),
I think you'll find the Wright brothers focused on staying in the air
for a bit, before planning the the business class menu for the 1st
transatlantic flight. You don't get 50 EXE pilots in a fleet now so
perhaps that might be a better goal to pursue before you even concern
yourself what they turn up in.
How are you going to do
that? Well not the way you have been doing it, cos muttering in corp
and the odd, angry alliance mail doesn't cut it. Take advice from
Machiavelli, if you can't be loved and feared, the latter will do the
trick every time. If your not feeling ruthless enough to start kicking
the parasites, delegate it to someone who has the moral conscience of a
dog on a croquet lawn (o/ speedie), who will.
Lastly one of the best things about
this alliance was always the industrial backbone and the fleet shop. If
I have heard correctly, then you fell out with Issy and she is to
depart us accompanied by a significant chunk of the industrial guys
& gals. If this is a personal issue between the 2 of you, them
Mo, you need to grow a pair then kiss & make up. Yup, Issy is a
bit emo, but that who she is, get used to it.
Why? Cos time after time
she get the job done, and believe it or not it is the outcome the
counts.
Mo'Chusile
spergs at Rivisa, then kicks him out of the alliance:
Rivisa, your fantastical
analysis is extremely stupid. You seem to have the memory of a
goldfish. You might remember that before an idiotic weekend in I1Y, we
had been taking systems, not losing them. There was exactly three bad
weekends in this whole war, the first one was in february when bob lost
a titan and a mothership stupid ways, which lead to the 2 months
wolfpax~ period. This did a lot of damage, but you have to get down
from your high horse of bullshit and emo and realize that the people in
BoB are human too, and that the whole losing your alliance and all your
sov due to one guy pushing a single button does not give you a
phantastical motivation. Add a desastrous weekend on the field to it,
and yeah it might lead to a bad decision in hindsight, but they weren't
out to fuck your emo ass, it's just that in a situation like this
slight demotivation might occur and result in a decision to be wolfpax~
only.
After we started to
actually try to defend sovereignty again we did actually take 49, 3bk
and were on our way to take i1y. If you would have actually paid
attention during that time, you would have noticed that the russians
did not outnumber us at any point during that. If you read the forums,
you will also see that before PB was attacked we were planning with
losing it, not because BoB or anyone didn't want to help, but because
the upkeep was overworking our logistical teams for no gains at all,
because we weren't able to fucking use the space anyways (can't utilize
the sov 4 because everything around it was hostile). Unless you were
one of the people (you were not) operating the well over 70 towers that
we needed just to keep our skeleton tower route to empire open to
actually operate with sov down there, you should probably not try to
argue this point. Oh, BoB offered to pay us for the necessary 50-70
additional towers to fortify the systems btw, which we declined,
because it would just have meant that we had to spend even more work on
a constellation that didn't offer us anything in this situation.
So, that leaves I1Y and
H74, which arguably were a mistake started on the last weekend in I1Y
(not being content with controlling one system for 2 weeks straight,
going for more) and then went on in an emo phase until H74 (you know
that on the second day in H74, when we still had tower majority, we
lost the system to 160 hostiles? That's not a number that we had a
problem with for 2 months).
So, that's the terrible
three weekends. In between we had weeks where we controlled the area.
Where we were laughing about the goon posts about how they need to get
their participation up to. But I guess that's where the memory of a
goldfish comes in...
Oh, and about Issabella:
She built jack shit. The
shop was running before she was even in corp. It has already been taken
over and will continue to run, this time without regular outbursts in
alliance chat or on irc because someone else was doing terrible things
like daring to offer to sell ships too. What you are saying is an
insult to at least 10-20 people in the corp who have worked harder.
longer and better and spent more of their personal assets for the corp
than Issabella would be able to hope in the next 24 months. In fact,
everything our industrial side does is running of the work and the
funds of people that you probably don't even know the name of because
they are not emo drama queens. The very fact that you even think that
she was important to the function of this corp shows that in fact she
was only important to further her own childish need of constant
validation.
You should probably go
join her, and don't forget to tell everyone who wants or doesn't want
to listen about how terrible you have been treated and how the corp and
the alliance will now fail because of you leaving. After all, Issa does
too, and everyone is having a good laugh at it.
Mo'Chusile posts occasionally on the somethingawful.com forums, and
after this was leaked he did his level best to convince everyone that
his spergout was not, in fact, an act of rage or a loss of control.
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