After the defense of VFK and the humiliating flight of our enemies from Deklein, we have entered a new phase of the War for Winter – the Reconquista. It falls to us to clear away the debris left behind by the fall of the NC and the ensuing power vacuum, a wave of foolish badposting that has left, near-abandoned, a host of hostile towers and sov structures from Cloud Ring to the gates of Deklein – where that wave broke and shattered against our combined righteous might. 
It would be too simple to dismiss the current delicate situation as ‘mere cleanup’. We cannot allow ourselves a sense of smug validation at our present good fortune, because the security of our empire still rests on a knife’s edge. We have fought, we have defended, and for now we have met success. Yet we must dislodge our foe’s infrastructure and recapture that which was ours with diligence and a steady pace, rather than lapsing into indolence and false security.
The Reconquista will proceed deliberately. Headshots and Helicopter Dicks only work when your foe is pinned and helpless; our enemies will rally and try to interfere with us should we attempt to take shortcuts by racking up too many timers each night. Instead we will maintain our stamina, do a bit of work every night, and gradually purge the interlopers. 
Birth of a Doctrine
The creation of the Welpfleet had an immediate impact on our foes. Where previously they had operated with relative impunity in insultingly small groups of supercapitals in Fade and Pure Blind, the abrupt coalescence of 250 Hurricanes in VFK has repeatedly seen our foes log off in pants-shitting terror rather than face a horde of autocannon-packing goons with an axe to grind. 
In a way, the Welpfleet has been a victim of its own success. By now, Welpfleets have been used to murder the odd subcap fleet and smash small groups of carriers, but they have inspired such fear that hostile supercaps have almost vanished from our theater of operations. Shortly after the doctrine was announced, Raiden, NCdot and Ev0ke all found something else much more interesting to do in the south, and PL’s ops tempo has flatlined. 
However, do not despair. The purpose of Welpfleet is not merely to murder overly smug supercap k/d worshippers, but also to be a primary homeland defense tool and a training vehicle for young leaders. Aspiring FCs are encouraged to take small Welpfleet groups out (packing ECM drones in the ‘canes) and ram them into things. They are cheap, vicious, durable and forgiving. 
We do not anticipate a non-Welpfleet future. When the doctrine was devised, most of our calculations assumed 100 ‘canes as a best case scenario. In practice, our formups have often broken 200, an absolutely scandalous amount of disposable dps. Importers and producers are encouraged to continue providing Hurricanes with the doctrine fit indefinitely. 
Enemies Avidly Attacking Elsewhere
Before the Battle of VFK, our various foes circled us in a vast coalition of blue-hating hypocrites. Eternly rebuked, they have scattered to the four winds – yet, comically, they have maintained their blue lists with one another. Raiden, Ev0ke and NCdot have taken an interest in Delve, or Providence, or the Awagon vs DRF conflict. Their actions aren’t particularly consistent or relevant; some days they are far away, other days they are still derping around Venal. PL remains in the area, basing out of ROIR in Pure Blind, forlornly awaiting a contract from Death to give them an excuse to leave the area. NCdot’s supercapitals remain parked in UMI, perhaps to guard their Venal holdings against a phantom GSF assault which isn’t likely to occur. 
So while our enemies have mostly decided that They Don’t Want Some, due to the locations of their supercaps, the anti-coalition coalition could mass together rapidly if we grow incautious and try to reinforce 30 towers in one night. 
The Foreverwon’t
The current Grand excuse to get as far away from Deklein as possible is the DRF vs AAA conflict, which also stars a number of former NC alliances looking to get revenge against White Noise et al. Apparently this is a complex and exciting topic (it’s not). We don’t give a fuck at any level. We have grim work at home, and unlike the rest of nullsec involved in that slapfight, we have not forgotten that winter is coming. 
Fade’s Ascension
Some have questioned my decision to grant Fade to Fatal Ascension. Their participation numbers in VFK were astounding, it’s true – but they are young and have never held a region before. Yet it is increasingly obvious that the choice was a wise one. Despite the expected hiccups that come from adapting from holding pockets to owning an entire region (the odd boofed pos timer or whatever), FA under Zagdul have shown incredible drive in their fight to secure their territory. 
It is now undeniable how effective Zagdul’s idea of using torp bombers to chew through Ev0ke’s downtime timers has been. While our foes mocked FA on the forums for daring to suggest a strategic use for bombers, their pilots have shot down hordes of SBUs and iHubs across Fade in the past two weeks. Apparently the counter to a cumbersome supercapital fleet at 12:00 to 15:00 EVE is 40 bomber pilots with cloaks, a hold full of ammo and a grudge. Hats off to them, and any goons who joined in their regular Moon Time bomber wings. 
Recapturing what is (Now) Ours – Pure Blind
In the past, Pure Blind was a mishmash of territory held by various NC alliances. A quick glance at the history of that blighted region will show that every major incursion of the North was based out of Pure Blind. GSF has decided that the security of Pure Blind is the security of Deklein. We are unwilling to repeat the mistakes of the NC. As a result, we will be taking a controlling interest in the sovereignty of that region, while simultaneously granting full rights to the territory of those remaining residents – LAWN, FCON and SMA. 
Within the past two weeks we have discussed this new order with FCON, SMA and LAWN. While each of these entities are already massively enriched compared to the NC’s regime, they cannot hold or maintain the region on their own. Pure Blind is absolutely littered with Ev0ke and PL towers. It is up to us to burn them. The vast majority of the moons in the interstitial regions will be going to GSF or TEST; the FCON, LAWN and SMA pockets are their own. 
The Technetium party cannot last forever, and we cannot trust CCP to rebalance moons with any kind of competence – just look at what happened during the dys/prom nerf. To maintain reimbursements and our ~soviet ideological purity~, we must save for whatever dark and unpredictable times are ahead – and that means sieging Pure Blind. 
Cloud Ring, Too
Yeah, we have to kick the Krauts out of Cloud Ring, as well. Again. vOv 
Reactive Reinforcement
Dust off your Dreads. We’re going to be posting ‘kill’ ops in sticky threads and tossing them in the op ticker like in the old, pre-reactive era. However, reinforcement ops will remain reactive/unannounced. Expect nightly (us-tz) siegework at erratic times during the next week or two. 
New Hires: Hralti and Pmchem
I’ve hired Hralti Smirks to the directorate as an agent handler for the GIA. If you’re interested in working as an agent, hut up Hralti, Endie or Tamir Lenk (or all three!). With Hralti on the team, we now have much better timezone coverege for handlers, whuch means that you cann pipe intel even at insomniac hours and/or get your hand held. 
Meanwhile, Pmchem has joined us as a GARPA guy. He’s doing… things, almost all of which are classified – the usual GARPA story. There’s a recruitment post up if you think you have what it takes. 
Membercorp Purging
It has been far too long since I executed a membercorp, and I fear my post-VFK largesse towards our coalition partners might be misinterpreted by some within the alliance is a sign of laxity. As most of you know by now, all I care about un a membercorp is that they provide the alliance with pilots in the right ships on the right ops during that corp’s timezone. I don’t care about small gang pvp, I don’t care about k/d ratios, and I certainly don’t give a fuck about industry – all that matters is having a satisfactory number of the correct ships on the line during strategic ops. We have reams of data about who was on the line in VFK when it mattered most across all timezones, and we’re going to use that data accordingly.

First of All

Welcome to the NΕW Brick Ѕquаd Forums

Murtific Has spend literally Days worth of hours coding to get this far with some excellent help from other dudes which ill leave him to thank when he’s ready and i think we can all agree its excellent and an improvement on the facilities we had before.

Once finished this Site will encompass Forums‚ Kіllboard, A Fleet tracker, Timers, IRC + Mumble all managed in one place….with the opportunity to expand and incorporate New features as we think them up.

There seems to be Some Problems with the KB and the old forums going up and down so please be patient while we are in the transition to the new Services and also there will be things being up and down with the new site too like at this moment the admin page is down. also YΕЅ some of you find this аnnoying because you are all keen Killboard Whores‚ so you can monіtor our statistics at http://eve-kill.net/?a=alliance_detail&all_id=1940 where currently you will find brick squad as the 4th top killing alliance in all of eve trailing only Goons, -A- and our Brosefs in arms Morsus Mihi

Your Ceo’s and Directors Should have the access to modify members accesses for their own corp CΕO’s able to add directors, Directors able to sort members and only Admins and mods able to assign super access…….IF any Leadership aren’t sure how to assign Roles please come to myself or shemham when you can grab us and leave murtific alone to deal with the bugs and finishing his excellent work …(you should send him isks!)

WTF IЅ GOING ON!?!?

“We аre shooting this and then that then we moved here to attack that now we arent really attacking anything”
is what some of you maybe thinking and it has been an especially hectic few days for me with many things happening and changing behind the scenes. ill give you a situational update on where we stand with the NIP‚ the polіtical overview of the area and what we are looking into for the future

NIP with Delve Residents
First off some of you who arent aware a NIP is a Non INVASION pact and the stance I take on this is no SOV warfare, which means exactly that…no SBUing, No Shooting sov related stuffs which means everything else is fair game to all….HOWΕVER ….negotiations are ongoing with Nulli/-A- and BORG over various different things so take advantage of the time to have some fun….make some isks and making sure our sov gets sorted and ihubs get deployed
We will be On a campaign ЅOON just аs soon as we figure out the best of the options available

The Politik!
As you all know DRF + Cohorts have attacked -A- Block‚ and StaіnWagon (SΕ/Coven/RL) have abandoned them, Nulli, Atlas, Fail and HUNЅ аre all redeploying to GE- or somewhere near there to assist -A-. In order to allow nulli and co to assist -a- against the greater menace that is the DRF we have agreed to not invade nulli and their other friendly entities in Delve so they can focus on this task…..im fairly up there on Ehonor so i will not break this agreement beyond the space borders we have laid out for our little space bloc and providing negotiations continue as they seem to be going there will be no need to enforce any kind of sov claims within our area

Some of you may notice NOL has not yet been flipped to us as there was some confusion between the parties involved about who gets it….and we are allowing some time for negotiation to continue but im very clear that this is to be a Brick system and i will not settle for anything less

What we should do next
Well like i have already mentioned our current priority is to sort out our space….get our assets sorted and then we will allow some time for members to make isks
As soon as i get hold of vinev for a chats we will be sorting our finances‚ payіng our bills and then looking at what we can do in the way of ship reimbursement programs
We have held a few moons now for at least 30 days now so i expect a decent bank balance with enough room on getting this activated…

Beyond this we are still weighing up our choices as a coalition and when we are ready for our next move we will let you guys know….there are rumors of entities like evoke coming to delve although we have no solid intel on this we are hoping with fingers crossed they do

Brick Structure
Your overall “skymarshall” and grand planner is myself
our “grand admirals” for bricks who shall plan and put into action those plans with me are as follows

Murtific
Lucian/Keef,
Tounsi,
XXNukeyXX
Scooter1

We have a Number of other FC’s who work very hard to make sure fleets are run regularly such as nairu, alpha, spottington, miesmaccher, max amongst others
please dont feel missed out if i didnt mention your name as we have quite a few and they are all doing a great job when they can to make sure you guys are able to pew
so as always SUPPORT your FC’s, join their fleets and help them help you!

Basically you guys need to run it past one of the senior “grand admirals” if your taking anything more than BC fleets to something and NΕVER super caps without one of the senior guys present

I ask ALL titan pilots to make bridging available to any Brick FC who asks for one so that fleets can move around and make attacks on our enemy much smoother

Our Brick Diplos are Ѕhemhаm and Decimat and all issues regarding internal or external diplomacy should go through these guys first

And finally our money manager is Vinev who controls the brick bank with myself

Brick Logistics
Im still looking for guys to help get an official brick logistics dept to handle such things as pos deployments‚ fuelіng and supply transports in place so bricks has what it needs when it needs it….some of the corps in brick are very strong in this department and i would like the leaders of those corps/depts within corps to get with me so we can discuss how we can implement this as most of you especially the successful ones have much more experience with this

This pretty much covers all i have to tell you atm…..there have been a few other questions floating about and when I’m in a position to answer them i will

Brick Still endeavours to make ΕVE a fun game for you to Play and YOUR interests are and will be my number 1 priority

If at any time its become the feeling that im not doing my job properly or im making too many of the wrong decisions i would step aside without question

I am not a power crazed person….this job is time consuming and can be a headache at times especially when difficult decisions need to be made and can make and break someones will to play the game….There are many people who work in brick just as hard if not harder than me to provide you with services, Ѕhips to fly аnd something to do so i ask you all to respect and support all these heroes because they are the real guys who get shit done in brick

I aim to provide these updates at least every 2 weeks and less if theres a series of important information required

ChiB ]]> http://www.eve-news.com/2011/08/03/brick-squad-update-1811/feed/ 1 http://www.eve-news.com/2011/07/29/asd/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=asd http://www.eve-news.com/2011/07/29/asd/#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:30:57 +0000 Mintchip http://www.eve-news.com/?p=1369

Summary:

“We are going to park a thousand people in these systems, 23/7 and we are basically going to rapecage them and kill everything.”

Riddaion, an IE-EX (Brick Squad’s founding corporation) USTZ FC broke ranks in a smash and grab late Monday evening pulling down the reimbursement Tech towers in Heimatar and relieving Brick of its remaining capital warchest. Shortly after the theft, he was spotted on alliance comms guiding a Snigg fleet safely from the hands of the Collective. When called out on comms, he chided alliance leader Chib for “damaging the Brick way and keeping all the Jewgold for himself”; then announced his heist. Chib, audibly stunned, ominously replied, “I knew he was a spy, he was on the list“. He continued to say an “investigation and discipline will follow”.

When reached for comment, Riddaion only stated that “SYFL”, or Sorry For Your Loss.

With such a list, one is left to wonder; will Brick Squad soon to be facing Stalinesque purges of disbelievers by Comrade Chib? What will Riddaion do with his stolen 30 Billion? Can Brick Squad handle another setback? Can the Collective hold together without them?

How is CCP defining “Game Breaking?”  Not quite sure.  For example we have PLEX, which are Pilot Liscense Extention Cards that you can use to extend your monthly game time, or you can purchase to then sell on the markets.  Basically a legal RMT or Real Money Trade.  Does ISK give you an advantage within the game?  Absolutely, the game revolves around the making and destroying of “ISK.”  ISK is time, isk is money.  Essentially there can be many more additions to the game that are similar to the impact of a PLEX.  Where is the line drawn?
As for customer service, CCP didn’t mention anything on the Hilmar email.  This embarassing leak was not addressed in the follow-up CSM Summit meet blog, nor in the previous blog announcing the summit meet.