The only reason CFC #'s might be going down is just random carebear times, other crap going on, got bored, etc. If the "Horn of Gondor" ever gets blown and there's an All Hands on Deck call the #'s will blot out the sun. And you know that. Enjoy the slow burn for now. It's more interesting. If they ever decide they want to "finish this shit" you will know.

i mean you conly move 36 zealots per go

but an AHAC fleet escorted by firewall ships, missiles simply won't work anymore =).

Maels & Rokhs (with heavy Paint/Web support) can effectively counter AHACs for two reasons
(1) Sheer alpha damage being registered (Due to web + paint) kills target instantly
(2) Maels & Rokhs have fatter tanks compared Drakes, allowing better chance to receive reps and survive. As for Sig radius… against a CRUISER weapon, BC & BS sig radius are comparatively negligible. So only tank is how big of a shield/armor they have.

For most of drake vs. AHAC fights… Either CFC is being overtly "generous" in giving fair fight to Dotbros by handicapping themselves or they are simply being douschebags.

Unless their goal has now changed the DOTBROS are getting what they desire, strategically destroying fleets, supers, and aborting baby titans. To me that sounds like OP success given the parameters outlined in their initial goals from the war.

In fact they have gone as far as opening a second front on SOLAR because for some reason the GSF fleets have been reluctant to engage the DOTBROS.

As far as your definition of Strategic Success…Id still have to give the points to DOTBROS, as they have successfully buried their timers into a time zone that GSF apparently has no members, nor FC's. Strategy wise that seems like a very successful play, which supports their long term goals of getting GF's.

GSF has captured objectives as well, but they are strictly SOV related, which was their goal, however they have not had resounding success. The 40 tech moons you seem to hold as evidence of such haven't even covered the whelping of the fleets to attain them. A resounding success no, but it is a success none the less.

And thus is the very core of why GSF is mired in miserable stagnation. Their pilots are losing morale in not only the campaign that GSF desires, SOV grinding isn't fun, especially when the other party doesn't really care for that space anyway, but even less fun is fleeting up to whelp a fleet. On top of this the Goon Pets lose faith in the leadership of GSF each day, and things like not coming to an "allies" aid "because they derped a timer" is reminiscent of siting by and watching the old NC whelp Supers. (heck GSF even fired on several of them).

Losing support of their own pilots, losing support of their pets, being openly mocked by the greater eve community, and making no progress. That doesn't sound like a very successful strategic operation.

Meanwhile DOTBROS bring more and more pilots with similar desires into their fold, they seek fights, and are getting them from GSF and SOLAR, fleets are operating around the clock, more and more allies join every day, and they are preventing both SOLAR, and GSF from making any headway. Not bad for a bunch of shit posters who didn't want that space anyway.

If ncdot starts winning euro and us timers then sure, you'd be right. Maybe they will start doing so in a couple of weeks. I guess we'll see.

This means that broad coalitions like the cfc will always have a significant portion of their membership having low SP or very little experience.