ALLIANCE FLEET GUIDE
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This guide will aim to provide you with the basics to get started on alliance PvP fleets. We’ll discuss what you need before joining the fleets, where to find them, and how to prepare your hangar so that you’re able to join as many fleets as possible.
Pings
When a fleet is called by Brave, it will be pinged in Slack. Pings will contain information such as the person commanding the fleet (fleet commander, or FC), which system the fleet is being staged from (it’s almost always the E3OI-U Keepstar, which is the alliance capital), and the name of the fleet itself, which can be found via the Fleet Finder.
There are 3 main types of fleet:
StratOp – Strategic Operations represent the most important fleets run by the alliance. Typically these involve structure defence, move-ops and other, high-priority actions.
Skirmish – These fleets tend to be of less strategic importance, but are still necessary actions required to defend our space. For example, a skirmish fleet might be called to defend an ansiblex, but they may also be called purely for fun. Skirmish fleets tend to have lower classes of ship in the doctrine too (T1).
Casual – Casual fleets can be pinged by anyone in Brave, and are almost always fun fleets.
There is a 4th type of fleet known as Call to Action fleets, or CTAs. These are very rarely called as they are only for the absolute most important operations, such as placing or defending a Keepstar. If you happen to be online when these are called, you should be on this fleet.
Here’s an example of a typical Brave StratOp ping:
The corp will ping its own fleets via Discord in the #fleet-pings channel, and the format will be similar to alliance pings, as below:
DOCTRINE
A doctrine is a collective term for a group of ship fittings. Doctrines are designed to combat various situations, and different doctrines are called by the FC depending on their intel.
All of Brave’s doctrines can be found here. They are grouped depending on which function they serve, they include tags to show whether they are low/high skill fits, and further down that page you’ll see a list of newbro and support ships that work in almost every kind of fleet. Have a browse, see which ships you like, take them out for a spin on the next ping!
Note that not all fleets will announce the doctrine ahead of time in the ping. This is to ensure enemy spies have as little information and preparation ahead of the fleet as possible.
The doctrine will ALWAYS be posted in the fleet’s message of the day (MOTD) when you enter the fleet, and it’s displayed at the top of the fleet chat window.
If the ping does not contain the fitting, please do not ask your corp/alliance-mates either, as they don’t know anymore than you do. Be patient, wait for the fleet to be called, check the MOTD.
MUMBLE
Make sure you have Mumble installed and ready to go before you join a fleet, so you can hear fleet commands. You’ll also need to ensure you have your Whisper key set up too, though sitting muted is perfectly fine as it’s unlikely you’ll be doing more than listening for your first few fleets.
Remember to check the ping as it’ll tell you which Mumble channel you need to be in to hear the Fleet Commander.
