Ground warfare in EVE

I’m a bit of geek when it comes to military history, and have always had a preference for land warfare. Army over Navy, and forget about the wing wipers, and all that. So as much fun as ripping through the heavens in massive spaceships in EVE is, my secret yearning is that CCP Games does something (anything really) to make planets, and the surface struggles for them, a relevant part of the game.

The new Chronicle gives a tiny taste of surface combat, with this awesome image of armor-clad infantry disembarking from dropships, but aside from decent play in the Empyrean Age fiction there’s not much room for it in the EVE universe. Certainly not in the game as it stands now.

You can dominate any planet with orbital bombardment, just like in reality you can (mostly) dominate any country via air and sea control, but it’s still an age old truth that to actually control ground you must hold it. And it takes troops, specifically some flavor of infantry, to do it. It would be fascinating to see the CCP team explore control of planetary surfaces more directly within the framework of the game – or perhaps as some sort of small FPS/strategy brand extension if it’s not workable within MMO mechanics.

Really though, I just want to see what that Caldari infantry could go in a fight.

Thanks for coming back for another visit!