Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24.163.32.18-20121127033642/@comment-1486311-20121128000636

When pushed back to a Warp Gate, faction members who do not simply give up and leave need to work together. WIthout teamwork, the remnant will never succeed in breaching the enemy cordon.

The advantage you have when pushed back is that the other faction currently subjugated will give the dominating Empire something else to worry about. As the other faction gains ground, attackers waiting at the edge of your warpgate will peel off over time to go stop the third party's counter attack.

When this happens, both your Empire and the third party's simply push as hard as they can. This forces the dominator to split its mass to try to defeat the outpour, and eventually leads to an evenly contested environment.

Of course, any well-trained Outfit can counter any aspect of this process in their favor quite well, assuming they're working together...