Armada

UK electronica duo Groove Armada, who together invented this form of flaming and named the technique after themselves.

The Armada is a rare form of flame war in comparison to the others. It usually requires a vast amount of completely irrelevant history and a shitload of ultra bored flame warriors.

1. An ingenious poster posts a topic which will divide public opinion dramatically. Debate ensues.
2. Fairly rapidly, two 'teams' (let us call them 'Alpha' and 'Omega') develop based almost purely on previously forged friendship alliances and very rarely on the actual topic.
   1. If a poster from team Alpha makes a comment, every single poster from team Omega will tell them what a complete fucktard they are.
      • To each of Omega's comments, each member of team Alpha will make a retaliation comment.
   2. If a poster from team Omega makes a comment, every single poster from team Alpha will tell them what a complete fucktard they are.
      • To each of Alpha's comments, each member of team Omega will make a retaliation comment.
   3. Internet explodes.

And so on, and so forth.