Poctalon
TH1 Pilot
"DOGFACE FIND ME AN LZ, COME ON. SOMEWHERE"
The above was what I shouted for a good amount of time as I aimlessly flew around the battlefield. "Battlefield", yeah. Bravo's helo went down as it tried to touch down at the very very hot LZ. The grounded team was grounded. We had super xray intelligence and saw enemy positions! But things were slow. Very slow. That's all there is to say.
Clergyman
Alpha 1 Assistant Automatic Rifleman (Firsttimer!)
"IFV, IFV IFV!!!!!!"
So this started out quite well. I was pretty happy to join the "no responsibility, a lot of pew pew" club (© Kefirz 2013). As the mission started we set off on our tracks with a very helpful lesson. "Do not ever drive over the Squad Leader, he'll get grumpy!", is what somebody shouted as we set off. So very true. Don't do that. I speak of personal experience. Anyhow, as we arrived at our dismount point we head over to our RV, all nice and easy. Just that A2 missed it by miles and ended up somewhere at the edge of town. So they come back, and we continue moving. At this point we also miss our designated location, and instead were hopping all over the open field which has a nice view around town. Luckily, it was foggy. So we headed back, and then almot instantly got told to move into town (over the open field that we just went over). Fine.
We arrive at a barn, all nice and tactical. Both teams set up, weapons ready. We're going to cross the corner and clear out that (relatively) big barn. Sounds like a plan. Let's go... wait.. what.. OH MY GOD IFV IFV IFV!!!. That's what I shout, immediately turning around and dashing back to A2s position. It was too late for the rest of A1 though, unfortunately. A nice HE round put into the side of the barn kills all of them instantly. I meet up with dancemoox somehow, and we move alongside the other end of the barn. As we move into the barn, I see the IFV aiming directly at me through a window. At this point I slowed down instead of speeding up, and slowly creeped through the barn. I was constantly thinking "What if that IFV saw me/us?". Being directly behind dancemoox it was a mixed feeling, because we were bunched up, both of us. But okay, let's just move towards the debris over there, alright, go.. BOOM, HE round to the face. We both died instantly. Turns out the IFV did see us.
Treehuggers
Charlie 1 FTL
"Let's go sneak up on that bunker head on. Sounds good."
To be honest, right off the bat, this was a horrible mission to FTL in. I don't think it went well for me as I took a casualty really early on. Comms weren't exactly great in our FT throughout the mission and I died early. But from the beginning.
We pretty much set up at the RV, waiting for everybody to come along. As the mission started, we walked along the road in a line formation, engaging nothing along the way (UAZs don't count, not significant enough). So we end up at this downed UAZ and I get a quick headcount. Tiger's up, Mojo's up, but Crazy's gone. Mojo promptly went looking for him, and found him dead. Oh well, let's bury him.. whoever got that idea. But we actually did it, just for the heck of it. At an electricity station sort of thing, what a nice grave.. As we continued to push up the road, we spotted a bunker with mines. Tigershark's idea was to sneak up on it, and to be honest this was a really good idea actually. But I kinda ended up just charging it head on and, obviously, I died.
Cacheola
Platoon Medic
No good puns in this mission, it was total serious business all along.
So it's Fer vs Kefirz. Fer's plan was to basically let Alpha be a FT that stays back and kills stuff after it's in town. The rest of the FTs split up evenly, with me hiding somewhere "safe". I actually liked this mission as it was really tense. I started to hide out in a building very close to Charlie FT, and it was fine. I just idled there for a bit, but soon felt the need to be a bit more mobile (I was mostly looking at my map), so I pushed South (the direction of the enemy), to hide out in another building. I soon realized how dumb that was, because they were rolling into Zargabad with 3 Humvees and started to clear out buildings 1 by 1. Mine was very close to being cleared, so I rushed out of there. I'm pretty sure I took fire when I headed out, but chose to ignore it and fell back, close to Charlie's position. Again, I did not stay long - partially because of the enemy closing in, partially because of the need to be mobile. So I entered this shop. I'm sure most know this building with the big front entrance, a 2 story building, downstairs is a shop, has a roof aswell. So I hid on the first floor. This was relatively safe, but they noticed me somehow. My only exit at that point was the front door - extremely goddamn dangerous. I rested there for a bit, but soon started to take .50 cal fire and small arms fire. I started to think about how and when to get out - staying there would be suicide. Realizing my only exit was the front door, I started to set my mind around the fact I was screwed. I didn't get happier when I took rockets to my building and when it started to bust up, close to collapsing. So I took my chance, rushing the heck out of there. I took .50 cal fire when moving out, but it didn't hit me. Lucky. I moved into a building north of Fer's position. Closed both doors, camped the first floor. I kept myself updated via map and listening to comms. After some time, Fer had infantry storm his building. He died, unfortunately. But his orders not to save him were pretty clear. So I kept to my building. After some back and forth, I peeked out. I saw an AR with NV Goggles and a M249 SAW. Well, unfortunately for you, that's my favorite weapon besides the Lee Enfield. I put a magazine into him, and called it in via TS3. We had an IED in the building infront of me, and I was sure we had more contacts in there - so we blew it up. I started to move away with my newly gained M249 SAW and NVGs. Mostly heard screams over comms and had contacts here and there. Had some friendly fire accidents too due to my awesome equipment (you're all just jealous, no need to kill me for that!), but none of them lethal. One significant encounter was when I flanked BLUFOR at Bravo cache (as we called it, most northern cache). Killed 2 guys. We camped the cache and had 3-4 contacts. I didn't react quick enough as one popped out and got shot. Sniper patched me up and I went at it again (as Waffly got shot too), but promptly got shot AGAIN. And I died.
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FuelUtopia
Dirty cop!
"Guus, give me your Lee Enfield goddamnit!"
I started this mission with an M9 and 2 mags. I shot nobody. I went around screaming "where they at?!!!" in a really shitty accent (like always). The helicopter they had eventually landed in the middle of our fueltopia town and I think I shot the pilot, but it was actually EBass' kill. Then he got shot. I couldn't patch him up. I panicked. Our priest came and tried to fix him up. But he got shot. I ran around like always. I popped around the corner and suddenly the rear gun of the helo opens up on me. Waffly: "Oh wait, wasn't that a friendly?" Me: "Yes. ._." Waffly: "Well, consider yourself lucky it didn't hit you" Me: "Well you just shot me five times, I'm dead." Waffly:
Me:
All in all a cool session. Surprised to see 45 people at peak mid-week. :>