Post by Outcast on Oct 28, 2009 11:48:03 GMT -8
Another fun weekend at Hosking despite the low turnout (I would guess 50 total players). I played for Bad Ash (Red).
First game on Saturday, we started on Hannibal hill. half the army went towards the village and I went with the other half that went down the middle road (which was basically the boundary due to the small turnout). We pushed past the safety zone flag and moved toward the small satellite dome. We didn't make it. I went back to the cargo box to tag in and move back into the woods to head back. Just as I got into the trees, 4 yellow guys took that flag. They pushed up the road to take the CP. After they left, I changed the flag back to red and hid to make sure that noone changed that flag so they couldn't respawn there in their effort to take our
CP. I waited for 20 minutes and never saw anyone else. When I heard out CP had been overrun, I headed for the little sat dome. I soon realized almost all the flag stations were red. I met up with a new friend and we pushed our way deep into enemy terrritory. The two of us ended up taking their CP and took out their General (Lil D) in the process.
The Red Army wasn't making very good progress, so Ian (I hope
I spelled it right) and I spent most of the day behind ememy lines changing flags, ambushing patrols and changing their CP flag to red once an hour. At the end of the day I had taken their CP 3 times and was very close to taking it a 4th time. I used less than 100 balls of paint all day and was amazed at how so many people could walk right past me and not see me. In fact, when I was taking the Enemy CP the second time, I was by myself (Ian got shot and hadn't caught back up to me yet) and I was within 15 feet of the back trail up to the CP maybe 150 from the defensive positions. A squad of 7 yellow army guys cam walking down the back trail. The first 3 went past me and just as the 4th guy was withing 20 feet of me he accidentally shot his marker. Everyone stopped and started looking for the shooter. I thought I was screwed as now they were actually LOOKING in my direction. Thankfully they gave up and kept going. This made it nice for me as I just got up and walked up the trail they just came down. I took a lesson from Fiona and just walked up casually, with my marker down and opened up when I got close enough. I got the defenders but the General was able to run down the hill and escape.
Time for the night game. Ian and myself were all ready to play. We went to the safety briefing and realized only two other guys were willing to play. D asked us all if we still wanted to play with only the 4. The other two (yellow) said no. D let the two of us take the field. We went out and changed a bunch of flag stations to red and came back in to collect our points for winning the night game.
On Sunday there were no points for overrunning CP's so I helped in the struggle to take and hold flags. We didn't do very well. Even though we switched sides, we soon found ourselves stuck in our CP with all the other flags yellow. I spent a good amount of time running rogue again. Just casually walking down enemy held roads with my marker on its sling pretending to be cleaning my mask with my rag. Most everyone figured I was dead and ignored me. When someone challenged me, I would just ask where the safety zone was. I never said I was going there, I just asked where it was. I proceed down the road changing every unguarded/lightly guarded flag I came to. I joined up with Spike on a few missions. We had a great firefight going on as we (spike, myself and I think an OKC guy) were defending our CP from a strong push behind Darkwoods. We were doing well, but D and the ref's told the red army to fall back. I went down and changed the flag at Darkwood back to red and then pushed down to change the flag at the little satellite dome. I thought Spike was behind me, but I didn't see him again until later.
The most fun I had all weekend, was sneaking up behind entrenched enemy troops (usually guarding the little satellite flag). I would stand next to a tree (hiding my armband) and yell "two reds over there" and aim that way. They naturally took cover and put their backs to me. I would run up and kindly put one or two shots on each pod pack and run over to change the flag before they could figure out what happened.
It was a close game in points but final battle was a blowout. I think the entire yellow army was across the creek at the end of final battle. Yellow took the game, but I had a great time none the less.
First game on Saturday, we started on Hannibal hill. half the army went towards the village and I went with the other half that went down the middle road (which was basically the boundary due to the small turnout). We pushed past the safety zone flag and moved toward the small satellite dome. We didn't make it. I went back to the cargo box to tag in and move back into the woods to head back. Just as I got into the trees, 4 yellow guys took that flag. They pushed up the road to take the CP. After they left, I changed the flag back to red and hid to make sure that noone changed that flag so they couldn't respawn there in their effort to take our
CP. I waited for 20 minutes and never saw anyone else. When I heard out CP had been overrun, I headed for the little sat dome. I soon realized almost all the flag stations were red. I met up with a new friend and we pushed our way deep into enemy terrritory. The two of us ended up taking their CP and took out their General (Lil D) in the process.
The Red Army wasn't making very good progress, so Ian (I hope
I spelled it right) and I spent most of the day behind ememy lines changing flags, ambushing patrols and changing their CP flag to red once an hour. At the end of the day I had taken their CP 3 times and was very close to taking it a 4th time. I used less than 100 balls of paint all day and was amazed at how so many people could walk right past me and not see me. In fact, when I was taking the Enemy CP the second time, I was by myself (Ian got shot and hadn't caught back up to me yet) and I was within 15 feet of the back trail up to the CP maybe 150 from the defensive positions. A squad of 7 yellow army guys cam walking down the back trail. The first 3 went past me and just as the 4th guy was withing 20 feet of me he accidentally shot his marker. Everyone stopped and started looking for the shooter. I thought I was screwed as now they were actually LOOKING in my direction. Thankfully they gave up and kept going. This made it nice for me as I just got up and walked up the trail they just came down. I took a lesson from Fiona and just walked up casually, with my marker down and opened up when I got close enough. I got the defenders but the General was able to run down the hill and escape.
Time for the night game. Ian and myself were all ready to play. We went to the safety briefing and realized only two other guys were willing to play. D asked us all if we still wanted to play with only the 4. The other two (yellow) said no. D let the two of us take the field. We went out and changed a bunch of flag stations to red and came back in to collect our points for winning the night game.
On Sunday there were no points for overrunning CP's so I helped in the struggle to take and hold flags. We didn't do very well. Even though we switched sides, we soon found ourselves stuck in our CP with all the other flags yellow. I spent a good amount of time running rogue again. Just casually walking down enemy held roads with my marker on its sling pretending to be cleaning my mask with my rag. Most everyone figured I was dead and ignored me. When someone challenged me, I would just ask where the safety zone was. I never said I was going there, I just asked where it was. I proceed down the road changing every unguarded/lightly guarded flag I came to. I joined up with Spike on a few missions. We had a great firefight going on as we (spike, myself and I think an OKC guy) were defending our CP from a strong push behind Darkwoods. We were doing well, but D and the ref's told the red army to fall back. I went down and changed the flag at Darkwood back to red and then pushed down to change the flag at the little satellite dome. I thought Spike was behind me, but I didn't see him again until later.
The most fun I had all weekend, was sneaking up behind entrenched enemy troops (usually guarding the little satellite flag). I would stand next to a tree (hiding my armband) and yell "two reds over there" and aim that way. They naturally took cover and put their backs to me. I would run up and kindly put one or two shots on each pod pack and run over to change the flag before they could figure out what happened.
It was a close game in points but final battle was a blowout. I think the entire yellow army was across the creek at the end of final battle. Yellow took the game, but I had a great time none the less.