xane
Fledgling Freddie
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- Dec 22, 2003
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Last night I played an absolute cracking game, although altogether confusing in the end.
The la Drang Valley map, setting the weasely NVA against the M60 meisters in their helo gunships, lots of AA action, lots of flag swapping.
I was on the NVA side and the game got off to a very good start, most of the time we controlled all the flags apart from the airfield at the far end of the valley, and we even made a play for that too. In any event, even though the flags were on our side the ticker seemed to go down very slow for the Yankees.
The supposed clincher came when one of us jumped into a Phantom and started a wholesale destruction of every helo leaving the base, the Joes were trapped in their airfield for a long time, still they had a lot of ticker time. Eventually Colonel Tomb got knocked out the sky trying to rearm, and the game was back on.
The GIs got their act together and starting using "tactics", eventually they got all the flags and won, despite being at only 22 points ! Well played but a bit unfair as the map does seem to give the US side plenty of time on the ticker, it was really a war of patience and attrition, which only benefits the side with the best weapons.
The "tactics" they used was basically sticking together, but not only that, they'd hover around a flag just outside the capture zone, aiming their M60 uberguns, and when the spawn occurred, massacre Charlie and rush into capture, knowing they had a good 30 seconds or so. Not very nice really and down to a bad map design that clusters the spawn, the designers obviously hadn't though of the M60 used wholesale.
I see this as going to be a bit of a problem and possibly in need of a patch, a lot of maps have predictable and tight clusters of spawns that are open to all out massacres, more covered spawns are needed.
The finale was hilarious, down to one man with no flags we all watched our illustrious teammate run towards the Airbase, then some dork commented on how Airbases can't be captured, thus giving him away. He neednt have bothered, the guy jumped into a ZSU-57, broke it and killed himself !
gg
The la Drang Valley map, setting the weasely NVA against the M60 meisters in their helo gunships, lots of AA action, lots of flag swapping.
I was on the NVA side and the game got off to a very good start, most of the time we controlled all the flags apart from the airfield at the far end of the valley, and we even made a play for that too. In any event, even though the flags were on our side the ticker seemed to go down very slow for the Yankees.
The supposed clincher came when one of us jumped into a Phantom and started a wholesale destruction of every helo leaving the base, the Joes were trapped in their airfield for a long time, still they had a lot of ticker time. Eventually Colonel Tomb got knocked out the sky trying to rearm, and the game was back on.
The GIs got their act together and starting using "tactics", eventually they got all the flags and won, despite being at only 22 points ! Well played but a bit unfair as the map does seem to give the US side plenty of time on the ticker, it was really a war of patience and attrition, which only benefits the side with the best weapons.
The "tactics" they used was basically sticking together, but not only that, they'd hover around a flag just outside the capture zone, aiming their M60 uberguns, and when the spawn occurred, massacre Charlie and rush into capture, knowing they had a good 30 seconds or so. Not very nice really and down to a bad map design that clusters the spawn, the designers obviously hadn't though of the M60 used wholesale.
I see this as going to be a bit of a problem and possibly in need of a patch, a lot of maps have predictable and tight clusters of spawns that are open to all out massacres, more covered spawns are needed.
The finale was hilarious, down to one man with no flags we all watched our illustrious teammate run towards the Airbase, then some dork commented on how Airbases can't be captured, thus giving him away. He neednt have bothered, the guy jumped into a ZSU-57, broke it and killed himself !
gg
