152mmDumbRocket

Wow, it's nice to have you back Phonan! What happened to you? I haven't seen you since the first time I was online. Did something come up? I have an idea. Jung, as you and jby know, we had some awesome battles last Sunday but we didn't get any players in the games other than you two, myself, and STONEWALL. How about Phonan, yourself and I team up next Sunday and take on jby, STONEWALL, and whoever else wants to come next Sunday. I'll see what I can do on my end to make other players more aware, you can do the same, and we can see the results on Sunday.

You sure did, jby! I thought the clock would run out before you made it, but it didn't. Thanks, jby. It's what I do. :cool: Speaking of well placed shots, the reason why your northern attack at Dead Gulch failed was because I was up on the northern hill with a 120 Thor and plenty of ammo, so I had no problem turing your staging area into a shooting gallery. As for the don't hide under the bridge rule, the revision is just fine by me. Sneak attacks by infantry would have been great, but it would have taken away a good deal of balance in the game.

I don't usually do that either, but Jung had to go, as did I, and so I had the chance to see how well I did. I act like that too, but I think of it as a desperate mad charge, relying only on my aim to blow everything up. I know it's not very smart, but sometimes I do act that way. See you all tomorrow on the field of battle, and may the best minds and sharpest aims win.

You bet! So for anyone who can read this forum, stock up on ammo and courage, and when 3 PM EST comes tomorrow, either rule by Jung and me with glory , or get blown sky high with our opponents! :eek:

Friday- Had a couple of good games with Jung, boooom, and RAT#%& today, and I got a new insight into my ratty friend (We played together for both rounds). I hopped on board with Jung and RAT#%& for the House to House game, at which point Jung struck a deal with me. He said we should each take one side for the next game and we would play together on Sunday. I agreed, and we went to the next game, an Objective round at Dead Gulch. Dead Gulch was a very hard fought battle, and although I lost thanks to Jung shooting through my frontal armor :mad: , I thought afterwards that maybe my impressive shooting ability was rubbing off on Jung! I got a new insight into RAT#%& today. For the first time, he entered something into the chat window that was intelligible. He said "i dropping in behind you" or something like that. My response (in this post, not the game) is this: Uh, why would I need to know that? The second time he chatted, it was at Dead Gulch and it was "help". My answer to that, again in this post only, is: How could I have helped you? I was down near the objective, having a hard time as it was, and you were on the hill with the western AA Ion tower fighting it out with boooom. You were on your own, with no bots nearby that I could switch to, and while boooom isn't the most accurate shooter in the world, he's capable of stopping you all the same, especially at the close quarters you two were in. Still, the battle ended with RAT#%&'s deaths at 30 and mine at 25, but RAT#%& got 9 kills, which lead me to up the estimate of his age in my previous post to just being a 9-year old who was new to the game, and my score of 27 kills is as good as it's ever been. Today's battles were the kind that I can live with.

Thursday- Ran into a guy whose name was (politely phrased) RAT#%&. He was probably a 6-year old, as far as I could tell, because of his behavior. First I played against him on Low Dunes and had no problem taking his flag and scoring twice, because of a lack of defense and not-so well placed turrets. I've encountered stiffer resistance from the bots on Low Dunes in standalone than I did in this game. I spent the rest of the game sitting at my flag as he mindlessly tried to butcher me and my defenses, the smartest move he made being trying to sneak up with a Apollo and a Hermes to kill me, but my superior instincts and gunnery skills dispatched him easily :cool: . Then came Ice Field, where I joined him on the side of Blood. This is where things got low-caliber. He had put 5 76mm AT Turrets randomly inside the base, and left it that way. As for me, I got to work putting several 90mm AT Turrets on top of the parapets, a plan that paid off quite handsomely once the game began . Once the deployment phase was over, I mounted the parapets with a Apollo and delivered death with a 120mm gun, while the turrets I had put up went on a killing spree and kept the base well defended. And as for RAT#%&, he spent his time in an Apollo, firing wildly and only getting about 2 kills as far as I can remember, and firing HE at an enemy Apollo, while not being very accurate. When I asked him if he was new, I got no response. He did type in the chat window a couple of times later, but everything he wrote was a bunch of 4's, 3's, and d's all strung together. I twice called down a Galaxy in the course of the game and told him to get some ammo, but he didn't seem to understand. The first time I told him, he did nothing :confused: , and on the second time, he spun his Apollo around inside the base like a little kid on a joy ride to nowhere :eek: . Strange bedfellows are those you meet on a server on any day other than Sunday, I suppose.