Post by Werewolf on Mar 2, 2008 14:17:07 GMT -5
Well, I pulled it off. For those of you not quite sure what I mean, ask Severe or Esquire. I'm sure they'll inform you that this cat expended one of his nine paintball lives attending this game.
I went to this game thinking that it would just be a fun, relaxing time to hang out with a small detatchment of Rogues and see SplatBrothers again. We arrived Saturday morning with plenty of time to get our gear together and make contact with Otto and Mushroom. We recieved a fw down and dirty details of the gameplan and made our way onto the field a few minutes before the horn.
I don't think Rogue Cell was originally slotted to be a primary mission team, but after establishing very good radio contact with the CP via one of our radios and feeding him intel all morning, Mushroom started to send missions down the pipe fairly rapidly. He also diverted us to several areas in order to spport other uints, cause distractions, recon areas of the field, and perform all other manner of tasks. The relaxing day went out the window pretty darn quick. I think we completed six laps around the field. I now have a pretty intricate knowledge of the field. We hit every section from at least two different angles during the course of the day.
The level of intensity was fairly low most of the day, in my humble opinon. We didn't really start getting into big firefights until after lunch. The Final Battle was fun, however. I had more fun during that last hour than I had all day. I'm glad I stuck around for it. We were able to encircle Cheeseburger Hill and come up on the backside, getting into some very intense trench warfare. I was prone behind a tiny birm on the woodline trading automatic fire with a bunch of Whack-A-Moles in the first trench.
One incident that I found to really grind my gears was the rule that if you touch the enemy CP, it is considered blown and all attacking forces have to move back 125 yards, wait a few minutes, then reattack it. The rule itself isn't so bad, but relaying it to the walk-ons and enforcing it is absolutely futile. I was involved in at least five distinctive attacks in order to capture enemy aircraft at their CP and every time, some yahoo blew the CP and forced us back before the engineers could get the birds. I was starting to get peeved. When we finally take the CP after an hour of fighting and some Seach And Destroy wants to do the monkey dance next to the netting of the CP in an attempt to mock the referree. The part of his body that houses his brain makes contact with the netting and the ref forces us back just as Otto shows up to grab the planes and big points. Needless to say, my teeth came out and I almost got myself banned. I don't think I saw may SAD on the field after that incident.
We won MVT again, but the Rogues can't take all the credit. We had some River Rats that ran with us and they helped a lot. Thanks for the award, Mushroom. The Rogues look forward to playing with you again.
To Corndog, I appreciate you making an extra effort to keep us in the loop as the day went by. You actually had to hump out to our location and give us intel from the CP. Thanks for the help.
Pickle, you da man, dude. I'm sure every time I started sqwakin' on that radio you were like "Damnit, another sitrep from Rogue. Don't these guys ever shut up?" You did great. I also appreciate you weathering my tirade about that SAD jerk with a straight face and not laughing at the pissed-off Werewolf snarling and snapping.
Otto, once again it was a pleasure. Plain and simple. "The Statue of Liberty is kaput!" still makes me chuckle.
As for field and game admin comments, I believe SplatBrothers needs to get a few more cashiers behind the counter to get the walk-ons signed in and on the field in the morning. Blaming them for the delay by telling them to pre-register next time is kinda cheesy. The Brothers are very nice guys, but a life story is offered to every customer. They need to streamline the proshop. The game was run fairly smooth and I never had to wait very long for an answer to a game-ism. The refs did a great job and were just about everywhere.
To all you 'ballerz out there: Never, EVER, buy Killabeez paint. Ever. The entire staging area was covered in unused orange paint laying on the ground where people had dumped their pods and hoppers. It was crazy. Once I switched up to the Diablo Formula 13, my Tippmann A5s were happy and said nom nom nom. Unfortunately, I had to waste three bags of Killabeez because they wouldn't take it back. Oh well.
Overall, not a wasted day.
See ya'll on the boards.
one time and it was absolutely horrible. Had I known KB would be the mid-grade paint, I wouldn't have ordered it! With that said, I shot about three bags of it out of my A5 without a single break - not one. See this link off A5 Operators Group for the secret - sanding the knuckles off the paddles makes a HUGE difference. 
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