- Highway
- Inter III
- Blackfolkdown
- UNder Pressure
- Finale XL
- Cholo (after-party)
We began in true FA fashion, with a bungled ambush in Highway, but somehow managed to kill enough vehicles to sort of accomplish the mission. Possibly. Next, we headed to our main base of operations for the evening: Zargabad. In a particularly confusing and bloody run-through of Inter III, OPFOR demonstrated perfectly the value of the MG as a tool of suppression, fixing the INDFOR defenders in place and then moving up for the kill. Then it was daylight, and we were still in Zargabad, but this time we were Americans in helicopters, swooping in to capture some warlords in Blackfolkdown. When comrade CO Tigershark got into the passenger seat of comrade Rook's attack LB, many of us in Charlie 'Special Needs' Squad were afraid - but credit to Uncle Tiger, much of the platoon made it to the end of the second objective (when we called it). My favourite part was watching comrade SuperU turn and shout 'OMG you just saved me!' to a comrade ... right before a DShKM round shredded his body. There was no time for grief, though: UNder Pressure saw us rushing to the aid of civilians in the Mosque, under the command of (a resurrected) comrade CO SuperU. Agonisingly, our forces arrived at the Mosque barely a handful of minutes too late to prevent the massacre, but it was stunning to see our mechanised platoon take almost no casualties until the very final phase of urban combat. And so to Finale XL, which didn't disappoint: there was sad, sad music, waves of enemy tanks, and a great deal of dying. So Folk ARPS.
That was the last ArmA 2 session I'll host (and I've been doing this since August 2010). I'd like to post a thank you to the large cast of characters who've made our ArmA 2 era so enjoyable. Comrade hosts and former hosts: Bodge, Cam, Cap, Dancemoox, Ferrard Carson, harakka, Headspace, IceRaiser, Nullkigan, Pr3sario, Tigershark, Satire, Strang, SuperU, SvDvorak, Washington, Wolfenswan. Also, all of our brave comrade mission makers, who between them have created nearly 275 missions for our community! That's one hell of an accomplishment, and we should be tremendously proud of what FA has been so far. Whilst on the one hand, I'm sad about this era coming to an end (I'll miss Takistan and Chernarus, BMP-2s, AKs), on the other hand the Party isn't going anywhere: we're just shifting our operations to Altis. We're taking our fight for a socialist agrarian utopia to the future! (where the value of 'the future' is: next weekend). See you there, comrades.
As ever, please post your thoughts, feedback, screenshots and video here - comrade YouTube Hero SuperU's FA doesn't just produce our video idents, but provides leadership and guidance to propaganda artists. We also have a new YouTube channel that he manages so if you have any content you think should feature then let him know and he will sort you out, for more info check out this thread!; more guidance on video editing for Folk ARPS is provided by comrade Ferrard Carson. Posts in the AAR threads really help us (the hosts and mission makers), both with understanding how we can improve the experiences, and showing potential comrades what our sessions are like.
. Played a little ditty on the banjolele at Strang's request, though I had to play over VON because I'm just not good enough to be able to play a song and hold down the PTT button. I'll find a way in the future, though.
