Workshop
My screen card drivers died on me, so i didn't really get to play a lot in the workshop. Though practicing with helos was a good thing(tm).
Crash Site
Alpha 1 FTL
Running through forests, generally not being too troubled by anything. Get to run to the crash site and win the mission. Yay.
Shilkas of Nur
Charlie 1 FTL
Oh the horror! Okay, this has te be practically my worst time FTLing ever, including my first, so this requires a little afterthought.
But first, sorry to C1. At least you had Tigershark there to generally save the day as my incompetence kept increasing.
So, first, i was incapable of figuring out what the "hummvee in front" meant, so i tried to mount the two wrong ones before we got to the correct one, causing an incredibly irritating holdup for everybody.
So, suddenly i had half of my fireteam in a hummvee and half on foot. That was not something i had done before, and since we were engaged immediately things got incredibly confusing. Directing a hummvee on foot is tricky. Especially when there was no general clear-and-move plan (that i heard, but i was already pretty out of it). Tigershark and Astutecat had that pretty much covered, so i resigned myself to see what would happen.
Unfortunately, the plan as laid out had gone to shit faster expected, and Charlies original plan was pretty far gone. No biggie, that happens, but the confusion just kept coming back. We moved to a point about 800 metres out from all of the nasty stuff that Alpha was to engage from another direction and just stayed there. To make it even more interesting, we decided to start firing in the general direction of the enemy. Not really a good idea.
Then we were engaged from the north, and Tigershark and Astute went on a joyride down to the forest to our north. Then, all of a sudden BlackMamba is in the middle of the open field between us and the enemy position, which seemed to be an excessively bad idea, so i had no intention of heading that way. (What were you doing there on your own? C3 was way back in the forest with Bravo, C2 was shot up and C1 was ineffectivly led. Unless you have a tractor beam to pull us in with it seems like a bad idea to gloriously charge.) So then BlackMamba dies and i'm suddenly SL. Oh great, because i wasn't confused enough already.
Tiger (who was pretty much already functioning as such) became C1 FTL and i tried to get a clue.
I figured moving into the forests to our north would be a good idea, so that we could be around Bravo, then all of a sudden command wanted us with Alpha, so we started moving towards Alpha, and then a minute later we were asked to go back to where Bravo was. Yay, running!
Not having mikes addon for Teamspeak all of those comms on CC can become very confusing, and when you're attached to a fireteam as well it becomes quite the amount of chatter. (And it never dawned on me that turning down VON ingame might work..... clever brain.)
After that Charlie moved with Bravo, and my brain melted so i ran directly into an enemy position since i thought that was where everybody was located.
I'm seriously sorry, that was an awful run for everybody who had to be in C1. (Though you all seemed to get by fine without me functioning....!
) And for that matter Black Mamba, who had to try to gently prod me to do something every now and then.
One thing though. When on CC, oh please oh please oh please be as clear as possible. Don't mention that charlie should do something as an aftersentence when speaking about Bravo, or such. (The same with fireteams on regular TS.) Take a pause between issuing element instructions and shout their names out first. (Or say that this is a message for everybody.) When you're halfway in a sentence about C2 or Alpha Squad i will zone out, so if there is "....and then C1 will do such and such" i might very well miss it. If that is a fault on my part then i'll try to learn, but it seems necessary given the amount of chatter we get. (Or else, fetch me a new brain!)
Now taking bets on whether i've learned anything from this.....