[Sun] 18 Oct 2015 (Smooth Jazz)
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2015 12:08 am
Missions:
We began with a nice run of Comrade Eagle_Eye's Short Straw, which saw much in the way of... OSHA-unapproved driving of Hunters. MMG, Alpha and Bravo all acquitted themselves magnificently under Comrade Washington with the end result of very few casualties, and complete victory. This set the stage for the greater challange of Comrade Fer's Edna SE mission, where our three mechanised squads and attachments under the leadership of Comrade Tubby completely shredded the fools who dared to stand in the way of the Party and once again achieved complete victory with minimal losses. Comrade Tubby may not recognise a trap, but he certainly can fight his way out of one! This success prompted a testing of our mettle by setting us against ourselves in Comrade Aquarius' latest research project, Brushfire, with Comrade Gaius matching wits with Comrade Mabbot. While there were some... initial difficulties for INDFOR between unexpectedly early enemy contact and just plain being Arma'd into a tree, the subsequent glorious death of command and the... assistance... no, that's the wrong word really... intervention of Zeus; well they made for entertaining viewing. We expect INDFOR to see the joke any year now. However, despite this entertainment for the gods, INDFOR still prevailed, quite surprisingly.
We then had just enough time to try a quick run of Comrade Eagle_Eye and Comrade Tigershark's Mailman Extended. Comrades, I have always liked this mission and the new version of it is even more fun I think, as it can run either as a normal coop or an adversarial race. Or, as in this case, Comrade SuperU can be asked to act as Zeus and to, how did I put it...
(We could almost hear Comrade Tigershark cry a single solitary tear of awe -- we are not certain if it was for our magnificent efforts or the trick the lady was doing with the ping-pong ball; but we're willing to believe it was the former).
Our afterparty was equally amusing - in future, we promise to remember to disable the AI for shipping problems, as forty-three is a bit of a crowd; and we note the increasing level of our piloting skills in HELICOPTERS, with several people managing to put their rockets in other people's helicopters at speed. Sadly, our swimming remains... something for us to work on, as GlubGlubGlub demonstrated.
Overall comrades, I think this was a magnificent evening, with highs and lows and sometimes even middles, all shot and sprayed all over the landscape. Well done everyone!
As is the custom among our people, please post your thoughts, feedback, evidence of perfidy, screenshots and video here - comrade SuperU's wonderful guide to our video branding is here and Comrade Carson has some excellent tips on video editing here. As Comrade Fer put it, "Post in the AAR Comrade, because I know what house you live in...". But more importantly, AAR threads do help us figure out how good our Comrades are becoming at not dying and let us kill them all faster challange them in more well-tailored ways in future sessions.
Also, they're often quite funny.
Finally, the Party's recommended reading list:
- Short Straw
- Edna SE
- Brushfire
- Mailman XL
- Afterparty
- Shipping Problems
- HELICOPTERS
- Glub Glub Glub
- Salt Riders
We began with a nice run of Comrade Eagle_Eye's Short Straw, which saw much in the way of... OSHA-unapproved driving of Hunters. MMG, Alpha and Bravo all acquitted themselves magnificently under Comrade Washington with the end result of very few casualties, and complete victory. This set the stage for the greater challange of Comrade Fer's Edna SE mission, where our three mechanised squads and attachments under the leadership of Comrade Tubby completely shredded the fools who dared to stand in the way of the Party and once again achieved complete victory with minimal losses. Comrade Tubby may not recognise a trap, but he certainly can fight his way out of one! This success prompted a testing of our mettle by setting us against ourselves in Comrade Aquarius' latest research project, Brushfire, with Comrade Gaius matching wits with Comrade Mabbot. While there were some... initial difficulties for INDFOR between unexpectedly early enemy contact and just plain being Arma'd into a tree, the subsequent glorious death of command and the... assistance... no, that's the wrong word really... intervention of Zeus; well they made for entertaining viewing. We expect INDFOR to see the joke any year now. However, despite this entertainment for the gods, INDFOR still prevailed, quite surprisingly.
We then had just enough time to try a quick run of Comrade Eagle_Eye and Comrade Tigershark's Mailman Extended. Comrades, I have always liked this mission and the new version of it is even more fun I think, as it can run either as a normal coop or an adversarial race. Or, as in this case, Comrade SuperU can be asked to act as Zeus and to, how did I put it...
I think comrades, that we can all agree Comrade SuperU did not disappoint. Our deaths were legion. Our acts awe-inspiring. Against heavily-armed infantry in superior cover and superior positions, with limited men and resources, against IFVs, technicals, five tanks and two jets; Alpha and Bravo and attachments under the so-so command of someone-or-other (my notes are somewhat scrawled here, a Comrade Katfitz maybe?) fought their way to the crash site, downloaded the data, extracted to the beach and somehow managed to exfil to almost a full hundred yards offshore before the last of us died in the crash when two jet fighters shot down our Huron over the bay. But Comrades - we prevented the data falling into the wrong hands! This was a great victory! And such glorious deaths! IT. WAS. MAGNIFICENT.Shock us. Awe us. Make our deaths glorious. (But do let people get to the ground first so we can see it coming)
Induce PTSD. Make them weep. If they wet themselves, you have succeeded .
Basically - you remember the film Zulu?
That.
(We could almost hear Comrade Tigershark cry a single solitary tear of awe -- we are not certain if it was for our magnificent efforts or the trick the lady was doing with the ping-pong ball; but we're willing to believe it was the former).
Our afterparty was equally amusing - in future, we promise to remember to disable the AI for shipping problems, as forty-three is a bit of a crowd; and we note the increasing level of our piloting skills in HELICOPTERS, with several people managing to put their rockets in other people's helicopters at speed. Sadly, our swimming remains... something for us to work on, as GlubGlubGlub demonstrated.
Overall comrades, I think this was a magnificent evening, with highs and lows and sometimes even middles, all shot and sprayed all over the landscape. Well done everyone!
As is the custom among our people, please post your thoughts, feedback, evidence of perfidy, screenshots and video here - comrade SuperU's wonderful guide to our video branding is here and Comrade Carson has some excellent tips on video editing here. As Comrade Fer put it, "Post in the AAR Comrade, because I know what house you live in...". But more importantly, AAR threads do help us figure out how good our Comrades are becoming at not dying and let us kill them all faster challange them in more well-tailored ways in future sessions.
Also, they're often quite funny.
Finally, the Party's recommended reading list: