- Into The Woods
- Food Drive
- Overrun
- Lands End Indfor don't surf To Arms
- Afterparty
- Weekend Warriors
- Rocket Jousting (free for all)
- Rocket Jousting (jousting)
- HELICOPTERS (jousting)
- HELICOPTERS (accidental gunship loadout)
- HELICOPTERS (230mm rockets)
We were allegedly beginning with a nice cooperative run of Into the woods, which actually went quite well... right up until we decided that the AI was an insufficient challenge and that we'd rather kill each other. Though, to be fair, Bravo was very effective in so doing. This will be borne in mind by the disciplinary hearing before the show trial. Reeling from this, we stumbled into Food Drive, and Comrade Tubby stumbled into the CO slot. To be fair, I only pushed him back into the slot after he realised what he'd volunteered for. Unfortunately, we also stumbled into much lead, but it was gratifying to see the IFV crew obey orders to the letter at the start. It would be nice if next time BSL's orders were not "explode now" but that's fine-tuning comrades, they have the basic fundamentals down now and that's the important thing. Since we were by now used to being shot at, we thought why not roll with it, and enjoyed a run of Overrun. For a given value of "enjoyed", obviously. However, in a rather sizeable shock, we accidentally won, which is only the third time that's ever happened on that mission. Well done everyone! And to celebrate, I tried to get us all to kill each other, but the mission I chose (Lands End) either wasn't set up the way I thought it was going to be (as an attack/defend mission) or I misset the parameters like a klutz, and we had to abort as the sides were too unbalanced for a search-and-destroy adversarial. Then my backup plan failed as well, and having totally screwed the pooch at this point, I fell back to an old favorite, To Arms. As we were only 16 strong, I gave Comrade Madrak all the toys and a full fireteam, confident that that would see the enemy totally exploderised. Alas, the ninja striders attacked again and comrade Zecatnip - for the second time in a row - found himself alone on a body-strewn battlefield in a glory charge against a Mora. We zeused away the armour to give him a fighting chance, but alas the AI retaliated and 5.56'd away his fighting chance. And thus we reached the afterparty, starting with a run of Weekend Warriors led by Jacob who was sure that nobody would attack a little outpost like ours. Three seconds later I was out of PCML rockets and North Patrol was ankle-deep in brass. Alas, it did not end well, with the last of us guided through the fog by Comrade Netkev right onto the enemy fireteam at bayonet range. It's a pity Arma has no bayonets. Then we tried Comrade Ralians new mad idea of Rocket Jousting, initially blowing off some steam without any organisation, then by lining up, arming up via zeus and charging at one another like men (after a lot of beers on a friday night in Glasgow). It was pretty spectacular, so we tried it again, but in the air, with the new Jousting mode in HELICOPTERS. This led to some funny moments and much merriment, so we ran HELICOPTERS twice more. It would have been once, but I accidentally gave the gunship loadout the first time and guided AA rockets are somewhat overkill so we ran it again for the 230mm rockets. And that was that. Thanks everyone for coming and for their patience with the Lands End screwup.
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.
And I'm gonna pimp the patches again folks - they don't cost much, all the money goes to running the server (Comrade Fer has managed to buy his own shovel, so we don't have to spend funds on cleanup again like we did last year), and they look like this:
And you can buy them HERE. Go on. Buy two. Make a bikini for your significant other, and then you can post it in /r/lolcats!
Finally, the Party's recommended reading list:
