Obviously the Sinterklaas SF extention pack....
How else would he get on that roof? :P
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Yep, you got it.
QuoteOriginally posted by sulky_uk@Dec 5 2005, 09:12 PM
is that a c4 package hes about to drop down the chimney
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Nah, it's a health pack, after that he jumps down.
QuoteOriginally posted by BIG-Dewey@Dec 5 2005, 06:55 PM
Norm who are Harpers?
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They are a group of friends of one of my business customers,not a clan as such,just a group of grown ups who haven't grown up yet......just like us. :D I was actually speaking to him about getting some organisation sorted for his little band of friends,so they may form some "group" in the future.Good set of blokes and they seem to enjoy AAS,they have been back on tonight,so hopefully they may become regulars.
QuoteOriginally posted by BIG-Glen@Dec 5 2005, 08:57 PM
i like my cats just not what they do to wires :angry:
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Mate, your cats sound cool, any photos of them chopping through your headphones would be greatly appreciated by everyone here :roflmao:
QuoteOriginally posted by Norm@Dec 5 2005, 10:53 PM
They are a group of friends of one of my business customers,not a clan as such,just a group of grown ups who haven't grown up yet......just like us. :D I was actually speaking to him about getting some organisation sorted for his little band of friends,so they may form some "group" in the future.Good set of blokes and they seem to enjoy AAS,they have been back on tonight,so hopefully they may become regulars.
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a lovely bunch of fellas IMHO
all them northern accents....
"I wasn't born..I was dropped in t'street" etc.
bring em on in!
sign em up if they're
that good :narnar:
Nice idea with the posting on mondays Dewey. At some point we were 19 ppl there, but we might have been even more later on. Great fun to play with so many ppl.
And you are really, really scary with that DAO-12 or whatever the name. Up front I have no change :ph34r:
QuoteOriginally posted by BIG-Dewey@Dec 5 2005, 10:58 PM
Mate, your cats sound cool, any photos of them chopping through your headphones would be greatly appreciated by everyone here :roflmao:
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My Aunts cat chewed through a wire once and burnt it's tongue off. Poor thing had to be put down..
Perhaps try a little Tabasco (sp?) sauce. The spice might deter the little buggers.
Cracking games tonight. Won some, lost some (not that I ever enjoy losing.) But you can't beat close games
QuoteOriginally posted by Ninja_Freak@Dec 5 2005, 11:05 PM
My Aunts cat chewed through a wire once and burnt it's tongue off. Poor thing had to be put down..
Perhaps try a little Tabasco (sp?) sauce. The spice might deter the little buggers.
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we've had all manner of pets who are attracted to electrical wires..
No casualties yet though :P
my deterrant is chilli oil :narnar:
I make my own....but basically it's chili...with oil 8)
what you do is...get a w.sauce bottle or similar...put 3-4 tsp fresh/dried/lazy chilli..
add herbs/ spices..whatever you fancy....then top up with e/virgin oil .....
and your tongue will do this :narnar:
I forgot to say...
don't just threaten them with it....
rub it on the wires ;)
You can't blame the cats for chewing through the wire... It's very entertaining, i did it myself once to my headphones, which were also Blunts headphones (he wasn't best pleased...)
No...
they were my headphones... :(
and they were smeared with chilli...
you were weaned on chilli so it don't work :angry:
QuoteOriginally posted by Blunt@Dec 5 2005, 11:38 PM
No...
they were my headphones... :(
and they were smeared with chilli...
you were weaned on chilli so it don't work :angry:
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lol
:roflmao: :roflmao: :ph34r:
had a good night, only problem was that i kept getting owned on the last map i played, (the one with the radio/tv station) anyway finish my last night tonight (tues
), so its businees as usual agsin till next wed when im on nights again :mad:
Only was able to stay for a few matches, but they were good ones...
Enjoyed blowing the bridge up at Kubra (repeatedly!) ~ didn't get me any points, but seemed to stall the USMC. - First time I have blown a bridge up! Whoo-hoo!
:)
(OT: Anyone know how many C4s it needs to blow a bridge - I was using 4, but this may have been overkill?)
Best C4 vehicle kill last night too! Got a Linebacker and an M1 in one go! :)
...I still get caught laying my C4 ~ I'm not quite sneaky enough sometimes, and so occassionally let my C4 off too early for fear of getting killed before I take out the asset. :(
But I'm trying to be more sneaky! LOL
Best kill on me was a annoyingly accurate snap shot by Dewey ALMOST AS SOON AS I JOINED LAST NIGHT! What are the chances of that. :ranting:
And those new guys were good ~ sorry, can't remember names.
But most of all - BLOODY ARMITAGE IN THAT CHOPPER (Gulf of Oman) :)
(Oooops - sorry about the swearing! <- Bit of topical comedy there...Er, I'll get my coat!)
QuoteOriginally posted by Norm@Dec 5 2005, 11:53 PM
They are a group of friends of one of my business customers,not a clan as such,just a group of grown ups who haven't grown up yet......just like us. :D I was actually speaking to him about getting some organisation sorted for his little band of friends,so they may form some "group" in the future.Good set of blokes and they seem to enjoy AAS,they have been back on tonight,so hopefully they may become regulars.
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Yeah Norm, was weird coz they all sounded just like you m8, are you from newcastle/middlesborough/sunderland way?
Seemed like a nice bunch of lads and good players too, hope to see them on the server again.
QuoteOriginally posted by Ninja_Freak@Dec 6 2005, 12:05 AM
My Aunts cat chewed through a wire once and burnt it's tongue off. Poor thing had to be put down..
Perhaps try a little Tabasco (sp?) sauce. The spice might deter the little buggers.
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Aww thats quite sad, I'm a big cat lover, they remind me of lions/tigers especially if you go down to carpet level *ill get my coat* :blink:
QuoteOriginally posted by Blunt@Dec 6 2005, 12:38 AM
No...
they were my headphones... :(
and they were smeared with chilli...
you were weaned on chilli so it don't work :angry:
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ROFL :roflmao:
QuoteOriginally posted by delanvital@Dec 6 2005, 12:04 AM
Nice idea with the posting on mondays Dewey. At some point we were 19 ppl there, but we might have been even more later on. Great fun to play with so many ppl.
And you are really, really scary with that DAO-12 or whatever the name. Up front I have no change :ph34r:
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Delanvital: cheers mate, I'll take that as a compliment 8) close range that thing is a bad boy and the noise it makes must put the fear of god into people *take that yer varmit!* Obviously the downside is at anything over 10m you can't kill anything with it so you have to get up close and personal - I have to literally follow the enemy and wait for them to stop before firing.
Yeah the Monday games night are great and the day posting to remind people seems to work.
The games last night where enjoyable as usual, particularly enjoyed the Operation Cleansweep map - jeez the opposition where unrelentless, wave after wave of troops/tanks/apcs etc, you guys didn't give us time to set up our defences, it was brilliant.
You could hear genuine panic in our guys voices with stuff like
- "Attack chopper heli spotted, troop heli inbound on the right, erm apc, nope two apcs coming down the road...followed by a tank!!" - priceless.
Must get time to play more... Must get time to play more...
Soon the CCNA revision will be over... Got coursework to do for it tonight though, so can't be on then either <_<
Did anyone catch my mate from sunny Cornwall? He would have been using a nick of 'mattblak', possibly with a few digits slapped on to make it unique. He says he enjoyed playing with people who actually use teamwork for once :D
Think there was someone called mattblack (or similar) there - perhaps he was one of our pilots for a while? I forget :) As Dewey mentioned clean sweep was good fun with us keeping up the waves of attacks, though we lost out in the end due to having lost too many bodies in these attacks. Another 10-15 minutes and 50 tickets and we might have had you :)
Actually, on that note - why was there a 16 player karkand map on? The 32 player one is great giving yuo more bases to play with... In fact a lot of the maps seemed to go faster than they usually do? Have the ticket numbers been reduced or was that just a result of having more players than usuaul? Karkand seemed to be over far too quickly (even if we never did manage to hold the hotel very long as usmc...)
Yes Matblack was on the server, seemed like a decent player to me, hope he keeps returning to the server :)
QuoteOriginally posted by suicidal_monkey@Dec 6 2005, 10:06 AM
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We have Karkand 32 and Karkand 16 in the rotation. 8)
MattBlak played well. I did not get much comm from him, but I figured he wasn't too mad when I accidently tea caked him. I have no idea when or how I did it - but it was there on the screen... :blink:
GG's - although I have a tiny rant: we all know the tactics of the game, especially with the AAS, and yet we don't utilize that knowledge.
On Operation Cleansweep and Karkand we should have kept attacking together, not individually. One guy moving into a base might be lucky, but two or three can divert attention and bring in the SL safely.
On Gulf of Oman we got pushed all the way back despite taking loads of their tickets, because we didn't have an SL in the firezone.
I don't want to step on anyones toes, and if I have I apologize, but hey we are tactical gaming site and the banner does say teamwork 8)
QuoteOriginally posted by delanvital@Dec 6 2005, 12:16 PM
GG's - although I have a tiny rant: we all know the tactics of the game, especially with the AAS, and yet we don't utilize that knowledge.
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I congratulated our SL last night on the Operation Cleansweep map - though he initially thought I was being sarcastic, I wasn't :) . He played superbly, he got right near the enemies base, and patiently waited there, spotting troops, taking out the occaisional troop and most importantly acting as a regen point, allowing us to sustain our attack. Apologies I forgot who our SL was on that game.
However at the start of that game at the first base on Op Cleansweep I was getting frustrated. If your defending a base, there is no point waiting in the middle of the base for the enemy to come, you won't know where they have landed and could appear behind you, flank you etc.
Ideally you should be on the outskirts of the base (perhaps 1 or 2 guys strategically positioned in the base for when they do break through your outer defences) so you can see a long distance away, which way the enemy is attacking from, relaying this info to your Squad, giving them time to decide how best to defend it and move into position.
The other thing we didn't do on this first base was set up defences, I saw no-one laying mines or C4 to stop the two apcs come trundling at will into our base at will. This is down to initial loadouts and deciding who will do what job. Also the job doesn't stop, defences need to be kept up and redeployed.
If you don't do this, you end up with the situation we had last night - enemy appearing from all sides of your base, a SL hidden near your base acting as a forward spawning point and you end up running around like headless chickens trying to plug the gaps (as it where). Inevitably you will lose the base which we did, quite quickly.
I'm not having a go at anyone, I was guilty of the above myself, but we should be taking every opportunity to improve our tactics/strategies even on these fun games, so it becomes routine and we all improve.
As Delanvital said - we all know the tactics of the game, especially with the AAS, and yet we don't utilize that knowledge - I think he's made an excellent point.
QuoteOriginally posted by OldBloke@Dec 6 2005, 12:03 PM
We have Karkand 32 and Karkand 16 in the rotation. 8)
ah ha :) I thought that might be the case. Both incarnations of karkand are good, but I do find myself running into the side of the hotel wondering why the flag isn't capping before I remember that it's the foxhole+square you want on the 16 person version!
QuoteOn Gulf of Oman we got pushed all the way back despite taking loads of their tickets, because we didn't have an SL in the firezone.
This can happen, and sometimes SL have bad rounds where they keep getting caught en route to the "firezone" or within it. Then what you want is a medic to revive the SL and keep him in the zone.
I'd say medic or support are the best options for the SL in urban maps, to keep your troops alive/armed. Sniper is good on some of the more open maps, but medic is just as handy... On the TV station map I was a SL for the defence. I went medic and hid for most of the game, coming out to heal, revive and help out when I could. Worked a treat. Have to say though that I am generally too agressive when it comes to being a mobile spawn point, especially in big open maps :rolleyes:
QuoteOriginally posted by suicidal_monkey@Dec 6 2005, 12:57 PM
This can happen, and sometimes SL have bad rounds where they keep getting caught en route to the "firezone" or within it. Then what you want is a medic to revive the SL and keep him in the zone.
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Yeah, when the enemy has learned who's SL it can be difficult to make it to a flag unprotected, unless you are really sneaky. In this case the problem was the SL was flying.
On another note - on Sharqi that enemy helicopter combined with attacking tanks and infantry was a great mix. They managed to get the flag from us, when they coordinated like that. The hammering from the railgun in the chopper forced us to keep down and that made it possible for the tank to come up. But as soon as the chopper moved away loads of AT people attacked the tanks.
yep ~ absolutely...
This is whay I am always keen on teh idea of having a 'set team' ~ because when I play squad leader I like to know I have a ballanced mix in my squad ~ especially and Engineer (mines are so under used).
Each flag has what I like to call a squad leader's 'perch' - a spot just away from the actual flag that offers some protection but hides teh SL from any attackers who make it to teh flag themselves. ALSO, it keeps you away from the aircraft bombers who straff the flag.
On Operation Cleansweep - first MEC flag on the island, I like the 'perch' which is in that little sandbag area next to the road as you enter this first base (just behind the hill which overlooks the hanger where the tank spawns).
This perch overlooks the way into the base (you can see USMC APCS and slicks coming in), you can see the flag itself, you can pop over the hill to nick teh tank when it spawns AND you can easily get into teh flag area via 'the back door' if you have to retake it...
Additionally it is far enough away from teh flag itself to be mostly ignored by bombers.
Each flag on every map has a 'perch' like this (and sometimes two or three)...
Each is ideal for the SL to post himself where he can jump into the action if absolutely needed but can stay far enough back so he is a safe spawn point.
THERE IS NOTHING MORE ANNOYING THAN FOR YOUR SL TO PUT YOU IN HARMS WAY BY POSITIONING HIMSELF TOO CLOSE TO THE ACTION...I hate spawning only to find myself in the middle of a street right in front of a tank! LOL
(Having said that - we often don't have big enough teams to warrent the luxury of having a team member out of the action! So I do understand why SLs do this - I have done it myself because of this reason.)
On the other side of the coin I find it annoying when I say 'Spawn on me!' and nobody does but spawns where THEY think they want to be - I have literally lost games because of this.
cool - if its normal BF ill be there bout 8:00.... still looking in all the good hiding spots for the special forces prezzie
What would be good is if people let the SL know they are dead and they will be respawning in x number of seconds. When I play SL I don't hang back, can't. but if I knew I had reinforcement respawning in 10 sec it would stop my one man charges :)
just so im know im right - you guys playing 1.12 with aas and new map pack???
squad wise i find - personally - 2 Spec Ops, 1 Medic (SL), 1 normal and 1 engineer handy as a five man squad for dealing out lots of trouble, particularly if youre hunting for artillery and vans
We are running 1.2 AAS. Map pack to is on the server but we have no AAS routes for them yet. We do have all the routes for SF done, which we be played more as people get there copies for Christmas. we do have weapons unlock enabled ,but commander is disabled.
QuoteOriginally posted by Armitage@Dec 6 2005, 05:29 PM
We are running 1.2 AAS.
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Boris was right - it's 1.12 ;)
QuoteOriginally posted by BIG-Dewey@Dec 6 2005, 11:42 AM
Apologies I forgot who our SL was on that game.
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I was SL of Alpha squad of the US side on Cleansweep.
There were 2 squads and I can't remember if you was on mine, unfortunately my game hung when we were (10-30) down on tickets and advancing on their last base.
What was the final score?
QuoteOriginally posted by BlueBall@Dec 6 2005, 07:08 PM
Boris was right - it's 1.12 ;)
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Thats what I ment :blush:
sorry for tonights absence - the previously downloaded patch and map pack are on my lan pc in hull and have had to start again at home!!!! nearly there mind
and i have man flu, the mrs thinks its hysterical, i think its Ebola or something and am quite convinced my organs are turning to soup, said soup is running down me nose as i type
whens the next event???
every night from 8, bar Fridays
:dmw:
QuoteOriginally posted by Boris@Dec 6 2005, 09:09 PM
sorry for tonights absence - the previously downloaded patch and map pack are on my lan pc in hull and have had to start again at home!!!! nearly there mind
and i have man flu, the mrs thinks its hysterical, i think its Ebola or something and am quite convinced my organs are turning to soup, said soup is running down me nose as i type
whens the next event???
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Don't get too strung out about when to turn up ~ many of us ( - the ones with no lives - ) are here most nights, just set-up and check out X-Fire!
Sundays are a good night - but Fridays have been good too.
No styrees Boris - just turn up when you fancy...And did I mention X-Fire? LOL
Actually Mondays, are also the best night, we tend to get over 20 players and 2 squads per team..
as you can see most nights are good nights, but Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, are particularly good :D
Mate you missed a cracker last night, awsome games, Mashtuur city was a classic, karkand and kubra we won but very close as usual and then got our asses served on Operation Cleansweap - but what games :D
:(
QuoteOriginally posted by Boris@Dec 7 2005, 11:59 AM
:(
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No worries Boris, classic games are available most nights on the dMw server :D