Games / Tourneys

[Penfold]

Yeah. We did offer to fomally include an LFS race but it was decided that ad-hoc was better.

However, we will add it to the formal list of comps to give people a nudge into bringing their gear.

PEN

[Liberator]

I've been looking at some maps for BF2 fun and found some that are interesting. None are really AAS supportable without modification, but look good fun and would probably be better off as open maps without commanders anyway.
 
Fun/Themed maps, these would still be fun with only a handfull of players and a couple may even be suitable for our tourney as fast small maps if uptake is not as expected.
 
Tank Master - Two UCB's and a single centre bridge flag, both bases have 6 or 7 MBT's and are situated in woodland. Looks like great tanking fun. May even be good as infantry only as a fast paced map.
 
Battlesea - Some small islands 2 UCB's and two flags, both teams have 6 jets each, you need to fly sharp circles around the islands to capture them and are totally open to attack from enemy jets. One for us flyboys . (UCB's should be marked as attackable)
 
Heli Attack - Two UCB's and a single centre base with 4 more helipads which may spawn more choppers (couldn't tell as I had AAS activated and it blocked capturing because it didn't recognise the map), each team has 5 attack choppers and the map is huge mountainous islands. One for a fun chopper battle. Another one for us flyboys .
 
Boat wars - About five islands, 2 UCB's and a centre flag. Only boats are available, centre island can be covered from 2 outlaying islands by snipers but are quite open.
 
Now for the good one,
 
Oil Platform - Now this one I like the look of, it would make an excellent battle. US Carrier is UCB (it has no defences to stop you spamming the rig with gattling fire), huge Oil rig in centre is MEC owned with 5 or 6 flags dotted around at various levels and a MEC base (which is capturable) at the other side of the map. Both teams have a flying bus and plenty of boats at their main base to get to the platform, obviously MEC can spawn there initially. To make it AAS would make it too confusing and defendable, this is an all out attack map. All flags are in close proximity and so you can defend multpile flags at once, of course this also means that you are visible and distracted most of the time. This one definately requires 2 or 3 squads of 3 or 4 players on each side to be effective.
 
 
 
I'm still reviewing some others that look alright, but these are the ones that stand out at the moment, these are all from a map pack, some of which don't work at all. So I'm going through them and judging how good they would be for fast, furious and fun battles and I'll make a zip which just contains the good ones. I may even be able to start up a small server for us to allow them to be checked out some time.

[Benny]

Oil rig maps sounds great. I'll edit the front page regarding the rest now.

[Penfold]

We need to get this sorted now and posted up.

Please see Prov itinery thread

Thanks

PEN

[smilodon]

Ahem, I hope to buy BF2 while at the LAN. I wonder if someone will have a legal copy that I can legally obtain in a legal way and legally install...legally?

Or should I go and buy a copy from the shops before I arrive? I don't play BF2 so this will just be for the LAN.

[Dr Sadako]

Ahem, I hope to buy BF2 while at the LAN. I wonder if someone will have a legal copy that I can legally obtain in a legal way and legally install...legally?
 
Or should I go and buy a copy from the shops before I arrive? I don't play BF2 so this will just be for the LAN.

Yes, you can buy an original of me cheap if you like.