Tonight was basically my second or third time playing AA online, and my first on the TG servers. Man, was I impressed. This game, when played with like-minded people, completely kicks ass.

The players tonight were:
The always helpful and encouraging Turbo
The offical AA sage Sloppy Joe
That dude called perry
The guy I love to shoot Dark Viper
Something something something Grunt70
Meat shield, decoy, cannon fodder, sacrificial lamb Munchkin (me)

First map for the evening was Mountain Ambush. Initially this acted as a bit of a warm-up for itchy-trigger fingers, with only 2 players on each side, but as more joined it became more tactical. Eventually we were innundated with some non-English speaking (Spaniards?), and had to password the server.

Next map was SF Hospital, with me on the Escort team. Due to my shameful honor (initially 9, later bumped up to 10) I was forced to play as an indigenous forces soldier, but fortunately I had the experience of both Turbo and Sloppy Joe on my side during this kickass map. Turbo was an SF soldier, Sloppy was the VIP. I learnt a lot from this map, as well as getting gunned down a lot. Man, urban combat is tense - but we won most of the rounds on this baby

On to SF Oasis . After the hospital map, the open combat that this map offers didn't appeal to me that much. My lack of gun mods also meant that I was essentially limited to engagements within 50 or so meters, and on a long range map this isn't a good thing. However, I was put to good use as a decoy, but even with my l33t decoying skillZ we only won once.

Dark Viper and Turbo were my teammates for that.

Weapons Cache was next up, with DV and Turbo still on my team as Assault. I actually had played this map a couple a times before, and had a rudimentary understanding of the way it worked. Most of the map I played as an AR, laying down suppressive fire across the courtyard at the window in which Sloppy Joe would work his devious magic. A lot of sneaking and strategising occured on this map, and I learnt the fine art of door propping from Turbo.

The final map (for me, at least) was Special Forces PCR (Precious Cargo Recovery). It's a pretty cool mission for both teams, with random spawn points, briefcase objective, and extraction points. Also, it features a nightmarish central building, where the stairs were designed by a freakin maniac. As we were all pretty new to this map, we had a 'map tour' round, and inspected the whole area. At first it was a nice, peaceful affair - before the firefights started. I'm looking at you, DV.
With Turbo and Grunt70 on my team, I discovered that RPGs are funny things. One of those bastards can shoot down a wall (and tk your entire team in the process, as I found out), but didn't manage to kill the 3 enemies I shot one at. From memory, we got massacred on this one.

Thanks Turbo for being really helpful and such a good teacher, and thanks to everyone for a fun night. Up for some games tomorrow?