Songhua & Dalian - 9/23 1830-2030 PDT

[marstein]

I had a great time SLing. In Dalian and Songhua my team of

bwk.ace malv sumluv milkserip bane2 Diceman01

worked great.

I always feel like I die too often, or we don't properly achieve our objective --- but thinking about it we didn't do too bad. We held the warehouse in Dalian very well until we where overwhelmed by way too many guys with a preference for rooftops.



Thanks for sticking with me.

[Turbo]

Songhua & Dalian were some really good games. Came into the game on the Chinese side down about 100+ tickets. Who ever the commander was did an excellent job at holding the enemy back on Songhua. Coming back from 100+ down is pretty good. Dalian was really good we tried a few things with another squad and we held 3 flags almost the whole game with 12 people. Good job squad, it is fun leading people who already know what to do. I'm starting to like this Squad Leader thing.

[DigitalAssassin]

Yeah, Turbo and I worked together on Dalian via TS. I'm enjoying the SL role more and more. I don't mind getting kills but it's almost more fun for me to keep my squad updated, organized and accomplishing our objectives.

[burble]

i guess i'm the pessimist, but i thought those games sucked. in fact, every game i've played in the past month has sucked.

i don't think i've been on the winning team a single time. every time i play, we bleed the whole time with 3/4 of the team bunched up and doing nothing. i just don't get it.

[marstein]

burble - could be that you are getting too good and you notice more when things don't work as you'd like them to be. I have been in some real good games. Just try to be a SL and see how hard it is to keep things organized and moving in the right direction.

[perry]

As USMC, I didn't think last night's games were that terrible. We may have gotten stomped a few rounds (Dalian & Oman..), but I still managed to have fun somehow. I don't know if it was being on a good squad or if the teams were not too far out of balance or what. Wasn't nearly as bad as Wednesday night.

[James315]

USMC took a beating for much of last night. But then we rallied on Karkand, Daqiq and Mashtuur.

[Gunrack]

Dalian, & the following map, Oman, were just brutal on the USMC side; it seemed like we were getting hammered wherever we spawned. I almost threw in the towel at one point, but decided to hang around for just one more round.

It's a good thing I did, because that one round turned into three. Like James315 said, it got a whole lot better the next 3 rounds on Karkand, Daqing, & Mashtuur for the USMC (after around 2100 PDT), where we won all three. I ended up being SL for squad 2 for those 3 rounds, and pretty much anything I asked of my squad, they did it.

It was just great; one of the best times I've had squad leading. Pretty much any objective I placed down, they achieved, whether it be offense or defense (Daqing was a lot of defense). At one point one of the squad members said it felt like we were a "well oiled machine", which pretty much summed up the kind of teamwork and coordination I've been striving for as SL.

Anyway, kudos to COs SausageMakerMan, Munchkin, and Knight_Ace, and to my squad members Arf, Dustermahn, Rico, DenverDog, Bean6, Visser21, Luuser, and any others I may have missed, for a job well done.