Zatar and Dalian

[Lucky Shot]

Whew, rough night to be USMC tonight.

We had trouble flanking around the MEC on Zatar and it seemed that our squads would bunch up 3 at a time and push for a flag. By the time they made it, it seemed that one flag behind that initial push would get wiped out. The US tried to fight with battlefronts, but the MEC was smart enough to work their way behind with numbers and still maintain a front. That meant that the MEC did not have as many people deep defending flags.

At least thats what I thought. Squad 42nd (4) set out to attack the farm flag as the US was holding the Airfield, the Village and attacking the Factory. Run 1 to the farm had me steer into water that was too deep and ended that attack run early. The 2nd time we captured the flag only to get wiped out by an armor squad that just happened to be driving out of the US main (Nex911).

We then were able to lead successful recaps on the Airfield (TG B) as it fell to the MEC, the Factory(Munchkin), recapped the factory, the Village, then the Central Island(Nex911) (You can really get that boat close if you know where to go). Trying to defend against a late minute armor push on the Central Flag was extremely difficult and ended up leaving us on the outskirts of that flag as time ran out.

Dalian, we lacked air superiority and it made a difference on the ground. 2 choppers, mostly unused, 2 jets with only 1 seeing any use. That led for a very difficult ground game. Again, it seemed that we had our squads massed onto 1 flag all going after the same flag. Because of that, we never had the armor rolling and without Air support, any armor was quickly wiped out. Our most successful had squads quickly moving the the Chineese rear to cap a flag or two before an armor column would try to recap it. Our squad did manage attacks on the North Docks, Warehouse, South Docks, Maintenance Shed and the Refinery in many different variations. Of course, some successful, some not, but it was good fun overall for the squad even though we could never seem to get to that magical 4th flag. We did seem to run into Marstein's squad quite a bit and had some very enjoyable fights.

Props to the Opfor as you guys deserved the win. I want to thank Leonidas, Robocop, RedBane, Fencer, Buckshot, Xeil, xxRansackxx, Vegas, Hambergler and anyone else who wandered through my squad tonight. We didn't win, but we played with integrity and honor and were effective on the battlefield.

Thanks again for the games!

Lucky Shot

[Leonidas]

Those were awesome rounds. You were a really great SL, and the rest of the squad was awesome as well. Zatar went well, even though me and Lucky joined the game it was already a bit into it. When he started a squad and I joined up, it filled up almost instantly. We tried to take 2 buggies from the USMC main, But we got killed every time. Then we tried taking a boat and it work great, even taking us almost all the way to the center island hill! We then dug in to defend, after a fierce fight, and we held on to it untill the end of the game. It was a great round even if we lost.

Then, on Dalian, we droped from a BH onto the reactor towers(I think) and proceded to make a bazilion other assaults on other flags, few of which we were destined to keep. I have to say, the most memorable part of Dalian was when we puched from the north docks to the reactor towers and then on to the south docks. Its went perfectly. Indeed, we did run into Marsteins squad alot, though we found it sneaking behind the flag and wiped it out at the south docks.

None of this, of course, would have been possible without a great squad and SL. Props to all of you guys, it was great having you in the squad.

[gunjunkie]

Second the wupping the Chinese air dealt out on Dailan. We were involved in a lot of the capping between the Maintenance Shed and Main Entrance after we final broke out of the reactor.

I'd like to thank my squad (nr. 3, didn't get all the names) for the endless push at the end over the ME. Seems like the flag went back and forth about 4 or 5 times in the final stages but we almost held on. Finally we were pushed off by overwhelming force of armor and air and general death from above in the form of co-ordinated arty and fire from squads moving in.

Not having an airforce really hurts.

[FBmantis]

Zatar


I joined a sniper squad at the start.(shocking I know) However the other two squad members decided to do something else after a few minutes. So I take over the squad and do my thing. Leech joined pretty quickly and vod came in somewhere after the halfway point. I mostly had my squad setup defense on the hills adjacent to the village. As usual this proved quite effective as long as a regular infantry squad was helping defend/attack in the area. In particular when a front was formed at the bridge by the factory the OpForce got heavily sniped. However there were times when the OpForce brought up heavy armor and easily took the village and the airfield once or twice. Overall a solid performance from my squad.

Dailan


I felt very disoriented playing this round. There seemed to be a complete lack of focus on defense as flags seemed to change hands every couple minutes. I never got to do what I like to do with my squad which is settle into a defensive position and repress/spot incoming advancements. So most of the round we felt like we were in no man's land but we did our best. sordavie and reloadedgun were my squad members.

[sordavie]

We all had the same number of kills that round. heh.

[Bodofooko]

I don't know about the helos not being used on dalian. I was in the helo squad, and we were in it the whole time. Had the 2nd and 3rd high scores on USMC too. We just didn't do a lot of supporting because of the jets were hassling us. But yeah...we got smoked.

[Lucky Shot]

Originally Posted by Bodofooko

I don't know about the helos not being used on dalian. I was in the helo squad, and we were in it the whole time. Had the 2nd and 3rd high scores on USMC too. We just didn't do a lot of supporting because of the jets were hassling us. But yeah...we got smoked.

Yea, the one over by the Reactor tower wasn't used. We communicated to the CO that it was open and that a body needed to get in there. Even very early in the game, we stopped a couple of quick runs to the chopper as the Chineese tried to grab it. I am fine with being wrong, I just know that the reactor tower chopper didn't seem to be in use and having the potential of 3 choppers against you is chilling indeed.

Lucky Shot

[gunjunkie]

I remember you giving us some respite at ME at one point. You blew up a tank and some infantry and the whole chinese airforce, including the attack helo about to destroy us and a fair number of ground troops started tracking you.

I'm guessing the general lack of fighter cover made it an exciting evening.