Another very good night's gaming.

A few TVT missions and a few COop missions mainly led by Grunt and Beta and all went very nicely!

However............ holy cow did we take it to a new level thereafter. Whilst many left, we switched the map back to Domination Mando West and set the time to match our own location, i.e, Midnight (average). The server was set to veteran mode and Beta suggested a few changes.

JESUS!!!!!!! Did these make it tough, but hugely enjoyable and quite the challenge! Firstly weapons; no one could carry two rifles and those with AT could only carry one AT round! No one was to para insert, instead we took the UH60 and landed at a safe LZ and tabbed in to the mission area.

Now the killer................ It was a dark starry night, but will all agreed NOT to use NVG's! Now with the setting Moon, this was ok, but when we were attacking the side mission island of Antigua the moon had disappeared! Having inserted by Boat.... we arrived on the island to find the airfield had no lights whatsoever, none of the vehicles had lights on, yet there was clearly armour and infantry there and we could not see a damn thing. I kid you not, you could only see someone if they went above the horizon and we tracked each other by voice in direct chat (another ban of side channel coms) and without doubt it was one of the hardest rounds I have played.

We then continued to another side mission at Tandag and same thing again, you cannot see fences, tree's nothing....only voices, a compass and a map kept you on course!

It was very enjoyable, but by the end people were flagging (late night) and the sun started to rise making it possible to navigate much easier, so many headed to bed.

But it just showed me, that no matter how many times you play this game, there is always a new way to add a new element to it!