Qinling, PLA - "INFANTREE", squad 1
|TG-6th|eGoatBoy, Stryker10-45, Permafrost, with guest appearnaces by CoNdoM-FiGhTeR, killerchrille15, $hifTy.StyLeZ.LT, [TG]Chaka, Onimaho, CupMonger, and CRUNKJUNT

First off, much thanks to the squad for their patience and especially to Stryker and Permafrost for sticking it out with me for the whole round.

We started off by spawning in at PLA FOB, grabbing a support truck and moving off into Village. Once capped we built the usual assortment of firebases, AA, HMG, wire, and sandbags. My wire placement was pathetic...it's effectiveness was going to be limited to confusing the OpFor. Confusing them as to why anyone would put wire in such stupid spots...

Anyway, we set about our defences and as can happen boredom started to set in and we were being tempted to move off. Fortunately the British decided to alleviate our boredom by attacking us. We fended them off. That meant we killed a bunch of them. It was fun.

Eventually though we did move off, as it looked like our team had a chance to cap Farm Outpost...squad 5 was in great position. However, the axiom that "an under defended flag WILL be lost" held and the Brits flipped Village. Somewhat of a back and forth occurred between Village and Coal Mine where we only had one or the other and couldn't get both. Did I mention I hate Coal Mine...

The Brits did however manage to get both Village and Coal Mine a couple times and that put us on some bleed. It looked from my ground pounders point of view that they had armor and air superiority for most of the game, so it felt pretty uphill most of the time.

After our squad was pushed off of mine I ended up getting us stuck up in the hills east with no wheels, and only L-AT, with too much British armor nearby. I decided to relocate the squad near G5k1 in order to set-up some vehicle traps around the road. I wanted to try and slow the armor advances into Coal Mine. All we really managed to do though was report on armor movements, until...

We saw 3 enemy tanks retreat towards Farm Outpost. I presumed they were either off to reload or reposition into the hills east of Coal Mine. Regardless, that moment was opportunity, and we knew it. We had squad 5 (I believe) near Coal Mine and they put bodies on the flag quickly. I saw that Farm Outpost was going to come into play and that we were in position to move on it.

For me, it was the highlight of the game. Our squad expedited to Farm Outpost. Permafrost got a great LAT shot on a Merlin there on our way in. We split into 2 fireteams, and attacked from the west and south, re-establishing our RP on the south. We must have had some element of surprise because we got onto the flag with very little opposition...I think we only had to kill about 3 or so guys.

First order of business was to destroy the bunker there, and then dig in for the inevitable capital "R" retaliation. However, our squad managed to flip and hold the flag for much longer than I expected.



The British won by 83 tickets, but the team effort to put them on bleed gave us the initiative for the first time in the game and I think helped seriously close the gap.

Eventually we got overrun, and ended up back at Village for the remainder of the game. We avoided the Brit JDAM through a fortuitous decision to rally north of Village moments before, in the hopes of killing any vehicles that may come into support.



Good times, and congrats to the Brits!

Cheers,