Originally Posted by major_buddha

Our squad was instructed to hold the southern part of the map and perhaps move across the river when we had APC support. We held strong and had to rebuild the firebase at least once. In the thick of it we lost outpost and I think we all felt a little hopeless (I think skud posted something like it could be over...) but me and a couple other squads scurried back to outpost to subdue the enemy and then back to our firebase in C7.

When the time came skud instructed us to build/defend at river fort. 1st time with CO truck was unsuccessful and finally I dropped a couple of boxes when we had the flag and got the base up. One or two of my squad members were shoveling when the attack came from the north. We were ousted and I recommended skud to send squad 2 (goatboy) to finish off the job. He did and shortly after it was raining artillery on our precious bunker. Oh well, I thought that might have been another turning point but we kept fighting the good fight and prevailed.

I believe I was the squad leader that along with another squad that initially rushed into river fort, and maybe held it for a tiny bit, not really getting the flag turning as quick as i had wanted to do so. I completely forgot that engineers had grappling hooks so it took our second rush to actually get inside, i remember calling a arty strike to the woods sw of the bridge at river fort, and someone how got over the wall and me and another guy raced to the panic room area.

We were ultimately killed off one by one, and as my squadmates were killed in the lower section i had them wait at the island to the north, knowing that i soon would succumb to death in the panic room.

After I died and my fellow squad mates waited patiently not firing off a single shot but helping me give locations of enemy movement to the commander, we started our approach onto Outpost. However I forgot a very important part of the equation, Seven Gates is a Counter-attack map, and the outpost flag was bugged.

So we entered the area from the north west hills, almost going into the dome of death zone near the british main, i instructed everyone that we were not to fire a single shot. They complied and we set our rally and moved in.

After hearing that it was a counter attack map we had to wait, it was interesting because at first i thought to immediately destroy the bunker, but after realizing that we in fact couldn't take outpost yet i told my guys to hold their positions in a half-upside down circle perimeter until it was time.

Then the time came, we immediately destroyed the bunker and took the outpost flag and dug in. It was hard though because there was a scimitar very close by, that i believe had one LAT shot in it, but it really didn't dent it.

As a SL it was the first time in .8 that i experienced capping the outpost flag (i only had done it in .75 prob 3 times) and then everything got crazy. I remember the Command truck coming in and bullets whizzing by us left and right. After we lost it to neutral we still held on but eventually it was lost again.

instead of following behind the brits we broke west, where a squad had constructed a FB and we helped dig and set up some wire in odd places etc.

We then circled around and took out a rally point and tried to find a FB in the South hills overlooking the river bank. I literally was standing next to a british officer during that time, i don't think neither of us knew that we were right next to each other. Fortunately i got the jump on him and well, unloaded a full clip of my trusty officer designed gun into his face (the scene on private ryan when tom hanks character is talking to the radio operator at dog one came to mind, if u remember the scene where he then taps the guy on the shoulder and his face is no longer there.)

We never found the enemy FB, but had intermittent contact and tried to get back into the fight.

As I talked with zaboo he told me where the enemy fb at river fort was (the one i was initially looking for must have already gone down and the remnants were what i saw, or it could have been one of ours that was destroyed previously) was and that the arty was up, so we knew the fight was coming to an end, and for the first time arty hit right on the button. It was a huge morale booster and it destroyed the entire fb area including the trucks. If only we had ten minutes more we would have taken river fort.

We did encounter one moronic bunny hopper who i still have to identify and well, he died and ended up getting his buddy behind him killed as well.

It was a fun round and all i can remember was qfly being the trusty medic, he doesn't let anyone die on his watch, i highly recommend him to anyone on any round.

To be honest i set a rally on the far north side at the beginning thinking that there was going to be a rush of brits, (i think there was one lone sniper, on the bottom part of the chinese side, who was in the open and was taken out quite easily)trying to be sneaky but alas they didn't go that route, but it did enable us to get to river fort much quicker initially.