Well I played a couple rousing games of BF2 with you guys tonight and had a great time.

I was suddenly thrust into the Squad leader position for the first time on a TG server on the Karkand map, MEC side. I usually stay away from that position having been a bit intimidated by the excellent job done by ppl like SmokingTarpan etc and not thinking I was up to snuff.

However I decided to give it a shot and I had a great squad. Shout-outs to DanFitzger, Clanless, Twister026, Tysn and Gen.Stryker who all performed splendidly despite my leadership.
I finally got to work under the thumb of Tempus as commander in that map and he did a great job. I was a bit concerned that he wanted us to try and keep that southern-most spawnpoint away from USMC but as I said before my squad did an excellent job. We lost it a couple times , got wiped out quite often by WyzCrak's Arty but we always got it back and held on. I think we ended up winning that map 185-0 and got best Squad to boot! I've never seen MEC win by such a large margin there before.

We played Stalemate next. We didn't face as much action but we got pushed back early and decided to keep the main rear base out of USMC hands. We held off a couple attempts at a takeover and perservered. We then nicked a helo and Twister026 carried us over the map to quickly capture bases and keep USMC off balance. We won that match pretty heftily as well if I remember.

The next map was Peninsula and we gained a new squad member, LethalEskimo. Good lord what a good sniper he is. I'm sure I speak for all of us in the squad when I say that we all felt a little safer with him on a rooftop keeping an eye out . We went in , we captured, we held, we lost, we regrouped and kicked ass some more. USMC put up a vicious fight and Eskimo had plenty of targets. He ended up getting best sniper and I'm not one bit surprised. I gotta say I love these city maps, lots of fierce firefights. We won that map too if I remember tho it didn't look like it was gonna be that way a couple times.

The last map was Cleansweep. I personally dislike this map. Too much flagchasing. We ended up being pinned down in an area quite a bit by constant assaults. (DAMN YOU COBRA PILOTS! ). It was a LONG hard map to keep track of and the score was neck and neck till the end. Was hard to lose by only 1 point in the end (43-42?). You USMC guys are lucky I couldn't find anyone to grenade in the final seconds .

All in all I had a great time as usual with the TacticalGamer Servers. I must say I was kinda disappointed with BF2 Retail when I just got it. Games were laggy, servers were full of TK'n idiots and seeing 20/32 unassigned was a regular occurence. I was actually playing the demo again because I was getting somewhat better games there. But then I saw ur website on someone's sig in the PlanetBattlefield forums and decided to take a look. TG is now my new home and finally BF2 is everything I expected it to be; great matches, great squadmates and great opponents.

Thanks Tactical Gamer