Karkand and Dragon Valley, Monday nite

Beatnik · 01-10-2006, 12:44 AM

GGs to my squad members and Santa as CO tonight on Karkand and Dragon Valley. I was playing in a LAN center here in Austin, and it was a little weird playing on a new machine in a public place, but I had a blast, and my squad saw some crazy action on those maps.

Karkand consisted of taking the suburb initially, then, after a failed attempt at crossing the landbridge, punching through and capping the factory. I'm convinced that, with the bleed enacted, the only way for the US to wrap up a win is to take the East. We took it and held it despite some big counterassaults by the MEC.

Dragon Valley was much more enoyable for me - capping and holding the PLA main base, and defending against wave after wave of assaults from some very talented SLs. At one point I think there were 3 squads in a group attacking from the west. Somehow we held them off, but I'm not sure how. Everyone in the squad was super-responsive and supported each other extremely well. Like I said in game, that was probably the best time I've ever had on that map with all the action we saw and the teamwork I saw in the squad. Great job guys.

Santa · 01-10-2006, 12:53 AM

karkand was fun, your squad basically sealed the victory for us. You got across, got the east, and held it untilt he rest of the squads finally spawned over there. A few squads seemed reluctant to help you out, which i found odd. After that squad 2 took the entire west side witht he help of 4, and we eventuallly pinned em into the gatehouse. They all went to the west side and we just kept pushing at em.

I still think that with bleed its impossible for the MEC to lose if they simply dedicate one squad to the landbridge, and one to the bridge. The main reason beatnik got through was because nobody was on the bridge, and the MEC werent defending positions on the river that were easiest to defend.

Dragon valley was insane. We took the refinery and defended it against everything. I wish i got a screenshot of the UAV when all those guys rushed us from the west. It was probably 3 squads, and when the UAV popped up the entire squad just burst out laughing, and then frantically tried to defend.

Snail88 · 01-10-2006, 01:11 AM

i was on beatniks squad for karkand and i must say that was one awesome squad. I was the "decoy" on our armor colomn push and basically took one for the team in case of c4/at mines. That was a great stradegy beatnik...we basically pushed everyone over the land bridge again and beatnik sneaked north and went across the undefended bridge. No one was there cuz of our effective decoy. Once we got the factory though it was all over.

Near the end me and Kilrogg were having a field day in the tank and apc repairing each other. That is until we tried to go over to the west and it seemed like 1 out of every 2 MEC guys was AT. Needless to say we didnt last too long but it was wrapped up long before that. Great got Beatnik and great job squad members! And as per usual, great job to santa for commanding! Too bad i couldnt stick around for dragon...

Kilrogg · 01-10-2006, 01:36 AM

Dragon Valley refinery was pretty crazy

Was flying the Cobra with DarkViper and I kept trying to move out of the refinery but there was always something attacking.

Leonidas · 01-10-2006, 01:59 AM

Indeed, those were awesome rounds, at least if you were in Beatnik's squad.

Karkand was great, moving out in that armored column was just so cool to see. We moved fast and took the factory first(By mistake) and than dashed to the factory and took and held it against everything the other team threw at us, securing bleed for our team.

On dragon valley we took a BH and flew it down to the refinery, jumping in and taking the flag without too many problems. I cannot believe that we held it, for the entire round, against the entire enemy team at times. We just couldn't be dislodged with anything. Infantry, Choppers, armor, nothing could get us off that flag. And when we saw that massive chunk of the enemy team on the UAV, it didin't matter, we were invincible, gods of the battlefield. We simply laughed at such foolish mortals!

Uber-props to Every member of the squad, and most of all to our fine SL, Beatnik!

That was some truly great defence! Once again you have proved why your squad fills up in about .3 seconds.

perry · 01-10-2006, 03:09 AM

I was having fun sniping around the refinery w/ Jusb and FBMantis, but Comcast decided that I was having too much fun and took my cable modem offline for about 90 minutes

Shirk · 01-10-2006, 07:46 AM

Great work COing Santa(Karkand) and to your squad Beatnik on Karkand and Dragon. I was on WhiskeySix's Squad (MEC) for Karkland and B's (MEC) for dragon. Both maps were great fun but i missed the end of round report for Karkand, i assume Beatniks squad got best USMC squad. I spent most of my time on Karkand trying to keep Whiskey (and our squad) alive at the river-crossing and lost count of the number of revives I made, possibly my most ever on one map, i think my shock paddle batteries must have almost run out.
On Dragon it was fun being part of that three squad assault on the main airbase that you mentioned, i have never seem so many blue dots so close together on the map, various people made comments about how one well placed artillary strike could have gained about 15 kills.
Hope we see some more frantic action like that again soon, when it is that much fun i never mind being on the losing side.

BHack · 01-10-2006, 09:19 AM

I shot dark viper's bomber down with a TANK SHELL. BOOYAH!

Leonidas · 01-10-2006, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Bhack

I shot dark viper's bomber down with a TANK SHELL. BOOYAH!

Heh, THAT was awesome. We all just started laughing and jeering, it was sooo just funny, awesome, and ironic!

March4Revenge · 01-10-2006, 10:19 AM

Well Dragon Valley was not my finest moment as a CO but as Sassy said, I basically had no assets the whole round. Good job on that. Also I prolly shoulda went to bed well before this round as I started suffering from "Nintendo Eyes" and lack of sleep.

I can't believe you scumdogs held the refinery for so long. I am so bitter about that!!!! LOL!.

Next time my troops will wade through rivers of your blood! Ehh....well prolly not but it would be cool!

Ah well, good game and props to the other team. I'ma go sharpen up my CO skills.

M4R

Jusb · 01-10-2006, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by perry

I was having fun sniping around the refinery w/ Jusb and FBMantis, but Comcast decided that I was having too much fun and took my cable modem offline for about 90 minutes

yeah i wondered where you went...Karkland was fun. Me perry and mantis attached ourselves to different squads on the East and we spent the entire round supporting Beats squad at the refinery on dragon valley.

i'm definitely rusty from playing COD2...

EnglishRebel · 01-10-2006, 12:36 PM

Well this was my first TG battle (Karkland). I seemed to be in the tank most of the time (fodder for their super good AT guys). I must admit at the end there it was fun. I think I put a few rounds through the window of the guard house across the destroyed bridge. Their AT guys kept sneaking up under the rail cars on the siding but the overwhelming force paid off in the end.
Thanks for an enjoyable first blood.
Alan
EnglishRebel

kornkobcom · 01-10-2006, 12:58 PM

I was CO on the Dragon game after getting moved over to the US after playing MEC on Karkland.

Whoever led Squad8 and ran up to grab the Refinery first thing really laid the groundwork for the rest of that game. Between fending off the enemy and lettign the troops know when I was dropping arty damn near in their laps to try and clear out attackers from around the oil tanks on the west side, 8 did a great job of rolling things up.

And the air squad was very responsive. Eveyr little thing I needed done was taken care of isntantly. I am reasonably certain that if I asked for a pepperoni and mushroom pizza to be delivered to the farm, it would have shown up pipping hot. : )

I also really apprecaited the way some of the smaller squads combined all on their own into larger maneuver units. Onesy Twosy squads are such a pain in the butt to coordinate sometimes.

And Squad 3 probably saved the game about halfway along when they pul;led back from the offensive and dedicated themselves to recapturing the northern bases and cleaning all the enemy off the mountainside.

All in all an enjoyable game to CO--- most of my time was spent trying to figure out who needed the resources and how close I could drop the arty. : )

Beatnik · 01-10-2006, 02:06 PM

March - don't worry from what I could tell you did just fine as CO. I was already making plans on how to re-attack the refinery. I still don't know how we held it, other than possibly some lucky kills of the SLs (I knew who 2 of them were for sure). A loss doesn't mean you did a bad job.

korncob you did a great job as CO. Supplies came every time I requested them, UAVs were abundant, and we got just enough arty to disrupt their assaults.

I really can't remember having a tougher, more long lasting battle on that map. It was 45 minutes of pure fun.

March4Revenge · 01-10-2006, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Beatnik

March - don't worry from what I could tell you did just fine as CO. I was already making plans on how to re-attack the refinery. I still don't know how we held it, other than possibly some lucky kills of the SLs (I knew who 2 of them were for sure). A loss doesn't mean you did a bad job.

Thanks Beatnik, very cool of you to give me your perspective on that map. And yeah, I know I did all I could but sometimes a person can be their own worse critic. It's not easy man, trying to be everywhere at once on the CO map and attending to every squad's situations. All you can do is go one step at a time.

Thanks again for the feedback and you guys did a great job and presented a great challenge.

M4R