Good job CandyCane!

I was lucky enough tonight to have a very consistenet squad in terms of membership (although poor aculle seemed to be having connection problems. Firstly apologies to Robocop - thanks for not teamkilling us over comments best left unsaid here (haha)

We certainly seemed to be the guys on 'forwrd defence' a lot of the time, which is no surprise cos that's where I like to be. For those guys not used to my style sorry for dragging you through the hard places so often, but hey if you don't try you never know what can be done!

The final Sharqi was the best for me, and really up there I think in terms of defence. Mainly position in the construction site we held it for very long periods of time. I think we were only fully shrugged off once, but recaptured it in under 2 minutes (I'm pretty sure the enemy squad capping it and moved off tho). Some really fluid defences and quick raids into neighbouring flags (with the inevitable recapture of the flag we just left scenario!). Damn those snipers! At one point on the south building I was forced to the bottom floor such were the number of shots heading my way!


Also sorry if I sound grumpy-like-Bommando at times. I tend to just keep reiterating what needs to be done with the volume of my voice a good indicator of the amount I am panicking Not trying to have a go!


I think in terms of achievement the pinnacle was KArkand. As USMC we capped the east side in short order, and kept the enemy assets down long enough to do some real damage in the west. I lef tthat point and rejoined my squad for the assaults on the west, and with 5 armour vs 0 the finish was pretty clinical. As MEC on Karkand you must defend the west side of the river. Delay your squad's spawn as an SL and if no-one spawns at Factory or Cement Factory then spawn in there and plug the river crossing. On 32 and 64 player maps I - in all honestly with no exaggeration at all - have managed to capture tha back flag by making a direct rush across the river crossing the last 8 times I have played Karkand. If I get to 10 I'm going to start making some rude posts about needing to defend

Seriously tho - the attacking squad has to sprint fully across an open bit of river that they cannot go prone in, and a defending squad has plenty of cover and choke points to help. By not doing this you risk... well a 547 ticket loss as you get pushed off of every flag on the map. It'd only take 3 guys to be honest...