Much thanks to the organizers for all their efforts. It was a good time...although since I'm a guy who usually plays PR there were several moments in the match where I thought I'd have a seizure from the non-stop sensory overload of action! Also, much kudos to my COs & SLs on Creeping Death...and thanks to my squaddies on Melitopol and Kharkiv for their, ummm..."patience"

General comments:

I agree with Greasy that a 3 round match makes more sense...keeps more players longer.

Also, RockFord seemed to have my name for the match. He killed me so many times I was beginning to think he had something personal against goats! Maybe a bad "rack of lamb" experience at a restaurant once


Specific Comments:

Yalta
I fear this map. My experiences at Canal make me think about meat products being fed into a grinder, producing hamburger mixed with BDU threads. That said, squadding with Troublemsome was a blast, and the fighting was constant. It was an awesome time, and I was stunned that our aggressive rollout took us quickly onto the attack west of Canal. The squad really seemed to function cohesively to me. Some great counter attacks by the OpFor though made us retreat a few times, but mostly I felt like we had the initiative and were on the attack.


Green Acres
Back flag defense at Vineyard as part of Namebots helo squad with Fighter and Homer. We were floating about most of the time. I wrenched a few vehicles, tried to provide some APC support, but mostly we just floated wherever we were needed. I didn't feel like I contributed significantly to the team effort, although we did do our part in keeping the back flag safe when the OpFor did parachute in a squaddie to flip it. We responded pretty quickly to that bit of action. Otherwise, it was roll forward and support efforts elsewhere. Kudos to Namebot for very clear and concise directives while double-timing as "death from above".


Depot
I was SL'ng a "river defence" squad on this one. Essentially, me and 3 guys from the 12th (Project, Elmeistro, Fallen). Our intial roll-out plan was changed about 30 seconds prior to go-live, but that's part of the fun sometimes. I essentially saw my role as providing a spawn point for the guys...they are deadly, and keeping them in the fight was the best use of my time Although, I did get to kill Blonov which was satisfying for me. The fight at Bridge was intense...but I think I had the most fun when we joined the attack at Fuel Depot. We ended up being the only ones there for quite awhile...lot's of fun watching what havoc we caused there...lasted way longer than I expected.


Kharkiv
I was SL'ng again on this map...it was kind of a mess. The UKR got some key mines down that heavily disrupted our roll-out plans and cost us the initiave. After that, it seemed like we did a tour of the map moving from flag to flag trying to stem bleed. I didn't really get much coordinated with the squad, and it seemed I just couldn't get to the CO's objectives fast enough Much kudos to |TG|Blood for doing a great job hanging onto and securing Docks after we captured it.


Anyway, much thanks to everyone for the good games!

Cheers.