Originally Posted by daithi1

What rounds, I think it was probably the most fun I've had playing 2142. Anyway before we start the most important thing to remember is Scary Rabid Pandas (or fighting pandas same thing really) = pure winnage.

I was CO while Rakkasan, Aruncado and Machowner were my SLs on the ground and Lyra was my eye in the sky (or took the gunship). I made a basic plan My SLs made suggestion and we had a plan, as it turns out a good one. Each squad had 4 in it, apart from Lyra's Gunship.

1st round as PAC Rakkasan took the trasnsport with Aruncado and Mach. Avocado was dropped off at the closest silo while Rak's squad spawned in on the transport and dropped out with Mach on silo 3, who's squad spawned in on touchdown. After the cap Rak picked up his squad and went to Silo 4 I think. That was capped with no resistance. We held our three silos for a good while. Boring work for Rak as everyone left him alone (they were too scared). There was a couple of small pushes on Avocado's silo, nothing too deadly I think. However Mach had his hands full and eventually lost the struggle. I think as we were losing that silo I sent Rak to Silo 5, easy cap. The EU titan's shields went down and Lyra was on the case pretty soon and before my eyes they lost all 4 consoles and half their hull. When our shields went down one of avocado's squad joined Machs and Avocado legged it back to the titan and set up shop in corridor one or two. We were a bit late in this as I didn't notice that my visual of the shields at the top was wrong . It's quite a shock to see about 1/4 shields left and then hear Titan Shields Down. Needless to say the kept it all round. We managed to keep 3 to 4 silos for the rest of the round. As Rak said in the middle of the rounds, they were my tennis balls. 1:0 Fighting Pandas.

During the break we lost someone from Avocado's squad. I decided to leave things as they were as Lyra wasn't going to give up Rage without a fight (original plan had been 4-4-4-1 when Rage was the odd one out) and he was in a transport . Much hilarity ensued as Lyra tried to barrel role for about 15 minutes.

Second round went slightly different, seemingly simple although it took me about 5 minutes to explain as it was 2.45 am and as it turns out Mach and Rak rhyme. Anyway mach was being dropped off at the closest silo, Avocado driving dropping off his squad and Rak at silo 3. Unfortunately the transport got gunshipped. I think for a while we only held two (this round is very fuzzy). I think at some stage soon I must have send my 3 man strike force (hehe) off somewhere. Mach got pretty lonely aswell so I think everyone more or less went silo hopping. One big thing I remember is Raligh holding silo two on his own from a push from a full 4-man squad with an APC, I was amazed. Much Silo goodness later there shields went down. Lyra timed his transport well and dropped a beacon on their titan I believe. I don't have a clue what he and Rage did but next time I Sat-Tracked at least half their team was on their titan. More silos for me . About now Rak or Mach lost an SM, 2-men down ahh well, life goes on. When our shields went down avocado was ready in wait with a 'nade in his hand in corridor 2. He saw little to no action for about 20 minutes I believe. Then our consoles fell like flies, but not Avocado's. We held corridor 2, had 3-4 silos for the rest of the round and Lyra making random pushes on monsieur Titan holding a good 5-6 members of that silly ninja team. We won the round from there.

I believe I heard mutterings of fraps from TS are we getting another video? Or was that Skull?

The squad cohesion was brilliant I had to break squads up sometimes but it didn't seem to matter. They got the work done. Also there was some amazing individual skill out there too. Me as commander didn't really see names.

A big thanks goes to Arithea for the time you put in organising it. Also thanks to Rage who set up the server, made TS channels and for other adminy things. In general just some gratitude for everyone who showed up and played. For anyone who wasn't there you really missed out.

Yeah, I have the rounds videod, though I probably won't put it up because Cow already did.

Funniest thing is at the end of round one, The Pandas had a roving death squad of about 7 pieces of armor on the ground. Mach's squad consisted of 3 walkers and an APC, while Ara's squad had another APC and a tank or two. Randomly one of us in Mach's squad would go "Ah! Tanks moving in from the East!" only to realize the column was our own. A piece of enemy armor would pop up, and before you could even spot it, it was at 30% health with cannon fire and missiles raining down on it. I almost felt bad for them.

When Warmaster was kicked (the man in Mach's squad,) we were two walkers hanging out at Silo 4 just waiting for action. He was kicked, and suddenly an APC rolled up, and I was EMP'd to death, finally going down via the walker respawn. Great timing, there, War!