Hey everyone,

Thanks to FatKidDeath for getting us all to play Titan mode tonight. It was my first time playing Titan for an extended period where my fps was greater than 10. I attribute that to a new, faster HDD, a fresh install of Windows and a great tweaking guide that I found. The combination of those things made such a difference in my performance that I'm running BF2142 at HIGHER detail and resolution than before while still increasing my frame rates. Anyways, the AAR...

When I first joined up, the game was in the middle of Shuia Taiba. I formed a LearnTG squad out of habit and set up a defence around one of the silos. Initially it was only Zigthis and I and we got consistently hammered by enemy vehicles, both land and air. I'm not sure how we managed to hold on, but we did ok. Then the squad filled up with Ramrod, Bommando and some newcomers and we mounted one heck of a defence on that silo, despite increased enemy vehicle activity and enemy drop pods.

As I recall, Minsk was the next map up - I remained SL but have absolutely no recollection of what happened on this map, aside from fighting over the silo at the chokepoint bunkers forever.

I found out that Titan is very different than Conquest...well, I always knew the two modes were different, just not by how much.

I need to maintain more awareness over the battlefield dynamics, like the conditions of the Titan shields, the control and timings of the missile silos and presence of friendly / enemy soldiers on both titans. There tends to be no 'front line', like you see in Conquest games so there's more to worry about.

Thanks to Bommando for providing this awareness for me while I was SL. I learned a lot.

Later in the night on Suez Canal, CARRamrod took the lead of LearnTG since I had to scale back on my mic usage (my wife got sleeped, so I didn't want to break it and draw aggro). Bommando went up to become CO. In close Titan games where there is entrenched defence, taking silos becomes the alternative strategy to win. We saw this happen a few times - once in our favour when I was SL, and once in the enemy's favour on Suez Canal. I'll have to keep this in mind in the future - it's something I never needed to worry about in Conquest mode and it means team strategy can drastically change without warning.

Great games last night everyone - I still prefer Conquest mode at the moment but I'm warming up to Titan now.