Scarface6174

Last night (March 3rd), Was the best night of squad play I have had. Remember the whole MSN messenger/360 chatpad thing we were talking about? Well it worked!

Squads:

Squad 1:
IO Dragone
General Keen
IO friend 1
IO friend 2

Squad 2
G REGSMITH
Lag Sonata
Scarface6174
Random guy

How we worked together:

Me and IO both have the chatpad and MSN messenger. At the beginning of the round, we started up squads and msg'd that we would take the north and IO's squad would take the south. That's pretty much all that was needed. I do think that if either squad was getting absoutly hammered, we would have used the text chat to call for help.

At least 8 of 16 players on our side were in a squad, (our 2 squads) so that 's a force to be reconed with.

My squad worked well, with roles being spread out. 1 Airstrike, 1 EMP tech, and 1 Ground Support. I'm not sure what that 3rd random guy was running.

G REGSMITH ran with a tank most of the time, and didn't try to get all fancy with his movments. He moved up to cover us while we took objectives. ***NOTE*** Tanks make a GREAT distraction while capping CPs.

I started out with Airstrike tech, but there were enemy EMPs all over the place. So I switched to my normal setup and all of a sudden, our other teammates airstrikes were open, and we were constantly covered with my stick.

2 rounds in a row, with 16 v 16 I capped 3 CPs. That would be the 2 north CPs along with the final CP. I'm not saying that as a proclimation of how great I am, but of the teamwork that allowed me to accomplish this. Having Airstrikes rain down on the enemy CP, and a tank covering our advance, it worked like a charm.

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Io Dragone

Normally its really frustrating playing FFOW, even with a squad, because you can't coordinate offense and defense. Well, let me say when you ARE able to coordinate, wow. We started hammering the enemy team in about 5 minutes flat with a complete capout by the 3rd round. It was nice not haveing to worry about guarding 2 or 3 objectives at once, knowing theres an organized squad on the other side of the map doing business.

As far as supporting each other during the match, I think common sense was the deciding factor. Alot of times, my squad would get pinned down on the left side by an entrenched enemy force, so as soon as the guys took the right point we would have a steady stream of reinforcements hitting the defenders right in the flank (I don't know if it was Scarface's squad or not).

Another time, we were trying to cap their main base, when our point on the north was being taken (my squad was on the south). So we quickly loaded up in my trusty IFV Veera and retook that point while it was still neutralized, so there wasn't even a hiccup in our offense.

My squad, we had an emp, airstrike and ground support, and I was drone. We'd all spawn at the main base and load up in an IFV. I'd disembark them at the city center and give them support from the IFV, usually covering the left flank. Then, if they died, they could spawn nice and cozy in my vehicle. Then once that was secured we'd head straight up the left street and take the AAA site. At first it was easy, but as the rounds went on they were putting up more and more of a defense. Those were some hectic battles on that left street! For the record, I love being RSA just because of their IFV and the fact that it holds infantry. Even though the Powell is supposed to be able to hold infantry, it can't.

My favorite part of the GNAW match though? My IFV Veera. She just refused to die.... I ended a round 10 and 0 in her.... and I was also completely out of ammo for both the autocannon and the tow missles.

Scarface6174

Aww... you named your APC. That's sweet!

BTW, for some reason I almost never had any resistance on the 1st north objective. I think i had 2 people attack 1 time, but I killed em both easily. I did come over a few times to help attack on the south side while we were waiting around for you slackers to get the job done.

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chairlord

Just so you know I also have a chatpad if you're looking to get a three squad effort going at some point.

I also think this could work quite well if you have a laptop or other computer nearby as you could run MSN on that and essentially have a dedicated command comms channel.

Do you think that it would also be beneficial to have a universally accepted shorthand to use for instructions, or are you guys already doing something similar to this?

Scarface6174

Since my box is broken, I haven't been on. We didn't use shorthand when I was though. It's a good idea man. Mostly we didn't need it cause we went all proctologist on them and recked em' pretty well. The only typing we did was "need help?" with a relpy of "y" or "n." Not much on the tactical side.

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Kaos-DanMatlack

I wanna play! Man, no one even added me to their friends list in the that other thread, so I'll try here...

Kaos-DanMatlack

or just hit me up on msn msg at sgt_hoofer@hotmail.com

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J. Daniel Matlack
MultiPlayer Technical Design
Kaos Studios | THQ Inc., NYC
129 W. 27th St. 8th Floor | New York, NY 10001

Io Dragone

Are you sure your gt has a hyphen in it? I tried with the hyphen and it didn't work, tried without the hyphen and it did.

Kaos-DanMatlack

You are correct, sorry!

Kaos DanMatlack

Thanks...

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MultiPlayer Technical Design
Kaos Studios | THQ Inc., NYC
129 W. 27th St. 8th Floor | New York, NY 10001

Exploding_Silver

do you just do xbox or PC as well ?

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Kaos-DanMatlack

I work on all platforms we develop for.

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J. Daniel Matlack
MultiPlayer Technical Design
Kaos Studios | THQ Inc., NYC
129 W. 27th St. 8th Floor | New York, NY 10001

Snipe 209

I would love play with you IO guys, send me a FR to snipe 209 im on everyday. Im a good player and i am usually in the top 5 spots every game, but dont take my word for it LOL