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Gentlemen! Stand easy!

On Sunday last, the 30.08.09, TG was proud to welcome to our servers Evan Lahti of PC GAMER magazine. Evan had been kind enough to get in contact with us, after having heard about our pretty unique community through a friend. Asking for a Sunday Event mission to be laid on to show exactly what we can do, TG was only to happy to oblige.....I think it shows great promise that TG ArmA has built upon the huge success it had in ArmA 1, to have such high profile guests contact us asking to write articles not just about a specific game, but about TG in general. Great work by all involved, and it is a testament to TG that we may just be doing something right! So with Evan embedded as a Journalist, TG once again went to war.....

Mission Briefing:

"The Battle of Ia Drang" - Made famous in the movie "We Were Soldiers"

Special thanks to Nthamma for this and other outstanding missions at TG!

Your objective is a suspected concentration camp where we will be going on a search and destroy mission. From our primary FOB, we will head to the frontline and a designated LZ named “X-Ray”. In order to establish a foothold for the primary assault, we need to hold LZ X-Ray until we are sure we can move on, once we have confirmed intelligence of the suspected concentration camp location. The initial hold of LZ X-Ray is the key to this entire mission, if we lose too many men here, we have no chance of completing the key mission objective which is the concentration camp.

Full Mission Briefing available to SL's prior to kick off (PDF)

The AO


The Frontline and Support


The Gritty End...

Now, not be it for me to try and provide a full battle report, as I was just one Soldier in a unit of nearly 60, I shall instead link you all to the AAR:

Ia Drang After Action Report

Rest assured a full Battle report is on its way in the article....

Evans TG ArmA article will be in the December edition, available from the 23rd of September to all US PC Gamer subscribers. So make sure you go out and buy it!

Originally Posted by PCGEvan

This is actually a very unique feature for us--we're anecdotally telling the "war story" of our mission on the 30th, including direct quotes from what's said over TeamSpeak, taking screen captures during the mission to be used alongside the story, and conveying the value of a community like TG and why this type of user-created, specialized experience can only happen on PC. Mostly it'll be the narrative of our battle, though. I'm planning four pages for it, which is really significant--we'd usually reserve that kind of space for a big review.

Following the mission, SL's and select individuals were available in TS for Evan to Interview, giving real life information, location, and their own experiences of what makes TG ArmA so special, how they found TG, and a Battle run down. Now with all that said, and everyone looking forward to the article, I will give a thank you to everyone who attended, making the event a huge success. Special thanks of course to the mission designer Nthamma and the Commander, Blackdog1, and all the SL's. And a big thank you to BIS for a great game, and just hot of the press, perhaps even fixing VON.....

And also a big thank you to Evan for joining us in what was a particularly hard fought battle, against overwhelming odds, one that we only just succeeded in. If I do remember correctly, I think I saw a War correspondant wondering round with a loaded M16 at one particularly hairy point....

Now for some more sexy images....

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