*Specialists* Squadron Debrief - 10 October 2006

"What Goes Around Comes Around" or "Kill Rainman"

It was hard to pick a title for tonight's squad night. Some good descriptions I heard mentioned by the squad were "different", "Interesting night", and "a what waste of my money". Yes, it was very rough from 09:00 until 10:20. Most of it caused by 2 enemies named Rain000 something and Cpl03488 something or another. I call them D.H.A.G.D.(Dweebs Having A Good Day) Let me explain:

We started out in the Mid-War Arena. There were about 50 pilots in there when I entered at 09:00. Unfortunately, Fuze had microswitch heater trouble. The Late War arena was nearly packed with 380 pilots. I found Seal, RTS, and Joker at A19. At that time this was one of the last fields along the norther border of the Knights territory. By quiting time this airfield was strangely left alone while all surrounding fields had been captured. For an hour and a half it was the 5 of us. Skunk joined up shortly after I entered. Our mission was to ferry eggs and rockets across a short pond to A35. It was about a 10 minute flight to get there. For over an hour the only resistance we had were from an LA5 and a P38/Zeke crossdresser. Other than the 5 of us and the 2 of them, that seemed to be about the only resistance we encountered, and, it was burtal.

Time and time again we were slaughtered in our B24's, 17's, 38's, and ME110's. Most of the time we were not grouped up because there was little resistance and we weren't worried about 1 little Lala. It turned out to be brutal. Each time we arrived it didn't take long before we were launching again. One of those nights but frustration lead to anger and payback time. It all started with Seal with chants of Kill Rainman, Kill Rainman.

RTS opted out of his ME110 and slid into a light spit and then started wepping his way, and fury, to A35 and Rainman. Joker dumped his B24's and grabbed one of the redisegned P51's. Luft was heard saying "I can take him in my 109 Franz" and wepped his way over the pond. Once again, we were all shot down DHAGD. Rain was having an awesome run in his La5. The guy would latch onto your six like stink on doodoo and would not let go. He was up 4 or 5 kills a few times. It was getting ridiculous. After an hour of this RTS had to get going (i don't blame him). Skunk, upon review of the films, wrote "ok I'm drunk" and "This is a waste of my money". He clearly had enough as well ang logged saying "see you next week".

During the flights across the pond Luft brought up the subject of planning a 10 year reunion each week in November. Both on Tuesday nights as usual, and also on the weekends. Some of the ideas floated around were a 24/7 Specialists arena in 8 player mode with Luft hosting on the weekends. (More details to follow) Also weekend flights culminating in one big get together towards the end of the month with as many possible Specialists joining as possible. Remember, it's free for 2 weeks and if you haven't used yours this would be the time. Almost everyone has a fast enough PC now and people should be able to get in hardware wise.

Well, it's too bad both RTS and Skunk logged because the very next flight it was *Specialists* payback time. It all started at 10:21 pm. We were not grouped up and all arrived at separate times. By now there were other enemies upping, probably around 5. Joker was slicing and dicing in his P51 and RTB'd 3 kills. Seal ran out of gas and was forced to ditch his 5.5 kills in the pond. Luft made it all the way back to base with 3 kills. Unfortunately, he forgot that Rain had landed a single shot to his BF109's right landing gear. After a beautiful final approach, flare, and gentle touch down, the right side of the plane collapsed. The propellor chewed up the runway and the plane skidded just off the edge of the runway. He made it alive but no kills were credited for a ditch.

It was agreed by all that it was fun anyway. And for the 3 that took revenge for all Specialists...well, it's what we do!

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