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19 July 05
"One, two, three strikes, yer
out!"
Pilots in Attendance
Fuzeman
Luft
Juice21 (?)
Joker66
Luft
Plus Seal
RTS
Skeksis
SKu
Mission 1
A80 to A85
Mission 2
A85 to A88
Squad night this week was a real
thrill ride as The Specialist’s
took one field, disarmed a main
city, and tried to take a second
field. Sadly I do not know how it
ended as I was having system
problems (again) and had to drop
out early. The system problems
were a direct result of trying to
get the 1.02 patch to Battlefield
2 and the latest Audigy 2 drivers
to work. Every so often my screen
would break up into huge polygons
and then AH would lock up and I
would have to reboot, and of
course it would happen on a night
that I am flying (for me) well.
After the third time I gave up. I
am pretty sure that this has all
been fixed now thanks to the ghost
I keep on hand, sometimes the only
solution is to go back to the
beginning and forget you tried to
update anything.
;-) But enough of this
and onto the SNR.
I got online with just minutes to
spare thanks to a nice dinner
Stacey had put together and missed
a lot of the action going on at
80. Luft, Seal, and someone named
Juice21 were on 111 while RTS and
Skunk were on the squad channel
but everyone seemed to be working
on taking 85 even if they were not
aware that the others were helping
out. Once everyone got on the
same channel The Specialists
started doing the thing they do
best, working together and
achieving results. When I got
involved the field at 80 was
pretty heavily worked over so we
started to work on the town. I
was flying a P51 heavy while RTS
and Skunk were doing bomber work
and Plus was in 38. Fuze joined
in flying a 47 and we leveled that
town in a big hurry but we noticed
that flak was heading our way.
Someone noticed a flak at the end
of the runway and it looked like
he was going to head for the town
but for some reason he headed away
from the town or maybe he was
killed and re-spawned in the woods
at the other end of the field
later, but he was not much of a
threat when Joker brought the
first load of goons in. It would
not surprise me if this guy
figured we were going to get the
field and headed off to some place
where he could cover the runway as
we all landed, but more on that
later.
Since I was out of ords and my
.50s were not having much effect
on the buildings I stayed as a
spotter to make sure the town was
not coming back up before our guys
could get the troops in. Luft
made the first run and it looked
like it was going to be on the
money but he accidentally bailed
instead of booting the grunts out
so we did not get the capture on
that attempt. The pressure to
keep the town down went up a notch
but we got lucky in that regard.
Joker made the next run and got
his grunts out but we still did
not get the capture. If I recall
correctly he was a bit too high
and one or two probably got lost,
hung up in trees, etc but I did
see a few get to the map room. As
those of us who were capping the
town waited Luft brought in
another goon and made the third
drop. It was picture perfect and
we took the field. Most of us
landed except for Skunk who was
picked off by the clown in the
Osite which to quote the big, tall
rabbit, meant war.
After this we started upping to
try to nail this guy and he got
Joker, Seal, and myself before we
figured out that he had a direct
line down the one runway. I
changed my approach and left off
the other runway in a 38 heavy and
came back around as Luft was
working his way over in a tank. I
decided to attact the guy's
attention so Luft could get his
shot, and I think that was what
everyone else was doing too as
this guy had a selection of
targets and probably couldn't
figure out what was the best shot
as I do not recall him firing as I
approached. I apologize to Luft
for taking his kill but as I
passed over I decided to let the
bombs go. I rarely hit on a level
bomb drop and was thinking that I
could shake him up a bit or keep
him distracted and was very
surprised when I got the kill. It
probably will not happened
again.
;-) It was while on
landing that the first crash
occurred and I was not amused.
After rebooting and killing all
the background tasks and getting
everything I need to fly up and
running I found that we were
flying out of 85 to try and take
88. Along the way was a large
city but Fuze asked us to only hit
the flak as we were expecting to
capture 88 and take the sector.
Fuze and everyone else were going
to hit the field but I decided to
go after the town at 88 as we were
going to have to flatten it to get
the field anyway and to be honest,
I have a better chance of hitting
things when the targets are
clumped together.
;-) As we headed in Fuze
took out all of the City flaks so
there was no threat from that
area, and everyone else got into
the fight at 88 while I delivered
my ords on the town. For some
reason I did not do as much damage
as I had hoped even after a second
run with the rockets. I think I
am out of practice in ground
attack with the 38, and before I
could come back again with the
guns and cannons I picked up a
190A as company so I bugged out.
It might not have been a valiant
act but I know I can't fight a 190
in a 38 (sometimes I think I can't
fight anything at all) and wanted
to live to drop more bombs on the
town.
This guy was very tenacious and
followed me for about half a
sector even though on his first
pass I was able to reverse under
him and get some distance between
us. Once I was able to work my
exit path towards 85, which took a
bit of doing, I let him follow me
thinking that the base flak would
give me some cover. It did not
come to that as Fuze and some of
the others came along and while I
kept dragging him, Fuze dropped on
him and put him down. I wish I
had seen it but the 190 had gotten
to about 800 and I was doing some
scissors to buy some time while
Fuze was dispatching him. All of
that work was for nothing as the
second crash happened shortly
after that, much to my annoyance.
I came back again to find that
things were not going well, the
enemy was fighting back hard and
the city had been leveled
regardless. I also got back
online just long enough to come up
and crash again so I called it a
night logging back in to let
everyone know what had happened
and why I was calling it a night.
I am sorry I didn't get to see the
end of this one as it was a lot of
fun and we were really trying hard
to take that base. Looking over
my notes for the evening it seems
appropriate to dub Fuze the "Flak
Monkey" for the night as he racked
up 6, count 'em, 6 flak kills
before I logged off. For those
who don't play UT2004, a flak
monkey is a player who scores
something like 20 kills with the
flak cannon without being killed.
It is not that easy to do so it is
a compliment.
:-)
Another thing that I recall is
that we were working with a guy
who seemed pretty new to the game
and was very eager to learn how to
do things right. He seemed to
have a good start and I hope that
he will fly with us again. As
always I wrap this up with the
kills that I am aware of.
Fuzeman 8 field objects, 1
kill
Joker66 ?
Luft 3 buildings,
captured 85
Seal 20 buildings, 1 field
object
RTS 8 buildings, 2
field objects, 1 kill
Skeksis 21 buildings, 1
GV, 1 kill
SKunk 3 buildings (this
could be higher but I only saw a
few)
I don't know if I have to say it
but I am going to anyway. This
was a fun evening despite the
technical problems on my end and I
am looking forward to next week.
:-) Hopefully it will be
"Meet the Fockers".
;-)
Skeksis
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