ET Gathers and Ventrilo

Gathers

Running around on public servers I could feel that the game of ET was dying... the regular players, the clan-members, were nowhere to be seen.

Then I happened to fall upon the Gather channel on quakeNet. And happened to find out where all the elites were going: private servers especially for balanced gathers with pre-booked places. There was also a ventrilo channel specifically for these teams and boy was I happy! At last there was coordination, communication, tactics being formed.

Blitzkrieg

At the same time I was reading a book on the German blitzkrieg tactics used to capture France (and Norway, Holland, Belgium along the way). In this book, Guderian's ideas were explained and depicted as well as discussed and honored. Guderian was the one in charge of the Panzer fleet in the Nazi regime. Compared to the Allied attempts at forming Tank supports for infantry, his approach was totally based around the Panzer itself - using radio to communicate between the general in the tank and the regiment commanders on foot.

Thus I was very appreciative of the use of Ventrilo (A Voice over IP software) to communicate with the other players.

Gather Admin

I was also made a gather admin and admined for a number of weeks until examinations caused a lull and I never found enough gathers to make a gather. Will wait for this period to pass by.