A SideKick?
Whilst thinking of what is lacking in our clan, after watching Tae Guk Ge (Brotherhood of War), I decided that each player in our clan has his/her own idea of what to do, and we find it difficult to stick to our duties. For example a medic should be there to support engies and give the necessary revives. This example is the first to come to mind as being an engineer is my primary role. Thus I decided that to improve we need to set up and train on buddy tactics. Then again, when I came to think about who to sign up as my buddy, who to watch my back, there were very few options...
EU Soldiers and Heller
In the evening there was nobody around to play against and I couldn't connect to the PlayReaction public server. Thus I connected to EU Soldiers public server.
The first couple of maps saw me being killed at the turn of spawn time thus I played very little. The third map to come up was Sea Wall Battery and we were defending. I was field ops for a while but my air strike made little damage. Then I noticed that the machine gun at the back wasn't built so I spawned as Engineer and went up to build it, but I got spotted by the enemy. Not one to lose faith so easily, I built the machine gun guarding the entrance to the building and sprayed some gunfire from there. Within moments I was hit badly and needing a medic. Within an instant a medic came from behind the corner to give me the revive. I returned to the mg and killed a couple more. I was killed again. Within split seconds I was revived and back at the mg. Another kill and I was down again but back up again in a second. Intrigued, I looked behind the corner and saw a Medic with the nickname of Heller waiting there to revive me. This went on for a while until they realized what was going on and attacked Heller from the back.
When I respawned I thought I'd be asking too much for him to come again to support me, but there he was waiting for me. The mg was blasted to oblivion but proning I managed to fix it and we resumed our attack.
When at a point in time they managed to plant a dyna at the gun controls we ran off, Heller clearing the path and throwing me medpacks. Alas, we didn't make it in time.
Caen
The next map was Caen, and again Heller was a perfect example of a supporting Medic. I switched to Field Ops and we had a great time giving each other presents :) I learnt that he was from Hungary. I tried to get his MSN but he said we'd finish the game first. Pity that he lost connection before the end...
I hope to catch him on EU Soldiers soon, maybe I can interest him into joining us and showing us what it means to play as a supportive Medic.
Monday, March 13, 2006
Friday, March 10, 2006
Some New Feats
Just to brag about a couple of feats I achieved, after having boasted about my initial ones (see A Great Day below)...
A Monsterkill of 5 kills with an air strike in Radar thrown out the door whilst the enemy was planting at the door...
7 revives in one room on two team mates (yes they died 3 times each and I revived them each time). This was in the crane room of supply depot during the Extigy Competition in Winter 2005 and was instrumental in fixing the crane and taking the gold.
...and I've been regularly taking the Highest Accuracy award on public games and in-clan training.
A Monsterkill of 5 kills with an air strike in Radar thrown out the door whilst the enemy was planting at the door...
7 revives in one room on two team mates (yes they died 3 times each and I revived them each time). This was in the crane room of supply depot during the Extigy Competition in Winter 2005 and was instrumental in fixing the crane and taking the gold.
...and I've been regularly taking the Highest Accuracy award on public games and in-clan training.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Clan Rename, New Recruits and Competition
SWAT renamed to AEF
The clan, having grown in number due to new recruits coming in, has had its name changed. There were various suggestions to the name but the winner was AEF. Originally standing for Allied Expeditionary Force, which landed on the Normandy shores on D-Day on the 6th of June 1944, it was chosen to mean Army of Elite Fraggers (after truder jokingly said it stands for Army of Elderly Fraggers since the then members were all "old" by the Maltese ET Gaming Community standards).
This name, as I might have mentioned earlier, had been used a little by me and my students while playing on COD. Back then we had used nicknames representing the names used for the Normandy Landings - Utah, Omaha, and Juno. But now each had his own nickname already so ...
We have set up a website for our clan at http://www.aefclan.com
New Recruits
The first new recruits were T.N.T. and The Rock, a couple of players who had not been playing it for long. They turned out to be colleagues at school and in fact more of their colleagues joined our lines. At a point my friend Brokklu joined the clan too (he's the one who had been using the nickname Juno in COD) as well as my workmate Lockhart. In time, quite a number left us for another fun clan (which had been created by one of our clan leaders as his fun clan) seeking more professionalism, but a number came back to us wanting to rejoin us after they were disappointed. A number of them were refused re-entry as they had been warned that once they leave they cannot join back.
We were also blessed by the joining of veteran members such as Equinox who have skill to show and to teach.
Competition
AEF joined the November Extigy ET 3v3 Competition spread over a number of weeks. Clearly the underdogs, AEF showed improvements from week to week. It was during this competition that many new recruits left us for other clans - we see this as our filtering phase.
Yes a filtering phase because clearly, AEF is not aiming at having highly professional players - though we aim to improve - but at having a tightly bound team of friends. Thus, when a new recruit wants to join us, it is not the 1v1 test which counts mostly, but rather his Ventrilo communication skills and his friendliness and respect towards other members of the team. The lack of such skills in Prof Kucho/Kumbo and his younger brother are a perfect example of what we don't want in our clan. Good riddance.
The clan, having grown in number due to new recruits coming in, has had its name changed. There were various suggestions to the name but the winner was AEF. Originally standing for Allied Expeditionary Force, which landed on the Normandy shores on D-Day on the 6th of June 1944, it was chosen to mean Army of Elite Fraggers (after truder jokingly said it stands for Army of Elderly Fraggers since the then members were all "old" by the Maltese ET Gaming Community standards).
This name, as I might have mentioned earlier, had been used a little by me and my students while playing on COD. Back then we had used nicknames representing the names used for the Normandy Landings - Utah, Omaha, and Juno. But now each had his own nickname already so ...
We have set up a website for our clan at http://www.aefclan.com
New Recruits
The first new recruits were T.N.T. and The Rock, a couple of players who had not been playing it for long. They turned out to be colleagues at school and in fact more of their colleagues joined our lines. At a point my friend Brokklu joined the clan too (he's the one who had been using the nickname Juno in COD) as well as my workmate Lockhart. In time, quite a number left us for another fun clan (which had been created by one of our clan leaders as his fun clan) seeking more professionalism, but a number came back to us wanting to rejoin us after they were disappointed. A number of them were refused re-entry as they had been warned that once they leave they cannot join back.
We were also blessed by the joining of veteran members such as Equinox who have skill to show and to teach.
Competition
AEF joined the November Extigy ET 3v3 Competition spread over a number of weeks. Clearly the underdogs, AEF showed improvements from week to week. It was during this competition that many new recruits left us for other clans - we see this as our filtering phase.
Yes a filtering phase because clearly, AEF is not aiming at having highly professional players - though we aim to improve - but at having a tightly bound team of friends. Thus, when a new recruit wants to join us, it is not the 1v1 test which counts mostly, but rather his Ventrilo communication skills and his friendliness and respect towards other members of the team. The lack of such skills in Prof Kucho/Kumbo and his younger brother are a perfect example of what we don't want in our clan. Good riddance.
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