SideKick

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.