CONFLICT EUROPE IV: HOMELAND DEFENSE Jan 16th/17th

[Jester316]

I think we solved the age old question of:

Will the rain hurt my gun?

[Solid]

To everyone that came out and made the most out of the weather, who gave this game your 110%, and who nutted up and played through to the end with honor, you have my sincere thanks. Thank you for making this a kick-ass game. To everyone who left early, you unfortunately missed out on some fantastic shit.

+1 to that, I dont see why so many people left, I found the weather to be completely reasonable. Sure it was a little wet, but it wasn't cold nor windy. You live in Oregon people, what do you expect? I do understand we did have a large amount of gun breakage on at least the Axis side of things, I myself ended up in the last 45 minutes running around with just a rubber knife (which did not turn out so well) so to those that stuck through it to the end, good on ya.

[Wombat Six]

I think we solved the age old question of:

Will the rain hurt my gun?

The answer is no, but it will ruin radios. I think this Midland is toast.

[Eyes On]

Fun game was fun. Would buy from again ++++++A

[LettuceHead]

After having come home, partaken in a hot Epsom salt bath and an industrial strength Bloody Mary, I can now recollect my thoughts.

Had a blast regardless of weather. For all the people who bugged out early... really, we live in the PNW. You should know how to dress yourself by now. Hell, the only thing on me that was water resistant was my mink-oiled boots and even those leaked in mud eventually. Sack up and stick it out, its what makes a good event enjoyable for everyone and encourages promoters to put more effort into their product. Why should they try hard if you're just going to leave early?

I thought the sportsmanship was great, I heard complaints here and there but I've learned to ignore those. The only time I saw blatant hacking I was laughing too hard to really care. I had a textbook full frontal shot at an unsuspecting target. My hop up was set a little high so I aimed low. All my BBs went into his upper thigh/ groin area... BBs bounce, the guy flinched and actually grabbed his junk before running three trees over. Seriously folks, if you comically protect your balls from getting shot more I will forgive you every time!

Objectives and intangibles like air strikes seemed kinda hazy at times but in the end we 'marched to the sound of the guns' and had a great time.

My fave moment... I threw one of my wee smoke grenades and tried to move up on three NATO on the ridge. Suddenly one of their ginormous smoke grenades lands 20 feet in front of me. Amidst a hail of withering fire I dive over to it, pick it up and attempt to throw it back at them. It hits a tree branch, rebounds and lands 5 feet behind me. I can only imagine what the forward NATO troops must have thought, watching plumes of smoke going back and forth before finally sailing back towards them...

Thanks BSP for a great time!

[afatcow]

Ooo, another point: It'd be nice if we knew about the whole green laser thing in advance, so we could have actually scrounged some up rather than "Oh, uhhh.... who just randomly brought a green laser?"

Still a good time though. Thanks again!

[Shiloh]

Lots of thanks to BSP, Bill, TOP and everyone else who helped run this! This was my first OP, and I had an absolute blast!

My M4 took a dump before the game started, so I grabbed my spring shotgun and went to town. And for some reason...it was even funner than using an AEG most of the time! Sure, I didn't have range, but knowing I was at a bit of a disadvantage just seemed to amp up the fun.

It was really great meeting a lot of you guys. Abe, Bigfoot, all of you guys are really fun. and Dan, you PLA guys are sick in the head. A goat? Seriously?

I think the best part was trying to take the castle. After we gave it up the first time and New Axis moved in, it was a phony pony trying to take it back. But it was a total blast! Whoever had us pinned down in the city, you had us good.

Thanks again to everyone, and will definitely be out in the field again.

[Bad Karma]

Ooo, another point: It'd be nice if we knew about the whole green laser thing in advance, so we could have actually scrounged some up rather than "Oh, uhhh.... who just randomly brought a green laser?"

Still a good time though. Thanks again!

Each team was only allowed one laser per side for painting targets. With nearly 100 people per side, someone will have one, generally. There were three or four, to my knowledge, on NATO.

[TOP]

I didn't know about the laser thing until game start as well. Although it really didn't matter as the NATO command channel couldn't get in contact with admin for more artillery shots about mid way through the game.

[Seagreen]

Yeah, Top....I don't know what was up with that either. We had a guy in the TOC the whole time, the radios were not getting through though. We are going to get some of the 5 watt commercial radios for our next venture. Those seem to be the only reliable form of comms at this point.


Also, thanks for the kind words and constructive crits. This is the first event we've run at that field, as well as a large scale operation in the last year. (We'll get back in the groove now....It sounds like everything was successful enought)

Some of the oversights on my part, are just that oversights. In the future I'll recover from some of the lacking information concerning the respawns and other aspects. Once again, those things will certainly be dealt with...as well as now we have a functional view of just how this field operates and how we can better the event to meet the field's abilities.

I appreciate the effort and "out for fun" attitude that everyone was displaying today. That is what made me play the game to start with and makes me happy to be a part of a group that builds events for those types of players. So....yeah, you guys are cool too.

With that being said.....There was some fall out after the close of the event:

At Splat Action...you could rape and pillage the parking lot and leave stuff hangin. We took no offense to it, and simply cleaned it up....it's just part of the deal. The problem though at this location is that it is a private piece of land on a working farm.

I spent the better part of three hours recovering campsites. The field was good to go, but the camping areas (some) were definitely beyond the limits of good taste.

If there was no backlash from this, I wouldn't have even brought it up.....problem is....there was.

-The owners, as we were patrolling through cleaning.....specifically mentioned one campsite. It was thrashed. It also had a few cafeteria trays.....random garbage....and yeah.....a bleeding severed goat's head and some feet. So, he requested that anyone involved in that group not participate at his location in the future as a member of that organization. So in short, the actions of a few spoiled it for the good attitudes and actions of the majority for PLA.

Other than that issue...everything was pretty much good to go.



Also....although NATO and AXIS stalemated near the end.....the actions of the NATO SF team pushed the NATO side ahead by a small margin leaving:

NATO VICTORIOUS!

Congrats guys!

[Wombat Six]

I didn't know about the laser thing until game start as well. Although it really didn't matter as the NATO command channel couldn't get in contact with admin for more artillery shots about mid way through the game.

Laser was news to us, but I just said "Screw it" and tried not to worry about it, as "1x per hour" isn't going to be a major game changer.

Axis had the same problem with radio contact to the FDC. I went up and parked my dumb a$$ in the FDC, pointed at the map and said, "Make everything here dead." Didn't work out for us 100% as there seemed to be some confusion on availability, but it was sort of interesting. My radio is probably ruined, but I'm waiting for it to finish drying out before I futz with it too much.

Seriously, though, amateur radio. Find a simplex frequency in the middle of the 144MHz allocation and go nuts. If anyone comes on the frequency and wants to know what's going on, just explain. We're a pretty understanding group of people.

[Variable]

Had a good time. Things could have been organized better as always.
People need to not cute kitty out 1/2 way through the game.
Seems like we ran out of objectives other than "stalemate firefight" 2/3rds of the way through the game.

Humping as SF kicked my a$$ and was great fun.

[Solid]

.....a f***ing severed goat's head and some feet. So, he requested that anyone involved in that group not participate at his location in the future.

Congrats guys!

WHAT. I thought that would be the number one thing that would get cleaned up, how the hell did people not pick that shit up is beyond me

[Bad Karma]

The owners, as we were patrolling through cleaning.....specifically mentioned one campsite. It was thrashed. It also had a few cafeteria trays.....random garbage....and yeah.....a f***ing severed goat's head and some feet.

Stay classy.

EDIT: Seriously, learn to police your team, PLA. That's totally inappropriate and utterly disrespectful. Jesus bleeding Christ.

EDIT AGAIN: The more I think about this, the more it absolutely infuriates me. Honestly, I can't think of any other team that would do something as janky and disrespectful as leaving parts of a rotting animal corpse in their camp. It's shit like this that casts ever one of us in a bad light, and gives our entire community a bad name. Very, very thankfully, it was only PLA that was banned from this awesome field, because this is the kind of shit that normally means no-one gets invited back. Good job bleeding yourselves on that one.

[Seagreen]

Tim, I agree and take responsibility for not having a tighter game set up. That shouldn't be an issue with the next event.

Solid....I would have thought so too, but it is out of my hands at this point.