Monday, November 30, 2009

Riot at King of the Hill

I love team games. And, I love winning.
But, even more sublime is the pleasure of pwning a foul mouthed arrogant prick.
You know the type. Trash talks in the game lobby, and whines like a brat in-game. I imagine his teammates' mini-maps were like Christmas trees, from all the flaring. Stick around for the fight and the colorful chat.


Get Silent's shoutcast here.
Grab the replay here.


Allies: (All Pinoy)
Silentbreacher (Airborne Company)
ChrisAlmighty (Infantry Company)
TheNoobShow (Armor Company)
kan707 (Royal Artillery Support)


Axis: (3 randoms & Mech)
Mechwarrior2000 (Tank Destroyer Tactics)
Nfam (Terror Doctrine)
iLOVE2jizz4lyfe (Blitzkrieg Doctrine)
SSFlakpanzer98 (Tank Destroyer Tactics)




Spoilers and highlights below.

1:00 The plan is "3 down, 1 mid". But, plans have a habit of going out the window in the heat of batttle.

2:06 First firefight erupts at the bottom part of the map. Resistance is weak, which can only mean they focused on the VPs.

2:46 Mid VP area is swarming with Axis. Silent is outnumbered.
Chris shifts to mid.

3:12 High fuel point is ours. But no VPs are secured.

3:50 NoobShow sends support to highly contested middle area. Chris's MG flanks PE squad. Nice move.

5:30 Axis shifts focus. Two players are now attacking the bottom half of the map.

5:49 Chris seizes one of two top VPs.


6:27 Axis have seized the high fuel point. Noob's riflemen are repelled by double MGs. No one wants to see vetted infantry and support troops. I try to cut off the sector connecting the Axis to the high fuel point. My Bren kills one of two MGs in the high fuel sector, but I back off from the remaining MG. (In hindsight, I could have taken out the last MG since I had enough ammo for another field repair. But you never know if they mined the place. I did see a pioneer somewhere there.)

7:14 I request for support. Silent obliges instantly with paratroopers. Gotta love that guy.
Noob is worried about the countdown. I'm worried about the high fuel point in enemy hands.


7:39 Chris has valiantly held to a top VP. Good job.

7:42 The high ammo point is under our belt, but the high gas sector is in enemy control, heroically secured by an bunker garrisoned with a single MG squad and a pioneer squad for support.

8:08 There's a sniper cold war at the hill. Chris has one, so does the Axis bastard. Both have disabled fire at will.


8:18 NoobShow requests for a mortar pit to take out the bunker, but I don't hear him in-game. (Had I known, I would have asked a satchel charge from Silent's paratroopers. It would have taken it out faster and more efficiently. 50 ammo vs 280 MP for a second mortar pit + build time and barrage)

9:03 Team games mean teamwork.
Nice team push.

9:21 NoobShow makes the mistake of tech-ing up too fast. He's got the Supply Yard and Tank Depot in place. But not enough fuel to make any tanks.
Where's the Sherman I ordered?

9:43 The Axis are cut off from the high fuel. But, so are we. No one has a fuel advantage.

10:20 Even though outnumbered and flanked on both sides, Silent pushes for mid VP. He suffers losses but takes down an AC with him. Nearby, just outside of the frame, Noobshow is sending support.
My name is Silentbreacher

11:47 Silent tries to disarm the bunker with an AB 57mm AT gun. But the bunker is out of sight for the AT gun. He calls for a spotter but I don't hear it. my Recon squad with its wide field of vision could have helped.

12:06 NoobShow seizes one of two remaining axis fuel points. Classy move.
Fuel deprivation means no veterancy, no tech and no vehicles.
If we can't take the VPs, we'll take your fuel. Thank you.

12:18 Chris's sniper, discovered by that ToV unit I don't have, has retreated. And the Axis sniper unchallenged has let loose, forcing Chris to retreat his remaining troops.

12:41 NoobShow's Hellcat arrives.

Say hello to my little friend, bunker.

16:19 I don't know how he did it but Chris has managed to cap a top VP. However, it is quickly recapped by the Axis team.

17:58 With the sweet fuel rolling in, the allies capture and hold their only VP.
NoobShow's Hellcat makes short work of a call-in Hetzer (cost is only 600MP, 0 fuel) and PE light vehicles guarding the mid VP.
Countdown is 155-471. It's going to be tight.

18:58 Silent continues to deny the enemy one of their two remaining fuel points.

19:14 TheNoobShow is rattled by the VP countdown (138-471).
He leads the charge for the hill with an M4 Sherman and a M18 Hellcat, and orders the team to push with the heroic call to arms, "Akyat, akyat, akyat!".

19:17 Allies begin epic assault. Mini-map reveals massive troop movements.
Currahee, motherfucker.

19:34 Ostwind stands in the way of Allies. Silent's M8 Armored car upgraded with armor skirts faces off with the unvetted Flakpanzer, while Noobshow's Sherman comes to the rescue. Chris's riflemen bring up the rear.

The Ostwind is micro'ed here to attack the M8. i think the better choice for the Wehr player would have been to focus on the riflemen, and delay capping infantry from reaching the hill. The M8 barely survives.


Ostwind prepares to meets its maker.
(133-471)

20:14 We have breached the top in full force. Silent has landed a paratrooper squad behind the firing range of the MG bunker. Chris's four squads of BAR upgunned riflemen are scrambling to flank the same bunker, while NoobShow's Hellcat eliminates the Pak38 positioned strategically in the MG bunker's field of fire.

20:24 Chris calls in a Howitzer barrage for the second MG bunker. Silent throws a satchel charge for the first. While, NoobShow's heavy armor pounds simultaneously on them. I can hear Silent's shoutcast saying, "Boom, boom, boom!"
The Take Down (Ang guapo!)

20:30 Miraculously, both bunkers survive the beating.
Meanwhile, a rifleman squad of Chris is nearly wiped out by the satchel charge detonation. This leaves him with three.

20:39 I arrive on the scene and in my eagerness to help out, decide to use an officer call-in artillery on the first bunker, just as NoobShow's armor takes out the same bunker.

My, now useless, artillery strike falls dangerously close to Chris's remaining riflemen. Two of his squads are nearly annihilated. Oops. That's 4-1-2=1
Sorry, Chris.

22:32 All VPs are under Allied control.
"WooT success!" - TheNoobShow

23:12 Suprise! We snag a whiner.
What follows is a wholesale trade of insults, bigot remarks and offensive chat. Now, I'm kinda embarrassed pinatulan ko pa, amp. LoL. Pero, tanna kulit, eh.


26:00 Blah, Blah Blah. Whine.

27:00 ^^

27:01 Good base rape on southernmost Axis HQ.
Full vet on my LT and Capt. Sweet.

28:33 Idiot still doesn't stop.

6 comments:

  1. Excellent post kan!

    Natawa lang talaga ko dun sa part na pinapatumba na natin ung bunker, halos naubos ung tao ni chris. and of course, the flame wars. wag na nating ulitin yun ah. :D

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  2. astig talaga.... and also tnx to vets bro chris,kan,noob...

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  3. waw! asteg! mga pinoy!
    taga san kayo?

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  4. oo, pre. pinoy na pinoy.
    iba iba pero karamihan manila based karamihan ng mga players..
    meron din mga manlalaro na taga-ibang bansa.
    tulad ng osaka, japan. germany at NY, USA.
    kung naglalaro ka ng COH, balik balikan mo ang blog na to.

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