Playing On Nano-gridlock Last Night
Animosity
Join Date: 2003-01-03 Member: 11768Members
Join Date: 2003-01-03 Member: 11768Members
<div class="IPBDescription">for the first time aswell</div> bit about me. im Animosity as the name of the poster might give away, im from torment (an eu clan) and i dont often play on US servers but when i do it always seems to be jp rush :/
anyway, a friend and i joined the server and for the first game we were alien i think and got jetpacked or something, cant honestly remember. the map changed and it was tanith, we both joined marine and i said to him, you comm or me ?? "you go for it, i cant really be arsed" was what i got. so god forbid i tried my hand at commanding :/ bear in mind this isnt a usual thing for me. but when i do command i like to do it well (or at least try).
for those of you that read this and were on it, my name was "gotAlias?"
anyway, im not sure if this is standard procedure in the US or not but, 1 ip and an armoury in base straight away, coupled with 2 mine packs for initial defenses. then reactor room was set down, both the res points and another 2 mine packs. sent a couple of guys to waste took the res points whilst at the same time welding all points from rr westwards. Admittedly i initially thought their hive was satcom as i hadnt bothered to check yet and their rush came from that direction. At this point res was coming in fairly smoothly, a few close calls on rr with some skulks probing the defenses but it was nothing to worry about. i promptly placed an arms lab and kicked off with lvl 1 guns, 10 secs after i started the lvl 1 guns i placed another arms and started up lvl 1 armour. a curious "ooooh 2 arms labs, what we doing here?" came from a few marines, so a quick reassurance of 3/3 marines kept them content. with the res coming in nice and steady i also thought it would be wise for some MT, so i placed the obs and set the MT going. another pack of mines just for these new structures at base.
with the obs up i splashed out some cash and scanned parts of the map, only to find that satcom was building?<!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->? and looked at fusion to see it was the main hive. satcom had oc's in it, as did fusion due to them having 2 hives on the way so i ordered the whole team back to base. "wait a min comm, im just going to rambo to satcom" i hear ... "nononononono" say i , back to base, we need to phase rush satcom. so the rambo's come to base and half way there i change my mind, ALL TO CARGO come the commands, with a quick "AS A GROUP" for safety's sake. it paid off, 5 marines hike through reactor and straight into cargo without loss, and 4 aliens dead on route. phase up instantly, as 1 marine spawned a mine pack was dropped to be taken into cargo for phase gate defense. tf placed in the corner, siege researching. 2 turrets start to go up as protection and 2 marines knife the cargo res. when suddenly ..**LEAP**.. "uh oh" across the comm's but no fear, 2 sieges were placed and i had my marine team in cargo. by this time i had lvl 3 guns finished and lvl 3 armour on its way and MT was also done. a quick command to the marines for them to solely guard cargo and do nothing else as i proceeded to scan the hive. the 2 sieges took some time taking the hive with 3 gorge healing it but they did their job and fusion was taken down. marines shouted for joy as the aliens could leap no more, and thankfully we saw no fades either, (i think their only 1 or 2 got sieged) but there was another bonus with that too, no more dc's could be built..
that was secured, i started to get some of my res back again now, rr was lost , as was waste res, so down to just cargo res and base res. put up the old res and checked waste res aswell when lo and behold waste hive was going up. (i guess if i was a proper comm id have noticed that a long time ago :/ )
"same again plz guys" i say, and send the marines to waste, we stick a phase up just outside and put a tf up when one of the marines shouts gleefully over the comm's "theres nothing in the hive, run in and shoot it" , and they did. with one of the lads keeping an eye on the hives health we took it down in no time, a few turrets for the tf just to hold onto waste and make sure we could take it back anytime soon.
"what now comm??" the marines ask. it was time to make the finishing blow. a similar tactic again, mainly because it works so well without being boring. but for added security i upgraded the armoury and got jp's and HA. i asked for marines to head to cham transport (yes i did say cham ingame) then asked for chem, but upon inspection the aliens were prepared and had oc'd it to hell :/
just as i was dishing out some jetpacks to hit fusion i hear my mate call over voice comms "drop us a phase at satcom then" and i see hes got past the oc's and in position for a phase ready to take satcom. "prepare to phase to sat" i tell the team and the phase goes up and the team heads in, turret in the corner of the 180* bend and a few mine packs since this is the last push. couple of turrets to protect and it looks like we're all sorted. a lerk or 2 are running around the map eating res, but i happily signalled to them that we had 300 res and taking our res points didnt make a diff anymore. and so i proceeded with the 21 gun salute. i placed a siege at the satcom wall, and another, and another, and another 10 .... marines eyes beamed as they saw how much death this commander could bring to bear on the aliens when suddenly . **KICK** i got kicked due to reserved slots or something. a quick retry and thankfully there were still spaces so i got back in the comm chair and finished the job when suddenly i find that whilst i was gone the marines lost coordination and the 21 sieges were gone :/
so i kit up the marines again, this time with HA / JP and heavy weapons aswell. we weld into satcom and place a phase back up there and a tf in the red room. a couple of turrets as per usual and i say to the guys "well, you lads have deserved it, run amok in their hive" and a quick charge of marines gets halted by a tempered alien force waiting in the hive, so the sieges go up <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
with quite a large boom the aliens last hive goes down and its just a quick mopup job to finish off the surviving aliens.
and, well thats my way of commanding i find its generally fun all round, aliens have chances (they had 2 hives up at one point) and marines didnt have the all too usual jp hmg
but i would like to say that i had a good team , even though the aliens were good aswell, i just feel that the marines worked so well together. hell, i may even play there more often
gg wp and thats my input from europe <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
.torment. Animosity
anyway, a friend and i joined the server and for the first game we were alien i think and got jetpacked or something, cant honestly remember. the map changed and it was tanith, we both joined marine and i said to him, you comm or me ?? "you go for it, i cant really be arsed" was what i got. so god forbid i tried my hand at commanding :/ bear in mind this isnt a usual thing for me. but when i do command i like to do it well (or at least try).
for those of you that read this and were on it, my name was "gotAlias?"
anyway, im not sure if this is standard procedure in the US or not but, 1 ip and an armoury in base straight away, coupled with 2 mine packs for initial defenses. then reactor room was set down, both the res points and another 2 mine packs. sent a couple of guys to waste took the res points whilst at the same time welding all points from rr westwards. Admittedly i initially thought their hive was satcom as i hadnt bothered to check yet and their rush came from that direction. At this point res was coming in fairly smoothly, a few close calls on rr with some skulks probing the defenses but it was nothing to worry about. i promptly placed an arms lab and kicked off with lvl 1 guns, 10 secs after i started the lvl 1 guns i placed another arms and started up lvl 1 armour. a curious "ooooh 2 arms labs, what we doing here?" came from a few marines, so a quick reassurance of 3/3 marines kept them content. with the res coming in nice and steady i also thought it would be wise for some MT, so i placed the obs and set the MT going. another pack of mines just for these new structures at base.
with the obs up i splashed out some cash and scanned parts of the map, only to find that satcom was building?<!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->? and looked at fusion to see it was the main hive. satcom had oc's in it, as did fusion due to them having 2 hives on the way so i ordered the whole team back to base. "wait a min comm, im just going to rambo to satcom" i hear ... "nononononono" say i , back to base, we need to phase rush satcom. so the rambo's come to base and half way there i change my mind, ALL TO CARGO come the commands, with a quick "AS A GROUP" for safety's sake. it paid off, 5 marines hike through reactor and straight into cargo without loss, and 4 aliens dead on route. phase up instantly, as 1 marine spawned a mine pack was dropped to be taken into cargo for phase gate defense. tf placed in the corner, siege researching. 2 turrets start to go up as protection and 2 marines knife the cargo res. when suddenly ..**LEAP**.. "uh oh" across the comm's but no fear, 2 sieges were placed and i had my marine team in cargo. by this time i had lvl 3 guns finished and lvl 3 armour on its way and MT was also done. a quick command to the marines for them to solely guard cargo and do nothing else as i proceeded to scan the hive. the 2 sieges took some time taking the hive with 3 gorge healing it but they did their job and fusion was taken down. marines shouted for joy as the aliens could leap no more, and thankfully we saw no fades either, (i think their only 1 or 2 got sieged) but there was another bonus with that too, no more dc's could be built..
that was secured, i started to get some of my res back again now, rr was lost , as was waste res, so down to just cargo res and base res. put up the old res and checked waste res aswell when lo and behold waste hive was going up. (i guess if i was a proper comm id have noticed that a long time ago :/ )
"same again plz guys" i say, and send the marines to waste, we stick a phase up just outside and put a tf up when one of the marines shouts gleefully over the comm's "theres nothing in the hive, run in and shoot it" , and they did. with one of the lads keeping an eye on the hives health we took it down in no time, a few turrets for the tf just to hold onto waste and make sure we could take it back anytime soon.
"what now comm??" the marines ask. it was time to make the finishing blow. a similar tactic again, mainly because it works so well without being boring. but for added security i upgraded the armoury and got jp's and HA. i asked for marines to head to cham transport (yes i did say cham ingame) then asked for chem, but upon inspection the aliens were prepared and had oc'd it to hell :/
just as i was dishing out some jetpacks to hit fusion i hear my mate call over voice comms "drop us a phase at satcom then" and i see hes got past the oc's and in position for a phase ready to take satcom. "prepare to phase to sat" i tell the team and the phase goes up and the team heads in, turret in the corner of the 180* bend and a few mine packs since this is the last push. couple of turrets to protect and it looks like we're all sorted. a lerk or 2 are running around the map eating res, but i happily signalled to them that we had 300 res and taking our res points didnt make a diff anymore. and so i proceeded with the 21 gun salute. i placed a siege at the satcom wall, and another, and another, and another 10 .... marines eyes beamed as they saw how much death this commander could bring to bear on the aliens when suddenly . **KICK** i got kicked due to reserved slots or something. a quick retry and thankfully there were still spaces so i got back in the comm chair and finished the job when suddenly i find that whilst i was gone the marines lost coordination and the 21 sieges were gone :/
so i kit up the marines again, this time with HA / JP and heavy weapons aswell. we weld into satcom and place a phase back up there and a tf in the red room. a couple of turrets as per usual and i say to the guys "well, you lads have deserved it, run amok in their hive" and a quick charge of marines gets halted by a tempered alien force waiting in the hive, so the sieges go up <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
with quite a large boom the aliens last hive goes down and its just a quick mopup job to finish off the surviving aliens.
and, well thats my way of commanding i find its generally fun all round, aliens have chances (they had 2 hives up at one point) and marines didnt have the all too usual jp hmg
but i would like to say that i had a good team , even though the aliens were good aswell, i just feel that the marines worked so well together. hell, i may even play there more often
gg wp and thats my input from europe <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
.torment. Animosity
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And I'd have loved to have been in that game <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Sounds like fun incarnate!
My conclussion is that Aliens werent aggressive enough. They shouldnt have let you get so many res towers up in the first place, and instead of gorging they should attack your siege post with lerk umbra at least.
Even the 3 gorges you mention could just swarm in to cargo webbing all up and let lerks and an intelligent fade that doesnt try to evolve under a sieging hive get the siege off.
Normally if 2nd Hive is up, its HA or Marine doom...
Stupid outcome for them, gg for you... <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Aliens made too many mistakes = sucked <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
If I see gotAlias? I will eat all your res nodes before this happens <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Hehe, and if server is bigger than 6v6, it just makes life easier hehe
GG
Good story non the less <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
and the JP nerf prevents the flying killer bees of hive doom from appearing in mass
it's the only server I play on, and I can recount the many, many, times we've had excellent epic games
that was me who said gleefully, "there's nothing in the hive, run in and shoot it"
2 arms lab is not unusual if team is rolling in res, build seemed pretty standard except the rush for 3/3, which went pretty well
first time on Nano, welcome, though i don't actually play there often
if you know the boondock marines song, it was made by the clan that runs the server (or at least has close ties with the people who run that server)
But by how it sounds,looks like you had a very good game there <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> Give me an HMG and HA and I guarantee there's gonna be skulk meat on the table <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
I'm just having problems with the asian players,whenever I go comm they suddenly vote me out....rotten luck I guess :/
also, you wouldnt have blinked in <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> 2 fades evolved and both died instantly to siege and marine. if the gorges had tried to web the sieges would have killed the hive so much faster. all of this was going through my mind and it was all good.
just, overall i found 3/3 <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo--> + <!--emo&::siege::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/siege.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='siege.gif'><!--endemo--> > <!--emo&::fade::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/fade.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='fade.gif'><!--endemo--> & <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif'><!--endemo--> and thankfully people were saving for fade rather than attack of the <!--emo&::lerk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/lerk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='lerk.gif'><!--endemo-->
hmmm, random pics
having said that, i hear jolt want him for an admin <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->