My Amazing Commanding Moments.
Scythe
Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
<div class="IPBDescription">Some good, Some bad.</div> One thing I've found when commanding in NS is that your team's willingness to co-operate varies wildly from time to time.
On most occasions marines basically follow my orders when they are along the lines of "Move here and kill them.". But when I issue more complicated orders like "Move here and wait for reinforcements." they tend to know better and run off to die. A lot of people seem to think the commander's sole purpose is to drop buildings and equipment for them. These people must be shown that the commander is instrumental to the success of the team. Many times I have formed a strategy and tried to explain it only to have my ENTIRE GODDAMNED TEAM run off rambo. I had lost more than 100 res due to marines not sticking together to build resource nodes. I was reduced to draining our resources dropping medpacks on idiotic fools that try to take down a forest of offensive chambers with an HMG rather than waiting for the GLer to arrive.
On the flip side I've come across some marines that just make me gape in awe at their loyalty. Recently my clan and another aussie clan had a battle on Tanith. It was a great game, tense and exciting the whole way though, the results were 1 - 1 and they won on time. After the hearty congratulations we realised we had been given a two hour slot on the server but our game had only taken one. So we decided to all join random and have a fun game. I got marines and went commander. We were going pretty well. Fierce opposition was countered with even more fierce resilience. I had a shottie squad advancing towards satellite communication hive and another two-man team heading off on the west side towards waste handling. I was tied up with my shottie squad and was unable to assist when the other squad was engaged by a couple of skulks. One of my two-man squad died. I gave the other a quick waypoint to the resource mode on the raised platform in waste hive.
Cut to a minute later.
We had secured Satcomm hive and we were getting some hardware set up there. The marine I had sent to waste hive requested an order, having arrived shortly beforehand. I dropped him a couple medpacks, a few ammo canisters, a turret factory, a pair of turrets and resource node. I also gave him an oral order to hold here for a bit while I got satcomm sorted.
Cut to five minutes later.
We had assembled another strike team of HAs, GLs, a few shotties and a HMGer and we were advancing to fusion reactor. I got a order request. I clicked. That goddamned marine was <i>still holding his position in waste hive!</i> I was impressed beyond belief. He had sat there, patiently waiting for over five minutes, while the rest of his team was romping all over the map. If every marine was a loyal as this one aliens wouldn’t stand a chance.
I now regret not taking down this guy’s name and sending an email to the clan leader congratulating them for having such great troops.
Has anyone else had such amazing examples of selfless loyalty shown in a non-clan Vs clan game?
--Scythe—
P.S. If you have nothing other than “ROFLLOLHAHA ya ‘rins need to folw commandanrs ordars moar.” Please don’t post.
On most occasions marines basically follow my orders when they are along the lines of "Move here and kill them.". But when I issue more complicated orders like "Move here and wait for reinforcements." they tend to know better and run off to die. A lot of people seem to think the commander's sole purpose is to drop buildings and equipment for them. These people must be shown that the commander is instrumental to the success of the team. Many times I have formed a strategy and tried to explain it only to have my ENTIRE GODDAMNED TEAM run off rambo. I had lost more than 100 res due to marines not sticking together to build resource nodes. I was reduced to draining our resources dropping medpacks on idiotic fools that try to take down a forest of offensive chambers with an HMG rather than waiting for the GLer to arrive.
On the flip side I've come across some marines that just make me gape in awe at their loyalty. Recently my clan and another aussie clan had a battle on Tanith. It was a great game, tense and exciting the whole way though, the results were 1 - 1 and they won on time. After the hearty congratulations we realised we had been given a two hour slot on the server but our game had only taken one. So we decided to all join random and have a fun game. I got marines and went commander. We were going pretty well. Fierce opposition was countered with even more fierce resilience. I had a shottie squad advancing towards satellite communication hive and another two-man team heading off on the west side towards waste handling. I was tied up with my shottie squad and was unable to assist when the other squad was engaged by a couple of skulks. One of my two-man squad died. I gave the other a quick waypoint to the resource mode on the raised platform in waste hive.
Cut to a minute later.
We had secured Satcomm hive and we were getting some hardware set up there. The marine I had sent to waste hive requested an order, having arrived shortly beforehand. I dropped him a couple medpacks, a few ammo canisters, a turret factory, a pair of turrets and resource node. I also gave him an oral order to hold here for a bit while I got satcomm sorted.
Cut to five minutes later.
We had assembled another strike team of HAs, GLs, a few shotties and a HMGer and we were advancing to fusion reactor. I got a order request. I clicked. That goddamned marine was <i>still holding his position in waste hive!</i> I was impressed beyond belief. He had sat there, patiently waiting for over five minutes, while the rest of his team was romping all over the map. If every marine was a loyal as this one aliens wouldn’t stand a chance.
I now regret not taking down this guy’s name and sending an email to the clan leader congratulating them for having such great troops.
Has anyone else had such amazing examples of selfless loyalty shown in a non-clan Vs clan game?
--Scythe—
P.S. If you have nothing other than “ROFLLOLHAHA ya ‘rins need to folw commandanrs ordars moar.” Please don’t post.
Comments
ROFLLOLHAH.......
wait.....
you said DONT do it?
whoops ^_^
but I hardly ever see marines do things like this, and hence why I am always joining aliens ^_^
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ROFLLOL? Shouldn't it be ROFLOL? Or is the extra L for emphasis <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> .
"On most occasions marines basically follow my orders when they are along the lines of "Move here and kill them.". But when I issue more complicated orders like "Move here and wait for reinforcements." they tend to know better and run off to die. A lot of people seem to think the commander's sole purpose is to drop buildings and equipment for them. These people must be shown that the commander is instrumental to the success of the team. Many times I have formed a strategy and tried to explain it only to have my ENTIRE GODDAMNED TEAM run off rambo. I had lost more than 100 res due to marines not sticking together to build resource nodes. I was reduced to draining our resources dropping medpacks on idiotic fools that try to take down a forest of offensive chambers with an HMG rather than waiting for the GLer to arrive."
People are jerks you *****!
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><b>LOL, jk!</b> </span><!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
People think they are so good, they can do whatever they want to. This story, however, is a real motivater. I'm listening to my commander to the pixel at 96?234.
They just want to <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo--> the <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo--> and have some fun, but they also want to run away from the <!--emo&::onos::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tiny.gif'><!--endemo--> . Remember, the game is about fun, don't make it anything else!
Who said he is realizing this just now? Perhaps he just wants to hear our stories. Why do you have to put this thread in a negative light?
no, all you need is non-nubs and non-vets <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
was it stf?
Yes, and somebody needs to make it clear to them that if they do do that they wont get a nice, new sg/jp or ha/hmg.
This will never happen though. For every noob converted to loyal marineship, 5 other noobs will have already joined the community. One of the laws of nature...
teams with less idiots always wins <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
I'm a co-founder of -/AUS/-.
--Scythe--
It seems like the two extremes - complete newbies and veterans* - are oftern the biggest headache for a commander. Newbies are like young children: eager to please, but oftern their curiosity will lead them to danger. Veterans are the grumpy old men: they have become weary of the normal routine and hate being bossed around by someone who has obviously not fought in as many wars as they have <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
I guess being a good marine is simply to be humble and trust your comm. Although you have to remember, good comms are a rarity, and its not hard to see why so many players have learnt to ignore them.
<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>*experienced players, not someone with "veteran" status. </span>
Mouse is the only one we see on the forums in Australia
Edit: BTW, I'm in TMM, so it wasn't me you saw, though I want to meet this guy too.