GARRETT wrote:That changed around 4ish as GA plowed down the road from center of the field, and from the north with a tank and infantry striking a hard blow to Lincoln's Hold. I personally was blown away here cause I thought SC was still in control of both locations. Shortly after that I find out that our tank was down due to a crazy rogue driver. Something had to be done so I went back found us a new driver. Things got funny here.... As we entered the field of play we came head to head with a GA tank right at I-8. Somehow he missed us with his AT and started chasing us across the field....lol. At the time we had 3 AT guys in the back, and no one could get a shot off as we were driving. So we took off toward Camp Wounded in hopes of gaining enough time for our guys to get out and set up. That's when this happened..
fallout11 wrote:As a side note, SC anti-tank weapons blew us up 4 times (might have been five...can't remember) on Saturday afternoon alone (including a shot from the red truck after we finally caught up with it at Camp Wounded).....nicely done.
The rest of the evening game we spent in GA HQ dreading the Bronco that we knew would get there eventually...
Just to add a little bit to this from the other side, we (the little GA tank) were sitting on the road leading to the SC base, deliberating if we should head there and see if the fighting was still going on (we had not yet even shot at your base, only seen it coming on and off the field out of play, although we knew the Rage Rover (green Bronco w/minigun) with infantry had attacked earlier. The red truck is coming up the road towards us kinda slowly (replacement safer driver), we can't see anyone in the back, so we discuss it and decide to just fire a warning shot for fun. You guys make the corner and take off, and my gunner asks me "so now what?", and I tell him "we're going to get that truck!". Off we go, on a merry run of "Jerry chasing Tom" around the buck field. We had you guys on corners, but the little tank was far outmatched in terms of terrain handling and speed, so you would get ahead on the straightaways and we'd make it up on the curves. Very nearly killed ourselves by almost rolling it over several times (what a bucking ride), ask Jordan my gunner (who I apparently scared to death....he couldn't even shoot straight). Accidentally nailed a wounded guy with a nerf who crossed the line of fire between us and the red truck near the tower (he looked more amused than anything else), we would have gotten you with that shot otherwise, all the others were WAAAAYYYY off target and mostly into the dirt as we bounced along over the ruts and potholes.
You pulled ahead and dissappeared as we slowed down to navigate the downslope (and avoid the plowed areas), then tried to figure out which road you'd took. We guessed right and came up from behind again as you were offloading at Camp Wounded, but your AT was quicker and nailed us before we could get a shot lined up.
Seemed to work out okay for us all the same, heard afterwards that it inspired our guys in the field and they basically followed us in to Camp Wounded.
This was typical for the day for us, i.e. we largely just wandered around looking for targets of opportunity, or assisting those who needed support. The attack on Lincoln's Hold from the rear around 4pm materialized the same way....we'd encountered the deuce and a half coming up the road from what we would find out later was Lincoln's Hold (you could hear it before you could see it, typically), and blown it up with the main gun (again). A large contingent of Blackwater (GA) was in the area and indicated that they wanted to try to push back towards the SW (Lincoln's Hold). The said they'd nearly been run over by the 'red and blue truck' and were pissed about it, and it had gone "that a way". We'd been down that road, but only to the point where it forked and went up towards the Buckfield, so we said sure, let's go. We led and they fanned out and followed on both sides of the road. After getting past the wreck of the 2.5 ton we pushed down the road, shooting all those we could see. I remember the SC AT guy on that road, as with all SC AT (!!THREAT!!) we paid special attention to him and he was dead quickly. Another ran up to take over the weapon and no sooner than he picked it up than he was shot too. We could also see the red truck tank in the distance down the hill, and fired one shot at it but didn't have a clear lane......it backed up all the same, and about that time Garrett went over and either gave the driver a tonguelashing or ordered it elsewhere, because it departed down the road towards Camp Wounded (as we discovered later).
More GA infantry were coming up from our left (east), and combined with the ones alongside us (who were very good...we were impressed with their coordination) it was mostly a turkey shoot down to Lincoln's Hold proper, where the defense stiffened noticeably.....right up until GA troops attacked from the south as well.
In short, it was primarily luck, circumstances, and curiosity that led up to the 3 prong attack when and where it had happened, at least from my perspective. That seemed to be much the case throughout the day, but then again we only ever saw it from one vantage point. I'm sure others have similar tales.
A big thanks to all involved in seeing this game through to the end. Very much appreciated. Thanks to GA for the great turn out! I do want to comment on a few things.
