What about placing C4 on the side of a helo parked in the spawn area, then setting it off when the fully loaded bird is halfway to its destination? Huh? Is that legal?
Not in the UCB. You can't C4 the vehicles or place mines right in front or steal a vehicle and sit and wait to kill folks as they spawn or load up.
I don't know if you read the rules or not, but stuff like getting in our tank or engaging a helo crew trying to board is against the rules in a UCB.
The rules speak of intent.
When I jumped in the tank it wasn't to 'steal it' or to kill 'a disoriented spawning player' skipping and whistling on his way to load up a helo...
There was an APC on the other side of the fuel tank on the slop of the hill firing up on to our SL/spawn area...
Had our SL died our mission (which was ordered from on high) would have been over.
I jumped in the tank to kill that APC. While bringing the tank around I spotted Raub getting into the copter. Had the copter got up with a person in the chain gun our SL/spawn would have been lost. Raub had already engaged me a few times.
I knocked out that copter and then you showed up in an APC...
A whole crew wasn't loading up that helo, just 1 person that I saw and killed. That person knew what was up, had already engaged us...
The tank wasn't stolen, I left it right where I found it after the thread of the copter and APC was eliminated.
I imagine there was some beetching and complaining because we kept the UAV etc.. down. I find it hard to believe that given what actually was happening that any sort of 'ban was imminent' especially since we had guys on TS with other |TG| 'ers. The whole night enemy arty was brutal and had contributed greatly to what ultimately turned out to be a Chinese win.
To recover somewhat our orders were to keep it down for given time...
As I said I don't recall any spawn camping. Everyone I engaged had already engaged me and knew where we were. Two of the guys I play with are TG contributors and carry the |TG| ag. I was just their 'guest' ...
For the rest of the guys the rules on the TG servers make them a good place to play. I am not arguing against a rule, I am just pointing out that from our perspective the rules were followed even if the line was was tested...
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Anyway it's all in good fun...