Honestly I'm sick and tired of participating in the constant gangbang that this game has become. Arena numbers are horrible and unless you want to abandon your squad and jump countries it's a nonstop thrashing. Tonight there wasn't a single fight between Rooks and Knights. The goal apparently was to take all the Bish bases and make gameplay horrible for them. The overnights are even worse. A few milkrunners taking strats down to nothing then deack bases one after the other. The ack stays down for hours. If you try to defend they jump you with numbers. If you try to resupply they just take bases unopposed. Night after night after night.
Whine recorded, I am honestly laughing hard out loud at this one. Is a Bish complaining about his strats being down and being attacked on two fronts? THIS IS THE WHOLE POINT OF THE GAME IN THE MA, IT IS CALLED STRATEGY. How many maps have the bish won in a row? Are you so used to the other players doing all the strategy, that you live a life of Utopian tactical luxury, with 30 min ack down times and 15 min ord bunkers? If one side is perceived as weak the other two will naturally attack it. Last night the bish were the weak, so we engaged in an orgy of strats and base taking. Personally I love fighting hoards, that is how you get some serious kills. Heck one time I got 5 kills in a T-34 by one shot killing a jeep hoard.
This was exactly the whine I was looking for to pounce on today. Whining enough to have HiTech to change the HQ again because the 100k hardness is not hard enough (that is 100 1000 lb. bombs or their equivalent), will fuel my desire to do it more. Does it not occur to you that making it harder just fuels the ego when we do accomplish the task? This HQ raid was relatively impromptu, but sometimes we plan these out in advance. I will tell you if the conditions are right we will literally call and text each other to log on just to do this. I am going to tell you how we did it (with some details omitted), so you can attempt to defend against it in the future. We have discussed this and would love to see other squads actively engaged in just hunting us down. WE WANT COMBAT IN THE GAME, just not lazy furballing complimented by bomb and bail strat tactics. The 49th will intentionally fly a flight of disadvantaged planes at an disadvantaged alt into a fight. Why do we do this? Because it is fun as hell! Killing a spixteen or a pony in a P40 is rewarding, as is taking down the HQ. We will drive a tank there, then eventually get killed by you... its fun. Thus, we promoting combat and perpetuation of the spirit of the game. We are not bomb and bailing here, this is a coordinated effort that sometimes takes multiple squads or even countries. This took me an effort of 5 hours from start to the 2nd HQ being down and being hunted down and killed like a threatening predator.
Step one: IDENTIFY AND PREP
Take a base with a spawn that allows me to drive to HQ. On maps with a lot of water hills etc. this can be tricky as heck. We pick the right tool for the right job, I don't think there is GV in the game we have not used. Too many rivers, screw it lets take some sloth like LVTs, but first I need to make a beer run. Now what do I do to get the ball rolling on the base take? De-ack by myself, this is the no. 1 thing, yeah sure sometimes I die but usually it encourages others around me to do the same. Thus getting the ball rolling on a base take. Most players do not up from a capped base to protect their precious precious score.
Step Negative One: PREPPING FOR THE PREPPING
Now before I de-acked I took a trip to the AAA strat in bombers to ensure that the ack stays down longer. Bomb and bail... HELL NO!!! Shooting the guns is the fun part! (This is a 49ZOMBIE quote) You got a kill in your Pony? Good for you Bronie! Land the .2 perkies, but that doesn't matter you will get 20 fighter perks when the Bish Bronie hoarde wins the war. That whole Bronie
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bronie thing you are into is weird though. Now not all pony drivers are Bronies, but all Bronies are pony drivers. I digress though.
Step Two: THE BASE TAKE
I attack the base and selflessly (this might be a foreign concept to you) do anything I can to get that base, score be damned (probably another foreign concept). This is all done in a team player manor, helping de-ack, giving check 6's, covering bombers taking down hangers. Sometimes I intentionally just wound a plane so they have to take the time to protect their score and land. Thus taking more time out of the fight... again to the detriment to my score.
Step Three: Convince other players to drive hours to HQ. HQ is now 100,000 in hardness meaning it takes mucho ord to do this now. Also, at some point it repairs itself, so you need a critical mass of trigger pullers. Luckily this is easy in my squad, I have some of the most awesome selfless squad mates. They will literally fly a one way goon trip to resupply you anytime. I am not talking about a 20 min trip to a friendly spawn. I mean 100% fuel and they use 90% of it to get to your resupp there, to your flipped over LVT 350 mi behind enemy lines, because you were 5 beers into that good idea becoming a great one, no problem there is a NOE goon on the way.
Step Four: THE ODYSSEY
Drive there, this is not easy at all, and in no way, shape or form as boring as you think. In this case I think it was a little bit over an hour and a half, about like a B-29 mission without the agonizing landing. I think last night we had 3 arguments, 2 conspiracy theories, 1 temper tantrum, 2 bottles of wine, 27 beers, a whiskey and multiple things that smoke after you light them. All before the first HQ was down. AND AN OHHHH @#$% THERE IS A TRAIN GO GO GO GO GET THE M3 OUTA HERE! I am not going to give out specifics, but each and every member of this expedition is absolutely vital. Loosing just one could put the whole mission in jeopardy.
Step Five: THE DIRTY DEED
Coordinate the taking down of the HQ (classified) But I can tell you there is a fuzzy feeling knowing you are actually going to get away with it.
Step Six: HQ DOWN!
Tell the country so they can take advantage! Now we run and hide. Is that a heavy fighter above me? Was that an M3 or a tank? He was so close I could spit on him. Yes he is filming... and going to go watch and then find us that way. (We had to find a way around this) This tactic is on page 3 of the Bronie Life Manual.
Step Seven: AGAIN? OF COURSE!
Regroup and take down the HQ again. This one is always the best, bragging commences on 200. The feeling of knowing the bish are blind again and yelling at each other about
dropping the ball is wonderful.
Step Eight: THE HUNT
Be prepared to be HUNTED and I don't mean ohhh they might get you. These people are angry, they want your scalp at all costs! This makes the chase more fun. You can go camp the spawn and get some m3s but someone will up a tank and get you. You can go to the flight path of the goons and main gun a couple, a jabo will get you eventually. (Some guys drag wirlbles, osties, m16s just to shoot the goons
) Whatever chaos we can come up with at this time is always fun. This is just the cherry on top at this point, and you are having a tough time being accurate, you are laughing so hard and getting puffy cheetos all over your shirt and keyboard. This is by far the most fun part to me, sometimes I get away even! Then a nice 49er flys me some supps 903 miles away in a NOE storch and then I drive to your AAA strat and do it all over again. Hopefully he will go crash that thing in a barn, then go AFK flashing another strat for hours, we can only hope.
Step Nine: TALK THE TALK
Not all engage on 200, but I think you know where I lean here.
In summation this is not some light gaming activity. We coordinated a massive effort. How often do we witness the awesome machine that is the coordinated bish super hoard? I understand it makes people mad that just want to log on and dogfight right now. Isn't that what the DA is for? The ponies fly to 20k and pick 109s off dead reds there too. Hopefully the new game will have a happier place for you. I like doing those things too. This however is the MA, with tanks and this thing called an M3 that can do wonderful things, including be an artillery piece. I take pride in using these obscure GV's in a manor that is threatening to you. What is the average ENY of the planes you fly? Last nights HQ raid had a HUGE effect on the Bish situation, we got sick of being rolled on every map. An opportunity was seen and taken. This is a 3 sided war 2 of those teams lose every time. Whatever you do to be the squeaky wheel and adjust the game to your gaming laziness will not stop this. It will actually do the opposite, we will stare at our clipboards harder and daydream longer. What else will cause us to come up with the next crazier tactic? Trust me when I say I think MERLIN schemes this crap in his dreams, it is that pervasive. So I suggest you either don't let it bother you or you come up with your own tactics to counter it. We have already countered the shade/spy thing so you are going to have to be more creative than that.
