Just don't lump me into "the two that were giving him a hard time". I slung some jibes at MarkVZ and his buddy that switched sides, but I did not say anything to the other Rook fellow that helped them. It isn't that big a deal to me, and I just ignored the conversation once things got too nasty. I managed a 5 or 6 kill sortie in there somewhere, so I was a bit busy a bunch of the time.
I don't have ANY trouble with Rooks taking the last field and causing a reset. If somebody is going to do that however, I do appreciate some warning so I don't get stranded DEEP in enemy territory or on the runway as a field turns during the reset. The only thing I think is "dweeby" IMHO, is switching to the enemy team for the sole purpose of causing a reset. It's not like there were only 5 guys online... I think they could have taken back a base or two with a bit of organization instead of switching sides and forcing the reset so we don't have any way to stop them. (Some of us could have switched... but most don't want to get stuck on the wrong side of the fence afterwards.) FWIW, Cave and I were busy engaging the Knights at F8 when the Biscuits pulled his move. I was between F4 and F8 the entire time, and I know there was a bunch of Nit/Rook action along that whole front. The idea that the Nits and the Rooks ignored each other to beat on the Biscuits is just wrong. Cave and his crew put together an organized strike and pounded the Biscuits into submission, and then moved on. Why the Biscuits didn't just organize a strike of their own, I don't know.
What I can't understand is how somebody could do this and not expect to be given a hard time on the radio. I'm not shocked or even surprised that somebody did this, just surprised at the explosive reaction when they got razzed over it.
Just FYI, I was online on and off all of Monday. For most of the day the Rooks were down to only a few fields and were being beat-on by both the Biscuits and the Nits. I log on after dinner in the evening and see that CaveJ and his crew have worked their butts off and been base-taking and smashing strat. Cave planned to beat down one side, then go beat down the other for a while. When the Rooks switched to beat on somebody else, these folks could have taken some bases back with ease. But instead, they took the easy way out and switched sides to force a reset in a way that our team can't respond to. I spent the whole day flying out of F10 with both Biscuits and Nits all around, but nobody resorted to this move. I can understand them doing it out of frustration, but if they just either didn't say anything or were good-natured about the heat they took for it, there would have been no big problem.
Dago sez: "What gives someone the right to decide to keep another country down to one vultched field? What gives someone the right as some self-appointed "Lord of the Game" to tell someone he cant drop troops on a enemy field? And so what if there is a reset???"
LOL, nobody has the "right", but if ya got big guns, you have the ability. Anybody can take any field they want, I have no problem with that. It's just that the Bishies have the same weapons we have, so the way to stop it is to organize and strike back... you have the same big guns. A reset isn't a big deal... unless you were the guys that did all of that work to gain an advantageous position. In that case, you will obviously take a dim view to somebody un-doing it all by switching countries so you can't even oppose them. I'm not saying it's "wrong" to do it, it's just the dweeby way IMHO. If you do it, expect to take heat from the guys that got the advantage the hard way in the first place.
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The Flying Pigs