Why we still on Pizza map?

[ebgb]

Last night Rooks were down to 4 fields all evening.  The Knights
were hitting them hard and had captured every rook field
accessible to them.  In the end, the only remaining fields were
encircled by Bish bases, 2 airfields and 2 vehicle fields.  The
rooks were outnumbered 2:1 yet the Bishops chose to attack
the Knights and allowed the rooks to regain a footing.  As I
logged the Rooks were back up to 20 bases and moving out.

I don't understand.

[Boozer]

The bish layed off the rooks to catch up in field count, they're not like the Knights and willing to be lapdogs and take second place. And as we all know... as soon as the bishnit double team ceases, the rooks gain fields.

[SunKing]

HT is punishing us for the rowdy BBS as of late.

[john9001]

the 4 petrook bases were protected by the bish, knights had to fight their way through many bish bases to get to the petrooks, bish would not attack their petrooks, bish only attack the evil knight empire

[AKIron]

hehe, we discussed within the squad the other night how much fun it would be to get both the rooks and the knights down to 3-4 bases each on the desert map and keep them there indefinitely.

[BUG_EAF322]

This is what u knight did 3 days ago

Don't be a hypocryte assss.

[ebgb]

"The bish layed off the rooks to catch up in field count, they're not like the Knights and willing to be lapdogs and take second place. And as we all know... as soon as the bishnit double team ceases, the rooks gain fields."

Boy did they ever lay off.  I mean I logged on this AM some 12 hours later and the Bish were near even with the Rooks despite a 30% advantage in numbers??

I'm utterly flummoxed.

[poopster]

I've been flummoxed before.

They caught the guy and he's doin jail time the bastage..

[Skorpyon]

Dunno for sure, as I haven't flown much the last couple of days, but I have a pretty sound idea why....

Blood frenzy among my fellow knights and severe episodes of acute loss of TEAM thinking.
I logged in today for a few sorties.  Knights had almost fully 2 of the 3 "slices".   A huge green blob of dots was struggling to take bases up north from the rooks, while a small handfull of bishops were taking Southern fields almost at will.  Despite several calls for help that were ignored, myself, Crusadr, and one or two others I don't recall names of were the only ones resisting.  I personally downed 3 fighters and a C47 before finally going down for the first time, and by the time I could re-up, another load of goons showed up and the field was lost.  This scenario repeated at least 3 times while I was still on.  They were taking fields using only 3 or 4 fighters and a bus full of goons.  I made one more frantic call, asking, and I quote, for just "10 guys from the spastic horde up north to come down and we could repel all the bish attacks."  I finally got a response, but it was some unfortunate twit that figured it was more important to critique my diplomacy skills than to come down and see if he could help.  After field 177 went down the same way as the others, someone at 199 called for help.  Rather than talk crap to him, I responded, and he and I and a couple of others held out as long as we could, but without just a small group of additional guys to help, we couldn't hold out forever.  I finally decided it was pointless to keep it up, and logged.  When I came to the BBS, I wasn't at all surprised to see this thread.  Sad part is, I just logged back on to AH for a sec to check, and in the time it took me to type this post and get a cold drink, my fellow Knights had lost fully half of the south eastern "slice", mostly I suspect to the very efficient and virtually unopposed "commando raids" performed by the bishops.  Just my two cents, but it definitely seems we knights totally lose sight of working as a team at times... lack of response to requests for aid, even when strategically obvious and important, lack of 6 calls when there are 4 friendlies behind the guy who is on your 6, etc., etc.  With just a little coordination or team thinking it appeared to me we could have at least maintained our territorial holdings, and as we were gaining ground slowly in the north, maybe even dominated to the point of forcing the reset.. dunno.  Sure would have been nice to test my theory though.

[Vulcan]

huh?

[poopster]

Jeez inhale, exhale..

How can you say all that without breathing ??

I get all stoved up trying to read it in one hunk.

But I'm old, and pretty much stoved up at the get-go.

But don't look bad nakid on a PT boat.

[Mini D]

This has happened twice in two days.  Knits first then Bish.  Neither wanted to change the map badly enough to risk taking second place.  I'd wager the knit's channel 1 looked much like the Bish's with all the "we need to start hitting someone other than the rooks or we won't get the win!".

Too bad the Rooks didn't pick sides.

[BlauK]

I really wonder how important winning the reset can be after one and same map has been there for ages....  One can get those few perk point on the next map easily. If you are that close to reset, why dont u just go for it?

[Dawggus]

Hehe, happened again last night .  Rooks were running an RJO, starting with 40 bases to 90 Bish and 120 Knits (approx.).  So, we turned on the Bish, knowing that the Knits usually have a strong showing on Sundays, and hoping they would see our numbers and turn on the Bish as well.  We could have finished the Map off in about 2 or 3 hours, and the Rooks would have gladly taken 2nd place to finally move on .  But no, the Knits kept back-dooring us as we steamrolled the Bish, so after an hour and a half we knew it was futile and turned into the Knits to re-establish our corner slice ... and the beat rolls on ... .

Cya Up!

[lazs2]

pizza is HTC's way of making sure the CT doesn't die.
lazs