GRID18 : REDUX SIGNUP THREAD

[Matt]

To address another issue, I am not at all interested in a prohibition on alcohol at our camp-outs. I would just like to see some personal responsibility and courtesy for others practiced by those participating.

Agreed.

Like that Matt guy, he was so drunk at Steel Talon. What an a$$.

[sloth]

dead rag hacker?

[MitchD]

Personally I had a great time. I spent most of the day battling around Hamburger hill, tripping over logs into nettles and falling into the creek, wishing my AK was a sniper rifle etc.

Kudos to some of the snipers on that hill, great shooting.

Loved the Vehicles, nothing like sucking dirt behind a log waiting for the LandCruiser to dive by waiting to get spotted and shot to hell.

Some of the firefights around the end of HH and the village were kickass. Total chaos, fun stuff.

[Novaboy88]

Casual drinking isnt a bad thing. Even getting plastered doesnt bother me... until about 3 in the morning then it gets a little old. People could be drinking and hanging out no problem, but the screaming and dry-heaving was a little more than I came out for.

Get drunk all you want people, just shut the shazaam up; nobody is impressed. Also, if you cant handle your alcohol, dont drink a lot!

I actually enjoyed the fact that a lot of OpFor were getting wasted while my squad during the game were all up just hanging out and drinking Mt. Dew all night. We were all up and ready to go 2 hours before the OP was organized and well before the start and I believe contributed a lot to the game.

On another note, the game was not stacked for the OpFor at all if you were paying any attention. It was just as hard for the ANG to recognize people in woodland that were on our team as it was for you to know that they werent on yours. ANG just showed up (for the most part not hung-over) and played hard most of the game.

It was a great game, one ill remember

[Snake_Eyes]

Hey Tombstone want to be CO's against each other next go around? Eh Eh? Of course you would have to look like the Old School Cobra Commander!

[Tombstone]

COBRAAAAAA!!!

P. S. That means yes.

[Variable]

Abe is Irish, not Scottish.

[Snake_Eyes]

YOOO JOOOEEE!!!

On second thought I could come as Destro and wear a chrome facemask

PS: Do some work at the Cage you lazy a$$

[Scythe]

What is a "Dead Rag hacker"?
APST did the right thing, really. If it pissed you off, it should've fueled your fire to fight instead of made you limp with resignation and laziness. Betrayal makes things interesting. It gives more importance to loyalty. If you really hate when people pull off slimy moves like that, all you can really do is send punishment their way and keep your integrity as a "good soldier". You can refuse to advocate their actions by promising yourself that you'll never play that way. Keep your honor and you'll be rewarded twice as much working twice as hard for your glory... But in your heart you know you appreciate the dark side from being there to screw things up. If APST didn't do that, things would've gotten so boring so damn fast.

Also Matt, before you yelled GAME ON, there was a lot of waiting and no movement or action, just planning and standing by. I think the reason we got some objectives done really quickly in the beginning was because the roads in the middle were clear and transport/escort was handled by extremely speedy guys. After our men got slaughtered the first time on the logging road, people's motivation dropped tons. It wasn't so much the betrayal of APST and the G&G snipers, but it was more of other understandable events like lots of hit-ignoring, radio-ignoring, respawn miracles (how did APST respawn on the road without a tent?), bad command, kills that should have been safety ones, name-calling, and other weird stuff coming from ALL sides.

[Wombat Six]

Dead rag hackers = put their dead rag on their head, claim they're dead, then once you ignore them, they take off the rag and shoot you. This is bad form. Don't be a dead rag hacker. It's not "being sneaky", it's cheap.

[Vidar]

Dead rag hackers were dudes walking around with their dead rags on, pretending to be walking back to respawn, and then whipping them off with some shitheaded remark, and hosing members of the other team down. I started hearing stories towards the end of the game.

EDIT: Wombat beat me to it.

[Switch]

we (APST) sat in starlog for probably two or three hours at the end of the day waiting for someone to come and kill us and take the bio tube thing back. aside from a couple of exceptions there was never really a heavy concentrated attack there until the very end when some CSDs got in for a few minutes before some of our respawns got back in. after that we took our cardboard tube full of whatever it was that necessitated a biohazard symbol on it back, and we hoofed it down the logging road and extracted to the camping area with most of our group minus the two that kendo managed to ambush somehow on the way.

it was the ten or twelve of us plus the GnG snipers (for maybe half an hour or so, which was as much of a surprise to us as it seems to have been to everyone else) versus EVERYONE else on the field with a gun. if there had been a concentrated attack on our position, there was no way we would have been able to hold out.

i had a good time for the most part. although i dont particularly enjoy the switching sides thing because of the reputation it seems to bring us, after hosting and helping to host some other events i understand why it was done from the event staff point of view.

I was pushing hard towards Star, but couldnt ever get people to Run and Shoot with me to make it in. I just needed more guys to Run! not tree hug.

[Matt]

Dead rag hackers = put their dead rag on their head, claim they're dead, then once you ignore them, they take off the rag and shoot you. This is bad form. Don't be a dead rag hacker. It's not "being sneaky", it's cheap.

Maybe they just forgot to take their deadrags off? I have done that before.

[Variable]

Don't forget dead rag recon. Dying, then walking right through the enemy area to find out where they are.

[Cobol]

Our respawn rules (as we understood them) was to go down 50 or 60 yards down the logging road past starlog and respawn. We didn't have medics, new nothing about the tents, and there was only 10 or 12 of us at any one time together. We'd die, mosey down the road reload, grab some water, wait for a few of our dead mates, then move back in. For most of the day, we had one standing order "No one respawns unless the majority of the team is there or we have a solid uncontested position to return to." What this meant was, at several points, after most of us had gotten pegged, the whole team would pull back to some point behind the front lines of fighting, re-group, check for new orders, and if we didn't have any, re-insert into the fray as a team usually 5-10 minutes after we decided to pull back.

What did this mean? Well, 2 things: First, whoever we were helping would suddenly lose all of our guys and have to fend for themselves. Second, if we decided to re-insert with them, they would get it back, but they'd have to hold out in the meantime until we got back.

We actually pretty much retired the technical around the time we played genocide with everyone on Hamburger Hill that wasn't us. After that point, it was just kinda doing it's own thing. None of our guys really wanted to be in it as it was actually pretty boring just mowing down people with impunity.


Dead rag hacking (2 types):

1) You wear a dead rag until people walk by, then quick take it off and shoot them in the back. Heinous. Please expire quietly in a ditch. No one will ever love you, and you're wasting my air.

2) You forget to take your dead rag off when you get medic'd. Saw this a few times, happens to us all every once and a while. Try to keep tabs on it. Medics, maybe make it your duty to pull that rag off and hand it to them as your final act of healing. (Sounds like a good rule to me. No rag? No chance of being healed, walk back to respawn.)

3) Dead rag recon. If you're dead, you don't get to walk through our lines and spec all our positions then tell all your teammates. Also, if you're dead, you lie there. You don't talk, you don't tell your medic "Watch out, he's right over there!"