Those 'Reality' moments.

PFunk · Post by **PFunk** » 2008-04-11 00:37

Last night I think I had the best moment in PR so far in my initial 2 weeks.

I was in a squad manned half by CATA clan guys (if I remember correctly) so the squad direction was pretty good. Plenty of guys with mics (not me though). We are on Sunset City and we're the Chinese trying to hold the centre of the town. We're on or around the building in the centre that over looks roads coming into the town and near the fences at the end of the town (North).

I'm in an alleyway with the Base of Fire dude and we're watching for Hunvees and Supply Vehicles to arrive etc and suddenly he gets riddled with bullets and he's right next to me. It was like some movie moment cause I was looking right at him and he just spasms and falls to the dirt and right behind him bullets splash dust into the air. I'm suppressed and panicked cause I can't call for help and I figure the second I press 'L' I'll see some baddies run into my sights so I just haul *** around the corner of the alley and get low and wait for the suppression to wear off.

I'm sitting there for a second or two and think of what to do. I calmly switch from single fire to auto and in a crouch creep around the corner of the alley to peek down there. I had been in an alley facing north and I had run down a perpendicular T-point so I was facing my former position from an oblique angle (from the East I think).

I stay crouched, peek through my sights and within a second I see a Marine walk into them and just when I fire he sees me and fires too. It was chaos as I burst fired my full auto rifle at him and instantly he became a blur as I got suppressed. And suddenly the firing stopped and a blur slumped to the ground. As the suppression faded I saw him dead on the ground.

I got this huge rush. I had SURVIVED! It wasn't that big of a moment for the battle, and I died about 20 seconds later from a grenadier round but it was still a very... real moment.

"Just me and Charlie, eyeball to eyeball. THATS fuckin' combat!"

Kudos to anyone who can guess that quote as well.

Anyone that might remember me I was under the name 'Boot5y'.

MastaLock · Post by **MastaLock** » 2008-04-11 00:42

I just had one round where this commander was using really formal, military style com... and I was just loving it. It was so intangible... but it just made me feel a lot more on the battlefield.

Dempsey · Post by **Dempsey** » 2008-04-11 00:48

That quote is from apocalypse now

On a similar note. I had a especially good 'reality' moment the other day, Piloting the Huey on... (i've forgotten its name, but the map with the Hilly terrain and USMC carrier) Transporting troops back and forth, and dropping supplys every now and then, the enemy had pushed foward to east beach, after i had landed a squad east of the east beach i flew over heading back to the carrier, but, a APC had krept along the coast line heading towards east beach, we took a shit load of flak, and having some vigerous evasive monouvers lol flying directly over it and low over the sea for cover, then, flying close to the hills to find immediate cover from this APC i had a anti air lock on from a single soldier, flares pulled and it was a quick dash back to the carrier.

I'm sure everybody gets moments like this, its why we play it afterall ?

Post by **Dunehunter** » 2008-04-11 00:54

Yep, it's those epic moments you play PR for. Like sliding down the hill near the bridge on Operation Ghost Train with a British Spec Ops kit when you see a PLA soldier run up the hill right next to you. Aim...fire...owned.

Viper5 · Post by **Viper5** » 2008-04-11 02:54

Well lets see. I was cruising down the road on Basra one day when hitting a concrete wall blew up my Warrior...

Then this one time at band camp, I was cruising 'round the hillz of Qinling with my 3 Tank Bros and myself. We found a challenger. We hit it no less than 7 times. Luckily, its gunner was about as talented at life as Maverick, and thus missed us continuously.

PFunk · Post by **PFunk** » 2008-04-11 03:49

Dempsey wrote:That quote is from apocalypse now

I love that movie, but the quote isn't that movie.

I just watched the Redux a few weeks ago, and I'm sure he says Charlie once or twice. But this is from a much less... serious film. Still with Vietnam influence though.

NYgurkha · Post by **NYgurkha** » 2008-04-11 04:40

quote is from The Big Lebowski (is that how you spell it?).

kanshan, Mec team, assaulting north village in a hippo

Disembarked on the south west side of the village and ran to the shacks as the hippo pealed away while firing the machine gun.

/cant wait to got to lebowski fest this year! White russians for everyone.

PFunk · Post by **PFunk** » 2008-04-11 05:51

Another Caucasian, Gary.

Walter on The first gulf war. Quote at 4:10ish.

Zimmer · Post by **Zimmer** » 2008-04-13 18:51

FElt like an insurgent once at us village we where pinned down for 10 freaking minutes by an a-10.

Jantje|NL^ · Post by **Jantje|NL^** » 2008-04-13 19:44

I had one reality moment what lasted for like 7 seconds..

Operation archer,

I was driving with my squad and commander in a truck,

Over a road.. and than suddenly.. I saw an RPG-guy..

So I screamed in the mic;

GET OUT OF THE TRUCK, R-P-GEEE!!!

I hopt out ran like for two seconds and hitted the dirt, just like the rest of the squad did, that amazed me.. I heard the explosion of an RPG round on like the same moment.. We all jumped on our feet aimed for the [beep] and he felt down after a short burst-sounding execution.

And than their came a funny moment,... the commander hopped out of the truck and asked me what was hapening, he was in the commander screen and the RPG-round missed very bad..

Cyrax-Sektor · Post by **Cyrax-Sektor** » 2008-04-14 16:32

Last night, in Al Basrah, a Warrior was camping the west of the city in the village. It was a two-man crew, but the driver didn't bother to switch to a passenger seat to watch their backs. Using the grassy fields, I crawled my way to the back of the APC, dropped two IEDs, ran to my bike and detonated.

On Sunset City, after a rough start, we managed to advance into the city and destroyed their firebases. zarfdoc, Deadfast, and some other guys I can't remember currently filled up three Humvees and did drive bys on their base after capping the city flag. Pretty funny mowing down the enemy and filling them with .50 cal fire.

NerdyDodge · Post by **NerdyDodge** » 2008-04-14 17:45

My realistic moment has to be in a cobra on Kashan. We were loitering high above the desert, completely stationary and picking off pretty much anything that cane into the open. I was the squad leader and pilot (we were using two seperate squads for the cobras to keep comms down, the spotter was in the other squad) and the commander was relaying CAS requests to us almost as fast as we could complete the previous one.

It felt brilliant to be using the attack helicopters in the role they are meant to be used in, I think the infantry squad leaders appreciated the help too!

Shadow51585 · Post by **Shadow51585** » 2008-04-14 20:14

Was on the Brits in Basrah. Our full squad set a rally west of the village in the marsh.

We were advancing on foot, and the Insurgents were heavily defending the area. Turned out they had 3 caches around there (this was .7, so they were all active).

I was a Grenaider with a variety of kits throughout the squad including a medic and rifleman. So we had medic help, ammo, constant relevant VOIP communication, and good positioning.

For 30 straight minutes we had a mass firefight from West to East, exchanging fire, laying down grenades from my launcher, using Marksmen to take out annoyingly accurate Insurgents who had the Mosen Nagent, and taking cover. It just felt so real. I even recall being behind a dune and seeing tracers whiz over my head from a PKM a few times. Plus, to the North, we had a Scimitar and the Challenger laying down fire. The Insurgents put up a good fight and smartly brought in rifles and such from the Mosque to help themselves.

Was one of the most realistic moments I've had in the game.

arjan · Post by **arjan** » 2008-04-15 18:11

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Originally Posted by STORM-Mama
Another Basrah-story coming up...

Someone mentioned before that the area between the village and Basrah city is one of the hottest areas´on the map. I've gotta say that I agree.

One of the most memorable firefights in this area that I've experienced was one just one british squad fanatically defended their RP against constant attacks about three insurgent squads.
I was with the insurgents. We had a couple of PKMs stationed out for cover fire and the order I had given my squad was to just run like hell in the open terrain and try to get to the enemy RP!
The PKM cover fire really wasn't that effective and we constantly go mourned down by an enemy SAW. I'm suprised that my squad didn't execute me for giving idiotic orders or something, but they kept fighting fanatically. Not one step backward! Everything to defend Al Basrah against the imperialist invaders!

The whole squad used all of their molotivs and soon the area looked like one of the hotter parts of hell; piles of insurgent corpses, large areas of fire and burning British vehicles!

This heroic British squad really gave our team a hard time. They fought 'til the last man! I was impressed. Their will to die for their cause was just as big as it was in the insurgent squads attacking.

The British team made an effort to help this doomed squad. One Schimitar and a couple of land rovers made their way to this hot area and for a couple of minutes it looked like we wre going to have to retreat - but one heroic ambusher managed to blow up the enemy IFV with his IEDs, killing himself in the process (this was, of course, followed up with alot of "ALLAHU AKHBAR" in the chat), and we took care of the land rovers with our molotovs.

The fight with the doomed British squad kept going for a couple of minutes more before I managed to take out their RP with my beloved knife. One Merlin was sent to extract the few heroic survivors, but it was taken down by an insurgent RPG.

The battle for this completely unimportant area just west of Basrah city was over...

I want to thank everyone that participated in this heroic battle, whether they were brits or part of my own team!
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Originally Posted by Jantje|NL^

Was it near that bridge which can't be destroyed,..

On the map right beneath the village?

Cause,.. Maybe.. I was the british squad leader..

Anyway.. My story happened just the same but than from the british side of the story..

I went with my squad to the village in land rovers, two fully loaded land rovers.

Another one followed us, we crossed the river on the undeep places in the west of the map.

After the enemy missed two RPG shots on my car we decided to fire back, we drove up the enemy and setted up a rally point in the middle of the desert, my two .50 gunners were like,.. WHOOO HOOOO WE GONNE HAVE TEH KILLEZ!! While firing at the enemy who didn't even fire back in the first time had another RPG shot on one of the land rovers (the blue guy in a landrover was still there and was the first one KIA)'

the .50's covered the rest of the squad while moving in to the enemy..

When we came to the enemy I got WIA,, I helped myself and ran with a couple of guys to the nearest compound, we setted up a new rally point, I ran back to one of the landrovers and drove 'em inside the compound so the gunner could defend it.

The other rover came a little closer, fired some shots and got killed. (this guy spawned back and took care of the .50 again)

Than the storm began, we were still in the compound and I ordered my squad to move into the village itself to find some caches or whatever..

Well, after 2 seconds I said that there were like tenthousandmillionhundredandtwobbqsauced-enemies! we all took cover and a nice hiding place, the landrover outside got destroyed by a molotov and he spawned back again, he was the only guy who got killed twice befor anyone else died.. but that would change soon..

The enemy was moving over the field, running crawling jumping hinking and whatever...

We killed them all (they just came running and fired a few shots randomly) Than there came a Technical (I think) and our L-AT guy destroyed it, one of his first shots the whole round

I sended two rifleman, (the L-AT one and scoped one) out of the compound to search for RP's They saw some guys coming and I told them to come back into the compound. Than we began again, fired them, some of us got killed.. I think 4 of us,.. not at the same time.

I asked a scimitar to help us,

[SH] JantjevanLeiden; this is squad 7, requesting some armour support, we are having a lot of fun but we want some time for tea, over.

the scimitar was at the other bank of the river and crossed the bridge, (maybe he even didn't want to help us but it looked like that).

But, ofcourse, he got destroyed, I don't know details about that, maybe RPG'd or IED'd But I was having some trouble with a guy like 5/12 ms away from me running thru the field..

Than we decided to fall back, there were really much people coming our way.. and almost at the same moment there were like a millionthousandtrillionbillionhundred molotov's around us..

Okay, to be honest, two.

One of them destroyed the rover and the other one came next to me and after I escaped the fire I was being shot by someone with a SKS

When I respawned My men were shooting without stopping clicking the left mouse button, I think they even tried to fire while reloading, lol..

I asked a merlin to get us away from there, I would pop a green smoke (have you seen this nade?) we swimmed to the other side of the river, to the palm trees (one by one) with two of us still covering out of the compound when the merlin flew over,.. It was like YAY THERE HE IS, step one accomplished.

huh wth? OH NO HE'S DOWN!!..

well, than we were going back to the qala compound shitty thing and we tried to go to the village, well.. it was too late for trying it because we got overrun, there were a lot of 'gangsters' around us, sometimes even ebhind us.. and than we all got naded/gotshot/burnt down/felt asleep..

Our rally point got knifed and we spawned at the airport where everybody was just drinking tea and had some scrambled egg's with bacon and cooked saucages..

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anyway, maybe I was the squad leader of the british you were fighting at, and you the guy who sended his men to stalin charge us..

I haven't seen such a organized insurgent squad eversince against me..

It was a hell of a round, thoe 10 - 15 minutes are my best PR minutes ever

and it didn't feel like we lost, we just had a nice firefight! the only thing what went wrong is that our armour 'support' got knocked out so easily and our transport didn't quit show up the way we wanted to see it happen

when we drove back later to the spot.. all the walls were destroyed and their was no sign of any enemy around there anymore..

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Eh, STORM-Mama what was the position of the british rally exactly?

Cause I think there's a big chance that it was my rally

anyway, It was anice fight, it was jsut so..

wow, that will never happen again that way, it was like a short movie about another NAVO-country troop of soldiers in afghanistan..
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That

was the most realistic stuff i had ingame
i was in that squad

SQUAD HOLLAND FTW !!!!1111~!!!

Gamerofthegame · Post by **Gamerofthegame** » 2008-04-17 03:05

I feel that this was a Reality thing... So I will state it.

On the BattleArena Insurgency server, we were, obviously, playing on Al Barash (Or however it is spelled).

This is largely backstory, not really pertaining to Reality moments, but hey;

Throughout the round the Insurgents were losing. They weren't really well lead at all. Civilians were harming us majorly, for one. (In less than a minute the Brits got a +40 ticket boost off them alone.) Anyway, came to no surprise to us that we had only one cache left after a bit.

However, I have yet to see a game in my whole two days worth of playing where a team so scattered all suddenly came together.

The cache was on the north western corner of the city, quite prone to fire from the VCP, having no building cover. It was filled up with quite a few insurgents and the likes, all shooting out from the windows or such as civilians ran in every now and then to heal people, and then ran out.

I think we defended it like this for fifteen minutes, under seige from the Brits with neither side actually gaining and headway, mainly being that neither side actually took causalities.

This all changed when the reality moment came in. With my civie binoculars, I spied outwards toward the VCP... And then, lo and behold about two seconds later the team message "TANK!" from a certain Gamerofthegame would come into view.

The cache building was hit several times before becoming a damaged semi-deconstructed mess, and then another hit and the cache was down, the Brits winning.

The lesson of reality? If unable to take down a fort... Bring in a tank.

Shadow51585 · Post by **Shadow51585** » 2008-04-17 06:15

I think I was in that tank, Gamer. Or I had a similar moment.

I was gunning, and we came around the VCP, setting up shop with our backs to it and front end pointed at you. We actually came in from the west through the village and cut across to the VCP because our team asked for fire support in assaulting the cache you are talking about. I do know there was a heck of a firefight going on over there, and squads were constantly trying to attack it.

There was a cache in 2nd floor of the building on the SE corner of the intersection of the VCP road and the East/West road that comes from village and goes along the North side of the city.

We blew the building up, gunned down a few insurgents, then my tank driver scoots us east of the road, and I have a perfect shot at the cache, which went down with 1 tank round.