Another Qwai River game
Posted: 2008-01-27 04:28
I joined a mostly empty Qwai server and hopped into an attack LB, expecting a nice, quiet flight practice round. There was one other person online, flying the Chinese recon gunship. Sensing an easy kill (he had never flown in PR before), I went after him and got him smoking before I somehow lost him. So, I returned to Pigfarm, patched my Little Bird up, and flew over Government Offices.
A few .50 cal rounds from a Nanjing permeate the cockpit and kill me. As it turns out, he had actually landed the chopper and driven the Nanjing all the way to Offices! The devious SOB was laughing as people started joining both teams, he returned to his helo, and I jumped into an APC to intercept.
Around that time, BloodBane611 entered the game, and he drove down to Temple in a TOW HMMWV while I did the same in my APC. Sure enough, we find a tank there, but he disables it with C4, removes a mine blocking the entrance to Temple, and I drive in. With an empty Nanjing in front of the APC, I'm idling in the driver's position when I see the turret move an inch. Quickly, I switch to the gun, but the Chinese soldier in the Nanjing has already jumped out, C4 in hand, and tagged the front of my vehicle. I run in time, but BloodBane611, who was behind the APC, is killed in the explosion. Angrily, I switch my M16 to three-round burst and shoot him down in the grass next to the damaged APC before actually re-entering the APC and calling for extract at Government Offices.
I abandoned the smoking APC at Government Offices and took a ride back to Pigfarm before I was shot down in my own transport LB. As the server filled, one of my squad members (and one of the best pilots I know of) brought me to Mine with an Engineer kit, where we unsuccessfully tried to mine a fleeing APC in midair.
I decided to pursue Plan B: heading down to Processing Facility, where a tank and APC were hiding in the warehouse to cap the flag. I had my pilot drop me on the flat, white roof in the back of the warehouse, and I accidentally jumped off this roof and walked into the doorway of the warehouse.
Between the shipping crates, I noticed the APC just sitting there, waving the turret around. I didn't believe that I could stick a piece of C4 to it, but I tried anyway. I couldn't sprint because of some jumping I had to do to get there, so I walked patiently over there, planted the C4, walked back, counted a few seconds, prayed to God behind a red crate, and hit the button.
One APC, 3 people and almost one tank later, I pulled out my M16 and pursued a crewman running from the tank. He looked at me for a split second before I killed him with a burst, and noticed that I was bleeding from the earlier fall from the roof.
Fortunately, an APC was headed my way. I bandaged up and collected a Crewman kit before we started setting rallies and playing a real round.
The round went really well from there. With the helicopters, we overcame everything the Chinese could muster, and pushed all the way to their main before I had to disconnect. If anything, I'd call this the game of a lifetime, all because of a few shipping crates and a good kilogram of plastic explosives.
A few .50 cal rounds from a Nanjing permeate the cockpit and kill me. As it turns out, he had actually landed the chopper and driven the Nanjing all the way to Offices! The devious SOB was laughing as people started joining both teams, he returned to his helo, and I jumped into an APC to intercept.
Around that time, BloodBane611 entered the game, and he drove down to Temple in a TOW HMMWV while I did the same in my APC. Sure enough, we find a tank there, but he disables it with C4, removes a mine blocking the entrance to Temple, and I drive in. With an empty Nanjing in front of the APC, I'm idling in the driver's position when I see the turret move an inch. Quickly, I switch to the gun, but the Chinese soldier in the Nanjing has already jumped out, C4 in hand, and tagged the front of my vehicle. I run in time, but BloodBane611, who was behind the APC, is killed in the explosion. Angrily, I switch my M16 to three-round burst and shoot him down in the grass next to the damaged APC before actually re-entering the APC and calling for extract at Government Offices.
I abandoned the smoking APC at Government Offices and took a ride back to Pigfarm before I was shot down in my own transport LB. As the server filled, one of my squad members (and one of the best pilots I know of) brought me to Mine with an Engineer kit, where we unsuccessfully tried to mine a fleeing APC in midair.
I decided to pursue Plan B: heading down to Processing Facility, where a tank and APC were hiding in the warehouse to cap the flag. I had my pilot drop me on the flat, white roof in the back of the warehouse, and I accidentally jumped off this roof and walked into the doorway of the warehouse.
Between the shipping crates, I noticed the APC just sitting there, waving the turret around. I didn't believe that I could stick a piece of C4 to it, but I tried anyway. I couldn't sprint because of some jumping I had to do to get there, so I walked patiently over there, planted the C4, walked back, counted a few seconds, prayed to God behind a red crate, and hit the button.
One APC, 3 people and almost one tank later, I pulled out my M16 and pursued a crewman running from the tank. He looked at me for a split second before I killed him with a burst, and noticed that I was bleeding from the earlier fall from the roof.
Fortunately, an APC was headed my way. I bandaged up and collected a Crewman kit before we started setting rallies and playing a real round.
The round went really well from there. With the helicopters, we overcame everything the Chinese could muster, and pushed all the way to their main before I had to disconnect. If anything, I'd call this the game of a lifetime, all because of a few shipping crates and a good kilogram of plastic explosives.