[d4rksabre]

Personally, I like anything reminiscent of the old Dollack games I spent so much time reading about and dreaming about as a newbie to the sport. The shenanigans that went on in those games, both from a mission and a role-playing standpoint were the entire reason I ever got into the sport, way back when.

I liked the structured mission plan when it was added to the game. I felt like it allowed more players to get involved in missions than the old way did. But surprise missions have their place as well, stirring the pot and making Generals have to really manage their players instead of just expecting them to find their way to flag and prop objectives at the scheduled times.

[MALICE Commander]

I've got an old-school solution to the 3rd Entity controversy.

Why not have the French be made up as Pump and Mechanical Marker entities. There are teams of players who live for this style of play.

They would be extremely effective as mission players and cause less havok than the speedball mentallity wave. I think a third entity as an overwhelming force is what's causing alot of rightfull anxiety.

Besides, a player like RougeShooter with a pump is better than most guys with Luxes and expensive hoppers, so it would be quality over quantity.


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[d4rksabre]

Originally Posted by MALICE Commander

I've got an old-school solution to the 3rd Entity controversy.

Why not have the French be made up as Pump and Mechanical Marker entities. There are teams of players who live for this style of play.

They would be extremely effective as mission players and cause less havok than the speedball mentallity wave. I think a third entity as an overwhelming force is what's causing alot of rightfull anxiety.

Besides, a player like RougeShooter with a pump is better than most guys with Luxes and expensive hoppers, so it would be quality over quantity.


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I ran my Phantom all weekend, but I'm not sure the French are really an "overwhelming force". We certainly got our ***** kicked by our own insertion a few times.

[MALICE Commander]

Originally Posted by d4rksabre

I ran my Phantom all weekend, but I'm not sure the French are really an "overwhelming force". We certainly got our ***** kicked by our own insertion a few times.

I know SOV ,Dreadnaught and Fenris Companies did a good job of grabbing everyone they could by the beaches to get past Margon when French was hostile.
When we had missions in Rocen and Bolbec we had to fight past your insertion.
We never had enough players left to reach those areas effectively.
But hey,that's life and the Allies must have dealt with the same difficulty last year.
Anyway, I'm mainly a pump and mech player so I think The French would be awesome as such an entity

[Switch462]

Originally Posted by MALICE Commander

I've got an old-school solution to the 3rd Entity controversy.

Why not have the French be made up as Pump and Mechanical Marker entities. There are teams of players who live for this style of play.

They would be extremely effective as mission players and cause less havok than the speedball mentallity wave. I think a third entity as an overwhelming force is what's causing alot of rightfull anxiety.

Besides, a player like RougeShooter with a pump is better than most guys with Luxes and expensive hoppers, so it would be quality over quantity.


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No, just no. I absolutely hate when other people try to change my gear/style of play. I don't lay on my trigger when I am out there. I take 1-2 shots if I know I can hit them maybe a volley of 20 balls at them. This is how most of the french players play (that I have seen).

I don't know who is telling you that the french is some massive force. allied and german have 2,000 each side and the french is what 100 (its significantly smaller). Then the french probably runs around in teams of 30 or less its rare to see 50 french unless we are openly supporting like Sunday morning.

Why I think everyone hate the French: (disclaimer I do not always know what goes through Grazi's crazy head, but I guess)

Every year I hear Grazi tell the command staffs "Don't trust the French". We play to the faction that is helping us MOST. Allied provide 500 and Germans provide 1000 guess who we are going to help? Then there are things like Germans attacking french that influences our choice and in that case we help allied. At the end of the day both teams have been helped and both teams have been lied to by the French. People never look at the positive though so its just a bad taste in the mouth.

[skeletor262]

[BDM_JSpade]

I had a small team of five allied this year sticking to the boundary tape and walking around the whole perimeter past the french insertion point and everytime we ran into a group of french (very small groups from 3-15 people) it was quite fun and not once did we engage them in any firefights. I think that definitely added to the roleplaying aspect of it since it wasnt just like yelling out loud and shooting at eachother. This led to us helping the french out at like 7ish on sat night although when i got shot out i had to walk the 2 miles back to insertion... which of course sucked.

[MALICE Commander]

Originally Posted by Switch462

No, just no. I absolutely hate when other people try to change my gear/style of play. I don't lay on my trigger when I am out there. I take 1-2 shots if I know I can hit them maybe a volley of 20 balls at them. This is how most of the french players play (that I have seen).

I don't know who is telling you that the french is some massive force. allied and german have 2,000 each side and the french is what 100 (its significantly smaller). Then the french probably runs around in teams of 30 or less its rare to see 50 french unless we are openly supporting like Sunday morning.

Why I think everyone hate the French: (disclaimer I do not always know what goes through Grazi's crazy head, but I guess)

Every year I hear Grazi tell the command staffs "Don't trust the French". We play to the faction that is helping us MOST. Allied provide 500 and Germans provide 1000 guess who we are going to help? Then there are things like Germans attacking french that influences our choice and in that case we help allied. At the end of the day both teams have been helped and both teams have been lied to by the French. People never look at the positive though so its just a bad taste in the mouth.

JUST YES!

[BlackAngelSS]

Originally Posted by please dont shoot me

Hey sounds fair too me, Germans beat the s--t out of you in actual "Paintball" games (BoB and Stali) and Allies win the big paintball "Scenario" game. 1 out of 3 is not bad just doesn't win the war.

Well put!

The German forces will Defend Berlin to the last man. The allies and bolshevik hords Will be destroyed at the gates of Berlin the war will be won by Germany!





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On the 30th April,SS Untersharfuhrer Georg Diers and his crew of tank 314, were ordered to take up a defensive position at the Reichstag buildings. This was one of only two remaining King Tigers belonging to Heavy SS Tank Battalion 503 in Berlin. By that evening they had knocked out about 30 T34s, and the following day led a successful counterattack against the Kroll Opera House directly opposite the Reichstag. Their efforts though, merely postponed the inevitable and by the end of the day the order was given to abandon the position and prepare to break out of Berlin.

[Team Predator]

Originally Posted by Nelby2388

One suggestion I have (that I doubt tank guys are gunna like, sry.) is that tanks should have a square shape outlined in tape on them, that, if filled with paint, will kill it. This gives people a chance to actually fight against the tank instead of running away and encourages more shooting from ppl, which will in turn sell more paint. It might also encourage people to shoot at the square instead of trying to shoot in a tank window or at the tank gunners which in turn makes it safer for the tank crew. Tank ref can make the call on when it is completely filled and wipe the square clean when the tank exits the field.

Just an idea. They did it at the West Point game awhile back and it seemed fair. Feel free to disagree, but please make a counter point if you do.

We did this last year but werent required to do it this year. Kinda ridiculous because it takes such a massive amount of paint to cover the box. We were kept busy reincarnating from the rocket and grenade hits. We wouldnt have had that many shots to the side of the tank as the Allied players were usually runnig straight away from us! LOL

[Eldon Tyrell]

Oh, let it be so. I still have my Sterling pump and I need an excuse to redo an autococker into a pump.

It's an intersting thought, though. Few of the Resistance had first class weapons. They had captured German arms and a trickle of goodies smuggled in or air dropped, but not nearly enough first class weapons to go around. Most of the captured German stuff would have been K98 bolt actions. There were also a lot of old hunting rifles and shotguns used from the hedgerows.

Might make the trigger-happy grunt slow down a little if he knows the French can't hose him with paint right away.

Definitely something to put in the hopper for consideration.

Originally Posted by MALICE Commander

I've got an old-school solution to the 3rd Entity controversy.

Why not have the French be made up as Pump and Mechanical Marker entities. There are teams of players who live for this style of play.

They would be extremely effective as mission players and cause less havok than the speedball mentallity wave. I think a third entity as an overwhelming force is what's causing alot of rightfull anxiety.

Besides, a player like RougeShooter with a pump is better than most guys with Luxes and expensive hoppers, so it would be quality over quantity.


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[Eldon Tyrell]

Kill boxes are a good idea if there are few rocket launchers and grenades merely disable a tank. Skirmish changed things a few years ago so that you could kill a tank with grenades as well as RPGs. That makes life a little tough on the takers, but increases grenade sales dramatically

We've run the tank with kill boxes in several games. The problem is that it does take a good bit of paint to cover them, and the tank gunners get lots of pop-up targets.

Again, something to throw in the hopper.

Keep it up.

Originally Posted by Nelby2388

One suggestion I have (that I doubt tank guys are gunna like, sry.) is that tanks should have a square shape outlined in tape on them, that, if filled with paint, will kill it. This gives people a chance to actually fight against the tank instead of running away and encourages more shooting from ppl, which will in turn sell more paint. It might also encourage people to shoot at the square instead of trying to shoot in a tank window or at the tank gunners which in turn makes it safer for the tank crew. Tank ref can make the call on when it is completely filled and wipe the square clean when the tank exits the field.

Just an idea. They did it at the West Point game awhile back and it seemed fair. Feel free to disagree, but please make a counter point if you do.

[NoelyDeezNutz]

Originally Posted by TheNegotiator

You wanna dress up like borat and run around running and gunning. Feel free.

Please don't mistake the tanker for me in a borat thong... Im actually amazed that people are still bringing this up... Did it really make that big an impact?

[dstanley753]

Originally Posted by NoelyDeezNutz

Please don't mistake the tanker for me in a borat thong... Im actually amazed that people are still bringing this up... Did it really make that big an impact?

It burned our retinas....look at yourself

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[Tinkle SOV]

Originally Posted by warthog6

Hey Tinks! Meeting you is a killer memory!

That really was tons of fun :-) glad to have finally met you :-)

[BlackAngelSS]

Originally Posted by Eldon Tyrell

Kill boxes are a good idea if there are few rocket launchers and grenades merely disable a tank. Skirmish changed things a few years ago so that you could kill a tank with grenades as well as RPGs. That makes life a little tough on the takers, but increases grenade sales dramatically

We've run the tank with kill boxes in several games. The problem is that it does take a good bit of paint to cover them, and the tank gunners get lots of pop-up targets.

Again, something to throw in the hopper.

Keep it up.

A kill box on a tank is only good for a game with a small number of players. With alot of players it really deafeats the entire purpose of having a tank

Michael Whittmann,Otto Carius and Kirt Knispel would approve this message.

Actually Otto is still alive maybee i can ask him lol

[Eldon Tyrell]

Agreed. The kill box works best, I think, in small games where you don't have dedicated AT. With the amount of RPGs and grenades available at ION, the tanks usually get taken out within 10-15 minutes anyway.

Still, all suggestions welcome.

Carius is still alive?

Originally Posted by BlackAngelSS

A kill box on a tank is only good for a game with a small number of players. With alot of players it really deafeats the entire purpose of having a tank

Michael Whittmann,Otto Carius and Kirt Knispel would approve this message.

Actually Otto is still alive maybee i can ask him lol

[BlackAngelSS]

Originally Posted by Eldon Tyrell

Agreed. The kill box works best, I think, in small games where you don't have dedicated AT. With the amount of RPGs and grenades available at ION, the tanks usually get taken out within 10-15 minutes anyway.

Still, all suggestions welcome.

Carius is still alive?

Yes MR Carius is 90 and by far the most successful living tank ace

[MALICE Commander]

Originally Posted by Eldon Tyrell

Oh, let it be so. I still have my Sterling pump and I need an excuse to redo an autococker into a pump.

It's an intersting thought, though. Few of the Resistance had first class weapons. They had captured German arms and a trickle of goodies smuggled in or air dropped, but not nearly enough first class weapons to go around. Most of the captured German stuff would have been K98 bolt actions. There were also a lot of old hunting rifles and shotguns used from the hedgerows.

Might make the trigger-happy grunt slow down a little if he knows the French can't hose him with paint right away.

Definitely something to put in the hopper for consideration.

I didn't even think of the historical aspect You da man!

[Grazi]

Originally Posted by BlackAngelSS

Yes MR Carius is 90 and by far the most successful living tank ace

I read his book a few months ago, it was excellent!

[CRAPGAME]

Originally Posted by MALICE Commander

I didn't even think of the historical aspect You da man!

I have a problem with this new line of thinking... Say for argument sakes the French were allowed to have say ONLY 100 players max, AND were only allowed a limited number of electro and mech semi, the rest would have to play pump....

Well I love playing pump! I would be so torn in which entity to play for!!! Curse you all !!!

And Eldon, if you have a working classic sterling pump, we must talk!