On Saturday I attended Derek’s Lord of War game at the Rockwood field. Most of the guys were playing on team Spartan and Jeremy was CO of that side, I instead decided to take things easy and was tasked with helping out with game control duties. How quickly things change, with about 45 minutes before game briefing Derek asked me if I could lead team Fury as their CO had to bail last minute. I wasn’t happy about it but I signed up to assist where ever he needed me so I agreed. I was pretty worried at the beginning for a couple of reasons, first I didn’t bring my full kit and only had a minimalist set up with me and more importantly, I hate fighting against my own guys.
Team Fury was a mishmash group of players that I’m not familiar with as when I game I usually play with the guys on the Spartan side, anyway during briefing I was praying that I had solid squad leaders and it turned out I did! During the game I had absolutely no need to micromanage the teams and to make things better, a few of the squad leads stepped up (many thanks to DBspotter!) to help me with the field directions as it’s a place I’m not familiar with. Every mission I’d get the advice of the squad leads then form a plan of action and what I absolutely loved was that no one questioned my orders. They executed everything I asked and the players on team Fury truly accepted the concept of a mil sim which was awesome.
Throughout the 12 hours, Derek gave us various missions to which we were successful on most of them. Communication was decent, though I hope in the future that the players either use field markers or perhaps the map’s grid references when calling out targets, “contact at my 12” does me no good when I have 50 people to manage.
On one of the missions in the late afternoon, the guys were pushing very hard and while we were close to our objective I had to make the difficult decision to fall back to the CP and rearm. Darkness was quickly approaching (some of the guys still had their tinted lenses on) and I was very low on ammo, I could probably have secured whatever we were intended to find but with the condition of my guys there was no way I could defend it. Hehe at least along the way we were able to capture the Spartan mobile respawn, that was freaking awesome.
In the early evening GC gave us a mission to retrieve a huge wooden box of hotdogs and burgers which was greatly appreciated by everyone! LOL to make sure it wasn’t a mess, I let two squads eat at a time while the other four took turns guarding. That way I always have some defenders and not everyone was chowing down and it was good that I maintained a defensive perimeter as the guys paid me a visit. 😉 I didn’t know how many attackers there would be so I mobilized my whole force but it turned out it was just the GHOSTS so against those numbers Fury was able to capture all of them. Haha Keiko took a “trophy picture” of me with my captives which I’ll post a bit later when it’s available. 🙂
Come night, team Fury had a technological disadvantage. Other than myself I had two NV units on my side while I guesstimate that the other team had 30-40% of their players equipped with NV (based on the guys I know who have it lol) as well as thermals. Oh well, our last mission was to defend markers 8 & 9 and we used the wooded environment to the best of our ability to negate NV. LOL you can’t hide from thermals so there was nothing I could do about that however.
At endex, Derek informed me that team Fury was up over team Spartan by 150 points! It’s a tentative victory as he still needs to add up the kill cards though I hear the stacks were about the same so we’ll see.
It was an absolute pleasure to command team Fury and everyone doing as they’re told really made my day much easier. I was surprised how well we played together and I told the team at marker 8 that it was them that made us successful, I only played a small part and it’s true. I had a great time despite my initial apprehension and would lead any of those guys again if I get the opportunity!
On a side note, I’m also glad that the game was only 12 hours. I knew I was getting dehydrated and while I drank as much as I could, I didn’t have any electrolytes or food with me. LOL again I wasn’t planning on playing but with the op only 12 hours I knew I could handle it. Of course I would never let any of my guys do the same and I had to inform GC a few times of players needing to take a break.
Hehe I still got it! 😉
