Game in the rain, by John Stanford
Jun/10/06 11:37
Well the last time that
we played was a pretty interesting time. Several of
us showed up early in order to do some field
maintanence and low and behold it was raining. We
waited around for awhile hoping that it would clear
off enough for us to do so, but it never really did,
ah well, better luck next time.
It was still raining when it got to game time, but it was only a light rain so we decided to game on. We got people outfitted with gear, warned everyone about gear malfunctions that might occur because of the rain and set out to play a quick game of team elimination. We only played half field because of the rain, but we still had plenty of room to manuver.
Up front, there were defiantly some different things about playing in the rain.
1. You can't hear crap, too much noise in the system from the rain to track you opponents based on hearing them.
2. It's hard to aquire a target based on motion because the rain is causing most of the foliage to move all the time.
3. Use of radios is a must, you can't hear very far like i said above. So end of game signals are hard to hear at a distance because the noise just gets absorbed by the rain and foliage.
For ease of talking about teams i'm going to refer to the team that i was captain of as the blue team and the team Alex was captain of as the red team.
The first game was just a game of team elimination. The Blue team pretty much stomped the Red team in this first game for reasons that are quite ammusing, which i will discuss later. My squad proceeded east from the starting point to the green trail and proceeded up the trail. About 2/3rds of the way up the trail we meet a 2 person squad comming down from the top of the trail. We exchanged fire for several minutes and my squaded managed to come out the winner of this fire fight with only moderate damage inflicted upon us and we eliminated the other squad. We then proceeded more infield due to reports of action there which is when i witnessed the captain of the Red team being taken out by his own teammates, more on this later. I still continued in field for
several more yards before spotting another member of the red team. I waited for him to be in a position that would be hard to retreat and find cover from before opening fire on him. We excahnged fire shortly and he was eliminated fairly quickly. Turns up my squad had picked up 2 more members on it's southern arm that i was unaware of so there were 4 of us firing at him, hence the quick elimination. What's interesting about this encounter is that the person that was eliminated has very bad distance vision and relys on his scope a lot and this is the time that he has reported seeing the muzzle flash from the guns, and that was pretty exciting for him. At this point most of the opposition had been eliminated by my team's count and so we went on a hunt and
kill mode. Turns out that there was only one member of the Red team left and we chased him all over the field before his 5 minutes were up and the Blue team was declared the victor. Turns out that the one Red team member still out had gotten lost and wandered outside the game area, which is why Blue team could never find him.
So on to why Red team was elminated so quickly. We found out later that the captain of the Red team did not properly set himself to the correct team, so he was marked as being on Blue team. This meant that he couldn't hurt or be hurt anyone on Blue team, but the Red team (which he was supposed to be on) could hurt him and in turn he could hurt them. Turns out that yes, one of his teammates killed him at long range not realizing who he was but just responding to the fact that he took hits when they shot him.
It was still raining when it got to game time, but it was only a light rain so we decided to game on. We got people outfitted with gear, warned everyone about gear malfunctions that might occur because of the rain and set out to play a quick game of team elimination. We only played half field because of the rain, but we still had plenty of room to manuver.
Up front, there were defiantly some different things about playing in the rain.
1. You can't hear crap, too much noise in the system from the rain to track you opponents based on hearing them.
2. It's hard to aquire a target based on motion because the rain is causing most of the foliage to move all the time.
3. Use of radios is a must, you can't hear very far like i said above. So end of game signals are hard to hear at a distance because the noise just gets absorbed by the rain and foliage.
For ease of talking about teams i'm going to refer to the team that i was captain of as the blue team and the team Alex was captain of as the red team.
The first game was just a game of team elimination. The Blue team pretty much stomped the Red team in this first game for reasons that are quite ammusing, which i will discuss later. My squad proceeded east from the starting point to the green trail and proceeded up the trail. About 2/3rds of the way up the trail we meet a 2 person squad comming down from the top of the trail. We exchanged fire for several minutes and my squaded managed to come out the winner of this fire fight with only moderate damage inflicted upon us and we eliminated the other squad. We then proceeded more infield due to reports of action there which is when i witnessed the captain of the Red team being taken out by his own teammates, more on this later. I still continued in field for
several more yards before spotting another member of the red team. I waited for him to be in a position that would be hard to retreat and find cover from before opening fire on him. We excahnged fire shortly and he was eliminated fairly quickly. Turns up my squad had picked up 2 more members on it's southern arm that i was unaware of so there were 4 of us firing at him, hence the quick elimination. What's interesting about this encounter is that the person that was eliminated has very bad distance vision and relys on his scope a lot and this is the time that he has reported seeing the muzzle flash from the guns, and that was pretty exciting for him. At this point most of the opposition had been eliminated by my team's count and so we went on a hunt and
kill mode. Turns out that there was only one member of the Red team left and we chased him all over the field before his 5 minutes were up and the Blue team was declared the victor. Turns out that the one Red team member still out had gotten lost and wandered outside the game area, which is why Blue team could never find him.
So on to why Red team was elminated so quickly. We found out later that the captain of the Red team did not properly set himself to the correct team, so he was marked as being on Blue team. This meant that he couldn't hurt or be hurt anyone on Blue team, but the Red team (which he was supposed to be on) could hurt him and in turn he could hurt them. Turns out that yes, one of his teammates killed him at long range not realizing who he was but just responding to the fact that he took hits when they shot him.