Counter-Attack

I was about to go through a lot today. And I mean a lot. But it sort of went elsewhere, and ended up in something far more interesting than I first had planned.

We got off to a late start, not booting up the server until 20.00. This was because I were busy spreading The Word now during election times here in Sweden. I had some things to take care of, so I sent of today's players U_U, h3adache and Ices along with OFP-vet JW to set up a defensive perimeter. Lucky us that we did that, because the dynamic AI I had scripted had decided to throw a lot of heat our way. In my full-booked scheduele we only managed to squeeze in a bit of formations training between the hordes of T72s, Spetz Natz and crazed Russians. While doing a decent job on our defences, we got pushed back just east of St. Phil where we got ambushed by a team of Spetz Natz and got killed. On the picture, formations training.

Even though everyone did their best I was getting a bit tired of the lack of motivation in the people. So I decided to spice everything up a notch. I took five minutes and added a bunch of Russians everywhere south of St. Phil, and made them even more aggressive. I basically removed the safe-zone, including the airbase as an attack on the air-base was just a matter of time. And I told them that every piece of land we now lose is lost and every vehicle and weapon we lose are not coming back. We're fighting for a safe-zone here lads, and if we haven't got a safe-zone we won't have anywhere to train and then we won't be able to continue with the project. On the picture, a recently fought-off Russian advance on the airfield. OFP-vet Redkid as seen in the side-chat was split away from the rest of the team, guarding our Observation Post.

I immediately saw a boost in the fighting morale of the lads. We took back piece-by-piece of territory. Everyone really did their best, and no-one died as they were all pushing for a goal. The only casualties we had were a had-to-go by OFP-vet JW and an internet-crash by Ices. And I realized, that even though still lacking some of the skills of a 5 year old vet, and none of them being skilled leaders they are great players to have under one's command. They do what they are told, do it as best as they can and don't whine. They take their responsibility, their arches, and they are soon-to-be experts in formations. They can take orders and execute them without blinking twice. Often, I actually see the OFP-vets doing the complaining. It's almost like having a bunch of Semper Fi-Marines. I love it, I can't be happier with the results.

We managed to retake everything down to Tyrone, which is the new front-line. The mission lasted 2½ or 3 hours, I'm talking the mission here, not the session. We played that long without reassigning. Just a week ago I had to reassign every time someone was supposed to go to Meaux in a Tgb11 because he kept driving over someone else. They lasted 3 hours without a single one of them dying. If they were all OFP-vets I wouldn't be surprised, but they've played OFP for 2 weeks and they managed (although with help from OFP-vets) to take out two Russian platoons, around 60-80 men. In the words of Darth Vader; most impressive. They're not ready for me to unleash them yet, I still have to guard them, but damn, they're suprisingly good when I'm guarding them. On the picture, from left to right U_U with a Ksp90 and a Pansarskott M/86, me (dmakatra) with an AK5B and a Pansarskott M/86 and to the far right h3adache with a AK5 GRT with a GRG M/48 Koger. Redkid took the screen and together we were the last four to push all the way down to Tyrone which we are now proudly posing in.