Last weekend TAG-4 along
with Task Force Diamondback attended a game at our local field. The game
included about 80 players. All the players were separated into two teams, red,
and green. Task Force Diamondback and TAG-4 were placed together on the green
team and ready for a good game.
The First Round:
Defending the “Bomb”
The
first round of the game was a simple scenario. One team had to capture and hold
a “bomb”, while the other had to defend it. Green team (our team) was given the
defence objective. The map was a fairly large area with some interesting
terrain, Green team started in a junk yard of old cars and furniture. Ahead of
us was a hill with a small “town” on it. The town consisted of two rows of two
story buildings, separated by a sort of street in a Wild West stile setup. On
the other side of the town there were a handful of wood barricades, beyond
those, a bus. That bus was where the bomb was located. After the bus there was
a maze of tire stacks and barricades separating the first bus from a second bus
on the other side. Just beyond the second bus was a tree line. That tree line
is where the red team was located. To the left of all that, the junk yard
continued on along the left flank of the entire course. To the right of the
town there was a clearing, then a small amount of barricades and tire stack
flanking the town.
Once both the red and green teams had
reached their starting positions, the ref with us radioed the red team ref to
start. The green team was not allowed to move until the red team reached the
first bus in order to make things a little harder for us. I had TAG-4 all lined
up and ready to go with the two Task Force Diamondback (TF Diamondback) fire
teams, Alpha niner, and Alpha six, to our right. The ref finally gave green
team the green light, and all 40 odd players shot off towards different
positions. I kept yelling back at TAG-4 “keep it tight” as we headed straight
for the town where the largest concentration of red team players had taken up
positions. All the while I was responding to furious radio communication from
Alpha niner and Alpha six coordinating our positions and confirming enemy
locations in and around the town. I had TAG-4 stop and stack up against a van
on the outskirts of the town. At this point we were taking small amounts of
enemy fire from random positions across the town. The remainder of TF
Diamondback kept moving right towards the far side of the town. After
confirming it was safe to do so, I had a few members of TAG-4 cover me, and
another TAG-4 member, as we moved into the closest building on the left side of
the town. Once we were safely inside we covered the rest of the team as they
moved in as well. Taking up positions in the left side of the town, we began
firing at various targets across the “street”. Before long, we had taken the
largest threats out and so I again had two members of the team cover me while
the rest of us moved into the buildings across the street.
With the whole team safely inside one of
the buildings, I radioed Alpha niner and Alpha six asking for a sit rep
(situation report). They told me they had the right of the town secure however
they where taking some fire from a team of enemy players that had taken up
positions on the right flank of the town. I looked out ahead and saw that a
large number of enemy players had accumulated behind the first bus (the one
with the bomb). Seeing as this was the objective, I told the team to start
firing on the players behind and around the bus. After awhile, and a few
hits/re-spawns on TAG-4’s part, we had softened up the positions around the bus
enough to move out of the town and assault the first bus. Between us and the
bus were several wood barricades. We had already ensured all enemy players
behind them where long gone, so we moved up to them to get a closer vantage
point. After taking out a few more players we moved up to the bus. Or should I
say I moved up to the bus. I ran out from behind a barricade straight for the
bus, just as I was about 5 meters from it I heard a burst of full auto fire
coming from my left. I looked over to see a player who had been hiding behind a
stack of tires blasting bb’s at me and my first reaction was to dive for the
bus and lay up against it. It worked. Then the remainder of TAG-4 quickly
rushed to my aid and took out the player behind the tires.
Since the whole team was stacked up
against the bus, I took a moment to survey the area and figure out what was
going on elsewhere. As I was doing this, Alpha six radioed me frantically
warning me of the team on the right flank of the town. He was soon joined by
Alpha niner also telling us to watch our backs as they might try and take us
from behind. Because our assault on the bus was going fairly well, with a number
of other green team players joining in the fun, I asked Alpha six and Alpha
niner if they thought TAG-4 could possibly flank the flankers. They confirmed
that it would be the best thing to do so I briefed the team on our next goal
and we moved quickly to the right. It was a bit of a pain to make it across the
field as small amounts of enemy fire forced us to stop on occasion, and on top
of that we had to make our way across a pile of jagged loose rocks. Once we
reached the location we took up various positions and opened fire on the
flanking red team. It certainly came as a surprise to the red players as they
hadn’t noticed us until we sent a barrage of plastic flying towards them at 380
feet per second. However, they had a relatively decent amount of skill and
retaliated with just as much. We hit a few of theirs, they hit a few of ours,
and then my gun sadly ceased to function due to a broken tappet plate. While I
was expressing my discontent over the current situation I was also hit.
Leaving only two TAG-4’s left to harass
the enemy team; I walked back to the re-spawn, pulled my Gas Glock 17, and
slung my M16 around my back. Then regrouping with the other two TAG-4’s that
had just been hit, I radioed Alpha niner to figure out was the situation in the
town was. Alpha niner told me that the red team on the flank had been taken out
and they had met up with the two TAG-4 members still there. We arranged for all
of TF Diamondback to regroup in the town for a final assault on the red team.
Then we moved into the tires separating us from the second bus and began taking
out red team players one at a time. One of the refs had moved the bomb from the
first bus to the second to “make things more interesting” however the bomb
seemed to have been forgotten as the game turned into more of a team death
match. A few TF Diamondback, including TAG-4, were hit during the final
assault, however soon we had taken out the entire red team down to the last man
who put up a decent fight from behind the second bus. That concluded the first
game of the day with a green team victory.
(Because
of the length of this post, I will save the second game for a separate post.)
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