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[El Bandito]

What I learned after I entered CW a month ago, was that good personal score does not mean everything. Team coordination is even more vital for achieving success. Therefore one must also learn to lead a group when no one else steps up to the challenge. And best way to learn that is to absorb others' knowledge and make it your own. I have had the pleasure of dropping with competent Marik group leaders such as GeneralKota307 from the Seraphim, and Norm Peterson from the Roughriders, and they opened my eyes to the basics of leading a group and taking advantage of map layouts. Indeed, at the core of what it means to become good at gaming is a powerful instinct for imitation, and that is an important natural tool for development and learning.

Naturally, there were many failed copycat attempts, as I am far from experienced as those CW veterans, and had plenty of my commanded pushes/defenses fail hard with 0-10 stomp in the first wave. There are times when I have my face burn from shame, for making bad calls and leading my team into certain defeat. The chat is downright hostile at such times. Still I lived and learned. At any rate, lived.

When the leading does go right though, the sense of reward I get is priceless. All 12 members of our team benefit from it, not only through C-Bills or LP, but by learning how to make things go right in such situations and have the foundation to do it by themselves the next time when a leader is needed.

To give an example; I was in a group led by Norm dropping on Sulfurous Rift one day, and he used the mid gate Omega sniping to win the Counter-Attack mode. Before that, I always thought the mid gate was a deathtrap for the attacking team. I learned what little I could from his calls, and managed to do a poor but successful imitation of it on another Sulfurous Counter-Attack match. I am still not entirely comfortable in taking the reigns of the mic and leading, but it is absolutely necessary in dropping with a pug team, and thus it was done. So take up the mic, fellas!

Here is the video of me leading in that match.

Edited by El Bandito, 23 December 2015 - 10:16 PM.

[STEF_]

I'm very pleased reading this, from an old member that used to drop solo que only.
Now perfectly inside a unit.

Teamwork op!