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[Aylward]

Operation Galahad Update - Day 9

http://tinyurl.com/gvm8upf (News Audio)

[Stahlherz]

June 30
Clan Jade Falcon Touman Vessel "Emerald Glory"
*** Prior System, Nadir Jumppoint, Jade Falcon Occupation Zone

A subtle alert ran through the ship. Three more vessels were aproaching from starboard.
TechCaste crewman hastily prepared the docking maneuvers necessary to welcome back the drop ships.
Star Colonel Grigori Mattlov already gave orders for the flotilla to prepare for departure.
He hoped that it would not be necessary to come back to this system again.

With the transition to their next assignment concluded the Star Colonel enjoyed a Fusionaire in his quarters and paid a mental salute to those fallen in duty.



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Funnily the first half of that planet's name gets auto censored.

Edited by Stahlherz, 30 June 2016 - 09:58 AM.

[Daidachi]

I wonder if some enterprising soul would put together a Jade Falcon equivalent (or if I'll have to do something myself over the weekend).

Bonus points if it incorporates the intro from the JF re education hologram used in that cheesy cartoon.

https://youtu.be/Bj-P0NCJftE?t=5m18s

Edited by Daidachi, 30 June 2016 - 10:24 AM.

[R3av3r]

This is terribly fun to watch unfold. I've never been so proud of a community of game players. So much effort and so much heart put into making these fights happen. PGI, you need to do more to advertise these kinds of events and support them. Player-driven -ANYTHING- is the heart of any online game. Great to see all the Merc groups jump to this border, great to see the loyalists all coming to play.

[RjBass3]

Angm4r, on 21 June 2016 - 10:51 AM, said:

The room snapped to, as General Aylward walked into the room. He stopped, turned to the face the group and paused, looking from pilot to pilot. His glance was returned evenly, every pilot steadily met his gaze, though some nodded to acknowledge his attention.

When I was in the Army, had anybody moved anything other than their eyes when at attention in front of a general, he would soon be on a much closer and much worse relationship with the CSGM and his company 1SGT.

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“At ease”, he said and the room went to parade rest.

Parade rest if of a different position then at ease. Parage rest while seeming to be more relaxed, is actually just a different style of attention. The two are completely separate commands.

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“Ten hut!” Termite barked.

Ten hut, is not, nor has it ever been a military command. It was made up by authors and movie script writers when they thought that was they heard when listening to a drill sergeant or other sergeant yelling Attention in a loud and fast manner.

Other than those obvious mistakes, nice story. Doubt it playing out well for you all though.

[WANTED]

As fun and great as this Operation was, is it over now? Seems the Jade's have this in hand now and the event messed up the fun a bit with all the Long Tom action and numbers favoring Jade. I just jumped in now to see what was going on in Faction and wow...so not pretty.

[Carl Vickers]

Before the LT event, I thought JF had a slight edge. HHoD and Steiner were fighting very very hard and making gains but JF always reversed them hence the slight edge.

Once the event is gone and LT takes its rightful place back in the basement where it belongs the real action will renew I'm sure.

Let the fun begin again on the 7/7.

[BigBaka]

The event got extended to the 11th.... a lot of FRR units would love to help on the Steiners front but its just soo overcrowded on Invasion and scouting mode.... There is no fun in waiting you know....

[TWIAFU]

WANTED, on 04 July 2016 - 07:48 PM, said:

As fun and great as this Operation was, is it over now? Seems the Jade's have this in hand now and the event messed up the fun a bit with all the Long Tom action and numbers favoring Jade. I just jumped in now to see what was going on in Faction and wow...so not pretty.

Operation Galahad is still in full force.

[axerion]

[Count Zero 74]

Ihr seid Husaren? Ihr seid mobil? Tut mir leid Axerion aber ich glaub dann seid ihr falsch hier bei der LCAF

[Aylward]

Really RJ ?? Did you really just critique a fluff RP piece for "military accuracy" ? You're a class act there buddy.. that's all i can say about that..

Hanover Fist has been recovering on a Lyran Hospital ship after the news outpost he was reporting from came under fire from overzealous Jade Falcon Long Tom batteries, one shell coming within one km of the news station he was in on *** Prior during an overnight assault/pugstomp where organized fedcom resistance wasnt present.... FSN assets have been pulled back from the front lines until Comstar's Operation Fish in a Barrel...err I mean Longtommageddon...no wait..."FrontLine", concludes... Although word just in, that event has now been extended another week, which i think allows ample time for JF and it's merc wave to reach Terra again based on the algorithm's current trajectory and number of planets they can roll every 24 hrs.....So chances are good Hanover's next broadcast may be from back in Davion space, if he survives... The message was lost in this other puggle event anyway.

Meanwhile, the Operation Galahad intitiative continues to mount what resistance it can in the face of overwhelming numbers on the steiner front.. If virtually every merc unit in the game hadn't gone Jade Falcon for this "event", it might have been a little more of a balanced fight.. but as it is, 3x the numbers and longtom rolling on planets within 45-60 mins of a cycle restart 3x a day.. Attack planet hits 100 % within a couple hours, its abandoned like a nuclear blast site cuz noone wants to bring a planet down from 100 with 15 tactical nukes a match falling on their heads, and hundreds are free to then sit in the defense queues on the other fronts and overwhelm most resistance with sheer numbers and "non"drops behind the live ones.. Lather, rinse, repeat every 8 hrs...

Hopefully the Jade Falcons and all the mercs riding this wave are enjoying themselves immensely.. cuz life kinda sucks in this game for just about everyone else that wants to play faction warfare right now. sure there's still a few companies of us diehards still sitting there in front of you every night to give you a break from pugstomping once in a while as we attempt to briefly take one planet back, slowing you down enough to have to spend overnight longtom/pugstomping it back instead of taking a new one as your 3rd in 24 hrs, hell, we even broke loyalty with the only faction we've EVER been part of to come up here and do it... but the population around you continues to check out and/or leave the game in waves..

Makes many wonder... Don't you all get tired of just ruining disorganized solos/pugs all day long ?? Using them up like wet paper towels day in and day out.. Doesn't it bother you to know you are driving people away from this game in large numbers by this combination of pug seal clubbing and long tom nuke raining that has defined this entire campaign ?? Whether the game and its poor design makes it possible or not.. And then worse, the merc units all jump to that side to ride the wave in ??

By the time you get to Terra this time, the map may be empty.

Will it be worth it ??

[MischiefSC]

I'll say this. I can't blame competitive players for going to the side with the clear balance advantage. I mean who in their right mind would pick the side with the disadvantage, right?

However this completely puts to bed all the "we just east good fights" arguments though. Pretty clearly not the case. When someone says "all mercs do is stomp pugs" the correct response is "yeah, absolutely. Their preference would be to have you fed down a chute single file, under a rain of long toms, into their firing line."

Teasing aside though.... yeah. That myth is pretty debunked. Mercs generally go where they're likely to win and the bonus payout thing has no real impact on who plays where.

[Danjo San]

MischiefSC, on 07 July 2016 - 12:44 PM, said:

Teasing aside though.... yeah. That myth is pretty debunked. Mercs generally go where they're likely to win and the bonus payout thing has no real impact on who plays where.

which is why you need to limit available contracts, the bonus system does nothing for player balance.

[Angm4r]

RjBass3, on 04 July 2016 - 07:44 PM, said:

When I was in the Army, had anybody moved anything other than their eyes when at attention in front of a general, he would soon be on a much closer and much worse relationship with the CSGM and his company 1SGT.



Parade rest if of a different position then at ease. Parage rest while seeming to be more relaxed, is actually just a different style of attention. The two are completely separate commands.



Ten hut, is not, nor has it ever been a military command. It was made up by authors and movie script writers when they thought that was they heard when listening to a drill sergeant or other sergeant yelling Attention in a loud and fast manner.

Other than those obvious mistakes, nice story. Doubt it playing out well for you all though.

In our in-game unit we have a CSGM and company level SGM (and SGT), so I used what we have, but your point is well taken.

Yes, parade rest is a different command. But in front a general you never went "at ease", you went to parade rest because... you weren't a *****.

You are right, Ten Hut is not a command, I was referring to the phonetic sound the command makes when using ones diaphragm to get the sound to carry. So, per your story, I suppose writers might have thought that. However, you only give the command "attention" and say it like that, if you want to sound like a *****.

But thanks.

[Angm4r]

If the end prize is Terra I suppose I see the historical precedent of JF and mercs. When the Visigoths sacked Rome it wasn't just them, but every sort of hanger-on that thought it might get its share of the booty.

You would think after the sacking the mercs and JF would turn on each other... but I suppose there would need to be actual booty at stake.

[Czarr]

Angm4r, on 07 July 2016 - 02:21 PM, said:

If the end prize is Terra I suppose I see the historical precedent of JF and mercs. When the Visigoths sacked Rome it wasn't just them, but every sort of hanger-on that thought it might get its share of the booty.

You would think after the sacking the mercs and JF would turn on each other... but I suppose there would need to be actual booty at stake.

well I am a merc I go where the money is LOL

[ccrider]

We did first week of event in kurita, second in jade falcon( our 3rd actual week in clans) and next week we are going to steiner to catch up with our friends in davion. Unfortunately, we kinda had to join the merc horde in order to get better in clan mechs; there arent enough strong loyalist units in other clans to help us get better.

[MischiefSC]

You're always welcome to come play cc, you guys are all good peeps. We'll see who's where in a week.

[ccrider]

MischiefSC, on 07 July 2016 - 04:49 PM, said:

You're always welcome to come play cc, you guys are all good peeps. We'll see who's where in a week.

you better stay steiner for at least next week. Remember, i know where you live.....(New Avalon day spa, correct?)