Commanding is goddam hard!
It was a Sunday evening lull and nobody was stepping up. I stepped up against another voob, Florida Phil. This, however was no ordinary evening lull, but rather a primetime waiting for the Superbowl to be over.
It started out good. I chose IC because they are the most vanilla. They were GT. My team rocked. Their opening op was killed. I rolled an exp because exp is easy. We killed miners, pushed them back, and controlled the map.
Then I started listening to advice. Too much.
'Buy a sup'
'buy htt'
'buy a sy'
As I became confused, the superbowl ended, bringing an entire legion of vets descending on to the game.
And then poor Florida Phil PMs me, telling me that the other team had mutinied and I was now facing Ozzy.
I become preoccupied with garrison tech, buy heavy bbrs, scouts. bbrs quickly become useless as their heavy ints come up. But then I saw a way out. Sup + tp2 drop would save the day.
OOPS! Because I am a loser and didn't check the settings very well, I failed to realize that SY was disabled. No XRM for us. Tac would have been the way to go. By then it was too late. 40K dropped into useless adv sup tech. Ozzy boots a ton of people, gets his team going, and gets back in the game. We have an incredibly awkward time trying to do tp2 drops with htt and bbrs without XRM. I lost track of how many miners were killed. Lykourgos was personally responsible for at least half of them. I had 4 different people telling me what to do.
Then they started capping our stuff. Sp4wn beat me to the resign button.
What I should have done differently:
* gone for htts early rather than garr tech.
* If I was smart enough to know that sy was disabled, tac (which they pursued) would have been a better way to go.
* OMG! Enhanced miners early on would save so much pain!
* Watch miners more closely. IC miners like to rip to very dangerous places. I lost two miners just because they ripped when I was paying attention to something else.
* Not tried to com when vast wave of cranky vets was about to descend.
My team was spectacular, we were down ELO most of the time but still in control for a good chunk of the game. They tried their best with some very awkward endgame tech against a very organized opposition. Out of ideas, I could only pitifully manage miners and hand out bombers as a few vets spearheaded efforts.
Thanks to CDTmate BackTrack for helpful feedback. I will try this again sometime after I am older and wiser.
And those of you that gave me @#(!... well someday soon I will put you in a pod. That is, after I learn how to aim /mrgreen.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="mrgreen.gif" />
Mea Culpa
Hells, we get yelled at for finishing off a scout that's flying ominously around home sectors, when a comm wants us to join 50 other people on miner D.
Then we get shouted at for joining the 50 other people on miner D when there's a scout flying ominously around our home sector.
The thing is, it's much easier for a comm (especially a more experienced one) to see when people are not where they want them to be. And unfortunately it's much easier for them to just yell and boot, than it seems to be to order a person back to where they want them.
Same goes for the reverse. Every pilot suddenly seems to know how to command, when they manage to dock and bring up the F3 and F5 screens. Then they shout "Oh you haven't built that there!?" "Watch out for the miner!" "omg why haven't you built our *** yet?!".
Inevitably at least one person will do this no matter the commander. I guess that's one of the things to learn when you do - you gotta ride the backseaters and focus on your game. And hey, there's always a boot button for you too...
Then we get shouted at for joining the 50 other people on miner D when there's a scout flying ominously around our home sector.
The thing is, it's much easier for a comm (especially a more experienced one) to see when people are not where they want them to be. And unfortunately it's much easier for them to just yell and boot, than it seems to be to order a person back to where they want them.
Same goes for the reverse. Every pilot suddenly seems to know how to command, when they manage to dock and bring up the F3 and F5 screens. Then they shout "Oh you haven't built that there!?" "Watch out for the miner!" "omg why haven't you built our *** yet?!".
Inevitably at least one person will do this no matter the commander. I guess that's one of the things to learn when you do - you gotta ride the backseaters and focus on your game. And hey, there's always a boot button for you too...
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Clay_Pigeon
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I've contemplated what it would be like to com a game, mute the entire team, and pretend I'm playing Warcraft in Space.
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"Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me." -2 Cor 12:9
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