A big thank you to you 40 awesome comrades who attended this journey into Folk's distant and not-so-distant past! Tiger's workshop saw some cool new material (including my fav, breaching compounds with boom-boom), then we christened the session with a lovely playthrough of the classic Highway. The notion of skirmishing, inflicting casualties, and then fading away into the night like a vengeful spirit saw us skip right past everything into vengeful spirit mode, and we wiped the convoy off the face of the earth. Then we took a journey into Shabaz for Cinderella, where a Bradley, shackled to the city by obscenely incompetent brass, was attacked by a two-technical thunder-run and the ghosts of Alpha and Bravo. Finally, we closed out with an updated version of Flask (yay Bodge for giving our medics working weapons!) that saw our Shilkas inexplicably survive to the end O.o
Cholo x2 and general tomfoolery followed afterwards! Waffly went on a Dick Cheney rampage of shooting dudes in the face with his shotgun!
A pleasure as always, comrades, and here's to next Sunday and the glorious future ahead!
And yes, I'll have a more detailed AAR and videos in a small while.
~ Ferrard
"Take a boat in the air you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turnin' of the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurtin' before she keels... makes her home."
Awesome session that saw me killing... no one. Well, that is if you don't count the fantastic Tiger's pre-session Workshop (See? You get some love, buddy) in which I may or may not have exposed one of my comrades to point-blank automatic rifle fire. And shot Ferrard in the back, but that was entirely his fault.
Was FTL under Toppo's orders in Highway, and directed my fireteam directly towards the enemy. Neat sweep and excellent work from my teammates (sorry Zitron if I was a bit unclear in the rush at the beginning of the ambush). I take my hat off to the brilliant strategist who saw fit to set up the satchels right under our nose at the beginning!
Then medic, attached to Stranglove during Cinderella. Patched one dude up, and spent my time reporting deaths and making sure somebody was actually in command. Didn't fire a single shot.
Finally Shilka 1 Commander in Flask. But that was easy cause Unaco is a damn good spotter. We finally ran out of ammo after slaughtering the enemy and dodging a few rockets. Got my hands on a shiny PKM, and got sniped by the last dude and his Dshk. Didn't fire a single shot either (but I did end up with the higher kill count. And two friendlies slaughtered in the process. False propaganda reports state that we might have engaged Bravo at some point.).
I have a complaint directed to the Party, though. Next time it'd be nice to have a Shilka on which you can actually shut the engine off and that doesn't decide by itself to move forward. (and the commander seat on those sucks, as you turn with the main gunner)
Oh yes, I was about to forgot: Please come to the workshops have some fun with us and shoot unlimited amounts of bullets towards comrade Tigershark! Okay, Tiger, you can give me my snack back, now.
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Full AAR post to follow later, but I wanted to say a big thank you to comrade Ferrard Carson for hosting the session tonight. Thank you also to all attending comrades for affording comrade Carson your respect and co-operation - all hosts really appreciate it.
Black Mamba wrote:I have a complaint directed to the Party--
My first folk session It was difficult tearing myself away from FM2013 tonight but I'm glad I did; my travails with Blackburn can wait 'til tomorrow.
Workshop
Bounding practice was good stuff, I got to drive and street clearing was pretty informative. Definitely very useful practice so I'll be looking to join in again next Sunday. Oh, and I got shot!
Highway
Seemed to end up putting myself in positions where everyone else around me was kicking ass and chewing gum but I couldn't see a single target. Had a few FPS issues when I played with ARPS on Tuesday but was able to tweak things tonight so they ran smoother, so nothing to blame but my situational awareness, but still had a good time being right in the thick of it. Got hit right at the end but survived.
Cinderella
I had to pee. Then the cat wanted feeding. And then I wanted a cup of tea.
Flask
AAR in Alpha 2 acting as the vanguard for the shilkas. Pushed a way up the road, killed 1-2, then the bad guys decided to stop wasting their rpg ammo on the big armoured things and use it on me instead. The shilkas made it though, so my death wasn't in vain.
Highway
BSL - Stranglove
Bravo1 - me, jrides, icerasier, dan
I have always been a FTL on this mission and my biggest fear comes from my anxiety of teleporting my FT into a rock of death, not from the enemy. Again my worry over being wiped clean off the rock we were hiding behind was unfounded as not only did we not die but we were ordered to advance towards the convoy and advance we did. My FT did a great job of running along the ridge line next to the road and we picked off remaining ei until it was time to withdraw, at some point Stranglove took a dirt nap and pretty much my only orders for Bravo was to retreat for victory which was uncharacteristic for a FOLK session.
Cinderella
Bravo - me, audiox, issus, doofling
I must say while I am not in general a big fan of adversarials (I'm more of a wussy co-op gamer at heart) this mission was a lot of fun. My apologies for not having CC toggled for the first 10 mins or so of the mission so I don't know if our attachment could hear me wondering where they were, they probably told me, I just didn't hear. I am ashamed I almost pulled a waffly when I alt-tabed out to check CC and let rip like 20 rounds over the heads of my allies thankfully I am such a bad shot that nobody was hurt. The plan was solid with Bravo taking a long walk around the south end of the compound and coming in from the SE through the fog. Brave issus volunteered himself (by being the AAR) to rejoin Charlie Shock & Awe (tm) squad for a final Death Star Trench run, dunno how that turned out.... While the rest of Bravo made it to the wall of the compound where the idling Bradley purred like a asthmatic dragon. I could hear bluefor on VON on the other side of the wall and peeked my head through an opening and put a clip into some poor Chatty Cathy, but while my aural senses were strong my eyes failed me as Phalanx? had hid in a Green Vegetable Matter field maybe 10 feet from where bravo had stacked up on the wall and I think we were all eventually killed there.
Flask
CO - me
My first mission as CO if you don't count those gang vs police missions (non-Cholo variety). My thanks to everyone for the patience and willingness to go along with patently poor ideas. I understand why people don't want to CO, a normal mission in folk becomes something else entirely. In terms of coms, situational awareness, map skillz being CO does require more, but for anyone reading this who hasn't been CO, you should give it a try as my turn in leadership is proof that everybody in FOLK is pretty forgiving, plus it allows those guys that always have to jump in as CO have perhaps a more well-rounded FOLK session. My general plan to sacrifice all infantry units in order to allow the Shilkas to survive worked quite well...too bad this wasn't an escort mission. And thank you to everyone that healed me. Being wounded as the CO feels like the baby with the dirty diaper if you know what I mean.
First off, another round of thanks to Tiger for hosting and running the workshops - compound clearing with boom-boom is always awesome, especially when I see two entire fireteams pour in and hear nothing but a symphony of suppressive fire. The effect of these workshops seems to be fairly self-evident - we won both co-ops, an occurrence of grand ceremony among our sessions. That said, I'd love to see even more of us attend - the fire-team level work is awesome at encouraging cooperation, and there's some cool stuff being worked on in the pipeline to be debuted by a Tigershark near you (with Vanna White Ferrard in a lovely Louis Vuitton dress).
Highway Deployed as HAT Lead
The Third International Fighting Brigade of Takistan in the Name of Che Guevera deployed to Bastam, two understrength squads and a massive alphabet soup of attachments of all kinds. Our mission: To interdict a convoy of traitorous Soviet Collaborators. Ours is the true revolution, not yours! You guys make terrible quiche!
Teleportation went swimmingly this time, and Danny resisted the urge to give in to his f***ing love of rocks. Tiger and I positioned ourselves on the roof of a nearby building after a moment's confusion over why I had in my hands a man-portable AT-13 Metis instead of the expected SPG. Turns out, yours truly needs to check what the mission maker wanted to give us while he's updating the loadouts.
That Metis was put to good use though. Two BTR-60's died to my hand, and a BMP-2 would have, but for my impatience, with Tiger feeding me missiles at the drop of a HAT
Afterwards, we accompanied Bravo on a trek across high ground, slaughtering our fellow countrymen the entire way. Eventually, Company Command rang us up to remind us that we needed to get the f*** out of dodge before the Takistani Army wised up and sent in an armored column to clean us up. So we did. VICTORY!
Cinderella Deployed as OPFOR Charlie FTL
We were roused from our beds as dusk fell and the infamous Zargabad fog descended on the landscape. Ameriki. In Shabaz. They killed Ibraham's goat. They tore down Ibraham's outhouse. They unscrewed the lightbulb on Ibraham's front-porch light. They messed with the wrong Ibraham.
I gotta hand it to Ghandis, you took an already asymmetrical mission and put a very creative twist on the OPFOR execution. I like it! I'd have liked it more if we'd been able to bust down the wall on the far side like I was anticipating we would. Instead due to the vagaries of ARMA PHYSICS (tm), we got trapped in the settlement, BLUFOR on the roofs, and a Bradley roaming about the place thirsting for our bodily fluids, and not in a good way.
Concrete, you are apparently not the only person to alt-tab ND during that - my SPG technical's gunner did the same thing. While aiming at my ass. Charlie had to go back and grab the other M2 technical before we could commence our thunderrun. Here's a hint people. There's a button on your keyboard. It's labeled ESC. Tap that before you alt-tab! Please
This mission was awesome though. Barring the ND's, Charlie's thunder-run was incredibly anticlimactic... until the entire rest of my fireteam was slaughtered by BLUFOR dudes haunting the foggy rooftops and I halted the M2 technical just on the other side of the wall from the aluminum behemoth. At that point, a lost BLUFOR CO wandered into our lines, and we traded certain words... also, certain bullets. We came to a mutual agreement to wander into the afterlife, hand-in-hand.
Flask Deployed as Badass Bravo Squad Leader
Returned to the land of the burning Shilkas, the brave folk of Folk made their landing, Alpha on the hill to the left, Bravo on the hill to the right, with the Shilkas shepherded along the MSR by Alpha 2. All in all, a very solid plan, if I may say so, Concrete, and pretty much what I would have done as well.
Bravo paced our way up the Western ridge, methodically picking apart the enemy patrols scattered all across it. I had to rein my dudes back a little bit when they wanted to advance west, putting the mountain we were on between us and any and all support. We're Badass Bravo, but I don't want to push our luck more than we have to, ya know?
It took us maybe twenty minutes of hillside escapades before we took any casualties at all, and that because we engaged perhaps half the population of able-bodied men in Ravanay all at once. The city was cleared with little incident afterwards, its inhabitants cut down by volley after volley of our massed fire and some beautiful strings of Shilka shells from the-- wait, they're still alive? Cool. Give 'em ten minutes before they go boom, though.
On the other side of Ravanay, we settled down at the mouth of the valley, suddenly wondering where Alpha had gone. Turns out, they'd gone on to a higher place without me noticing. Oops. Our awesome CO was still with us though, humping his ruck to the frontline in time to get shot in my place. Comradeship! Bravo, thinned out to a bit less than 70%, pressed up the next valley with the Shilkas rolling on our flank and we actually completed the-- Wait, ??? How in the hell... Both Shilkas survived! Shilka 1 even freakin' ran out of ammo! What the heck is going on? Shilkas aren't supposed to survive this long on this mission.
Cholo x2 Drugsdrugsdrugsdrugsdrugs
"Ferrard, are you actually high right now?" "I'm high on life!" "He actually keeps a can of spraypaint next to his computer just for this."
All in all, great session. Welcome to the new folks (Kev, seems like you'll fit right in), welcome back to the regulars, and I'll catch you next week, same lovely time, same lovely place. Stay tuned for videos, and maybe a Commander's Critique on my part in Flask.
~ Ferrard
"Take a boat in the air you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turnin' of the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurtin' before she keels... makes her home."
Ferrard Carson wrote:That said, I'd love to see even more of us attend - the fire-team level work is awesome at encouraging cooperation, and there's some cool stuff being worked on in the pipeline to be debuted by a Tigershark near you (with Roseanne Bar Ferrard in a lovely Walmart dress).
Sticking feathers up your ass does not make you a chicken.
Flask
Deployed as Alpha 2 FTL, along with Teleporter, thekev and Doofling
We were tasked with protection of shilkas, and I was pleased that Alpha Command put us about 200 meters ahead of shilkas instead of usual 20 or so. We advanced, shilkas were splendidly careful and did not dash forward. We didn't engaged much, my specfific command being "Let the guys who have something to hide behind do the shooting". We were kinda exposed on the road, so we acted more like a blocking force, protecting our shilkas.
Somehow Bravo missed a SPG9 position on left side of the road, really well positioned one (that guy new what he was doing). He opened fire on my AAR and AR, wouding one. The other went to his aid, and second rocket finished them both (poor souls). Note to self - do not allow comrades to be helped when there is enemy sniping their position with high calibre rocket weaponry.
As no other element was free at the moment, I decided to assault the SPG9 position head on, up the hill, with thoughts for the Party in our heads and party membership books for our protection, you know the drill. The two of us suprisingly did not get slaughtered and secured the road once more.
See Ravanay and die, the old Takistani proverb, came true moment later.
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Highway
Got caught up on Skype and joined just a minute or so too late. Cinderella
Awesome mission!
Was in Bravo with ConcreteOtter, audiox, Issus.
Crawling across the open field in the nights fog with my comrades was one of the experiences that I play Arma2 for.
Tense moment for sure!
In fact I was so caught up in the tenseness that when we were at the wall and being shot at from our behinds I hesitated a moment too long and promptly died.
I'm glad that my joyfull cry when the rpg hit the bradley "YESS!" revoked some laughter among the dead people though. Flask
Was in Alpha 2 with DarkTatka, Teleporter, thekev and the party demanded us to be meatshields for the much more valuable shilkas and engineers.
All was well (I actually killed some enemies of the party this mission!) and the charge up the hill to avenge our fallen comrades was glorious for sure!
Soon thereafter I saw my FTL go down in the enemy fire and dutifully reported to whomever it might have concerned that I was the only one left in Alpha 2.
After I completed said duty, I got hit and died on the spot.
Fun session, I can't wait to return next sunday! (If I'll remember it then I might even join the workshop session beforehand)
Also can't wait to maybe try some roles with more responsibility some time in the future.
Workshop
Thanks to Tigershark for the patience he exhibits during these! The Workshops are great for developing some situational awareness. (Which i, due to the demands for secrecy from the party, have to neglect any remembrance of for the duration of our Folk-session....)
It is hellishly difficult not to run into other fireteam-members when we're doing tho alleyway-drills, but it's getting better. This is with sthud enabled, i guess my brain is telling me that multitasking is a lie when it comes to inputs. I also shot Xenu in the face. (Wait, you mean -friendlies- might appear in these alleyways? Methinks it best not t oask the party what they were doing in this part of town.)
Highway
Alpha1?2? AR, FTL : Dannysaysno
I felt perfectly safe in the building and now we have to run across this street? Oh well, what are the odds of encountering an APC racing down the street?
My bad really, i was too damn curious and thought a rocket had finished it off, so i unnecessarily crowded a doorway and ran into a hail of bullets.
So for the rest of the mission i sat secretly wishing that the an OpFor Tank would get moving so that i could watch you all get sl.... commended by the party for a glorious tactial engagement with a superiorly equipped foe.
Well played by the rest of you though, most of the enemy was smothered. (Except for that -ONE- guy that picked off someone on your glorious run south towards the end.)
Cinderella
Bravo AR, FTL : ConcreteOtter
Since the Party rejected my plan to find the nearest Bradley FACTORY to blow up and instead settled for blowing up the nearest Bradley. (Hoping, i guess, that the pitiful US Army would forget how to make them from the psychic anguish involved in losing one.)
I was then told that this mission would involve putting on gigantic pom poms and cheering on suicide squad charlie. Which later was altered to "sneak up to the wall, leave the pom poms behind."
There me and another Bravo team member was, holed up next to the wall, hearing only the rumble of the tank, and the inane chatter of the surely doomed marketing department of american military manufacture over their vehicle comms (which they, wisely appear to route through a frigging megaphone on the outside of the tank). Our path to glory lay in defeating the tank, unfortunately it was immediately cut short by friendly fire. (Apparently my ideas about attacking factories had garnered me some powerful enemies in the Party...)
Flask
Bravo 3 AR, FTL : Sorry, names ain't my strong suite.
This was a cozy mission. Our fireteam advanced slowly and surely, and the other fireteams met the heaviest resistance. The lack of forests and the fact that we were higher up than our enemies all of the time made this a cakewalk. (Though Alpha had some issues, apparently.) In the end IceRaiser turned into Forrest Gump and ran ahead of the rest of the team as fast as he could. No real worries there as most everything was either picked off from afar or nuked by the Shilkas. Cue forest. GUESS WHAT ()¤&"/(=!"# happens as soon as i move towards the forest? Two notoriously dodgy gentlemen with AK's have decided to host an impromptu "Meet and greet"-session for me with bullets. Did i mention my machine gun was out of bullets? Well, it was, and the Makarov is, as always, something these jihadis are always looking to steal from us due to being such a fine weapon. Luckily i was saved by my FTL, and we trundled along to the last compound.
~ Ferrard
It was difficult tearing myself away from FM2013 tonight but I'm glad I did; my travails with Blackburn can wait 'til tomorrow.
and street clearing was pretty informative. Definitely very useful practice so I'll be looking to join in again next Sunday. Oh, and I got shot!
??? How in the hell... Both Shilkas survived! Shilka 1 even freakin' ran out of ammo! What the heck is going on? Shilkas aren't supposed to survive this long on this mission.
and secured the road once more.
