2001_November 3 & 4 - Trigger Tyme

2001 Nov 3 & 4 Trigger Tyme: Trigger Tyme paintball, Columbia S.C.

Chris ? was our general, and we had the village base. Around 250 players total.

Roadkill: Grendel, Tank, Josh, Eddie and me.

To start, we seem to have a team problem with our charleston guys - a bit of a rift you might say. Anyway 5 RK showed for the event. The origional plan was to run the ft appache - radar station corridor, and hook up with the C&C if they really showed the leadership and style that would motivate us to play their plan as apposed to our plan - but I wasnt offering.

Just before the game, Chris came over to our tent, and persuaded our loyalty. I hooked him up with a radio, and field map. Grendle and I knew that this would alter our plans. The adjusted plan was to initiall sweep clear the tower area, move to our origional AO "B", and play force recon for called in missions.

At the start, we (red) moved north and 50 yards our side of the tower, blue had bad guys spraying the trees and reinforcing the tower. We jogged east to prevent them from sweeping our flank using the tower as a choke point. As we streached it out, they had the radar station also - so we took up position along the ravine just south of the radar station. I pulled together a mixed bad of guys, and we were going to secure the tapeline east of teh radar station, then move in on it from two sides. Bad guys on the tape. - I cross the ravine with my trusty pump, and call back - come on!! They take up position on my knoll, and I shift left with the ravine on my back to take up "bait" position on the radar station - 3 blues key on em from the station and my 16" tree now seemed like 12" -but I held. Now if only my 6-8 guys on my right would push. 2 very long minutes passed and I knew we were runnign out of time as I saw a continuous stream of blues reinforcing - and we now seemed like we were in a pocket - pinned against a tape, backs to a ravine, bad guys north and north east - but then I noticed at least 10 blue in collumn moveing to my west - headed south. Collumns always means "unopposed" otherwise they would be in a scirmish line. I have a solid shot, and know that with my super quiet pump I can sometimes take out 3 guys without calling attention to my location. - But prone - a pump is hard to opperate well. I give it a go, miss on 3 shots - and they see me. Great - now we are getting flanked - 8 guys pocketed against a tape - The only thing left to do is to fall back south along the tape which is 40' on the down side of a ridgeline that runs northy and south. So a running jump - and I very rapidly slide down the ravine's leaf covred surface - and some-how my left arm hooks a sapling - I radio to josh - "we are getting flanked" - fall back down the tape. He relays this message to the guys on the knoll who still dont own the tape - and falls back - but they dont. I scurry south alongthe edge of eth ridgeline trying to get infront og the collumn- but soon learn it does'nt have a front.

Great - now we are pinned against the east tape, flanked on north and west with lots of bad guys south. Time to "push through" or die. Josh to my right- we push east - good cover - and Josh gets taken out - er. time for stealth mode - I rock back and south and quietly move up to a tree and a squad of 3 - one with blue and white arm band - ah, a medic. And they are firing south - one quite round and he looks around in disbelief - and his two friends dont even realize they are under attack - and in range. He looks and spots me and I motion back to him w/o sound I point to him and then the flat hand "knife" sign across my throat. He must have called himself out, bcause his freinds then spun and started firing north yelling "they are behind us" - from their east I drop the guy with an angel - one shot to the head- he humbly raises his gun and says something to the third man who bugs out west.

I meet up with a few guys being squeezed against the tape with me and we continue breaking through their collumn - side shooting - One then says "what happed to your arm?" - I look at my left bicept - and it looks like raw hamburger - funny - "beats me" - I hadnt even noticed.

We start working south - back dooring the blues - I get taken out, but man what a fight.

Later, we get run off the field, and our amy begins to get demoralized. Chris is ob and together we assemble enmass, rally morale and insert. the plan was to quickly take the town with our 50 guys- but as teh blues own our base and the village we would be inserted in a pocket - so I revise the plan and we begin with a sweep of the pow camp and village - staying together and en-mass we continue the sweep - taking the tower - and al the way to their base and push them off the field.

2 hours into the game, and now we own the field - We establish a choke point tower and apache - and Chris starts calling in missions.

Sunday we owned the field all day. For at least an hour, we had the blues pinned trying to insert. I got up way to far with my pump and let them insert and key on the guys behind me. Lots of one round kills. and for the first time, - I reload.

The red team wins the war, and Grendle and I win "Bruisers" in the raffle - thats freaky.

My performace - 800 rounds - 30 eliminations including 3 medics - lots of 1 shot elims.

A few of the refs dont know the field - but other than that the reffing was fine.

But one note to all of the tourney players: when you feel it, touch it, wipe it but never heard or saw where it came from - You better call yourself out or I'll just cap your sorry butt again.

TIPs to Brian: get rid of the medic thing. It promotes cheating and creates tention.