In Attendence: Jonathan Flint, John Edens, Jami Davis, Rich Struth, Joe Verant, Jim Foster, Blake Weaver,
Invites: Tom F. from TT, Will & Justin (Blakes friends from PEE DEE PAINTBALL).

(by thumper) Ben Torentelli invited us to run the General Slot for the most complex C&C game in history. We hadnt planned on coming, but with such a challenging offer, who could resist. With BlackHearts on our side, who could say no..

Friday Jami and Rich showed up intime to pitch tent and put away a six pack (ea.) to provide us a warm welcome for our 4 o'clock arrival. Jim, Grendel, Joe, Tom and I pulled in around 4. (Blake and his two friends pulled in around 8p) As we arrived, we popped tops, set up and synced up. and we all asked "where are the players?" Ben and the Black Hearts were there, but not much more. The word was "well - they will show.." -- We walked the field - and began to think of contingency plans.

As dark grew near and players tricked in, we began to plan and scheme. A fine Beemish always seems to help. The weatherman reported a 20 degree evening ahead with day time temps in the mid 60s. And the fire was very popular. Around 8 steaks were molested, and around 9p Billy put on a 20 bls of Shrimp/frogmore stew. And Blake seemed in his element. -

Plans bounced around quite a bit with the unknown of "what teams do we have to work with?" looming ever more prominante. Joe's roll bounced from leading some shooters in reaction, to liasoning with Blackhearts, to running missions with Blake, Will & Justin plus 4 from the Splinter Cell. Witchpoo got Grendel, Rich, Jim, Tom. Deep and I were stuck at the main base.

Ben in his scemes had devised a plan to make us run 1 mission on the half hour, with each mission having 3 submissions- each to be run out of 3 separate bases. (Army Group North, Center and South). The evening plan closed with Witchpoo running mission out of Army Group South (behind the swamp), and Romeo running mission out of the Center base (old Alien base), and some mission team running mission out of the old clap base (army group north.) We planned on giving BlackHearts the clap base for the most rapid reinsertions to help support their tank, in the standing order to securing the AO between the 90 corner in the field over to Bubba's mud truck. We would figue out their mission team come morning.

THUMPER : SAT 10:00AM: as the numbers had grown little - we had 70 to 80 players turn out and Ben came to us and suggested that the complexity of the game needed 200 to 500 players to run the way he had written in. I said - hell, lets play it. He grinned and that was it. We had committed to the most challenging C&C game ever, with 7 good roadkill guys, 3 first game invites and the BraveHearts and 4 splinter cell guys.

11:00am - We gave the briefing - and synced up with out late arrivale. Team Ram Rods showed up with around 5 and said they wanted to run mission. Bingo. you guys run mission out of clap base w/ Brave Hearts where Bobio was XO.

Another team "lucky" something showed up and said thay just wanted to shoot. I asked them to help work the area around the mud truck, to secure BraveHearts right flank.

12:00pm game on. 3 missions issues. Northing compliceted. take and hold 20 mintues, various places in the middle. One out of 3 complete.

12:00pm sat (by Grendel) Witchpoo Mission #1 -- Take and hold Oral for 20 min.
Squad Members - Grendel, Rich, Tom F. and Jim F.

We made our way past XO Tony's base and into the swamp to come up behind Kiev ("the Nam") and mistakenly held this position for 10 min or more thinking it is Oral during which a large group of Russians strolled past our position. Our small squad rightly let them pass without firing since it would have given away our position and the mission. After awhile 2 ref's came up and we turned over our card which they immediately walked off with. We soon realized we were in the wrong position and move across the road to Oral loosing Rich to a sniper in the process then we were met by ANDY the main field ref. We let him know about the mistake and the refs walking off with our card. We held the objective for our 20 min. One down. On our way back to the base for a new mission we were sniped at by the player who took out Rich but since we no longer needed the territory and were heading back to base we bypassed. Once back to the base we hooked up with reinserted Rich and awaited our next mission, while filling in as base security in the time being.

12:25 "ref we getting the next one at 12:30" - "I dont know - they will radio it in."
12:35 : Thumper : "ref - are we running missions on the half hour or hour - ben told us on the half hour" -- Ref: "uhh"
1:00pm : 3 missions issued - take and hold stuf in middle for 30 minutes. all mission issued.
1:05pm Ben shows at our base. THUMPER: "hey ben - we running mission on the hour?" BEN: "no - on the half hour, you should be on mission 3."
1:15pm : mission three : take and hold 3 things in the middle. - but unfortunately all of our mission teams were out.
2:00pm : mission 4 : we are in a groove - running 3 missions per half hour with Witchypoo and Romeo running their As$#s off.

6:00pm - dinner stand down

-- stories by Rich:

Mission #3 (Weaver, Me, Ron, Cory, Jim) Hold the castle for 30 minutes. 15 minutes into the mission the Death, Inc tank came down the main path. Weaver told Ron and Cory to flank through the woods and take out the tank. Ron circled around and the rest is history. Mission completed.

Mission #4 General led mission (night game). Attack Moscow and take control of it. There were 7 -10 on the mission including (Deep, Me, some blackhearts). Deep flanked with a couple and the rest of us went head on. Talk about an adreniline rush. We stormed (me and one other guy) from the far side and Deep and others came from the other side. Mission completed.

Mission #5 Hold the location in front of the Castle on the other side of the road for 30 minutes. (Night mission). Me and 1 other Blackheat. Held for 30 minutes. Several enemy in the area (most likely meant to counter us but they couldn't find the location). We layed silent. Mission completed.

Mission #6 Attack and destroy all Russian Bases. 1st mission on Sunday. Cory (Blackheart MVP and I) stormed the Russion fort closed to their campsite and he rocket launched and hit the fort. We were both eliminated and did not recieve credit. No Rep present.

Mission #7 XO led mission with Tony. Grendel, Weaver, Justin, Tony and Me were to take Tony to Kiev and hold the area for 30 minutes. We went through the swamp and came out behind the kiev. Grendel went right, I went left. Weaver was behind me in the palms and Justin was behind Grendel. I think it was Death, Inc/BodyCount who entered with 6 - 8 in thier squad. Grendel attacked, eliminated at least 1 and then he was eliminated. They swooped to my side and I eliminated 2 before being eliminated. Justin (medic) was eliminated and Weaver was the only one left. He will have to finish this one. blake added this: "Indeed. I believe Justin dropped another before he was eliminated and the guy layed there calling for a medic. I took out another guy (right beside the one Justin took out) so the medic ran up to the guys to help. He was behind a 'fort' with plenty of open holes in it. I just opened up on the holes and got the medic too. The three of them went walking and I see one more guy. I start shooting and a guy I never saw, peeled into me. Battle over... lost.. but fun! I'm not sure, but I think the guy who got me was a Calamari."