My Story...
Bigrick
Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3750Members
Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3750Members
It was a 10vs10 game, and from start to finish the players neither left nor changed teams, thats an achivement on it owns, especially since the game went for about 2hours. I was a marine.
Anyway, the start of the game was normal, skulks rushed, we defended then expanded to hive slowly filling in the resource gaps inbetween. Everything was going well, then the fades came... Battle fluctated back and forth but the aliens never lost their hive, but niether did we... resource nodes came and went, outposts on both sides were destroyed and rebuilt but the power never shifted from complete balance until slowly the fades started getting close to our hive, cargo bay. I knew if we lost the hive, we would lose the game, we needed a hive but had no troops to spare. Everyone was either defending cargo bay or our main base, so I got a jetpack and set of behind enemy lines. I flew hard, ducking and weaving between OCs, banging my head against the roof for the greater good. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> Finally I got to the elevator leading to one of their hives, there were no defences here so i relaxed and pressed the button, but alas they had chambers down the bottom and the elevator would not go, with a sigh I backtracked, once again dodging the fire of OCs, luckily all of the aliens were on the frontline, pressing their advantage at cargo bay or keeping us busy at our main base. Finally with 12 health to spare I made it into the tunnels near one of their hives, If we could take this and hold cargo bay we would win, I radioed our commander (he was very good) but he was busy trying to keep everyone in place, healed and loaded, our cargo bay was failing... Finally he heard my call and a phase gate appeared at my feet, in seconds it was built and a few confused marines stood in front of me, this is not cargo bay they thought. Money was short, those HA/Welders/Jetpacks werent cheap, especially the way marines were dropping at cargo bay, but slowly we got the TF up, upgraded an the sieges began appearing, we had no money for normal defences it was just us. We built up two sieges but didnt finish them so we could complete them simultaniously, suddenly a stray skulk rushed around the corner, probably trying to get to the front line before evolving, startled I killed it quickly with my LMG, but our cover was blown. We finished the two sieges and prepared for the worst... Just then cargo bay fell. We had to destroy this hive before they could build a new one in cargo bay but unfortunately our sieges targeted the Offence chambers first, I heard the roar of an Onos in the distance. We held valiantly but soon an onos came charging down the corridor, our LMGs bouncing of its hard carapace, our secret base was lost. I spawned back into our base, greeted by the gentle splash of acid on my face, again I heard the mighty roar of an onos, all was lost.
Sure we lost, but it was a great battle and our commander was one of the best. If only he had heard my cries before our hive was lost.
Oh this was on a 1.03 beta and it was quite good.
Anyway, the start of the game was normal, skulks rushed, we defended then expanded to hive slowly filling in the resource gaps inbetween. Everything was going well, then the fades came... Battle fluctated back and forth but the aliens never lost their hive, but niether did we... resource nodes came and went, outposts on both sides were destroyed and rebuilt but the power never shifted from complete balance until slowly the fades started getting close to our hive, cargo bay. I knew if we lost the hive, we would lose the game, we needed a hive but had no troops to spare. Everyone was either defending cargo bay or our main base, so I got a jetpack and set of behind enemy lines. I flew hard, ducking and weaving between OCs, banging my head against the roof for the greater good. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> Finally I got to the elevator leading to one of their hives, there were no defences here so i relaxed and pressed the button, but alas they had chambers down the bottom and the elevator would not go, with a sigh I backtracked, once again dodging the fire of OCs, luckily all of the aliens were on the frontline, pressing their advantage at cargo bay or keeping us busy at our main base. Finally with 12 health to spare I made it into the tunnels near one of their hives, If we could take this and hold cargo bay we would win, I radioed our commander (he was very good) but he was busy trying to keep everyone in place, healed and loaded, our cargo bay was failing... Finally he heard my call and a phase gate appeared at my feet, in seconds it was built and a few confused marines stood in front of me, this is not cargo bay they thought. Money was short, those HA/Welders/Jetpacks werent cheap, especially the way marines were dropping at cargo bay, but slowly we got the TF up, upgraded an the sieges began appearing, we had no money for normal defences it was just us. We built up two sieges but didnt finish them so we could complete them simultaniously, suddenly a stray skulk rushed around the corner, probably trying to get to the front line before evolving, startled I killed it quickly with my LMG, but our cover was blown. We finished the two sieges and prepared for the worst... Just then cargo bay fell. We had to destroy this hive before they could build a new one in cargo bay but unfortunately our sieges targeted the Offence chambers first, I heard the roar of an Onos in the distance. We held valiantly but soon an onos came charging down the corridor, our LMGs bouncing of its hard carapace, our secret base was lost. I spawned back into our base, greeted by the gentle splash of acid on my face, again I heard the mighty roar of an onos, all was lost.
Sure we lost, but it was a great battle and our commander was one of the best. If only he had heard my cries before our hive was lost.
Oh this was on a 1.03 beta and it was quite good.