A short war story from last night

gonnagetyou · 2003-08-22, 05:11 PM

Had a fun little battle on Amerish/Markov. I like a good war story and so I thaught I'd write this one and see if anyone had one they would like to relate.

A couple of NC came thru the Solsar Warpgate and took the gate tower and then the Southern Verica Amp Station tower. I was practically alone in my Lightning on the continent and decided to intercept these guys. I was north of the Solsar gate when they came thru in their Enforcer and as soon as they took the first tower I basically drove behind them and retook it after they drove off.

After retaking the gate tower I drove down to Verica and got there just as they took the southern Verica tower. I figured they would try to hack Verica next and so I got ready for them. There were still plenty of mines and spitefires laying around from a previous battle so I didn't have to spend any time setting up deployables.

I grabbed my Reinforced/Thumper/Decimator outfit and just as I came out of the building I heard the NE auto turret go off and so I figured they were going for the back door on the north side of the base.

I ran up on the North wall and noticed they had parked the Enforcer just over the hill. Mr. Sniper and Mr. Jackhammer (that's my names for them) don't notice me hiding behind the turret and they proceed to snipe the spitefires and throw jammer grenades at the mines.

Jumping down off the wall, neither one of them notices me until I start dropping plasma grenades on top of Mr. Jackhammer up on the hill. Both of them scream like little girls (at least that's how I remember it

) and make a run for the Enforcer.

They come carging over the hill firing rockets just as I'm trying to flank them and I dive behind the biggest tree I can get to.

Some VS cloaker named Gost must have been away from his computer and he just happened to be standing next to the tree I took cover behind. One of the Enforcer rockets just happened to nail him and not me and he drops dead. The guys in the Enforcer must of thought they had got me, because they stopped right on top of the hill.

I whip out my Decimator and put a rocket into their side. They get scared and run off for a moment.

I take this opportunity to run down and replace some of the mines that were destroyed and go back to an equipment terminal to restock my ammunition.

I run back up to the north wall and low and behold Mr. Sniper and Mr. Jackhammer have parked on the hill again and are starting to work their way down to the back door. I have a nice clean view of the Enforcer and so I crouch on the wall and put 3 Decimator rounds directly into its side. Mr. Sniper and Mr. Jackhammer can't do anything but watch their precious Enforcer explode.

I figure both of them are pissed off at the moment and so I allow them to get to the rear door.

Now normally I wouldn't want to try and face off 1/1 against someone wielding a Jackhammer within the confines of a base, but Amp Stations are one of the easiest bases to defend if the enemy tries coming up through the back door. They have to work themselves up to the ground floor entrance before they can get to
the CC. This room has a balcony that wraps all the way around the walls and you can sit up there and blast anyone on the ground floor fairly easily as long as their isn't a full squad charging up the stairs after you.

There's only two doors leading into the ground floor and I had motion sensors set up that let me know which of the two they were going to use.

I just happened to be on the ground floor when the door on the east side opens and I see both of them grouped together in the door way. I let loose with two plasma grenades and they both dive back thru the door out of my sight.

I run up on the balcony, take a knee and set my Thumper to alt fire, so I can bounce the grenades across the room if I need to. Just as I aim in on the door it opens up and Mr. Jackhammer comes out shooting and spraying shot gun pellets all over the balcony. He dives behind one of the walls in front of an equipment terminal to take cover and I start bouncing grenades in after him. I put two grenades behind the wall on the left side and then drop a third off to the right side of the wall. The third one nails him and he goes down. Luckily a friendly hacker had just taken the South Tower and so he had nowhere to spawn but back home in the Sanc.

Mr. Sniper is still behind the door in the hallway and all by himself now. After a tense moment of silence I see the door open again and he leans out and puts a bolt right over my head. I bounce 3 grenades into the doorway before it closes and Mr. Sniper goes down extra crispy and joins his buddy back home.

I love little fights like this. They get so personal and exciting. Just goes to show you don't have to follow the zerg to have fun sometimes.

Hellblazer · 2003-08-22, 05:24 PM

This is how i experienced the little story:

Had a fun little battle on Amerish/Markov.....bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla.....I love little fights like this. They get so personal and exciting. Just goes to show you don't have to follow the zerg to have fun sometimes.

no offence, but i'm a little tired.

When i'm tired i start to annoy people. (family thing)

gonnagetyou · 2003-08-22, 05:36 PM

Then why even post? Get some sleep. Jesh!

Lonehunter · 2003-08-22, 05:48 PM

Ok, here's a story for'ya. One night my squad was on Amerish, we where the first ones there so no enemies or friendlies where near by. My squad was prepping a base for capture (setting up mines, blowing turrets etc.) Then the SL said, you 2 go take that tower. Me and one guy go to the tower. ONE VS there. He's on the roof with a Deci and a Bolt driver. He pics off my friend, then takes me down to 10% health. I make it up to the door and he finishes me off. We kept on assualting this guy for about 20 minutes. We kept telling the SL we needed more help, but noooo. We tried taking him on at different angles, flanking, flying over and dropping. None of it worked, this guy was like the Rambo of Planetside. We where getting pissed. So finally we manage to get inside and to the CC. I'm hacking, the guy respawns, comes back up the stairwell, kills my friend. I stop the hack, we dance around firing at each other. Me = Rocklet Rifle, Him = Pulsar. Then we both run out of ammo. We both stop, he pulls out his knife, I pull out mine. I start my chainblade, he starts his light saber. We jump around knifing, healing, knifing healing. I hit him about 4 times so must have had a couple med packs, I had all ready used 2. My health was at 15%, one hit would kill me. He charges and I strafe, BAM! I stab him and he goes down. I tell my friend to camp the tubes as I hack. The VS get's killed as he respawns, we get the hack. We sent each other /tells complementing each other on our performance. He put up a helluva fight, and I showed my hell-a-kinfe skills.

Edit: This happened about a week ago, I forgot all about it

dscytherulez · 2003-08-22, 05:59 PM

Interesting story, but i must say i think you have WAYYYY to much time on your hands! lol

Lonehunter · 2003-08-22, 06:27 PM

That's the only real knife fight I've been in. I've had outfit knife fights, ran up to a guy firing a JH hopeing I can kill him with my knife, etc. But this was the first one-on-one strait up knife fight I've had. I guess all those deathmatches with my outfit paid off

WritheNC · 2003-08-22, 06:39 PM

I have a story about a guy named Writhe who visited some PS boards. He always wondered why people called "Spitfire Turrets" "Spitefires"

I'm not attacking your grammar, just seems like some sort of strange epidemic.

gonnagetyou · 2003-08-22, 06:41 PM

Nice one Lonehunter.

I've never actually had a knife fight yet. Sounds like you had your hands full.

I like reading war stories because I usually learn something from them and I get all sorts of ideas running thru my head. I'm a designer/model maker by trade and it's just in my nature to be thinking up stuff to do.

Lonehunter · 2003-08-22, 07:21 PM

Originally posted by gonnagetyou
Nice one Lonehunter. I've never actually had a knife fight yet. Sounds like you had your hands full.

I like reading war stories because I usually learn something from them and I get all sorts of ideas running thru my head. I'm a designer/model maker by trade and it's just in my nature to be thinking up stuff to do.

Thank you. I could practically feel the adrenaline rushing through me, I was on the edge of my seat. It was an awsome fight. It get's cooler and cooler every time I think about it.

Originally posted by Lonehunter187
...Then we both run out of ammo. We both stop, he pulls out his knife, I pull out mine. I start my chainblade, he starts his light saber...

Awsome

Sentrosi · 2003-08-22, 08:08 PM

You can always post your war stories over on AGN too.

Eliaas_Demens · 2003-08-22, 09:04 PM

Only knife fights I've been in consisted of me knifing some unsuspecting bastard as he treks across the bottom of a river.

sniper4evr26 · 2003-08-22, 09:58 PM

ive been in a strange knife fight. i was playing as nc, i had hacked a magmower and had to go all the way back to the base we were fighting for to get my repair thing to fix it, and when i get back theres a guy standing there looking at it. im in agile armor and even with a repair tool i have a gauss in my inentory. so i switch it out, and after about a 5 second battle i need to reload, but he has a lasher (and was a very bad shot i might add) but i was low on health and had nothing else to do so i went underwater as i was close to a beach or lake or something. he starts shooting the water but the bullets stop pretty fast in the water. so he comes underwater, still trying to shoot his lasher, but once he figures it out he pulls out a knife and we start stabbing and healing and all that stuff.

by now of course i have reloaded so i flank him and pull out my gun. he comes out of the water with his knife still in hand, so i blast him with my gauss. after a few hits i have already flanked him and am back in the water by the time he is just pulling out his lasher and in his confusion statrs shooting the water again. so then were both underwater knife fighting again and about here i killed him. and somehow in all of this my stolen magmower was destroyed and it all ended as a completely pointless battle but it was pretty funny. but i dont know if u dont think its funny i guess u had to have been there cuz it was absolutely hilarious i was laughing for minutes at this guy..... anyway this was a while back so i dont know if its completely accurate but its pretty close

MrCovertMan · 2003-08-22, 10:08 PM

heres a story
I had my agile sniper favorite loaded up I had insta actioned from the sanc after picking up my med cert and adjusting my favorites accordingly (I'm TR)
I spawned in a tower north of honsi were it seemed we were defending from the NC
I ran to the roof to find a fellow sniper dueling with a few NC snipers by openning the door and shooting and running inside, he got hit when i got there and was reloading and hoping for the best cause it looked like he had no medkits. I pulled out my medkit and proceeded to heal him and we both began a sniper battle with the NC snipers in the hills. we both took our share of hits and i kept healing but armor was pretty low. Then another TR sniper comes up stairs and this guy was an engineer! so now we had some1 to keep up health and armor. Needless to say we pwned the NC snipers. even when the 1st guy shot a NC and then i shot a split second later nabbing the kill I didn't get an angry tell complaining bout "kill stealing" I got a "nice shot"
kinda restored alittle of my faultering faith in planetside
course once the NC gave up on sniping i ran down and grapped my "grunt" favorite and ran outside weilding my cycler only to go linkdead running to help defend honsi
course when i came back Honsi was still the friendly shade of red and i was pretty pleased

Ravenblade · 2003-08-22, 11:20 PM

My only real knife fight happened when i was a VS sniper in agile. I climbed a hill to get a good sniping spot and when i got to the top there was a TR guy standing there in Reinforced. I had a sniper rifle and had already used because i thought i had seen an invisible guy. All of a sudden he whips out his knife. THis was strange. I figured he would've had something effective at close range, but, not one to be ungrateful for someone elses stupidity, i whipped out my knife too. We started circling, and, because i was in agile and he was in reinforced, i was faster, so i would just circled around him, darted in and stabbed him. He never hit me once. After i killed him, i made myself comfortable at my new sniping position. Just as i was aiming at some poor defenseless guy, that invisisble i thought i had seen before came up behind me and massacred me with his AMP. I hate AMPs.

Flammey · 2003-08-23, 12:09 AM

I've been in a few knife fights. My favorate was underwater against an NC infiltrator. He couldn't see a thing, except my glowworm knife. Me I had Darklight, and I could see him perfectly. He still killed me, but it was a good fight. He died too, cause he ran out of air.

Flammey - Emerald