Aeon Amadi
Mannar Focused Warfare
Gallente Federation
1391
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Posted - 2013.05.27 00:47:00 -
[1] - Quote
I probably should be the last person telling an LAV Success Story considering how much I oppose them.
But, here we are. I spawned in on a Domination match and saw that we were winning - that's cool. I went over to the Objective in my Logistics fitting, thinking I could help out as a medic. Out of no-where there's this enemy LAV that storms in, trying to run people over and by the grace of Amarr did the right thing and jumped out to bring the fight mano y mano against...
Well, the better part of half the team.
He died and much to my surprise no-one destroyed the LAV, so I decided to hack it and see what kind of fitting he had on this precious Militia LAV that he was so quick to abandon. Standard free fitting. Somehow, I wasn't surprised.
So I took it for a little test drive to get over to the front-line since we had them Red-lined anyway.... And.... Then that poor bastard in his Dragonfly Assault Suit walked out into the middle of the road...
Needless to say he flopped over like a dead fish and I couldn't help but feel bad for him.
Then it happened again.
And again.
And again.
I couldn't grasp it, these guys were just pouring out of the wood-works and walking out into the open without a care in the world. Hell, one of them - in an Amarr Heavy Suit - tried to STRAFE out of the way!
That's when I noticed that there were not one, not two, but FOUR LAVS running around on my team! Doing the exact same hypocritical thing that I was doing!
End of the match we won almost undisputed with the only damage done to our MCC coming from theirs. Not even beneath 75% shields on ours. Eventually it seemed like they just gave up all hope.
End of the match, their #1 Player was a Sniper who went 5/0 and had 250 WP.
And after seeing this, I'm not so sure that Proto suits are preventing new players from joining. After experiencing it for myself, I know for a fact that I would much rather have some shoddy attempt at E-Bushido and bring the fight to the enemy head on. This entire match just left a bad taste in my mouth, I don't feel as though I deserved the kills that I made and I sure as hell don't feel I deserved to be on a winning team that was abusing the absolute **** out of this tactic.
But, ce la vie.
Edit: Oh, also, to whoever shot the Swarm Launchers at me.. I'm sure you spent a lot of ISK/SP on that gear you had, and I apologize for bailing out and killing you with the Assault Rifle when your only legitimate means of defense was a Submachine Gun. No sarcasm, no conceited tone, I genuinely apologize for that. You deserved that kill. |