Gulf Wars Fort Battle   5 comments

As mentioned, I marshaled Gulf Wars’s fort battle (because Dante’s right, it’s more fun to marshal those).  Luckily, Letia did fight it, so I’ve pulled her in for input:

Everyone was off safely towards home… except for a few stubborn slightly sunburnt crew.  We split up into two teams which were milling about a bit. Greylond was one of the heads of the team so I bounced up to him and asked if I could collect a crew to help take one of the sally ports.

(This is after the clever plan of climbing Indy to get over the wall turn into a bad plan….If they had only let me fight while siting in the window.. or if I had yelled single combat… but hey we got to climb the wall which is part of the fun right)

Where was I oh yes… So  Greylond though this was a good idea… so I gathered a group of people and drug them off with me… some of them listened… some were easily distracted. When the three people whom I thought were dead I realized were still alive and just shooting the shit by the castle wall (WTF people) I put on my big girl panties and realized I am really good at commanding and being loud if the people around me are being that dumb. I managed to rally the WTF crew of three with my other person and took the port. Really we could have taken the salley port much quicker if they had stayed with me.. gees. Unfortunatly I got killed as I was ralling them… fell over hey bails.. hold was called… I protested the hold “I am fine peeps can keep fighting” (shouldn’t have… sorry lady marshal I was fine and caught up in the moment…it is your field)

Round 2

Inside… tried to gather a crew. Poked around and asked a couple people… found a few. Others actually said no they want to fight… some of these were the WTF crew. Did they not realize I was planning to lead them to the fighting… WTF people… fine you go mingle in the big empty court yard (mingling is not fighting). My mini crew held the port and listened… no one wandered off to talk by the wall this time…. we held the port for most of the time J Success

Round 3

Rubber band guns this time outside again.

Started out by yelling I need 5 to rally on me.. and they came and were awesome and listened and it was good. I got legged but people still listened and we busted through the port in record time… I now know the Hole sounds too much like Hold and I will never yell that one again door gate much better words.

Round 4 White scarfs vs the world.

Now considering I was in a group with all kinds of Dons and such previously I figured why would folks listen to me… but they did. I guess they thought I was a Don of somesort because when you took all the  Dons and put them on one sside people refused to listen. They kinda looked at me like who do you think you are. Azriel Franchesca and I tried to form a killing cup or even just a line, but people would not press.. or stay still or listen.. WTF people. I thought you wanted to fight? It turns out if no one thinks that someone of authority is in the space then they will not listen to anyone at all. *sigh* (Even if they were listening to the same person the fight before)

And then the Q and A session:

Wistric: So, overall thoughts on what worked when commanding?
Letia: Being confident and pretending you have a plan… even if you like to really make up the plan on the fly… you need people to do that. Being enthusiastic about people to gather them.
W: What didn’t?
L: Asking instead of telling. Not being boisterous and energetic
W: Did anything work well when commanding people who didn’t know you?
L: It was actually easier to command people I didn’t know by announcing that I needed 5 then to go about asking individual. The reverse seemed true.. if I knew them they wanted to help out and be with me…. and if I just announced it seemed they were less likely to form up… Group psych gotta love it
W: Any opportunities you were able to take advantage of with your unit?
L: I was able to get through the doors.
W: How?
L: By concentrating the amount of people that were hitting a particular spot. When I was legged I was able to see and direct people to where they could be most useful.. instead of milling about hoping for an opertunity and kina stairing at folks
W: Any you weren’t able to?
L: We almost were not able to take the first door becuase partt of the group go destracted so we were 2 on 3 until the 3 came back
W: Why not?  What would help you to take advantage of them next time?
L: Being more aware if my group is actually dead or not… knowing who my people are, making sure they are activly taking part in the plan
W: Climbing Indy: What was the full plan?  Was this using him as a ladder?  And what happened when you got to the top of Mount Indy?
L: We jumped through the windows… hoping to cause chaos.. but mostly cause death..Oh well.. differant idea… nexttime we get lots of ladders and lots of jumpers… wait till people are destracted on all raid at the same time
W: Round 3: How did you get your troops through the sally port?
L: we mostly just made a space by hitting that spot until it was clear. By then there were enough people at the front and other sides that it was un guarded

Posted April 6, 2011 by wistric in Events

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