Atomic Playboy

I’ve joined the Marines. Sort of. I’m playing America’s Army, a free game by (have you guessed it?) America’s military. Quite good, actually. The basic gameplay is like Counter-Strike, only with more mature players that don’t cheat. And with more tactics (should you choose to use them).

Tonight I had the luck to end up on a team with two other players who like to play it tactical, and we rocked on for several hours. The map we played was a snowy mountain with limited vision, where the assault team is to reach a convoy and the defense team is to, well, stop us from reaching the convoy.

Trouble is, most players get bored just standing still waiting for the attackers to arrive, so at least half of them run off on their own, resulting in them bumping into our fire-team sooner or later and getting picked off one by one. The first turn we simply snuck around the central peak and onward to the convoy.

The defense team managed to get their act together and actually defending after a few more turns, and then we were pretty even. There are many ledges they can wait for us on.

Need to practise my M203 skills, though. Hard to lob 40mm grenades in the fog.

Anyway, I had a great time with those other two players. Much fun ensued. Will definetly be playing more.