Shatnerball report!

[Gunga]

The Collective was so vicious that we even assimilated Hello Kitty!

[magman007]

i think spreyingmango is the olny onw who actually fills the jersey with the little pectorals drawn in and such!

[Blennidae]

Looks like it was a great time. Playing in the town looks like it would be a real blast.

One question, how do you score an elimination on a tank?

[magman007]

HAHA i think employee parking is in bedlam! hahaha that would be funny,


yea how do you eliminate a tank, dont you have to "shoot it" with a prop?

[Rusty]

Borg Tank was kept at bay

Yes it was a good time for the ground pounders. Being a tank I had to stick to trails. Which when the game started I followed the borg out. They mostly turned and went up through the woods twords temple of doom and the city. I had to stay on the trail trying to find away up to support the troops. I found out later that the borg never were given a base. So I had to drag this cannon on the back most of my first insertion. Well the further I got the more red shirts thier were. The flag stations that were off the trail did not have tank paths to them so they were out for me. I could launch paint into them and the fed would just duck and waite for me to stop. I knew thier was an anti tanker somewhere out thier. And after I crossed the second bridge going twords fort courage I found him. I seen the long tube he was keeping slung low untill he go I clear shot. I spun the turret to the right side about the same time he started to bring the law up to bear. I got off aboput 10 rounds trying to find range when I seen the little orange rocket comming down the flight path. Well time to take the tank back and try again.good shot from the anti tanker. I still had know idea where I was on the map or where the Borg had gone to. I soon found out that that trail was the only place the Borg tank could insert. That was a major drag for me. Everybody else had a nice wide gravel rode to get to thier base. The most fun I had is when Tom told me to try and get in the back of Armagedon and I did with the help of some refs who wanted to see the fire fight. We got the tank in and a photo guy hopped in to ride with.
We went through Arma.. and thier wasthe hill in front of us between the two areas. I told him to hang on and we climbed to the top. Thats where the feds found out I was borg and the started to scramble. I drove right down into the square and started shooting everything that was red. The ref said I cleared out about 8 or 9 guys before the refs pulled me out. I found out later that I could not be in thier with the tank. So that left me with that dam bummpy trail down past the shooting range again.
in short it was a rough day for thew Borg tanker because I was very limited where I could go. No armagedon.no bedlam, the bridge was to small to go by fort courage from the Borg start point and I was also told I could not drive on the road with the tank because I did not have a cloaking device? So I parked it and brung out the cannon. I got into some trouble with that also. Not for velocity just that they tought I was shooting at people. But if the refs did a better job on that end the people should not have been allowed to stand right by the tank I was shooting at. So I parked that one too after that. AS a player I would of had alot more fun. It sure looked like they enjoyed it a whole lot. But it was a rough day for the tanker. So I sold it to Tactical gear out of California. You will see it in more scenario games next year. I wish him luck with it. And once my wife gets here hard would floor in the next tank plans will be sprung on her. See you next time

Jim Bergles
Body count goes to the Borg

[soulegend]

The way to get a tank out is to shoot a rocket at it with a LAW. A lot of people were using small Nerf footballs (2 inch across).
Shatnerball was great, but I still feel we got robbed.

[SaS]

didn't they also install cut-off switches for the tanks motor... with a SMALL hole in it so a paintball could take it out(with alot of paint, a good eye, and a lot of luck)

[Dayspring]

Hey Cap- where do you get all the cool stickers?

And TK- Are they doing this again? I wanna go next time!

Originally posted by Gunga
The Collective was so vicious that we even assimilated Hello Kitty!

[Havoc_online]

Hey Cap- where do you get all the cool stickers?

loadsm5 made it for her.

Are they doing this again? I wanna go next time!

Bill himself said that this would happen again next year, we'll see.....

[Drgnwyng]

yeah I want some cool stickers

[Automaggin]

Originally posted by Gunga
The Collective was so vicious that we even assimilated Hello Kitty!

wow who is she?

she looks as good as keely watson

tom i think she should be a AGD model

[Havoc_online]

she looks as good as keely watson

HA keely who!

tom i think she should be a AGD model

she is

[Dayspring]

I think you're JUST a little behind the times

Originally posted by Automaggin


wow who is she?

she looks as good as keely watson

tom i think she should be a AGD model

[Darkstorm]

Shatnerball Facts - Add to the List

The Texans have been swaping information because sometimes the best information about a scenario comes from the things you did NOT know. Here are some of the things I have heard.

First, The Texans thought you all were the best.

MrS. Shatner ROCKS....Here is a quote from Trips on Viper's board. "Mrs. Shatner had some serious game!!! Not afraid to get hit and was usually in the thick of the battle front lines. My hat was definately off to her."

Mrs. Shatner now has the informal nickname of E-Liz.

Again from Trips.."He [Shatner] played most of the game with a camera crew (3 cameras and the support crews) it was hard for him to sneak around at all. He did ditch the crew at one point which was very cool but also caused quite a comotion. They didn't get ditched anymore for the game."

[Darkstorm]

At the start, we had teams to hit the temple hard and push the train-side tape. We pushed the gullie right up to the back of what seemed to be a Borg/Klingon fight. We still did not have a medic (oops).

We quickly noticed that the speedball players would squeeze the bunker (Tree, rock, etc) in response to fire and leave themselves open to someone else from a different direction.

Also, the ref's were to use to speedball and on top of players positions instead of wandering. This gave away several hidden players.

Further early on, the Borg were spread out down trails every 20 yards. So effectively, you were fighting only two Borg at a time.

The early push through the woods left people holding a lot of ground without much action. During the initial reinsertions, the players would come at us in tight lines from one direction.

Another advantage came from people not use to elevation differences which got several people walking in the gullie wacked. Several "black shirts" gave away their positions when the bush around them was sprayed with paint, even when we could not see them.

Clay at one point held off 20-30 guys in the gullie by himself because they kept coming straight at him. No one got up and walked around his position to shoot him from the side or back. He sent several people back to reinsert.