hey ppls sup?

 ME and acouple guys are from iowa and going down to d day and we were wondering wut its like can aneyone tells us wut were are getting our selves into? were takeing the beach if that matters any this is our 1 year so tells us some stuff plz thanks

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bigballer89 wrote: were takeing the beach if that matters any this is our 1 year so tells us some stuff plz thanks

 it was fun shutin at you

i was atlantic wall

 The reason the germans lost was because we are out numbered hardcore year after year...being an allie is cheap....i think it is cooler to hold a base with 7 guys then to take a base with 300...if you can defend with a couple...thats impressive...i did rekon work with the germans...it was cool..

Elliott(tt)

I was in the 82nd and we ran orientation. i can tell you that the sides were even this year. I have seen the numbers myself.

the germans were routed in every objective, i watched it happen. St. Lo was given to the germans not because we abandoned it, but because of a sneaky move by 1 german sniper who took out Gen. Psycho just as he was hitting the pyro. (on a side note: St. Lo was taken by the 82nd Airborne in less than 18 minutes because the Germans left it to go to the wall, I saw them leave.)

The number one reason why the germans lost this year and last year was organization. The Allies spent all week running through meetings to go over battle plans and effectively communicated the plans to their lower ranked officers, Lt., Sergeants, ect. We knew how to work in groups and maintain communications with our Generals in the field.

The bunker staff did everything they could to make the game run smoothly, there was some confusions with rules and such, but it was all individual refs who caused the problems. (Such as letting the Germans reinsert 10 minutes before the Allies outside St. Lo)

I had a good time, and will most definately go back again. (And it was one of the best night games i've been in.)

Hey guys!!!

I was on the wall shooting at most of you..

I tried to keep the over shooting in our general area to a minimum because we wanted to conserve air and paint. But yeah the shooting on the left and right of us was rather intense.

We definately had more guys on the wall this year. Last year we had maybe half the number there.

Cheating by some german's on the wall??? I'm not going to argue that.. I'm sure there were some german's that didn't like the idea of being out numbered from the get go. I think there were about 400 germans on the wall against the 1000 in the 1st Infantry. And I think my numbers for both sides are a little high.

Cheating by allies on the wall??? Yeah I did see that... There were a lot of shooting by allies when a barrel tag would have been enough. I still can't believe it when I got a 1st inthe trench from about 15 feet away and he *****ed a ref out to yank me for being so "close" .... I pointed out to him that I pulled the trigger on him because I already had him covered and was about to tell him to surrender when he decided to try to draw a bead on me. Looked like he was going to try to shoot me as well.

And then I saw allies leaving boat 4 and going all the way around our right flank so they could get behind us when they were supposed to go over the fence .... Looks like someone forgot the rules ...

Honestly I really don't care.  We lost, big deal ... I think we're supposed to loose anyway.  All that matters is that I had fun.  It's a shame that there had to be cheating on both sides.  But I'm just not a sore loser.  Our team is going to be in an APG article, as well as the German issue of Playboy.... 

The report said that he thought it was funny that American's would be playing German's.  Our reply was that someone had to do it. 

But yeah at the beginning when we saw you guy running right from boat one to boat two, our team knew right off the bat what you were trying to do. Get all the boats filled and unloading at the same time to give us to many targets to shoot ...... It was at that point we decided to shot in an attempt to intimidate you guys. I guess I am guilty of shooting people that were already shot by others because there were always 5 to 10 people shooting at the same person. But I wasn't lighting people up .... I was shooting a Phantom ....

After it stopped raining I went in to base to dry out and change cloths and socks ... went back out with my A-5 .... We worked Alpha Base and at the end made a pointless attack on the wall just to have some fun.

The german's lack command?? The guy that threw his sword was just as responsible as all the other CO's for not getting the German's organized. The German's also lacked the experienced scenario players. All the experienced players like to be on the american's side ... nothing wrong with that ... just means that the German's are made up of the few experienced players that love being the underdog (like me), or the later registrators that can't get on the American side because your ranks are filled, or the people that register the week of the event.

The time spent organizing anything on the German side just did not exist. I think they had one meeting and that was the night before at like 11:30pm.

My hats off to the allies. I hope that we in the bunker at least gave you a harder fight than you expected. I thought it was funny after the game was over we were looking at our bunker and this kid walked by and said it was stupid and how they took it in 15 minutes.

Funny ..... At 11:15 we still had guys in it shooting people that tried to storm in ..... At 11:00 I was in the trench outside it with 5 other guys taking out a few pushes by the allies to take it and give the three remaining guys inside a chance to take a breather ...

15 minutes I guess really depends on your point of veiw. The bunker forced your CO to change his tactics day of the event ... words right from his mouth when he visited our campsite that night.

Dwayne has already given us permission to build two more ...... We might be able to hold you to 1PM after that.

Now all we have to do is get the Germans organized .... Looks like my hobby for the next year is set in stone.

Yeah the Ref's were telling the three of us as we walked off the field that saw truck loads of German's coming off the field just before the rain stopped and made no attempt to get back out there.

After we got shot out after the rain we went to our camp site, changed our cloths and ate ....  I think we were out for only 40 minutes and by then while we were walking back out we saw nothing but German's walking off saying "Don't bother it isn't even fair".

We were like "Who the hell cares, we want to shoot someone!!"

Hence the difference in mentality for the German side.  There were some serious scenario players like us, but mostly the hoag poag grouping of late registers with no team work or command structure set up.

We tried to rally some of them as we walked back out but had no luck.

it's not about pre-registrations and walk-ons that make the difference. it's outright recruiting. the 82nd filled up so fast because they did a great job recruiting players they knew to be hard-core that wouldn't leave the field.

i was in Fox Company of the 82nd and we stood in the woods outside St. Lo for 2 hours not firing a shot because our orders were to hold. We were all tired, soaking wet, and some of us had guns that were fried, but we did what we were supposed to do. I didn't see one player from the 82nd leave the field until game was called at 4:00 because there were no germans left.

we have some of the 82nd changing sides next year just so they can show the german command how to run their game.

if you want to talk about meetings for planning, the allies had at least 2 meetings per day to go over changes and tactics, not to mention the British leaders invited the allied command staff to high tea so we could all get to know each other.

you can talk about being outnumbered all you want, but i can tell you the sides were even. i myself worked orientation and saw the numbers for both sides. the numbers were equal. we just used our numbers more effectively.

i have seen the numbers because we had excel printouts of every registered player with name, number and unit. the allies were keeping track of every player that went through orientation by marking their hopper cover before they could recieve one.

general psycho of the 82nd took great care to recruit teams and players from all over that he knew to be full-out hardcore. i was tired because the 82nd had no transports to the field. we marched in from the main stage and then assaulted St. Lo through the woods. i was fine until the rain started coming down and then i just wished you guys would attack so i could do something. but i knew my job was to hold the woods south of st. lo and that's what i did. in my company, we had no one desert their post because they wanted to get in some action. we all knew there would be plenty of action before the day was out.

and i bet i know who said that, because one of the allied commanders said the same thing, but he said he wanted to switch sides to make things more fair because the german commanders don't know what they were doing. 

you can grip all you want, but the allies were far more prepared and better equipped. they is why we won this year.

Looks like Dwayne is going to try to buy some more land to make another town that the 82nd and 101st have to take.

I think this land is out past FBC.

The only thing that needs to happen is some organization should be done on the German side. We had a field day kicking the crap out of the 1st division on the wall. Even though we lost, I think every German on the wall had a good time. We cycled people though the new bunker and kept it well stocked with fresh bodies and ammo. The damn people just didn't come back when they died or didn't come back after the rain.

BTW, the allies didn't get any bangalores set until over an hour after the start of the game. I was on top of the the new bunker had the firing sector from boat three to boat four. I killed everyone with my mag (it helped having over 1500 rounds on me). When the ramp would fall, the peeps would walk out into my stream of fire. I couldn't stop giggling. Slasherdan had the firing sector from boat two to boat three. It was utter carnage.

I think Dewayne is doing it right by trying to follow some historical tracks. 34000 Americans attacked 6000 Germans at Omaha. We held this year - nearly down to the wire. I was one of the final guys that was rooted out of the trenches by the first 88. That happened at 11:30. We lost the wall by 10:30 last year.

I will be back next year. And trust me - It will be a different story.

Elliotttt wrote:  The reason the germans lost was because we are out numbered hardcore year after year...being an allie is cheap....i think it is cooler to hold a base with 7 guys then to take a base with 300...if you can defend with a couple...thats impressive...i did rekon work with the germans...it was cool.. Elliott(tt)

wussy that wut all the germans say year after year but u kno when we got beat we didnt hey we were outnumbered and such wussy i was apart of the canadian and we only had 20 players tops in our unit and the british who we played with also only had only like 25 players yet we still kut u guys in half with only 10 men so dont say that it was because u were outnumbered dip shi*

Glurk wrote: I think things will evan out on the wall when slasherdan builds those two new bunkers P.S. make one on the right side to stop the rangers

We have plans to build two additional bunkers. I won't say where yet as we will be making a special trip out there to talk to Dewayne.

Don't worry about the Rangers next year. We will have a plan for them.

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hey ur a good sport slasher dan and thos three guys in that pic are all comonwealth the one on the far right was my comander its funny how the common wealth only had like 45 guys but at least ur one of the few germans that are a good sport

cowboy423 wrote: hey ur a good sport slasher dan and thos three guys in that pic are all comonwealth the one on the far right was my comander its funny how the common wealth only had like 45 guys but at least ur one of the few germans that are a good sport

That is me on the far right (SlasherDan is in the middle and Buckshot is on the left). Everyone on our team is good sports. We prefer to review what happened and adjust our game plan for the next battle. Building more bunkers is just one step.

Yeah Buckshot was really the one behind building that bunker.  He got a substantial reward at the reward show after the game.  If he gets more shells for the M79 they gave him then I'm going to feel really sorry for the shoe that assaults him next year!!!!

Either way ...  I think if we make one bunker right, then we'll hold the wall all day.  The second bunker will then just be eye candy ... But then again Steel is a pretty good commander ... he'll most likely come up with a plan that will eventually take them .... but as long as we hold till 1pm ... who cares???

cowboy423 wrote: hey ur a good sport slasher dan and thos three guys in that pic are all comonwealth the one on the far right was my comander its funny how the common wealth only had like 45 guys but at least ur one of the few germans that are a good sport

Like Sparticus said .... we're good sports ... don't believe in over shooting but understand that it happens from time to time.  And even we're guilty of it when we're shooting at each other. 

Granted Sparticus lies and says it was a mistake now and again.

We figure the harder we make it for you the more you get out of the experience.  With a decent commander, and the 1st ID HAS a very good commander, you'll still take the wall no matter what.  We just want to delay the inevitable.  After all the Germans DID loose the wall.

I'm still earger to see what they say about is in the German Playboy and APG.

D-Day disaster.  This was my 1st year and my last year.  We were told to be there at 7:30 in the morning to load up on the bus.  It was around 10:15am before we hit the field.  Almost 3 hours of standing around looking at each other.  By the time we reached the field Charlie Base was already in Allied hands.  They dropped us off approximately 1 mile past Charlie Base.  We went for a nature walk to Charlie Base, up and down the revines and hills.  By the time we got to the base, a good portion of the squat was already spent.  There was no action at Charlie Base and they knew it when they dropped us off in the woods.  They could have just dropped us at the base.  With less than 1/2 squad force, we snuck around through the woods to the air base, got some good angels on some Germans.  We started eliminating Germans real well.  The quality ref insisted that we come out of our cover and talk to him about what dead zone we came from.  While being out in the open informing the ref that we had legitimate play, we were shot out.  The good ref told us we were out cause we were shot - because he pulled us out in the open.  Went to the Tippmann trailer, had a new valve put in my 98 custom.  I went to chrono it, because I didn't know how hot it was shooting.  The refs informed me that I could not use the chrono until the night game, but if I wanted to play speedball with the same marker, I could.  I chrono'ed it for the night game and found the marker was shooting 360.  Maybe I should have used it for speedball.   The night game, a couple of the A5 Owner's group members were kicked out for using a spotlight.  When head ref was confronted the next day, he said that spotlights were allowed and they should not have been kicked out.  Somebody needs to get their act together.  It's a good game if you live about an hour from it.  Anymore than that, it's a waste of time and money.

OSOK

Spartacus wrote: cowboy423 wrote: hey ur a good sport slasher dan and thos three guys in that pic are all comonwealth the one on the far right was my comander its funny how the common wealth only had like 45 guys but at least ur one of the few germans that are a good sport That is me on the far right (SlasherDan is in the middle and Buckshot is on the left). Everyone on our team is good sports. We prefer to review what happened and adjust our game plan for the next battle. Building more bunkers is just one step.

ok if that really is u then wut is ur name and ur nik name and the nik names of seth and dave

Spartacus wrote: cowboy423 wrote: hey ur a good sport slasher dan and thos three guys in that pic are all comonwealth the one on the far right was my comander its funny how the common wealth only had like 45 guys but at least ur one of the few germans that are a good sport That is me on the far right (SlasherDan is in the middle and Buckshot is on the left). Everyone on our team is good sports. We prefer to review what happened and adjust our game plan for the next battle. Building more bunkers is just one step.

and plaus ALL of those guys where on the allied so y are u talkin as if they were german they were all comonwealth/canadian

cowboy423 wrote: and plaus ALL of those guys where on the allied so y are u talkin as if they were german they were all comonwealth/canadian

Ahhh ....  The three guys in the picture were on the German side.  That's me in the center, Buckshot on the left and Sparticus on the right.  We were looking at our bunker after the game ended and took a picture.

Honestly I have no idea why we were being mistaken for Commomwealth and allies in this post.  All I've done was talk about building more bunkers ..... that should have been a good enough indication as to which side we fought on. 

Plus if you look at my hopper in the center of the picture you'll see that I had a Red badge, plus if you look at Sparticus's left arm you will see a Red arm badge ....  Hence German all around.

slasherdan wrote: cowboy423 wrote: and plaus ALL of those guys where on the allied so y are u talkin as if they were german they were all comonwealth/canadian Ahhh ....  The three guys in the picture were on the German side.  That's me in the center, Buckshot on the left and Sparticus on the right.  We were looking at our bunker after the game ended and took a picture. Honestly I have no idea why we were being mistaken for Commomwealth and allies in this post.  All I've done was talk about building more bunkers ..... that should have been a good enough indication as to which side we fought on.  Plus if you look at my hopper in the center of the picture you'll see that I had a Red badge, plus if you look at Sparticus's left arm you will see a Red arm badge ....  Hence German all around.

Ugh...he can't even look at the picture and figure out that we were on the German side. Shesh...

Here is something you could do as well cowboy. Go to the forums on oklahomadday.com and search for our team there. Better yet, just look for posts by Shadow...

I think I need to rate you a #1 Anal Sphincter.

o.s.o.k. wrote: D-Day disaster.  This was my 1st year and my last year.  We were told to be there at 7:30 in the morning to load up on the bus.  It was around 10:15am before we hit the field.  Almost 3 hours of standing around looking at each other.  By the time we reached the field Charlie Base was already in Allied hands.  They dropped us off approximately 1 mile past Charlie Base.  We went for a nature walk to Charlie Base, up and down the revines and hills.  By the time we got to the base, a good portion of the squat was already spent.  There was no action at Charlie Base and they knew it when they dropped us off in the woods.  They could have just dropped us at the base.  With less than 1/2 squad force, we snuck around through the woods to the air base, got some good angels on some Germans.

OSOK - sorry to hear that you didn't have a good time. DDay is really a week long event. If you can make it earlier and do the mini-senarios and speedball games, you would have a great time.

If you join us on the wall next year, you will have a blast.