2-16-07
The Film: wightblast_RiP_sweet_2-16-07.zip
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It was an awesome frumious wightblast maneuver. Awesome because of my team mate and long-time Myth pal Tai's responsiveness to orders, awesome because we won despite being completely pushed out of position and despite the confusion I went through not knowing where my mates were, and awesome because ingenuity and downright frumiousness carried the day.
This was a game that actually literally got my heart thumping. First time in ages that Myth has done that. I always feel as if I gotta perform or something now when it's bacon, especially when I have team mates I don't want to let down. Some people decry the maneuver, and some applaud. I love it. A part of me always feels guilty when I do it, yet I am driven to. And some people dig it. So I do it for myself, and for them.
When the game opened and I found my team in the northeast corner with the three ponds (see below), I felt the planets align and the sky open up, and a message came to me from The Fallen Lords (or someone), "Thou shalt do the frumious wightblast!" So you see, sometimes I have no choice. Ok, I was going to do it.
I circled the pond we'd use near our NE start. Tai (Rancarous Rat) would bring it back and stick it there, where my three wights waited in the depths.
Tai managed to get the ball and stash it in the SW pond of the 3 ponds in NE corner of RiP (see above). I had three wights sitting in there. We were all set, and no one could guess that we'd blast the ball with wights! Riiiighht...
Doh! How'd they know? T o x y n warns his team mates of danger, while I lay out the basic idea to mine (keel things, then get where I can blast the ball to you).
By about mid-game enemies had totally overrun our position, pushing us westward away from our pond. Between our main force and the pond was a swarm of enemies in pitched battle. With about 1:30 or 2:00 min left it looked like the east side of our pond would be the most open and I asked Tai if he could maneuver the FG over to the weird heel-shaped hill next to that pond (see below). I wanted to use my 3 wights to blast it up to him. 3 would've blasted it far enough, I reckoned.
That hill looked like the best place to send the ball since no one would expect it to go there and only Forest Giants could climb it . I asked Tai to head up there with the FG. I figured my three wights would be able to send the ball up there from the pond.
Toward the end of the game it was hard keeping track of where Tai and Hunter were. It's crucial to know where my team's units are at the end for the maneuver to work -- for that's when I have to blast it to some of our guys someplace out of the reach of other teams.
In the final 40 or so secs I couldn't be sure where Tai was, and the ball wasn't ours. I needed to blast that ball over to a unit of ours, but I couldn't find Tai or Hunter nearby as I watched for openings around the pond. I'd planned to use all three wights to blast it to Tai on the hill, but I wasn't sure where he was and I felt I needed to get a unit into position to receive the ball myself. I only had the 3 wights left, so I broke one wight off the formation with the idea that it would surface on the far side of the pond and I could blast the ball over to it with the remaining 2 wights.
In the heat of it all I still hadn't seen that Tai was indeed at the exact spot to which I'd asked him to go, so I was planning to use my own wight to tag after I blasted the ball. Deftly I maneuvered a lone wight to the east side of the pond, while placing the other two beneath the ball in order to send it to my lone wight. As time ran out, I detonated the two wights beneath the ball, sending it flying over to the airspace above my wight, making it ours. It was then that I saw Tai's FG coming down the hill to support, from right where I'd asked him to be. Sudden Death ran out and it was ours.
Another glorious frumious wightblast. I highly recommend them. Here's the Film: wightblast_RiP_sweet_2-16-07.zip
If I'd been more aware, I would have seen Tai up there and used the 3 wights to blast it right to him as planned. But the excitement narrowed my vision. I'm used to doing it on my own, and not being certain of my team mate's whereabouts I felt I had to do it on my own. Thus I split my 3 wights and blasted with two while tagging w/ the third.
It was awesome.The Film: wightblast_RiP_sweet_2-16-07.zip
Wightblast Film Pack.
This is a group of over 20 films illustrating the Frumious Wightblast employed on various maps, dating back to 2000. Prior films were lost in a hard drive crash. For a few of the films you will need the Magma TFL Multipack from Projectmagma.net (for RiP) and Baron's Backyard.
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