Savage CTF Season 3 Reports

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UNR vs RSC   2828/34 vs 439/3

The Smelter

The last match for UNR in season 3 was against RSC….we expected a difficult match and they did their best to make it one!

RSC seemed to have 2 permanent defenders in Gib rideR & Rumpster. The rest seemed to go for attack!

On the other hand UNR went for Tasan in defence, Diabolic guarding our Quad corridor and JB midfield around our Rocket Launcher.

Within 2 minutes of ‘kick off’ Summoner took advantage of a Rune pick up in our base to attack from above…On being challenged he stepped back just as our Quad respwned (Lucky git!)…After making a mess of our defenders over the walls he made the first capture for RSC!

Both Summoner & POOPERMAN made countless attacks on our base with first the help of Askari, ONSLAUGHT and when he overflowed, Claymore.

Yakumo quickly made it one a piece but Summoner capped again!

UNR started to get worried as RSC had some good runes and they seemed to be capturing… After 13" Summoner made yet another capture to make it RSC 3 to UNR’s 6

Once UNR settled in and picked up a rune or two, Spawny, Luke and Yaku started to clock up the frags. Spawny deserves special mention for his high frag count (up there with Tas!). It was 30" before POOPERMAN managed to push past our defence and run off with our flag….

ADMIN-CHRONOS demo shows him hiding in the secret room where he hoped he was safe (he he). Suddenly the door opens and a quadded Yaku blows him away! Nice one Yaku.

If that wasn’t distressing enough for RSC Chrono, he watched Luke run the entire length of the level with 2% Health and capture!! How do you do it Luke??

It was a very good-natured game with banter between the clans despite the increasingly uneven score.

At full-time it was 33-3 to UNR..a very good result for us..

Respect to RSC for getting the highest captures against us in division 1.

Thanks to Chrono for his demo (he called it slaughter.zip)…check it out! And thanks to all the RSC guys for a well-played match :O)

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UNR vs UKF   3107/41 vs 102/0

Stronghold Opposition

Both teams decided on 2 permanent defenders for this level…

Tasan / Insomniak for UNR, Cham / Stormcrow defending UKF’s flag.

As usual Quad control was important, UNR had Diabolic permanently manning this vunrable position with Luke helping out with Quad attack when required. UKF on the other hand seemed to have 4 attackers, sometimes swamping midfield before their assault…

This was the job of Bats, GrimReefer, FaMiNe & TheRaven. Against all their best efforts, UKF failed to control the Quad and our defence stayed solid…

After 30" FaMiNe managed to kill Tasan (the only time he died!) with a quadded Rail, but Diabolic had followed him from the bridge... Before he could steal our flag & Tasans rune, he was blown away with a Rocket in the back :OP

Meanwhile our attack force of Spawny & Yakumo, with the help of Luke, were making regular captures.

The game was almost completely spoilt, especially in the open Bridge area, by very bad lag for the modemers. Despite this both teams struggled on and at full time UNR had made 41 captures…

Another good unselfish team effort with a very good score for UNR.

Thanks UKF for a well played game :O)

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UNR vs UC   292/1 vs 288/1

Mckinley Revival

It was time again for UNR to meet the much acclaimed Upset Chaps...

UC have a well earned reputation of being one of the best CTF clans in the UK, and they were determined to show UNR that they could beat us on this our second Savage meeting...

As the game started UC made a dash for the Techs but found UNR fighting for the same advantage...

[UNR]Rude grabbed the Quad and STR rune and we were off...

Within a minute [UNR]Yakumo made the first cap with an excellent dash out of the water. UC replied with Will Scarlet grabbing our flag but [UNR]Spawny beat him to his base. Both teams held on to the flags but the deadlock was swiftly broken....

UC attacked our base with Quadded BFG's and wiped out (UNR)Tasan, Inquisitor and Spawny....grabbing our STR rune and their flag!

With 7 minutes gone it was 1 All.

As UNR were re-grouping, UC_Middleman stole our flag but again, Spawny grabbed UC's...

The battle was now on to retrieve the flags, In midfield [UNR]Diabolic battled with Will & Yella for control of the BFG whist Yaku and Rude attacked UC's base...

UC_Rifleman & Aqua defended their base as strongly as Tas & Inqui did ours, whilst Middleman caused all sorts of havoc spraying rockets out of the Railgun window...

As the minutes rolled on it looked as tho it was going to stay at a One All draw so the teams turned their attention to the score difference....

There was hardly anything in it but as full time came UNR's frag power was just enough to win the day....292 - 288 !!

Despite the bad lag for some of the modem players this was an excellent match with some excellent ctf skills on display from amongst others Middleman. If you read UC's report they say 'one day they will bring us down'...In the mean time we happily play along side them on Barrysworld CTF the best of friends!

Thanks to Chrono for the demo & Insomniak for his behind the scenes bind work

Well done team! :O)

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UNR vs AbFab   550/2 vs 208/0

Outlands II

Outlands II imo is at best no improvement to the origional Outlands...one of my favourite maps. Abfab had the Lower end with UNR going Red....

In the first period of the game it became obvious Abfab were taking no chances...they seemed to fill their base and Flag tunnel with defenders making it almost impossible for UNR's attack force of Spawny and Yakumo to get near the flag. Alchy & OxygenE inparticularly did some excellent defence work with NC17 backing up whenever required.

[UNR]Rude was moved in from the Quad area to help out but the obstacle of {Abfab}Baal was always at the top of their tunnel making life very difficult...I must congratulate Rude on some excellent work with his Railgun!

Eventually after 15" of constant pressure Spawny, 'tooled up' with the Quad and the Auto Doc, made it to their flag and made a hasty exit, blowing away anybody in his path! This capture drew enough Abfab defenders away to enable Yakumo to make a very quick second capture...Well done dudes!

Meanwhile up the top end {Abfab}Pyro & Gemini were having a much more difficult time...

[UNR]Diabolic had control of the Rocket Launcher area most of the game and if anyone got past our defence had plenty of warning....much to Pyros annoyance. A lot of their attacks actually seemed to be respawns in our base

(UNR)Tasan & Inquisitor did their usual superb job in defence....awkward due the the respawn point in the tunnel entrance but Tasan didn't die once the whole game!

Well done UNR for not being content with a 0-0 stalemate but forcing a 2-0 victory....Everybody played really well both individually and as a team...

Abfab fought hard but our win was well deserved.

Thanks to Pyro/Klanwolf for the excellent server and Fluffy Rabbit for his Admin demo :O)

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UNR vs DS   2283/27 vs 197/0

The Smelter

All the guys were looking forward to this one....Tasan had missed the first game so this time he was out for Blood!

A new attack team was put up for this match as Yakumo had PC trouble and Rude missed the start......UNR's latest recruit Spawny was joined by Luke with JB backing up the attacks...

UNR got off to a flying start with Spawny capping in the first minute! Watching CHRONO's excellent demo both Spawny and Luke made some excellent flag runs in a very compact level....

An example of sheer determination is Luke, having lost the flag and Rune in the Lava, diving in to retrieve his goods but getting fried in the attempt....It would have been a 'cap of all time' if it had succeeded....what a hero!

Meanwhile Tasan was solid as a rock in defence (What's new I hear you say ;-) with some excellent team play between Insomniak and Diabolic....feeding rockets back from mid to keep Tas topped up through the Roof slot!

Unfortunately during the second half of the game the server lagged horribly and the modemers suffered badly...

This led to defence being almost impossible and both sides often losing their flags in the 5fps mayhem. DS's attack team of Little John & Nasser came within seconds of capping before Luke and JB rob the flag from under their noses!...Friar Tuck, Robin Hood, Azeem & Alan-a-D did everything they could to steal a cap from UNR but we were determined to keep a clean sheet and that we did......27 caps to 0.

I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Spawny on an excellent game and on joining our team.

Well done UNR on a well played victory and thanks to DS for putting up a tough frantic fight.

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UNR vs TJD   2691/34 vs 71/0

Stronghold Opposition

Hot on the heels of the APO match, UNR only had a few hours to catch their berth before the 2nd game against The Judges of Death...

UNR put up a solid defence again with Tasan and Insomniak a well proven team to lock up our base.

After 7", our attacking team of Inquisitor, Rude & Yakumo made the first of what turned out to be about a capture a minute after that! Inquisitor, who is often Tasan's right hand man in defence, made 15 captures alone..nice one dude!

This game saw UNR's CTF team mature into a finely tuned machine with Diabolic having control over the mid much of the game, returning UNR flags and escorting flag carriers to the safety of the the outer base where Insomniak usually took over until final capture.

Control of the Quad was important and UNR didn't have it all their own way as (TJD)SKAR quiet often was sniping with the Rail gun from the relative safety of the upper window.

TJD's jessika and Judge Fear had some con difficulties but SlashNGrab caused some problems (being very difficult to hit!) and TJD in general had a very good attitude throughout the game and I salute them for the good spirit they played in.

About 8" from the end TJD mounted a big attack and decimated our defence...All credit to our team for returning our flag and restocking our defence with 'goods' within minutes.

The other TJD guys Sativa, Rico, Soth & Indo fought on but at 40" the score was a healthy 34 - 0 flags to UNR.

Thanks to (UNR)Luke for volunteering to drop and Admin-Spawny for the demo.

Well Played UNR!

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UNR vs APO   1288/15 vs 226/1

Mckinley Revival

The original game had to be called off due to an unplayable server the week before, so both teams were looking forward to a decent battle and that's what most got..

With UNR Tasan & Inquisitor in defence, the attacking force of Luke & Yakumo quickly started to make captures but APO's Bateman was covering the Quad well....

Meanwhile below the water Diabolic took control of the BFG and made it a forbidden zone for APO most of the game.

After 5" Rude joined UNR's attack, allowing Luke to cover the Quad more whilst Hynu joined APO.

UNR made more captures but after 15" APO KillerV made an excellent capture making it 1-5, quickly grappling past Diabolic with Tasan hot on his tail!

APO's MadDog suffered with a poor con as did UNR Yakumo..who seemed to spend much of his attack time running on the spot :O(

Respect to Yaku for not complaining throughout the game but struggling on..

He along with Luke and Rude made 14 captures between them..

With 4" to go Yaku was fragged with the flag but Diabolic finished off the capture making it 15-1. At this point KillerV sneaked into UNR's base running off with the flag, but Luke grabbed APO's...

Along with their colleagues, APO's Amadeus, MrZEE and Hynu battled on but couldn't retrieve the flag. UNR made an abortive last ditch attack to kill KillerV but time was up..

A well deserved victory with UNR winning 15 to 1. Well played UNR...a good team effort and well done APO for putting up a good fight.

Thanks to Fluffy Rabbit for his excellent demo!

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