Let me start off by reiterating how awesome Thursday's MacNN Halo 3 meet was.
Now let me say how time consuming taking pictures and watching film for 12 players is. Nevertheless I sat down down with a pen and paper ready to jot down some notes and take as many pictures as there were players (technically there was an extra player, Chuckit, but you better shut up right now). Which brings me to...
Big Team Slayer on Sandtrap!
Oh boy what a game this was. Right from the get go lasers and rockets dominated this map, on both teams. Those who were the first to hop in vehicles met with quick and horrific ends. The following pics took place less than 1 minute into the match.
Oblivious Gunner
::maroma and Euthyphro13 just seconds before an early rocket-aided double-kill courtesy of that 'other' Brigadier, apsolid.
Fatty starts it off right
Yours truly annihilates Dakar (driver) and apsolid (gunner) with his first shot.
After 3 minutes of play apsolid and Dakar had quite a bit to gripe about. The reason, I kept hitting them with lasers! Muhuhhahah! By 3:04 I hit Dakar the 4th time with the laser and just before that apsolid tasted his third beam of concentrated photons.
Not one to be upstaged
Dakar lasers Chris out of the sky. I relieved him of his life via laser seconds afterwards.
By now the map had evened out a little and everyone started hopping into whatever vehicle they could find. I found myself getting kill #14 in the Hornet, which srd5010 promptly lasered right the hell down. apsolid held things down with the Rocket Launcher which, after watching him play all game, he is very proficient with.
Crosbie started out a little slow but found his groove later on in the game and ended up in third place. He also had one or two brushes with death without really knowing what the hell was going on.
Prayin' to the right God
God knows I would've cursed the heavens if I were theKurrigan, who is the oh-so-close marksman. Stogie, obliviously, just wants to pick up a weapon.
Spartan Stelios was mostly cannon fodder all game but registered his first (and only) kill via a very well-timed and executed splatter.
1 Kill, 1 Award.....good enough
That's Kevin Bogues getting the business end of a speeding Ghost.
That pic was more or less the halfway point of the game which, coincidentally, was also the 30 kills mark for Team Awesome, I mean Gold. By now Team Purple People Eater had only mustered 17 kills, the lion's share going to that other Brigadier. Must've been due to the fact no one was safe from my laser. Also, Chuckit joined the carnage around now for Team Purple. Luckily his moderation powers were useless on the Xbox Live tubes!
srd was the sleeper for Team Purple and made use of the Rocket Launcher, Laser, and anything else he could get his mitts on (including sniper). He ended my (1 kill short) running riot and was the only other person besides apsolid to give me any trouble (no offense to the rest of you jerks.
Close-call
srd5010 threads a field goal from the downed Phantom while chrisgilqin and Spartan Stelios obliviously look in all directions. In fact, he would fire three rockects directly near them before anyone caught on. Actually, from Crosbie to this I guess my team needs to turn up their sound a little before somebody gets hurt
Kill the head and the body dies
If I know someone is a threat I go after them before anyone else. Forgoing an easy close snipe I go for my second threat, srd5010, with deadly precision.
Dakar and medium9 started whipping around in the Gauss Hog causing all sorts of mischief. Laser-less, I hid away, hoping another teammate would take them down.
Wraith > Gauss Hog
First of all...Dakar, why did you leave poor medium here a sitting duck just waiting for Euthyphro13 to fricassee? I know you probably really wanted that Hornet but you both ended up dying, for shame.
You got SERVED!
Dakar tries to impress a stone-cold Fatty with his dance moves.
Chuckit was now the pride of the poison skies in his slightly damaged Hornet. Damaged from that Wraith two pictures ago, in fact.
Moderator of my heart
Charlie Blue unleashes fury from above. Fury is felt down below by Stelios.
Laser + Hornet = Might want to wash that Ghost seat off
Remember that scene from Braveheart where they moon the English troops? That might've help out my teammate Stogie here. Chuckit tears him a few holes right before Mr. Bogues gives him a Laser-enema.
I figured Chuckit was new to the party so I made sure to send him a gift almost everyone on the opposing team already got, a nice laser straight to the Hornet for Kill number 20 (47 for the team).
Fatty dislikes having another Brigadier to worry about
apsolid kills a near-invisible Fatty post Chuckit laser and gets the double kill on ::maroma:: right afterwards.
The game ends with ::maroma:: killing Team Purple People Eater's #1 killer, apsolid, with a nice Banshee attack.
Fatty Laser toll for Team Purple: DakarZero x4, apsolid x3, srd5010 x2, medium9 x1, and Charlie Blue x1.
The only person to avoid any laser deaths was Kevin Bogues.
Well, that took forever, and even then I struggled on the actual write-up. Very hard to come up with a game summary of 12 people murdering eachother in dozens of ways. I could have taken 50 pics from this game and it was a real joy seeing other's tactics for once.
next up:
Nades N' Spades
