bam4

The first map played was bam4, 8 v 8. Playing for Loki were Grimm, Fenrir, Mil, Tetsuo, Strafe, Mic, Mirage and Zel. Hetzer, Proto and rj also played briefly, but Hetzer and Proto mainly spectated and rj turned up late.

We started off quite strongly in this game, getting in a few quick captures, taking it to 30-0 in about the first five minutes. Our attackers kept up the pressure for the entire game and did a great job to come home with the QG flag 11 times in all.

The QG attackers were also doing a pretty good job, keeping our defence on their toes. Mil was lagged ( blame BiGPond! :-) ) and didn't find the conditions easy to play under, and Tetsuo swore that he would never be an engineer in bam4 again. :-) Live*Evil and Noo$, The Fly were getting to our flag far more often that we liked, and in the end QG took it all the way back to their base 3 times. We spent a lot of the game trying to protect our flag on or near the spiral, which we were fortunately successful in doing a number of times. Overall, despite our somewhat shaky defence, we did OK to keep them down to only 3 caps.

Map score: Loki 110, QG 30.

(We didn't really have 9 players, Grimm had just re-joined after timing out. And rj is not normally a lpber, but he was playing from a mate's place who has a cable modem. :-) )