2fort5r

(Battle report written by Shilka)

The first map played was 2fort5r, 8 v 8 using QW2.3 and TF2.8. Playing for Loki were Shilka, Mirage, Fenrir (initially), Hetzer, [D.A.] Morgana, [D.A.] Havok, [D.A.] Goose and Proto. [T2D] Screwy filled in when Fenrir was paged and had to use his laptop for less serious work purposes. :-)

The game started with an early flag grab by Mirage but some heavy defence kept the flag in TD's base. Until Loki got organised, the TD flag returned several times. After a few minutes though, Mirage and the other attackers were able to gradually move the flag up the spiral and home. Hetzer as always did a great job attacking as an engineer and was well supported by [D.A.] Morgana and Mirage. Loki managed to keep the caps happening mainly due to some excellent sentry killing by Hetzer and Mirage. With the guns down, [D.A.] Morgana got the flag numerous times but it was never easy. The TD defence was skilled but couldn't keep out 4 and sometimes 5 attackers.

On Loki's defensive side, TD's attacks consisted of an early flurry of scouts and soldiers but after the first five minutes this dwindled to occasional scouts . TD still managed to kill our sentry and get the flag to the spiral but when Hetzer rebuilt his sentry beside it, the attackers didn't reach it again. At this point, some smart TD offence capitalised on the fact that we had no sentry in the key room. It was now that TD decided a scout rush was in order and suddenly the Loki defence was overwhelmed. Our flag was taken and the defenders couldn't see it for the dust made by the scout. In the meantime, despite dead scouts littering the floors around Shilka, TD managed to get another flag grab with our sentry still down. After the second score by TD, Loki got their act together and the defence held tight for the rest of the game.

In all a very intense match that had only a few spamming accusations, but then again what is spam anyway. :-)

Map score: Loki/D.A. 70, TD 20.

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