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The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: Mr.Bill on January 19, 2005, 03:50:24 PM

Title: Highlights!
Post by: Mr.Bill on January 19, 2005, 03:50:24 PM: I'd thought it'd be neat if we just had a thread were if we had a moment in ns, that just made you feel like "daaaaamn. that was cool." Let it be a combination of sounds, attacks or something else.

Like, for example, Yesterday I was playing on ns with Ness, (ness being key in this story) we were aliens, and sucking it up hardcore type of game for us aliens. So, some guy goes onos and starts attacking MS (1 hive 3 dcs) and they have hmgs/ha. So, I'm gorge and minding my own business setting up dcs in double vents, I just drop one and then I hear them talking on mic "Ness: Twich, get out of there! *hmg gun fire* Their beaconing *Beacon sirond* Get out of there! *more gun shots, from many players*" And I gotta tell yeah, hearing that while that beacon sound is going off, and a bunch of guns are shooting at I don't know what, was the most awsome thing Ive heard on mic before, EVER. (ness's mic caught his speakers sound) Then you see twich dead by hmg, and ness's mic I could still hear gunfire. I don't think Ill forget that moment. Thanks ness, you made that game worth playing :-D
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Post by: 2_of_8 on January 19, 2005, 04:07:27 PM: Well I have several great experiences playing NS, and all of them were on Lunixmonster! :)
* 2_of_8 huggles server
Ok. Anyway. The latest one was yesterday, on ns_origin. I was a stock Marine; plain LMG with 50/32, near the Biodome hive (I was in Power Core, precisely). I was pretty good that night, I racked up about 30 kills, only a few deaths. This was about 7 minutes in the game, I was about to get a phase gate up to take down the hive. Commander was about to drop a phase gate, but then I hear an Onos hatching sound. I think, maybe it was my imagination, and clear the comm to drop the phase. In a second, I hear the sound of an Onos running, just down the corridor from me. Commander doesn't drop phase, thankfully. I proceed to run away from the Onos, facing away from him (for more speed). He was about to devour me, but missed a few times. Just at the last second, I jump down into a vent right near Xenoform Research. Onos follows me, but he cannot reach me already - I'm deep in the vent. Wow, that was scary! :) One of, if not THE scariest experience I've had in NS! But then a lerk got me, within seconds :(

Another best experience was on Christmas eve, in ns_hera readyroom! We all sung "YMCA", professionally played using HLSS by ME! :p That was great. Everyone was singing and dancing :) And there's a demo of that available, I'm pretty sure most of us have it.
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Post by: bacon_flaps on January 19, 2005, 04:29:51 PM: 2 hour scrim I played in 1.04, ns_caged. Was literally back and forth the entire game, at one point we were down to only me as a fade and a clanmate as gorge. The game had a really epic feel to it that I've yet to experience again. Eventually we lost to ye olde HMG/JP combo (since the bastardly things did full damage to structures back then).

Yes, I used to be a clanner ;D
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Post by: duherman on January 19, 2005, 05:35:41 PM: Quote
Well I have several great experiences playing NS, and all of them were on Lunixmonster! :)
* 2_of_8 huggles server
Ok. Anyway. The latest one was yesterday, on ns_origin. I was a stock Marine; plain LMG with 50/32, near the Biodome hive (I was in Power Core, precisely). I was pretty good that night, I racked up about 30 kills, only a few deaths. This was about 7 minutes in the game, I was about to get a phase gate up to take down the hive. Commander was about to drop a phase gate, but then I hear an Onos hatching sound. I think, maybe it was my imagination, and clear the comm to drop the phase. In a second, I hear the sound of an Onos running, just down the corridor from me. Commander doesn't drop phase, thankfully. I proceed to run away from the Onos, facing away from him (for more speed). He was about to devour me, but missed a few times. Just at the last second, I jump down into a vent right near Xenoform Research. Onos follows me, but he cannot reach me already - I'm deep in the vent. Wow, that was scary! :) One of, if not THE scariest experience I've had in NS! But then a lerk got me, within seconds :(

Another best experience was on Christmas eve, in ns_hera readyroom! We all sung "YMCA", professionally played using HLSS by ME! :p That was great. Everyone was singing and dancing :) And there's a demo of that available, I'm pretty sure most of us have it.
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I believe that was me. You were a quick one...but you will be mine next time. I've also had experiences like the ones above, most of them were running away feelings. Having your back turned to a onos while you run is the most tingly feeling you can get.
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Post by: 2_of_8 on January 19, 2005, 07:23:45 PM: Yep, that was you IR :)
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Post by: CorvusX on January 19, 2005, 09:55:24 PM: Mine strats actually winning.
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Post by: SgtFury on January 20, 2005, 02:05:46 AM: Sometimes the greatest NS moments are those that make you laugh and just can`t stop. :D

I remember 1 game on nancy and we were looking into mess hall the aliens had 2 hives and there was a skulk at the other end of the room and a gorge in there with it buiding ocs. The skulk decides to leap at us just at the same time as the gorge decides to close the door. The timing was brilliant and caught the skulk mid leap :D
Then the doors open again and the skulk is there squashed between them. I think voice comms was on for all because you could hear the guy who was the skulk ranting and raving about it and we just found it hilarious!
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Post by: Tooky on January 20, 2005, 05:27:29 AM: I remember one game in origin where our base had just been raped and I was running towards the Furnace hive and I kept peeking over my shoulder for skulks. I remember Decimator and I think Holy_Devil being on my team, cheering lol, and then 2 skulks come for me, mind you I had barely no ammo, take them out, then a third pops out, knife ftw, then a fourth got pistol whipped, woot only to jump into the lava for a moral victory. We were all rofling.

Can't forget the good old Hide & Seek games. ^_^
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Post by: johnjacobjingle on January 20, 2005, 08:36:13 AM: i've got a good rofl moment for ya'll

i was playing on mineshaft, i don't remember when, it was a while ago; neither do i remember players. HOWEVER! the aliens had 2 hives, I was commanding, so, although the aliens had 2 hives, i had convinced my marines it was a good idea to take a lot of res nodes, not worry about the hives right away. i get a phase gate outside their hive at sewer, beacon the team, and they all run in. here i am thinking to myself, "alright hive down." NO SIR! NOT TODAY! i look back and there's one guy left crouching behind the hive in that little hole. i tell him to knife away, expecting him to die. NO! the aliums can't find him at first, then a fade finds him, goes down the hole on top of him. at this point i start dropping med packs and cat packs all over this poor marine's head. i tell the reast of my marines to get through to help out asap. NOPE! they get slaughtered....not one shot was pointed toward the hive. knifer's still there, happily knifing away while his head gets sliced in half by a fade, only to have it put back together by magical nanites. long story short, fade stays on top of him trying to kill him, he keeps knifing the hive, hive dies, fades gets shirtguned by a marine who phased in and the knifer SURVIVES!

i spent the next 5 minutes on the floor laughing. they had to eject me to get something done, asal turned on his Mic so the whole team could hear that i wasn't just being an ass and that i couldn't stop(this just helped to fuel my laughter). we ended up losing the game because while this was happening they got the other hive up. but it was certainly a moral victory for me!
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Post by: rad4Christ on January 20, 2005, 12:16:13 PM: I'll add a longer one later, but I was onos on origin, going up the elevator in Cargo with another onos when he got crushed by the ceiling, -1 onos. Then, IN THE SAME GAME, another onos followed me into THE SAME elevator, killed him too. I was rolling on the floor laughing so hard that I TK'ed two of my teammates, both onos, both completely by accident, on the SAME elevator...

Oh, and I guess one more. Marines had a PG TF in cargo (double node) on origin, aliens had three hives. Marines were teched out with HA, and I was HA covering the room. We was slaughtering any alien that entered, and no matter how many skulks rushed, We wouldn't let them get to the PG. Now with reinforcements due to the failed rush, the marines looked as if they were going to walk on vent, and the aliens all fought furiously. one Xeno'd in the room, killing two marines, then it happened. I was blown along with another HA under the elevator as it came down... Two dead HA.
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Post by: Loke The Sleek Peruvian on January 20, 2005, 12:56:38 PM: I remember playing a game in mineshaft, I was in the marine team. We had HMGs and pushing into Tram which was the last hive. So I spawn and start making my way to the hive, when MT show a pair of aliens who are in a vent. Then I walk over to said vent and start aiming at it, I hear building, of course I'm thinking there must be gorges building DCs. I walk back to my base and ask the comm for a GL, he gives it to me and I start walking back to that vent. I take aim, fire and kill lolfighter, Isamil and two other guys with one grenade. It seems that they were trying to get those two other guys to stop moving but they wouldn't listen...well I just couldn't stop laughing :lol: .
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Post by: Vinegar Ninja on January 20, 2005, 01:19:43 PM: I remember my epic battles againt ayatollah in 1.04 on the KIR server.
Me and my mad gorge skills against aya and his mad comm skills.
These battles defined epic. I remember holding the great viaduct for the LONGEST time against his 4 marines with GLs. Just one gorge, with 4 DCs, 4 OCs and a hive. Eventually he had to siege to beat me. Those games are what I miss in NS. No longer is the gorge a noble class that demands respect. D:
oh well, those days are long gone.
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Post by: Diablus on January 20, 2005, 01:37:42 PM: When We Ejected the comm (Nooblet) out of the CC at the "almost end" of a game before our 30 seiges owned the poor aliens and slain him with out weapons >:D <3

there is nothing more fun the ejecting a comm out of the CC when they put their heart, blood and soul into the game and murder him with the weapons he dropepd you :p
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Post by: 2_of_8 on January 20, 2005, 02:15:41 PM: Quote
When We Ejected the comm (Nooblet) out of the CC at the "almost end" of a game before our 30 seiges owned the poor aliens and slain him with out weapons >:D <3

there is nothing more fun the ejecting a comm out of the CC when they put their heart, blood and soul into the game and murder him with the weapons he dropepd you :p
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That was just an hour ago or so :D I was there.
Poor nooblet.

Looks like rad is fascinated with the elevators' killing power!
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Post by: Isamil on January 20, 2005, 02:23:01 PM: This happend today and was incredibly funny.
We(marines) were losing on ns_nancy. So as usual I'm trying to run out of base and hide. Comm bacons and I run out through the door that takes you to mother interface. I run into subspace, no hive but an RT with an MC next to it. Desperate to find a hiding spot, I jump on the MC and hop inside the RT(its not hard, theres plenty of room in there). So everyones dead expect me and aliens run into subspace. They run around the hive and don't see me(the marine spectators tell me my head was sticking out of the RT). They really just ran around the RT until finally a gorge saw me. I killed the gorge and a fade got me. Truly a case of really blind aliens.
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Post by: rad4Christ on January 20, 2005, 02:47:09 PM: Quote
They really just ran around the RT until finally a gorge saw me. I killed the gorge and a fade got me. Truly a case of really blind aliens.

A bit off topic, but nothing gives me greater satisfaction than running past a hiding marine, letting him think he's escaped, then coming back and killing him. That or camp him until he comes out (without him knowing it)
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Post by: Tooky on January 20, 2005, 04:17:07 PM: Also happened today: We were losing on ns_hera and last men standing were fatty (hiding in the archiving hive) and Sgt.Fury as comm. While an onos & the usual crowd were ripping the base apart, Fury does a beacon. I and 2 others land near the landing pad where the onos had just taken out the node. We ran towards him, gun blazing and he tries to stomp us but we were too dispersed. I make my way to the right of him and he spots me and I pull out my knife, he misses with his gore as I slash him but he rushed forward as much as possible, my knockback was too powerful and I seized the moral victory as my last slash dropped the onos in too the dark pit. gg
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Post by: Legionnaired on January 20, 2005, 07:42:55 PM: Quote
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They really just ran around the RT until finally a gorge saw me. I killed the gorge and a fade got me. Truly a case of really blind aliens.

A bit off topic, but nothing gives me greater satisfaction than running past a hiding marine, letting him think he's escaped, then coming back and killing him. That or camp him until he comes out (without him knowing it)
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Bahaha! I'll have to try that when my WoW addiction has subsided.
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Post by: Ulatoh on January 20, 2005, 09:04:47 PM: man i've got quite a few.

my favorite alltime game of NS was, i believe it was caged, regstack on both teams. we were having a silly game, and the entire marine team was in ha and standing on the railing near the pit looking in at an LA who was standing on a mine. I think it was H_D and i, but we couldnt resist, and xeno'd them, knocking approx 6 marines into the pit. gg

another good one was a game of ip roulette on lost, oh god... there were soooo many ips in ms, you were GUARANTEED to be telefragged walking accross.

or, another fav, prolly second. Aliens, HA/HMG pg rush on a hive, back when aliens could use the pg's. all the marines phase through, i do too ;) went to their base, and killed the pg, and every structure in base ftw!
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Post by: Zero7 on January 20, 2005, 09:15:43 PM: I remember way back, on LM (or perhaps some previous version, I can't remember anymore). Everyone was feeling bored and down, so we had some fun times. Like, I remember playing a game or two with the gravity down low. Everyone glowing different colours (me being pink, of course). And even some fun in the RR. Screenshots were had and there was even a post in the NS Forums regarding them. Some of you were there. I can't exactly recall who, but I know some of the community was there when we did that.
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Post by: Nooblet on January 20, 2005, 10:46:55 PM: First one was a Hide and Seek game, bunch of regs think Grey was there. I was hiding in the sewer hive tucked back deep in a corner right above the doorway leading down. I was sittting there for like 10 minutes after we started no alien could find me. So everyones dead but me hiding there so everyone is specing me, all of a sudden you can start to hear skulks comming and going. I see a skulk walking along the pipe I was hiding on come right to me and walks on me and sits there looking around then jumps off. BEST TIME EVAR. Everyone was laughing so hard.

Another time was with Bill comming on origin. He was doing his random dropping of ips everywhere. I ask for a pack of mines and run to lava catwalk start a mine ladder under the catwalk i get about half way there so im kinda under but just to the side, then a fade pops up and sees me he trys to blink at me but sets a mine off and blinks off then another fade buddy some along with a skulk so there's 2 fades and a skulk sitting on the catwalk watching me. Suddenly the fade trys jumping on a mine and falls down into the lava the other fade blinks and swipes me knocking me off my mine and onto another one the fade cant blink back and also falls into the lava then the skulk come and gets me but sets off my mine and he get blown away by that. BEST TIME EVAR!
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Post by: lolfighter on January 21, 2005, 03:51:51 PM: Origin's cargo elevator has brought happiness to more people than just me it seems.
This is back in 2.01, so more than a year ago, so I don't remember the exact details. Marines had furnace, aliens had cargo (and probably vent too), and I was there, a gorge. Suddenly I hear marines approaching, so I do the only reasonable thing: Flee. I take the elevator up and try to get through vent via ore processing or whatever it's called, but a turret farm awaits me, and I'm forced to turn back. By now, marines have taken cargo and placed a PG in there, so I'm trapped. Oh well, maybe they won't come up here, as they already have furnace.
My hopes are crushed, though, as I hear a beep, and the elevator moves down. "Oh well," I think, "might as well have surprise on my side. Maybe I'll get a last kill in," so as the elevator starts moving up again, I jump. And in midair, I suddenly decide that I might as well land on the rine's head for fun. He is promptly crushed. My initial surprise is quickly replaced by insight, then glee, and I repeat the trick half a dozen times or more, to my increasing amusement.
I don't remember exactly how the story ends, but I like to think that I managed to piss the rines off pretty good. I'm even pretty sure (since nobody shot at me in midair) that it took 'em quite a while to catch on to what was happening.
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Post by: SwiftSpear on January 21, 2005, 09:47:33 PM: Today I commed a game and acctually won. That's always a highlight for me :D
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Post by: fatty on January 21, 2005, 11:10:49 PM: squishing a fade in a scrim on ns_hera with the elevator in cargo bay.
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Post by: lolfighter on January 22, 2005, 07:24:07 AM: Hera has no elevators. Sure you don't mean ns_origin?
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Post by: Plaguebearer on January 22, 2005, 07:44:27 AM: Quote
run into subspace. They run around the hive and don't see me(the marine spectators tell me my head was sticking out of the RT). They really just ran around the RT until finally a gorge saw me. I killed the gorge and a fade got me. Truly a case of really blind aliens.
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Actually, I saw you right away - you were showing on the minimap :) I was just trying to decide whether to build a bunch of ocs, or spit at you. :D
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Post by: esuna on January 22, 2005, 10:53:00 AM: Quote
Hera has no elevators. Sure you don't mean ns_origin?
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Except for the one in cargo bay on ns_hera. It is there, and causes squishy death. :)

My favourite highlights of NS stem back to 1.04, the comebacks from having nothing to winning, and permagorging. Those were the days.
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Post by: Malevolent on January 22, 2005, 11:58:57 PM: Quote
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Hera has no elevators. Sure you don't mean ns_origin?
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Except for the one in cargo bay on ns_hera. It is there, and causes squishy death. :)
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Yeah, and cargo on origin doesn't have any elevators.
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Post by: SwiftSpear on January 23, 2005, 02:54:58 AM: Quote
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Hera has no elevators. Sure you don't mean ns_origin?
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Except for the one in cargo bay on ns_hera. It is there, and causes squishy death. :)
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Yeah, and cargo on origin doesn't have any elevators.
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Yes it does, doesn't it? theres the one up to the crane operation room and the one that leads down to the double nodes...
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Post by: sonic on January 23, 2005, 06:12:51 AM: Me and esuna double comming :)
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Post by: LowCrawler on January 23, 2005, 10:35:27 AM: Quote
I'd thought it'd be neat if we just had a thread were if we had a moment in ns, that just made you feel like "daaaaamn. that was cool." Let it be a combination of sounds, attacks or something else.

Like, for example, Yesterday I was playing on ns with Ness, (ness being key in this story) we were aliens, and sucking it up hardcore type of game for us aliens. So, some guy goes onos and starts attacking MS (1 hive 3 dcs) and they have hmgs/ha. So, I'm gorge and minding my own business setting up dcs in double vents, I just drop one and then I hear them talking on mic "Ness: Twich, get out of there! *hmg gun fire* Their beaconing *Beacon sirond* Get out of there! *more gun shots, from many players*" And I gotta tell yeah, hearing that while that beacon sound is going off, and a bunch of guns are shooting at I don't know what, was the most awsome thing Ive heard on mic before, EVER. (ness's mic caught his speakers sound) Then you see twich dead by hmg, and ness's mic I could still hear gunfire. I don't think Ill forget that moment. Thanks ness, you made that game worth playing :-D
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Me and bill were playing with a bunch of aliens... against some damned good rines.
We were on the very edge of a bad bad loss, we had already seen two hives bite the dust, so i decided to fade. I ran in at their base and started to whack stuff and took down the Arms Lab i believe. Then i got this crazy idea that if everyone went fade and we all went and hit base at once we'd win the game. So i commenced to begin screaming over the microphone for everyone to spend whatever res they had on whatever lifeform. "k ill go gorge and drop the hive" NO! FADE YOU SILLY PERSON! And then as we were all hatching, (i was lerk by now i believe... or it coulda been fade again) Bill came over voice and gave an outstanding war speech. Worthy of Churchill stuff. Im sure bill remembers that better than i do... but me and arctic dragoon remember it as "that one game that LC won"
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Post by: lolfighter on January 23, 2005, 01:43:35 PM: Sure, origin has an elevator. And so does hera, had it confused with nancy. >_<
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Post by: Loke The Sleek Peruvian on January 23, 2005, 01:44:07 PM: I thought it was DeGaulle who gave the speech telling the Frenchies to not give up. o_O
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Post by: Malevolent on January 23, 2005, 02:13:05 PM: Quote
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Hera has no elevators. Sure you don't mean ns_origin?
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Except for the one in cargo bay on ns_hera. It is there, and causes squishy death. :)
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Yeah, and cargo on origin doesn't have any elevators.
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Yes it does, doesn't it? theres the one up to the crane operation room and the one that leads down to the double nodes...
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Oh, it does. I was thinking of tanith. People really need to think up different names for their maps....
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Post by: Mr.Bill on January 23, 2005, 05:31:11 PM: Going off topic you evil people you!

Ill quote to the best of my memory the speach I gave for lc's team, that gave us all a boost of confidence.

"Men, Our Hour has come, what we do within the next couple of minuts decides the fate of the galaxy itself, If you fight Smart, and with all the force you can possibly give, I guarantee you, we will be victoreous!"

I think thats the just of it :-D that game was pretty own, LC did an awsome job for the team.