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Me and Evangel have been arranging this for a few months, and I'm thinking of having it this Saturday at around 1:00. (probably have to change it to 2:00 or 3:00 since some people will be busy) I don't have the address of the place yet, but it should be somewhere between Troy and South Lyon. If, by any chance, other players or teams can make it, let us know and perhaps we could form alliances.

Game mode will most likely be 1HK elimination, but we can arrange for other gametypes if everyone agrees. As for water access, I'm not exactly sure on it yet. Its a park so there should be water access around. Still, I'd bring some refill bottles, sidearms, etc. which I always do anyway.

That sounds awesome! I'm forgetting, but have you guys ever met together before? If not, this would probably be one of the few longer-distance water warfare battles. Please take and share pics of the event if you can! As well, keep us informed of how the planning stages and how well it ended up turning out in the end. While time, money, and transportation prevent me from making it, I'll definitely be there in spirit!

Soak on!

None of our teams have actually met, and I also figured this would be one of those few wars. As far as pics/vids go, I'll have to bring my old camera with a case, several batteries, and a ziploc bag. (parents won't let me bring the high-res, low battery consumption, 1gb cam) As always, I'll be posting a battle report.

If anyone out there who's thinking of coming but wants to reschedule, let us know. I have an airsoft game on the 28th which is why I set it to a week earlier.

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This is the location we're playing at, on the large playground nearby. As I said, it'll be on Saturday, but the event starts at about 2.

Triple Shot! - er... uhh... post...

The event's going on today. Right now we're just getting equiptment and will be ready soon. Unfortunately, however, I was an idiot and forgot to charge my cell yesterday and I'm charging it right now, hoping it'll be well working by the time we have to leave. I've also been doing some last minute equiping and need to do some last minute reliability testing on a 12k. It seems like my ability to take pics and vids of the event will be a bit limited though.




Edit: Instead of getting to a 4th post in a row, I'll put it here. A more formal report may be up later or I'll simply edit this.


First, I could only assemble a team of 2, then the third one, who never showed up at my house, drove himself all the way over. One person got sick, one person pretended he thought it was the week after, and another said his parents wouldn't let him meet up with "strangers in a place they don't know..." Basically, half the team was mentally disfunctional this morning, and only one was actually sick and couldn't come.

We carried the following: (2) Flash Flood, Orca, Tiger Shark, (2) CPS 12k, 10k, 2700, 2100, Max-D2k, (2) Max-D3k, Max-D6k, . We actually only used a portion of that, which was enough to arm the whole team with at least 2 weapons each. Later, someone from their team joined us due to the outnumbering. We used just the CPS/HydroPower based weapons (except for the Tiger Shark) and my sidearm: MAx-D2k.

The others had: (2) Monster XL, Monster X, (2) CPS 2500, CPS 3200, Arctic Blast, Flash Flood, Vaporizer, HydroBlitz, Blastmaster 660, ShieldBlaster, Orca (whose trigger was leaking pretty badly), a ton of 100oz AquaPacks, and perhaps a ton of other stuff I can't recall at the moment. One of them was dual-wielding 2500's and had a 3200 strapped on. I don't recall seeing usage of the MXL though. Others

Basically, we meet along a large wooden play structure with many high points and very tight spaces to get through them. Everywhere around, there's blind spots to sneak up on, so team coordination was critical, which we were strongly lacking. At the start, I had trouble getting the team to cover the flanks, so I'd often get Flash Flooded from behind. We started with 1HK respawn, 10 seconds at spawn point and 5 second grace period, then moved onto 1HK elimination.

Some cheating was present, however. I've gotten a report from a teammate of someone ignoring a water balloon that smacked right on his heel. Also, another point, I was up on high ground and someone with a ShieldBlaster approached. I fired around and supposedly he blocks all the shots, then I fire at his legs and feet and apparently, he didn't call the hit. A few seconds later, I was shot from below the structure.

Tactics: Evangel's dodging and ninja maneuvering and tactics were somewhat amusing to watch. As fast as he dodged, I spreaded out my tap shots to ensure a hit, though he's also the one who's sneaked up and FF'd me a few times. Basically, I stayed in the same spot a bit too much, the rest of the team got killed, and I get outnumbered. Otherwise, our team would stay disorganized to begin with (partly due to the seperation of spawning) and I'd get sneaked up on. Overall, their divide and conquer tactics worked partly due to lack of coordination.

Refilling and water balloons were a pain in the ass. I never figured the water balloon filler nozzle would stick onto the sinkheads, and also, we had to fill up most guns by using .5L bottles, which took quite a while for the 2700.

At the end of the event, Evangel pulled out a squirt pistol, so I fumble through my equiptment and pull out mine, and to my dismay, it was empty, so I had to resume fighting with whatever water was left in my MD2k. (during the car ride back, I found that it basically cracked itself apart inside my equiptment and all the water leaked out) After a close look, turns out we got squirt guns from the same package: a 6 pack for $1 at Wal-Mart.

Scores. I lost count of kills/deaths during the respawn game, but it was pretty evident that we lost that one. Later, we also got eliminated first for most of the 1HK elimination. (if not all of them) Some of it was due to cheating, some of it was due to my poor decision to go heavy (2700 + FF + MD2k) early in the game. Our team coordination, however, supposedly improved a bit near the end. (based on reports from teammates) No official scores here.

Weather: First sunny, then light to medium rain w/ background thunderstorms. This kept everyone under the shelter so we didn't have to worry about accidently soaking "civilians."

Next up: Rather than going all the way to Novi or wherever around there again, I'm planning to stage a near-home war at one of our local parks. Woodchips and sand aren't very nice either. We'll probably be fighting in the woods, but the area I'm looking at overall may be too open.

Yeah, easy cheating is kinda why I'm against 1HKs as my main game type. Yeah I did notice Gonzo kinda cheating with that shield, but on the subject of that grenade, I couldn't tell exactly if it hit me, it kinda felt like it landed right next to me, difficult to say though.

Despite some of the glitches encountered, sounds like you guys had a lot of fun nevertheless! Managed to take any pics during the games despite being limited in that capacity?

At any rate, good job at getting your meeting to work out despite the setbacks! It is often a tough job to get people moving to try new things (i.e. meeting up with another water warfare group for the first(?) time). Heck, it can already be tough enough getting local friends to meet up just for a water fight, let alone needing to go somewhere else for one!

May this be simply one of the first of more water warfare team battles!

Well we got one group pic, but unfortunately I decided to use this cheap, compact all-in-one piece of junk, so the image is very VERY blurry... It's a multi-function digital camcorder, but turns out that rather than doing just one thing with okay performance, it does several different things with equally horrible performance. =/



Although it could MAYBE suffice if you by any chance decided to use it for one of those backdrops on the site's home page.

Anyway, at least my emblem SOMEWHAT shows up on my uniform, and Gonzo just looks VERY Naruto-esque. lol (FYI: That's the Mist Village headband Gonzo's wearing )

@Evangel: though the pic is blurry, still better to have a blurry pic, particularly for your memories, than have no pic at all! Man, wish I could've joined you guys for an afternoon of water fights!

@C-A_99 and Evangel: I'd like both your permissions to repost material from this thread on iSoaker.com, itself.

If you think there's enough details, go ahead and repost.

And yeah, would have been nice to meet the legend in person.

iSoaker, you know exactly what I'm going to say about reposting permissions, so go ahead.

Hmm... What other cross-team water wars have been done in the past? This seems to be the type of opportunity that you typically never come across.

Next war will probably be in some park woods, sometime in late July or early August, perhaps once I've settled in and improve. Pity that me and my friend didn't meed the ninja costumes in our camo... (we were on a play structure, not in the woods, and I still can't really get my soakers camo'd, which makes the "uniforms" relatively obsolete)

For some reason I completely missed this. I guess it was because I've had work.

This war sounded like fun despite the minor problems. Hopefully you'll have them straightened out for next time.

I can't think of anything similar to this happening aside from Ridgewood vs. Waterbridge, but they all knew each other. Maurader4 also participated in Dominator War 2 with XN years ago, but that's only one person. So yeah, this is definitely a first. Hopefully it will become a common occurrence.

That brings back some memories actually. Water war websites years ago had a different feeling than ones today. I can't explain it but when I read old websites like Hydrowar or Guts'N'Glory I get that feeling. Maybe it's just because I was new back then and everything stood out to me. Enough of that tangent...

Post your next war in the SSC calendar and perhaps some more people will show up. I think if we start using calendars like that we'll slowly see a revitalization of the sport.

Battle synopsis reposted here Looking forward to hearing about the NEXT battle!

Soak on!