The Fighting TTLGers present: Arma 3 (a TTLG Coop Saturdays spin-off) - by Thirith
Thirith on 3/8/2020 at 15:15
Oh, and by the way, do any of you want to wear such snazzy patches on your uniform?
Inline Image:
https://i.imgur.com/IqubQib.jpgIf so, I've created a Unit page here: (
https://units.arma3.com/unit/thefightingttlgers). If you join (though, annoyingly, you'll have to create a Bohemia account), you should be able to wear unit insignia and proudly display them on your vehicles. Huzzah! :joke:
Jeshibu on 3/8/2020 at 19:56
Hell yeah, applied!
Thirith on 3/8/2020 at 21:11
You're in - and you got a promotion in the process! We're gonna be the Oprah of Arma units: Generals' stars for everyone!
Edit: Actually, it's colonels' stripes. But hey: halftone sheep insignia!
Thirith on 4/8/2020 at 21:28
Very good point - this would definitely be a great jumping in point for anyone interested in checking out Arma and possibly joining us for our biweekly sessions!
Thirith on 8/8/2020 at 15:53
Thanks to henke, Jeshibu, Malf and demagogue for joining me today! We weren't altogether successful, just about winning the first, warm-up mission (
Combat Den (Malden)) and then losing three games of
Escape (Lythium) quite spectacularly, but it was a fun session. Though it's not entirely fair when we've just managed to scrounge a couple of AKMs and then a SU-25? SU-27? comes and carpetbombs us out of existence. Mind you, it was pretty damn spectacular and quite unexpected. :cheeky:
I'll sift through the footage and try to put together a best-of video.
Edit: Yup, it was a Su25, one of these mothers:
Inline Image:
https://www.airforce-technology.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/su25_1.jpgMakes perfect sense to send this after four US Army dudes trying to escape a shed in the middle of nowhere...
Thirith on 9/8/2020 at 21:19
And here's the video I put together from yesterday's footage:
[video=youtube;d_6FjdOqJFg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_6FjdOqJFg[/video]
I'll be running another game in two weeks, at the usual time.
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Next Arma 3 coop session:
Date: Sat, 22 August 2020
Time: 3-6pm UK timeAs always, I'll be online a bit before 3pm to set up the server and check who's online.
Thirith on 22/8/2020 at 16:20
Thanks to demagogue, henke, Jeshibu and Malf for an intense session - especially that final run for the extraction chopper! Will try to put a video together over the next couple of days.
henke on 22/8/2020 at 17:10
Remember when I got that guy?
[video=youtube;wUfPA5XBgas]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUfPA5XBgas[/video]
Thirith on 24/8/2020 at 06:26
And here's the video I put together of the Chernarus mission:
[video=youtube;etrNkVNE8OA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etrNkVNE8OA[/video]
It's fairly long, but that's because the epic finale practically demands to be done in one take. Malf summarised the drama and tragedy of it very neatly: if I hadn't done that thing I did, we wouldn't have had to do the thing we did, which almost killed the lot of us and finally failed through no fault of our own just a few metres before the end. Take that,
Platoon and
All Quiet on the Western Front: this is the true anti-war
film game.
And, ironically, we probably could've beelined straight for the two HVTs because, after all, the task to destroy the enemy artillery somehow got cancelled, i.e. we could've skipped that entire gruelling battle in Krasnostav.
I'll be on vacation for some of September, which due to our current rhythm would result in four weeks without
Arma, so I'm planning to run two games on consecutive Saturdays, 5/9 and 12/9, possibly with a lighter session focused on shorter missions and/or an escape mission on 12/9, and then it'll only be 3/10. And again in big, bold font:
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The next Arma 3 coop sessions (exceptionally on consecutive Saturdays):
Date: Sat, 5 September and Sat, 12 September 2020
Time: 3-6pm UK timeAs always, I'll be online a bit before 3pm to set up the server and check who's online.