Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:29 pm
Location: Park with Small Forest
Environment: Mixed deciduous & evergreen trees and shrubs.
Time: Mid-afternoon
Weather Conditions: Warm to Hot, slight breeze, moderate humidity
Game Type: Team Duels - Wettest Team Loses
Game Time: In Progress. 15 minutes game time remaining.
Team Descriptions:
Your Team - you plus 2 friends
Opposing Team:3 other friends
General Armament: all players are using mid-to-high class air pressure soakers or small CPS-soakers (nothing larger than a CPS1000) plus a couple of small water balloons
The Scenario:
You hooked up with a handful of friends for some water fight action on a nice summer's day. Today, strict rules felt too heavy, thus you all agreed on a general team-based soakfest with the wettest team buying pizza for everyone afterwards. Determining which team was wettest was typically rather a subjective thing, but heck, the local pizza wasn't too pricy and everyone was in for the fun of it. To prevent people from drying off after an extended amount of time, total game time was set at 1 hour, but with unlimited refills if you could get to the refill station that was about a 5-minute loop back-n-forth plus refill time beyond the forest.
Your favourite battlegrounds were in a small forest (a grove of trees to some) that was part of a larger park area. The problem was that there was no running fountains in the forest area, itself, meaning one had to exit the trees and enter the open grounds to refill. As such, all agreed that anywhere beyond the trees was a no-soaking zone.
The forest, itself, was a good mix of tree types. Between the trees, the foliage made pushing through difficult, but not impossible. For the more feint of heart, there were some paths carved out through the forest to allow parents with small children or strollers to go along, but the openness of those paths made one a more easy target.
The problem is that you are about 100'-150' from the edge of the forest, but were running low on water. You had a full PC's worth of water, but only a few dribbles more within your soaker's reservoir. In the last mini-skirmish, you managed to only take on a couple of light 'lining' on your shirt from an opponents MaxD6000, but during your escape to drier grounds, you ended up separated from the rest of your team. The fastest way towards the refill station would be to take the main path through the trees (you'd need roughly 8 minutes to complete a refilling run), but that would leave you in the open area while your opponents could easily be hiding and blasting you from behind the foliage. The whereabouts of your teammates are unknown at present, but were likely within earshot if you shouted. Of course, the same holds true for your opponents. You also believe your allies and foes are a little better off in terms of water remaining than you (oddly, enough, you brought the smallest of the soakers this time).
So, what do YOU do to help you team as a whole be the drier ones, not the pizza-buying soggy ones?
Sidenote: the total amount of water in your water balloons would, at best, offer one more full shot from your soaker's PC if you chose to refill using them.
Environment: Mixed deciduous & evergreen trees and shrubs.
Time: Mid-afternoon
Weather Conditions: Warm to Hot, slight breeze, moderate humidity
Game Type: Team Duels - Wettest Team Loses
Game Time: In Progress. 15 minutes game time remaining.
Team Descriptions:
Your Team - you plus 2 friends
Opposing Team:3 other friends
General Armament: all players are using mid-to-high class air pressure soakers or small CPS-soakers (nothing larger than a CPS1000) plus a couple of small water balloons
The Scenario:
You hooked up with a handful of friends for some water fight action on a nice summer's day. Today, strict rules felt too heavy, thus you all agreed on a general team-based soakfest with the wettest team buying pizza for everyone afterwards. Determining which team was wettest was typically rather a subjective thing, but heck, the local pizza wasn't too pricy and everyone was in for the fun of it. To prevent people from drying off after an extended amount of time, total game time was set at 1 hour, but with unlimited refills if you could get to the refill station that was about a 5-minute loop back-n-forth plus refill time beyond the forest.
Your favourite battlegrounds were in a small forest (a grove of trees to some) that was part of a larger park area. The problem was that there was no running fountains in the forest area, itself, meaning one had to exit the trees and enter the open grounds to refill. As such, all agreed that anywhere beyond the trees was a no-soaking zone.
The forest, itself, was a good mix of tree types. Between the trees, the foliage made pushing through difficult, but not impossible. For the more feint of heart, there were some paths carved out through the forest to allow parents with small children or strollers to go along, but the openness of those paths made one a more easy target.
The problem is that you are about 100'-150' from the edge of the forest, but were running low on water. You had a full PC's worth of water, but only a few dribbles more within your soaker's reservoir. In the last mini-skirmish, you managed to only take on a couple of light 'lining' on your shirt from an opponents MaxD6000, but during your escape to drier grounds, you ended up separated from the rest of your team. The fastest way towards the refill station would be to take the main path through the trees (you'd need roughly 8 minutes to complete a refilling run), but that would leave you in the open area while your opponents could easily be hiding and blasting you from behind the foliage. The whereabouts of your teammates are unknown at present, but were likely within earshot if you shouted. Of course, the same holds true for your opponents. You also believe your allies and foes are a little better off in terms of water remaining than you (oddly, enough, you brought the smallest of the soakers this time).
So, what do YOU do to help you team as a whole be the drier ones, not the pizza-buying soggy ones?
Sidenote: the total amount of water in your water balloons would, at best, offer one more full shot from your soaker's PC if you chose to refill using them.