OPERATION BRUSHFIRE, Phase 1: We are Not Alone
Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 4:20 pm
This is going to be my first ever tactical exercise series. It will be like a campaign in that this exercise will have multiple phases. Phase 1 is going to be up for a while so that everyone who wants to join in cant start from the beginning. If for some reason you missed this phase and want to join in later, that's fine too.
Phase 1: We Are Not Alone
It was a normal, lazy Saturday morning. Sleep in late. Grab some breakfast. No, scratch that, it's already past 10:30. One of your good friends, we'll call him X (it can be anyone on your team) is coming over around noon to work on your new APH design. You pick up the phone and decide to call to see if he wants to come over early and get an early start. You'll order a pizza.
Over lunch X breaks some crazy news to you. Last night while looking up designs for home made pumps X stumbled across another message board. "You mean like an old community like the Men In Black, or some kind of way old bravenet message forum for a now dead site like GNG?" That's not what X found at all. It was a major message forum, an entire community just like WWN, but at least twice as large. The tech section was huge. X stumbled across designs for waterballoon crossbows, a gasoline powered river cannon, and even CAD drawings of stock replacement parts. But it wasn't all good. X shoves down a slice of jalepeno bacon, his favorite, before continuing. There was an entire smack talk thread dedicated to how much they hate us. "What?" You're not sure whether to be offended or to laugh.
"They think we're all a bunch of loons and hardcore wannabes. They thought it was really funny that some of the guys at MOAB were wearing facepaint."
"It's not like we always do that."
"No, like last weekend at the pool, but they don't do that. It's completely different over there. Oh, they play the same games as we do, but if they have to head into the woods, or if you want to take some canoes out on the lake, forget about it. Basically, they have their own version of the league, and it's very popular. Most of the time they meet at parks, soccer fields, baseball fields, and set up bunkers. It's kind of like speedball, but more spread out and they do go in the woods some."
Wow, this was crazy. A new community? Seriously? You finished up the pizza and got to work on the APH. After five hours of hard work your APH was just about finished. "Just gotta let the glue dry." X had gone home, but he had sent you the link to the new community. Wet and Wild Water Blaster Enthusiasts. It was pretty bad. Sure, the boards were full of new posts, and a lot of important content, but there was a lot of nasty stuff being said. There were deleted posts and blocked posters everywhere. Everything seemed a lot less laid back, and the WWN topic was completely full of absolutely disgusting remarks and memes.
X had already broken the news over on the WWN boards. Reactions were mixed. Some members were excited over the new technology. Others were excited that there was another, even larger, group of people having watergun fights out there. But most people were not impressed. "Another group of NIC minded conformists? No thanks, not interested in joining." M4 wrote back. But no matter what some people thought, the news was broken, and there was no way the 2 communities were going to stay separate. And the initial welcome was not a pleasant one.
Weeks went by and things had turned even more sour. The W3BE admins had officially welcomed all WWN members to W3BE events, but crossover members, like all new members were put on probationary status until they could prove their "worth." The arrogance was dumbfounding, and yet, perhaps most surprising of all was the number of W3BE members who were crossing over to join WWN. Apparently not everyone was a douchebag, but a majority of the board was still hostile.
WWN Admins and Moderators initially reached out the proverbial olive branch to W3BE. It was great that there was another group of water warfare enthusiasts out there. Why not encourage it? But the response the admin team got back was cold. WWN had offered to host 3 joint all day water wars as a sort of meet and greet. One in New York, one in Los Angelos, and the other in Vancouver. The proposal was dead upon arrival. However, W3BE counter offered. A weekend long series of battles between the two communities. After all, there was no way WWN would be able to compete with their silly WWN League and 9 person battles.
The offer was on the table. Initially many members of the community had been ambivalent about the situation, but after the poor treatment of crossover members both on the boards and at W3BE events something had to be done. X lead the way, "We can stick to ourselves all we want, and hope that we attract new members based off the positive atmosphere of the board, but I'm not one to turn away from a challenge. In fact, I relish the idea of putting a beatdown on these clones."
It was officially decided, we would be raising an army to compete with the W3BE clones. It was going to be the biggest hardcore battle ever and everyone wanted to join in.
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Your task is going to be to organize WWN and prepare the team for battle. I will be posting a list of everyone under your command along with their strengths and weaknesses, blasters, etc. as submitted by everyone who wanted to be a part of this. If I didn't get to you, feel free to post a reply here with your assessment of yourself as a water warrior so that everyone else can include you on their team!
I will post the team roster in a few hours. I will also be releasing some rules of the upcoming fight and details about the location, but not a lot is known about that yet. Put together some type of organization for the team and write a response on how you'll prepare everyone over the next 2 weeks for the big battle!
Phase 1: We Are Not Alone
It was a normal, lazy Saturday morning. Sleep in late. Grab some breakfast. No, scratch that, it's already past 10:30. One of your good friends, we'll call him X (it can be anyone on your team) is coming over around noon to work on your new APH design. You pick up the phone and decide to call to see if he wants to come over early and get an early start. You'll order a pizza.
Over lunch X breaks some crazy news to you. Last night while looking up designs for home made pumps X stumbled across another message board. "You mean like an old community like the Men In Black, or some kind of way old bravenet message forum for a now dead site like GNG?" That's not what X found at all. It was a major message forum, an entire community just like WWN, but at least twice as large. The tech section was huge. X stumbled across designs for waterballoon crossbows, a gasoline powered river cannon, and even CAD drawings of stock replacement parts. But it wasn't all good. X shoves down a slice of jalepeno bacon, his favorite, before continuing. There was an entire smack talk thread dedicated to how much they hate us. "What?" You're not sure whether to be offended or to laugh.
"They think we're all a bunch of loons and hardcore wannabes. They thought it was really funny that some of the guys at MOAB were wearing facepaint."
"It's not like we always do that."
"No, like last weekend at the pool, but they don't do that. It's completely different over there. Oh, they play the same games as we do, but if they have to head into the woods, or if you want to take some canoes out on the lake, forget about it. Basically, they have their own version of the league, and it's very popular. Most of the time they meet at parks, soccer fields, baseball fields, and set up bunkers. It's kind of like speedball, but more spread out and they do go in the woods some."
Wow, this was crazy. A new community? Seriously? You finished up the pizza and got to work on the APH. After five hours of hard work your APH was just about finished. "Just gotta let the glue dry." X had gone home, but he had sent you the link to the new community. Wet and Wild Water Blaster Enthusiasts. It was pretty bad. Sure, the boards were full of new posts, and a lot of important content, but there was a lot of nasty stuff being said. There were deleted posts and blocked posters everywhere. Everything seemed a lot less laid back, and the WWN topic was completely full of absolutely disgusting remarks and memes.
X had already broken the news over on the WWN boards. Reactions were mixed. Some members were excited over the new technology. Others were excited that there was another, even larger, group of people having watergun fights out there. But most people were not impressed. "Another group of NIC minded conformists? No thanks, not interested in joining." M4 wrote back. But no matter what some people thought, the news was broken, and there was no way the 2 communities were going to stay separate. And the initial welcome was not a pleasant one.
Weeks went by and things had turned even more sour. The W3BE admins had officially welcomed all WWN members to W3BE events, but crossover members, like all new members were put on probationary status until they could prove their "worth." The arrogance was dumbfounding, and yet, perhaps most surprising of all was the number of W3BE members who were crossing over to join WWN. Apparently not everyone was a douchebag, but a majority of the board was still hostile.
WWN Admins and Moderators initially reached out the proverbial olive branch to W3BE. It was great that there was another group of water warfare enthusiasts out there. Why not encourage it? But the response the admin team got back was cold. WWN had offered to host 3 joint all day water wars as a sort of meet and greet. One in New York, one in Los Angelos, and the other in Vancouver. The proposal was dead upon arrival. However, W3BE counter offered. A weekend long series of battles between the two communities. After all, there was no way WWN would be able to compete with their silly WWN League and 9 person battles.
The offer was on the table. Initially many members of the community had been ambivalent about the situation, but after the poor treatment of crossover members both on the boards and at W3BE events something had to be done. X lead the way, "We can stick to ourselves all we want, and hope that we attract new members based off the positive atmosphere of the board, but I'm not one to turn away from a challenge. In fact, I relish the idea of putting a beatdown on these clones."
It was officially decided, we would be raising an army to compete with the W3BE clones. It was going to be the biggest hardcore battle ever and everyone wanted to join in.
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Your task is going to be to organize WWN and prepare the team for battle. I will be posting a list of everyone under your command along with their strengths and weaknesses, blasters, etc. as submitted by everyone who wanted to be a part of this. If I didn't get to you, feel free to post a reply here with your assessment of yourself as a water warrior so that everyone else can include you on their team!
I will post the team roster in a few hours. I will also be releasing some rules of the upcoming fight and details about the location, but not a lot is known about that yet. Put together some type of organization for the team and write a response on how you'll prepare everyone over the next 2 weeks for the big battle!
