Warhawk Diaries: Up and Atom
Nov 11th, 2008 by Los Havros
“Because every soldier keeps a diary, right? Right?!”
Continuing with my mixed fortune on the green servers, I fancied another game of ‘zones’. Out of all the game types, ‘zones’ has to be my favourite. I don’t know whether it’s my play style, or whether I just seem to have so much fun in it. I like to play a ‘zones’ match as often as I can, because it just seems to hit the spot and satisfies my gaming needs. The objective is just so simple: capture as many zones as you can, and the team with the most zones wins. It’s kind of like a gigantic tug of war and there seems to be many different strategies involved. Intriguing…
Mixing it up
Alas, one day all the ‘zones’ servers were full, so I had to make do with another game mode. The next mode I played for quite some time was ‘Collection’, in which you’ve got to collect as many radioactive cores at one, without getting killed, then returning the cores back to base to score. Something like that. I participated in a varied number of different games: some chock-full of players, and some mostly empty. I used the empty games to familiarise myself fully with how the game type worked both in theory and in practice! On the quieter games I collected the cores myself, whereas on the busier games I mainly took the role of transport, and provided covering fire in my big, badass tank 
Overall, ‘Collection’ is fun, but not as fun as ‘Zones’.
The old classic, ‘Capture the Flag’ offers up some quality action as well. Plenty of dogfights, and tank battles. Some quite amusing deaths as well, with players often not making the return journey back to base with the flag. I’ll skip over ‘deathmatch’ and ‘team deathmatch’ as I can honestly say I don’t spend much time on those game modes.
In the zone, baby
It was another day or two before the ‘Zones’ servers weren’t full any more. Bad timing, or just bad luck? Anyhow, I was back where I belonged. I remember this one game quite vividly: I was on the Eucadia map, and my usual mix of flying the Warhawk, manning the turrets, and driving my faithful tank simply wasn’t working. I was being hosed wherever I went. Then came one of those moments of inspiration which was a cross between having a vivid flashback, and seeing your old mentor, Obi Wan Kenobi, telling to to use the force. In my case I had been playing a friend on the Eucadia map a few days ago one-on-one. He trounced me by using proximity mines.
Enough day-dreaming. I headed to an area I knew where I could stock up on some supplies of proximity mines. I then headed to a particularly well-defended outpost which I hoped I could capture for my team. After being killed several times by walking in the front door, I used a back road and dropped behind their buildings from the top of a hill. I then went and waged guerilla warfare. I placed proximity mines at each door in their building complex. I can’t tell you how satisfying it was after leaving that area to see many names being ‘killed by LosHavros’, flashing up on the screen. Unfortunately, we didn’t win the battle, but in my mind I had won my own little skirmish.
Till next time, when there will be more tales from the Ruined Capitol and The Badlands.
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