I'd been a bit disenchanted the last couple of times I went to my usual site, lots of moaning players which pulls the mood down and then I got one of my front teeth busted on a battlesim day which sucked. Wear a mask people!
Anyway I'm pleased to report that yesterday was hugely enjoyable despite my team getting roughly handled throughout the day. We had quite a lot of timid players and no Major Pushup to encourage them!
I took my new (I know) Specna Core M249 and was pleasantly surprised by it. I was able to suppress the other team pretty consistently though quite a lot of the time I was doing it so I could move as opposed to my team mates moving. It does lack enough range to compete with some of the better weapons on the field though which made advancing a little tricky at times. I wasn't quite prepared for the different weight distribution though, it got to be pretty hard work advancing with it shouldered. More time in the gym required
Highlights include a classic YouTube "M249 SAW Destroys Enemy Team" style victory on defence against a crew of five or six that just couldn't move once I'd pinned them and I whittled them down one-by-one after that, I was then promptly shot obviously since I was loudly shouting for support that never came! I got a bush-wookie out from under a bush, my first sniper taken out too. In another first I crossed a path and started laying down fire from the safety of some ferns until the ferns stabbed me... I came back as quickly as I could and asked repeatedly if the sniper in the ferns was gone to a chorus of yeses even when I shot the bush to indicate here he was. I advanced back to where I was and the ferns shot me with a pistol...
So despite being on the losing side all day I had a great day with some superb moments, no grumbling about hit taking or cheating this weekend which was good and a nice feeling of sportsmanship endured