Steppa
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Posted - 2005.09.17 22:22:00 -
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We play a version of "capture the flag" with newb ships and the civilian gear only.
You pre-position three jet cans, one named Blue Base, one named Red Base, and one called The Field. It's up to you how far you space them, but we put both red and blue 10k from the Field can in the middle. All should be on the same horizontal plane.
Inside the Field can, you put a bookmark or some other thing, maybe a single 5m3 module or ammo, that you refer to as the "flag". Both teams start within opening distance of their own "base" flag.
The goal is to get the flag and put it in the other team's base can. This, obviously, means rushing to the middle, grabbing the flag and fighting your way through the other team to their can.
The first time we played, there were no rules other than the fact that you could only fly newb ships with the gear they have on them (I cheated and mounted TWO civilian blasters :) ). We quickly learned that there need to be a few basic rules.
1) One minmatar newb ship per side unless ALL are in minmatar newb ships.
2) You need a ref with a ship scanner (cuz of me), or one member from each team with a ship scanner. A ref with an remote armor repper is also very useful.
3) You have to disallow anyone, particularly the flag carrier, from warping out. During our second match, their flag carrier warped away and warped back in on the other side of the objective can, thus getting around our defense.
It's a great game! Everyone's speed is about the same. Everyone's weaponry is about as damaging. Real tactics actually come into play.
We were going to try a different version of this game a week later, in which you could mount any un-named tech 1 item on your ship that you wanted, as long as it was a newb ship...OR...you could mount any number of "civilian" modules on your newb ship.
We couldn't do it because our entire region erupted into war the next week. Anyhoo...try it out. We never had bigger than five on five, and that was a blast! Make sure you ahve a good supply of newb ships in your hanger if you want the fun to keep going.
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