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First Campaign
I clinched my CPS 2100 closer to my shoulder and
swept it to my left eyeing the folaige to my left along the path.
Even though it was a very cool day of only 65 degrees I had already
begun
to sweat, or maybe it was just the humidity. It had rained for
almost
a whole week intermittently prior to today, and the terain was
saturated.
Listening for enemy movements I led my squad along the path towards
Mueller
Drive. We
had left two grunts back at base with a Max D Secret Shot and a
modified
CPS 1-3-5 to gaurd the 100 or so waterballoons stored there. My
squad
hugged the right flank of the battlefield, we were to manuever through
the lowlands and then cross the road, head up hill through my yard and
attack the enemies critical rigth flank, which held the impenetrable
Fort
Salamandastron, originally constructed by my own team. The other
squad which was on our left, under my good friend Cory (deadeye from
V7)
was to cross the road and hug the opposite side of the creek and travel
through the lowlands there to attack the enemy right flank. As
soon
as we crossed into my yard we spotted the enemy. They had only
left
a squad of three in the Tree Fort, the rest of the base was
undefended.
This was a critical mistake, and we saw it. Fort Salamandastron
had
been built for a minimum of 8 deffenders, at which it was almost
impossible
to take, as demonstrated in Vermin War 3. However 3 soldiers
would
be stuck up in the tree fort and could easily be surrounded. Our
squad ran to the cluster of trees on the right side of the Fort and
immediately
opened up with well aimed shots. I took out a grunt with a Storm
2200e and a grunt with a Max D 5000 with two well aimed shots.
The
other soldier jumped out of the fort and was able to run to safety
before
we could catch him.
With the enemy's left flank defences eliminated
we could rush downhill through the woods towards the creek where the
enemy
center was concentrated. While rechecking our supplies and
regrouping
before heading downhill we were reinforced by legendary sniper and
grenedier
Mathew Shaftner and his CPS 2100. At this point my squad
currently
consisted of Matt who was 14, myself at 15 both with CPS 2100s, Seth
who
was 10 and armed with an SC 500, and Alanna who was 14 with her Max D
6000.
At this point things were not fairing as well on the other side of the
battlefield. The enemy commander had come up with a superb
counter
to Cory's engenious flanking attack. Instead of confronting their
squad head on he pulled back his troops into a bamboo thicket a little
over ten yards from the creek bed. This way Cory's squad had to
either
jump across the gully which contained the creek or climb into it and
climb
back out on the other side. Either way would hinder them from
acurately
firing their weapons and or dodging; just at the right range for enemy
riflemen to pick them off with CPS fire. Which is exactly what
happened.
Crystal and Sarah charged towards the creek and forced an enemy soldier
to retreat, but then when they tried to ford the Creek a radical enemy
soldier jumped up from the bushes. This guy was crazy, he was
wearing
a ski mask, full camo, facepaint, a painted CPS 1200, an old school SS
50, and 2 XP 220s attached by holsters around his waist. He cut
the
girls down with two easy shots from his CPS 1200. Suddenly the
enemy
leader took his squad, which was the enemy center and reinforced the
enemy
flank then pushed across the creek towards cory's decimated
group.
The enemy quickly overan them and killed everyone but Cory, who they
forced
back through someones yard and up their driveway. Then he pulled
off an awesome maneuver. With the huge CPS 3200 Cory got a shot
off
at the enemy, although it didnt hit anyone it stalled them. Then
he took off on a maniacal run right past the enemy and jumped over the
creek and right past the enemy lines up to our squad coming down the
hill.
What should have happened next was a huge collission
since the enemy center and right flank had combined (and their left
flank
was destroyed) and Cory had combined with our reinforced squad.
Yet
I decided not to crush the enemy for fear that this war would be an
insane
victory for us and that nobody on their team would want to come back
next
time. I couldn't have been any further from the truth. So
instead
we went all the way back all the way to the fort and got the two other
girls. On the way back to the battle grounds we were ambushed in
our own territory. The enemy leader and the three remaining
Vermin
hid in the bushes along the path and opened up CPS fire on our
troops.
A
few of the girls panicked and we stalled unable to go back because of
the
panick at the back, and unable to go forward or else we'd run into the
enemy's shots. I learned NEVER to put newbies as rear
gaurds!
Three of the girls were hit, and then we were able to move
backwards.
I ran to the left and hid behind a bush with Matt as Emily and a few
others
shot at the enemy straight on. Then we made our move, jumping up
behind the enemy we opened fire with our 2100s. Matt killed one
of
the Vermin but then was hit by a headshot from the enemy leader who I
quickly
took out with a shot to the thigh. The two remaining soldiers ran
to the tree fort with their Storm rifles before I could get our team
together
to chase them.
Once we got to the Fort we teamed up with Cory and
attacked. Astonishingly their Storm Rifles were able to hit us
hard.
None of the girls had any courage to attack the fort at first so Cory
and
I shot into the tree fort with our CPSs. However we were unable
to
hit them as they were hiding behind the walls. There was only one
way to kill them, mass assault. Emily took her Max D Secret
Strike
and led a gallant charge against the fort. Yet for some reason
the
newbies didn't follow orders and Cory had other plans. We turned
around to see that we were the only ones charging the fort... too late,
before we got in range to hit them they had already soaked us.
Soon
afterwards the survivors on both sides called a truce as there was no
way
we could kill them in the tree fort and they would be killed if they
tried
to get out of the tree fort since they were surrounded.
Seccond Campaign
We had decided to play deffencive this time, with so many newbies it
was impossible to coordinate a good offencive movement. Matt and
Jacob crouched in the brush about 50 meters from the path in the brush
on top of the hill about 250 meters in front of the fort. I
crouched
in the bushes paralell to them and about 200 meters to their left with
my 2100. The idea was that the enemy would come between us and
we'd
take them out before they got to the fort. Sure enough we heard
their
warcries as they charged up the hill through the canebreak and bamboo
towards
us. The enemy seccond in command was leading the way with his
captured
CPS 3200, the legendary Animal, the same 3200 owned by XN used in
Dominator
War 2 and Vermin Wars VI and VII (luckily I got it back after the
battle)
. Immediately Matt and Jacob began raining waterballoons on their
advancing column. However most of the balloons exploded
harmlessly
on the folaige above the enemy. Jacob krept up closer and hurled
their last balloon straight into the enemy this time instead of lobbing
it. It found its mark. The balloon hit a kid carrying a Max
D 5000 and knocked him down! I took advantage of this moment to
attack
the faltering column before they overan Matt and Jacob. Jumping
up
I screamed a warcry and charged straight into the enemy and opened fire
into the enemy ranks. A few of the enemy greenies ran away from
me
and I shot one of them down before their seccond in command (who had
much
more charisma then their leader) rallied them. All of that
happened
in 5 short secconds. I high tailed it out of there with shots
coming
inches from my back. However it had worked, Jacob and Matt
escaped
into the underbrush away from the enemy and I had killed their third in
command.Running
back to the fort I yelled "They're coming! They're coming!" and
then
took position in front of the fort. The enemy column was less
than
a minute behind me and charged up the hill into the woods at us
screaming.
The kid with the SC 500 in the bunker ahead of our fort was discovered
immediately. The enemy seccond in command jumped on top of the
mound
in front of him while the kid shot at enemy soldiers behind him.
The poor guy turned around to see the enemy seccond in command in front
of him screaming; but before he could fire he was hit by two
waterballoons
and a huge 20x beam that knocked the dude back. At the same time
I fended off a few eager enemy greenies who charged ahead of the rest
of
the group but as soon as Red Scorpion opened fire on them ran. I
realized I'd make it better inside the fort walls. Where was
Jacob
and Matt? It shouldnt't take this long to get back to the fort,
we
still had tons of waterballoons left inside it anyways. The enemy
was upon us and the only veteran I had with me was Cristina. The
carnage, or I should say the soaking was immense! The newbies
that
did keep charging were blasted back by a torrent of water from all of
us
behind the walls firing at the same time. However the more
experienced
enemy soldiers attacked from the sides and lured our newbies outside
the
walls of the fort. Unable to fire back they rushed out only to be
surrounded and soaked.
My friend ran up to her boyfriend who was the enemy
commander command and tried to slam a waterballoon on him. It
backfired
and he took the waterballoon and smashed it on her head. I fealt
kind of awkward because even though I could have shot him it would have
created a conflict of interest. Just then Matt and Jacob arrived
on the scene and ran right past the enemy from behind and jumped over
the
low back walls and down into the fort. Taking waterballoons they
helped to stall the enemy assault...at least momentarily. The
enemy
was raining down water onto the greenies who were running about like
chickens
with their heads cut off, it was horrible. Every minute one of
them
would be out and soon we were just down to 5 soldiers. We then
decided
we had to take the fight to the enemy. I charged out the gate and
shot the first enemy soldier in site. For a few secconds they
backed
off and it seemed like we had broken through, but they regrouped and
met
us with firm resistance. Cristina was on the edge of the squad
using
a modified 1-3-5 when a radical with a CPS 1200, SS 50, and 2 XP 220s
took
her out. Matt turned around and shot him with his 2100 but he was
taken out by the enemy seccond in command. I charged him, and
just
as he turned around he tripped and fell on his back. Pumping
frantically,
he tried to get a shot off at me with his 3200 but
it was too late I had a balloon in each hand and I nailed him
twice
then shot him in the chest with a 5x beam for good measure. It
was
just Jacob and I now and we were pushed back to the fort. The enemy
commander
jumped over the low walls at the back of the fort and grabbed our
waterballoons.
"BROKEN ARROW!" Too late, it didn't matter we both knew it and
there
was nothing we could do to stop it. I took out the enemy
commander
but was shot by another soldier. Jacob ran away to our backup
fort
but it didn't matter, they had our main fort, and he was the only one
left,
that campaign was over.
Third Campaign
We decided that after they took our fort the best
thing we could do was to attack theirs. Since after each battle
everybody
gets regenerated so to speak (until they get shot in the next battle)
we
got reorganized to attack. After walking back to my house the
enemy
saw our intentions and withdrew back to their fort. They set up a
defencive perimeter on the opposite side of the creek before their
fort.
Instead of attacking their fort we decided to flank them. I sent
Jacob and Matt to create a diversion directly in front of the enemy and
pick off anyone who tried to cross the creek. While they took off
I took the rest of the team down a path to the right of the enemy and
prepared
to cross the creek and attack them from behind. However before we
got to the ford we encountered an enemy sentry post set up behind a
wall
on the path. We assaulted the two sentries who signalled that we
were here. At first they put up a good fight since they were
behind
the wall, and peppered us with flour bombs, but then we overpowered
them
and they took off running. I ran ahead of the rest of the team
and
shot them both in the back

Soon we joined Jacob and Matt who had kept the enemy team
from crossing the creek. Both teams took positions behind trees
and
soon a barrage of water was going back and forth across the creek. The
enemy began to move into the canebreak to the left to get better hiding
position. To let them do this would make it alot harder for us to
hit them. We hadn't lost a single person yet, but the next idea
was
very risky. In order to keep them out of it we'd either have to
take
the cain break or annihilate them, and to do that meant to cross the
creek.
I
called everyone to a huddle out of the range of enemy fire although
they
kept shooting at us. After everyone got the gameplan we pumped up
and took an initial volley and then charged across the creek. The enemy
was vulnerable because they were not behind the trees anymore nor where
they in the canebrake yet. We lost 2 grunts but we pushed them
back.
The enemy commander tried to rally his troops but I shot him in the
back.
Crystal gunned down the seccond in command with her Max D 5000 and the
few people unsoaked ran off to the road. We were free to take
their
fort, and not only that but they had left ours as well!
Fourth Campaign
The last battle happened when we went back to our
fort. Jacob had to go, and since he and Matt usually were our
scouts/snipers
I had to take their place even though I was commander. Soon I saw
that the enemy was trailing us and we quickly formulated a plan.
We decided to high tail it and actually leave the fort open and hide
nearby
to ambush them. I chose Eric and Wes as Snipers since they were
veterans
and both had 1200s.
The
area we chose to hide in was a cherry thicket and was very thick.
We watched the enemy come up the hill to the right of the fort.
Just
when we thought we had them Eric and Wes gave us away! They got
up
out of the bunker and ran towards us. Even still we were able to
keep some surprise. The enemy went over to our fort and inspected
it. Then all of a sudden we let out a long Waaooooohhhhh and
rushed
through the woods straight towards them. The enemy seccond in
command
was way out ahead of everyone else with his 3200. He shot
three
of our soldiers in 10 secconds before I brought him down with a 5x
blast!
The enemy seccond in command was to the right and was dodging
everything
and firing back with 1.5x shots from his Max D 6000. He wasn't so
affective this time, Eric and Wes kept him at bay with their
1200s.
Just
then the enemy radical broke through our ranks with a CPS 1200 in one
hand
and a fully pumped SS 50 in the other. Emily tried to bring him
down
with her XP Tripple Play, but he easily dodged her shot and blasted her
with both his weapons. I took out another soldier with a head
blast
that I later regreted (it hurt his eyes). As soon as I turned
around
an old enemy, Kacy, shot me straight on with a CPS 1000. However
Eric and Wes wouldn't go down without a fight. Eric ran ahead of
Wes and dropped down positioning himself to take out anyone coming
along
the path who might follow. Sure enough the enemy came running
after
Wes, who ran right by Eric. When the enemy came in range Eric
fired
bursts of 5x beams into there ranks hitting two vermin. The four
remaining vermin fell back and reorganized. Eric and Wes took off
into the woods, the only Commandos left, outnumbered two to one.
Wes rummaged through his bag of equipedment as Eric watched out for the
enemy. "I've got three shots and a smokebomb, that's it."
Wes
admitted. "I've got one shot in my 1200 and Marauder's SS 40,
it's
fully loaded." Eric replied (he wrote this part since I Marauder was
shot).
We
decided to get behind this wrecked car that was outside the pinewoods,
in a sort of mixed hardwood forest. Not only did it offer
shelter,
but the enemy had to run out into a 50 yard clearing between the
pinewoods
and this hardwood forest to get us...excelent for target
practice.
In all my training and wars I've fought in I'd never seen such lovely
ground.
tank into Wes' 1200 to give him a few more shots. Taking the SS
40
and Wes' smoke bomb I hid behind the tail end of the car. Soon we
saw the enemy running towards us, but they stopped at the end of the
pinewoods.
A 2100, Max D 6000, CPS 1000, and CPS 2700, I counted. They had
to
be low on water though, if we were they had to be. Just then the
dude with the 2700 rushed up and fired a 10x blast at us, they had seen
us after all! Wes smashed the window on his side of the car (the
other window on their side was broken) and returned fire with a 5x
blast
that just missed the dude. "FOUR SHOTS!" Wes yelled.
Just then the whole squad charged us and opened fire, drenching the
vehicle,
but hitting neither of us. I returned fire with my SS 40, but
nobody
was hit. The soldiers with CPS guns dropped them and pulled out
side
arms, an SS 30 and an SS 50...Kacy had no backup gun. They had
run
out of water! Now was the time! While they were pumping
their
guns I through my smokebomb amongst them (Marauder who had been
watching
took a picture). Wes and I jumped onto the hood/trunk of the car
(probably a bad idea) and jumped off, charging them and going all out
with
our last shots. Kacy had turned since Marauder had the flash on,
and I shot him with the SS 40. Wes fired a sweeping stream that
hit
two of the others. The guy with the SS 30 tripped and fell and I
soaked him with a torrent of classic Supersoaker fire as I pumped and
shot
at the same time. We had done it! It was over, they were
annihilated!
Pictures from after the battle...
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