You know Targan, when I woke up the next day I jumped online with the intention of deleting that post of mine that seems to have upset you so much. I thought to myself,
that was really stupid letting him get to you like that, and by responding as you did you'll have only derailed the thread yet again. Then I saw a few more posts in the thread and that it was back on track and that you hadn't said anything about my post so I left it up.
It was a bit childish I know. That's also why I allmost deleted it. But you're absolutely right when you say I must have misunderstood you, because I did.
When you said "...I have no intention of ever playing in any online campaigns like it." I read that as a specific attack on the game I enjoy playing in. If you truly meant to say "I have no intention of ever playing in an online game" then that is what you should have said. Adding
like it to the end of your sentence means you are specifically referring to the online game I play in.
You then went on to needlessly add, "If other's like that sort of campaign good for them. Each to their own."
Given the context I understood from your previous sentence how was I to interpret this other than: I don't like that campaign. ?
You then went on to make a huge assumption- and you know the thing with assuming don't you ass+u+me - That was that our GM has set all his player's up for failure and that we players are pointlessly wasting our time playing if it's all just predetermined that we're going to be killed off.
Well... how could I react to that?
Then you finnished by saying you'd quit.
So yes, I really really really misunderstood you because what I understood your post to be saying was: I wouldn't play in that game. I don't like that style of campaign, and if I wasn't getting what I wanted from the game I'd quit.
Which to my mind was threadcrapping and trolling, particularly as your post appeared to actually add nothing on topic with regards to tactics.
I was infact so pissed off myself instead of posting what I did I allmost pm'ed Kato to see if I could get your post deleted.
So congratulations to both of us. We've managed to really piss each other off.
For my part in it I'm really sorry it occurred.
I'm really really sorry that Chalklines thread has been twisted, turned, hijacked, and derailed.
What I'm not sorry about is defending the game I play in and the people who also play in it with me. As Kato much more elegantly pointed out, we get very attached to
our game.
So Targan can we shake hands and call it even?
I know you have a long history of roleplaying. I know you've served in the reserves. I know you're widely read on matters of military history and tactics. So I invite you to comment on the topic at hand if you have an opinion it. If you don't, because as you stated in your response, you don't care about it enough, then I invite you to reconsider posting in a manner that may be misinterpreted, and I'll endeavour in the future to do the same.
And, just so that I myself am not completely off topic...
Yes the fight is allready underway. We reached the outskirts of the town before light, having suffered a dusk ambush on the way. We waited untill light to move the bulk of our forces in. We really haven't had any time to set up mines, or booby traps etc allthough as a player I've made it clear I wanted to. We have a mortar and some ammunition for it but our radios are being jammed. SSD-1109 does stand for Special Signals Detatchment afterall. We took harrassing sniper fire during the morning and have now lost one fire team from an aggressive probe which we are repelling now, with even more casualties
The situation does indeed look grim but we've been in grim situations before.
Personally I wouldn't have gotten involved in the spy angle re the valuable intel and it occurred ingame before I, Raellus, or Chalkline joined the game.