Wastel wrote: - The rain thing. I don't mean "the rain sucks", but I DO mean that why people (who are not children!) can't prepare for rain?
We're all children Wastel! Never forget that!
Anyway, moving on! This was my first Berget Event! Diamid and the others in J.A.R had been pestering me to join in (alright, I'll admit it! I really really really wanted to go!!!) since they had room for one more. Since I had already heard many good things, seen good photographs and having played airsoft for around six months I though "Why not?" I've Roleplayed for a odd number of years and tried LARP'ing as well so I thought this might be a lot of fun.
We got there two days early. That's right, Monday evening / night! If anyone saw the housetent standing near the main parkinglot with the Rising Sun flag and shifty looking Vikings prowling around it? Yepp, that was us! We were to meet up with Mr.Medic so we could coordinate, communicate and plan a bit ahead to how things would be at least in our team. Sadly, the instrument panel in one of his cars stopped working so he got a bit late. No biggie anyway. We eventually managed to met up and had that civilian Pow-Wow before gamestart as well.
I remember vividly the first evening. We were out and about, Reconing the Poldovian positions. Didn't take long for us to hit a roadblock. Eventually we had to leave our vehicles and escape on foot. We walked for what seemed to be forever and half of J.A.R got taken out by a - / + 100 strong Poldovian force. Nice start! When we eventually got home, we were immediatly sent on a mission to escort three Mercenaries who had managed to secure a "box" (A part of "The Cake". Sounds familiar Poldovians?). Again, much walking but eventually we managed to bring it back safe and sound, unnoticed! I remember when Mr.Medic told us about his conversation with Berget Crew.
"What.. YOU have that? You aren't supposed to have that?!"
Priceless.
The morning after I started feeling my feet acting up. The rain as well as not being that used to walking that much in the field quickly took it's toll on them. Luckily, Diamid had brought a First Aid kit with some Zink Tape which helped a bit! I know I already said thanks mate, but here's another one! Nonetheless I told my commander and my team that I'd most likely become a partial and mostly only conduct missions involving vehicles and defense. And of course... Being a part of the demonstration which was a huge success!
As the days passed, I slowly but surely managed to slide into my role and how things worked. Sure, I had read the rules and the background but there's a difference in reading and playing it. I found people generally to be friendly, polite and helpful if I had questions. A big kudoes to Mr.Medic, Viper and the rest of the Sixth Mercs. Without teamwork and friendship, things wouldn't have gone as well as they did for our team!
Then the rain.... Oh god the rain. I have to admit that when my feet were sore, everything was wet and on top of that I was cold and we had no stove in our tent that my morale was low. On top of that we started to wonder what was going on up in the Civilian camp. Everyone seemed to either be a Poldovian collaborator or PsyOps. Even though it was clearly stated at the Civvie Pow-Wow that people should stay away from the Poldavians. I don't know what happened and I won't speculate. I'm only gonna say that people weren't that happy with how things were around then. Nevertheless, a good shower, some warm food, clean socks, ponchos and SPORTS TAPE boosted our morale and we returned! Eventually managed to make a firepit in our tent too! Safety was of course our number 1 concern as one of our teammates is a fireman.
I'll never forget us selling a teammember to the Drugdealers up in the Civilian Camp for 50 Berget Dollars as well as buying a pound of "Cocaine" from them.... It proved useful when we found out where the Poldavians got their water from. Specially when the ones from J.A.R who came up with the idea of buying drugs informed Mr.Medic
Yepp, Sixth Mercs poisoned you Poldies!! HAH!
Securing the Supply points under the nose of the Poldavians during nighttime went well. I only joined those operations during the last night but it was a lot of fun.
Then we have us securing the Nuclear Scientist, us becoming friends with a certain "Gypsy"
, the "Box" with "THE CAKE IS A LIE!" / "THERE IS NO CAKE!" notes and the gold theft. Pure awesome. The fact that Berget Crew had to "cheat" to make the story progress proves that the Sixth Mercs did their job well.
Now to Pros and Cons:
Pros:
+ First Berget Event for me! I'm sure to return!
+ Nice people, friendly players as well as good LARPing!
+ Great location. Logistics Out of Game as well as In Game was easy I'd say!
+ Sixth Mercs. Awesome bunch of people. Great leadership and cooperation! Mr.Medic, Viper. *salute* I hope I get to team up with you guys again under your leadership!
+ J.A.R - You guys... I love you and you know it!
Cons:
- Lack of a Civilian town had a great impact. I had heard about that great City from Berget 7 and how awesome it was. A small rag-tag village would have been great!
- People aiming for the head. I found this to be incredibly senseless. We're here to play, not to intentionally attempt to harm people! I got a few BB's in my face as well as others in the Sixth Mercs. Aim for the body or limbs please!
- No stove in our tent made things hard when the rain started pouring. Berget Crew were asked to find one for us but to my knowledge they didn't get back to us regarding that matter.
- I didn't tap any of my batteries, however there was no charging station near our camps. We had to walk down to the safesone if we wanted to do this and be there until we were done charging our stuff. Seeing how few we already were in numbers, this was a severe disadvantage in case anything happened.
- Poldavians using Woodland made the game unfair to some aspect seeing they outnumbered NAF. When people started leaving due to the conditions in the camps, this made their advantage stand out even more.
- Medium Con here; Planning from Berget Event regarding the new area as well as how to deal with the unexpected. The Sixth Mercs managed to do a lot of things that were not expected of them. I laughed when I heard that you had to cheat to make the story progress again. Not saying that you should have stood idly and watched but then again it could have been done differently. We were already paranoid and that little stunt with the Scientist didn't make it better.
My two øre. Thanks for the event and I hope we'll meet again for Berget 9!