Age of Empires III (Wednesday Gaming)

Tonight, we had Bethany, Courtney, Nicholas, Matt, Joe, George, and myself.

Our first map was the lama run again. We ended up running in two teams. Courtney, Nick, Mat, and CPU, vs me, Bethany, and 2 CPUs. Everyone but myself ran way ahead to kill things and get through the map quickly. I stayed behind and killed all the units to level up quickly, again. :-D. Then when Nick and Courtney were getting bashed by the Bust of George Washington and several rows of canons. I ran up from the back to remove two canons in a few seconds. Then Bethany and I charged the lama. We won. :-)

Our next map was another custom map called Mountain Run. It was Bethany, Courtney, Nick, Mat, and myself against two computers on moderate. We all had equal resource gathering built up and worked on making sure we had some sort of army together. I was Russian, Bethany and Courtney were English, Nick was Dutch and Matt was Spanish. I had 13 Stretlets and 4 Cossacks that I was maintaining our 'army' with while Bethany and Courtney worked on gather wood for our team wall. Matt was fishing and Nick was gathering all the buffalo he could find. I was advancing to age III when the Spanish CPU attacked in FULL force. About 20 halberds and 10 Rifleman who mowed threw my Stretlets and Cossacks. With the army down, I tried to rally everyone but the French CPU hit us from below with a similar force and killed off Nick and Bethany before we could rally a defense. The loss was swift and painful.

Group decision for the next game was something quick and easily learned. They asked for some Halo. I agreed. We setup the map for a few rounds of Blood Gulch on Team Slayer. It was Bethany, Courtney, and Nick against Mat and I for several rounds while Joe was patching. Mat and I were hanging in there while Bethany tried to run us over. The map ended in a win for Mat and I, but barely. It was 50 to 39.

The second map was a custom map where I added ALL the vehicles and had it set to Heavy Weapons. We also had infinite grenades. We played a few times in Blood Gulch where we killed with the scorpions and the banshees. Mat was great at flying the banshee but I was on the other team with Joe so, I sniped him out of the sky with the scorpion. That map was won by Joe and I but that was because Courtney and Nick were running suicides with the rocket launchers for fun.

The third map was on the Death Canyon map where we flew around in banshees. Mat, and I versus Courtney, Nick and Bethany. They (Nick, Bethany and Courtney), playing suicide bombers with each other in the team buildings with the grenades, flame throwers and rocket launches after I turned off team-killing. Mat and I killed them every now and then with some frags down the tunnel or a well placed rocket, but the map ended from a time-out before we could kill them enough.

The final map was a quick death match in the small Beaver Creek map. We just threw grenades and hid in the streams while killing each other. Courtney was enjoying the ability to make herself fly sky high with her own rocket launcher. She would shoot the ground wherever she was at. Nick and Bethany made up for much of her suicides though, while Mat and I attempted to kill both Nick and Bethany. I also attempted to get to Courtney before she got to herself. :-D. Needless to say, Nick and I won, but it was about 30 seconds before the map ended from a time out. There were LARGE explosions and several bodies flew high in the air.

After the final map of Halo, both Courtney and Nick had to leave. Bethany, Mat, and I played two quick matches in Battlefield 2 against bots. We were on the Daiqan Oil Fields and were USA. We won both maps, the first one was about 127 - 0 and the second was about 173 - 0. Each map, Bethany and I teamed up and she was medic while I was Spec. Ops. We worked well and took several flags each time until we had them all. Mat was continually sniping the first map and did quite well. He killed about 23 people. The second map he spent a lot of time flying a helicopter and crashing. Twice with me as the gunner. Which, needless to say, was extremly difficult going sideways and upside down. All in all, it was great fun and everyone had a blast.