Sunday, June 10, 2007, 11:59 PM
Today I headed out to meet up with my friends at zion, apparently, reliving the good old days of uncle's shop. Haha!
Met up with Sharon, her bro, Jonathan and Rod at 12noon at zion itself. Oli came in a few minutes after me, nevertheless to start playing warcraft3 with Sharon. Jonathan, Rod and I decided to play some Command&Conquer3, and we owned the computer so many times you couldn't even say "Ion Cannon Ready". =)
At about 1.40 plus, Oli left for her drum lessons at Tampines, and the rest of us headed to Roxy Square for lunch, but Sharon and Jonathan weren't eating as they would be going home soonafter to pack for their trip to Genting. *Hope you enjoy yourselves there! Take care and God bless!* So Rod and I, seeing that we had a lot more time till 4pm where we were supposed to meet up with the others again at zion, decided to send Sharon and Jonathan back to Bedok.
At about 4, Rod and I took the shuttle bus from Bedok Interchange to Parkway Parade, and we made our way to zion from there. Then a person came up to us, asking us to help him with a questionaire about christianity. We had a rather long conversation about Jesus Christ, Mother Mary etc. No sparks flew, but otherwise we exchanged views, even though Rod was a christian but had told the dude that he was a catholic. -_-" Oh well...didn't really know why he did that.
On to the biggest story of the day: Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
We had a small match in the game C&C3. Three on Three.
Furt, Oli and me VS Rod, Terrence and Ben
And I must say, even though Oli is totally new to the game, she played it excellently.
Match Player Races:
Furt - Scrin Rod - Scrin
Oli - GDI Ben - GDI
Me - NOD Terrence - NOD
Well this is how it basically went: We all started off almost the same style. Most of us built a crane for an extra construction panel, where we can build a tiberium refinery and a power plant at the same time. Then a Barracks. From there, I'd use the extra construction panel to my greatest advantage. Next two buildings were the War Factory and the Command Post. Next is Tech Centre then Ion Cannon Control Centre(GDI) or Temple of NOD(NOD's Nuke).
And that was where the other team got caught by surprise. I noticed that they were still building up their War Factory and/or base defenses and there they hear or see that a nuclear missle silo has been detected. Then I did what most NOD players would do to irritate and cause miscommunication among the enemy. Launch a radar-jamming missle, forcing them to scroll across the battlefield to observe areas for tiberium or enemy etc.
And indeed it did cause my enemies to get irritated. Ben practically started cursing at me when I kept jamming their radars. Oh and when all three of them threw all the air units on my base, I managed to jam their radars and built two SAM Sites and a stealth generator at the same time, which proved to be effective in wipping out some of their units together with my base defenses that were already up.
And because of my early dispatch of my nuke silo, they decided to completely destroy me. Rod brought 30 Planetary Assault Carriers, Terrence brought quite a large number of NOD Venoms and Ben bombarded me with his Firehawk bombers, which inevitably led to my defeat. So sad, only know how to gang up on me. But my defenses did hold out for quite a long time, SAM site here and a SAM site there, managing to reduce Rod's Carriers from 30 down to 24 with Oli helping to destroy another 4 carriers. Terrence lost quite a few number of Venoms, but they were deadly as they were meant to be. Ben lost almost no units because he did air strikes and an Ion Cannon on my Temple of Nod, disabling my Nuke for a second time after its first destruction.
And the game went on without my aid, leading to the defeat of my team and the victory of the enemy. And now, Oli is hoping that there can be another match like this again, because she really enjoyed that match though she didn't do as well as she thought she would do.
Until then, I'm off. Ciao!
*I plan on organising another outing to zion for the C&C3 group to enjoy a match against each other, since everyone, including me enjoyed it.*
