This is an original article, reporting on a forum post. Any other reports on this posting may appear similar, but are in fact separate stories entirely.This is a post from the players' forum that generated quite a lot of attention, including mine. It was so entertaining, that Molly requested that I post it as a news article on the Galaxy Gathering site; I am doing just that, however, I really see no need to edit it. It is fantastic all on it's own.
THIS IS THE SECOND HALF OF THE THREAD.....MAKE SURE TO READ PART ONE FIRST!....
1645 Hours
A message from the Exiles congratulating us for the Gold. Is it real? Or is it a trap to lull us into complacency?
“Welp, congrats on your gold. It was over as soon as we gave up more than a few offensive losses. You can't give away points like that when you're already assuming you've given away free points with the low level guys.”
Jason Smith
“I'm not buying it”
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1750 Hours
Brandon Cascio
“103 79”
David Feagle
“well here they come”
Adam Bensley
“exiles are on a bit of a run”
Debbie Cole
“Will we hold them off?”
Brandon Cascio
“depends if they keep giving defense wins.”
Debbie Cole
“I see their top guy with 1 left with Jeff, 2 with me, 1 with Mike and maybe 1 with Frank”
Jason Smith
“Damn, if xxxxx had waited just 1 more hour, I might have had him.”
The second Exiles offensive came close to breaching our lines. Only the tired formations of Debbie Cole, David Feagle, Adam Bensley and Jason Smith managed to make any counterattacks. The score was 109-92. We had only a dangerously thin lead of 17 points.
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1945 hours
Finally some good news from the front! Michael Telladira’s formation launched a mad suicidal attack on the enemy positions and gained us additional 5 points lead!
But there were not much joy in the celebrations, for our reserves were seriously depleted.
Michael Telladira
“who else has points for us?”
Brandon Cascio
“No more sure wins but might have 2.”
Joshua Magsino
“sir jeff hadnt made his runs didnt he?”
“oops, he did”
And then we noticed Exiles were making mistakes. Was it desperation? Or carelessness? No time to waste! Strike now!
Michael Telladira
“they gave us 3 more def wins”
Michael Telladira
“GUYS”
“XXXXX”
“OUT OF FORMATION”
Joshua Magsino
“COPY!”
Michael Telladira
“HURRY BUT DOUBLE CHECK BEFORE”
Joshua Magsino
“shot!”
Daniel Chung
“dammit he switched back”
Joshua Magsino
“hes planning to attack some 50 tonner”
Daniel Chung
“take note of xxxxx, he might switch formation again.”
Daniel Chung
“damn... he did switch but got back into formation”
“is michael/jason/debbie/chad/jeff around?”
Debbie Cole
“iM HERE”
“ooops.”
Tensions were getting impossibly worse.
Brandon Cascio
“DONT ENGAGE HIM”
“hes got hoplite lead... but tones still 1600”
“i almost fell for it.”
“and its changed back to ammo”
“F**K he just had ammo lead for 50 ton missed him again”
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2100 hours
Both armies stood their ground, exhausted, hated glares to each other across a battlefield littered with broken mechs and broken guns and broken corpses. Not an inch of ground was visible. There were still opportunities to attack but all are risky with the outcome very much in doubt. Both sides watched each other like hawks.
One Exiles was caught in wrong formation! Like a pack of savage dogs, the Chessmen descended on him and tore his formation to pieces, netting 8 precious points. But then a Chessmen’s formation was also out of sync! And Exiles tore into him netting back the 8 lost points.
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2230 Hours
136-129.
7 PRECIOUS POINTS
1.5 hours seemed like forever that day
Brandon Cascio
“Do Not Engage Without Clearance ,To Do so Can and Will Result In Reprimand.”
Brandon Cascio
“they getting desperate. i got a def win.”
Jason Smith
“I'd be sitting a little easier if we had another 10 points on them.”
Debbie Cole
“I still have may be 3, then the 50-50”
Jason Smith
“Where's Chad? I only see a few attacks from him. Is he done?”
Daniel Chung
“I'm at -2. Already stretched my luck with xxxx just now”
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2330 Hours
141-131
10 points. If the last big push is to come, it’ll be now.
Debbie Cole
“What or why are they waiting”
Joshua Magsino
“they got xxxx to attack, why didnt he attacked?”
Brandon Cascio
“How we doin?”
Jason Smith
“We're down 7 Brandon.”
Joshua Magsino
“wtfreak!”
Jason Smith
“Oh . . . wait. . . wrong game.”
Some jokes to relieve the tension. It didn’t help much…
A plan was then hatched by Jason and Michael. We must be prepared of Exiles launching a surprise attack to snatch the lead in the final seconds of the Round. And thus, they will initiate an attack themselves with their final reserves.
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2357 Hours
Daniel Chung
“Come on come on come on”
Brandon Cascio
“I thought we were down 7, someones getting a kick in the d**k... hahah”
Jason Smith
“That'd be Michael”
Daniel Chung
“132-144 I think we got it”
Joshua Magsino
“29 secs”
David King
“145-132”
Joshua Magsino
“its over!”
Jason Smith
“147-132 final”
Michael Telladira
“damn we owned it”
Jason Smith
“I took xxxxx @ 57% mecha health. LOL”
Brandon Cascio
“Gratz gentlemen”
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And so it ended. 147-132
Few would have guessed the result. Did we just made history as the first clan to defeat a higher division champion? Maybe yes, or maybe it has already been done before. But for sure this is the stuff of legends in the chapters of the Chessmen’s annals.
And 99th Chessmen R&D banner flew yet again, its tyranny over Division 8 unbroken.
LOL thank you for sharing this with us Chessmen
