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September 28, 2005

Random Flickr Goodness

Got a few minutes to kill, and appreciate a good photo? You could do much worse than visit the Random Photo Browser

It finds a random Flickr user and then shows you a selection of pictures that person has marked as a favourite. I dare say that a lot of the pics I post to the Flickr Category will be found this way. People mark pictures as favourites for lots of different reasons, but the vast majority I've seen there so far are good pics.

If you find a good picture this way, leave me a comment about it!

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Posted to Flickr | General

First Blood!

The more observant amoung you will have noticed the exclamation mark in the title. Its a bit of a giveaway I suppose. Yes, the first blood was mine!

I'm not quite sure what happened between me sending my orders and the turn coming back, as most of what I had planned didnt actually happen.

I had hoped to shoot out the central doors, and then fire at all the occupents. Instead, my massed hunters decided to all fire at the Sniper that was lining up on my MT. Good job too really, as that gave me the Starter-For-Two.

I could see the missiles do a bit of damage to the Commander, 2 grunts and 2 grenades that saught refuge in the rear room. I have also spotted his commander trying to take out the wall of trees leading out of that back room to come out round the back of the corridor. He still has 2 trees to take down, so thats a minimum of 4 seconds to do it. I hope to have my AI laying in wait for him when he pops out. I'm moving the other XT's and hunter nearby into a formation that should be able to deal some damage if any of those troops head that way.

I'm spreading out the Hunters on the left . I want to move them over to the middle so that firstly I can keep tabs on whats going on at the bottom in case he has some units making a break, and also so I can rush them over into the right hand building should I need to help out with the commanders squadron. A few of the hunters are being sent to keep an eye on the left hand edge of the map

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Posted to M2: 184182 Vs PegasusJF

Clawed a point back!

It looks like he is pushing forward all across the map. While I moved my scanner out of harms way it spotted a few troops pushing forward, including a Commander that was quite close to my base. I'm abandoning the plan to do a bit of missile sharpshooting (although I still wonder if it is possible....) and instead am getting my central MT to fire onto the outside of my own base. I hope that this will catch any troops who try to get a bit too close.

I also managed to splat the gruint I had seen in the centre. Current score 2 - 10.

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Posted to M2: 184193 Vs Flash Panach

Not looking good

A few turns have passed since the last update, and things are looking bleak.

My two hunters in the bottom left got obliterated by running into aCommander and some supporting grunts. He also spotted a grenader getting healed in that area. I'm going to try to rumble a MT into a position to get a shot down that way.

The two hunters in the middle managed to polish off that grunt finally, and headed towards the enemy base to find it chockablock with troopers. I then struck upon the spiffing idea of using one to hold open the base doors while sending missiles through. That didnt pan out though as those hunters soon got wiped out.

My XT's have aslo been wiped out, so I'm left with a 9 point defecit, and only 3 MT's to attack with.

He is advancing a grunt up the centre, so I want to wipe him out. Thing is, I dont know which way he is going to go, and two of my MT's have only a single missile left.

Hmm, I;ve just struck upon a neat idea. The central room has a low hole in its facing wall... I wonder if I can Terrain Fire through there, and catch out any units hiding inside. Maybe even knock out the HQ qith enough shots. Its worth a try....

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Posted to M2: 184193 Vs Flash Panach