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OK, here's my first attempt at writing up a game - let's see how it goes
Having just arrived in the Elite league, I rather suspect my recent run of wins is going to come to a shuddering halt. But, let's see how some of these good players do it
Spacedog is some 20 or so places above me, so it'd be a good scalp!
We're playing a 30fp league match on Desert, and I'm at the top
Deployment
I always take ages during deployment - it's so possible to lose a game with a bad loadout before you even fire a shot. "Desert" is a big map with lots of open space, some military buildings as hardpoints and a fair number of fragments of building.
Machina are right out - MT's and AI's would just get toasted by any snipers before they even saw the enemy. Greys are a possible with a warper heavy deployment, but a bit too risky I think - the ranges are such that you'd be doing very little damage each time, and the slow warps would be easy to dodge
Spawn maybe, as a drone/buzzer rush, but I got my head handed to me on a plate with a similar map recently (v's marines) - so it's going to be marines
Now, with marines I'm not going to need a lot of close-quarters stuff, so 1 commander for a bit of redecorating and removal of enemy cover. 4 snipers, spread over the map, so I get fairly good view of what's going on - plus the long range force-fires they can provide are going to be very handy to soften up the enemy. 4 grenade elements (grunt + grenadier) take me to 23, so 2 bases, 4 medics and a spare grunt tidy up the deployment.
I suspect spacedog will go either spawn or marines, so I need to ensure my deployment areas can't get swarmed on the first turn before I can react. So, I deploy on the top half of the military building on the right - with a sniper right at the bottom to act as a chewtoy or spotter. Otherwise, I'm clustered around the top and right of the map - can bunch up in 1 turn if it's spawn