I've been with The Vindicators since 2003 when the visionary himself Dviddleff/Vindicore created the outfit. The Vindicators are more than just an outfit/guild/clan, we are a community and our members are close knit like a dysfunctional family of gamers.
I wrote this little war story up back in 2009, for a thread we had in our forums where we retold our favourite moments in the outfit. and I believe Rock Paper Shotgun ran it in a contest they had for best Planetside War Stories. This is the unedited full of curse words version you would expect to hear directly from my mouth.
Outfit Wars: There was this Uber Elite TR outfit that was supposed to just clean the floor with everyone. I don;t remember their name
, just that they were TR and made good looking corpses.
Anyways we are FLYING off the resurgence in numbers that has happened since this outfit wars thing. I remember the first match some absurd number like 60 people showed up to be part of it and we had to turn half the people away because we didn't have room for everyone. The Platoon was composed primarily of old school Vindicators that dusted off their gear for one last hoorah. These matches were fuckin epic.
First off We had Barney running the show. I personally had always thought Barney was a snot nosed jackass as he really showed up after my prime time in PS. I always just heard him and Kazzo running their mouths but their was no denying that they were killing machines. What I really didn't know was how naturally gifted he was at organizing and leading people. Which was funny...because let's be honest Barney sounded like a dork, but the guy absolutely knew his shit, and could run circles around me in PS like I wasn't there. Besides he is a GREAT guy.
Second we had Cephus. Mr. Smart ass, but god dammit he was funny as hell, and a hell of a Magrider pilot. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE loved Cephus. You could be getting the shit kicked out of you but if Cephus was there you still had a smile on your face.
GSKPS1 was there, the dude is solid as a rock, and he was running our defense. His group of 10 guys could hold off double their numbers and not break a sweat.
IceGargoylle...really is there any that was ever better in a VS MAX suit than this guy? He never seemed to be out of it and was always carving his way through infantry like they were made of playdough.
Chaff67, MY GOD is there a happier man in existence? seriously? I miss Chaff he was a great guy and a MEAN skygaurd gunner
Raumy. Fuckin Raum...I swear I've NEVER seen anything more pathetic than what we dubbed, "The Raum effect". This kid (*who I will admit is a little hottie*) joins the outfit and has EVERY SINGLE GUY falling over themselves talking to her. Ventrillo was like a nightclub where 30 drunk guys are trying to hit on the one hot chick that is WAY out of their league. It was embarrassing and some of the things they said just made me /facepalm. BUT, Raum was a great medic/hacker and she was crazy dependable.
Btron, Raziel, DrifterBG, Woop, NethawK, Tssha, MaximusRudeDog, Zeke, Dave and a whole shitload of others that I simply just can't remember. Was Snorfy there?? I can't remember...There were many others and we cycled through as many of our guys as possible so that everyone would get a chance to play in one of these events.
ANYWAYS: the day came where we were going to go up against this TR outfit. They had blown everyone out of the water and had their sights set on us. They were all shit talking about how they were just going to walk over us like nothing.
- We had other plans
We made the decision to play a defensive game, this was NOT popular with some of our guys, I remember Ice being as pissed as I've ever seen him and threatened to quit if we ever pulled that kind of shit again. But in retrospect it was a brilliant strategy, because we were there to prove a point. Nobody walks over us.
So the day comes, GSKSP1 has his defense squad all geared up and in position, mines and turrets are EVERYWHERE. Barney has everyone on the same page. We are going to roll Skygaurds and Magriders and when the TR rush us in their skeeters like we know they will do we will be waiting. Me and someone else were the lone Starfire MAX's on this glorious Anti Air day.
The match started and just like we expected in came a squadron of skeeters afterburners roaring, going for the gen drop as per usual (they were so predictable)....problem was...they never even got close! 5 Skygaurds, 5 Magriders and 2 Starfires lit those motherfuckers up! You could tell that they were like WTF!@!!?? But they didn't stop and they kept coming, but again we dropped them, a few squeaked through but GS's squad were fuckin ANIMALS on defence and no one even broke the seal on the base.
I remember I was sitting there on a hill with a huge shit eating grin on my face blasting the hell out of Skeeter after skeeter, and what I couldn't bring down the flak of the skygaurds or Lasers from the maincannons of our Magriders tore to pieces. These guys were getting absolutely fucked up but they were coming hardcore and little by little they would get closer to their goal.
Now...as luck would have it the match was coming to an end. There was time for one last push. Barney made the call, "Defend the base!" so all our forces turtled and it was a damn smart move because this time they brought EVERYTHING. 30 Skeeters screamed through the sky, and I remember thinking..."oh fuck"...We brought down as many as we could and the fighting was ferocious, but they had no intentions ok keeping those birds in the air, they all just ditched them the moment they were over our base.
Now this.....this was bad. As much as I hate to admit it these guys were good at what they did. If they got their foot in the door you were in alot of trouble because they came at you guns blazing and their firepower simply trumped everyone elses. On this day however they ran into 30 of the most determined bastards ever, because there was no fucking way in hell we were going to lose. Not now, not this day and especially not to these tomatoes. As the match's final seconds ticked down we were mopping up the remains of their forces.
The forums after this LIT UP, and the TR were spouting off about how much we sucked and we were cowards and blah blah blah. The reality was, they did not steam roll through us and they were denied victory by some of our finest. We may not have "won" per se but it was IMHO our greatest victory. :-D