Replying to #8
I see. For me, a lot of epic kills have to be from DEUS EX.(although single-player).
But my most Epic kill has to be in Half-Life, to be specific, the Crossfire map. I was having a LAN deathmatch with my friends and several other guys who happened to be in the cafe. They were all busy killing each others to top the Kill List but I kept running to the bunker, activate the super weapon, climb to the top of the tower, and take control of the artillery to blow them one by one. Fucking amazing. I wasn't the best among them but I topped the list nonetheless.
Another one isn't in FPS but in RTS. It's not exactly a kill, but it's more of an annihilation.
Company of Heroes was the game.
I was playing online against some unknown guy, he choose Axis and I of course had to go with Allies. He dominated most of the match. His tactics was burning my Engineers with Flamethrower-upgraded Pioneers (the German analogue to Engineers) when I ordered them to capture any resource point, then steal my captured points as my Engineers have to retreat to avoid heavy casualties. If that's not annoying enough, he even placed a few snipers in abandoned houses to pick my guys off. I was speechless and cloud not think of anything.
I've to retreat and defend points close to my base and reinforced my points. I was forced to do that until I got enough forces to fight back. That didn't work, so I decided to get my guy out there and fight back. I trained 3 squads of riflemen. Yes 3 against tanks!!! But I have upgraded my men with Sticky bomb as well (it's the anti-vehicle detonative) so I concentrated all my forces on one tank at a time and it seemed to work until he used an ability to scare my men back to retreat.
At first, I thought that was it, now he can come close to my base and I am done. Luckily, he did not reinforce his resource points and the fact that he channeled all of his resources into tank building caused his infantry to be very weak. I, on the other hand had gained enough resources to build a couple of anti-tank weapons. I knew that it's enough as Company of Heroes is based on counter
unit.
Anti-tank+riflemen with sticky bomb and concentrate on one tank at a time is a major ownage!!! Tanks are slow and there were only a few left. Tanks also means a lot of resources and population cap (meaning that you can't build a lot of troops) and when going against a mobile force with an anti-vehicle weaponry is a big, big mistake even if you controlled most of the resources in the game.
By then, I've gained enough experience to be allocated in the special ability unlock called "company". I choose the air-bone company.
The paratrooper squad is the most amazing thing in the game. Once you've unlocked them, you can drop them anywhere in your territory. I first dropped a two squad near my base. Then, I dropped supply (resources aid) for them to collect which means my resource was increasing without really having to control all the resources in the map.
I used that to drop more paratroopers, upgraded my engineers with flamethrower and used them to pull a revenge on my opponent's weak army( albeit still strong tanks). He tried to recuperate but by that time, I had re-seized most of the resource points. That means my territory had also expanded close to his base.
With that and the streaming amount of income I had, I dropped a few more paratroopers and upgraded all of my paratrooper squads with anti-tank RPG. They can bomb building as well, by using a timed explosive called Sachel charge. With that, I annihilated him by a storm of weak but versatile troops pawning and dominating a handful of infantries supported by a few tanks in front of their own base then used a few rain of destruction from the air in the form of bombing runs.
That was the first time I felt like a genius. I might have killed a lot of guys in FPS matches but winning a losing RTS match against a better guy is very very mind-blowing, even if its rare. I felt like a general
that had just won a World War II mission.
