Event: Freeside Trading Co. Open Trading 8/10 - 8/12

[Mindless (DayZ) 2]

I don't get off work till 6:30 any chance there will still be trading at 7 EST?

[oweng2712@hotmail.co.uk 8]

Update: The area is under attack, it is not safe to approach

[The Sad Panda 113]

Update: The area is under attack, it is not safe to approach

MFW

On a serious note, it's nice to see that there's people that still do creative things in this game, instead of 24/7 Cherno deathmatch. Keep it up =D

[oweng2712@hotmail.co.uk 8]

The event is over, We came under attack and were bested. I'm sure we'll post a riveting story later.

[Deetwo 69]

I'll warm up the popcorn.

[oweng2712@hotmail.co.uk 8]

I'll recall it as best as I can, I died midway through though.

We started with what I consider just enough people to safely defend devils castle, about 10 players of which 4 were new, WheelmanMC and Santaman2346 took up position at the gate, Ace, Nikki and some others in the tower providing overwatch, me facilitating trades in the middle and with Juicebox, The Fool Joss and others patroling around the castle.

It was all quiet for a while and we had some customers trickling in, and we had about 6 people chatting and trading. Nikki on the tower using a thermal sight spotted a sniper in the tree line with his weapon trained on the castle and wanted to take the shot, I decided against it and suggested just a warning shot (I know some customers like to scope the place out beforehand). But that was the wrong decision to make, as I finished the sentence Nikki and maybe one more of the members on the tower were killed by him, by the sound of the shots there was most likely more than one sniper.

Juicebox and Joss moved to face the attackers and came under heavy fire, Juicebox being our combat officer knew how to handle it and managed to dodge the fire and get to cover, Joss wasn't so lucky and was mown down in the field in front of the gatehouse. (The Fool Joss AKA DayZWarPhotographer, was actually there to photograph the event and is going to be writing an article about it soon, I just roped him in as a guard as we needed the numbers!).

Juicebox moved and engaged the attackers but was killed by an unseen enemy.

By now the remaining members on the tower used the time Juicebox and Joss had bought them to find and kill targets, I believe they got 2. Soon after that they stormed the front gatehouse and they took out both WheelmanMC and Santaman2346 who were behind sandbags and tank traps.At this point we were 6 men down, our numbers were dwindling and I could already see this was a loosing battle but I had to stay and keep the customers safe, they were panicking and 4 of the 6 decided enough was enough and logged off.

Ace was atop the tower still taking shots at anyone who posed a threat, he covered Maug who was approaching the front gatehouse to deal with the attackers when a miscommunication meant Ace shot Maug thinking he was hostile.

So now it was just Me, Ace and 2 customers who had the balls to stick around. I squared with them that we were loosing and immediately they offered to help exclaiming how sickening it was to have to just sit there. I thought "Fuck it! What's the worst that could happen?" and accepted the help, they had sniper rifles if I remember correctly, and joined ace who formed an effective sniper squad while I held the entrance to the tower with my trusty M249, I had about 4 mags, plenty.

The group attacking us seemed organised and within the walls now, we could hear them taking down the barbed wire nearby, the enemy were getting close and wouldn't have just run into the tower, they probably would have flushed me out with grenades, so I went out to meet them. That was my first mistake, the second was not realising how many zombies would have been attracted to the tower by the snipers up top shooting, I turned a corner and attracted the attention of a lot of zeds so I opened fire killing a couple before an enemy on the west side used the distraction to put a high powered shot through me and that was it for me.

The rest of the story is just what I could gather over the radio chatter. Somehow both of the traders were killed in the tower and poor Ace was left on his own. Ace is a new(ish) applicant waiting for approval who no doubt wanted to prove himself. He could have logged but instead held that tower for another half an hour by himself.

At which point a group of 8 known as Elysium who we enjoy fighting with and have attacked us in the past logged in maybe a Km away and began to assault the castle too! While some of the original attackers were looting the tents and fending off the attack from Elysium, Ace sneaked away and ran for his life through the main gates and got away!

Elysium told us later that the 3 remaining attackers were up in the tower looting bodies and firing down at them. To which they replied with a satchel charge to the base of the tower (looted from a trader/enemy corpse) and blew the tower to kingdom come with them in it, having been denied the kill, Elysium then left.

There is a bit more but it's not all that interesting. Hopefully I have remembered all this right.

[Kurkistan 5]

Sorry I missed out on that, it sounded good. Is it a bad thing that I'm glad that such a large-scale legitimate attack took place?

Edited August 14, 2012 by Kurkistan

[burt-burton@hotmail.co.uk 0]

Hey guy when the next event chaps

I have 2 as50s for trade I need : 2 ghile suits and 2 rangefinders

[Prince Poundland 0]

So, M1014, AKS and Frag? I need a Sniper

[CombatWombat (DayZ) 63]

Whats the IP for the server? Easy way to connect as i'm using SixLauncher :/