Hussars Gaming Group

Well, we have moved web hosts anyway. The migration was as smooth as a particularly rough piece of sandpaper, but now it is done and we are back in place.
Thanks to the support team at our new hosts (www.nativespace.co.uk) for all their efforts.

It has been highly anticipated by some, but roused a certain level of indifference by others.

Still, after the debacle that was Modern Warfare 2 (for the PC anyway) it will be refershing to dig into a new CoD game once more.
This one seems to have some interesting game modes, even though it does continue the trend of having smaller fixed server sizes (18 player max) to keep the data flow reasonable for the console chaps.

Will you be getting it?

Well, technically it isn’t until 4th November, but today (Saturday 30th October) is when we will be celebrating with a special birthday bash.
PART 1: BATTLEFIELD 1942
Time: 20:00 UK* – 21:30
Location: -=7th-DR=-Battlefield Server (address 193.93.46.36:14568)
Many thanks to Bluesnake and the Rats for providing the server

PART 2: ARMED ASSAULT II
Time: 21:30 UK – 22:30
Location: Server hosted by one of us (we’ll decide on the night based upon bandwidth)

Any community folks (you know who you are) are more than welcome to join us for the BF1942 games.

Trust me, it will be fun.

(Yes, I stole the title from one of Billy’s posts). With the new DLC for Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 released, we can see how poor old Bill means his end. The only question now is which version do we download?

As the final players are confirmed and their teams set up, we await the start of the first league using the online version of this game.
The man with the plan is Billy …

Thanks to all those that turned up for the scrum last night. It was good fun.
Here is a video of the first slalom race:

Here is the final itinerary for the scrum tomorrow night on our server:

19:30 – Server is rebooted with password.
20:00 – Kick off event – map list set to Conquest for maps White Pass, Panama Canal, Laguna Alta, Valparaiso, Atacama Desert. mixed teams.
21:00 – (or whenever Atacama Desert loads) – Team Quad Bike Slalom (see below)
21:30 – (or whenever Arica Harbour loads) Arica Harbour Rush map (2 rounds)
22:00 – Restricted weapons Duelling on Arica Harbour conquest (see below).
22:30 – finish; server will be rebooted back to normal.

Team Quad Bike SlalomTwo members from each team (depending upon number of quad bikes available) gather at the US base to start the race. All other teams mates must arm themselves with Assault rifles with rifle grenades and move onto the raised areas of the A, B or C flags (either on the hills at A or C or on the deck of the ship wreck at B ). The racers have to pass to the left of A, the right of B and the left of C, before heading into the Russian base, turning round and taking the reverse route back (i.e. left then right then left but from the opposite direction). First one back to the American base wins for their team. Other team members can try and use the rifle grenades (smoke or 40mm grenades – no perks) to prevent enemy team members from winning.
Repeat with different racers until everyone who wants to race has done so.

Restricted Weapons Duelling
This will start off as pistols only. After 5 minutes a server message will flash up saying what the next weapon type to be used is and all players will be killed to allow them to change their loadout accordingly. No other method of killing other players will be allowed and anyone who does not observe this rule will be killed without warning. After 5 minutes another message will be sent saying what the next weapon will be and so on.
– No enhancements are allowed (magnum ammo, 12-gauge rounds, explosive bonuses etc.)
– Anyone who hasn’t unlocked the restricted weapon can use the default engineer SMG as a substitute.

Well what do you think? I have changed the background and the header image (and the text font as well come to that).

I have also populated the Battlefield Games page and added a few galleries by way of example.