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Date: Sunday, August 7th, 2005
Location: Clayton, NC
Attendance: 21 people (9 vs 12)
Type of Battle: Team 1 hk
 It was about 2:45 in the
afternoon,
another hot and humid day. Typical Carolina in August. But
this wasn't just any summer day. I was moving away for college in
a few days, and this was the last time I would get to hang out with my
team all at once. We had to come together to battle our enemies
one last time before going off to school.
1st Battle
Our plan was to sneak up behind the enemy and attack their
base from behind. To do this we had to hike about half a mile
through the woods and swamp. Finally we came out to where we were
supposed to be, on the four wheeler path; and we were only a couple
hundred yards from their fort. It was crunch time. I looked
 through the scope on my CPS 1500 and
signalled to the rest of my squad
that the path was clear. I had my whole team with me, we
had left our fort unguarded in an attempt to overpower their squads one
at a time. We moved off the path and into the pine woods near
their fort. As we got closer I noticed that everything was quiet,
too quiet. Nobody was in the fort. No one at all.
Where had they gone? The scene was ripe for an ambush, in fact,
it was screaming it. We surveyed the surrounding area, spreading
out in groups of two. Suddenly Josh signalled me over past the
other side of the fort. He motioned to some trampelled underbrush
that I never would have saw on my own. Josh was an excelent
pointman. We called the rest of the team over, and then we began
to follow their tracks. The tracks led off into the woods and
dissapeared where the ferns and grass began to thin out where there was
more pinestraw. It was just enough of a lead to guess where they
had gone. Either they were lurking about nearby, or they were
headed towards our fort! We guessed the latter.
Instead of going back the way we had come we ran
through
the woods out onto the road and decided to follow it back towards our
fort. I figured that they would stick to the cover of the woods
and that we could at least travel on the road half the distance to fort
Salamandastron without being spotted. Once we got to the creek we
turned off the road and onto the path. Josh and I took point with
several of our more heavier armed comrades bringing up the rear.
We spotted the enemy team scoping out the area around our fort and
split into two groups to flank them. One group was led by Jason,
and all the guys he brought. You could say Jason was a mercinary,
he was a friend of a friend who was going to college nearby and
mustered up a team of his own to bring to fight along side us since we
were outnumbered. I have to tell you about this guy before I get
into the actual battle, that way you understand just how hardcore his
group was. Jason was dressed in a ghille face mask, BDUs, and
ghille gloves; and he had armed himself with a power modded CPS 1500
and a Liquidator. The rest of his guys were also armed with CPS
guns, mainly power modded 4100s and 1200s, with a few other guns
rounding it out. Jason's squad hid in the woods near the creek
and prepared themselves to ambush. Just then the enemy started
darting around, they had spotted us! With our cover blown I
decided to charge.
The decision was costly, but it worked, we had totally
taken them off gaurd. Josh and I ran through the yard and
isolated one guy with a CPS 1200. He took a few shots at us and
then broke and ran. I hosed him with a 5x blast to the
back! Robert and the rest of
the guys in our group were having a little more trouble. Several
of the vermin had jumped into the trenches around the treefort and were
giving us a hard time.
 Usually you could just lob
water into the
trenches and they'd be soaked, but we had added on a back wall of
sticks that came up over the trenches and protected them from so called
"mortar fire" (water dropping down on you). I rushed over to
where Robert was pinned behind a large
oak tree and ducked down behind it. We didn't have any
waterballoons, and we desperately needed them to knock out the guys in
the trenches. We traded shots with them for about ten minutes or
so, and it clearly became evident that they were running out of water.
My squad, on the other hand, was able to run back to my house whenever
we ran out of water. Eventually they were forced to make a
tactical retreat back to their base... almost a mile away.
 What had started off as a
tactical retreat quickly became
disorganized. They ran down the path, through the woods, and
towards the creek... RIGHT INTO JASON'S SQUAD! Those guys were
brutal. I know that's kinda silly to say about a watergun fight, but
man those guys were brutal. The guys on the other team had just
crossed the creek when Jason and his men popped up from the cane
thickets and let out a barrage of CPS fire. It was like a wall of
water, the vermin were totally soaked. Apparently nobody had
taught these guys about the rules of war. After they let out
their initial shots they ran out from their positions and began pushing
the enemy off the bank and into the creek. It was a steep bank,
about 5 feet up, and that's a pretty long drop. Needless to say
some of the guys on the other team were furious, and with good reason.
 Even after that massacre my
brother was still on the loose. I
have to admit that he's one of the best fighters out there, and he's
even better at daring escapes. There's been so many times he's
been cornered only to dissapear right before your eyes.
I saw him
running up the hill in the opposite direction of the rest of his team,
back towards our house. He turned around when he saw me chasing
him. I took a few shots at him with my CPS 1500, but he easily
dodged those. Kirk dropped behind a big sweet gum tree and fired
back with his CPS 2100. I'd been in this situation many times
before. When your enemy is behind a tree keep them ducking, keep
them hiding; that way you can get close. I kept firing quick
bursts from my 1500 all the while moving from side to side like i was
going to attack him from that side. It totally
worked. He kept behind the tree and I was able to get
within ten feet where I totally obliterated his dryness and turned him
into a human sponge!
2nd Battle
 With the
first battle over we all went back to our
bases. This time, we planned to do the exact opposite of the
previous battle. I left Robert with most of the team to man the
actual fort while Jason's men hid in the woods behind them.
According to the plan Josh and I were going to patrol the area along
the creek between the road and my neighbors yard. I decided that
it was best for me to be on scout patrol with Josh, since I would be
able to tell what was going on as soon as it happened. I have
always believed that a commander should be in the thick of the battle,
that way he can tell what's going on.
Anyway, we waited for what
seemed like hours, patrolling the boarder back and forth back and
forth. Finally we saw some movement on the path coming from
another road. I ran back and let Robert know that we had an
incoming squad on our right. When I got back to Josh he motioned
for me to crouch down behind a fallen tree. The enemy squad had
stopped on the other side of the creek and one of the guys was talking
to someone over a walkie talkie. Although I couldn't make out
what was happening I suspected a trap. It just didn't make sense,
why would they stop this close to our fort! Salamandastron was
only on the top of the Hill, and I suspected that Robert and the rest
of the guys up there could probably see them by now.
 We waited
for about five more minutes until I noticed a crackling sound behind
us. Josh must have noticed it, because in that very split second
we both jumped up and whirled around to find the rest of the vermin
army crouched no more than 40 yards behind us. We scrambled up
the side of the hill towards Salamandastron, only to be outflanked by
the other squad. Whether they spotted us and were calling in the
other squad to attack us from behind, or whether it was all a matter of
chance I'll never know.
Kirk wouldn't tell me. I didn't
think we were going to be able to make it to the fort in time, but just
then Jason came out of nowhere with about 3 other guys and ambushed our
attackers. The guy who was closest to us was totally
soaked. We were outnumbered about 2 to 1, so we fired a few shots
and retreated back towards the fort. Any attempt at an organized
battle was lost from here on out. Because we had been waiting so
long two of the guys in the tree fort had been acting up, being
incredibly silly. I'm not sure what happened, but they knocked
over two of the big gallon containers of water that we kept up
there. Robert made them go fill the jugs back up and they were
just returning when we rushed into the yard. The two guys (whose
names I'm not going to mention just in case they're reading this) were
in their first waterwar and were pretty much caught off gaurd.
When they saw several enemy soldiers chasing me they dropped their jugs
and started pumping their guns ready to fire.
 It was too late, with
in a few seconds they were soaking wet, and the
vermin were still on my tail. I ran around the side of the house
and ducked behind the side. This was an old tactic I used to use
in soakfests around the house. Two of the guys chasing me burst
around the corner only to be hosed down at point blank range. I
was sure there were a few other people after me, so I ran under the
deck and hid behind
some giant rubber storage tubs that contained dogfood or who knows
what.
came around the corner with another guy, and the
two guys I had just shot told them where I was hiding. They
sprayed the area down, but saw that my cover was too good to get me
from that far out. The other guy kept me ducking while Daniel ran
around behind me. Just as I had shot that one guy I noticed
Daniel was about to crawl under the deck from under the steps. I
made a hunch run and a crazy dive to the wheel barrow, the only cover
between Daniel and I. He had just made it out from under the
steps when I hit the wheel barrow. And hit it
I did. The wheel barrow toppled over on its side and hit Daniel
just as he was sliding for me. The metal on the axle made a gash
on his shin, but he got me with his CPS 1200. I went to get some
first aid for Daniel, but he insisted that I wait until after the
battle was over.
With most of the people protecting the perimiter of the fort
eliminitated it was just Robert and a few guys who were left.
They ended up getting stuck in the tree fort, and it was only a matter
of time before they were out. We called it quits on two battles,
because it was about time for some supper and partying. The next
war will see who the real victor was!
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