Away Team DELTA

Played Halo via XBox live with a group of friends last week..five hooked up to a LAN at the house, one online in Canada. Headsets are a MUST. It was like having my buddy from Canada in the next room! We formed a group after some normal games against each other and decided to play team games. We got Spanked Royally! I heard what sounded like eight year old kids work us over, some guys speaking French worked us also..it was Baad; but in a fun way.

We are all very good at killing and shooting, but with the team games they are "Capture the Flag" or "Plant the Bomb" type games and we simply didn't know the map or the rules. So after these fun yet embarrasing games we formed a private game and instead of shooting each other we explored the maps and found where the weapons are kept etc.

It was really cool to see some of the other teams work so well together; one team had it totally dialed in; three guys assualt our flag. Two shooters and a swordsman. Another guy grabs the flag and jumps on a waiting Warthog (Puma?), driven to safety by the fifth man. Sixth man on sniper duty to pick off pursuers. Great teamwork on their part.

So now its on to some Team Slayer; until we learn the rules a bit better for the other games.