Kazick

lul. not use to the commander seat int he M60, so spent some time trying to look with the binocs but could seen anything other than a few tracers at the start.

While we didn't have a big session, did have some fun co-op with Nate afterwords. But also go this shot during the session:

I can make this session: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200102T0300 I saw the post about yesterdays being canceled and made other plans. Didn't see that it was back on until after the fact.

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20191227T0300 This one here is the 26th, tomorrow, for me.

I did say I can make all 3 of those. If you ran a session any of those 3 days, I would be there. I can be in a session on 12-26. I can be in a session 1-1. I can be in a session 1-2. I am able to attend the sessions on the three dates and times you listed.

I can make all 3 of those. Not sure about the Friday games since I've never had a good experience during TGIF.

And the last time I played SB was about 3 months ago. And the last time I logged into the forums was many weeks ago. So today is the first I have seen of this post. I'm typically available most evenings after 7pm pst: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20191225T030000&p1=127 I also cant sit on Teamspeak all day in the hopes that one or two other people would show up.

Sorry I don't check the forums daily. I live on the US west coast, -8 GMT. And I work Thursday though Monday.

Came here to check and see if maybe there was finally a weekday game. But the dates, like every event, are on days I cant make.

Thanks, I'll give that a shot this week and report back.

That's what I would think. But when we tried it we where locked to a position and unable to change. And they weren't the positions we wanted and had agreed on. I was going to be TC, another player driver, and another gunner. But once we started, I was locked to the driver, the player was supposed to be the driver was in the gunner seat, and the gunner was in TC. And each time we would restart the session it would be a different order of who was what.

So reading the briefing for the "Tanks! Again" scenario I see that it supports multi crew. So a few weeks ago I got around to get 2 other people to want to try it out and we decided to have a fully crewed tank. But we kept running into the issue of not being able to select our roll in the tank. The scenario starts us off in a supply truck. We activate the trigger for the tank we want. And then when we move to the tank on the map it never gave us an option of who was driver, or gunner or TC. Is there a step I'm missing? Is the briefing incorrect? Is this a bug?

I could. If we get a few people up for a co-op mission or some small h2h.

I was thinking this as well. I did some poking around and read that there was a Discord, but it fell apart. And as I said and you can agree, we probably don't want to sit on team-speak waiting, or sit hovering over the forums. If we had something planed and organized like the TGIF games but say on a Wednesday I think that could also work and may be good. Like I said in my original post, one of the things that kept me away was my work schedule and the game schedule. Seeing that I work weekends and seeing that a majority of the games are Friday, Saturday, and Sunday I knew I was going to have a hard time finding people to games to play in.

Since I have no idea how to use infantry. I would have spent most of the game trying to figure out what to do. And that wouldn't have been any fun for me.

I've been trying. But I feel they play too much like an RTS (Real Time Strategy) than a sim. What with commanding units across the map and managing all sorts of things. In fact, I had to bail out of tonight's (3-1-2019) TGIF because it was all infantry. I would have had nothing to do and been utterly useless.

Yea, thanks to the tips. Going to keep reading and practicing till something comes up. But there wasn't really anyone else to play with.

Yes, I was putting in my time zone for reference. Since I’m 8 hours behind gmt.

I’ll be available all day tomorrow if anyone was up for something.

I’d be up for it later tonight. I live on the west coast of the us, so about 1900 pst -8 gmt.

Not for another 5 hours. I’m at work today and don’t get home till 1900 pst I looked them up, that’s at 12:30am till 3am for me on the west coast of the US. Most of the sessions that are at a reasonable time for me are on Saturdays and Sundays. Which is what lead me to making this post.

Per my original post, I have looked at the calendar. And all the posted sessions there are on weeeknds while I am working. Also as mentioned, I have been playing the TGIF sessions. Since they are the only ones scheduled around a time I am free to play. But as I said, I haven’t been enjoying them.

I believe 19:00 gmt is 11:00 for me. So that’s doable on Tuesdays and/or Wednesday. So I’ll try to keep my eyes on the adhoc topic for now.

I’ll admit that I am at fault for not actively looking for sessions. I look at the calander and I check the froums once or twice a day. And I don’t spend hours sitting on the Teamspeak server. So by the time I see that and adhoc session is going on it’s after the fact. Make me think a better way of advertising sessions might be in order. But I’ve read that Discord was tried and failed.

I posted this to Reddit the other day, and Ill share it here as well. So I’ve been on and off playing Steel Beasts for a year now. I won’t say I’m good at it, cause I know I’m not. I still have loads to learn. But one of the things that has bugged me, and was holding me back from buying, was the online play section of Steel Beasts forums. I noticed that most of the games are Saturdays and Sundays. I understand that this works for a majority of people. But this doesn’t work for me as I work weekends. So I’ve only been able to participate in the TGIF games. Which I’ll be honest I haven’t been enjoying. Mostly because I’m not getting the sim experience I want out of SB. I’m not a fan of controlling multiple units on the field and having to manage a platoon of tanks and troops. I’ll go with my in experience in the sim as a contributing factor there. But I’ve seen that there are planed multiplayer engagements where it is one person one tank. (Or even two people one tank multi crew roll) And that’s what I really want to do. I’ve been trying to convince a few of my friends to at least try SB with the one month license, but so far no takers. In the mean time I keep practicing with the TANKS! scenario and getting time on the range with the different tanks. So with all that said, are they are groups that maybe do a week day scenario? For some context, I live in pacific time zone, and have Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s free.