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Hamletic's Tales from the Trenches

Week 15: Epilogue

I. The Pale Blue Dot (HardCore)

45:29 - HamleticTortoise | DocSteely (v)


II. Coda (HardCore)

23:54 - HamleticTortoise | DocSteely (v)



I. Targets - Devices - Escort

II. Devices - Targets - Devices

Yes, our long passage through the Tales from the Trenches is over.
Before anything else, I'd like to thank HamleticTortoise for the honor of making me an accomplice for this journey of his own creation.  I hope he had as much fun as I had throughout this, despite our temporary setbacks (some of them longer than the others).
I have a confession to make. Despite playing both on platinum and gold, I am and probably will remain primarily a gold player; as I said elsewhere, I know I can carry a team through gold, on any map, against any faction. I wish I could say the same about platinum, despite having soloed it several times. Some of my friends here will accuse me of being too modest, it's not that: I am at an age where I know exactly my limits.
In this context you'll understand why I'll tell you I found this last (because we finished 15.II before 15.I) challenge particularly difficult. You might have noticed the length of time between this post and the last one. We had a lot of heartbreaking wipes on W10 and one (that hurt most) on extraction with 30s to go... I could tell you stories about crabs that shoot you through 3 walls while you're doing that last device or turrets that down you on that long escort despite having kited everything on the other side.
Instead I'll just tell you this: despite all that, we persevered and we did it.
There might be something to learn from that, including for me.     

P.S. As I mentioned in my previous post, we failed to complete "14.II - This Is It, Isn't It?" from the first try, so to finish the series we had to complete 15.I, which we did. We also completed 15.II, but just for the fun of it.