The Battle Grounds Observer

At the Observer we have received an update on the progress of the LBC .  The site is near completion and the organisers are looking to sign up clans to participate so rules can be discussed.  So if you're in a linebattle clan tell your leader, or if you are a leader sign up here . Also in the Observer's hiatus development on BG2 seems to have increased in pace.  Screenshots of two new maps, bg_trenton and bg_township , have been posted to moddb .  Of course as some may know, bg_township isn't exactly a new map as it had featured in previous releases of BG2 years ago. There has also been a lot of discussion on the future of BG2 on the forums.  Don't panic, we're not talking about whether there is a future, but where the mod will be going in the future.  This was all sparked of by a new user reviving this two month old thread . There has been a lot of change in the BGU, the reigning champions Be Blue! are going inactive leaving Alpina and TRR to fight ...

I know we said to watch this space in the last post and that was some time ago.  There is a fair bit of stuff going on right now in BG2. LBC Reformation The LBC is coming back, old news?  Well you wouldn't be mistaken for thinking so, but the reformation in question is not the one Swarth was setting up.  That seems to have fallen into a black hole somewhere. The latest revival attempt is being headed up by 42 Commando, one of BG2's most active linebattle clans.  They have a section on their forums for discussion on this new tournament here , From what we have gathered they are having a website built for it.  This should wet the appetites of all the linebattle clans out there hasn't been a successful linebattle tournament/league since the LBC closed its doors last July. Battle for the Colonies 2/3/4/some number (delete as applicable) Battle for the Colonies (BFTC) was an event created back in the days of BG1.  A risk sort of game where players are as...

As you may know a few months back there was a Linebattle campaign running called Generals And Gentlemen, which was set in Europe.  Unfortunately due to a few factors this campaign fizzled out. We have received information from General Tambour de Garde, of the 3°Régiment de Grenadiers Français that he is creating a new linebattle campaign game called Campaigns & Battlegrounds.  They currently have a website and forums located here: http://battlegrounds-and-campaigns.webs.com/apps/forums/ .  The first campaign is titled "North vs South" where teams struggle for the domination of America with one faction starting in the North and the opposing in the South. Teams that enter have the choice of 6 nations to play as: Great Britain France Spain Portugal Netherlands Russia Unlike Generals and Gentlemen this is not a free-for-all campaign, you get alliances with other nations depending on whether you are in the North or South faction. There is a draft of the ru...

Date: 17th January 2010 Time: 2100GMT Server: |42Cdo| Map: trr_territory2 Score: |42Cdo| 6 - |RC| 4 Writeup: The first match for |RC| after losing a large number of members, especially a good proportion of their highest ranking members.  They proved that with this close match the damage done by the departures wasn't irreparable. |42Cdo| elected to go Americans first, smart move as the map is very American sided and getting an early lead always impacts on the enemies moral.  |42Cdo| made good use of dual lines catching |RC| off guard at first.  |RC| tried to respond with the same tactic but to no avail.  The first five rounds went to the American |42Cdo|. Some |RC| members let this brutal scoreline get the better of them, resorting to whining in chat.  The switch came, now it was all on |RC| to make good use of the American bias of the map. After their dual line disaster of the first half |RC| stuck with just the one while |42Cdo| reverted to a sin...