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Hey kid. Still alive? Well I’ll be… I owe Pyro a fiver then. Alright alright I know you’re excited after your brief spell of a tour. Pah! Ah kid! Ya crack me up! Be the best? Never lose? Sure, sure you’re full of naive optimism now, but yer gonna lose, and lose hard. Sometimes it’ll be ya fault, moreso in your case kid, others it’ll be due ta a bad team ya stuck with. There are teams out there that’ll steamroll right over you, they won’t give ya a chance to recover. They’ll have a line of ubercharges waiting, sending ‘em in one by one slowly crackin’ your defences or even attacks. Even if yer with a good team of folk there’s always a team that’ll catch ya of guard and keep ya there. Smashing through your defences like they were made of twine.

Steamrolled!

Then there are other battles, ones that can last forever. I’ve been in a few, some have lasted so long I was called away before the end. Now these kinda fights don’t need anything but a half way decent team, they secure the middle ground first and push ya back to base securing all but yer last stand. These kinds of fights tend ta happen on battlefields like Fastlane, Well, and Badlands. See once they got the land outside yer base, they can attack and defend from it. Yer deadlocked. Be hard ta take back the land, by the time you’ve taken it back they’ve sent another wave to steal it right back from ya.

Mine! No MINE!

Well sure those fights can be won, but you’ll get a feeling when one of these battles occurs. Sure ya hope for some lucky break in their defence, but deep down ya know that this time, this time it just ain’t gonna happen. So what do ya do? Ya settle in and make damn sure they don’t take that last post. Ya pound them right back keeping ‘em at the front gates, keeping ‘em at bay. Spent some time wit’ a heavy both us just letting loose with all hellfire, bunkered down next ta a dispenser. We kept ‘em at bay, and that’s all yer team can do sometimes. Their attacks are so constant ya don’t got time to try and move forward. Just tryin’ to stop ‘em gettin’ any further. But ya gotta be wary or a stray scout or spy will cap’ your base before you can even turn round. I tell ya ain’t nothin’ more scary seein’ few uber’s comin’ yer way. Handle it bad and the enemy’ll flood in and all yer work been for naught.

Hah! The human condition is what that is kid. Even tho’ it don’t make an ‘effin difference if ya lose that land, yer still protect it with yer last. ’cause at the end of the day, even if you run outta time they still win, they own more of the land than you do. But they ain’t got your patch, and that’s somethin’. Ain’t much but you learn it can be enough. Fighting tooth and bleedin’ nail ta protect somethin’. Don’t matter what, it’s yers and more to the point it ain’t theirs. A king of a anthill is still a king. The underdog makes a triumphant comeback? No sometimes the underdog gets beat, but ya know what? The snipers still snipe. The engie’s rebuild. Pyro’s relight their flames. Heavies spin their guns. Medic’s recharge their uber. You wanna know why? ’cause even if yer gonna lose, yer gonna make ‘em damn well work for it.

Gonna be a long day