Empires Mod, I was the commander. We got off to a bad start because our original commander did a very poor job and left in the middle, leaving us without one for quite a while; leaving us with no research going on, and the enemy overtook us quite a lot on the tech tree.
It turned into a battle of attrition; when I got into the command vehicle, I immediately prioritised for researching powerful turrets to try and hold them back, and asked most of the team to go Engineer to keep things running, build walls to keep them away from our buildings and funnel them into the turret fire. Good thing, too; it didn't take long for them to take out all but one of our refineries, and towards the end, that went down as well. The battle went on for ages; I have no idea how we survived so long; and we were winning on tickets, too. We could have won, if the enemy were not slowly pushing our defences back. I don't know how long we were holding back for; it was a long time, though.
Then, just when things seemed lost; the victory screen. One of our team had managed to sneak past the enemy get into their base (which was poorly defended as they were ALL trying to focus on hammering at us, leaving their commander unguarded) and that person destroyed their command vehicle. Our entire team burst into cheering and laughter, and numerous "Whoever did that deserves a medal!" from myself and a few other team-mates.
I had managed to get our team the research necessary to survive (We were so far behind because of the idiot commander before that we had no chance of winning if we went on the offensive), the team did an excellent job of keeping the defences up and each other alive, and that ninja succeeded right at the end when defeat was drawing uncomfortably close.
Not to mention the enemy team made a grave mistake; they kept charging forward with tanks, and never researched artillery that could have been used to blow our base apart from over the walls.
Research had failed us completely, especially when our resource flow ground to a halt and it was all up to all the people on foot, but in the end the tactical situation was so far in our favour that it was just embarrassing; and they were so focused on us they missed the single team member slip past them and seize victory from the jaws of defeat for all of us.
A perfect example of "A commander is only as good as the people who he commands"; the team was brilliant, and they tolerated and worked well with me despite the fact that I had little experience being the commander and usually didn't do such a great job. They were all fantastic... I want to play Empires again now; the people who play are actually mostly pretty good people.
It was a good, good day.
...That gush was a very uncharacteristic of me.
