Man its so weird seeing the Machinima logo now knowing what they were doing to people for so long. Guess animations/series like these are the silver lining.
@@hax_venom5180 Machinima basically hired many types of animators to create content, almost like contractors. Only problem was they paid pennies and expected tons of work to be done while reaping all the rewards. They took advantage of lots of creators because UA-cam was such a new concept when they first started. Some of the Oneyplays guys suffered so it was pretty common.
It's all about confidence. Closet Colonel is embarrassed by his hours, but Colonel 100 is proud of that shit bucket! Also, I'm not sure Colonel 100 is a real person. I think the game itself gained sentience and became the ultimate player. Did you ever notice that we never actually heard him using his shit bucket, but we did Closet Colonel? It's because Closet Colonel is the only one of the two who's actually a real person.
@@mindassassin i mean ye its proved with the commander episode he legit breaks in and even has a grudge with the enemy commander even though he has never died other then to neebs in bf3 and he breaks rules more than once
the colonel and the noob teaming up was kinda wholesome, the colonel didnt see him as a noob he saw him as a player that related to what he went through and he gave him a chance, i know thats fucking stupid but its something to think about
To be fair, compared to the colonel, everyone is a noob. He gives them ammo when he thinks it's for nancies, he kills the megalodon and tells everyone to PTFO, he takes the enemy base when everyone wants to back off. Dude was constantly playing with other noobs.
Plus, Noob is the only one who killed the Colonel, though he didn't mean to, so I can see him gaining respect for Noob and maybe train him to be the next Colonel. It especially helps since the Colonel dug up Noob from the grave in the Battlefield Friends trailer for 2042.
Am i the only one who finds it ironic that the most skilled player in BFF (the colonel) is voiced by Simon, a man who played BF3/4 like an epileptic monkey?
God i miss the good 'ol days.. sitting on my computer chair playing BF 3 and BF 4 with a hole cut out the center of the chair with my shlt bucket underneath..
Recon and noob was the best and he never picked on him as much i always love there battlefield and gta v gameplay RIP thick44 aka fly high recon we all miss you
First off: RIP THICK, the WYVERN KINg!!!!!!!! Secondly: I miss the old days, I’m 30 and old I know, of having similar experiences and conversations in 360 gaming. Battlefield 2 and COD 4/MW best days of online gaming
Im 39 and agree. The old days of ps2 with network adapter playing socom 1 was my first days of online gaming. Battlefield was a great time as well. Had every system from atari-newest systems and snes still remains my fav system lol
Every time I hear Thicks voice it feels like he's still around, then I remember... He should be very proud of the legacy he left behind, it constantly brings me smiles.
Story about administrators, used to play on ziba tower and the 4-5 admins were your stereotypical no lives, always on, 15:1 k/d, and died as assault to pick up their kits as recon so they could have a smaller hitbox. I just happened to be in a situation to knife one of the guys repeatedly, just kept seeing his back after he would jump down from railing and such. The first time or two he complimented me, then after a few more they banned me and changed the rules to include "no tryhards" lol.
This is directed to Thicks Family, how dare yall hog the human man warrior. We could have done split custody with thick but noooo. On the real my heart is with yall love you all and miss the Wyvern king
Every now and then I watch the old ones and forget what the road leads to. Just to be able to smile from thick again. It's still not fully set in yet. Listen to how happy he was. Guys we lost more than just a random person on a program.
Im a little slow but i read the top comment saying RIP Thick 44? Is that name one of the animated characters in real life or something.. who like passed on?
Yeah thick did a lot of voices and music for this crew. I love his 7 days to die song. Thick will forever be missed. I find myself only watching the old vids with him in it especially ark ragnarok series because....i mean....COOOOOTER!!!
Damn fitting the last one was all of them except engineer getting on the Battlefield 1 hype train Man would’ve been fun to see all the shit in Battlefield 1
1:43:41 reminds me when i found that i have the developer at dice LA and friend of dice dogtags. I dont know how i got them i never knifed anyone that had them so I guess I just dont remember working at dice while i was in middle school.
I remember this back in the heyday when BF3 or even four was coming out. I know what it is like to play with noobs all the time, I was a Halo vet from back in the day, playing Halo for so long and then it died with the MCC, and then the PC port expedited the Worsening D-Day of killing of Halo on Xbox for good. Now, I never once made a Smurf account but I know what they are now, it refers to the cheaters that do that to look like what they called in Fortnite as "Fake Defaults". It is NOT the people that want to just play as if it were day 1 and lvl 1 again, it is the cheaters that Smurfing actually means. The Colonel is just a decent guy though a bucket man, the one that just wants to relive the glory days and just be a REAL leg end to his fellow recruits and newbies. Smurfs are just plane assholes, it does not matter what video game or genera cheating is cheating and people do not like it when the "Sportsmanship" has been messed with, at all. Even if you kick ass, well do so but don't make people hate playing because you are not, you are forcing others to hate people that "play" like that and nobody likes an insufferable "do it all" show offey prik in MP FPS games or otherwise. It ain't mad skillz, that's called harassment and abuse. I remember when you could report people for being far too over aggressive in game play for the Halo games. Now they force you to do that and wonder why nobody plays Halo Infinite. I am left wondering one of the least sweaty game modes and chill times playing is playing Bot Boot Camp, which 343 can't even keep in the game they are constantly removing it and putting it back and then taking it out, like what the hell? I can't even begin to list how many A holes I reported playing the old Halo's for just that, being shit heads. I remember reporting whole teams because the entire enemy team played like it was by prison rules, or my team were just all lone wolves and I WAS THE ONE getting railed by the enemy team for just being a regular team player. Now it's all backwards, encouraged to exploit shabby system and get better results to scale the ranks faster but have zero actual skill. Spend the same time grinding for about nearly two and a half years and basically stay in the same range of ranking but come out with something real to show for it in legitimate learned skill though at the same time have like only so much in armor cores and customization options not having spent anything whatsoever in the shop. Though I did have fun more often than not, but 343's grind is stupid. What they and Microsoft did to Halo was stupid. 343 and MS are stupid. Now Fortnite, was actually a shit ton of fun once I had the hang of it and knew how to combine all the new game mechanics and then learn deal with shit heads by just playing the game. Yeah, I bought skins as well but I was not a hoarder like most people dropping hundreds of thousands. I spent like tens of dollars at most on just getting BP skins, now I just collect them, if I find one that's cool I'll get it from the shop or buy a BP just so I can grind up to it and that's it I won't play anymore. These days I don't even do that I just play zombies, blare music, smoke a good lin and have a whiskey... then I cut loose and show some folks how Zombie Slaying is supposed to look. When an Archangel descends down upon the filth below and lays waste to an ordinarily normal amount of chaos, and then escalates. By using all of your assets and resources. Combine the hover board with the times two speed boost and you can go to S P A C E. Combine the Quadbike with the speed boost and you can do some sick stunts and use those tricks as a means of killing zombies. Things like that keep in mind, using different weapons every so often and switching it up from time to time. Combing weapons and utilities for the most effective battle methods or just a means to get around and the unleash hell once you're there. That Shock hammer is pretty tight, the Ranger shotgun is the best so far, that sideways scythe eliminates the need for healing as well as shields, and that the EMP gun is awesome if NOT used against other players in zombies for "funzies", that is immediate cause for some kind of rebuttal don't do THAT to players no matter how funny it may be because I can promise you your victim is not having fun. You can do tricks normally without speed boost on the hoverboard, also while flipping into the air makes for some good hang time so you can do sniping tricks or just plane shoot from the air, also aiming in the air is normally a HUGE NO NO but your feet are still on the hoverboard so it still counts as legitimate "ground" even if you are doing tricks midair you can still aim and fire a weap while on a hoverboard JUST SO long as you remain on the hoverboad dos this appliy. You come off or eject yourself from it the normal rules will apply again, so you cannot aim in the air which usually means after a jump. I prefer the sniper or the pumpkin launcher when doing hover board trick shots for elimming zombies or shooting objects for practice. These are just some of the things I learned. Now apply that to Halo, with my already veteran Halo knowledge and paired with new age tactics I am more of an online warrior than ever before, since Infinite WAS infact build after Fortnite like most games are as to try to get some of that action and shit only then was I able to accomplish all that I did for Infinite MP since its launch, because Corpos and their greed, they made a hybridized game and some others followed suit. Splitgate, and whatever else is on the chopping block of "Live Service" BS. Splitgate was actually pretty fun, until it was not it died as it lived. Hollow, empty and a cheap imitation of greater and better things though as they described Halo Infinite, the same applies to Splitgate. The core gameplay was there but bogged down by so many unnecessary things, fixes were made but a bandage does nothing and too little too late was most of the case for that game so they pushed the whole microtransaction a bit harder and keeled off what was already slowly dying. The after math was just completely silent games, nobody spoke to each other ever again. Of what was left 55% had mics, that means of the tens of people playing only like a little over half of nobody had mics. So it was a guarantee every, any, and all matches ever again in Splitgate were silent from game chat. Party chat or Discord? Screw that noise, literally. MS saw to that Discord channel thing which completely destroyed my already frazzled trust in social media and also Xbox Microsoft and how they operate. So I gave up on new games, even new free games. Those days are gone, long gone the good old days.
They left it out.. I think reason was due to not having enough content or weren't allowed due to machinima still existing once it crashed they were allowed to make new episodes
Watching these in 2024 is like watching very accurate historical re-enactments of Battlefield 3 gameplay.
Big facts
It’s crazy how much they nailed that feeling of squadding up with 3 random bros and doin cool shit
watching this in 2024 makes the delta virus joke even funnier
RIP THICK 44
Press F pay for respect to Thick44 😢.
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The memories man, many times I sat in study hall back in high school watching this series.
I know man me 2 it's an unreal feeling... Now we're old AF and thick is gone we'll never get those memories back I'm glad we had em
@@ianunruh3687 dang man.. you had to mention thicks death Dx that hits deep now
Same here lol nostalgia at its best.
@@ianunruh3687 You’re gonna make me cry haha, yeah you’re right though. I’m glad I got to experience it.
Thick44 gone but never forgotten brotha!!
Man its so weird seeing the Machinima logo now knowing what they were doing to people for so long. Guess animations/series like these are the silver lining.
What were they doing to people
@@hax_venom5180 Machinima basically hired many types of animators to create content, almost like contractors. Only problem was they paid pennies and expected tons of work to be done while reaping all the rewards. They took advantage of lots of creators because UA-cam was such a new concept when they first started. Some of the Oneyplays guys suffered so it was pretty common.
@@hax_venom5180it’s a long story there plenty videos out there that explain.
@@hax_venom5180 bringing joy to people
@@CarlosColon-m7iwhat's the quick version?
I love the yo-yo’ing respect for Colonel 100, we go from “how do we become you” to “you’re a fucking loser dude get a life” to “whoa. Wow” so fast
It's all about confidence. Closet Colonel is embarrassed by his hours, but Colonel 100 is proud of that shit bucket!
Also, I'm not sure Colonel 100 is a real person. I think the game itself gained sentience and became the ultimate player. Did you ever notice that we never actually heard him using his shit bucket, but we did Closet Colonel? It's because Closet Colonel is the only one of the two who's actually a real person.
@@mindassassin i mean ye its proved with the commander episode he legit breaks in and even has a grudge with the enemy commander even though he has never died other then to neebs in bf3 and he breaks rules more than once
the colonel and the noob teaming up was kinda wholesome, the colonel didnt see him as a noob he saw him as a player that related to what he went through and he gave him a chance, i know thats fucking stupid but its something to think about
To be fair, compared to the colonel, everyone is a noob. He gives them ammo when he thinks it's for nancies, he kills the megalodon and tells everyone to PTFO, he takes the enemy base when everyone wants to back off. Dude was constantly playing with other noobs.
Noob is also the one who killed him.
@@timothycwillis Dip dip potato chip.
It's not stupid, it's the heart of gaming, don't put yourself down man, one love✌️
Plus, Noob is the only one who killed the Colonel, though he didn't mean to, so I can see him gaining respect for Noob and maybe train him to be the next Colonel. It especially helps since the Colonel dug up Noob from the grave in the Battlefield Friends trailer for 2042.
Hardline BFFs are my favorite ones, Mothafuka..
I reference that shit all the time
Muthafuka ❤
Am i the only one who finds it ironic that the most skilled player in BFF (the colonel) is voiced by Simon, a man who played BF3/4 like an epileptic monkey?
We lost a real soldier. RIP Thick
this is actually the best time humanity ever had
yaaa, ah wtf?... you were playing call of duty!
God i miss the good 'ol days.. sitting on my computer chair playing BF 3 and BF 4 with a hole cut out the center of the chair with my shlt bucket underneath..
These were the good days but we probably didn't know that
Thats a grena-
*in lobby* James: thanks....thanks Noob....awesome...great. 13:28
Best quote in BFFs (my opinion): How the fuck did you miss him?
"I think he was hacking"
Dip dip potato chip
Episode 2 "It's year of the shut the fuck up".
"I just unlocked the bipod for my knife."
"How do magnets work? _They just do!_ "
Man, I miss Thick. He was so funny.
Recon and noob was the best and he never picked on him as much i always love there battlefield and gta v gameplay RIP thick44 aka fly high recon we all miss you
First off: RIP THICK, the WYVERN KINg!!!!!!!!
Secondly: I miss the old days, I’m 30 and old I know, of having similar experiences and conversations in 360 gaming. Battlefield 2 and COD 4/MW best days of online gaming
Amen to that
@@JacobE-23 my brother🤝
Im 39 and agree. The old days of ps2 with network adapter playing socom 1 was my first days of online gaming. Battlefield was a great time as well. Had every system from atari-newest systems and snes still remains my fav system lol
Every time I hear Thicks voice it feels like he's still around, then I remember... He should be very proud of the legacy he left behind, it constantly brings me smiles.
It’s so nice to be able to go back and hear thick in these videos
legend says he still needs ammo
Story about administrators, used to play on ziba tower and the 4-5 admins were your stereotypical no lives, always on, 15:1 k/d, and died as assault to pick up their kits as recon so they could have a smaller hitbox. I just happened to be in a situation to knife one of the guys repeatedly, just kept seeing his back after he would jump down from railing and such. The first time or two he complimented me, then after a few more they banned me and changed the rules to include "no tryhards" lol.
I like how nobody remembers the white medic in the 1st episode
I do
@@cadanbiesenthal6851 good for you
Bro everybody does.
It's literally one of the main jokes of the first episode
@@kindagoodatthegame thanks
They did it to ruin battlefield
That machinima logo like a plague on all quality videos from 10 years ago
This is directed to Thicks Family, how dare yall hog the human man warrior. We could have done split custody with thick but noooo. On the real my heart is with yall love you all and miss the Wyvern king
RIP THICK 44. Also I fucking love this so much.
Every now and then I watch the old ones and forget what the road leads to. Just to be able to smile from thick again. It's still not fully set in yet. Listen to how happy he was. Guys we lost more than just a random person on a program.
P R O M O T E D ! ! !
I love that they made the intro really look like the best battlefield the third one 😏
Little bag, big bag problems made me cry laughing.
Fly High Recon
Colonel 100 is always support class because he carries the team
This got me in tears 😂😂😂
Oh good, i need something to sleep to
I use their playlist from their channel
"DIP, DIP, POTATO CHIP!"
Bail out!
James:....what w-? TANK! TANK! TANK!!!!!*Jamesworld (who cares about it? JAMESWORLD!
Im a little slow but i read the top comment saying RIP Thick 44? Is that name one of the animated characters in real life or something.. who like passed on?
Thick44 is the character that is played by Tony, Tony died over 18 months ago.🎉
2:23 thick44 is the guy on the left.
@@stephenphillips7699 recon right? Noooo
I miss bf3 crazy days n fun
I can’t wait get old and Reminisce bout battlefield friends.
it's always so weird hearing Neebs swear🤣
It is! But I love hearing him do it 😂
Choppy time baby!
There have been newer episodes released after this with battlefield 2044. And yet no one has a supercut of it on youtube
What do I look like to you a guy that don't drive jeeps around😅
I saw a different one, loved it, is there more? See you at Horde Fest!!!!
Mines!!! Yeah this is ours...."no mines"!!! lol
Did THICK 44 do the guitar intro?
Yes
Yeah thick did a lot of voices and music for this crew. I love his 7 days to die song. Thick will forever be missed. I find myself only watching the old vids with him in it especially ark ragnarok series because....i mean....COOOOOTER!!!
Damn fitting the last one was all of them except engineer getting on the Battlefield 1 hype train
Man would’ve been fun to see all the shit in Battlefield 1
You know, i completely agree with neebs on the PC thing. its way to overcrowded.
every line in this entire video is polite gold
Frankieonpc was a nice touch love that guy
I was really hoping they would do something for battlefield 1
ahh those days 😢
F**king love this series..
"I just unlocked the bipod on my knife"
Jeep Stuff is not a troll tactic because it works.
I miss these
Why am I just now finding this
1:43:41 reminds me when i found that i have the developer at dice LA and friend of dice dogtags. I dont know how i got them i never knifed anyone that had them so I guess I just dont remember working at dice while i was in middle school.
I remember this back in the heyday when BF3 or even four was coming out. I know what it is like to play with noobs all the time, I was a Halo vet from back in the day, playing Halo for so long and then it died with the MCC, and then the PC port expedited the Worsening D-Day of killing of Halo on Xbox for good. Now, I never once made a Smurf account but I know what they are now, it refers to the cheaters that do that to look like what they called in Fortnite as "Fake Defaults". It is NOT the people that want to just play as if it were day 1 and lvl 1 again, it is the cheaters that Smurfing actually means. The Colonel is just a decent guy though a bucket man, the one that just wants to relive the glory days and just be a REAL leg end to his fellow recruits and newbies. Smurfs are just plane assholes, it does not matter what video game or genera cheating is cheating and people do not like it when the "Sportsmanship" has been messed with, at all. Even if you kick ass, well do so but don't make people hate playing because you are not, you are forcing others to hate people that "play" like that and nobody likes an insufferable "do it all" show offey prik in MP FPS games or otherwise. It ain't mad skillz, that's called harassment and abuse. I remember when you could report people for being far too over aggressive in game play for the Halo games. Now they force you to do that and wonder why nobody plays Halo Infinite.
I am left wondering one of the least sweaty game modes and chill times playing is playing Bot Boot Camp, which 343 can't even keep in the game they are constantly removing it and putting it back and then taking it out, like what the hell? I can't even begin to list how many A holes I reported playing the old Halo's for just that, being shit heads. I remember reporting whole teams because the entire enemy team played like it was by prison rules, or my team were just all lone wolves and I WAS THE ONE getting railed by the enemy team for just being a regular team player. Now it's all backwards, encouraged to exploit shabby system and get better results to scale the ranks faster but have zero actual skill. Spend the same time grinding for about nearly two and a half years and basically stay in the same range of ranking but come out with something real to show for it in legitimate learned skill though at the same time have like only so much in armor cores and customization options not having spent anything whatsoever in the shop. Though I did have fun more often than not, but 343's grind is stupid. What they and Microsoft did to Halo was stupid. 343 and MS are stupid.
Now Fortnite, was actually a shit ton of fun once I had the hang of it and knew how to combine all the new game mechanics and then learn deal with shit heads by just playing the game. Yeah, I bought skins as well but I was not a hoarder like most people dropping hundreds of thousands. I spent like tens of dollars at most on just getting BP skins, now I just collect them, if I find one that's cool I'll get it from the shop or buy a BP just so I can grind up to it and that's it I won't play anymore. These days I don't even do that I just play zombies, blare music, smoke a good lin and have a whiskey... then I cut loose and show some folks how Zombie Slaying is supposed to look. When an Archangel descends down upon the filth below and lays waste to an ordinarily normal amount of chaos, and then escalates. By using all of your assets and resources. Combine the hover board with the times two speed boost and you can go to S P A C E. Combine the Quadbike with the speed boost and you can do some sick stunts and use those tricks as a means of killing zombies. Things like that keep in mind, using different weapons every so often and switching it up from time to time. Combing weapons and utilities for the most effective battle methods or just a means to get around and the unleash hell once you're there. That Shock hammer is pretty tight, the Ranger shotgun is the best so far, that sideways scythe eliminates the need for healing as well as shields, and that the EMP gun is awesome if NOT used against other players in zombies for "funzies", that is immediate cause for some kind of rebuttal don't do THAT to players no matter how funny it may be because I can promise you your victim is not having fun.
You can do tricks normally without speed boost on the hoverboard, also while flipping into the air makes for some good hang time so you can do sniping tricks or just plane shoot from the air, also aiming in the air is normally a HUGE NO NO but your feet are still on the hoverboard so it still counts as legitimate "ground" even if you are doing tricks midair you can still aim and fire a weap while on a hoverboard JUST SO long as you remain on the hoverboad dos this appliy. You come off or eject yourself from it the normal rules will apply again, so you cannot aim in the air which usually means after a jump. I prefer the sniper or the pumpkin launcher when doing hover board trick shots for elimming zombies or shooting objects for practice. These are just some of the things I learned. Now apply that to Halo, with my already veteran Halo knowledge and paired with new age tactics I am more of an online warrior than ever before, since Infinite WAS infact build after Fortnite like most games are as to try to get some of that action and shit only then was I able to accomplish all that I did for Infinite MP since its launch, because Corpos and their greed, they made a hybridized game and some others followed suit.
Splitgate, and whatever else is on the chopping block of "Live Service" BS. Splitgate was actually pretty fun, until it was not it died as it lived. Hollow, empty and a cheap imitation of greater and better things though as they described Halo Infinite, the same applies to Splitgate. The core gameplay was there but bogged down by so many unnecessary things, fixes were made but a bandage does nothing and too little too late was most of the case for that game so they pushed the whole microtransaction a bit harder and keeled off what was already slowly dying. The after math was just completely silent games, nobody spoke to each other ever again. Of what was left 55% had mics, that means of the tens of people playing only like a little over half of nobody had mics. So it was a guarantee every, any, and all matches ever again in Splitgate were silent from game chat. Party chat or Discord? Screw that noise, literally. MS saw to that Discord channel thing which completely destroyed my already frazzled trust in social media and also Xbox Microsoft and how they operate. So I gave up on new games, even new free games. Those days are gone, long gone the good old days.
whoa, thats a lot of words
too bad Im not ready any of them
Thank you for uploading this it brightens my day .......I miss machinima so much 😢
Machinima was trash. Look it up.
So sad thick for all battlefield
Boop…boop….quack quack…quack quack.
😂
THIS IS BETTER THAN PORN BUT NOT QUITE AS GOOD AS TRIPPLE PEN BUT DEF BETTER THAN DP😂😂
Y’know it’s not too late to delete this
@@travismaxey8921 DONT ACT LIKE YOU DONT WATCH THE SAME THING OR WORSE HAHAHA
1:25:45 “it was probably one of your grenades” “really🥹” (in unison) “NO” 😂😂 I love these dudes
The im not a math guy kills me evey time
Rip thick 44 😔
Damn I can't believe I forgot how insufferable Neebs character was in this series. Honestly made me hate him in this but it was a good time. Lmao
3:25 didnt noob actually drop a jeep on recon after this? I swear this episode was cut short in this video
I knew I wasn’t the only one. lol I remember dying after
@1:28:36 That is QUITE the knee slapper!!😂🥃
Promoted PROMOTED PROMOTED 😂😂😂😂
Jeep stuff
You im surprised they did a season focusing on bf1
They left it out.. I think reason was due to not having enough content or weren't allowed due to machinima still existing once it crashed they were allowed to make new episodes
Man I miss the old battlefield games. The problem with new games is that people preorder and this lets dice made shitty games.
That's right, they ruined Battlefield!
😂😂😂😂 this was the best to watch
Shelly done die on my birthday damn
U were playing call of duty lol
Dyip dyip potayto chyip
U also 4got to include 42, its Recons last season so please pay omajas to him
RIP Thick
2 n a half weeks of work lunches I finished them all 🎉😢
We miss yall
When did you unlock retared😂😂😂😂
Brings shit back
Bubble battlefield 🥰🥳🥳🥳🥳🎉
Me and my squad screaming at team mates EVERY MATCH 41:50
Well stop standin underneath the stuff!
I never watched BFFs when it came out, but does anyone think the real dumb ones are everyone that tries to explain reason to newb over and over again?
26:25
😮thick 44
I WAS PASSING JEEPS
@3:03:47 I felt that
I'm not liking a video from someone who just saved the videos. Do to neebs gaming to see the actual videos.
"p r o m o t e d"
Dude making money from neebs gaming’s hard work. Shame
PROMOTED!!!!!!
I need ammo!!!!!!! 13:13 yeah 13:16 good can 13:19 i have some? Give it to m 13:21! AMMO! 13:22
3:36:19 "I SAID NO METRO!"
Simon and néebs
IF YOUR EVER PINNED DOWN , JST GET A BUNCH OF YALLS N PUSH THRU IN ONE DIRECTION N LEAVE MAYBE 2 CAPABLE SOLDIERS AS FLANK