Accepted Platoon Lead after the last Platoon Lead decided to leave after asking all members of the platoon to pull Galaxies and gal-crash Camp Waterson on Indar, which was being taken by the Vanu. This involved me leading the charge with my Galaxy, being attacked by a Scythe and barrel-rolling sideways into said Scythe, destroying it instantly. I recovered, too, which is pretty awesome to say the least. The gal-crash didn't work due to the two enemy platoons at the base having considerable armor support.
The squad leaders of the platoon were senior members of The Ascended that often lead platoons themselves or larger divisions of the outfit. After taking the reins, I ordered all squads to fall back to the warpgate and pull armor. On a suggestion, I ordered the armor column to charge into the main base in order to soften their defense. We lost our armor column, but the enemy also lost most of their coordinated defense and remaining armor. Afterwards, my platoon managed to secure one of the three points and held our own against superior numbers that currently controlled the base. We were reinforced by another platoon shortly after and ground the Vanu slowly until we trapped them at their spawn.
I predicted that since we crushed their momentum, they would likely fall back and focus on their southern front against the Terrans, especially at The Crown and Ti Alloys, which had multiple platoons from both sides fighting harshly over control. Some of the senior members of the outfit disagreed with me, stating that the Vanu would more likely try and hold us further south, likely at Crimson Bluff.
I ordered my platoon to wrap around and capture the territory surrounding the Mao Tech Plant before sweeping in with the other, friendly platoon and taking it. Afterwards, we swept quickly south, charging and eventually taking Crimson Bluff. The Vanu did not have time to set up appropriate defenses, and so, despite numbers being roughly the same, there was wholly insufficient resistance to stop our assault. After Crimson Bluff, the Vanu pretty much disappeared from their northern flank and the friendly platoon left for another front. I divided my platoon in order to take the most territory as fast as possible, only encountering major resistance near their warp gate where two squads from my platoon managed to significantly slow down about a platoon-sized enemy force pulling armor and airships.
Eventually, I ordered those two squads to regroup with the other half of the platoon which was busy taking the southern-most plant for the Vanu. After that, I had the platoon head north and west, digging into the Terran Republic from where the Vanu usually would, with the objective of having my fresh NC platoon joining the slugfest between the depleted and tired Terran and Vanu forces at The Crown. Something came up, though, and I had to log off before actually ordering the advance to The Crown.
This might not be considered an 'own'-appropriate moment, because I did not contribute much individually in the battles (other than that awesome sideways-barrel-roll-into-an-enemy-fighter), but under my leadership (and the leadership of the squad leaders), my platoon crushed the enemy right outside our gates and threw them all the way back to theirs, taking almost the entire right half of the continent. I was also correct about my predictions on enemy morale and their future movements away from our front. That feels like a pretty respectable 'own'. It was also only my second time leading a platoon.
Planetside 2. I play on Mattherson, callsign CrescentSickle, and I'm in the outift The Ascended [TAS].
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