It is 1942 .... prepare for war!

The new Battlefield 1942 game from  Electronic Arts had been getting some decent gameplay over the web by some of the RoWeb regulars, and so we thought we'd give it a LAN bashing.  The game certainly dominated the gameplay and everyone was well hooked by the end of the weekend.  The evil children of the Red Baron: Orcas's and Chief's flying skilz were more than a minor irritation to the Allies, destroying tanks far too easily and the aircraft carrier was repeatedly sunk!  Although everyone seemed to find new tactics to get their just revenge.  We'll be seeing much more of this game at future LANs for sure.

Also at the LAN was the official multiplayer demo of UBI Soft's Rainbow6 :Raven Shield.  Again we had found another excellent game replacing counter-strike as the team shoot-em-up for the LAN.

Socially it was cool to get together with cheap drinks, a curry dinner and generally have a party.  There's more comment on the party and hopefully some pictures in the forums .  RoWeb thanks to Chief for the server support (bring a flashlight next time - anti 'walking to shop in horrible countryside place with too few street lights and wet potholes in ground etc etc) .  Also thanks to Dogmeat for his excellent console and DVD support, and to those who stayed behind to help the crew clear up.  Good to hear in the forums everyone had a good time see you all at the next one due in late Jan - early Feb 2003.
p.s.  good luck with the new addition to the family digital!

This was a large event with 5 official tournaments. Top UK Clan Infinity-eSports took part and won the CS Pro Tournament winning 5 VisionTek Xtasy GeForce 4 Ti 4400 3D graphic cards. Clan [ARSES] won the £1,000 cheque for the UBISOFT sponsored Ghost Recon tournaments, and Smooth won the SBK Superbike race. He and the other 4 finalists won Thrustmaster Freestyle Bike interfaces and the top 2 won VIP Paddock passes from Octagon to the July round of the real-life World Superbike Championships.

The JEDI tournament was won By Clan [VETS] and TEPPUM won the raffle. So, loads of winners, loads of tournaments and loads of fun. A full review and film will follow shortly, or pick up the early report in the next issue of PC GAMER.

Cya at the next one

"The best yet"

If you click here you can go to the Forum comments on this excellent event. With the venue being a 4* hotel,and McDonalds and TESCO 5 mins walk away this was the venue for fun!

The new CS Tourneywith our new league rules went well and thanks again to Chief and [VETS]Scope for putting so much effort into making the tourney run so well.

The official film of the event is downloadable in wmv format from this location - click here

A full review and some clips from the film of the event can be seen by clicking here. If you like what you see I guess you'd better start preparing for ComBat250

Lookie, lookie who's got hookie!

Before setting sail on the Carribean, the swashbuckling RoWeb Crew heartily invited you to a festival of food and froliks to celebrate the just burning of the traitor Guy Fawkes!!

At the LAN players were treated to a free breakfast of bacon and sausage butties,  and a few fireworks were fired into the sky!

After a few modifications to the windows the venue proved pretty cool with zero power problems and a cool pub nearby. Certainly for £15 we think everyone got a good deal with low price, cheap booze, fireworks and mega fun. I hope Comet and DocFear have recovered from their gymnastic displays and that we see you all at the next one

Again around 100 players turned up and fun was had by all. The BB gun battle outside being something 4 those with body armour only!!

With a 2GHz Pentium 4 on display for people to play games on, and 10 other mega-spec Pentiums for public use even the spectators got a go at the art of fragging!! Op Flashpoint was given a major trial at Multiplayer gameplay and came through with flying colours .. just wish the staf fOp Flash Apache would not get shot down so often, especially with a crew on board

The Review is coming soon!

We had approx 100 players and staff and managed to recapture more of the old RoWeb atmosphere of party meets gamers

The new Excaliber Beta of Tourney management went well and the large number of staff worked real hard (kudos!!) to make sure everyone had a cool, hassle free time.

The event had some real serious Clans in attendance and things sure got preeety intence during the quarter final but in the end we had an awesome final watched by everyone on the big screen between [VETS] (A Team) and [bleh] (The Clan who has yet to decide on a name!).

Moving to a new venue at Swindon Town FC conference centre The Gathering proved to be the biggest RoWeb yet, getting pretty much smack on our maximum attendance limit of 100 people.

The event had 3 official tournies leading to a final knockout to decide who would be the one to win the full sized replica of the katana sword used by Connor McCleod in the film 'The Highlander'. The One was Scope of Clan Veterans - kudos to him, his impressive Rally Master skilz sure helped !

The event was a huge success and saw a major list of Clans in attendance, many having their own banners marking the clan gatherings. Clan Vetrerans dominated the CS and there was also large attendance from the Authorative RoWeb Shifty Eyed gang [ARSE], Ze Clan, UC_UK, DoA, ULLA and several more. There was also the usual large contingent of people new to muliplayer/ online gaming who had the extra benefit of being able to try out the ten 1.7 GHz Intel P4's with their 21" TFT screens at the event. Thanks also to Planet LAN for the 46" Plasma screen we plugged into one of the P4's Also the main game server was one of the first Dual P4 machines in the country, all thanks to our friends at Intel !!

The Paintball LAN took place in Andover on the 2 - 4 Feb 2001 and what a laugh! Click here for the review

Many thanks to our main sponsors Intel (UK) for the network and 1.6 GHz Pentiums used as game servers, and public use computers.

In addition, we'd like to thank Gamers.Com, and Everglide (UK) for providing prizes; Powerball Ltd for the Paintball, and LanParty.com for the promoting the event. Cya at the next one!