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Interview with Lanthan

Question: So who's this Lanthan guy? Tell us in short about the real person behind the nickname.

Lanthan: It´s not really exciting to be honest. I´m 31 years old and working as an IT-Manager but trying to change that in the near future. I don´t have a family so nothing is distracting me when it comes down to gaming. I´m the try and error guy... tired a lot of things in my life but nothing worked out really well

Question: Explain your online handle, what does it mean? why did you choose it? do you use any other alias? How long have you had it?
Lanthan: Actually it´s simple but still makes me laugh to hear native English speakers trying to pronounce it. They can´t decide how they wanna pronounce the TH. But the name itself goes back to the times when I was studying chemistry back in the year 2000. I joined the darkjedi organisation which is a multigaming roof organistation. Anyway I needed a name and I was dealing with Lanthan in the laboratory. And since the element is as boring as I am it was pretty obvious to use it as my alias. I think I never used another alias than that. As you all know the more the community knows you the harder it is to change the name. Not that I would have a better idea right now.

Question: How long have you been in AGW and how did you find us?
Lanthan: I joined AGW right around the German prerelease of the game. Which must be around 1 1/2 years now. I was playing in FFTF before and enjoyed the people there a lot and it was a lot of fun playing in the Project Reality campaigns we had there. I was aware that there is the AGW sister organistation focusing on ArmA but I didn´t enjoy ArmA I that much so I just followed what was going on there. But once ArmA2 got released I was aboard and looking forward to the very first campaign. Especially because the FFTF tournament slowly died around that time as well.

Question: How long have you been involved with gaming in general?
Lanthan: Puh... I´d say almost forever. I think it was somewhen in primary school when two of my friends got Schneider CPCs. We got hooked up by this and played a lot of Harrier Command
Slowly other friends got 386 PCs and the games got better and better. My first own PC was a 486 DX 40 and I had to safe the cash for quite a while. I also had a gameboy and the things you have as a kid.

Question: Which current AGW member have you known the longest?
Lanthan: Thinking about it it must be Ed and Blisstick... basically the guys who are left over from FFTF. Firefox was there too but didn´t play in the campaigns I´ve played. Not to forget Adsy. I was HCO under his command in an FFTF campaign and then here in campaign one as well. After I found myself beeing HCO in C1 people like Purple and Ulster showed up.

Question: Tell us a little about your gaming rig?
Lanthan: I bought it when Arma 2 was released. I had to be able to play this game so I´ve got myself:
I7 920
8GB Ram
and a GTX 280. Still works fine. The only thing that sucks a bit is vista.

Question: What are games you play currently? List your top 5 favorite games with a short explanation of why they are your favorites.
Lanthan: I can´t give you 5   I only play 3 games.
So here are my top 3:
1st: ArmA2 CO... obviously for the thrill you can get there. It is just a great game with endless opportunities and the tournament makes it even better.
2nd: Napoleon: Total War. I always liked Rome: Total War and I bought the game of the year edition of Empire and Napoleon last monday. The battlefields are simply amazing.
3rd: R.U.S.E. Yes another strat game. I think it is well done and something different though not a lot of missions.

Question: What other hobbies do you partake in?
Lanthan: Lately not that much. But I like to read, cook, photography, hiking, airsoft operations and playing hockey though this is incredibly exhausting.

Question: Describe a perfect game night/day?
Lanthan: A good battle on sunday. Besides that hanging around on our TS server and having a nice pubbing session with some guys and a couple of beers.

Question: Do you see yourself gaming when you are 75 years old?
Lanthan: If I´m still able to see and move my fingers definitly yes.

Question: Do you have a favorite AGW moment? Tell us about it.
Lanthan: I think battle 1 & 2 this campaign. I was so super nervous because I was afraid that we will get our asses kicked big time and that would have been a very bad thing for the motivation of the army. Not speaking about a loss I was very worried we might get sweeped. So with that nervousness seeing things work out pretty well by having a real competition going on was a real high. I remember others had the same feeling which made it even better.

Question: Anything else you would like to add?
Lanthan: I hope we can keep the excitement of this campaign going on for a little longer. Would be great if we can keep it close until the end and then hopefully we will come up with an exciting C5.
Both teams and Generals make a great job this campaign!

Thank you very much for your time Lanthan, on behalf of the media team.

C04B05 moments - by Joey (135inf)

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Interview with piTu

Question: So who's this piTu guy? Tell us in short about the real person behind the nickname.
piTu: my name is Marc, 38 years old and living in Germany in a small village near Hamburg. I´m an electrical engineering technician in a chemical plant. I´m taking part in a motorcycle club and I´m a big fan from the HSV soccer team. Like to go fishing and cooking and i´m a member of the firefighter team in our village. And the PC, especially ArmA takes the other time of my life.

Question: Explain your online handle, what does it mean? why did you choose it? do you use any other alias? How long have you had it?
piTu: The name piTu is taken from a sugarcane-schnapps you need fort he Brazil cocktail caipirinha. It was my favorite drink in hot summer many years ago. I use this name since OFP-times. only in perfect world i use an other name: erie djavar. otherwise in all games i´m piTu.

Question: How long have you been in AGW and how did you find us?
piTu: I´ve played public with kju many times and he told me to try the AGW-tournament. After playing aas at the basecamp server nearly every day there was more and more contact to cat toaster. He also suggested to play with him in AGW. so I started with the scrims for C3.

Question: How long have you been involved with gaming in general?
piTu: I´ve had my first experiences with the game pong late in the 70´s . then my „career“ goes on with the Atari VCS and the awesome C64. Started PC-gaming in 1992. Online gaming since 2001 starting with OFP. i´ve played in several clans and leagues (ESL, AL, ECL, 511er) and tried out the real-war-league. Now i give AGW a hard time

Question: Which current AGW member have you known the longest?
piTu: With m@ddog, Charlie and scotch i´ve played in the OFP clan mdk. It´s very funny with this guys so we stick together till now. We did every clan switch together. If u want one of us u have to take all of us .

Question: Tell us a little about your gaming rig?
piTu: I´m using a amd x6 1090 @3,6ghz, ati 5850, 4gb ram, Seagate Barracuda 1TB, Logitech G500 mouse, Plantronics Gamecom 777 headset, 22” TFT and a 5€ 10 years old Cherry keyboard 

Question: What are games you play currently? List your top 5 favorite games with a short explanation of why they are your favorites.
piTu: 1-5 OFP 
Currently i´m playing ArmA2 most the time. It´s the best non-fast-food-shooter in my opinion. It depends not only on your reaction to be a good player. You have also to think about what you are doing next. And you have to act as a team to be successful.
For a change I play the mmorpg perfect world. This game is the easy going part in my game collection. You can meet nice guys and have fun for some hours without stress.
Another game for funny evenings is Trackmania. Some evenings m@ddog and me are driving around at the tmn servers. But this game has a handicap. If you got 4 or 5 beers or a bottle vino you can´t handle the car anymore .
Sorry, not 5 games. I think it´s better to play a game very intensive to be good than to play many games with no success

Question: What other hobbies do you partake in?
piTu:  As i´ve said above I´m a big HSV fan. I visit their matches in the stadium or watch them at the TV. With my teammate scotch I also drive to the away-matches in whole germany. Another hobby is fishing. Sometimes going to Denmark with my friends for a fishing week. And hanging around with my mates from the motorcycle club. Having party with drinks and girls is also available with me

Question: Describe a perfect game night/day?
piTu: There are 2 types of perfect game nights:
1. Meeting my teammates in mumble taking part at a public server have some beers and talk funny b*llsh*t with them.
2. Prepare a whole week for a battle. Try out everything at an arma map. Entering the chopper in the right time/way, take the fastest way to a spot, check every possible route, know every stone/house/bush and work out several tactics. If that works at the battleday in a league or a tournament with the whole team then it´s a perfect game night.

Question: Do you see yourself gaming when you are 75 years old?
piTu: Sure. I can see no matter to stop playing. And I hope gaming in 40 years will also be possible with sitting in a chair. The trend is to move your whole body like you do at the Wii. In 40 years this could be the primary way to play games. With 75+ it will not be so easy to move your body quick enough

Question: Do you have a favorite AGW moment? Tell us about it.
piTu: Yes, in a battle in C3 teasy and me wanted to support our team to take the blue bravo spot. But I was too dumb to drive the right way. I took our jeep to alpha instead of bravo. At that moment our team takes the flag at bravo. Teasy and me were standing in alpha without an enemy and could make the sweep. This sweep was only possible in fact of not knowing how to drive to the right position. Causes big laughter in our TS

Question: Anything else you would like to add?
piTu: I would like to thank the admins for the AGW-tournament. Good work. 

Thank you very much for your time, piTu on behalf of the media team.

AGW Campain 4 Promotional Video

credits to Ed

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