My first Sogo's trip, was with Recon and Biggs...
I got to experience a full AI Tornado blast. I had never seen one of these before in real life at that time.
We were in a hall way, near respawn 2, which was a "bedroom" like area in the opposite corner where it's at now.
The three of us, controlled this corner forever during a game... at one time though, we had maneuvered back around the other corner to take care of some OPFOR trying to get at our 6.
When we were going back to the corner we controlled...
I was looking back behind us... Cody and Chris were up front, and I heard em both groan. I turn around to see what they were making noise over, and the grenade went off. It was right between my feet... and went off. My lower torso and legs took almost every shot out of it. I honestly never seen the grenade until after-wards, and then only after I moved it with my foot after it hit me.
I knew then they were effective if deployed right.
The ONLY time I've used a grenade in Sogo's , is when BenShee handed me his impact during a game. OPFOR was around a corner, and hugging an odd angle down a hallway.
I popped the grenade down the hall and it did go off. It made a huge BOOM, not quite as loud as a Thunder B, but it was LOUD. It made the guys in the hall jump and run...
The bottom cap came off when it "popped", so no BBs came out. It was confusing to both sides, as to what transpired. The OPFOR went back to respawn , and when I collected it and it was still full of BBs... I tried to get one of their dead team mates to tell em, that actually didn't count as a "kill" because they didn't get nailed with BBs from it.
It was loud as crap though. Something about the bottom wasn't on good enough , and it just didn't work correctly.
I tried using a cheapo SY grenade in Sogos that day too... but honestly, never buy one of these. They simply never work right. They make great boobie-traps if used right, but as grenades, they suck.
My favorite grenades are Thunder Bs, though you can't use em in Sogos.
Since I play out-doors more... they are simply just more versatile, and the loud BOOM is wonderful as well.
I've seen Tornados have trouble in wooded areas and non-flat terrain , making em not spew out BBs right to be effective.
M203s... Kinda nice. Fun as all get out to shoot and hear the pops from them. Can't say they are very practical as BB shooters. Slightly a bit intimidating... In Sogos, they probably work better as anti-personnel shooters. I don't really use mine in Sogos ever... as I just think they are a bit "over-kill" for the close quarters play. You rarely get a chance to blast multiple OPFOR with a shower... most the time, you safety-kill one or two around a corner with em, but other than that, not really practical or that effective in my opinion.
Outdoors... I've had a 50/50 percentage of luck with mine. I've missed and hit OPFOR both with the showers. Now though, I've gotten some rockets to use at big OPs , where you need rockets to take out Comms towers, vehicles, and fortified bunkers. OKI6 showed me, they were highly useful and valuable to have as a grenadier ( which BTW, is my ROLE usually on our team. ). I can fire a rocket at least 100' away, and have shot em farther than that by "accident" ( not really having my angle right when test firing.). The rockets have greater M203 range ... and the ability to blow up a half track, or APC is priceless in a big OP.
I like Boom-Booms ... though, I'm kinda still refining my grenadier load out, and attaining more gear to be effective in different places and situations.
To me, Sogo's just really isn't big enough to warrant carrying alot of BOOMs on ya. Effective as they can be, I'd rather just shoot and face that higher challenge myself.
