Biter Olympics?

[Laoena]

I had a funny incident the other day that made me wonder if any of the biters trained for the olympics.
For this game I have a large base spread out with around 20 outpost feeding into each other, with trains carrying the stuff around. I wanted to go to a certain outpost to do some work on it, and jumped into my train + single carriage, and told the train to drive to the outpost. The route there takes me along a long stretch of just straight railroad, and I notice that a group of biters had set up a nest very close to the tracks midway along the long stretch.

"No worries," I thought, "I'm in a train, travelling at over 250 km/h."

As I approached the nest, the biters stopped idling, and started to turn towards me. By the time they managed that, what with the train going at full speed, I was right at the nest already. There may have been a brief squeal and one or two possible corpses thrown by the catcher on the train, but that depends on whom I am talking to...

What I DO recall is that as I screamed by in the train, one of the spitters decided to take a potshot at me. In the speed and events of going through the nest, I couldn't tell which one took a spit potshot at me, but as the train was speeding away from the nest, I noticed onscreen a little blob of spit, just behind the single carriage, the blob not only kept up with the train, but actually slowly overtook it! I watched dumb-founded over 3 seconds as this little blob slowly crept past the carriage and ended up splattering on my train engine window.

Now THAT spitter is definitely a gold medal winner in my book. Still hitting a moving target at over 250km/h, and being able to spit long distance as well.

[Ranakastrasz]

Gotta love those Homeing Boulders