If you go to the WarpedSportz site, there's a few interesting articles by those helping out on the day - including the mercenary commander.
Certainly the mercenaries made life very quiet down in sector 3 on the break after lunch - apparently they didn't have the cover of the trenches near our base, and so had to face a line of 325 screaming northerners as they charged towards them. Wouldn't have wanted that job!
we(north) waited a good 20-30minutes after lunch so that the mercs could get dug in so that you the southern soft ass shandy drinkin monkey butlers could capture the nukes. it was a total set up if ever i saw one. we had you all day apart from a lucky break after lunch. so gawd knows how the capture of the poxy nukes made you the winners