02-01-2021, 03:18 PM
Benchmark Wrote:And one important thing as I did it...Don't leave your team and take positions without letting your team leader know about it.
Team leader - Let anyone know in such cases that one of your team members is in his current position.
Other team leaders - Let your guys know about it as well and confirm they understand.
This is another problem I discussed briefly with Variable yesterday. Some people have a tendency to go off on a tangent and not stick with the group. The team leader orders to disengage, they don't really do it at all and just keep shooting. This is the place when usually people get separated from their group, with nobody knowing where they actually are. We saw that yesterday as well in the Malden mission. People getting separated is a surefire way of getting yourself shot by friendly fire, and there is nothing the team leader(s) can do about that because they are not sure themselves were their people are.
One could argue of course that it is in the responsibility of the team leader to make sure his team is following, and I would say no it isn't, because the team leader has other shit to take care of. He's the guy that plans the movement of his team, and the others have to implement this by following his orders.
Another issue is team leaders failing to tell their team that they are moving. Especially when observing, people's attention is elsewhere (as it should) and not on their team leader. If the latter just moves, those in his immediate vicinity may move with him, but unless the TL announces that they move, some will miss it. In this case, team members should look around and say what is up. We had that situation yesterday, we had one "straggler" from a different team with us when we moved and our TL didn't say anything (or rather, mixed up the radios), and at one point I realized we were only three.
Quote:And I also agree with Verstanden on `consider using enemy factions with differing camo patterns & weapon types` as it helps a lot
This helps, but it cannot be a solution to a problem that has its root elsewhere. We had plenty of situations were we had entirely different camos and were still shot by friendlies. I remember one incident were the enemy was AAF and we were FIA, very distinct from each other, and still got shot at.
I don't need luck, I have ammo.