02-03-2015, 03:44 AM
(02-03-2015, 01:53 AM)Alwarren link Wrote:The reason for my annoyance back then was that I hadn't heard any shots. I just saw that someone was shooting at (what I thought) unalerted enemies, so yeah, I was a bit pissy about that. As I said, it would be good to notify the leader/rest of the team of the fact that we had been spotted, but yeah, you did the right thing at the time. I just didn't know.No question, Den did the right thing to return fire there. What I'm worried about is if we start saying that it's up to each player to decide when there's a threat, not necessarily shooting at us or even aware, then there's going to be a lot of conversations along the lines of "what the hell are you doing, I said hold fire", " but I saw a threat", "well, OK then" and it could make it that much harder for leaders to maintain order.
Just saying, I don't think we shouldn't let my useless leading displayed in Gwyn's video change our SOP radically. Sure, there will be occasions where players can see something that the leader can't and if there's sufficient immediate threat they should feel free to fire without permission but that should very much be the exception and if there's time, they should advise the leader of the nature of the threat and ask for orders, whilst still having the right to fire without permission or even if permission is refused by the leader, if the situation suddenly changes and the threat justifies doing so. Otherwise we could have situations where a leader is aware of a threat and has a plan to avoid it or get in a better position to deal with it but someone gets trigger happy, alerts the enemy to our presence and ruins the leader's plan (which he may not have had time to explain to the team yet).