08-05-2016, 01:38 PM
Through the Looking Glass
(ascended to godhood)
This is a tough mission, and I certainly didn't envy Varanon's task. I do think he did a good job, but a couple of things went wrong in the mission.
First of all, as a god you can see the laser marker target with the name of the guy projecting it, as well as who is possessing what UAV/Designator. I kept seeing Freeman's laser marker on their own position most of the time, so it means that if any of the LGB's had picked that one up, Bravo would have met an untimely end.
Also, FAC's need to direct planes, not the other way around. Alias was asking the planes for guidance, while it should be the other way around. Also, don't address "Air". Address a team. For example, if you are trying to engage a hard target like a tank, you call for Fury and tell them that tank is lased at position X and request a bomb run. For soft targets, call on Viper.
Also, it might be a good idea to have several extra points marked on the map by the leader. This way, it is easier to say "Target lased near point Gamma" instead of giving coordinates or relative directions to team positions.
Party Crasher
(Zeus)
The mission starts out as a normal convoy ambush but turns into a car chase. For raised drama, I managed the money transport to arrive a minute or two prior to your arrival. They usually take around 15 minutes to reach the airport, depending on how stupid the AI behaves. This time around they took a completely different route, so I had to take over since there was a dangerous bridge in the way.
The attack on the airport, though done with the required haste, was well executed (to quote Ghost Lead from Future Soldier: "Decisive, but not reckless"). You managed to take out both the truck and the plane (I think at that time the money was already loaded onto the plane) and cleared the rest of the airport before proceeding.
(Incidentally, I had another idea on how to stop the plane - if you still have a satchel, you can plant it on the runway while the plane is turning around for take-off and exploded it while it is rolling over it).
On the way to the extraction, however, things went wrong. Due to the Humvee's being too close together and a hasty maneuver of the driver, the Mk30 engaged the second Humvee, resulting in the destruction of both.
The mission end triggered there, although one of you was still up. Seems like I have a miss-by-one in the condition, need to check that. Oh well, third time's a charm
Nogova Blues
(sniper)
The first position on the hillside, while giving a good overview of the town, prevented me from seeing the front of the city hall, so we moved around to the radio tower on the hill to the west of town. Unfortunately, I couldn't even see the city hall from there. Generally there is no "good" catch-all position. I managed to get to a spot were I could successfully engage the DShkM in the entrance (three times, damn AI kept manning it). I did rake up quite a kill count, ended up with 15 kills but that was like shooting fish in a barrel, the plaza in front of the city hall was cramped full of juicy targets.
The incident at the Iron Bank showed why overpenetration of assault rifles can be an issue in hostage situations.
Harvest Moon
(squad lead)
Thanks to the excellent leadership of an extremely handsome officer, we didn't lose a single man on this one, not even the AI. Things got quite hair-raising (well if I had any) on the first objective, since there was a lot of them, but we all kept our cool and things proceeded smoothly from there.
Everybody brought their top game to this, and it showed.
Six Degrees
(gunner on first try, pilot on second)
The first attempt was a short one. Arma showed the middle finger to Manuel's Joystick, in spite of having full throttle the helicopter did not want to climb and ended up in the treetops. I really wonder when Arma will get reliable joystick support, I find it next to impossible to use a throttle in this game.
Second attempt was me piloting the gunship, which went better since I fly with keyboard and mouse (yeah, no kidding). We successfully destroyed two convoys. On the third, however, I ordered Manuel to engage an Iffrit HMG instead of a guard tower, and it turned out the guard tower had AA infantry on it. The time between warning and impact was extremely short. If I were an AI pilot I would have successfully evaded, but since I am only human the missile hit me and I went down. I tired to land on the building, and well, if by "land" I mean "crashed so hard into it that half of the front was missing", then I succeeded in "landing"
I really hate how AI pilots instantaneously react to incoming missiles. It's completely unrealistic.
(ascended to godhood)
This is a tough mission, and I certainly didn't envy Varanon's task. I do think he did a good job, but a couple of things went wrong in the mission.
First of all, as a god you can see the laser marker target with the name of the guy projecting it, as well as who is possessing what UAV/Designator. I kept seeing Freeman's laser marker on their own position most of the time, so it means that if any of the LGB's had picked that one up, Bravo would have met an untimely end.
Also, FAC's need to direct planes, not the other way around. Alias was asking the planes for guidance, while it should be the other way around. Also, don't address "Air". Address a team. For example, if you are trying to engage a hard target like a tank, you call for Fury and tell them that tank is lased at position X and request a bomb run. For soft targets, call on Viper.
Also, it might be a good idea to have several extra points marked on the map by the leader. This way, it is easier to say "Target lased near point Gamma" instead of giving coordinates or relative directions to team positions.
Party Crasher
(Zeus)
The mission starts out as a normal convoy ambush but turns into a car chase. For raised drama, I managed the money transport to arrive a minute or two prior to your arrival. They usually take around 15 minutes to reach the airport, depending on how stupid the AI behaves. This time around they took a completely different route, so I had to take over since there was a dangerous bridge in the way.
The attack on the airport, though done with the required haste, was well executed (to quote Ghost Lead from Future Soldier: "Decisive, but not reckless"). You managed to take out both the truck and the plane (I think at that time the money was already loaded onto the plane) and cleared the rest of the airport before proceeding.
(Incidentally, I had another idea on how to stop the plane - if you still have a satchel, you can plant it on the runway while the plane is turning around for take-off and exploded it while it is rolling over it).
On the way to the extraction, however, things went wrong. Due to the Humvee's being too close together and a hasty maneuver of the driver, the Mk30 engaged the second Humvee, resulting in the destruction of both.
The mission end triggered there, although one of you was still up. Seems like I have a miss-by-one in the condition, need to check that. Oh well, third time's a charm
Nogova Blues
(sniper)
The first position on the hillside, while giving a good overview of the town, prevented me from seeing the front of the city hall, so we moved around to the radio tower on the hill to the west of town. Unfortunately, I couldn't even see the city hall from there. Generally there is no "good" catch-all position. I managed to get to a spot were I could successfully engage the DShkM in the entrance (three times, damn AI kept manning it). I did rake up quite a kill count, ended up with 15 kills but that was like shooting fish in a barrel, the plaza in front of the city hall was cramped full of juicy targets.
The incident at the Iron Bank showed why overpenetration of assault rifles can be an issue in hostage situations.
Harvest Moon
(squad lead)
Thanks to the excellent leadership of an extremely handsome officer, we didn't lose a single man on this one, not even the AI. Things got quite hair-raising (well if I had any) on the first objective, since there was a lot of them, but we all kept our cool and things proceeded smoothly from there.
Everybody brought their top game to this, and it showed.
Six Degrees
(gunner on first try, pilot on second)
The first attempt was a short one. Arma showed the middle finger to Manuel's Joystick, in spite of having full throttle the helicopter did not want to climb and ended up in the treetops. I really wonder when Arma will get reliable joystick support, I find it next to impossible to use a throttle in this game.
Second attempt was me piloting the gunship, which went better since I fly with keyboard and mouse (yeah, no kidding). We successfully destroyed two convoys. On the third, however, I ordered Manuel to engage an Iffrit HMG instead of a guard tower, and it turned out the guard tower had AA infantry on it. The time between warning and impact was extremely short. If I were an AI pilot I would have successfully evaded, but since I am only human the missile hit me and I went down. I tired to land on the building, and well, if by "land" I mean "crashed so hard into it that half of the front was missing", then I succeeded in "landing"
I really hate how AI pilots instantaneously react to incoming missiles. It's completely unrealistic.
I don't need luck, I have ammo.