We didn't have one of those in quite a while, and to be quite honest, I miss those, they were always good reads. I would really encourage everyone to write one of those now and then, doesn't need to be a tactical discussion (which is difficult if you weren't a team leader), just a first-hand report on how you experienced the mission.
Lost in the Bush
(Door Gunner)
There's not much to say regarding tactics in "Lost Squad" type missions. Either the chopper finds you, or not, and you just keep shooting things until you are either dead or rescued (which makes this kind of mission great for beginning an evening)
The Hussars
("Bravo" TL)
First of all, great mission, Revenant, really enjoyed it.
Phantom was mission lead, and in discord he basically claimed his approach wasn't too good. I beg to differ. The approach to the objective town was good, there was no way this could have done substantially better. We knew of mine fields on the opposite side, which makes approaching from any other direction than the one we did basically impossible.
The only thing about the approach was something I remarked during the mission: The teams moved too independently. This lead to a situation where an enemy technical was approaching from the east. Variable called it out, I looked east, and saw (from about 100 degrees from my position) a technical approaching that was manned by us, so I called out to hold fire. Then I saw at about 80 degrees from where I stood another technical, the one Variable called out. It opened up on us, Variable returned fire, and got the gunner (but the gunner got me first) and only Benchmarks gentle touch brought me back to life. This misunderstanding could have been avoided had the teams moved as a unit.
We approached the town, but at that moment, I think the biggest mistake was not trying to find the GRADs immediately. That is a trap we often fall into: We approach a target and think we have to kill everything in order to kill the actual objective "safely". However, this isn't the case. Had we known where the GRADs were, we could have conducted a concentrated assault on them, and only them. Clearing the town wasn't an objective.
Upon entering the town, we were quickly overrun, which lead to a pretty epic last stand that finally claimed the live of Rund, me, Variable and Kamchatka, but was a pretty awesome experience and IMHO one of the cornerstones of playing Arma.
Bottom line, the only real mistake was not trying to find out where our objectives were before entering the town. Once in the town, we were up against impossible odds.
Proper Colors
(APC gunner)
As the gunner, I did not see much of the actual strategy unfold. The APC was pretty welll used, although we always are basically too timid regarding APC use. However, the mission went pretty well and ended in victory.
Lost in the Bush
(Door Gunner)
There's not much to say regarding tactics in "Lost Squad" type missions. Either the chopper finds you, or not, and you just keep shooting things until you are either dead or rescued (which makes this kind of mission great for beginning an evening)
The Hussars
("Bravo" TL)
First of all, great mission, Revenant, really enjoyed it.
Phantom was mission lead, and in discord he basically claimed his approach wasn't too good. I beg to differ. The approach to the objective town was good, there was no way this could have done substantially better. We knew of mine fields on the opposite side, which makes approaching from any other direction than the one we did basically impossible.
The only thing about the approach was something I remarked during the mission: The teams moved too independently. This lead to a situation where an enemy technical was approaching from the east. Variable called it out, I looked east, and saw (from about 100 degrees from my position) a technical approaching that was manned by us, so I called out to hold fire. Then I saw at about 80 degrees from where I stood another technical, the one Variable called out. It opened up on us, Variable returned fire, and got the gunner (but the gunner got me first) and only Benchmarks gentle touch brought me back to life. This misunderstanding could have been avoided had the teams moved as a unit.
We approached the town, but at that moment, I think the biggest mistake was not trying to find the GRADs immediately. That is a trap we often fall into: We approach a target and think we have to kill everything in order to kill the actual objective "safely". However, this isn't the case. Had we known where the GRADs were, we could have conducted a concentrated assault on them, and only them. Clearing the town wasn't an objective.
Upon entering the town, we were quickly overrun, which lead to a pretty epic last stand that finally claimed the live of Rund, me, Variable and Kamchatka, but was a pretty awesome experience and IMHO one of the cornerstones of playing Arma.
Bottom line, the only real mistake was not trying to find out where our objectives were before entering the town. Once in the town, we were up against impossible odds.
Proper Colors
(APC gunner)
As the gunner, I did not see much of the actual strategy unfold. The APC was pretty welll used, although we always are basically too timid regarding APC use. However, the mission went pretty well and ended in victory.