there is not enough low ground for that to actually work. i've played basrah fairly thoroughly on both sides and as an APC gunner and driver. the most popular places for APCs to sit generally the low ground around it is in plain view. and theres no way to sneak around the areas. for example up on the highway on the south end of the map. with any half decent blufor team they can have that entire portion of the map locked down as they can see into every pocket of low ground in the immediate area. also in order to use said dead ground, you must first go beyond the walls, which in most cases is completely open ground with no areas low enough for cover for about 50 meters or more. those 50 meters exposed ground can also be perfectly covered by fire from almost any of the surrounding areas.Mikemonster wrote: Although personally I think the Insurgents get an easy ride. The terrain on Basrah ISN'T flat. There is so much dead ground to use if you crouch or crawl. The lack of hills helps, as it reduces Blufor's view of you when you creep towards them.
Although most insurgents take the trusty AK and just sprint at the enemy, then complain about imbalance because they get shot a bit [facepalms].
The areas north of the village is better, however division made by the river makes it difficult for infantry to get across and flank blufor positions. accompanied by the DOD which then limits the angles of which they can approach. any particularly good low ground to the east of the northern half of the map is generally too far away from those popular setup locations to be of any use.
as for insugents that grab Aks and run out at the Blufor. to be frank in many cases thats the only way to play Al Basrah specifically. there aren't enough enclosed compounds with enterable buildings where caches are hidden to defend. Most of the caches even within the city are open air. To take up defensive positions around the cache is at times impossible as the APCs can just pound the walls around you and kill everyone anyways and all you're doing is losing intel to the blufor. at those times the only chance is to go on the offensive and hope you can take out the APCs.
as for realism, sure thats how it went. but we also have to remember this is still a game. realism wont get the mod very far if nobody wants to play the other team. which for Al basrah currently is where it's headed Also you say its realistic for the blufor to pound away at the insugents with APCs but its not, to a certain degree yes but for example the village, it is not realistic for blufor to simply sit back and completely flatten the village. they do if they absolutely need to, however on basrah this has become the immediate go to plan is sit back, flatten it with the APCs and tanks then take out the cache either with the tanks and APCs if they can see it or roll in completely unopposed with infantry. it's not impossible to deal with the current situation on the map, it's just unreasonably skewed at the moment towards blufor victory. and judging from your response i'm fairly confident in guessing that everytime the map comes up or for insurgency in general you're the kind of person who's clicking to switch over to blufor as soon as you can.
