**Give them trip-wire detonated explosives (for defense)
**Stash a few landmines around the village for their use (able to be buried or hidden--maybe just skin them differently)
**Give them mortars (pickup kit)
**Add detail to maps--more clutter and roadside garbage for hiding and planting traps
**Give them shaped charges for dealing with heavy armor (pickup)
**Perhaps a hidden suicide belt for civilians to wear, undetected...for element of surprise (pickup kit)
**movable ammo caches? That way the marines won't always know where they are, if an insurgent takes the care to move them as they do in real life? (perhaps use rally point logic)
Article 1
^^"Almost every single mosque we've come through has been used for weapons storage and insurgent military training," says Lt. Col. Ramos.
Enterable Mosques that insurgents can enter but If Marines cause damage to them or enter, they lose tickets...
^^Marines have shot at the speakers of minarets, which are normally used for the Muslim call to prayer, though in recent days they've served as a literal call to arms.
Loudspeakers all over the cities that help increase insurgent 'morale' ie ticket count....destroyable (by marines) AND fixable by insurgent civilian class. We need more realistic environmental sounds anyways! this would be perfect.
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Article 2.
^^"They go from house to house, and stockpile food and water wherever they can. You have to [burn it], because that's the only way to defeat them: Deny them food and water, and force them to come out."
What about food stashes (possibly movable)that allow insurgents to heal themselves and gain some tickets back? Marine must destroy these caches to maintain ticket bleed. (perhaps use rally point logic)
Increased Mobility:
^^more detail in the maps and more underground passages! Perhaps a better sniper rifle or two for pickup kits.US officers say that insurgent tactics are evolving, just as American ones are too, in response. They say they have found evidence of tunnels connecting houses - a ploy once preferred by Serb snipers in Sarajevo - and even use of the underground sewer system.
Insurgents have fired from behind curtains, to mask the flash of their muzzles. They have used armor-piercing ammunition and advanced sniper rifles.
^^Marines say they have found lots of drugs in safe houses, probably amphetamines similar to speed, to keep them awake. Al Qaeda safe houses in Kabul, after the Taliban fell in November 2001, contained such drugs.
Perhaps increase accuracy, toughness and sprinting ability if you find some speed in a house somewhere and 'consume' it?
I don't know--any ideas you guys have? I really think the tactics should reflect those really being used. Not sure if all of them are possible via code, but some may be.
What do you think of my ideas?
