'[T wrote:BludShoT']Why would you send 6 guys to Estate (on foot no less) when it's obvious that the other 2 small squads and a bunch of blues are pretty much not going to cap kyongan ni? So you basically wasted your squad of 6 guys for the first 6 minutes of the round, making it a 20 on 14 game (for China), while your guys just hiked around in the forest doing nothing for your team.
I'm all for leap-frogging flags, but I just think that was a very bad call that hurt your team and allowed china to roll you back to your last base. The video just shows that USMC would have done just as well during that 10 minute period if your squad stayed at home base and stood still staring at each other.
Sry I wouldn't post such a negative post except that people are praising your tactics here and I don't get it.
The video diary thing is a good idea though, and I understand that PR isn't too big in Australia so, it's cool that you are doing things with it and building it up with this, etc. My only tip is that PR is about resources. Use your resources wisely. If 1 team uses their vehicles and men well, and the other team has their guys hiding in forests not attacking, then that's a waste of resources.
Hi Bludshot.
As usual, I disagree. On 1 or 2 points.
Bringing the forces up from main towards Estate is not such a bad idea. Reason for this is that he had RPG (and if I am not mistaking an H-AT). If the US had managed to hold their side of the bridge for 2 more minutes, the SL could have done the following.
With the RP down, (the first one set),
1) One rogue (or is that rogue? it's rogue - corrected now) agent could proceed stealth towards their spawnpoint and taken it out.
2) His men could have taken position by the riverside covering both sides of the river. It could be argued that his RPG/H-AT could have gotten a clear shot right in the (cough) "butt" of those tanks and taken them out faster.
The way I have seen previous attempts unfold (my gaming experience), 2 things would happen. One of them is that chineese resources would pull out of Kyongan Ni towards them, or they would spawn at Estate and come down the hill to their right (don't remember the compass directions right now, sorry - but from Estate) - or they could get real unfortunate, like they did that first day. They saw no action.
Now, if that same rogue agent was still active taken out the spawnpoint or not (and still alive), he would be in a position to warn his mates before they reached their area. And they would be in great shape to defend and defeat the hostile threat. Not to mention that those trees would seriously hamper any heavy armour movement.
And I actually like that a squad proceeded on foot. To many folks spawn on main bases and hysterically rush towards vehicles crying "MINE MINE MINE". Or even worse, they get NOTHING. And get stuck at main base for those aforementioned 10 minutes staring at each other, like you mentioned. That is the first reason, the second is, that people get split up when getting to any free space available in vehicles and are spread to every direction. Because of the lack of communication with the drivers.
On foot gives you the best position to proceed towards a target (especially when you only run, not sprint) and situation awareness actually increases. You have time to concentrate whats around you, and not whats "rushing" you by.
And on a final note (by the way, I am not bashing Bludshot), if you look closely, I seem to see that squad 2 also starts at main base. They make the fatal error of running up along the riverside and gets slaughtered. And offcourse, there are only 2 squads proceeding that route. Diversity of troop deployment.
Apologize for long response.
not quite the comedy I had in mind, but it will do 