"This cache is bulls***" PR1.3, Al Basrah
Posted: 2015-07-08 22:41
Prelude: Welcome to the British armed forces, as you know by now, the enemy has gone to the trouble of setting up five weapons caches in this area. We have taken one. With one cache on the island, our only other option is the second piece of intelligence.
RIGHT OUTSIDE OF THE INSURGENT MAIN BASE
Since I don't have the images or video to go with it, I shall simply describe it; the mosque area is surrounded by a wall, then to the East there is road, a rise, buildings, and then onto the river, islands etc.
In the section I've described as 'buildings', it consists of a ground access via a 'house of pain' at the far south, several rooftops non enter able, and a second house of pain accessible only via the roof. This is where the cache was located.
"You know where you're going pilot?"
When these words, between giggles are uttered, it is well known that the idea is likely to be rather dim at best, and outright dangerous or useless at worst. In this case having expended the other likely tactics to reach that cache, the helicopters were a method yet untested. My role in this story is the pilot of Basrah's Lynx helicopter. When the squad spawned, having been unsuccessful in all other routes, I was asked to put them directly atop this cache building.
And I did! There were two insurgents awaiting on the roof, but only two. Having dumped the squad and ran away bleeding, my only description of events comes from various accounts of some of the soldiers I had dropped off, and the commander viewing on UAV.
The squad exited the helicopter, half were immediately removed from their existence. After a small rooftop skirmish to enter the building, only the squad medic remained, and no insurgents. The medic rushed to grab the specialist kit, bolt downstairs and destroy the cache successfully before being found by defending reinforcements.
Despite this victory, our team had lost too many tickets elsewhere on the map. The point however is that despite the seeming impossibility of the cache, this particular squad used the tools available to them to accomplish what they set out to do. Where other squads had not been able, they were. You may chalk it down to luck that I wasn't plucked out of the air on approach, ending the operation and likely the game. And I believe there is a lot of truth to that, I certainly didn't have any intelligence on what was there.
However, having recognized their needs and acting accordingly using the transport they had, they were able to execute an attempt at that cache with much greater odds in their favour. I therefore present the following findings
1. Never give up, never surrender.
There WAS a way to get to that cache no matter how 'bullshit' it looked, or how impossible, this squad was willing to attempt a bold, unorthodox yet successful move utilizing speed as their main draw. It worked. Their persistence earned them a cache because they didn't just dismiss it from their minds altogether.
2. The simplest way...
Yes, it risked a mildly considerable asset, but the Chinook, land rovers, APCs have far better utility elsewhere. The Lynx was the perfect tool for the job and it was used properly for this task. Who says that risking that asset to take the objective in a "straight line approach" is the wrong thing to do in this case? I'm not saying you should start acting like SP bots and use a shortest path algorithm to take flags and kill enemies, but have a little imagination. Who would have expected the lightning quick strike of a lynx on their rooftop? Some, but only rarely. Even more rare is anyone being in a position to do anything about it effectively.
Happy landings!
RIGHT OUTSIDE OF THE INSURGENT MAIN BASE
Since I don't have the images or video to go with it, I shall simply describe it; the mosque area is surrounded by a wall, then to the East there is road, a rise, buildings, and then onto the river, islands etc.
In the section I've described as 'buildings', it consists of a ground access via a 'house of pain' at the far south, several rooftops non enter able, and a second house of pain accessible only via the roof. This is where the cache was located.
"You know where you're going pilot?"
When these words, between giggles are uttered, it is well known that the idea is likely to be rather dim at best, and outright dangerous or useless at worst. In this case having expended the other likely tactics to reach that cache, the helicopters were a method yet untested. My role in this story is the pilot of Basrah's Lynx helicopter. When the squad spawned, having been unsuccessful in all other routes, I was asked to put them directly atop this cache building.
And I did! There were two insurgents awaiting on the roof, but only two. Having dumped the squad and ran away bleeding, my only description of events comes from various accounts of some of the soldiers I had dropped off, and the commander viewing on UAV.
The squad exited the helicopter, half were immediately removed from their existence. After a small rooftop skirmish to enter the building, only the squad medic remained, and no insurgents. The medic rushed to grab the specialist kit, bolt downstairs and destroy the cache successfully before being found by defending reinforcements.
Despite this victory, our team had lost too many tickets elsewhere on the map. The point however is that despite the seeming impossibility of the cache, this particular squad used the tools available to them to accomplish what they set out to do. Where other squads had not been able, they were. You may chalk it down to luck that I wasn't plucked out of the air on approach, ending the operation and likely the game. And I believe there is a lot of truth to that, I certainly didn't have any intelligence on what was there.
However, having recognized their needs and acting accordingly using the transport they had, they were able to execute an attempt at that cache with much greater odds in their favour. I therefore present the following findings
1. Never give up, never surrender.
There WAS a way to get to that cache no matter how 'bullshit' it looked, or how impossible, this squad was willing to attempt a bold, unorthodox yet successful move utilizing speed as their main draw. It worked. Their persistence earned them a cache because they didn't just dismiss it from their minds altogether.
2. The simplest way...
Yes, it risked a mildly considerable asset, but the Chinook, land rovers, APCs have far better utility elsewhere. The Lynx was the perfect tool for the job and it was used properly for this task. Who says that risking that asset to take the objective in a "straight line approach" is the wrong thing to do in this case? I'm not saying you should start acting like SP bots and use a shortest path algorithm to take flags and kill enemies, but have a little imagination. Who would have expected the lightning quick strike of a lynx on their rooftop? Some, but only rarely. Even more rare is anyone being in a position to do anything about it effectively.
Happy landings!
