He still got some left.Can anyone spare some 25mm AP? We are running low!
this surprises me a lil bit..... the first tip i ever got for playing your scenarios was to pay close attention to the briefing... not to count on it being 100 accurate but to read it closely to get the full context of what the mission is.......I agree with you Aurelius.
When it is all said and done, the scores will be impacted mostly from what the American side player did.
The Syrians were in a rock and a hard place.
I saw a few syrian tanks manage to get targets and fire and get a few kills, but in general they were better off hiding.
I Think for the Syrians the best approach was to rush forward, get behind the recesse areas of the berms, have supporting infantry nearby and force the Americans to come and try to dig you out of your locations if they wanted to.
I feel like the biggest advantage I had as Americans was our thermal sights. So once my LAVs rushed into positions into decent spots behind cover, I fired off their smoke launchers and moved into a firing position. They could shoot through the smoke, but the older Syrian models couldn't, leading to a shooting gallery for the most part.
The way my battle played out fit in perfectly with what I had read into the briefing.... i set up to fight defensively.. and my opponent played like an attacker... despite some pretty heavy losses ....... so after i had read my briefing to play defensively despite the meeting engagement lable..... then my opponent playing like an attacker during the game... i was shocked when he told me about how his side of the briefing read......................Shady Side, you bring up very good points.
The briefing did protray it like that.
it also gives indications that the Syrians are trying to get to support units, not to run into a major fight.
they were not hoping to run into a marine force of about equal size with lav's that have a tech. advantage.
So the US forces are a suprise to their plans, the US mission was defensive in nature, but with the advantages that should show up in the fighting for the US, the best defense is a good offence for them.
For the Syrians, they should discover or decide very quickly that they are no match to be the aggressor, so what is the best move for them. Reverse slope positions, get into locations where they can have flanking shots, but in general keep exposer to a minimum. Shoot and scoot type tactics.
Aurelius was the perfect example of being able to decide that before the battle even started and planned his battle accordingly.
But I must admit, it was more of a meeting engagement type battle, given in the briefing as a attack / defend type mission. So that is misleading.
I dont try to lead you on wild goose chases in the briefings, but I do set up situations where I expect you to make decisions that dont match the intel the briefing might give.
But even when I make no effort to put in any misleading information, I still find people can mis interprete it.
I found this very true in my real miltary service also, communication is not a perfect art. it si easy to draw different conclusions.
But the most important thing I learned while serving was, brifings are important as to get your mind on what you might be facing. A general layout of what to expect and do.
But once we started the actual event. It never was as I expected, and I had to always take what present information I was receiving, like seeing what the actual terrain looked light, what the enemy forces we had contact with were actually doing and what assumed information I had been given to come up with present plans on how to carry out whatever assignment I was tasked.
So in the end , I expect you to be able to come up with battle plans or adapt battle plans for what is happening, not for what you hope was going to happen.
Its a skill that is needed and one i expect players to develope.
after i sent that last text... i started asking myself what i would have done if i got into my defensive set up ... and the guy did not attack????? i am not sure i have a good answer for that....... a realistic answer would be my reaction or overreaction would probably depend more on the mood i was in that day more then any kind of well thought out and reasonable adjustmentWell, the next battle is nothing like this one, so a whole new set of challenges
Adding a pause (press p 10 times) to the end of the last movement order helps a lot with this.TacAI freaked out and didn't park my LAV on the objective in the last turn liked I asked it to
How did that work? Not sarcasm an actual question. I had mine in hull down positions mostly. I would call that as having mixed resultsMy armor advanced to reverse slope positions and hid, only occasionally popping up if a target appeared.