Debriefing 24.12.12

[sasha]

Today we played excellent map - Base Battle Sakhe. It is very good map to train infantry team tactics. It needs long watchfull walking (and gives time to build team and train cooperation), it has complex landscape, forests hills and houses - and it is a dramatic contest to push enemy back to their base and capture it.

Lesson 1
DAM team won! (because we cooperate )

Lesson 2
Again was prooved the importance of sniper observation posts (thanks Mo and Danijel). Snipers provided fire on occasional targets, but whats more important - they guided movement of infantry team warning them of enemy contacts (in our case KSK with mg and me with rifle and spare magazines for ksk's mg).

Lesson 3
Assistant mg (me) should not concentrate on forward targets, mg gunner will have enough strenght to deal with them. Assistant's job is to watch the flanks (and carefufully listen to guidance from observation posts).

Lesson 4
When infantry team moves dont move all at once, use bounding overwatch (i.e. one buddie moves another covers and vice verse)

Lesson 5
Before moving in bounding overwatch buddies must agree to what spot will be the stop point of moving buddie. It can be like - "I'll move 200m North West to the treeline". If you dont do it you will likely loose each other. For example it happened when I lost KSK while covering his movement - I concentrated on spotting enemies and lost sight of KSK. If you dont use chat and radio and relay only on voice direct channel - you will loose each other inevitably.

Lesson 6
If infantry team moves out of effective observation post's distance it must halt and wait untill sniper changes position.

Lesson 7
If sniper see immidiate danger to the team he must not only warn them but also engage the enemy regardless of the distance and probability of kill. Sniper's shots may at least distract or scare the enemy and the team will have time to organize defence.

Lesson 8
Mg gunner should have pistol with him to defend himself in close quarters (good job KSK!)

Lesson 9
Dont use microphone when close to enemy (no matter what channel), they will hear you and find you (btw KSK that is how i shot you in AAD in Anar)


And...

Lesson 10
DAM team, I am proud I am one of you - lots of realistic experience in such a short time, and great progress of Arma Demo. As one of the players said once when playing our pvp missions (I believe it was Ritchie before he sticked to DAM) - "Hey, this is more PVP then anything on full Arma 2 servers!!!"

Merry Christmas guys!

[KSK]

Almost nothing to add

Concerning lesson 2 and 7:
Snipers up hill overwatching the area are essential especially in such unclear area with all this valleys with trees and bushes around. Snipers (even with M17) are able to combat enemies effectively in a distance up to 800 m (modify your zeroing of the scope with "page up" and "page down" buttons). You may need more shots to kill the enemy but their movement will be at least disturbed and gives advancing ground team more time to prepare themselves to fight or it will even stop the enemy movement completely because they hiding in cover.

Concerning Lesson 3:
Assistant MG has the tasks to cover the MG gunners flanks, spot enemies, move in close combat while Mg gunner covers him from a qualified place, carry some ammo for MG Gunner. He should use an weapon with grenade launcher to get one more option to combat enemy. If ground team consists just of 2 guys sniper support is essential. If the ground team consists of more then just 2, there are less snipers needed but at least there is one needed to spot enemies and overwatch the area from an exposed position to "guide" the ground team.

Lesson 9: Well...obviously true
In future I'll use command channel if I am in charge of team, direct channel in team (not being in charge) and side channel to coordinate with snipers.
And in close combat I'll just use mic when it's not about to sneak in and stay unspotted

The last 2-3 mins, when Sasha and I where in the sector near a building it was damn exiting. Although there was respawn I really felt like in real action and of course didn't want to be spotted or killed. This last mins were not good for my blood pressure
We were able to hear enemies above us at the house searching for us, some bullets hit our position, two enemies flanked us moving through the valley (one was killed by Sasha, the other by me with the wonderful silent pistol (fuck yeah, always take a secondary weapon (if possible silent) with you...very very useful )...I was counting the seconds which had to be left till we would captured it.
It was exhausting, awesome and very exiting

[sasha]

When we were standing under the house I was not yet aware of how close enemies were. But than came Mo's radio - "Guys, enemies in the house right over your heads, dont use mics, dont use mics or they will hear you!"

I felt at that moment my heart was beating madly not only in game but in reality too