Debriefing 26.12.12

[sasha]

Ok, what we have for todays game...

First comes Base battle Sakhe V2 (without ammobox and with full 14 man squad each side)

1. Better to move closer to each other, teams should move like 20 - 40 m apart (i think). Better cooperation, easier medic access, same targets which can be destroyed by multiple guns at once. The 14 man team roles are - 1 squad leader, 1 medic, and 3 teams (teamleader, grenadier, mggunner, assistan mg). When all squad moves tightly on 50m front they are more effective because they engage same targets and can concentrate fire. And its easier for medics and for magazine change.

2. Advance must be done quicker then we did it for several reasons. Enemies respawn and move back and if we dont move ourselves we will be battling endless reinforcements. And we deplete our ammo which due to realism (no ammo box) cant be replenished. If someone gets killed and respawns he gets twice as less ammo then initially, which is good to make you fear being shot but bad when teamkiller shots you right at the start of the game.

3. Anyway, althought it took some time, we pushed enemy (who had slightly better USA weapons) back to their base and then stormed it nicely. Good Job DAMteam and Hunter and Taucky



Second comes Big Battle (one sector assault).

1. Both times we lost due to either some enemy left alive inside or by bug, idk for sure.

2. But the attack was nicely executed anyway. Shadow was landing safely, AT teams were killing tanks, assault team was searching sector, A6 was making preliminary strikes and hunted reinforcements. Its nice we can do this coop not against bots but against ppl, and win with no loss from our team.


Third comes Frontline (assault on fortified position).

1. Only our second assault was successfull. First was a disaster due to two reasons - we had weak base of fire (few mg gunners) and the second one is important so it goes as separate paragraph:

2. When fire from covering mgs and line of advance of assault team are different (say mg is hitting the front and assault team is flanking) its a call for losses. The enemy can hide under the wall and be safe from mg fire, but he at the same time can watch the flank and wait for assault team to shoot them.

So we should try to have at least one mg moving with assault team to help them on the flank. This is my idea, hope you like it.

3. And we (base of fire group) nicely switched fire when assault team moved into enemy position. They started clearing trenches from right flank, and we switched our mg fire on center and then on left flank - so we continued suppression and even scored kills while assault team was doing thei job safe from friendly fire.


And forth game

Alas... We haven't played it, I forgot about it, oh...

It is awesome "Flying fortress"

Please remind me about it next session - AND YOU WILL BE SHOUTING AS MAD WHEN YOU SEE IT - THE FLYING FORTRESS!!!

[sasha]

PS: In Base Battle Sakhe the casualty rate was 1:10 in DAM favor (when in game i wanted to complain that we were not making progress and looked into MP score lobby - and was astonished by the score each DAM mg gunner killed dozens of enemies while being killed maximum 2 times).

[sasha]

Just a small debriefing to 30.12.12 (i wish not to make a new thread for it)


Lessons:

1. COOP (open server) is the gamestyle which players enjoy most and which bring us new members. COOP is ideal to build bonds, since all are on one side.

2. COOP (open server) cant be over 10-15 players, because host cant control too many noobs.

3. COOP (open server) can't be too complicated (choppers would be crushed by noobs, complex plans will be ruined etc).

4. So open server COOP should be simple task and straightforward. And used in regular mode so that noobs dont get lost on map and loose their wish to grow in game.

And special lessons to ambush (experienced in L-shaped ambush on vehicle convoy):

1. If the convoy (or infantry group) is moving in column - ideal would be to position mg and rpg in stop group - they will be making this way very effective enfilade "along the column" fire. And riflemen should be placed in flank ambush to kill enemy survivors.

2. Its important that all soldiers are ready to shoot (and not hiding in bushes or house). Ambush fire must be simultanious from all available weapons. So practically it means that ALL soldiers are pointing guns to the road ready to attack. They can of course keep head down before attack to not be spotted by convoy, but as soon as command given they must immediately engage.

3. If ambush aims to destroy all enemy convoy then the place of ambush must be chosen where all vehicles (men) of the convoy would be visible and subject to fire.

4. We in our case in first try lost due to that we were mostly hiding in buildings and attack was not simultanious.

5. In second try we prepared L shaped ambush and destroyed 90% of convoy in first 5 seconds (good job). But some 3 enemy AI fighters disembarked in the forest and we didnt see them. They counterattacked and killed most of the group. Thense the next lesson:

6. Military tactics says that if you are in convoy and being ambushed, and have no chances to effectively return fire, you should attack into enemy ambush. This might give you a chance (and AI proved indeed the chance is there).

7. And minor note. When attacking Falar I asked mg gunners to stay and cover our descending movement. Vig (mg) a bit later asked permission to change pos to have a better cover of a rock. I refused due to that we were already on the move and could be left without cover (I believe that was right at that moment). But also I think that such things do not need squad leaders attention - it would be a needless micromanagement. It must rather be in team leader competence or just a self decision by experienced soldier.

[sasha]

Debriefing for 12.01.2013


Mission was Base Battle Sakhe, DAM team all for red.

We won marginally - enemy pushed us back but we had a sneaky "advance" team who managed to stay inside enemy base.

Enemy were Bluefor - all snipers. Our "defend" team (or rather "take fire on them") was busy hiding from snipers and trying to kill them.

Lessons:

1. Snipers can effectively suppress even veteran players (such as Mo) and put them in defensive.

2. Without assault rifleman group snipers have little strategic effect since they can't really advance, wrestle the ground from an enemy and hold it.

3. Combination of sniper overwatch group and aggressive assault group is a key to win

3. Riflemen can avoid sniper fire by moving fast and zigzagging, and better if under treecover. Cartainly infantry moving in the forest is immune to sniper fire.