[Agent_Koopa]

Wow, this is totally awesome. Have fun and good luck!

But be careful with your decisions, because you never know:

[Turambar]

Will shooting that vehicle out in the open give away your mortar's position?

[Dilmah G]

Is this game by any chance based on a similar game taught to officers at west point?

I know an ex-cadet who went to ADFA (Australian Defence Force Academy) and told us about a game they had 'borrowed' from west point which sounded a lot like what you're doing

...I wish that was a universal subject

[StarSlayer]

Probably depends on the range, i don't think mortar round give away smoke trails so as long as they don't see or hear the actual launch point it should probably take them quite a while to figure it out.  A typical artillery attack on a convoy involves popping the lead vehicle(s) first.  Since the enemy cant see or hear the round being fired the convoy usually assumes they hit a mine and stop.  At that point the artillery hits the rear vehicles trapping the rest in between and starts walking their fire over the rest.  Granted a 81mm mortar doesn't have the same range as a 155mm artillery piece but with a maximum range of 5,675 m it should be able to get a few rounds off without the enemy being able to triangulate where its coming from.  

[Polpolion]

Will shooting that vehicle out in the open give away your mortar's position?

Not unless the American forces realize they can use their radar to track the trajectory of the rounds to the start position, which they probably won't realize they can do. 

Is this game by any chance based on a similar game taught to officers at west point?

I know an ex-cadet who went to ADFA (Australian Defence Force Academy) and told us about a game they had 'borrowed' from west point which sounded a lot like what you're doing

...I wish that was a universal subject

The packet said it was actually a really common game. It originated as a platoon/company level exercise for training officers and NCOs, and my teacher adapted it for classroom use. I wouldn't be suprised at all if West Pointers, the ADFA cadet, and us are all playing the same game. That is if it is actually a game. Agent Koopa brought up a good point. Hopefully we won't be destroying any planets, though.

Probably depends on the range, i don't think mortar round give away smoke trails so as long as they don't see or hear the actual launch point it should probably take them quite a while to figure it out.  A typical artillery attack on a convoy involves popping the lead vehicle(s) first.  Since the enemy cant see or hear the round being fired the convoy usually assumes they hit a mine and stop.  At that point the artillery hits the rear vehicles trapping the rest in between and starts walking their fire over the rest.  Granted a 81mm mortar doesn't have the same range as a 155mm artillery piece but with a maximum range of 5,675 m it should be able to get a few rounds off without the enemy being able to triangulate where its coming from.  

More confession time: We wanted to spread out our mortars in an effort to minimize the chances of hostiles stumbling upon our nest and killing all of them, so we pretty much put them in different corners of the map. One mortar is in the little town. Right next to where the Americans started. There's combat engineers and APCs like 50 meters away from that mortar position. Thankfully, we're still hiding in the basements of buildings until it's time to shoot. We won't be using this mortar until we're sure that the other side won't use their radar or has enough of their forces engaged to not be able to split combat forces off to take it out.

[General Battuta]

Ha ha, radar noobs.

Keep us updated every day! I find it riveting.

Do you guys get SA-7s? Or just the vehicle AAA?

[Polpolion]

Ha ha, radar noobs.

Keep us updated every day! I find it riveting.

Do you guys get SA-7s? Or just the vehicle AAA?

We have 1 SA-7! One rocket, one shot! Then all there is 3 ZPUs, 3 trucks AAA, and 1 57mm.

Oh I forget if I said this, but in my teacher's first hour class (I'm fifth hour), the US forces already managed to sortie an A-10, and the Taliban already downed it with the 57mm! From inside a building, too!

[General Battuta]

That's not going to look good on CNN.

Is there a damage system? Or is it just one-hit-one-kill?

[Dilmah G]

That's not going to look good on CNN.

Is there a damage system? Or is it just one-hit-one-kill?

he said u roll a dice to determine it

[General Battuta]

I was more of wondering if the no effect/disable/kill roll was different for different units.

[Polpolion]

AFAIK that's factored into the roll for "to kill", but you also can immobilize/knock out guns from vehicles.

[Dilmah G]

AFAIK that's factored into the roll for "to kill", but you also can immobilize/knock out guns from vehicles.

I'd like to see someone immobilize an A-10 Thunderbolt traveling at 300 mphs (at least) flying at 2000 ft AGL (above ground)

 

dw i joke hehe

[JGZinv]

Why... this not been made into a MMO.. is beyond me.

America's Army was made...

[General Battuta]

Why... this not been made into a MMO.. is beyond me.

America's Army was made...

But it's a board game!

[Dilmah G]

Why... this not been made into a MMO.. is beyond me.

America's Army was made...

But it's a board game!

Give it a 3D map and i might play this more than freespace

[Grizzly]

Hmm.

Is the game based on the D20 system?

[General Battuta]

Hmm.

Is the game based on the D20 system?

No. It doesn't sound like a commercial game. It's something his teacher scrounged together from experience and (to what degree I don't know) games used in officer training.

Right?

[Inquisitor]

There are DOZENS or miniature based combat systems. Many have been used for things like this, some very detailed systems out there. Hobby shops used to be glutted with them.

[Polpolion]

--Day 2--

Artillery and mortar fire both missed their targets. We're just unlucky.

We picked up where we left off. My 2IC fired an AT-5 again at enemy strykers, missed, and then got shot and killed. I sent a nearby AK squad into recover the gun, but it's being suppressed by enemy .50 cal fire from 2000 meters.

Their 105mm stryker group moved further into the valley, and according to the teacher is dangerously close to securing their objective. What the 105mm strykers don't know is that they're surrounded by tanks, AT guns and RPGs. The other stryker group is still moving back into our rear flank, pretty much going to move right into other RPG and tank groups. I'm moving almost all of our infantry through caves to support this, because they're ignoring the other side of the map. They still can barely see us, the only ones they can see is our suicide donkeys and single AK squad.

I didn't really know how to deploy our suicide donkeys, so I just put them all up on this ridge, and now they're charging towards the enemy stryker groups. For some stupid reason, some guy tried to shoot at them with a javelin missile. I'm guessing you all know how that turned out .

Other than that, not much happened today, but a lot is going to happen in just the first direct-fire bound tomorrow.

[Bob-san]

Sounds very interesting. Can you destroy their air recon on the ground? That would be almost a sure way to win--if you can take out their air support, you can't be seen as easily. Other than that, yeah keep hiding. Are they able to raid/investigate buildings?