[Hellstryker]

This is unimaginably cool.

[Dilmah G]

This is unimaginably cool.

Amen

Why the hell don't they teach that in all schools!?

[BengalTiger]

Because it's violence!!!

http://www.snopes.com/military/reinwald.asp

Proven false, but the Interviewer is a perfect portrait of the anti-gun crowd.

[General Battuta]

Arguably because, in the unsuspecting or uneducated, it breeds the idea that warfare is much like a clever and engaging wargame, rather than a horrifying and atrocious waste of life.

It's darn cool, but I don't think most people would be able to separate how cool it is from how incredibly awful it is.

[Dilmah G]

Arguably because, in the unsuspecting or uneducated, it breeds the idea that warfare is much like a clever and engaging wargame, rather than a horrifying and atrocious waste of life.

It's darn cool, but I don't think most people would be able to separate how cool it is from how incredibly awful it is.

Do you speak from personal experience or life experience? Excuse me for asking, but you kinda sound like my Uncle who speaks from 25 years of experience.

[General Battuta]

Ha, no. Just educated guesswork. And a lot of literature.

I have nowhere near the wisdom or experience of your uncle, and if he disagrees with me, go with him. I'm sure it varies from person to person, and everyone has to make their own choice.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Damn, this is awesome. Wish I had it too. Pity the mortar strike went wrong.

[Dilmah G]

Ha, no. Just educated guesswork. And a lot of literature.

I have nowhere near the wisdom or experience of your uncle, and if he disagrees with me, go with him. I'm sure it varies from person to person, and everyone has to make their own choice.

No actually he would completely agree with you, but at the same time he'll do what needs to get done. After he just took his geo job after he left the commando regiment he was going through a 'phase' when the only thing he could really talk about was his experience, the war, ...guns etc. But now he's kind of gone into a closed state where all of his traumatic memories are coming back to him and he isn't too keen to talk about his tour(s) of duty. Such as what I said before about having to use a dead mate in place of sandbags at a place called Elephant Pass in which his section became overrun (The SL Commando Regiments typically only engage at a section level, as their missions such as observing enemy troop movements, deep strike etc generally don't require a platoon to accomplish). He used to talk about the adrenaline rush during the engagement (lasted a while I think) when he was nigh on sprinting through farmland and treelines in an effort to fall back to the actual base at Elephant Pass, and how he could barely see what he was doing etc.

Then about a year ago he told us about how he was lying in a treeline opening fire on muzzle flashes in the distance and saw his S.A.W. gunner running towards him and how he was in such a heightened state he wasn't sure if he had accidentally pulled the trigger on his own gunner, and how he turned to move and slipped and had to pull his (now dead) gunner in front of him while he scrounged around in the dirt for his weapon (most likely an M16... not a good idea turning up at his and asking). He was nearly crying by the time he got to the part about how the adrenaline seemed to immediately subside and turned his s gunner towards him and saw a heap of holes ripped into his vest.

Wow... I think I just had a rant then

[redsniper]

I think we can all agree that real war is no fun... but final exams based on it might be.

[General Battuta]

Wow, Dilmah, that's some pretty crazy stuff. I hope he finds peace with it, but I really don't blame him for being a little shook up.

[NGTM-1R]

But their ROE prevents the US from laying arty down on the town

Except it's not the whole map. You start with a barrage on anything that makes for a commanding posistion and you advance scouts, keeping your main force back and safe from direct attack. You have to be methodical, and you have to remember the potentional to stick your neck in a noose is very real. Like I said, it's very much like a game of Steel Panthers, the urge to rush for your objectives is strong, but you've got to resist it and take your time. It takes time to learn that.

[Polpolion]

--Day 3--

Neither of our artillery did anything. Again.

Well, they sprung our ambush. They were completely surrounded by an AT-5 three T-55s, two T-62s, a T-72, and a bunch of RPGs. We took out 3 MGSs, and we would've gotten the fourth, but one girl was a ****ing retard and put it down on its side, so we thought it was already dead. But it wasn't. So she said "oh, this guys not dead. I'm going to shoot that T-72." Since we had already shot another stryker, we were helpless, and a DU round blew it up. Pissed me off a lot.

Anyway, next bound, all the Americans charge in closer, our donkeys charged in closer, and more combat. We took out a few other strykers, and lost most of our tanks due to the other advancing line of strykers with javelins, our tanks having exposed themselves the previous bound. Our surviving T-62 advanced on the last MGS, and they both shot at each other at point blank range. A DU round and a Sabot round both hit their targets, but neither had any effect. At point blank range.

The previously mentioned stryker group that took out most of our tanks with Javelins was close in now, right next to some farm crops, where we had 5 RPG troops hiding in. We took out 1 stryker, and lost 1 RPG soldier. A satisfactory trade.

All in all, we lost nearly all of our tanks, but took out just as many strykers. And we haven't even touched most of our infantry yet.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Cheating girls putting armoured vehicles on their sides, the main reason why America is able to conquer Afghanistan Pity about the T-72 though.
Does artillery deal collateral damage to your own troops in a close-range fight?

[Polpolion]

--Day 4--

We started off focusing on the valley with our T-62 facing the enemy MGS, just like yesterday, and the MGS tried to run away the long way past my tank. My tank charged after it and rammed its backside and fired a shot into it to take it out. Then an RPG took out another Stryker, but then both of our guys in the valley died. Our Donkeys continued their most noble charge, our lost AT-5 was recovered and started moving towards the other ridge through the valley.

The enemy strykers that were in the valley, with one group completely wiped out and the other really stupid, they continued past their objective and onto the other ridge complex. The one with all of our infantry in it. Coincidentally, they walked right past the cave entrance that had 2 of our 3 infantry groups in. Our BMP-2s and a few trucks were coming around the direction they were headed. Needless to say, we're expecting them to poop themselves when they see an entire 200 meter stretch of cliff side coated with infantry. And then our 3rd infantry unit, the one with all of its RPGs left, hasn't encountered anyone yet.

Things are going all right.

[redsniper]

Excellent work, brother! You'll show those infidel scum!

[Dilmah G]

Excellent work, brother! You'll show those infidel scum!

ALLAH AKBAR!!!!

[NGTM-1R]

Artillery fire on ridgelines: It's not a waste, it's a way of life. At this point I think your opponents are doing everything wrong simply to make me throw a fit. Although at this point I'm also pretty sure this scenario was probably broken from the word go, as this is much too many armored vehicles for the Taliban.

[Dilmah G]

as this is much too many armored vehicles for the Taliban.

Balance Issues?

[NGTM-1R]

as this is much too many armored vehicles for the Taliban.

Balance Issues?

See, some people can work balance and reality into the same scenario, some can't.

[Herra Tohtori]

ALLAH AKBAR!!!!

IT'S A TARP!