Only in close quarter glaser has some usefulness and there we can use *grey* 9mm rounds for our MP5s.

But they aint cheap, standard *red* or *grey* rounds are cheap to buy and cheaper to do burst fire with.

Also if every shot counts, meaning you need to aim over a distance with high AP costs, then glaser looses against AP hands down.

Only in close quarter glaser has some usefulness and there we can use *grey* 9mm rounds for our MP5s.

Of course my favorite is the MP5SD with *red* armor piercing rounds in night time, burst fire kills everything guaranteed. (its the IoV mod who introduces it.. not sure if 9mm AP rounds exists .. lol)

Your strategy of using auto fire to increase MRK is a good one and works very well. How many enemies do you have per encounter?

I bet the number is somewhat low because once you need to kill 20-30 enemies with 6 mercs you may need to kill them quickly to avoid getting your mercs injured.

If you get a sudden increase in damage against an armored enemy then this could be due to either having reduced the status of the enemy armor or bypassing the armor coverage (due to luck).

I usually use them when I have militia between me and the enemy

It's both - enemy armor is almost always in crap condition and it's never 100% coverage.

Glasers are basically one of the few reasons to wear pants to battle.

The fact that the enemies don't ever shoot at anywhere but the chest is kind of metagaming imo and a bit unfair. In reality the enemy should be shooting at other spots.

The one with hats instead of helmets, only lightweight bodyarmour and camo-pants that's me.

helmets are not worn for protection from headshots they are worn to protect soldiers from shrapnel and splinter click

so if you don't wear them 'cause we don't have that in ja2, but the redshirts wear them as any army does i consider that unfair (you may even call it a cheat) :diabolical:

so if you don't wear them 'cause we don't have that in ja2, but the redshirts wear them as any army does i consider that unfair (you may even call it a cheat)

That sounds very reasonable! With the trade-off of being able to carry more I think I'll ditch my cumbersome armor for some light-weight cotton instead - have you got any apparel to recommend in particular?

EDIT: PS. Are sun glasses and NV-goggles still attachable to non-helmets?

come on buns, no helmet gives any protection from even a 5.56 bullet if that's a direct (=orthogonal) hit

you could of course issue berets to the enemy and play on an equal footing.

Could it be that Logisteric is referring to reality while Buns is referring to in-game?

i really don't care how you play your game, but less heavy armament for the reason that the ai has no possibility to make you need it is an exploit of said ai's shortcommings

125% is where the problems start and this way they gain strength (carlo started at 60)

btw, soldiers often are sent into battle with too much load.

Logisteric

btw, soldiers often are sent into battle with too much load.

Yes, and it never was considered a good thing to do so. In modern (1st World) armies issuing heavy body armor as standard becomes a major problem. The other thing is more and heavyer fancy equipment to be carried, starting with loads of attachments for standard rifles. The original Commandos attacked deep into enemy territory with suppressed SMGs and nothing heavyer than black caps. Modern commandos are first of all racing mules expected to carry a huge ammount of heavy stuff over large distances at record speed.