Drassen counterattack size[message #205363]
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Thu, 01 January 2009 21:22
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Therion |
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Registered:December 2008 |
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Is there any way to change it? The current attack is a bit unbalanced and on the other hand turning it off is a bit lame.
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Re: Drassen counterattack size[message #205379]
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Fri, 02 January 2009 07:08
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KEN C |
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Registered:May 2007 Location: Aberdeen Washington USA |
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If it is to tough for you then why not play novice?
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Re: Drassen counterattack size[message #205399]
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Fri, 02 January 2009 17:46
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Therion |
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Registered:December 2008 |
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Hah, nevermind, I figured out how to beat them .
I just put 3/4 (15) of my militia and all my mercs in lower left part of the map (in cover and reasonably far from the edge.). The plan was to concentrate my forces and destroy two enemy squads (24 men) that would enter from south and from west and then depending on situation withdraw south or west or destroy the rest.
All would go well, but - half of militia abandoned their positions and started running around like headless chickens or going east to help the few that were delaying the main enemy force, despite my orders to hold position.
So, I lost half of militia firepower, which basically destroyed my whole plan. I wonder if better trained militia gets more disciplined...
Regardless of that the battle went relatively well - two mercs got wounded and I had to use another mercs to give them first aid, but all enemies in sight were either killed, wounded or suppressed.
Then I discovered that the enemy can get reinforcements during the battle and they managed to wound another merc.
Anyway, the enemy managed to destroy the militia in the east and I decided that It's time to withdraw my mercs.
Suddenly, another reinforcement (4 soldiers) appeared on the cliff above mine entrance. They engaged the remaining militia and one of my mercs managed to kill one of them before retreating.
I planned to use smoke grenades to cover the retreat, but for some reason most of them managed to land way off target, leaving my mercs completely exposed.
Taking in account that they were outnumbered 1:2 and further enemies were coming from the east, the retreat quickly turned into an escape. To make things worse 3/4 of my mercs got wounded by a long burst from M16A1 (sometimes I hate that range compression...).
One of my mercs was unable to escape the area, and (ashamed of his awful smoke grenade throw) left to buy some time for his buddies. He managed to shoot two enemies and then got shot during an attempt of escaping. The enemy lost 3 12 men squads.
Some time later 3 mercs made a few hit run attacks at night and finally liberated Drassen.
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Re: Drassen counterattack size[message #205410]
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Fri, 02 January 2009 19:30
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cougar |
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Registered:March 2000 |
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If we are not looking at it from a game standpoint.:
Logistericas far as i know, reasonable commanders put into consideration the reliability of their troops and allies, just noobs issue orders to people who can't follow them (have a look on stalingrad). those noobs afterwards, or during the battle try to trick history.
Hitler The duty of the men at stalingrad is to be dead
Therion One of my mercs was [...] left to buy some time for his buddies.
where is the difference?
That he was ashamed of his throw and willingly did it? But how does it matter? Are you saying that leaving someone behind to protect others is wrong, all the time? I'm not saying you do but since you put a quote from Hitler there I assume you want to make a point. There's at least two factors to take into account here and the most important is your ethical view. Right and wrong are not absolutes, they differ from person to person and even during the life of a person. Something that is considered acceptable when you are 25 may be considered completely wrong when you are 50 (or for that matter 26).
Besides you did one of the absolutely worst thing a person can do in an internet discussion, you falsified a statement to suit your agenda! Let's take a look at this.
TherionOne of my mercs was unable to escape the area, and (ashamed of his awful smoke grenade throw) left to buy some time for his buddies.
In this line Therion can mean two things:
The first meaning is that the merc left the group to protect it.
The second is that Therion left this merc to protect the group.
But your falsified statement can only mean one thing:
Your fake quoteOne of my mercs was [...] left to buy some time for his buddies. That is incredibly bad etiquette (which, btw also differs) and you should refrain from this kind of crap if you want to be taken seriously. Putting [...] in it does not make it any better. People who didn't read Therions post can easily get the impression that he said that he left his merc to die, which he didn't necessarily do.
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Re: Drassen counterattack size[message #304111]
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Tue, 01 May 2012 06:52
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Lord Nyghthawk |
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Messages:13
Registered:April 2012 |
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I know this is kind of an old topic, but the best way I found to survive that attack, on Experienced Level, is to camp out on top of the mining building, and make sure you leave a couple of mercs facing the north, to take care of any "surprise climbers" About the worst thing I suffered, was possibly running out of ammo, lol. And if you stop at the airport to order supploes, before taking the middle & mine, then ammo's not even likely to be much of a problem.
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