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[TankHunter]

I'll take anything that is in need of manning on blue.

[Assassin 7]

10 hours ago, Swordsmandk said:

And mission file sent back with units rdy for plan ?

You have mail, Plan sent

[Apocalypse 31]

4 minutes ago, Assassin 7 said:

You have mail, Plan sent

 

[Assassin 7]

5 minutes ago, Apocalypse 31 said:

 

see you on the battlefield

[Swordsmandk]

Still could use some more opfor ?

[Grenny]

5 minutes ago, Swordsmandk said:

Still could use some more opfor ?

Still no list on what to sign up for in OPFOR. BMP? tanks? school buses?

 

...hence why i wrote: "where needed"

[Zaphod]

17 minutes ago, Swordsmandk said:

Still could use some more opfor ?

opfor , sounds so much like mop floor

[Swordsmandk]

18 minutes ago, Grenny said:

Still no list on what to sign up for in OPFOR. BMP? tanks? school buses?

 

...hence why i wrote: "where needed"

Good point:

 

T72obr 2012 (At least one full coy)

BMP2

BTR80 with HVY WEAPONS Teams and ATGM

 

The best red equipment sb can provide...

Edited September 3, 2016 by Swordsmandk

[Major duck]

Updated

[chrisreb]

I am not on manning list - happy to go where you want me - even Red if reqd

Edited September 4, 2016 by chrisreb
Expanding where I can be assigned

[Colebrook]

Put me in red pls

[Connaugh]

Red, please.

 

Conn

 

 

[D u k e]

Servus,

 

I`m back from my weekend canoe tour just in time.

I try to make it.

 

cheers

 

D u k e

[Grimlokk]

HI!

 

I'm in tonight.

I can go in either F1 or A3

 

[silberwiese]

Put me up for whatever vehicle. 

[Grenny]

work got in the way...I'll be late, don't wait for me ?

[Abaddon]

Here's the plan that was used for the Blue side.

VTJF Mission 1 - WARNO.pdf

[Swordsmandk]

my notes so far:

NOTES:
1) Penalty Zone (!!!!)
2) G4-G3 M113 ok
3) Weather- Rain off
4) No pre placed sniper stuff - to hard to see ok
5) Speedtest ok
6) Visibility (to bad for red side)
7) t72+ (to few)
8) Starting distance to close 
9) Deployment zone to close
10) Solid template - Supply 
11) Arty breifing
12) ALT+F12

Edited September 4, 2016 by Swordsmandk

[Zaphod]

no no have them lose all ammo for a penalty zone , turn them into canon fodder

[Gibsonm]

2 hours ago, Abaddon said:

Here's the plan that was used for the Blue side.

VTJF Mission 1 - WARNO.pdf

 

I thought that the VJTF Campaign started on 02 OCT???

[TSe419E]

I believe this was a test to see if there are any issues to work out.

[Apocalypse 31]

3 hours ago, Swordsmandk said:

10) Solid template - Supply

 

More specifically - better callsign setup/task organization. Neither the CDR or XO had control over any of the support vehicles because they were listed under a separate company. 

 

Need the Commander and XO to actually own the vehicles - recommend the HQ Team and all support assets are on the A Company.  

[Swordsmandk]

Yeah this was the test. And glad we did.

 

Some edges to smooth out it seemed.

[Furia]

Was indeed very useful and interesting.

As mentioned here, would be great to have a better callsign organization. Yesterday we were operating in 4 possible different enemy axis and areas and all the information and requests were being sent just to F-66 who I guess could have eneded up  saturated and overloaded. He did an awesome anyway !!

I didn't know  the XO callsign (my fault since I should have asked) neither any callsign for vehicles support.

Since in this persistent campaing vehicle recovery would be critical, I believe we should have a strong organization for that and SOP for such task so we can recover and salvage as much damaged vehicles as possible. The fact that with 4.0 we can tow vehicles would surely help.

If the enemy is going a have even larger number of vehicles, we also should reinforce the logistic aspect of rearming since some heavily engaged units may run out of ammo real fast. Yesterday one of my Centauro had to rearm during combat (killed 3 BMP vehicles and damaged a few others but was very low in ammo)

 

Regarding the comments from the OPFOR about the "thermal" impact, well, this is how it is in real life. Russian equipment of that time and probably of today, does not have the same level and quality of equipment than the Western side. That didn't deter them to think they can easily overrun any NATO defences of the time. 

They have numbers, tactics and doctrine to deal with that. You have to "think in Russian" to operate that equipment. Yesterday I saw enemy BMP and T-72 trying to "snipe" on us as if they were on an M1 and our Leos and even the Centauro had a field day with that. However I agree that OPFOR could have more numbers to increase its ratio although this would probably make OPFOR Command and Control even more challenging.

 Making sure that actual visibility on the scenario is at least 4000 mts would help to balance a little better.

Just a note. I have dicovered on the editor that if you place meteorological conditions like visibility to 7000 but you set heavy rain or snow, visibility degrades a lot despite the 7000 mts visibility setting you en up with actual visibility of 600 mts.

 

Said this, this campaing looks absolutely fantastic and in the 3 Reg Tizona we are really excited about it. We will make sure our task force have the required recon. Looking forward to it

 

Edited September 5, 2016 by Furia

[Swordsmandk]

We are discussing it as we speak and many points have been brought up. 

 

I retro spect I agree 100 on the fact that red had to few units. I will amend that. 

 

Visibility also.