08-26-2014, 12:02 AM
(08-25-2014, 07:01 PM)Misha link Wrote:Rising Sun
And now word from the leader, myself.
It is not so pleasant when you jump in the coop and first (and only) mission you play is so demanding. Talking about logistics and communications. It was very busy most of the time, with people asking, responding, not responding, moving around for whatever reason, losing lr radios, ... This last thing was a reason for a longest delay in our movement from the enemy occupied town. However, there was no easy way through, we would have even more casualties if we had just went full speed with vehicles. Taking a longer route around is possible alternative option, may try it next time, but with mines everywhere, who knows.
Anyway, while I have always doubted my abilities as a leader, especially on missions like these that require tight coordination, I do have to say that you can always ask again what are standing orders if you're not sure.
I thought you did fine Misha. It's not even possible to tell how complicated a mission is going to be when volunteering to lead as you haven't even seen the briefing at that point (even at the briefing you can't always tell) and I tend to avoid doing so when there's a large amount of players, out of fear of finding it's too complex for me to lead, so thanks for having the guts to give it a go. I find it particularly difficult leading, even a squad, when you're in a vehicle much of the time, as it greatly reduces your situational awareness and ability to keep track of fast-moving units.
I don't know if it would have worked in this particular mission but perhaps in future if you find yourself leading similar missions, you could consider delegating leadership of Alpha to someone and then you can concentrate on the bigger picture and receiving reports and giving orders to the two squads, without having to micro-manage a squad yourself as well.
I only decided to take over leading my squad after Variable got killed, after waiting a bit with no-one else offering, as I don't really like taking over mid-mission and didn't really know what the plan was at that point, so I'm sure most of the confusion in my squad after that point was my fault.