12-08-2015, 10:14 PM
Good to hear your view of events Stag. I must agree that the crew as it was worked pretty well, Ice Cream Soldier turned out to be a very good driver, quick to react and great at maneuvering rough terrain. I had to do very little movement micro management. And Stag was a great gunner, good eyes and very quick.
We couldn't do much while we were up on the hill. I didn't want to expose the APC to the whole town so I only tried to get the turret over the ridge, but as Stag mentioned the gun doesn't slew down far enough. Since this was no help we drove to town.
Things got much more exciting for us down there. I was struggling a little to maintain situational awareness while navigating, looking out for targets, trying to keep in mind where friendlies where... there was a lot going on. I was turning in and out to get an occasional look on the gps. Stags work was invaluable here, I would have missed many of the infantry targets he called out.
Good to read what you thought about what happened down there Stag because I was actually wondering afterwards whether I handled that ok or not. More specifically I was wondering about my reactions to you calling out targets, which was basically just finding and identifying them to give the ok to shoot. I did that because often the targets where in the same general direction as friendly infantry. I was wondering afterwards whether this was just a waste of time.
We really should have moved slower, I pushed on too fast at the end. We should have coordinated better with the closeby infantry team, maybe then we wouldn't have run into that rocket...
In any case, I'd be happy to try again next time, maybe we'll get an inch further then
We couldn't do much while we were up on the hill. I didn't want to expose the APC to the whole town so I only tried to get the turret over the ridge, but as Stag mentioned the gun doesn't slew down far enough. Since this was no help we drove to town.
Things got much more exciting for us down there. I was struggling a little to maintain situational awareness while navigating, looking out for targets, trying to keep in mind where friendlies where... there was a lot going on. I was turning in and out to get an occasional look on the gps. Stags work was invaluable here, I would have missed many of the infantry targets he called out.
Good to read what you thought about what happened down there Stag because I was actually wondering afterwards whether I handled that ok or not. More specifically I was wondering about my reactions to you calling out targets, which was basically just finding and identifying them to give the ok to shoot. I did that because often the targets where in the same general direction as friendly infantry. I was wondering afterwards whether this was just a waste of time.
We really should have moved slower, I pushed on too fast at the end. We should have coordinated better with the closeby infantry team, maybe then we wouldn't have run into that rocket...
In any case, I'd be happy to try again next time, maybe we'll get an inch further then