03-22-2016, 11:22 AM
Zavarak Data Heist
(Transport Group Leader)
Bligdog and me had the two transport helicopters and Stag had the AH9
Landing at LZ A was interessting, as the night was dark and full of rocks and the NV-Goggles weren't worth shit since you can't turn up the sensitivity. I managed to deploy Alfa and Bravo and went on station 500m away with Stag to wait for further orders and enjoyed the lightshow.
When the Ground teams where done I picked up Alfa and bravo at the LUP and wa given orders for new LZ's, I had a quick glanze on the map and didn't like what I saw, objected, but was told to go there in a wide route. still didn't like the first LZ but saw the second was shielded by a mountain that i hadn't seen on my first glance at the map (flying and reading a map is not the safest thing to do).
Deploying Alfa went without incident even though terrain flight with those shitty goggles was far from compfortable (and had the south Zavarak launchers been on rooftops they would have had line of sight).
For Bravo LZ I took a long route that kept us well shielded from Zavarak and deployed Bravo at their quite safe LZ.
In the mean time BlingDog reported deployment of Charlie and Delta and I ordered him to stand down at the FOB, which was where I returned to as well. Stag landed his chopper near Alfa LZ so he would have a shorter response time.
for the next half hour BlingDog an me missed a deck of cards and I used the time to light the area with some chemlights... after those had burned out (I have never seen chemlights with less than 2 hour written on them... and thats the time for maximum light from them) I realized that do light the area for further landings I might as well just switch on some of the headlights of the parked vehicles.
After that there was more waiting... I din't really mind because I knew before that I would be flying transport and tha tmeans to me that there will be some waiting which is why I brought my kindle with me, but i got only a little reading done while keeping my ears on the radio traffic for indications we might be needed .
After A while It was apparent that Dan was about to order extraction and I ordered Stag and Blingdog back into the choppers and we moved closer towards LZ alfa for further orders.
Den Ordered us to Pick them up on the main road between northern Zavarak and souther Zavarak.
this time the nightvision got me as my gear caught on a tree that i had not seen in the shadow of a small hill and the impakt injured me.
I was able to land my chopper, but Stag who quickly came to help me did not have the training to treat my wounds and that was mission end for me.
I got to say that writing this I notice how much I appreciated the FOB as we had a place where we didn't need to worry about being attacked while we sat in our choppers there due to all the guards.
One reason I did not like the closer LZ was that I had been shot down a bit further away from there on a previous attempt flying low over the ground.
Yellowcake
(Sniper under Stag command)
After we sorted out our gear and grabbed what ammo we could carry Stag and I set out on our quad bike towards our observation posts. on our hills we were able to see most of the AO and began to mark targets on the map, plenty of infantry stationary... more patrolling, and some nasty looking vehicles..... the osther teams where in for some fun.
Stag kept an eye on bravon and told me to keep an eye on the uranium facility. After bravo had been spotted and the developing firefight had drawn away most of the patrols we received "Open fire" command after the enemys had blown up one of the trucks and I worked my way through the stationary guards of the facility while Stag supported bravo.
suddenly there were trucks making their way on the road to the east. I told stag who called them out on LR and I started engaging them missing the driver only by some centimeters shortly before he disappeared from my view. that could not be helped so I quickly scaned the remaining trucks to make sure I got anyone who might attempt to get in. No one tried and the area looked quite.
Next Alfa announched they were moving trucks and entering the compound to get more of them.
suddenly I didn't feel as bad for missing the driver of the fleeing truck anymote as it must have been one of alfas people.
Stag and I Remained in position until the action started to move away from us and stag told me to get the ATV . I was just stumbling over some of Alfas men when the mission ended.
CSR [FHQ]
(Transport pilot)
We spawned close to the castle which was where I intended to land.
Someone complained how slow I inserted: big fat helicopters build up quite some momentum which takes time to loose, a smaller chopper could bne landed way quicker than this.... also i was at about 6-8 FPSÂ while landing which didn't make things easier.
After deploying the ground teams I was told to wild weasle.... not really the agile aircraft I would want for that, but orders are orders. the first few runs where without incident, then i dodged one rocket. on the nex run I ate one rocket which fucked up the anti torque (I really want to now how that works with a chopper which has no tailrotor but two mainrotors spinning in different directions) and dodged another rocket.
after that I was ordered to stop the wild weasling and decided to land at the castle which i expected to be the LZ for extraction and which was also shielded from the town. just took me 3 attempts to land since I kept spinning too far even though i had the left rudder pressed all the way .
after a while I heard the ground team had completed their mission and spooled up the chopper again and was then told to pick them up on the pier. due to the damage the LZ was to small for me and i advised to use a concrete pad on a slightly different location of the pier after passing over the LZ.
I had to wave of the first landing attempt due to incoming fire and returned to the LZ after a smokescreen had been put up and landed on the pier (5FPS now)
Fog of war
(Hunter team Leader)
Varanon and me inserted with Alfa team and after swimming in the wrong direction a little we managed to climb out of the fog and were on our way . we came across a small military camp which was abbandoned except for a smoking truck and crept on and set up on the next hill. there Varanon told me we were on the wrong hill so we kept on moving to the right one from which we had view of most of the western part of the airfield.
we marked Contacts and the Supply trucks and waited for orders.
soon we were rewardes with a nice firework as the Generals SU was shot down by the AA team and we were weapons free and worked our way through the targets.
A call came that a technical was movin on the airfield which varanon and me were able to take out with two shots.
I killed a pilot running for his chopper, but was slow to get the real thread for myself, which was the doorgunner who got the shot on my a split second before i pulled the trigger.
(Transport Group Leader)
Bligdog and me had the two transport helicopters and Stag had the AH9
Landing at LZ A was interessting, as the night was dark and full of rocks and the NV-Goggles weren't worth shit since you can't turn up the sensitivity. I managed to deploy Alfa and Bravo and went on station 500m away with Stag to wait for further orders and enjoyed the lightshow.
When the Ground teams where done I picked up Alfa and bravo at the LUP and wa given orders for new LZ's, I had a quick glanze on the map and didn't like what I saw, objected, but was told to go there in a wide route. still didn't like the first LZ but saw the second was shielded by a mountain that i hadn't seen on my first glance at the map (flying and reading a map is not the safest thing to do).
Deploying Alfa went without incident even though terrain flight with those shitty goggles was far from compfortable (and had the south Zavarak launchers been on rooftops they would have had line of sight).
For Bravo LZ I took a long route that kept us well shielded from Zavarak and deployed Bravo at their quite safe LZ.
In the mean time BlingDog reported deployment of Charlie and Delta and I ordered him to stand down at the FOB, which was where I returned to as well. Stag landed his chopper near Alfa LZ so he would have a shorter response time.
for the next half hour BlingDog an me missed a deck of cards and I used the time to light the area with some chemlights... after those had burned out (I have never seen chemlights with less than 2 hour written on them... and thats the time for maximum light from them) I realized that do light the area for further landings I might as well just switch on some of the headlights of the parked vehicles.
After that there was more waiting... I din't really mind because I knew before that I would be flying transport and tha tmeans to me that there will be some waiting which is why I brought my kindle with me, but i got only a little reading done while keeping my ears on the radio traffic for indications we might be needed .
After A while It was apparent that Dan was about to order extraction and I ordered Stag and Blingdog back into the choppers and we moved closer towards LZ alfa for further orders.
Den Ordered us to Pick them up on the main road between northern Zavarak and souther Zavarak.
this time the nightvision got me as my gear caught on a tree that i had not seen in the shadow of a small hill and the impakt injured me.
I was able to land my chopper, but Stag who quickly came to help me did not have the training to treat my wounds and that was mission end for me.
I got to say that writing this I notice how much I appreciated the FOB as we had a place where we didn't need to worry about being attacked while we sat in our choppers there due to all the guards.
One reason I did not like the closer LZ was that I had been shot down a bit further away from there on a previous attempt flying low over the ground.
Yellowcake
(Sniper under Stag command)
After we sorted out our gear and grabbed what ammo we could carry Stag and I set out on our quad bike towards our observation posts. on our hills we were able to see most of the AO and began to mark targets on the map, plenty of infantry stationary... more patrolling, and some nasty looking vehicles..... the osther teams where in for some fun.
Stag kept an eye on bravon and told me to keep an eye on the uranium facility. After bravo had been spotted and the developing firefight had drawn away most of the patrols we received "Open fire" command after the enemys had blown up one of the trucks and I worked my way through the stationary guards of the facility while Stag supported bravo.
suddenly there were trucks making their way on the road to the east. I told stag who called them out on LR and I started engaging them missing the driver only by some centimeters shortly before he disappeared from my view. that could not be helped so I quickly scaned the remaining trucks to make sure I got anyone who might attempt to get in. No one tried and the area looked quite.
Next Alfa announched they were moving trucks and entering the compound to get more of them.
suddenly I didn't feel as bad for missing the driver of the fleeing truck anymote as it must have been one of alfas people.
Stag and I Remained in position until the action started to move away from us and stag told me to get the ATV . I was just stumbling over some of Alfas men when the mission ended.
CSR [FHQ]
(Transport pilot)
We spawned close to the castle which was where I intended to land.
Someone complained how slow I inserted: big fat helicopters build up quite some momentum which takes time to loose, a smaller chopper could bne landed way quicker than this.... also i was at about 6-8 FPSÂ while landing which didn't make things easier.
After deploying the ground teams I was told to wild weasle.... not really the agile aircraft I would want for that, but orders are orders. the first few runs where without incident, then i dodged one rocket. on the nex run I ate one rocket which fucked up the anti torque (I really want to now how that works with a chopper which has no tailrotor but two mainrotors spinning in different directions) and dodged another rocket.
after that I was ordered to stop the wild weasling and decided to land at the castle which i expected to be the LZ for extraction and which was also shielded from the town. just took me 3 attempts to land since I kept spinning too far even though i had the left rudder pressed all the way .
after a while I heard the ground team had completed their mission and spooled up the chopper again and was then told to pick them up on the pier. due to the damage the LZ was to small for me and i advised to use a concrete pad on a slightly different location of the pier after passing over the LZ.
I had to wave of the first landing attempt due to incoming fire and returned to the LZ after a smokescreen had been put up and landed on the pier (5FPS now)
Fog of war
(Hunter team Leader)
Varanon and me inserted with Alfa team and after swimming in the wrong direction a little we managed to climb out of the fog and were on our way . we came across a small military camp which was abbandoned except for a smoking truck and crept on and set up on the next hill. there Varanon told me we were on the wrong hill so we kept on moving to the right one from which we had view of most of the western part of the airfield.
we marked Contacts and the Supply trucks and waited for orders.
soon we were rewardes with a nice firework as the Generals SU was shot down by the AA team and we were weapons free and worked our way through the targets.
A call came that a technical was movin on the airfield which varanon and me were able to take out with two shots.
I killed a pilot running for his chopper, but was slow to get the real thread for myself, which was the doorgunner who got the shot on my a split second before i pulled the trigger.