04-08-2020, 12:57 PM
CSAR Red RU - Charlie Lead
We spawned, 2 groups together, one a couple of hundred meters down the road, and Alpha roughly 1km away. Bravo, Charlie and Delta rapidly regrouped next to a barn, but then there was some confusion as to location and location of Alpha. Seeing a walled compound to the north, I immediately took my squad towards it to clear it out, with the intention of using it for the whole regrouped team to defend from. This seemed to get lost in the communications, as shortly after Charlie occupied the location, a firefight began. We lent what aid we could from where we were, and shortly after communication was lost with the other 2 teams. We then proceeded to defend the location, with McGregor going down unconscious and the only medic 1km away he stayed down the rest of the mission. Working out that Bravo and Delta were unresponsive, I got in contact with Air and gave them my best guess location, and we continued to defend until the MI-6 came in sight. I picked up McGregor and prepared to board when 4 or 5 missiles hit the MI-6 in quick succession and it went down. The attack helicopter RTBd to get a transport helicopter. I went to investigate the potential for survivors from Bravo and Delta, and immediately got shot. Turns out there weren't any anyway.
So, the reason I'm writing this is up we had 2 key failures here. First was a complete lack of chain of command with Alpha elsewhere. I should have just taken control of the large group, but I assumed Bravo lead would and we know what they say about assuming. Maybe in future we can assign a 2ic and even a 3Ic so we know whos in charge when the leader dies. The second, was the MI-6, a pig of a helicopter, coming in to land without the gunship being there. Realistically, the gunship should do a sweep of the area to work out whats about before the transport comes in and absorb fire once the transport decides to land.
Another lesser failing is the leadership of Bravo and Delta. I'm guessing that because they had no direction, they basically stayed in place and died, despite there being a clearly better position less than 100m down the road. Sometimes you just need to use your initiative.
We spawned, 2 groups together, one a couple of hundred meters down the road, and Alpha roughly 1km away. Bravo, Charlie and Delta rapidly regrouped next to a barn, but then there was some confusion as to location and location of Alpha. Seeing a walled compound to the north, I immediately took my squad towards it to clear it out, with the intention of using it for the whole regrouped team to defend from. This seemed to get lost in the communications, as shortly after Charlie occupied the location, a firefight began. We lent what aid we could from where we were, and shortly after communication was lost with the other 2 teams. We then proceeded to defend the location, with McGregor going down unconscious and the only medic 1km away he stayed down the rest of the mission. Working out that Bravo and Delta were unresponsive, I got in contact with Air and gave them my best guess location, and we continued to defend until the MI-6 came in sight. I picked up McGregor and prepared to board when 4 or 5 missiles hit the MI-6 in quick succession and it went down. The attack helicopter RTBd to get a transport helicopter. I went to investigate the potential for survivors from Bravo and Delta, and immediately got shot. Turns out there weren't any anyway.
So, the reason I'm writing this is up we had 2 key failures here. First was a complete lack of chain of command with Alpha elsewhere. I should have just taken control of the large group, but I assumed Bravo lead would and we know what they say about assuming. Maybe in future we can assign a 2ic and even a 3Ic so we know whos in charge when the leader dies. The second, was the MI-6, a pig of a helicopter, coming in to land without the gunship being there. Realistically, the gunship should do a sweep of the area to work out whats about before the transport comes in and absorb fire once the transport decides to land.
Another lesser failing is the leadership of Bravo and Delta. I'm guessing that because they had no direction, they basically stayed in place and died, despite there being a clearly better position less than 100m down the road. Sometimes you just need to use your initiative.
Lead me, Follow me, or Get out of my way.