09-27-2020, 11:22 PM
T-34
(Tank commander)
The mission itself was straightforward, at least the beginning. Get into the vehicle depot, and get the tank while the rest of the bunch takes trucks and UAZs.
We reached it, my team got into the tank, and we waited. We spent ten minutes at that barn, doing I don't know what. At one point I decided that the tank was too valuable to be killed in the first few minutes by an RPG and moved it behind the barn. Just in time, because a second later an RPG hit the barn itself.
Listening to the chatter on the long range, I noticed that some teams were not really doing their job. From what I understood, one team had advanced way beyond the barn and was already close to the city. The rest was debating whether to take the UAZ, or the truck, or the UAZ with the Strela on it etc. This was taking far too long.
From there on out, we moved south, stopping once on an open field. After a bit of fighting, and another about ten minutes of trying to get people up, we moved on. This was again a problem since the long wait for tending for the wounded produced more wounded (due to encounters with numerous vehicles moving along the main road directly next to us). In this case, it's best to load the wounded onto the truck and have the medics deal with them while we are moving to a save place. Mind, not putting the blame on the leadership, this was a situation where, when you are leading, things like that don't really enter your mind (I know that I never think of those "easy" solutions when leading).
Before we reached the tower, we were severely crippled, with only the tank and a handful of infantry remaining. Nonetheless, we managed to get the objectives and moved in on the friendly town. Identifying targets was hell in this, the snow basically makes every uniform look black, and it's hard to discern Russians from CDF. In the end, technical problems killed the mission and a T-72 killed our tank.
The T-34 is a piece of shit, really, no visibility, no optics, and a hand-cranked turret that takes a minute to fully traverse.
Overall, the problem was us staying in one place for far too long. But that is a problem we always have.
Again, not trying to bash the leader here, it is hard to lead such a mission, and I'm sure I would have done worse.
(Tank commander)
The mission itself was straightforward, at least the beginning. Get into the vehicle depot, and get the tank while the rest of the bunch takes trucks and UAZs.
We reached it, my team got into the tank, and we waited. We spent ten minutes at that barn, doing I don't know what. At one point I decided that the tank was too valuable to be killed in the first few minutes by an RPG and moved it behind the barn. Just in time, because a second later an RPG hit the barn itself.
Listening to the chatter on the long range, I noticed that some teams were not really doing their job. From what I understood, one team had advanced way beyond the barn and was already close to the city. The rest was debating whether to take the UAZ, or the truck, or the UAZ with the Strela on it etc. This was taking far too long.
From there on out, we moved south, stopping once on an open field. After a bit of fighting, and another about ten minutes of trying to get people up, we moved on. This was again a problem since the long wait for tending for the wounded produced more wounded (due to encounters with numerous vehicles moving along the main road directly next to us). In this case, it's best to load the wounded onto the truck and have the medics deal with them while we are moving to a save place. Mind, not putting the blame on the leadership, this was a situation where, when you are leading, things like that don't really enter your mind (I know that I never think of those "easy" solutions when leading).
Before we reached the tower, we were severely crippled, with only the tank and a handful of infantry remaining. Nonetheless, we managed to get the objectives and moved in on the friendly town. Identifying targets was hell in this, the snow basically makes every uniform look black, and it's hard to discern Russians from CDF. In the end, technical problems killed the mission and a T-72 killed our tank.
The T-34 is a piece of shit, really, no visibility, no optics, and a hand-cranked turret that takes a minute to fully traverse.
Overall, the problem was us staying in one place for far too long. But that is a problem we always have.
Again, not trying to bash the leader here, it is hard to lead such a mission, and I'm sure I would have done worse.