LOW IV: Invasion USA

[Mcluvin]

I loaned out some large mesh goggles to a teammate on Medhi. Whoever it was, please PM me so I can get them back. Thanks.

[Ricochet]

From the XO:

A hearty thanks and job well done to Rick, admins and all of Mehdi!

Platoon ldrs/Squal ldrs/supply corp, great job at executing the battle plan and too keeping everyone on target and kicking a$$.

Special thanks to Wisenheimer & Mossy on comms, great job at getting the traffic in and out.

You all made our job easy.

Mehdi Lima Company XO:
Ricochet.


No shows and flakes...
Don't bother signing up for events unless you know you can make it (same for you on, off, on again, off again types). Make your plans, arrange your ride, find the correct camo/gear for the team you want, get your $$ around - THEN FREAKIN sign up.

Otherwise don't screw with the people that are giving up their time and money to host these events. They are counting on you to be there so they and the entire community can have fun. Learn to show some respect and consideration for others making the sacrifice for YOU to have fun or just stay away, we don't want or need you.

You all should hang your heads in shame and personally and publicly apologize to Rick and your team leaders/teams. Really hard to plan event scenarios and make a comprehensive battle plan when 25% of your projected forces don't show up. Luckily, we knew that going in we would have some and were able to have contingencies in place.

[Snowman]

I got some pictures, but I didn't really care about it so I didn't take that many (16). I was too busy waiting for someone to shoot. for trespassing.

http://s558.photobucket.com/albums/ss28/olympiakid01/LOW4/

[phiz]

If that was Sector 1, SOTA infiltrated twice but the promised assaulting force never showed up. Blue was succesfully leading a squad to sweep that area. Super text book in commanding his squad, and he took a few of us out. You would have thought his squad were seasoned vets.

Yep, that was us, 1-C. Blue, Llama, Flo, Mike, Tommy, Dave, and a couple of others kept our west flank locked down.

Seems like a force tried to assemble once across the creek but our sniper was able to take out the engineer. I think they mostly retreated after that.

That was some truly some nasty terrain. Nice job crawling, you did a lot of damage.

[STRIK3]

WHERE THE tool ARE PICS?!

Who won the raffle?

Both of those.

[code789]

Radio Utilization:

Part of the planning phase should have identified the communications sector. There are multiple teams out there, and there is a Chain of command / hierarchy in place to manage them. For the USRF it seemed like this was probably one of the bigger problems, failure in comms.

In the future, I would recommend that you have a RTO - Radio Telephone Operator, assigned to you, with a sole job of staying in contact with units in the field. In this manner, you can effectively deploy units, obtain rapid sit/rep requests, and overall organize the flow of operations.

Radio Channel Assignments:

This was not mentioned during the entirety of the planning phase, that is at least according to the forums. This would be good to have, to reduce confusion, to increase cohesion / awareness.

in the forums we said that it was up to the team leader to assign their own channel to their own teams. the major intel and command were going to be passed down through HAM radio.

as one of the guys running HAM i was sending people i could find to the places that were requesting support so there was no communication issues there. however on FRS seems to always be someone hotmicing the channel (which is probably why i'm done with it)

[Chesty_01]

Overall I had a lot of fun at this event. I honestly haven't been all that impressed with the games recently but to Rick, You did a great job with this one.

Respawn Rules-even though I was never shot, I loved seeing wounded people on the ground. The white heal rags were an awesome touch and so was the 5 minute deal.

Admin and game staff-I was impressed by your call for fire splash down times. I was figuring it would take a lot longer to land steal rain but in all reality it was faster then in real life, which bowed well for us. GREAT JOB TO ALL OF YOU!!!!!

Medhi- I am shocked that for the First time ever, an airsoft battle plan went exactly how I wanted it to. We had 3 contingency plans in place but never had to use one of them. You all did a fantastic job allocating your resources and providing a very kick a$$ display of victory. You all made me look good!!!

Command_ I couldn't have asked for a better command element on my side. You guys rocked and were able to keep our comms functioning all day without fail.

All in all I had a wonderful time leading you all and I am glad I didn't disappoint. To all the no shows- Play paintball. We don't want you anymore!!!

[Callahan]

Radio Utilization:

Part of the planning phase should have identified the communications sector. There are multiple teams out there, and there is a Chain of command / hierarchy in place to manage them. For the USRF it seemed like this was probably one of the bigger problems, failure in comms.

In the future, I would recommend that you have a RTO - Radio Telephone Operator, assigned to you, with a sole job of staying in contact with units in the field. In this manner, you can effectively deploy units, obtain rapid sit/rep requests, and overall organize the flow of operations.

Radio Channel Assignments:

This was not mentioned during the entirety of the planning phase, that is at least according to the forums. This would be good to have, to reduce confusion, to increase cohesion / awareness.

in the forums we said that it was up to the team leader to assign their own channel to their own teams. the major intel and command were going to be passed down through HAM radio.

as one of the guys running HAM i was sending people i could find to the places that were requesting support so there was no communication issues there. however on FRS seems to always be someone hotmicing the channel (which is probably why i'm done with it)

I would advise not doing this in the future, simply because the lack of cohesion, and what to expect out of many players existed. You need to be organized and clearly have these radio channels in place before starting, so not only the commander knows how to reach a specific team, but anyone does.

Not everyone is going to have a HAM, I know I don't, so being able to communicate with everyone will be important, and using systems people are familiar with. Having an RTO would have been an essential advantage to keep the commander aware, and to be able to deploy units in critical areas in a timely fashion.

You're adding to my point here saying it was up to the team leaders to determine their channels, re-enforcing how unorganized that sector of this operation was.

[Riddick]

I will provide scores and my aar in the main game post later today.

I'm gonna go do something for myself and play some BF3 for a little while.

[Jason Bourne]

My personal thanks to 1-charlie for a job well done. A shout out to the USRF forces that were attacking us at the north outpost, you guys are gi-joe uber-ninja sneaky but we had numbers and a defensive position, plus reinforcements via radio when we needed them. Thanks for keeping us on our toes!

If that was Sector 1, SOTA infiltrated twice but the promised assaulting force never showed up. Blue was succesfully leading a squad to sweep that area. Super text book in commanding his squad, and he took a few of us out. You would have thought his squad were seasoned vets.

I was there Dos Santos...I was the guy in ACU (for you there in the outpost area). I am super proud of the guys I got to lead. Icepick's +1 (Parker), and my +1 did really great. We got very close to Sector 1. I got a few, but I couldn't get any closer, and finally got hit. Icepick himself did well, but we got split up toward the beginning of the game. I think the issue the assault forces with the exception of 3 guys or so was because we/they didn't attack fast enough. We heard some firing and everyone got low, even though the firing was quite a way off.

I really liked the whole game. I personally liked the 3 man respawn vs. the 5 minute sit down/timed release. It felt like a LONG time doing nothing when everyone else was fighting.
I think the main reason the USRF lost so badly in the day game was because there there wasn't a good plan for how to organize respawns. There was one time when we almost had the left side clear, but no reinforcements showed up and the 3/4 guys there got overrun.

The BIGGEST issue overall, in my mind, was that guys wouldn't move fast enough. We could have taken a few more points, I think, if people had a slightly more aggressive playing attitude.

Overall, again... I really enjoyed it. Thank you Riddick. Good job Mehdi. Next time USRF.

[Nark]

My personal thanks to 1-charlie for a job well done. A shout out to the USRF forces that were attacking us at the north outpost, you guys are gi-joe uber-ninja sneaky but we had numbers and a defensive position, plus reinforcements via radio when we needed them. Thanks for keeping us on our toes!

If you were talking about the 3 Cagaliers then that was the group I was with. You got so close to me when you guys came up to flush us out. Glad I got one of you before being shot. I believe it was part of Alpha-Bravo that came up to take me out.

[McNair]

however on FRS seems to always be someone hotmicing the channel (which is probably why i'm done with it)

This was the problem I ran into. Everyone but myself in my group was on HAM. I stayed on FRS to monitor and all i got was call button pushing, garbled yelling and hot mic-ing. After 20 minutes I took off my ear piece.

[Jason Bourne]

however on FRS seems to always be someone hotmicing the channel (which is probably why i'm done with it)

This was the problem I ran into. Everyone but myself in my group was on HAM. I stayed on FRS to monitor and all i got was call button pushing, garbled yelling and hot mic-ing. After 20 minutes I took off my ear piece.

Here. here.

[code789]

I would advise not doing this in the future, simply because the lack of cohesion, and what to expect out of many players existed. You need to be organized and clearly have these radio channels in place before starting, so not only the commander knows how to reach a specific team, but anyone does.

Not everyone is going to have a HAM, I know I don't, so being able to communicate with everyone will be important, and using systems people are familiar with. Having an RTO would have been an essential advantage to keep the commander aware, and to be able to deploy units in critical areas in a timely fashion.

You're adding to my point here saying it was up to the team leaders to determine their channels, re-enforcing how unorganized that sector of this operation was.

riddick opened private forums for planing a month before the game even started. in there we did cover how we were going to communicate to the commander. if there was anything you didn't see fit for staging that was the time to say so.

the HAM radio communication part was successful, there was no one degrading the quality of communication and request on our frequency were responded to as soon as possible.

everyone is there to have fun, unless you are willing to be the RTO guy next time i doubt that some teenager is going to pay 30$ and hang around spawn half the game with a frustrated commander.

next time just make do of the situation and kill as many as you can, and remember:
Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do.

[Jewish Ninja]

Did anyone get pictures? I didn't see anyone with a camera.

Yeah, I saw an admin taking pictures once through the game.

I did get some pictures, but 90% of them are fuzzy/ focused on the wrong area so they look like shit. I need to invest in a better camera I think....