3 Commando Brigade

I guess we go into the fields of game philosophy here.

My "personal opinion" is that section members do not always need to know the complete and big picture. Communicating important and most importantly relevant information is down to the section commander and ftl in my book. Does a NLAW gunner in 1-1 need to know the pretty much exact location of 1-2 all the time? I personally rather have section members doing their job and let the people in the respecting command roles hare information over the radio when it is needed (watch out, we have 1-2 300m to our right etc.)

Agreed, given the casual nature of our chain of command, giving everyone these tools will open us up to back-seat section leading and second guessing command

As I said, I guess its different take on game philosophy.

To me it is not the job of the NLAW gunner (for examples sake) to know where 1-2. is, He can either see them with his own eyes or he will get informed about it from his superiors when it is relevant. When it is not relevant he can (and should in my book) focus on staying with his section, covering the area he should cover and be in a state of readiness and attention. If you want to be involved with low, mid or high level command, everyine is pretty much free to take one of these roles un the public server and during private missions.


I personally dont think it has to be the exact same on the public server and during private operations, but some people already made the point that it should be close to each other so you can get some actual practice and dont form bad habits. When the "normal" soldier does not have access to the position of other elements, this requires some (but I think pretty small) practical adjustments. Those would be things like designating a certain location as a position if you for some reason loose complete contact with your section or any other friendly elements.  Meaning you cant see or hear any friendly troops and you can get no contact over the radio. This is pretty rare at least in private operations and this can be fixed by having a designated position for things like that. Those can also be locations that are already in use like a HLS and overwatch or command positions.

Yep.

Sometimes I think that a bit of restriction or focus can do some good. Maybe this will improve some areas of our gameplay in private operations, which have been pointed out as areas that could be improved in the future. Those are mainly things like communication and section movement. Maybe it will improve itself when there is more need for better communication etc.


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We are not a "hardcore realism" unit and "gamey" doesnt necessarily means bad in our book. After all we actually go for a mif of realism, tactics and fun.

My point was if the tablet can't be recovered, either because the body is in the open and under fire or the body disappears due to respawn / clean up.

British army infantry regiments dont use blufor trackers, and I honestly doubt that even SL's and FTLs use them let alone everyone in the platoon.

HQ and command maybe, to keep track of air assets, but more than likely they use static images of friendly ground locations, and resort to the old way of Bowman communication and map grids. Imo I was fairly excited when this mod was coming to the repo, but holy s**t does it seem like easy mode. Completely takes away the reason to use a compass, map and rangefinding. For the one I used, anyway

This, so much. 

Gents, just a reminder that the last thread on cTab was locked because people started making it personal.
Don't let that happen again.
You are free to make objective points about the use of cTab, but do so in a constructive and friendly manner. 

yes,from my testing it does.

So if section members get microdagr they can see what is going on in ctab.
As everyone is issued with a gps anyway just swap it out for that.

That gives us the best of both worlds. FTL and above can update data but nobody is blind.

Anyone else agree?