3 Commando Brigade

Use of Thermal Imaging

Whilst dead on the last mini op, I spent the remainder of the mission haunting my section as a spectator, which was quite entertaining. I spent most time in the thermal view so that I could actually keep track of who was where, and I got thinking.

When I started playing with 3CB, TI sights and rangefinders were available but have disappeared now. I think I know the reason - it makes it too easy, especially for snipers - but still, as a milsim unit, in real life these resources are available, so shouldn't these be at least an option. I have used the TI sight on the L85 for example. I think it seems to be one Viper sight per platoon/troop so maybe it could be made available to leaders only on the ops?

We never had a model we were happy to release. But plans are afoot to rectify that...

SJ

Yep, additionally they were limited on the public mainly to encourage team play (as one person with a thermal rifle sight can do quite a lot of damage both to EI and player immersion). 

However they have never been ruled out on our operations . That's ultimately down to the mission maker on what gear they'd like to include for their operation (e.g. iron-sights only).

Due to longstanding ACE bug (which has recently been fixed) we were forced to stop using our Javelins in Ops.  The TI on the CLUs were regularly used to feed intel to command.