I was
POL 3d Mountaineers, 3d Coy, 1st Platoon Leader, with my guys, from ODA 541.
First of all, thanks to:
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My guys, you rules. It was a reborn to game with you again and we leave BE10 stronger than before, as always.
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Obi-san, my Coy Commander. He always tried his best, even when he received strange or contradiction orders. He also provided us informations and INTEL, and this is the most important in a MILSIM game. You want to know what your actions on the field will give to your HQ. It was a real pleasure to play with you and share our experiences and knowledge. I hope to see you again at this kind of game. The thanks goes also to your XO by the way!
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Swedish guys from Varg Paket, the 2nd Squad of 1st Platoon. My guys enjoyed to play with you and I hope you did as well. They appreciated the Sand pit bunker phase and reported me.
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Tiger, because you seem to have made what you could, with what BE crew gave you (I mean missions, logistic, etc). You made a good officer's briefing and I appreciate the manner you manage.
-Thanks to
any POL, NAF or ZAN who was friendly on the battlefield. Because our game is about pleasure and fair-play. My guys reported me nice things, with very good behaviours. But I guess when you're nice, people are nice with you.
-Thanks to
Blackwolf to be still here. Even if we where not on the same side, I can't wait to play again under your orders, like in B7. "Hold the line", I'll never forget.
-Thanks to the
italian guys in 2nd Platoon, you gave me the opportunity to practice my italian, but also my english haha.
-Thanks to the italian guy (
Matt?) who recognized me at crossroads, for rennactment purpose. Hope to see you again.
WELL...
No we start for the debrief.
LOGISTIC:
-As always, the
checkin was perfect. Nicely done and pretty secure, professional I could say. The safe zone was nice, with good looking shops.
-The
meals... Well, I saw the meals in BE07, my guys saw them in BE08. So they told me: "take meal". Well, very disappointed. BUT, the girls in Kiosk where very nice and Burgers where so good, I'll not continue longer about meals. Thanks to everyone in kiosk.
-The game. Well, we where supposed to be mountaineers, so operate in mountain, behind enemy lines. But the Bat com gave us more "classic infantry" job than real job. Fortunately, sometimes, we pushed further and made great actions behind enemies lines and took points with only 1 platoon ^^. We've also suffered of slooooow decisions to "push forward" from Bat or HQ... Sometimes we where waiting for orders in Windtsation, for going in the village, but the village was already ours... Well, little points in the chain of command that where not really great.
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I'm very proud to have captured personnaly the scientist. Why do I say that? Because at the start, the mission should have been:
-"Okay guys from ODA, you are many from Law Enforcement, so you will be the team that goes inside, only pistols alllowed, no shooting at civilians and no shooting at the scientist. Secure him, capture and extract."
At the end: you have 4734783874374 russians that fire 74734783478347 bb's in full auto,
they injured the scientist and didn't even care about him or even saw him! I had to bring a medic to heal him before restrains and extract. Excuse me for the sad/political image, but this mission remind me more "Beslan" than it should have been.
We where 110 against 9 guys. Only 1 platoon with a squad that secure the perimeter and a squad that goes in would have been enough, more realistic and fun. Well, it was more to make pleasure to "CoD-Beslan-OMGDevgruairsoft" players than real MILSIM players.
But the idea was nice.
-I've also noticed that players or whole squads
complain about walking a lot and going to same points as last night. Well... this is Berget, read the informations and also the feedbacks, but don't come to a game you are not prepared for. Seriously.
Before finishing, I've a
question: I saw guys from
ZAN with quads, in game, taking the North road to take position on the right side of our Base. This rocks and your quads rocks. BUT, do they carry BAV's? Or if they don't, could be shoot you or your machine to stop you? For me, in case of doubt, I don't shoot, because of safety reasons, but can you give me an answer for next time ? Thanks.
For my conclusion, I want to
remind that organizing a game is not that easy. I know it well, because I organize events with 70-100 people in Switzerland, so I hardly imagine the job for thousands...
BE Crew, take rest, learn from your mistakes, appreciate also the good feedbacks and make us a great event next year. This is no negociable
Best regards, Geb.