AAR Phase 3

[mwd2]

Role: Blue Ground Commander

 

First, during the time, my system was not crashed, i had fun....

 

...but we need some improvements for the ground commander.

 

1.) i think the T-90 are over powered for it (the TOW rocked killed more than 80% of my tanks

 

2.) we need a warning message for the GC, if some of his units are get hit (SLMOD 6.2, has this feature now). if i am in 1st. person view, and look back on the map, i still missing units, and i don`t know what happen.

 

3.) at the beginning of the mission i had no clue, that was the role of (F-15C crash side, Convoy 2, MLRS area and the bridges) - do i need to defend it, or is this some jobs for the aircrafts --> we need a list of TASK which are available on the battlefield

[mwd2]

4.) maybe, we need two supgroups for BLUE and RED, and everyone who sign (deadline monday, perhaps) in for RED or BLUE get access to this subgroup. Each supgroup need a list of units, which are available and can think about how they can manage to finished their TASK.

 

5.) with one of the DCS World updates comes the feature (Player Can Drive) if the GC should not move them, unclick it!

 

6.) proper Group Names, i have a M1A2 Abrams Battalion setup 5x M1A2, 1x AAA Vulcan and 2x APC M113 - is is more 1 MBT Platoon with HQ Platoon not a Battalion: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=82161&highlight=realistic+templates

[Endy]

I think the placement of blue objectives was a bit off. From what can be seen people have problems identifying proper targets.

Also, it seems like more communication is needed on the blue side - proper targets for CAS need to be established and F15's have to try to support their A10 flights a bit more. While they were dogfighting us to the north the A10s were getting raped by Su25 for example.

I also wonder why you guys thought raping an empty red FARP with CBUs was a good idea if it's wasn't a target of value, especially once you saw it was defended...

 

Ground forces might be a bit unbalanced too. I'd go a bit less tanks like t80, t90, m1a1, and instead give both sides more IFV's. They can then be also killed easier by A10's using guns and without using excessive weaponry as currently doing gun runs on the aforementioned or dropping CBUs on a spread out tank squad doesn't work too well.

[Cookie]

I also wonder why you guys thought raping an empty red FARP with CBUs was a good idea if it's wasn't a target of value, especially once you saw it was defended...

That´s because we were confused about what exactly our target was. The briefing said we were to destoy an enemy HQ, but upon ingressing we didn´t see anything that looked like an HQ.

 

There were a bunch of supermarkets around that looked a little "off", as if they were placed there by hand, so we thought that might be our target and dropped some bombs on them. Since that didn´t seem to do anything, we decided to go for the FARP that was right next to it, thinking it might be the HQ. Since we dropped our "real" bombs on the supermarkets already (and since two out of us three needed to emergency jettison their weapons) we had to try it with CBUs.

[Endy]

That´s because we were confused about what exactly our target was. The briefing said we were to destoy an enemy HQ, but upon ingressing we didn´t see anything that looked like an HQ.

 

Exactly my point :) I think that the targets should be a bit more clear next time and easier to identify for you guys.

[33rd_Havoc]

It also wouldn't go amiss to place some kind of "markerunits" next to primary targets like a HQ, so we can take a look in tacview if we hit our target's. At the moment it looks like we are throwing our bombs off in the fields.

 

Edit: The text message trigger is already nice, so we get the info that our primary mission is accomplished but you dont get this info in tacview for debriefing.

[Leto]

I also wonder why you guys thought raping an empty red FARP with CBUs was a good idea if it's wasn't a target of value, especially once you saw it was defended...

It was on our way to our main target.

It represented a danger to us and other allied flights because of manpads, shilkas and ZU-23s. So it was a valuable target and not empty.

That's why I attacked it.

[Endy]

Makes sense I guess. Thought you destroyed the main target with bombs on the first pass 25 minutes into the mission but I guess not.

[gregzagk]

Great ideas for the Ground battles. ;)

If we have Ground commanders in both sides like yesterday we can move on with a lot of great scenarios .

 

I gained a lot of experience talking about the design of the last missions.Thanks guys!

[Shapper]

Another issue from yesterday is the FARP services. I had zero response to my calls to replace the NVGs with the HMS. Fuel request also went unanswered. The only thing that worked was the request to change ordnance. I noticed that both FARPs sitting next to each other have the exact same frequency. Try changing one of them to something else and see if that has any effect.

[mwd2]

yes, both sides have FARPs with the same name and frequency - may be a problem!