Cartel yacht coop 15/03/12

What a mission! Not fired a single shot, but still it thrilled me much.
thanks to:

Snippers (nice MC work)
Orford (looking forward to the vid, dude)
Kerre (ma SL)
Vince (hosting, wasn't you?)
klutz n lovvi (flew safe to insertion point)

there where more, i know...
please fill in the missing names here _________________________________________________________________________________________


We were on an island (called Ligur, i think, bout 50 square kilometers big), in a base bout 5 clicks from hostille terretory to our north.
Objective was to destroy a yacht (from drug runners, i guess), and optional a frigate as well, then rtb.

SEAL dive and support teams attempted to get to the main opjective, brought in by helos, covered by a sniperteam (ye, guess who).
With us two, the alpha, bravo and charlie squads were active, don't remember who was who, i just remeber a squad got wiped out.

Had Kerre as SL/spotter (with some battery issues ), myself as sniper. Gear was an m4 on SL and a M110 on me with a nightvision scope. Each of us had also an MP5SD with subsonic ammo.

After briefing by mission comander snippers, we boarded a Littlebird and went arround the AO to get inserted in the north (took bout 3 to 5 mins to get to the LZ, f**kin big map). We went on the hills to get an overlook of the villages round the target, but un frotunatly it had no direct visual. So we went on to seach for a firing position. We tried four locations, till we found a spot with overlook on the target, in the middle of some woods. Meanwhile, Alpha was shot to shreds, dunno who was it. When we took position, Bravo managed to get close to the taret as well, had them suddenly in ma sights...

Man, the next part was movie-like...

While SL reported all enemies i'd seen to bravo, their demolitions expert was able to swim unseen to the yacht, place a satchel charge, set the timer to 10min and swim back. Constandly watched by SL and me, he made it back to the shore, then bravo went towards us, to prepare extraction and ofc confirm the takeout of the target.
Funny thing was, they only were able to see us when they allmost literaly stepped on us (i just love thus ghillie suits).

So Bravo took over our position, we went on to secure the escape route. When moving to the hills, we heard the satisfying noise of a big explosion, coming with a notice that the objective was completed. Next thing i remember was me calling "enemy patrol, dead ahead, 50m!" We got prone, crawling outta their way, and called Bravo to go round them. They walked by in 10 to 20m distance, luckily not noticing us, we would have stand no chance against their AR. We made sure, they were not walking towards bravo or us, when we heard another explosion, coming with the notice that the frigate was taken out as well. Charlie did it as well, miles away on their own, YAAAY

Avoiding one more patrol, we had to hurry to get to the extraction point. But we made it the moment Bravo boarded their flight, exausted and happy. Blackhawk airways brought us back home, mission was a success.

Not a single round fired by Kerre and me, but we had our fun
thx to all participants for that nice round.

Chris aka AirBlade

That mission was sooo epic!

Bravo Seal dive time:
Snippers (Squad Lead)
Da-Fort (Radio man 2) R.I.P *Sniff* (only casaulty)
JohnScholten (Medic)
ExeTick (Demo expert)
Orford (Automatic rifleman)

The plan was for us to be inserted south of the objective, whilst the sniper team was inserted north of the objective. The yacht itself was on the north side of a fairly large river (about 280m across), the yacht was docked right next to a town. There was also a village to the south which controlled a bridge heading north into the town.

After being inserted by helicopter we proceeded to our first waypoint the small south village overlooking the river. When we got there we realized there were enemies all over, so we proceed to stealth head east and continue to a point where the swim would be shorter. After succesfully dodging enemy observers, we eventually got a point over looking the river, we setup an observation and firing position we now had eyes on the yacht but we were 360 metres away.

There were also patrol boats in the water, we believed they wouldn't be able to see us. So I ordered Da-Fort to make the 200m swim to a small island that had a perfect overview of the water. Da-Fort got spotted by the patrol boat once he was across and he was killed by the boat's 50cal.

In the confusing we were trying to figure out who was being fired at as we thought that they 50cal was firing at us. In hindsight we should have immediately opened fire on the boat, and we may have saved Da-Fort's life. (I should have communicated intent far better here and I will take responsibility for this, I'll write the letter to Da-Fort's family). I decided that the best course of aciton would be to wait for the patrol boat to return and then terminate the gunner, our AR was already setup. so when it returned we all opened fire on the gunner. The gunner was neutralized without firing back, then the driver was also neutralized.

We knew our position had been comprimised, so we all lept into the water and commenced the swimming to the island. Once there we cotacted the sniper team who had already setup an overwatch position. I sent my medic and AR to setup another base of fire with the AR ready should anything go wrong. I relieved Exetick of his satchel charge was it wasn't sure how to use it. I ordered Exetick to have the AT4 on standby should things go wrong and I get seen, Sniper team,Orford and John are all ready to open fire should anything go wrong. This is it, the most tense moment of the entire mission.

I enter the water start swimming to the boat. I swim a bit out to dodge the observers on the boat. I make it to the start of the boat. I plant the explosives, set the timer for 10 minutes and arm them. I report a success to my fireteam and sniper team, and notify of the 10 minute timer. Exe and I swim over to Orford and John. We then flank our sniper team as they cover us and head to their position, we have about 3 minutes left on the timer now. Chris and Kerris fall back to another position to cover our exit. We keep eyes on the objective to confirm that the explosives detonate.

A huge explosion is heard, the explosives have detonated and the primary objective is successful, my squad immediately start falling back. Chris reports contact so we do not head to their position and instead evade. Moments later we hear another explosion charlie team (The new Da-Fort and Lovvi) have destroyed the bonus objective. After evasion and another 2km of walking to the Extraction zone, we get a chopper (Klutz in the blackhawk) back to base. Soon as we touch down and get out the chopper MISSION SUCCESS

Awesome mission, took about 1 hour 20-30 mins?

Thanks to all who took part, may Da-Fort long be remembered.

Now this sound's f*****g brilliant! if only you could play it from the other side

need to get this game, this sounds awesome

*cas destroyed bonus

Yep 1 hour 30 mins, I fired the AR once to kill the boats gunner and driver. Good orders from Snipper and good movment and cover from other players.

In all that time I wasn't board once and the tension doing a SF night mission made the time fly by.

Orford "SL hold tango danger close above you 10mtrs north" Sniper "I have your tango, holding fire, establishing intent" SL " holding, DO NOT ENGAGE" 30 seconds later. Orford "SL your clear, tango is moving away" awesome!

Some seriously bad atmospherics through out the mission.

After my long lasting study to become a doctor I decided to join the army, as the civilian life wasn't something I felt to fit in correctly.

With my dreams and high set goals I eventually made it to the seals, where as well I found my most delicate friends, long term serving veterans, and new coming, though well trained, rookies as me.

My mate from trainings was assigned to the same squad as I am in now, Exetick and I had been good friends during the training, and saved each others ass when going for a drink in town during the cross country training's many times.

Anyhow, we were glad to be put with veterans as Orford who handles the AR as if he was born with it attached to his body. As well as our magnificent leader; Snippers. They sometimes call him the Red dragon, if people ask why that is, the answer of his nearest colleagues will always be something like.. 'Basically because he's like a green dragon, but unlike a green dragon, he not only spits fire, but also shits fire, so beware of the back blast'

To me, he is the definition of leadership, with a voice which, when you listen to it, has all a leader needs to have.
During training he allways knew how to keep us sharp, and we never got tired of it. It makes you feel comfortable about the people who are supposed to care of you, and use you to the best of your abilities.

When we flew into combat zone, it actually felt like routine, we had done everything similar to it so many times. It started to be natural, but this time we knew it was real. At the start we had to find a way to control our adrenaline, somehow our lieutenant talked us, the relatively new guys, to a zone of comfort in the mission.

As soon as we left the LZ we found out what the local terain was like. Not unfriendly, if it wouldn't have been a conflict zone probably a nice placeto live, seen the local climate and friendly looking houses.

When we walked past the first village we knew it wouldn't be the actual soldiers to be the biggest problem, the local civilians are a big thread as they can start a lot commotion when they see you, we had to be ultra silent.

Than there were the first guards, the first actual enemies we had seen.
They looked like us, just a little younger and inexperienced.
They seemed unhappy about the situation they got dragged into.

Actually they were people like us, in other circumstances they could have been friends.
But they were wearing rifles, deadly weapons. Especially in the wrong hands.
Also they know what they were doing, common sense is a gift from God every person has, or actually, it is the first sin, which they have been stuck to.

After observing them for a while with the squad ready to fire them all up within fractions of a second our leader let them survive the night by ordering us to proceed.

Da fort was a recon, always ahead of our squad, to explore the situation over the next hill, past the next tree. A brave man, knowing what he was doing. We never saw him much, but he seemed to be communicating with our squad leader a lot. That's it with those recon guys, a lot on their own, and they seem to like it the most.

As it is my task to care over the health of our men, it deeply shocked me how a situation could turn in a matter of seconds. When Da fort was contacting our squad leader he safely got across to what we refer to as 'Island number two' a boat passed him by, and somehow noticed him, we never really understood as chaos broke loose.

The grenade launcher on the back of the boat fired three shots which had eye blinding and ear deafening explosions so intense to make us think a entire army had zeroed in on us in the midst of that night.

Well trained as we were we regained self control before the three seconds were over. We realized we were the ones to still be alive and the impact only affected island number two.

When the patrol boat altered course our AR orford opened fire on him so we could get ourselves safely across the water. as soon as it was safe I made my way across while being covered by the rest of the squad, to find Da forts body lifeless on that lonely island.

Yet we knew there was no moment to lose, however sorry we were about the loss of his life.

Exetick and snippers went to the actual objective, while Orford and I were to cover them from a overlooking position.
From da fords body I took his radio with me, since than I first heard of the presence of a friendly sniper unit.

On secret missions like this one we are never allowed to know the complete story.
On our bases we saw those sniper guys as arrogant assholes too afraid to get into the actual fight, but on this moment it felt very confident to have those eyes caring over us.

When the explosives were placed, Snippers and exetick rejoined us after a long swim across the bay, we are seals after all.

We searched for the position of our sniper team to watch the charge go off to confirm the succes of our mission while our sniper team started clearing the way to our extraction zone.

Over the radio we heard they stumbled upon a enemy patrol and we thought to have lost them, after a while they were in radio communications with us again while we were waiting safely at the extraction zone. As soon as the snipers arrived, our actualextraction did arrive, which brought us back to base.

We all lived happily ever after.

haha funny to read john

I have to say I started to laugh allot of times

STORY TIME!!!

nice to read, john. *to the reds* i nominate john for the position of the clan chronicler.

Now i have to admit, this game hooked me up in notime! From PR to Arma 2 is allmost the same step of awsomeness like BF2 to PR.

I love you guys nice reading and fun + agree with everyone

Am pissed OFF!

Jay Scott wrote:Am pissed OFF!

Upgrade your PC and get get the game!

As the UH-60 pilot I have to say that round was awesome, although I didn't do much. Next time I hope we play a mission where CAS is needed . The insert and extract were so tense I felt like my piloting actually mattered. There were no respawns (a la BF2: PR) so crashing and trying again wasn't an option. To top all of that off, overhearing the squads on the ground communicate amongst each other while flying over the AO is the most immersive part of the game I've found so far. Burger Actual, out.

Games are installing mate. The reason i am pissed off is i fear PR is a dying bread!

Nah Scotty once PR:ArmA gets public server release, we can run the game how we see fit with our rules. So full emersion is possible.

+1 Klutz, Adding CAS to clear a dug in enemy should be the next mission. The cache and intel gathering missions are fun for this.

Cool beanz!

I feel bad that I had battery problems with my rangefinder (seriously, I do NOT get what's up with that piece of (...) equipment ) or else I could have called CAS in

-edit
Because you can laze with that thing right? (yeah never mind, its a SOFLAM so I know you can)

Just looking through this thread you guys have made me buy Arrowhead.

Gonna have to download it first, which'll take a while on sucky country internet. Then I'll have a look at Snippers' sticky, but probably still ask you guys what to do when I've got it ready.

Hopefully this head cold will disappear by the time it's downloaded (oh and hopefully my headsets back soon )

25gb the 3.8gb for the sixupdater mods to play with UO mods. Not that much of a download aye.

orf, once you here, we need the game footage!

I need the name of that prog to combine and compress the video to upload to youtube.

meGUI, da-fort can help you with that

Handbrake, orford! I got all of SEAL Team 1337 on camera, a whole 91.3gb.. Christ, get story telling whilst I sort this

In case anyone wondered what I've been doing (playing) lately....

KingPaavo wrote:In case anyone wondered what I've been doing (playing) lately....

You should play with us instead of UO

True dat

Uploading the video now, should be ready in an hour or 2. Used my sons youtubeaccount as he can have unlimited movie length




UPLOAD FAILED WILL TRY AGAIN WHEN I GET HOME FROM WORK.

the requested vid is not available... dafaq!

chris it will take 1 hour or 2 like orf said.

vid was removed by user????????

ohh I want to see it

Damn you Orf! Hurry up!! I kid, take it easy.. BUT HURRY!

upload failed, my PC went into standby mode while i was at work, epic and fail.

Just got home reuploading now.

Haha, awesome. Can't wait to see it

nothing special just raw game fotage from start to end.

Yeah, that's what I want

failed again, not gonna happen. Working on getting some more ingame action.