This is my version of the battle we had right before the Superbowl password night. The map was Al Basrah and we had most of the coalition team working together.

This map holds all the cache locations that I can remember.



When the game started out we had me and Johnflenaly (had to leave was replaced by Randy) leading two infantry squads. Then we had Cougar leading a squad with two Warriors. Marine driving the Challenger II and Gunner (was replaced by Cody at some point) leading a scimitar (sorry if I forgot someone).

The Two infantry squads started out by moving out to the western village and moving towards the cache that was in F5k4. When we came to the VCP we were engaged by enemies and we regrouped and brought a truck to the western village and deployed a FOB there. Then we linked up with the armour in the F4 area. We started to push south but were stopped by the enemy so we all loaded up and returned to base to lick our wounds. We then set out again going across the little bridge in E3k5 with our armour column that now contained 2 warriors, 1 scimitar, 1 challenger II, one or two supply truck(s) and 3 Land Rovers we had somewhere between 20 and 25 players working together at this point.
My squad pushed south to the cache in F5k4 where we found and killed it without casualties. But when we were getting ready to move out we came under treatment by an enemy sniper that slowed us down too much so we lost a warrior. This was mostly my fault since I forgot to order smoke to be deployed (didn't think about it).

We were ready to move out again and the warrior had re-spawned our new target was the cache in E7k7. We were going to move on the west side across the land bridges down to the south road and set up in E8 from there the infantry pushed north supported by the armoured vehicles supported squad 2 (john) used their Land Rovers and my squad (6) was given a ride by Cougar. We found and eliminated this cache. When we were about to move back to main a bomb car came around and killed a warrior and some light vehicles.

Next cache was in F5k6. When we had regrouped in the main we moved out to the water and moved across the land bridge in F3. From there we deployed a FOB and the tank moved up onto the G4 bridge to give firesupport as the infantry moved in. when in there we kept encountering small amounts of resistance and kept pushing south where there was a hideout in the north side of the warehouse this was engaged and destroyed and we swept the warehouse for the cache. Squad 2 found this cache in the eastern side of the warehouse. When it was down we picked up our gear and moved back out to the armour that moved us back to the main again to rearm and repair.

The next cache was marked on the island the one marked was in H7k7 but it could have been in the palace. Someone had destroyed the bridge earlier in the game because we didn't know they didn't have a spawn there. We found out that we could not repair the bridge when we were there. While the rest of the convoy was trying to repair the bridge in E8 my squad moved across to check for IEDs and also to check the palace. This was a bad idea since we quickly found out that they had a major presence on the island and we ended up getting wiped out. My squad had only 5 deaths when we went into the palace when we came out we had 20. by now the armour had realised that the bridge was not repairable so we had to find another route onto the island so we moved up in F7k9 where the armour supported my squad as we moved across. By luck I saw some guys spawning in right next to me so we figured they had a cache there this is the marker in G7k8 we eliminated this cache and now squad 6 had moved across the river and were to the north of my squad. My squad moved to the south side of the island and pushed east supported by armor sitting on the bridge in F7 (first Cougar then Marine in the tank). Right between the cachemarkers on the island there was a hideout zaboo killed this and then him and the other medic revived the squadmembers that where dead. We then pushed east because I had an idea that the cache was on the southside because they had an rpg running around down there and also a pkm. We found the caches, destroyed it and moved out. While we were fighting on the island someone (essplode) had found the cache in F6. The cache in B6 had been revealed before we were ready to move out but some of the armoured vehicles had no ammo left and the infantry was also running low. So we moved back to the main instead of engaging the cache.

We moved out to engage the cache in B6 and when we got there there was a hideout in the open and some infantry in B6k5 the armour engaged and destroyed the targets and in the process they also killed a cache. It was not the one revealed so the infantry dismounted and started searching the compounds one by one. And it ended up blowing up form and insurgent proximity IED. Now we where missing one cache and luckily the insurgents decided to kill this themselves so we won the round

At the end of the game the coalition had 38 tickets left and it was a really tough battle and I had a lot of fun. There was some great coordination between the coalition squadeaders. I know that I am only describing the destruction of 9 caches but I think another squad killed that cache or I have just forgotten it.

Lessons Learned
Do not blow the bridges when you are British. It limits your movement and it serves no purpose for your team since the bomb cars spawn by the mosque now.

Need a designated leader. Most of the game Cougar was in charge but still we should have designated someone that was in charge.

Better target designation. When calling in a firemission we needed some better way of designating targets.

Armour should engage with their coaxial MG first to avoid friendly fire. The reason is that I was exposed to 30mm HEAT many times during the round and it got to a point where I ended up yelling at Cougar because his Warriors were killing me/my squad. When you have engaged with your coaxial the infantry can tell you if you can fire.

A commander is not needed. It would have been nice to have him but he would most likely end up relaying targets and not much else. Since its easier to go over TS with our internal coordination.


The insurgent side
There are some things that I think that they could have done better. First of all don't have your RPG guy sitting in one place just waiting. Since he didn't move it narrowed the area we had to search on the island.

Secondly when noticing that the coalition is moving as a big armoured column try figuring out where they are likely to move as a staging area. Prepare these areas with IEDs and also hide an RPG team close (<250 meters). There is usually some undergrowth in the area like rocks and bushes you can hide IEDs in. This would both cause confusion and also have a chance of taking out some coalition vehicles. The RPG team should find a depression or something natural to hide behind. Do not hide in buildings they will most likely be leveled by coalition armour before you get a chance to shoot.

Blow the southern bridges and leave the G6 bridge up. the coalition is not a big fan of moving up to that bridge and also it is easy to put a couple of IEDs on it.


That is all for now thanks for a great game all. Really had a lot of fun. I would also like to hear about this from the insurgents point of view.