@Delta*RandyShugart*

Actually no I dont think Im very good at ArmA, I think Im actually a prety poor ArmA player, but I think the game is great! However I was not saying ArmA was a bad game or PR is better, I was simply mentioning the lack of leadership.. I would have to play more often tohave a better opinion, but that was definitely my observation from 4 months ago when I was playing frequently, that TG needs more leader types and when I played last weekend, I noticed the exact same thing.

But I actually had a good ArmA experience last weekend, the day after that domination mission. We actually had a nice game on the non-domination server, we played Urban Engagements map. The server was completely empty, so my lan group decided to seed the server (3 of us, beta, trufret, myself). We slowly had people coming in, and each guy that joined we would organise into squads using local voip.

We would make sure each of them could hear us on VOIP and manually told them what squad they were in (cause urban engagements does not have built-in squad setup). Anyone who was not listening or had their VOIP disabled got kicked. There was a TK incident but taht quickly got sorted. A key point I'd like to mention is we told everyone to STAY OFF SIDE VOIP! We strickly enforced only squad leaders and commanding element to talk on side chat, it cut down the enormous amount of needless comms and made the mission far more immersive as most were using direct comms.

Once we had about 16 people joined up and sorted into squads, we disembarked and started doing some squad manuevers, using helicopters to air lift us into positions. We had some shack tac guys come on to help organize things so it went prety smoothly.

At one point I was leading a 12 man squad, I was very impressed with the level of discipline and good teamwork that the squad was showing. Our CO was beta, and we were alpha2, alpha1 was being lead by kurt from shacktac iirc. Was nice to see 2 large squads moving in formation without too much troubles.

We spotted groups of infantry and AA vehicles from very far range, so we manuevered into firing positions and engaged them from very far out, while alpha1 moved up to clear out the position. We killed all of those guys, then the enemy counter-attacked with APCs infantry and tanks, and our squad tried to fend off the attackers while alpha1 was pinned down. Was very cool to watch

Any new players that joined the server were directed to the helicopter and set down at the LZ, which they were told via VOIP where to go after that. Was a nice system we had setup, it didnt take too long and we had everyone cooperating in this manner.

The server filled to about 40 players, at which point we switched to TvT mission as that was our original goal Of course tons of people bitched but we played them anyways and it was loads of fun...

Point being, this was not that hard to setup, I hope more leadership types do these sorts of things to keep ArmA interesting, instead of doing the tired old routine of grabbing the sniper, the javelin, then heading out and bashing a few comps in, which I think is completely destroying how great ArmA can be when played with teamwork in mind.

Anyways I've been too busy with RL stuff and PR to focus on ArmA, hopefully once next PR version is released I can have some more time to check out TG ArmA more frequently, just hoping by then the player base has evolved a bit more and there is more organised gameplay than what I saw last weekend from the TG regulars.