I came in for some pubbing on the TG PR v0.506 server and had some very frustrating experiences.

The main problem I see is that squads have to stick together, they have to fight whenever enemy are near them, they stop moving and battle it out whatever the cost.

Before we had a commander I made a squad called "saboteur and got a full squad of people who had the wrong kits, took 5mins of persuading to get a rifleman to supply me as an engineer, an SF guy, LAT and three medics wasn't suitable for the squad title.

I was unable to blow the enemies targets effectively till about 10 mins in so we didn't get much done, then the party started.

We skirted the enemy, I told my squad not to fire the instant they saw enemy, but one decided to stand over me firing opportunitist style as i was crawling around out of sight and this fire which attracted noobtubes taking me out every time.

So, on our second attempt crossing the map successfully (there were about half a dozen failed attempts due to the gonks on my squad in general) we got to where we needed to be but had to get our heads down due to an enemy squad passing us by.

Then i started to get complaints directed through the commander from the rest of the team that we were lamers and not helping. I explained what I was doing and was told from the commander (who wasn't there when we made our squad and started doing what we were doing,) that he hadn't authorised me to lead a squad doing what i was doing.

I told him sorry, but the facts above.

He complained some more so i popped up and led my squad off skirting the enemy to go to the flag he wanted my saboteur squad to assault (???) and i saw a tank. i dropped my mines on the bridge i was passing and jumped off a high wall shouting for my squad to follow, only one of them made it, rest the tank cut down, we knew the tank was there but my commander was being rather insistent I move that instant.

We headed round the enemy and i got more complaints, apparently I wasn't moving fast enough (and every knows from playing with me that that is patently untrue,my squad struggle to catch up, here i was constantly waiting for my guys to catch up, so i looked like i was stationary far too often) I was told to take a direct line to a refence point, so i said "okay commander, i will go straight along that line" and did, my squad following me.

that's when that pesky tank behind us sprayed its 50 cal and got all my squad! I told the commander that due to following his orders my entire squad got gunned down by the tank we were trying to avoid," thankyou very much!

the server went all funny then and i got dropped, i came back in wondering if i'd been kicked but the drop message wasn't that, then the server folded in on itself and crashed.

I was highly frustrated, I had asked the commander 5 times for arty when i was playing, judging enemy movement to be in the strike zone when the arty finally came. each time it was denied as there were no enemies under where i had requested. After denying me arty, on 4 of the occassions my squad was entirely wiped out. highly frustrating!


TG server seems to have this policy where the grunts must obey SL's, the SL's must obey Commanders, but what can you do when those commanding you seem to be lacking any comprehension of what is really going on and spacial awareness to realise that sometimes, the SL might just be right!

I can't even remember the commanders name right now, it was instantly forgettable. I think the reason I had a full squad is because people knew my name and joined thinking they'd get something special on, we only really needed 3 or 4 in the squad admittedly. Although i had trigger happy people I kept telling NOT to opportunist fire to get tasks done, we did manage to get some destruction going although not effective enough due to grunt classes not quite compatible with the squads purpose. The fact that the vast majority didn't know who i was, or the commander is a shame. Guess I should have been wearing my iGi tags or even my [R-PUB] ones, but then that shouldn't really matter.

This whole situation just seems to show how little map tactics are used by the vast majority of the players. Why so many people think they must fire upon seeing the enemy, even when they are stood over their SL who is crawling around the enemy trying to avoid being seen (and saying so much over voip) is a complete mystery to me. These guys obviously wanted points and prizes, but they don't understand true gameplay which includes delaying enemy armour or knocking it out, silently entering the enemy base and blowing arty, ammo dumps and sabotaging vehicles.

We all know what can happen if an enemy goes to the wrong spot or hasn't the vehicles to get them somewhere, they lose!

3 minute culture is terrible, some people have to be retrained obviously because they don't need to be firing their weapons all the time. It is frequently the way you die instantly and it's how you lose most times.

I prefer to come away from match with a smile on my face, remembering specifc things that went down, rather than an electric buzzing in my ears that comes from vaniilla gameplay. I'm sure there are interesting gaming moments, but people have to drop the vanilla mentality and take up chess as an extr hobby and think about the whole idea of moves and blocking.