OPFOR CO on
The Back Foot here,
The initial plan was to move the whole force southeast along the border of the AO. Set up observational posts, and from those posts I was hoping to spot a few anxious and impatient enemies lurking around, and if that wouldn't work out, I thought we could do some recon by fire (haven't seen it done here before, or maybe I was on the receiving end).
It was pointed out that my map skills are terribad and Bravo OP is actually lower then the objective, so all that time spent wandering around in single player didn't improve my map reading by a bit. So I split up the team, because there were suitable hills on the other side also.
From there I pretty much controlled Alpha and let Homer do his thing with Bravo (Kudos to you Homer, your valiant actions have been included in the report), all I wanted him to do is to get on that hill and get eyes on the enemy HQ.
Then we got contact reports from Bravo, it sounded pretty rough out there, so Alpha moved out with haste and some defilade to cover our initial approach, but we were still running across an open field, with a few stone walls here and there. We got into contact, but we were just too many for them and we took the compound.
While inside, something heavy on the opposite team got angry and bullets were flying through the walls and hitting us, the fire was coming in somewhere from the Western side, so I ran out and told everyone else to do it, and hide behind the house on the other side, my reasoning was that 2 walls are better than 1 at stopping bullets.
When we ran out the trigger deactivated
and that meant we had to stay in the house for 5 f-ing minutes and be doomed basically. I had no choice, but to get back in the house, so I thought I would take out that angry machine gunner (who is, by the way, still pinning us down quite good). So I went to the corner, switched to my binocs and got shot.... well executed really, there was an enemy tag in the spectator script about 20-30m away in the bush)
At the mission end there were 4 OPFOR dudes left and 1 BLUFOR guy, and the casualty cap kicked in at 80%... Homer didn't shoot that last guy in time and we lost, the only recommendation you are getting now is for the coal mines on the northern frontier.
Conclusion?
If I would CO that mission again I would not focus on the enemy HQ, despite what the objective is.
With some bigger calibers in the play and the penetration system, staying in that house is a nightmare, and if one has to do it for 5 minutes with that strict trigger, that deactivates the second you leave the house, it's basically a death sentence.
I would consolidate our force and root out bad guys one by one, sector by sector, because that's how you realistically can beat that mission at the current stage.
On an unrelated note:
I fixed the issue I had with CC (apologies to all, because the issue was with me the whole session), basically what happened is that my hotkey for toggling on/off CC is interfering with other hotkeys