kevinkin Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 https://smallwarsjournal.com/index.php/jrnl/art/scout-leaders-primer-earnest-preparation 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 Interesting read, for people like me, I hate trying to read on the computer monitor. So I took the liberty to copy the article and make it into a PDF file. A Scout Leader 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarendJanNL Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 Great article indeed! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 Informative and entertaining. Eg: Lesson 10: Consider any type of signature that you produce as a reconnaissance unit. Perhaps leaving the vehicles in hide sites versus actually deploying them as gathering assets is the appropriate course of action in the same scenarios. We have the option of HIDE for our vehicles but how many of us ever use that? Do we even know what effect HIDE has - will it prevent enemy from detecting us. Is it only really useful in the modern titles what with drones and EW issues? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOS:96B2P Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 On 10/21/2019 at 10:03 AM, Erwin said: Informative and entertaining. Eg: Lesson 10: Consider any type of signature that you produce as a reconnaissance unit. Perhaps leaving the vehicles in hide sites versus actually deploying them as gathering assets is the appropriate course of action in the same scenarios. We have the option of HIDE for our vehicles but how many of us ever use that? Do we even know what effect HIDE has - will it prevent enemy from detecting us. Is it only really useful in the modern titles what with drones and EW issues? The manual says the Hiding vehicle will "keep a low noise profile". It has also been posted on the forums that giving a vehicle a Hide command cuts the range at which the vehicle can be heard by half. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Doe Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 I would assume Hide in the article would be smart placement, engine off, and some improvised camouflage. I think the last bit is a little put of the scope of combat mission. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 (edited) In CMBS I've seen a vehicle tag a prone infantryman hiding back in the treeline among bushes. Welcome to the world of IR optics. The guy probably would have survived in a WWII title. In modern titles the plan 'Maybe he won't spot me here' has a pretty low success rate. Half the gameplay involves utilizing terrain features. As for hiding, your ability to hide in the game is dependent on experience level. Green troops lack proper discipline, fidget about and make noise. Elite troops, by contrast, will hide like the Predator alien. Edited October 23, 2019 by MikeyD 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 10 hours ago, MOS:96B2P said: It has also been posted on the forums that giving a vehicle a Hide command cuts the range at which the vehicle can be heard by half. I remember that, however, when an inf hides he degrades his spotting ability. One would hope that a recon vehicle on HIDE would reduce its signature without degrading its spotting ability - which is its primary function. The question is does HIDE work differently with vehicles? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domfluff Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Subjective observation here. Hide appears to degrade spotting ability by virtue of keeping them down and low to the ground - they seem to have similar cycles of spotting, with the squad leader/binoculars carrier standing up occasionally to take a peek with the same period as an idle squad. If that's true, it's not the Hide command that's degrading spotting directly, so much as Hide meaning "get down and stay down", combined with it being harder to see things when crawling. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Precisely. A vehicle cannot "get down and stay down". So does that mean that HIDE does NOT degrade a vehicle's spotting ability. Simply makes it harder to spot?? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domfluff Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 I believe that's correct, yes. Again, based only on subjective observation, and not even intensive testing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 Ok, makes sense (esp for recon vehicles) to ALWAYS use HIDE when stationery. Another tactical wrinkle newly learned. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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