Mishga Posted August 25, 2007 Share Posted August 25, 2007 Having read back the posts from about two weeks ago it seems this is modelled? I have yet to see it myself but would be nice if it is. Anyone experienced these events recently? If so how did you achieve it? Obv it involves two squads sharing the same space on the map but is that all there is to it? BFC comment if you guys are willing? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holman Posted August 25, 2007 Share Posted August 25, 2007 Do squads share ammo with each other, or is it just that members of an individual squad share ammo? I haven't seen (or heard of) looting weapons from dead friendlies or enemies. It would be interesting if, when the SAW gunner dies, another squad member picked up the SAW. I doubt that soldiers would ever trade their own weapons for the enemies', however. You generally want to shoot with what you're trained on, and you have no idea how well the enemy has maintained his piece. It might jam, and if it jams, how do you clean it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmar Bijlsma Posted August 25, 2007 Share Posted August 25, 2007 Besides that, all your buddies are trained to shoot at AK sounds, so you wouldn't want to fire one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mishga Posted August 25, 2007 Author Share Posted August 25, 2007 I am not sure about seperate squads sharing ammo....I am only going on posts I dug up from about two weeks ago. I think if anything it would be your own forces weapons from the same squad and maybe two seperate squads sharing ammo but I have never seen it happen. Just some folks have posted saying they did....would be cool if it was able to be done. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OG_Gleep Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 I had my MG gunner go down and the 4th soldier picked up his weapon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl Steiner Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 Slightly related to the above - I saw an MG team's ammo drop by 250 after one of its casualties was successfully buddy-aided by another squad. It was as if the casualty and any ammo he carried was still considered to be part of the MG team even though the two were physically separated by a large distance but that once he was removed due to buddy aid the ammo was no longer available. Makes me wonder what would have happened if I'd not buddy aided him. Would my MG team have actually benefited by not losing his ammo? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mishga Posted August 26, 2007 Author Share Posted August 26, 2007 It must be modelled in then.... Just wish I could see it happen for myself. True, I doubt Coalition forces would use AK's except under extreme circumstances. Maybe pick up a M110 from a fallen buddy tho.... Are non-sniper MOS guys able to use a sniper rifle? Guess they could? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bradley Dick Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 I don't see why they couldn't. If has a trigger, and an end that the bullets come out of, anyone can use it. Using it effectively would be a good question. Hell not everyone in the military can shoot worth a damn. But I just don't think many soldiers would trade off personal weapons. If all your LBE is packed full of M16 magazines, the process of grabbing a different weapon system would suck. Plus, Smith might night clean his rifle much, whereas Jones does. The only time we picked up AK's were: at the beginning of OIF I, when vehicle crews still had M9's. When we confiscated them. Or when we wanted to take pictures of them for home. Crew served weapons definitely shouldn't be out of action because of one loss at the gunner position. Losing effectiveness is a very realistic possibility though. Imagine throwing an E-1 driver into the gunner's hatch, under fire, and expecting him to be a top-notch gunner. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holman Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 Not to mention having to clean somebody's entrails out of the breech. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mishga Posted August 27, 2007 Author Share Posted August 27, 2007 I played a whole evening of scenarios I made and still to see a single loot pick up off a fallen comrade. But I did see an RPG 18 launched several times....first time for that...three strykers less for the capitalist pig-dogs...muwahaha 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meach Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 Any BFC guys willing to put there 2cents in on as to what is able to be looted from whom? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 Originally posted by Bradley Dick: Crew served weapons definitely shouldn't be out of action because of one loss at the gunner position.In general I agree, but the corrollary isn't true: that crew served weapons should always be able to be remanned by other members of the squad. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bradley Dick Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 No, I agree. I don't think that it should be a 100% of the time event. Somewhere in the middle would be awesome. Any Close Combat veterans out here ? Remember when a unit would go "Heroic" ? The lone .50 gunner in a church tower, laying waste to Germans with his little blue "Heroic" status. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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