The Airborne Invasion of North Sahrani

[dslyecxi 23]

It's been a long time coming, but I finally wrote a new after-action review of an ArmA experience for my site. This one deals with a night paradrop into North Sahrani by a group of ~50 ShackTac members, sans NVGs and radios, against an overwhelming force of SLA. Many interesting gameplay mechanics were in play - the most interesting to me was the use of only "Direct Speaking" VON and signal flares for coordination. No "radio" communication methods - ie Teamspeak - were used.

I think the end result was brilliant, and the story of what happened should be an interesting read for many.

You can find the article, complete with screens and video, here:

http://dslyecxi.com/articles/arma_airborne.html

[icebreakr 3156]

Great stuff, I'll read your AAR in the afternoon.

We have a lot of debriefings from our MP squadnights but unluckly most of them are in our native language (Slovenian).

[-Snafu- 78]

Very nice Dslyecxi, an enjoyable read. Would love to try out something like that; it looked like a cracker of a mission.

[mattxr 9]

Very Very Nice indeed. I like the realism. It would be like sending a jeep up the road to send a message from 1st platoon to second platoon.

That Map Option looks awesome that when he starts to run you loose it.

I just hope with the new patch that the bug for some people that VON crashes there game with the direct sound things is fixed as that looks awesome.

[Mindwalker 0]

This is by far some of the best fun I've had in ArmA.

[Heatseeker 0]

Sounds good, the map feature is particulary interesting, is it available out there? .

[dslyecxi 23]

Sounds good, the map feature is particulary interesting, is it available out there? .

It was intended as a proof-of-concept for the ACE mod. We're still deciding how exactly to best implement similar functionality in ACE.

[Dodgy Bob 0]

Are you going to run this again? Your write up is great and I'd really like to be involved with something like that (if you wouldn't mind).

[Squint 0]

Remember, folks, there were about fifty players taking part in this mission, so even the people mentioned by name account for only a small fraction of everything that was going on at once across North Sahrani.

For instance, I never saw Dslyecxi nor was I a part of anything mentioned in the account, but I was there, along with many many others. If you took the personal accounts of everyone who participated and sewed them together into one narrative, you'd have quite a hefty read on your hands.

[Literacy 0]

The coolest thing is seeing how all the stories intersect.

Around the time of the "Contact Front" section, a 3-man group of us were were engaging mixed infantry and light vehicles from a house.

Another members AAR mentions hearing an explosion from the fuel dump objective. That was the same 3-man group.

[Bracken 0]

Very well written, had me on my seat.  I wonder how the other squads fared in the end.

I look forward to reading more in the future, should you get the time to write them up.

[maddogx 13]

Wow. Brilliant story. As Bracken said, you had me on the edge of my seat.

The mission idea is great too.

[andersson 285]

Great mission idea and AAR!! Would be great to join in! To bad that you uses crosshair, is it ok to use a mod that disables it for me?

[dslyecxi 23]

Great mission idea and AAR!! Would be great to join in! To bad that you uses crosshair, is it ok to use a mod that disables it for me?

It's not a public server, you don't have to worry about it.

[sparks50 0]

Shack tac AAR is always a interesting read.

Can i ask why you cover up the chat window in your videos?

[dslyecxi 23]

Can i ask why you cover up the chat window in your videos?

There was an administrative discussion happening in the start of one of the videos, so I blacked it out to prevent distraction.