The greatest ARMA 2 experience I have ever had.

[nettrucker 142]

Hi July26th

Welcome to the forum.

please search first before opening a new thread because there's already a thread dedicated to the best ArmA experience. JFYI.

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=75487

It helps to keep the forum more clean and viewable. There are hundreds of double threads around which could have fit in one single thread.

thanks for your understanding, no offence.:D

kind regards

[Guest July26th]

Sorry, but that thread is filled with a bunch of morons saying "America, Fuck Yeah! Blah blah blah" and people talking about one single mission(Trial by Fire) not other missions, just that one in general.

I did in fact check, and did not find anything close to my topic.

[Guest]

Contrary to what you think, that thread is full of peoples best moments, and not just from one mission.

Try reading every page and you will see.

Richie.

[Sky999 10]

Wow I didn't realise that when I posted this thread all that time ago, it would last this long. :eek:

Glad it's caused some discussion. :)

[Arma-2-Guru 55]

Trial by fire is the best single mission in my opinion, the only thing which subtracts from the immersion is the annoying voices, still most probably my favorite game.

[maturin 12]

Trial by fire is the best single mission in my opinion, the only thing which subtracts from the immersion is the annoying voices, still most probably my favorite game.

Nah... Eye for an Eye all the way. And the annoying voices are Czech so you can't tell if they're terrible or not.

Anyways, to repost something old:

Had the most fun in months with a self-made mission. You play as a civilian chopper pilot who has to evacuate a few dozen civilians from a warzone, screaming along at treetop level through an enemy-held valley to avoid their anti-air and helicopter patrols.

On one try I was flaring the chopper to bleed off speed and land and pick up the evacuees, when a cannon shell smacked me right in the nose, with a huge puff of smoke. I panicked and started yanking the throttle to get down as fast as I could. Too fast, in fact, because the engine quit when I slammed into the ground. So I had a dozen refugees and a dead stick chopper ten kilometers into hell. Screwed.

I decided to load everybody into a forty-year old truck and try to get to the UN checkpoint that way. There were APC patrols everywhere, but perhaps we'd get lucky. We were passing through Kababino when a farmer in rubber boots and a beret emerged from a sideroad, carrying a hunting rifle nonchalantly at his waist. I stared at him in panic as we approached, then swerved to try and hit him. I heard a grunt, but a few seconds later the entire village came alive and opened up on us. The girl in the back and and the factory worker sitting behind the cab slumped in their seats. I was dashing away chanting "Shit! Shit! SHIT!" when one of their BMPs appeared out of nowhere and started spitting 30mm cannon rounds. Everyone on the left-side bench sprayed blood and collapsed. Then there were only four passengers left. I drove full tilt through a hedgerow and some trees, taking cover behind an incline. Cutting across a field I passed a rocky knoll, and too late I realized that I had placed an Anti-Air squad here. I held my breath as we passed, and the hill began to recede into the distance. Then I heard it- the awful brass-wire-vibrating sound of an incoming rocket. The screen filled with smoke as the Igla warhead exploded just behind us, and the truck's engines quit. Quicker than me, the surviving passengers leapt from their seats. As I turned the key in the ignition the truck burst into flames, and the last thing I heard was one of the women screaming in pain.

Edited April 4, 2010 by maturin

[THEBLITZ6794 10]

i was dug in with a platoon of chedaki right outside cherno and a platoon of marines come charing at us and they get pinned down and men fall off buildings and the reserve squad comes up but it not enough and i see marines and chedaki going down left and right and then i run like hell when i realize im all alone and theres still 10 marines out there. and i die

[Cain_ 10]

This is a short story about the famous chopper HellRide that was used in Charlie Foxtrot tournament. http://cfarma2.com

Chapter one

As a new campaign started, Infamous tried to assembly the best of the best. He scouted the public servers, worked the streets at night until he found them all. Now together, a couple of soldiers. All from different ends of the world. Their joint experience could only be matched by veterans from the two great wars. The mighty General "Point" told Infamous it was his turn to select weapons for his unit. Inf replied to his General and told him that guns were not needed. His men fight with their heart and their heart only. All he needed was something on four wheels to move his boys from point A to point B. Unfortunately his request was not granted. Points tells Infamous about an old army legend. An old helicopter known as the "HellRide"....

Chapter Two

The HellRide flew over 1673 missions in Korea and another 2784 missions during its time in Vietnam The helicopter was build using scrap metal salvage from USS Arizona which sank during the attack on pearl harbor. It was a state of the art aircraft and never ever failed. It helped the US through many tough battles. However the helicopter was involved in a row of serious accidents. It´s pilots was either hit by enemy fire or suffered heart attacks when flying. It blades started spinning during service injuring several mechanics. A decision to put the helicopter to rest was taken. It was placed at a depth of 2538m by USS Saharni. Same night USS Saharni was lost in a storm and the location of HellRide with it. All they know is that its located between Pearl harbour and Midway. This is all Infamous needed to know. Hes determined to find it.....

Chapter Three

After weeks of searching Infamous finally found it. At the bottom of the sea, stood a 50 year old helicopter and it looked as good as new. 12 times they tried to bring her up, each one failed. Either a cable broke or bad weather appeared on the horizon. There were investors who had spend a total of 25 million dollars to make Hell Ride their own so Infamous was under pressure. He was given one final attempt. The started lifting her up, like so many times before, after 1000m bad weather started to appear. The boat captain Mojo wanted to abort the mission and head to calmer waters but the men with the wallets wanted to go on. At 325m the engine oft the big lift seemed to be overheated. A engineer named Cornish at the controller told infamous he never seen anything like it. It´s designed to generate enough force to lift a nuclear submarine at 125 ton. Yet it cant lift a 5 ton helicopter. The Hellride was now closing in. They had never come this far. An old veteran named MickD was standing near the edge. He used to be a pilot who received special training on the HellRide. It was him and 12 others. It was when the 12th guy got killed the finally decided to put it where it is. They didn't want to stick around and see what would happen at death count 13. MickD looked down towards the ocean as the helicopter starting to appear. Inf who now stood next to him, heard him say. "I can feel it, can you feel it?". Second later a wire breaks loose getting a grip around MickDs foot. Cornish yells "Were gonna lose it". Infamous tries to help MickD untie himself. Another wire starts to break. Infamous looks into MickDs eyes, he sees fear. They both know what will happen. MickDs replies. "She finally gott me" and with a snap MickD is dragged down into the water along with the HellRide for the 13th time.

Chapter Four

The project its a total failure and Infamous returns to his army. The campaign starts in the island of Saharni. His new unit of Celery,Zipper,Gamer,Cain,Goatus and Infamous boards a C-130 at Pearl harbour. They dont know eachother, they dont like eachother. But they put their faith on Infamous. They were schedule to meet up with the rest of their army in Midway and then head south to Saharni. However somewhere over the pacific ocean disaster strikes. A lighting causes their plane to catch on fire and they are force to bail out. They spend almost two weeks drifting around in the pacific ocean. Fighting of sharks and surviving the blaze of the sun. For 2 weeks they endure more psychological stress than previous trainings combined. They form a bound so strong they know each other inside and out. (he he). On the 13th day they all decided to let each other go. One by one they will fall down to the depths of the Pacific ocean. Goatus starts sinking. Even if they swore to let each other go when the time came. Infamous decides to try and grab Goatus. He starts to sink with him to so Gamer decides grab Infamous. At this point they all are holding on to each other but they are too tired. They slowly start to sink. With only the tip of their head above sea level, Infamous says his last words. "See you on the other Side boys". And then they all went down together towards bottom of the sea...

Chapter Five

What happen next hasn't been revealed. Some say they died there. Others say its fake story they made up after a night out in Midway. What we all do know is that on the 13th Day of fighting. General Point and his army was pushed back to the very end of Saharni. He had no moral, no ammunition and no food left. The gun fire had just seized. General Point was standing in the middle on a great plain between two armies. In his right hand he has a white flag and in his left a gun, loaded with one single bullet. He decided he cant turn around and face his men once its done. As he just raised his right hand, the enemy army starts cheering. Screaming, shouting, shooting and dancing. Point looks towards the enemy front line and with tears in his eyes he raises his left hand. The enemy army turns dead silent. Point can hear how someone is shouting out commands. He sees enemy movement. Will they shoot him? He watch how 90 enemy soldiers in front of him are manning their MG next and raising their rifles. All pointing at him. He sees the flashes as if they were starts. He closes his eyes, hes afraid. He starts to hear the sound of bullets coming at him, but his not dead? He opens his eyes. They are still there, still firing. Its like the war never ended. But who are they shooting at?...

(Press play and keep reading, it will take couple seconds before you hear the sound :) Apocalypse Now Intro (The Doors - The End)

Chapter Six

General Point turns around. Hes glares towards the sun. He spots a black dot on the horizon. Why are they shooting at a bird he thought. The black dot gets bigger. It also makes a sound. He cant make out what it is just yet. A couple of AA rockets pass just above his head. Its a bloody helicopter!!! he tell himself And they are bloody idiots too he thinks as he sees the helicopter heading towards the missiles. But just as the missiles got close they all suddenly started to loose their altitude. They dropped down on the ground and the unknown helicopter kept on going. Once it got above General Points head it started to decent. While being under heavy fire. It lands between Point and the enemy army giving him a brief cover. The door opens. Infamous walks jumps out and walks to Point and says. "Sorry were late sir, we had to pick something up." . " You did?" Point replies. " Yep, the HellRide is ours, so i guess you wont be needing that anymore" infamous says and points at the white flag...

Chapter Seven

As we all know General Point won the campaign and its army won many more victories. The reputation of the HellRide was known, once people saw it they started running. They knew trouble was coming. Only Celery and Infamous flew HellRide and it protected its own. The HellRide have never been shoot down, though it been damage, it always kept flying. Some believe it was waiting on it rightful owners because no accidents have ever happened since Infamous put it to use. Sadly greedy persons wanted to seize control of The HellRide and put it to their own use. These persons was called the UN. Celery and Gamer decided to disappear rather then putting it in the wrong hands. With the group not together the HellRide wont start. It sits in an empty hangar somewhere on the island of Chernarus. Only two of the group remaning members are still active looking after it. Maybe one day when the UN is no more our fellow soldiers can return and the HellRide can once again fly...

T H E E N D

....

Of course everything above is not true, but to be honest. We did call the Little Bird in our unit for HellRide because we would fly in very low under heavy fire, and everyone of us would get out unharmed. Next the little bird flew in and had people from other units in it. There would be no one to get out once Celery/infamous landed. We also pushed back the enemy to their base. And we did great comebacks with the help of some key players. You can also ask jud about the time we took fire from the ground and from another LB AND from one of their UH60s and being chased. The HellRide got damaged and engine stop working at 200 alt. We were in a deep dive so there was no time to jump. Celery tried to pull up to avoid some trees, we hit the tree tops and slowed down. Next thing I know were on the ground safe. Those who survived the bullets got out. (I survived since i was orginal member). I got out on the left side of HellRide along with Celerey. Jud and some other guys got out on the right. Guess what. An RPG/mortar/ handgrenade strikes the right side of the HellRide killing them all, meanwhile me and Celery were safe. Other strange stuff have happened as well. I can tell you its a strange feeling sitting in a chopper with 5 other guys, you get under heavy fire and once you jump out your all alone. Once this happend a couple of times you kinda start to think there is something with that chopper and you :)

Its named the HellRide because one Ride with it is like going to flying through hell.

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More stories from IC-ArmA / Charlie Foxtrot

The Tale Of John the Gunner[/size]

John is an old IC-ArmA member, a rebel but what he lacked in manner he made up in skill. Here’s his story

The first thing you will learn in ArmA is the importance of teamwork. It was Sunday evening and me and John were on the IC-ArmA server playing with the real life soldiers. We were both members of a special unit with reputation that would make the entire Rambo series look like something produced in Finland. Anyway, John and I decided to take a car and flank around the enemy line. This meant one of us had a 15-20 minute drive to make. I asked John if he was sure we should do this. He replied with a short laugh and then with a serious "YES", followed by the famous (Johns most spoken words to Cain) "Come on b.i.t.c.h". I turned around and saw John already sitting in the MG jeep aiming up and down with the gun like a 12 year old. Great I am driving.

When it comes to DK player it´s important to know we are people with only two buttons. The first button turns on the killing machine we all are as well as the joke generator. The 2nd button is the backup button to the first one. This comes in handy playing clan wars against Russians or having new recruits as Icy but when on a server with 90 so called "serious players" it´s a disaster. To put this into content. Before me and John even made it out from the base, nearly half of our army got ran over. There were chicken races with 50 ton tanks, numerous car changes due to crashes (never my fault) and each time we swapped vehicle John decided it was a good time to do target practice on the Officers tent. Luckily no one could ever prove it was us. When they asked about our position we just went, "uhhh, were in town near the water trying to regroup" This worked because 99% of the battle time, everyone tried to find their squad and regroup.

Anyway, me and John finally made it out from Camp , leaving the rising pile of black smoke and chaos. I had a long drive a head of me with little to do. John on the other hand… By the time we were closing in on enemy positions John would usually have wasted around half the ammo on birds, dogs, rabbits and when he got one he always said. "I got one", trust me, when it comes to hitting buses, road signs, birds, trees, rocks there is no better gunner than John. He could hit things that I couldn’t even see. I felt protected having a gunner of that magnitude next to me. We were now almost near a location where there been recent enemy activity.

Imagine this, you’re on the north part (of south sahrani). You and your fire team is laying in the bush and watching an enemy squad approaching. It’s quite, you can hear the noise of fliess. You whisper the command to only fire after you. The silence breaks with a sudden sound of machine gun fire. You look to your right and see a friendly Jeep with one driver and one gunner. The driver is speeding down the dirt road, the gunner has his gun pointing up the air and you can see how birds are dropping down from the sky. You turn your head back at the enemy squad but it is too late, they spotted you and a firefight breaks out killing everyone.

As a good soldier that I am I always drive straight to the enemy marker. Since I am driving I am keeping an eye on the road, this means I often spot enemies. If I spot an enemy I drive straight at him to make it easier for John. I did however get worried when I was driving straight at an enemy for more than ten seconds. The enemy who still was alive engaged and started lighting John up (I was never hit before John, true story) so I made a quick right turn. John then yells on TeamSpeak. “Cain, There´s an enemy to my Right, your leftâ€, Me not being aware of John not being aware put us both in a situation where we didn’t know what the other guy was doing. I yelled back “Shoot him†which also ment John got his button pressed. When John starts shooting with a gun, he won’t stop until he’s out of bullet or filled with bullets. Of course John missed the guy because I was turning right to look for the enemy on my right side while John was trying to shoot the guy on his left. I yelled to John “Where is he†and John replied “Thereâ€. I asked again and now feeling a bit stupid “Where?â€. John replied “Hes right thereâ€. I then had to start guessing, “Is he on my right?â€, “is he on my left?â€, “Did u see him after or before stopped for icecream?â€. After getting no response I then again asked. “Where is he John?â€. The machine gun turns silent. Johns teamspeak button turns green as he says “Whos where?â€.

After our big success we spot some dead friendlies and decide to steal their gear. We report in to command that we have cleared out the enemy forces and the area is safe. Command replies good job and tells us to hold the area. 2 Seconds later John goes “Hey, Cain lets go and check out that markerâ€. We set off for another ride with the car to a new enemy marker. The enemy marker said “Numerous Enemies, stay awayâ€. This I didn’t not know of, I just followed John instructions where to turn. If I would have known I would not gone there. Anyway half way there I spot a large enemy squad, as usual I turn the nose of the car right at them. As I am approaching the enemy dead on I yell out to John “Enemies, Enemies, Shoot them†John replies “Where?†to where I yell back “In front of us, in front usâ€. John responds “I am looking, I am lookingâ€. “I am looking = ok in a secâ€. I made it so far that I managed to run over the first couple of guys. With the screams of soldiers dying John joins in “OK Cain I see themâ€. By now we were in the middle of a full squad of enemies, all placed around us in a perfect circle. A massive firefight breaks out. All John can think of is shooting as many enemies as possible, all I can think of is getting the hell away. Due to my good driving skills I manage to get us to safety. I stop the car behind a ridge to take a quick break and gather my thoughts of what just happened. John interrupts my little private time by going “What are you doing Cain, I almost had themâ€, “Go back, you have to go backâ€. It was Johns turn to press my button. With the pedal floored we were now making a counterattack. The enemy squad was not expecting a second head on assault by us. This time John were actually hitting them and as we were tumbling down the hill I got all excited and starts going like “Shoot em John, Come on Shoot emâ€. What I didn’t know at the time was that John was killed in a very early stage of our assault. While John was back at base I was sitting in a jeep heading straight towards 8 enemies with no gunner. Of course I got killed but I did drive a impressive long distance while having maybe 300+ bullets fired at me.

I join up with John back at base, we take a quick look at the Army vehicle park to see what new stuff they got spawn. John says “let’s take this oneâ€, I turn to find him sitting in a jeep, but this one has a grenade launcher. One second later the gun goes off and people at base runs for cover as they think enemy artillery is hitting the base. Game goes “This will do†and then says, “Cain you’re drivingâ€, “come on *female canine*â€.

This story is pretty much accurate, If I told you all the crazy things happened in these battles you wouldn’t believe it. There would be battles where M1A1s have our whole army including T-80s pinned. Yet you could always find a jeep speeding down the highway with bullets flying around it. That’s just the way we role and its incredible the stuff we managed to survive. What funniest is that each time we got wacked, John always was the one first to get hit.

[celery 8]

Cain, you crazy.

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Well while I'm here, a pretty epic thing happened just last Sunday in the final AToW test battle before the start of the campaign.

Just like in IC-ArmA before AToW, I'm a member of the special forces team of the Ukrainian army, led by Cain's clanmate Hitman. We are an autonomous small unit that racks up most of the kills on our side, meaning that the USMC side players would get a week's supply of beer and women if they ever brought our heads to their commanders. Unfortunately for them they have never found bodies despite claiming a kill several times. Believe it or not, I sometimes fly a Little Bird almost like Hellride to transport my teammates behind enemy lines so that they can quickly set up a rally point (forward spawn) for us. The helicopter has never encountered an accident in my hands and I have a feeling that one of the bolts or instruments in it might originate from that epic flying mount of legend.

Anyway, last Sunday I was assigned to hunt enemies, specifically enemy armored units in the Black Forest region of Chernarus. I already harassed one Marine LAV to expose itself to our BTR's cannon by sniping its driver and intimidating the remaining crewman by staying in the area but never revealing myself long enough for him to shoot me to shreds. When that LAV was destroyed, I moved to a nearby hill to scout the surroundings.

Admittedly I hadn't familiarised myself with the enemy equipment well enough because I spotted an APC on the hill, and thinking it was one of ours I ran in front of it and saluted the driver who had his head out of the hatch. I could hear him and his gunner talk to each other, first exclaiming how cool it is to see a friendly face in such a place, but seconds later I realised that the APC wasn't a BTR and the crewmen began shouting that I was an enemy soldier, driving off in panic first trying to get a clear shot at me but failing because I tactically moved just alongside the vehicle making them believe that I had simply vanished. Their fatal mistake was to disembark one passenger to look for me, and surely enough I made short work of him with my silenced AK, and when I searched his lifeless body I found an unused M136 launcher that was much more capable of destroying an LAV than a satchel charge could hope to be. I looted the launcher (and some morphine :licklips:) and began stalking the LAV that was frantically driving around the forest looking for me. Eventually our BTR spotted the LAV and opened fire on it. The LAV fled behind the hill where I was waiting. "Thanks Tom", I said to the BTR's commander in my mind, when I finally took the M136 into my hands, loaded it and blasted the LAV to smithereens. The enemy never sent another LAV there during the whole battle and the Ukrainian army was successful in taking and holding the Black Forest region of the country.

I and Hitman also conducted a deep reconnaisance mission to the enemy airbase, harassing their aircraft and generating general havoc with our captured TOW Hummer, but that's another story.

Edited April 6, 2010 by Celery

[Popa 0]

We were both members of a special unit with reputation that would make the entire Rambo series look like something produced in Finland.

Don't diss Finland...

...or you may be next :p

[Tonci87 163]

Jep even small looking countrys can cause some serious damage to an Invader^^

(I :inlove: Croatia)

[maturin 12]

What damage did Croatia do?

[Tonci87 163]

Battle of Vukovar in 1991

Serb Forces (Attacker The World third biggest Army at that Time):

80000 men

1600 Tanks and APCs

980 Heavy artillerie Units

350 AA Canons wit 750

unknown Nummber of Bombers and Jets

Croatian Forces:

6700 lightly armed Men

26 Tanks and APCs

52 100mm Guns

32 bigger than 100mm guns

68 Minethrowers

Losses:

Serbs:

8000 killed

15000 wounded

400-600 destroyed Tanks

20 destroyed Helicopters and Jets

Croatians:

879 killed

another 400 after the battle when captured by the Serb Forces

777 wounded

5000 captured

The Battle lasted for 87 days, the whole Town was destroyed. The Serb Forces managed to cut of the supply route to the Town and defeated the defenders. This Battle Stoped the Serb Forces for 3 Months and gave Croatia the Time to build an Army. Because of this People refer to Vukovar as the Stalingrad of the Balkanwar

[nettrucker 142]

please get back on topic. The last posts have nothing whatsoever to do with our greatest ArmA experience. No offence meant.

Thanks

regards

[Tonci87 163]

You are right, my best experience was when playing Arma2 for the First time and starting the Campaign. I really liked the Prologue with the fight in the Church

[Sintacks 10]

My best Arma 2 experience is every night after work and dinner :-)

[rekrul 7]

This is just a copy'n'paste from a post I made at another forum.

Last night I was playing MP on a server with only 4-5 players most of them useless. Our next objective is to clear a rather big city I fly in low and fast as the city is ~8km away from our base. I land about 1.5km N of the city, in the cover of a rather big hill. There are two Tungska's (AA tanks) in town that we need to take out first. I go up the hill and I observe the city. From what I can see, there are 2-3 T-72s (later turned out to be T-90), atleast 5 APCs and something like 8-9 10 man squads. Luckily we have two cobras in base so once the AA is out, it should be easier.

I finally spot the AA tank and it's 500m away. I take out my AT weapon and fire. I'm not sure if I hit but it doesn't blow. AI doesn't react at all. I open fire on two squads who are about 6-700m away. They drop and engage. The APCs come to their assistance and all hell breaks lose. I run back to chopper and fly back as I only have one AT rocket. Reload and I put some extra weapons in the chopper (like the .50 sniper rifle) and fly back. Offload the cargo and head back up the hill. I take out the AA tank and get the M107 (.50 sniper). Run back and encounter a teammate with an MP5 (clevar!). Tell him that I have an extra gun which he picks up. We run back up the hill and I lose my teammate in the woods. No loss really. I open up and take out a few guys, relocate, rinse and repeat. Enemy AI has hard time finding me as I'm 7-800m away.

I don't know what the other guy was doing but suddenly all hell breaks lose and there is massive fire coming our way. LMG, HMG and 40mm. I pull back over the hill and fishhook back to set up an ambush if I had anyone on my tail. My clever teammate decided to hold the hill for whatever reason. At that point, enemy mortars the hill (!! I didn't even know it was scripted in the mission) and there's a massive 30s bombardment where he dies. Since I'm several hundreds meters away, I'm fine.

I backtrack and cross my LZ as I hear a friendly chopper coming in. Since I had recon'd the LZ and marked in on map I yell "it's only safe if you come in low!" but to no avail. Everything with a gun opens up on him, but he somehow manages to land the thing, close to my LZ. As I run up the opposite hill that was bombarded, he yells that he's injured. As I move up on top of the next hill, I hear engines and I see an APC moving towards the crash site and I report it in. Then I see another APC and a T90. I report it in. My bleeding comrade reports back "This is gonna hurt lol". One APC decides to repeatedly bang into a steep hillside while the others goes around. The T90 opens up and fires a grenade at something, pushes on and blasts again and the chopper explodes.

The guy is still alive so I figured I should catch their attention so he had some chance. The APC stuck by the hillside was now more or less parked and it was wheeled (not tracked) so I shoot at the tires with my .50. They don't see me but someone from the city is shooting at me. It doesn't take long until the rest has my position and all hell breaks lose again. I'm out of smoke grens so I leg it while bullets are whistling past me. I wasn't far from the top and I had tree cover so once again I make it but now I have 2 APCs and a T-90 on my tail, meanwhile the other guy got killed. I push west and tell the others that I've got a small army after me but the engine noises goes from faint to gone and a friendly chopper comes in, takes fire and they eject in midair (with parachutes). I was in dense forest and this was veteran mode so there's no marker on me (you have to ID your target) so this was no rescue mission. About 30 secs after they land in their chutes there's massive fire and they're killed. Guess they found the search party.

I continue to push WSW and I guess I'm now about 3km away from the city and change bearings to SE towards a hill about 2km NW of town. As I cross an open field in the middle of nowhere, I hear "fomp, fomp, fomp" - the unmistakenly sound of 40mms being fired and engines starting up. I immediately do 180 and run towards the forest as the 40mm lands where I was previously running and a HMG opens up on me, tearing up the ground around me. fump, fump again, I change direction and I now have some trees around me. Tracer from the .50 passes inches from my head and impacts in the tree 1.5m ahead and to my right with the 40mms going off behind. It was one of the most intense moments I've ever had in A2. Once again I make it to safety as trees behind me takes a beating.

Edited May 19, 2010 by Rekrul

[SASrecon 0]

Now THAT was intense :D

more epic bedtime stories please!

[celery 8]

Lately every battle day at AToW.

[Kargush 10]

First post, may as well be here.

Best I ever had was actually with the demo. I'd found a small group of players (who I've not managed to find again after I got the full game), one guy hosted the games, the rest of us joined in on the fun. We played an hour or two each time. The squad leader would direct fire. On one mission, he marked one target for each of us, then ordered us to open fire. Flawless ambush. We'd take orders from him, we'd follow them, and we'd even ask for permission to pull back to rearm when we had the opportunity.

No real BS heroics, no really stirring tales, but we played it like troopers, we had a mission, there was a briefing, everything.

Of note were the following occassions:

-AT man blew up a car coming at us at speed. It kept going and took him down. The rest of us soldiered on, barely surviving the enemy coming over the hill. The last two of us got into a badly shot up Cobra that we'd used earlier to provide some support and barely managed to keep it airborne long enough to wipe out most of the opposition. In the end, we restarted the game with 1 enemy left, as the last two of us were wounded, barely mobile, and low on ammo. And more than a click from the enemy.

-A modified Trial by Fire. Insurgents has executed some villagers, and we were sent in to clean up. Starting on the beach, we moved up towards the village, marking civilians as we went, taking out insurgents as they appeared. A few running gunbattles erupted around the barn where the dead villagers where, with almost a full squad of insurgents, many of them with MGs, were gathering. In the end we got them all, but where forced to scrounge ammo and weapons. Continuing on, we took out an APC, a couple of AT nests and even an officer with his body guard. Then we ran into an ambush. MG died laying down covering fire as we withdrew. The medic got shot in the back as we ran, the squad leader marking a fall-back position. I got it when I tried to take out a BMP that came rumbling. In the end, the whole team went down.

-Night missions where we had to exfil on foot after losing our chopper were great. We'd start in some ruined village, watch as AA fire killed our ride, and then moving out to silence the AA guns and trying to get to the next exfil point. We'd commandeer trucks, use enemy weapons and generally trying to stay alive despite patrols of enemies wandering around in the villages we passed. Taking fire in the dark is not fun.

Wish I could find those guys again. It was the best gaming experience ever, and the best ArmA 2 fun I ever had.

[call_911 10]

Lol so playing Domi after clearing a town i thought i'd fly back an get the MHQ. Upon arrival i spotted a BRDM ATGM(thinking we could use this for anti-armor at some point) decided i check it out. After shooting the tire out an forcing the crew to bail i killed one an left the other to flee away from this crazy GTA wanna be 8)- I fixed upp the BRDm an proceeded to move to lift it out. After about 30 seconds or so an realising MH60's can't lift BRDM's Mr Sly/sneaky AI comes over to the BRDM hops in an drives away lol. Thought it was pretty funny an realising how awsome this game is!

ROFL OMG so ok differnt day same thing lolz. I repaired a BRDM in Solichiny an took it to the mhq that I had hidden in an open warehouse. I just got it set inside so it would'nt interfere with guys tping into the mhq an low an behold here come to enemy crewman walking thru the wall hop in the BRDM an attempt to drive away, trapped inside the warehouse 8)-.

Edited May 28, 2010 by Call_911