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  2. Posted

    Hi all,

    Basically i was running arma2 fine up until a few weeks ago, when all of a sudden it refused to start. Basically after i click the icon, it freezes my entire system.

    I have done the following:

    -restored my system

    -updated windows

    -updates Arma2

    -reinstalled arma2

    -cried

    -complained

    -set arma2 to run as admin

    -had my brother fiddle with arma2

    -lost hope

    someone please help, I dont need to post my specs, as its irrelevant cos the game was running beautifully before, i am running vista 32bit however.

    Please help lads.

  5. Posted

    The whole reason the bayonet was invented and caught on so well was because it has proved so much more effective than the butt strike they used previously.

    In the black powder days, musketmen could be expected to fight as melee troops after the first 3 volleys, At this point they would reverse their weapons and perform butt strikes. It was found by the French that with a bayonet attached, a rifle became a spear, which is a superior melee weapon to a club.

    Thus a soldier with bayonet deployed, significantly outguns a soldier with no bayonet deployed in melee.

    Many battles were won.

    A big bruise, or your body penetrated by 6 inches of steel? Buttstrike! Lmao.

    The butt strike may be commonly used, but a professional infantryman is trained and equiped to use a bayonet and a good officer knows when they need to.

    Indoors being one of those moments troops are specifically taught for.

    Here again I will repost this picture of USMC house clearing training. Please note the use of bayonet and not buttstrike even though the area is confined.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/bittermonk/117942434/

    (It takes less room to stab than it does to swing and it doesn't leave your gun out of position so you can still fire).

    Here again I will repost the other photo showing the USMC with bayonet deployed on actual house clearance in Iraq.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/godkiller/901316604/sizes/m/

    Buttstrike my arse. What kind of a noob army would advocate that?

    I think that you need to think of the composition and practical terms of modern weaponry.

    A Brown bess musket or Baker Rifle is not likely to disintegrate when you wrap it round Terry Taliban's face. A thrust into the ribs with cold Sheffield steel is a lot more satisfying and much more warry!

    But then its not just the practicality, its the whole ethos.

  6. Posted · Edited by [R2.5]Hendrix

    Well.... apart from the bug when you used to get stuck standing over the corpse!

    And how can you say its not beneficial, when youve never had the opportunity!

    nothing gets the blood boiling more than the spirit of the Bayonet!!!

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