Ok, Let me pick up where I left off.
I took my squad and headed south (I got myself an M14, I'm partial to the civilian version M1A) and headed south. I was trying to stay up high so I can scan the lower areas with my binocs but you can only do so much of that.
Spotted a couple of VC around ch56 and took them out. Another one showed and got shot and then we got a short mortar barrage on us. Nobody killed. It was here that I found out the fire team 1 was 800 meters away, back near the base. I must have screwed up something there
I guess I'll have to go back and get 'em. The music that played during the action was a little too loud for me, so I turned down the volume. Personally, I don't like music during a mission so maybe you could put an option in somewhere to turn it off.
When I started to move out, my guys started shooting at someone and the next thing I knew, two were dead. It would be good to hear some guys shouting "medic" or "man down" or something. Also, when I order the squad to "halt", several guys keep crawling around. I want all of them to stop right where they are. If they are crawling, then they won't be shooting, which is a bad thing.
Got into another engagement with a couple of VC. This time, the resulting mortare fire took out one of my guys. I also noticed that the M14 was the HD type. This is a very accurate weapon, much more so than the HD version in this game. Maybe you can put the nonHD version in the ammo crate in the firebase. I have a hard enough time hitting anything with the normal weapons
I think a useful feature would be a "report in" function. Each fire team leader could report how many men he's got left. That would probably have to be in "yell" mode.
Wait a sec, I got my squad to rally and got a status update there. Damn it, I lost my RTO.
This is interesting, I'm back up near the firebase (to get team 1) and I hear some shooting towards the south. I shouldn't have anyone down there. Afterall, I'm not supposed to be able to heal with the rally command unless the whole squad is here, right? So who could be shooting?
Headed that way and I can see several VC off in the distance. There is no way for me to inform my guys about them and without an RTO I guess we'll just have to attack normally. I noticed there is one VC away from the main group that is in the surrender pose with a dead GI near him. That doesn't make too much sense. If there is no one around to take him prisoner then he should flee.
Ok, finally got the first objective. I'm down to six men left. Hmmm, that radio would have come in handy.
I went up to one VC who had surrendered, hit "take captive" and he fell over dead. !! What's up with that? I also noticed that none of the dead VC had radios. How did they call mortar fire on us then? I mean, really, fair is fair
At the beginning of the mission, on first contact with enemy, I heard the music and someone shout out "contact left", or something similar. I never heard it again in the mission.
I crossed over the hill above the village and there are just far too many VC to take on without support. I'll have to start over.