I was one of the guys at the north roadblock at the time. I must say that we were all really pissed. Even if the orders changed, how about: "You are not welcome here anymore, go away or we open fire"? Instead some guys got a real swarm of bullets hitting them in their ears, heads and other hurtful places.Rythm wrote:As a UN Platoon XO: Our ROE changed dramaticly on thursday, after the Poldavians crushed the southern checkpoint and after a stand-off then assaulted into Janco and and into the UN Base, overrunning it. Why the Poldavians did this i still dont know. (Once again sorry to the Poldavian unit of some 20 blokes that we machinegunned in the middle of our LARPing at the northern checkpoint, the new ROE came over the radio as we spoke...
From that point on, there were so many regular attacks on the VCPs and the UN-base that the acting Battalion Commander (Crazydog) ordered UN to defend only the UN base itself. Wich wasnt strange since we were so extremly outnumbered (fighting force of 67 IIRC) against the Poldavians, and the "powerfull NATO airstrikes" turned out to be rather useless.
The ROE versus civilians was only shoot in selfdefence. I dont know, but i think we didnt kill any civilians. except in the miserably failed airstrikes.
ROE against NAF changed so many times i cant count them. sometimes we were best buddies and they could respawn in our base, sometimes we were about to launch massive airstrikes on their base and we were to shoot them on sight.
Considering how many times the poldavians overrunned Janco/UN-base i fully understand that the civilian LARPing was a minimum. The little LARPing i managed to squeeze in was great fun tough.
I only had the chance to see Janco with a death rag passing trough. Also the tents that were set on the east side of Janco should have been removed. We were told that there was no hiding or using the tents as cover under our major attack on Friday, which was very unfair for us attackers.
(Also you on the top-gun of the big armoured truck. Start to take hits when you get hit in the helmet!!)
If we could get a city that was more neutral for an upcoming berget, interaction with the civilians and others would be more possible.
I only had some encounter with civilians, and it always went peacefully. Except the guys who attacked the Pol. base.
And lastly for UN. After the second Pol. wave on Friday evening, I led a small flanking strike team of 3 guys on your base. We came from the east side, down the hill and got pretty close before we opened fire.
Starting with the sniper, and work on the shooters. The fellow on the camping chair next to the UN base opening got a real scare. From our point of view it looked like we made a lot of chaos.
We all survived the attack, thus MG's and 40mm was fired in our direction. We climbed up the hill again, and got lased with a powerful green laser. (Please be careful with that, cause if the beam hits one eyes it could do permanent damage)
On the way down we took out a ghillied Italian sniper patrol. And one of them should really learn to take hits. Not ending the firefight in; "Ok, ok... Bastardo" after you dont hit anything.