robkelk Wrote:There are two main reasons why the OpFor isn't as good as people expect. First, they're Gamers rather than military men. Who else would respond fast enough to fill the OpFor positions? Second, there is no prescribed command and control organisation for the OpFor . You can see this in how they arranged themselves (roughly Five 'platoons' of four 'squads' of 5 men).Dartz Wrote:Speaking of which, I'm surprised OpFor hasn't thought about slowing down their enemy and negating that big advantage (Goop Gun? Obstructions?).... being out in the open means they're just going to die faster. How incompetent are these morons?They're probably the people who got taken out by Kohran's "kaboomite" bomb in the Second Port Phobos Invitational - the ones who take their ideas of tactics from most anime. [size=smaller](Yes, including "Lyrical Nanoha" - while our favourite befrienders show some tactical ability compared to most magical girls, they'd still get their heads handed to them by a trained squad of infantry.)[/size] But they don't have to have decent tactics - they re-spawn.
RE: Rob's snippet. Heh, but you'll need to watch the further scenes.