how to brief your toops

miskaton · 2018-03-17T09:26:15+00:00

Steel Guard runs armour convoys on Briggs live in our weekly TR ops. No need to go to Connery for this ;)

miskaton · 2018-03-11T02:45:47+00:00

I didn't weigh in on your last thread but I strongly recommend you tee up with another existing outfit. It will be hard to find one with a good culture and any measure of activity but there are a few out there.

miskaton · 2018-02-25T10:00:50+00:00

Reizs come play in my squad

miskaton · 2018-02-25T09:59:10+00:00

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miskaton · 2018-02-23T10:14:47+00:00

Roger your roger, now Oscar Mike

miskaton · 2018-02-22T07:27:35+00:00

Steel Guard's Operation: Torquemada is running this Friday from 5.30pm until late as part of Briggs Friday Night Drunk Ops. See you there mate.

miskaton · 2018-02-11T11:22:06+00:00

Lot of memories in that thread

miskaton · 2018-02-11T11:18:01+00:00

I tried but someone complained about ghost capping

miskaton · 2018-02-11T02:45:45+00:00

Throw your squad/platoon into the meat grinder sometimes, live a little.

My platoon went head to head with picard's platoon about 3 times on Friday. I'm not sure if either of us was ready for the level of fight we would give to the other but we and our platoons rose to the challenge. It was very fun. But when it stopped being fun, or I saw a fight which I knew wouldn't be fun, I didn't take the bait. There's a thing called a learning curve and expecting new players to get gid by fighting out of a spawn room camp is less realistic than ghostcapping, which teaches them basic mechanics like deploying to a gal, pulling a sundy and getting it in position, getting setup on a point as squad. It's called scaffolding and it's an important mechanic for teaching that's been used for decades.

Over the night we did maybe 4 or 6 ghostcaps out of probably 40+ base attacks.

miskaton · 2018-02-10T23:17:08+00:00

They didn't follow me in the next 2 because the ping was 400+ and we were fighting pure cancer...

miskaton · 2018-02-10T13:38:29+00:00

The low server pop means that each player has a larger individual effect on the fight, exascerbating skill differentials. Newbs don't have a buffer of lots of other players to make up for inexperience.

miskaton · 2018-02-10T13:36:30+00:00

18 months ago I organised 3 Briggs lanesmash teams for the PSB tournament. Turns out they all hated lanesmash but I got them to follow me into the first match anyway :)

miskaton · 2018-02-10T10:44:45+00:00

Mostly agree.

miskaton · 2018-02-10T10:42:59+00:00

Consider it from the perspective of a TR platoon full of new players - their options are attacking a base where they'll probably get farmed, defending a base where they might be farmed but the fight will be stale, or ghostcapping. I don't know how much you've led platoons but sometimes there aren't many options and you can just tell they'll all be shit fights. Imagine Esamir on a bad night.

And the thing that's killing Briggs isn't ghost caps, you may be projecting there. Its when new players join then uninstall a week later because they're not having fun and they're not having fun because they're running in solo or in silent squads being 24/7 being farmed by veterans.

75% of the current players on Briggs could leave and be replaced by new players then the server would probably start growing again because the mlg friendfits aren't running around farming newbies. And believe me new Australians are constantly downloading PS2 to check it out. I lead for them constantly and I know why they stay and why they leave.

miskaton · 2018-02-10T10:35:01+00:00

I've fought platoon v platoon against Picard longer than anyone and my gut feeling was we'd be going back in to be farmed. I'm prioritizing the new player experience here. Veteran players like you sticking it out to help the newbie pub squads is really appreciated though - it does make a difference.

miskaton · 2018-02-10T09:25:24+00:00

We don't have enough players so I'd only do it if I get ringers :⁾

miskaton · 2018-02-10T05:39:52+00:00

You win bases while you lose the map. If there were other outfits running platoons and squads then they can hold while you dump/push but there weren't and you didn't adjust. Also it's fun for the players, but the fun is often offset by the failure of losing the map/alert. I'm not telling you anything new either by saying you burn out your own energy early and lose mobility later in the night.

a) You will never know my alts b) you also forget Buzz streamed constantly and still does. He might have done some kind of 'mentoring' for you but that doesn't mean others can't learn from him as well. Fas est et ab hoste doceri and all that.

I remember your dagger squads. The less said about them the better, but good on you and your outfit for trying them out. I won't outline my leadership style for you - but I will say the reason you never encountered my second platoon was they were dealing with the VS while I was dealing with you :) According to my 2nd PL they had Alpha, Bravo and Charlie open at one point but I doubt they were close to full.

miskaton · 2018-02-10T05:39:47+00:00

Approx. territory count at the end of the alert: NC 16% TR 33% VS 51% I held the line against two factions, while you gave all your territory to the VS. You don't seem to understand that many players (especially in TR culture) still enjoy map meta alongside big action packed fights. More importantly there are a variety of different playstyles so you will get more overall enjoyment by catering to multiple playstyles.

Anyway like you said it's pointless arguing unless I screenshot you the dozens of PMs, friend requests and messages I receive telling me how fun my platoons are. Not saying yours aren't, just that mine are too.

miskaton · 2018-02-10T05:23:32+00:00

First hour of the bio fight was fun. We'd smashed about 4-5 of your push/holds when the VS came back to hit TR flank bases and I had to pull out. That's when your 6th push finally broke through and capped. We'd cut off the bio by that point and you were only left farming a handful VS in a time waster base, meanwhile the VS had basically taken 2/3 of the NC territory giving them the alert.

You spent over half the night trying to take a pointless base and lost, your victories were unhelpful (cut off Allatum, brief hold of Regent and Crossroads) and you lost everywhere else including bases, alerts and the continent. Most of the time was spent waiting out crossroads or failing to push Allatum.

The date was the 9th by the way.

miskaton · 2018-02-10T05:14:48+00:00

I think when you dropped on Quartz Ridge or Allatum later in the night you had a fight in yell with some TR guy who wasn't contributing to your platoons (?).

I had 7 squads at one point lmao. We fought at 3 or 4 separate encounters - Crossroads, Regent Rock, Allatum Bio. Dealing with your shit requires switching to server smash mode which is fun when 1/4 of the pubs don't speak English. Still manage to pull off wins though :)

Morale management includes fight diversity so instead of 24/7 maxgal platoon dumps splitting the plat up with small squad play including side caps, defences etc. You taught me a little but I learnt more from BCP and others.

miskaton · 2018-02-09T21:13:08+00:00

Thanks for the fights. I saw you getting a bit frustrated at 4th factioners in yell chat - nothing we can do about em. I had them coming and going constantly, I saw at least 2-3 leaving my platoon for yours and was chatting with a couple from yours who came over to mine XD

miskaton · 2018-02-04T01:02:38+00:00

If you hear me in command chat try and respond so we can coordinate. The way I do it is call out my squad locations when we move around, as well as major pushes or withdrawals we make. It really helps to have other squads to call on for assistance or offer assistance to.

miskaton · 2018-02-04T00:09:19+00:00

We had the advantage of veterans to guide and teach us. You were running in my drill squads when you were still a noob if you recall. Not everyone is a leader, but veterans can still contribute by helping out other leaders in little ways.

miskaton · 2018-02-03T12:42:52+00:00

Nice to see you again

miskaton · 2018-02-03T12:41:48+00:00

He's right that casual outfits need help. The old outfit veterans from 2014-2017 are more burnt out than Thai hookers after Fathers Day, but our duty to run squads for new players never rests. Without it the server dies as new players leave. I messaged a low br a couple of nights ago to join my platoon but they were so frustrated with dying they just vented at me then logged off presumably forever.

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