Killroy

Enjoy the school holiday's. I am going to just run computer based scenarios for a few weeks. ? Catchya all when school starts.

Can't agree more. Some of the best games I have had are where almost everyone is on the same page and shit just goes right.

Thanks mate. Will give it a try next time I'm on.

After a bit of trial and a lot of error I managed to get a few mortars set up on an AO with varying results. I can get 4 tubes and 4 bipods in a Strider without removing any of the existing loadout just by using the available space already in the Strider by transferring a singly item one at a time from an Arsenal box. I am not sure yet if you can just load one bipod and the rest tubes into a vehicle and swap the bipod to a new tube when you run out of rounds. I am glad it worked in the end as it was a 10km trip to the AO. With a JTAC (Nuggs) marking targets and me sitting a "K" back from the AO we managed to do a bit of damage. I did find on a few shots that they dropped well short of the target but that's just like it is in real life. Mortar operators are called "Drop Short" in RL for a reason.

So its not just me then. Cheers.

I decided to give the Mortar position a try in I&A a few days ago. I had read the above posts so knew the basics of what was required for the job. I went to the crates area and loaded 6 tubes and bi-pods in and then loaded said crate into one of the Striders and then headed off to the AO. It was a 10k drive. I picked a location on the map that would give me good cover but close to the AO so the mortar rounds flight time would be around the 40 second mark. Unloaded the box out of the Strider and went to set up a mortar but found the crate to be empty. Checked the Strider for the missing gear but no joy. Thought I must have "FU" and decided to re-spawn all the gear and myself and try it again. This time for a vehicle I picked the Hunter. Repeated the process and drove the 10k's back to the AO and went to set up again but the crate was empty for the second time. At this point I decided to just hang with the rest of the players and give the mortar position a miss. Later on I herd one of the pilots say he was going to drop an ammo crate off at the AO and asked what ammo was needed there. After taking requests an ammo crate arrived at the AO but was found to have all the original equipment in it. The pilot tried again. Still no joy. The pilot did sound like he new what he was doing and I got the impression he was a veteran A&I player. (No names no courts marshals). So to ask a question. What am I doing wrong or is the crate thing bugged? I got the impression it is the latter. Killroy out.