Nex a Umbras

Hello,

I believe that a short explination is order. Since steam groups don't offer a forum that I can find, I thought I should post some of my ruminations on tactics so people can tell me just how much of an idiot I am being. In that spirt please comment, or post your own thoughts in similar dispaches.

My question though is this, How firm should a combat chain of command be if we have any?

It seems logical to me to run any patrol on the basis of consensus, with an understanding to defer to the person with the most experence in the field if consensus cannot be reached. That being said I can think of how fighting as such an irregular force could be highly ineffective when presented with a quickly changing tactical situation.

Couter to this is the nature of DayZ which while built on a Mil Sim base is structured such that it will always be irregular forces, more over comparatively tiny forces (often only one hostile contact) engaging any LRS patrol meaning that skirmishes will often depend on the outcome not of maneuvering against a force but the ability of those in a patrol to as individuals locate and effectively engage single targets. We are in a game that encourages the skilled individual warriror rather than the displined and well-trained solider.

So here are my thoughts, it strikes me that a 'battle-budy' system would work best, where in larger patrols we pair off to provide micro-fireteams. While decisions should be reached as a consensus when in combat a designated leader of the patrol should make tactical decisions and each pairing should have a senior and junor members so that everyone is playing from the same sheet of music.

Thus when we have time consensus, when we do not, two warriors fighting as a pair but under a structure that encourages individual initative and takes advantage of both our organization and our ability to act as individual agents.