"The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing."
- Bill S. Preston, Esq.
¶ Situational Awareness
It's easy to get turned around, be sure to keep an eye on your team so you don't get left behind. If you want to help out your Team Lead, stay in sight and stick together.
¶ Spacing
The best way to stay alive is to stay away.
When moving: Try to keep at least 10 meters of space between you and your teammates.
In Cover: Do your best to spread out, but prioritize cover over spacing.
¶ Battle Buddies
While you should be making sure you're not falling behind, you should also be making sure no one else falls behind.
During a mission, you'll likely be assigned a color along with someone else. This is your Battle Buddy, keep an eye out for them and they'll keep an eye out for you.
You're Responsible For:
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Knowing where they are
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Making sure they're not unconcious
¶ Backblast
Backblast is a cone shaped area behind a rocket launcher where hot gases are expelled when the rocket is fired. While this isn't modeled in Vanilla gameplay, it is with mods.
- When someone is about to fire a launcher, they'll yell "Clear backblast!"
Everyone around them will make sure that they're not behind the launcher and that there's nothing behind the person firing the rocket.
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Once the people around them have confirmed it's clear, they'll reply "Backblast clear!"
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The launcher is now free to fire
¶ Overpressure
Overpressure is almost exactly like backblast... but in reverse. Overpressure is a cone shaped area where hot gases are expelled when a large round (often from a tank) is fired.
- Make sure you're away from the front or the sides of a friendly tank when it fires
- If you are the gunner in a tank, do your best to make sure you're not firing around friendlies
¶ Calling out Targets
Even if it's your first Op, or you're unsure, don't be afraid to call out targets. It's not friendly fire until someone pulls the trigger.
¶ What to Call Out
Anything you think your team isn't aware of!
- Civilians
- Friendlies
- Hostiles
- Unknown Contacts
Information is key to mission success
¶ How to Call Out
Remember the Three D's! Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
- Designation
- Degrees
- Distance
Tell us what you see!
This can be anything you think your team isn't aware of!
- Civilians
- Friendlies
- Hostiles
- Unknown Contacts
Call out the direction you see contacts! Ideally you'll give the Degrees on a Compass, but Cardinal Directions (North, South, East, West) are just as good when you're moving or it's urgent.
Finding Degrees
- Hold K on your keyboard to bring up the Compass
- Line up the contact with the Sighting Wire
- The red Orienting Line will line up with the Degree Marks around the edge of the compass
In the above example, the contact is at 190 degrees
Try to estimate the contacts distance in meters. If you don't feel comforatble giving a number, just say Close, Near, or Far.
This is just a guess, don't worry about being too accurate. The imporant part is letting your team know you see something!
¶ Smoke Signals
Smoke Grenades are used in conjunction with radio calls to mark friendly or enemy targets. While this can change due to mission circumstance, we typically use Red, Blue, and Purple smoke grenades to mark points of interest.
- 🔴 Red Smoke: Enemy positions - Air Team is often cleared to fire on red smoke without confirmation. If this is thrown by mistake, make your leads aware immediatley!
- 🔵 Blue Smoke: Friendly positions - Generally given out to every member of the team. Be sure to use this when you think friendly fire is possible (ie. Close CAS strike)
- 🟢 Green Smoke: Friendly positions (Alternate) - We try to stick to blue smokes as it's easier to spot in the trees, but we'll sometimes give green smoke depending on the circumstance.
- 🟣 Purple Smoke: Landing Zones (Helicopters) - Used to mark friendly LZ's for air team. Air team always appreciates some kind of marker, but they can land without it.
¶ Radios
We encourage everyone to use the radio as much as possible, but too much chatter can ruin it's effectiveness. Learn how to use the radio so you're always heard.
¶ When to Use
Use the radio when everyone NEEDS to know about something.
- Calling for a Medic
- Calling out Contacts
- Alterting Friendlies about Friendly-Fire
- Mission Critical Questions
¶ How to Use
Keep your time on the radio as short as possible. Rambling on the radio can cause confusion and delay more important information from being transmitted.
¶ Team Radios
Depending on mission setting, these radios are given to every member. These radios are used for communication within your squad.
Examples:
- Calling out Contacts - "Contacts to the North West; Far."
- Communicating Movement - "Team One is moving now."
- Calling for Medic - "I have a man down in the bunker!"
- Mission Critical Questions - "Are we supporting Alpha on this Objective?"
¶ Squad Radios
Longer range radios given to every lead element. These radios are used to communicate with command, support elements, and other squads. With how many assests are on this channel, it's easy to get congested. Because of this, clarity is much more important.
Calls on this radio will always start with "Hey You, This is Me".
Example: "Alpha (The element you're contacting), this is Bravo (The element transmitting the message)."
Examples:
- Requesting Support - "JTAC, this is Bravo; Requesting air strike on marker "Tank" South East of AO."
- Alerting Friendly Fire - "Charlie, this is Alpha; Check your fire!"
- Communicating Movement - "Command, this is Delta; We have no sightlines from this position, we're moving to Hill 334."
- Mission Critical Questions - "Command, this is Charlie; Should we hold to support Bravo, or continue to our waypoint?"
¶ Medical
ACE Medical can be overwheleming. It'll take a bit of time to fully understand it, but as a new player, there's only 3 things we want you to understand.
- How to keep yourself alive
- How to keep someone else alive
- How to tell if someone is dead
¶ Keep Yourself Alive
Bandage efficiency is it's own topic, but to keep it simple, when you get hit, bandage like this and you'll be right 95% of the time
¶ Keep Someone Else Alive
If you're helping someone who's unconcious, you have three objectives:
- Stop blood loss
- Check their pulse
- Find a medic
When checking for a pulse, make sure you're not checking a tourniqueted limb. Always use the head or chest to be sure!
¶ Check if Someone is Dead
If you've played with ACE Medical before, there have been significant changes to the system and there is only one way to know if someone is alive or unconcious
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If a player rag-dolls, does that mean they died?
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If a player drops their gun, does that mean they're dead?
- No, ACE has many different unconcious animations; some with player's guns away from their body -
If a player does not have a pulse, are they dead?
- No, players will be unconcious for a short period of time after their heart stops. CPR can bring their pulse back. -
There is only one way to know if someone is unconcious or dead:
If you have the option to drag or carry an unconcious player, they are ALIVE!
¶ Meta
We are playing a video game after all, so there's a few things to remember.
- Stay off of Side Chat unless there's a game breaking issue
- Don't send messages to other players during mission (Steam Chat, Discord, etc.)
- Do not post screenshots in Discord until the mission is over
- Do not pick up enemy equipment unless cleared by the mission maker or a lead
- Do not use in-game exploits to gain an advantage (ie. clipping through walls)
¶ Re-Infil
There are a few different re-infil methods to be aware of in respawn missions. In order to try and keep some level of immersion in our missions, there are prodecures to follow.
¶ Air
For an Air re-infil, you'll likely repsawn at a base and wait for a helicopter to come bring you back to the AO.
- Stay off the radio until the helicopter has dropped you off at your LZ
- If you've been waiting at base for longer than 10 min, send a message in side-chat
¶ Vehicle
For vehicle re-infil, you'll be given vehicles to drive yourself back into the AO.
- Try to use as few vehicles as possible and wait for more people to load up before leaving
- You're free to get back on the radio whenever you feel it's appropriate
¶ Vehicle Respawn
Vehicle respawns are mobile respawn points. If you respawn here, jump out and walk to your team.
- Do not move the respawn vehicle without permission
- You're free to use the radio right away
