[AAR] Scout Kiowa/gazelle with mortar squad

[SGT.MARCO]

Tried this on Kashan dessert and i was a squad leader who had 3 people on mortars and me and a pilot working the scout helo. We would fly at a safe and far distance from incoming fire and I would use my LIVE FEED to record enemy movement to the commander and team while also contacting my mortar men to fire at the target. I would also help them adjust fire.

In the end my squad went 36-6 with the scout helicopter going down only once due to enemy attack helo. I would also like to say this is in .95 where they did not get the Hell-fires just a 50.cal that wasn't very good against infantry.

[Mikemonster]

Next you'll be telling me that you had a sniper spotting targets for you too!

Good use of assets. The way it's meant to be played..?

[Acecombatzer0]

How do you use LIVE FEED?
Never been in a Kiowa before.

[LieutenantNessie]

How do you use LIVE FEED?
Never been in a Kiowa before.

Basicly same as apache gunner camera except with just the image and the camera is in a different position

[Acecombatzer0]

Basicly same as apache gunner camera except with just the image and the camera is in a different position

Oh, so you can send FEED to the commander?

[dtacs]

No.

Marco is just adding a fancy military term to what we can call a camera on a helicopter. It has thermals, zoom, and can lase. Thats it.

[SGT.MARCO]

Next you'll be telling me that you had a sniper spotting targets for you too!

Good use of assets. The way it's meant to be played..?

snipers cannot cover nearly as much ground as a gazelle can, and it is not as effective

though it would be cool if we could send live feeds to Commander or Armor or even SL's

[Acecombatzer0]

No.

Marco is just adding a fancy military term to what we can call a camera on a helicopter. It has thermals, zoom, and can lase. Thats it.

Does the co-pilot guy fire the AGM Hellfire as well? Like the Apache?

[dtacs]

Yes.

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[LieutenantNessie]

Does the co-pilot guy fire the AGM Hellfire as well? Like the Apache?

No, since this was in 0.95 they didn't have ATGM's on LB's then

[Anazuke]

Had a round in Yamalia back in some version, i was flying the Chinook with mortars in same squad aswell. There were handheld AA- team near our base and i was annoying them by flying over them with flares and keeping coming back. Then i realised i could hover over them and tell SL to mark my pos on map and mortar it. You can guess the amount of allchat laughing from the guys taking the hits (we were on same clan). Took the idea further and flew off trying to find enemy mortars and i did, hover over them for sec SL marks and rest is history.

[Rudd]

marking targets from the air isn't something I've really tried doing myself, but it sounds like a great idea gotta try it out.

[sylent/shooter]

hmm it'd be interesting if you could find a way to stream the live feed to the commander... but it's probably hardcoded.

Anyways, great idea I'll have to try it myself. Thats what those choppers are for really. Scouting out enemy installations and relaying it to the team.

[Anazuke]

hmm it'd be interesting if you could find a way to stream the live feed to the commander... but it's probably hardcoded.

Anyways, great idea I'll have to try it myself. Thats what those choppers are for really. Scouting out enemy installations and relaying it to the team.

We've been streaming mortar spotter screen for mortars hits to the mortar operators, only bad side is that higher the quality, higher the latency.

[Andy[EEF]]

hmm it'd be interesting if you could find a way to stream the live feed to the commander... but it's probably hardcoded.

Anyways, great idea I'll have to try it myself. Thats what those choppers are for really. Scouting out enemy installations and relaying it to the team.

One thing me and my clan did once was use Xfire broadcast as the kiowa gunner and have the other squadleaders open the in game browser with the camera feed in a corner of the screen. Worked quite well.

[SGT.MARCO]

;1645875']One thing me and my clan did once was use Xfire broadcast as the kiowa gunner and have the other squadleaders open the in game browser with the camera feed in a corner of the screen. Worked quite well.

I recently installed xfire could you tell me how you do such a thing and show a tutorial or something i would appreciate it.

[Andy[EEF]]

About Xfire Live Video
Explains how to set it up.

For the people who want to see the feed in game, they have to open the in game browser using Xfire (Scroll lock + W default I think) and copy/paste your broadcast link. ( In the format of: http://www.xfire.com/live_video/YOURPROFILENAME/ )

All you have to do then is resize the browser screen, pin it to a corner and its done.

[Rico]

Could see that working quite nicely in some instances, might have to give it a go!