Radio operator

[lime shoal]

I know that a lot of SL's has issues handling radio, leading, shooting the enemies, and prepare the future position, etc...

One thing would be able to lighten the stress of SL's by allowing a radio operator kit that would handle the commander's coms for the SL.

Before some people complaining about it, here is how i would implement it :

• When creating a squad, by default this kit is locked
• If the SL wants, he can unlock this kit
• As soon as somebody take this kit, the commander radio goes silent for the SL and the guy has the commander radio instead.
• As soon the kit is not taken, the radio goes back to the SL.

[heady parcel]

This is the dumbest idea in the history of ideas.
The SL will now have to worry about whether the comms dude is understanding what he is saying and relaying it correctly.
Adding an extra layer of shit comms need to pass through will just make it more of a hassle.

[lime shoal]

You're not the brightest light in the street... You read half of the message...

By default its locked and only if the SL wants it, then he can unlock it. Surely you'll unlock it only if you know that is somebody competent enough in the squad.

[shut yarrow]

You want to add the litteral telephone game to Squad?...........

[lime shoal]

Wait ? no! Its like in Arma MilSim Ops, you'll have a radio operator in a squad to prevent load into the SL, the radio guy will know what to transfer in the radio and what to say to his SL.

[shut yarrow]

That is litterally a small scale Telphone game my guy

[shut yarrow]

Also radio operator dont exist on the squad level, they are platoon level assets that usually function as the platoons JTAC and the PL assistant

[lime shoal]

I know what a telephone game is...

[lime shoal]

JTAC is not anything close to raido operators, and depending on which country you're from, the platoon/squad structure can differ

[shut yarrow]

No shit but 9/10 time the guy who is JTAC certified just happens to also be the radio operator to cut down on telephone and increase efficency

Standard is that squads are connected on the UHF spectrum 5-10km (Radios like the Bowman PRR or RF-7800) while Squads are connected on the UHF-VHF spectrum 10-20km (Radios like the 152), the radio operator is the guy with the HF radio(Radios like 117C amd 117G) that can reach anywhere in the world as it can bounce on earths Ion sphere its not Vietnam anymore where every squad needed a HF radio

[lime shoal]

Nice Radio course ^^

Agree (but still maintain that from one country to another, the structure can change)

But i think in squad it won't change much on the commanding side, but for some SLs it can change a lot and prevent some to have headaches

[rugged bough]

at the end of the day problem lies with people not knowing how to communicate info so its short and precise

no amount of mechanics will change that

[shut yarrow]

Well no all nations uses pretty much the same doctrine just with different radios (Like Russia where some dipshit thought unsecure UHF walkie talkies where a great idea) because communicating with a HF is a pain in the ass as they need to be synched

Its why we have UHF and VHF radios even if they cant reaches as far and have a hard time with obstructions

[rugged bough]

if someone gives info in command chat using grid squares he just gets insta muted in my book

[lime shoal]

they will need a full 20h course xD some people that yapping in the CMD radio...

[rugged bough]

you dont really need that long of a course to learn how to give info

but if no one ever explained it to you, it might be hard

this is only as an example alot of people would fail miserably to communicate how to tell on cmd chat about the hab north of niva radio here

[shut yarrow]

Yea but people just dont understand how to cut their message down to essentiels and instead try to overexplain it

[rugged bough]

yeah it all boils down to not knowing how to communicate xd

"enemy hab north of niva radio 100m"

its all you need

and ofcourse place and remove irrelevant markers

alot of people just leave outdated marks on map creating a mess too

but we could talk about it all day

[shut yarrow]

Nonononono it should be:

"ive got a hab in 5D (Which is an entrire fucking grid my guy,' left of the birch tree(That i cant see) about 200m(its actually 50m)and there is an entire squad is moving around(Its 2 guys in reality )"

[rugged bough]

i think having this as a static watermark somewhere on the map would help people with direction

i often see people mess up West and East

[shut yarrow]

Well the map is always facing north because thats how you use a fucking map XD

[rugged bough]

its obvious to you and me not most people tho xD

and for example In HLL north on the map is not always north in game xDD

i dont know if other games also mess this up

[shut yarrow]

Dont play HLL but like why wouldnt you just have it turned north like that is the only correct use of a map unless you can match signature on the map with reality

[rugged bough]

I know it’s weird people complained about it for long time in that game