Do you defend VCP?

[LtSoucy]

Always, 6 guys with 2 landies, 1 APC and 2 riflemen and 1 marksmen can hold out anything.

[ralfidude]

soldier of fortune basically sums it up along side of what i said in the beginning.

[TheScot666]

Defended it today, got 9 kills with .50 plus a couple others as marksman. 5 of the 9 .50 kills were RPGs, so yes it is important.

[Dr2B Rudd]

Don't forget those technicals, and two bomb cars

also saved an APC from death

[Airs0ft_S0ldier11]

Originally Posted by TheScot666

Defended it today, got 9 kills with .50 plus a couple others as marksman. 5 of the 9 .50 kills were RPGs, so yes it is important.

same

[Tirak]

Originally Posted by 00SoldierofFortune00

It has limited overwatch potential though because of the view distance. And once you are inside VCP, you are pretty much trapped because the insurgents will occupy the village South of it near the Mosque, and all the buildings and small villages around it. You pretty much trap yourself inside and it is horrible as a point to operate out of because you have to cross open desert to make it to the city or the spots where the caches are found.



You have RPs for that too. Going from VCP to city is 10x harder than your own squad's RP in the city or elsewhere because you have to cross open desert to get to any spot where a cache will respawn and the insurgents have the advantage of high ground near the village and city.

Situation: Bridges unreliable, Insurgent Ambushers have them mined and have the ford covered. Friendly APC/Tank is badly damaged and needs to retreat to a safe area to rearm and repair.

Result (VCP Not Held) APC/Tank attempts to retreat to the airport to repair but must cross the ford or mined bridge. Enemy lying in wait destroys APC/Tank during crossing, 10 tickets lost + crew + passengers, heavy asset unavailable.

Result (VCP Held) Safe area and crossing assured, APC/tank retreats to VCP where it is rearmed and repaired not having to risk trying to cross unreliable bridges. While it is repairing it is in the heart of a well defended area. APC/tank is made fully operational, returns to the field to provide armored support to squads searching for cache.

[Skodz]

I love defending, but most squad doesnt...

[00SoldierofFortune00]

Originally Posted by Tirak

Situation: Bridges unreliable, Insurgent Ambushers have them mined and have the ford covered. Friendly APC/Tank is badly damaged and needs to retreat to a safe area to rearm and repair.

Result (VCP Not Held) APC/Tank attempts to retreat to the airport to repair but must cross the ford or mined bridge. Enemy lying in wait destroys APC/Tank during crossing, 10 tickets lost + crew + passengers, heavy asset unavailable.

Result (VCP Held) Safe area and crossing assured, APC/tank retreats to VCP where it is rearmed and repaired not having to risk trying to cross unreliable bridges. While it is repairing it is in the heart of a well defended area. APC/tank is made fully operational, returns to the field to provide armored support to squads searching for cache.

There is no gurantee at all that just because you hold VCP, that you will also hold the bridge up. All it takes is just 1 engineer to walk along the water and come up behind them.

And if you do put enough people there to defend it which would require at least 1 full squad minimum, it would take 6 men away from searching for caches and give the insurgents an unlimited amount of UK troops to kill because they know where they are. Also, you need people to take out the insurgent bridges in the beginning, so now you have even fewer squads searching for caches.

And tanks don't spawn straight out, so the chances of the bridge going down are high anyway.

With Basrah, individual squads and RPs are the way to win. The tanks come in handy up against the Village to the south of the Airfield or the Village south of VCP, but other than that, they cannot get into those small nooks where the caches usually are unless you have the coordination of teamspeak or something.

[Dr2B Rudd]

Originally Posted by 00SoldierofFortune00

There is no gurantee at all that just because you hold VCP, that you will also hold the bridge up. All it takes is just 1 engineer to walk along the water and come up behind them.

True, but I don't think you can guarantee much 100% in life

If som1 is covering the north, there is a good chance you can catch that ambusher b4 he places his IEDs, or at least know when the bridge is rigged