[Top 100] Biggest firefights you have ever had

[Jantje|NL^]

Originally Posted by STORM-Mama

Another Basrah-story coming up...

Someone mentioned before that the area between the village and Basrah city is one of the hottest areas´on the map. I've gotta say that I agree.

One of the most memorable firefights in this area that I've experienced was one just one british squad fanatically defended their RP against constant attacks about three insurgent squads.
I was with the insurgents. We had a couple of PKMs stationed out for cover fire and the order I had given my squad was to just run like hell in the open terrain and try to get to the enemy RP!
The PKM cover fire really wasn't that effective and we constantly go mourned down by an enemy SAW. I'm suprised that my squad didn't execute me for giving idiotic orders or something, but they kept fighting fanatically. Not one step backward! Everything to defend Al Basrah against the imperialist invaders!

The whole squad used all of their molotivs and soon the area looked like one of the hotter parts of hell; piles of insurgent corpses, large areas of fire and burning British vehicles!

This heroic British squad really gave our team a hard time. They fought 'til the last man! I was impressed. Their will to die for their cause was just as big as it was in the insurgent squads attacking.

The British team made an effort to help this doomed squad. One Schimitar and a couple of land rovers made their way to this hot area and for a couple of minutes it looked like we wre going to have to retreat - but one heroic ambusher managed to blow up the enemy IFV with his IEDs, killing himself in the process (this was, of course, followed up with alot of "ALLAHU AKHBAR" in the chat), and we took care of the land rovers with our molotovs.

The fight with the doomed British squad kept going for a couple of minutes more before I managed to take out their RP with my beloved knife. One Merlin was sent to extract the few heroic survivors, but it was taken down by an insurgent RPG.

The battle for this completely unimportant area just west of Basrah city was over...


I want to thank everyone that participated in this heroic battle, whether they were brits or part of my own team!

Was it near that bridge which can't be destroyed,..

On the map right beneath the village?

Cause,.. Maybe.. I was the british squad leader..

Anyway.. My story happened just the same but than from the british side of the story..


I went with my squad to the village in land rovers, two fully loaded land rovers.

Another one followed us, we crossed the river on the undeep places in the west of the map.

After the enemy missed two RPG shots on my car we decided to fire back, we drove up the enemy and setted up a rally point in the middle of the desert, my two .50 gunners were like,.. WHOOO HOOOO WE GONNE HAVE TEH KILLEZ!! While firing at the enemy who didn't even fire back in the first time had another RPG shot on one of the land rovers (the blue guy in a landrover was still there and was the first one KIA)'

the .50's covered the rest of the squad while moving in to the enemy..

When we came to the enemy I got WIA,, I helped myself and ran with a couple of guys to the nearest compound, we setted up a new rally point, I ran back to one of the landrovers and drove 'em inside the compound so the gunner could defend it.

The other rover came a little closer, fired some shots and got killed. (this guy spawned back and took care of the .50 again)

Than the storm began, we were still in the compound and I ordered my squad to move into the village itself to find some caches or whatever..

Well, after 2 seconds I said that there were like tenthousandmillionhundredandtwobbqsauced-enemies! we all took cover and a nice hiding place, the landrover outside got destroyed by a molotov and he spawned back again, he was the only guy who got killed twice befor anyone else died.. but that would change soon..

The enemy was moving over the field, running crawling jumping hinking and whatever...

We killed them all (they just came running and fired a few shots randomly) Than there came a Technical (I think) and our L-AT guy destroyed it, one of his first shots the whole round :P

I sended two rifleman, (the L-AT one and scoped one) out of the compound to search for RP's They saw some guys coming and I told them to come back into the compound. Than we began again, fired them, some of us got killed.. I think 4 of us,.. not at the same time.

I asked a scimitar to help us,

[SH] JantjevanLeiden; this is squad 7, requesting some armour support, we are having a lot of fun but we want some time for tea, over.

the scimitar was at the other bank of the river and crossed the bridge, (maybe he even didn't want to help us but it looked like that).

But, ofcourse, he got destroyed, I don't know details about that, maybe RPG'd or IED'd But I was having some trouble with a guy like 5/12 ms away from me running thru the field..

Than we decided to fall back, there were really much people coming our way.. and almost at the same moment there were like a millionthousandtrillionbillionhundred molotov's around us..

Okay, to be honest, two.

One of them destroyed the rover and the other one came next to me and after I escaped the fire I was being shot by someone with a SKS

When I respawned My men were shooting without stopping clicking the left mouse button, I think they even tried to fire while reloading, lol..

I asked a merlin to get us away from there, I would pop a green smoke (have you seen this nade?) we swimmed to the other side of the river, to the palm trees (one by one) with two of us still covering out of the compound when the merlin flew over,.. It was like YAY THERE HE IS, step one accomplished.

huh wth? OH NO HE'S DOWN!!..

well, than we were going back to the qala compound shitty thing and we tried to go to the village, well.. it was too late for trying it because we got overrun, there were a lot of 'gangsters' around us, sometimes even ebhind us.. and than we all got naded/gotshot/burnt down/felt asleep..

Our rally point got knifed and we spawned at the airport where everybody was just drinking tea and had some scrambled egg's with bacon and cooked saucages..


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anyway, maybe I was the squad leader of the british you were fighting at, and you the guy who sended his men to stalin charge us..

I haven't seen such a organized insurgent squad eversince against me..

It was a hell of a round, thoe 10 - 15 minutes are my best PR minutes ever

and it didn't feel like we lost, we just had a nice firefight! the only thing what went wrong is that our armour 'support' got knocked out so easily and our transport didn't quit show up the way we wanted to see it happen

when we drove back later to the spot.. all the walls were destroyed and their was no sign of any enemy around there anymore..

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Eh, STORM-Mama what was the position of the british rally exactly?

Cause I think there's a big chance that it was my rally

anyway, It was anice fight, it was jsut so..

wow, that will never happen again that way, it was like a short movie about another NAVO-country troop of soldiers in afghanistan..

[STORM-Mama]

Yay! Fun to chat a little with former enemies.

The RP was located just by the southern wall of some building very close to the field where the Merlin was supposed to land. You sure that was your squads RP?

Once again; you guys really did a great work during that round. I was impressed that you did stand your ground for that long against a enemy force that big!

Btw, I'm not really sure if I would call our Stalin charge "organized". Shouting in the microphones, no real communication, guys throwing molotovs randomly (often killing their own teammates)... That was Hell, I tell you. I would guess that the avarage time everyone of my squadmates (not to mention the other two squads that was supporting us during the assault) stayed alive before they got killed again were about twenty seconds.

Btw, your guys killed about ten civies during that encounter.


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Gotta tell you guys about another memorable Basrah-story, this time from a British perspective.

I was in charge of repairs and communication (asking other squads where they wanted to go) on a Merlin flying over Basrah (REALLY good pilot - can't remember more than that we called him "Alpha" for some reason).

One of our extraction missions went really wrong when an insurgent SA-/ did hit us somewhere over where South VCP used to be in 0.5. Me, the pilot and one other guy where the only survivors and as soon as we got to a safe distance from the crash site (enemy technicals arrived just seconds after the crash) the epic struggle began. Hell March - from the crash site in SW Basrah to the Airport - BY FOOT!

Unbelievable enough we made it and was fortunate enough to be engaged in some intense fighting with insurgent fighters along the way. One memorable "Blackhawk Down" moment!

[com_kieffer]

Not exactly a single firefight but the kind of things that makes stop in awe and say this is what PR is all about : Quite some time ago the 301 decided to go tanking in quinling so we took Three fully crewed tanks and setup a convoy to go and wreak havok. often an enmy tank would first see the lead tank and shoot only to be popped like junk by three tank shells fire in quick succession from the tanks in the collumn. gooing through exposed teerain was no loger an ordeal as you knew that two other tanks were covering your back. eventually we nearly managed a full cap but a british counter attack on village ended tha dream that we would get a quick victory.

[Chuffy]

The final flag of EJOD always guarantees some crazy action. Tanks and APC's constantly firing, infantry crawling on their bellies or doing short sharp bursts of sprinting hogging what little cover there is in that sand as tracer fire whizzes above them.

Also more Al-Basrah stories.

This was back in .6. We (the Brits) had set up a very strong base at VCP, it was well defended and the squads there had got all sightlines covered. My squad were advancing straight down that road to the western edge of the city, the area with the destroyable buildings. We came under sporadic fire but the sheer number of warriors, .50 cals and rifle/sniper fire from VCP and the surrounding area silenced them pretty quickly. We wasted no time in setting up a rally in the buildings.

But thats when the problems started.

Our huge presence in the area made it clear to the Insurgents where they should be attacking. The insurgents weren't sticking their heads out to try and get potshots off at VCP, instead they were basically sitting and waiting in those buildings. My squad had jusy walked into the metaphorical hornets nest.

I was a rifleman as I entered the city, but after the first round of intense close range fire I switched to engie just because the scope was turning into more of a hinderance. That is how close and brutal the volume of fighting was. Grenades, molotovs, zerg-rushing insurgents, constant AK and SA80 fire. We were desperately trying not to be overrun and were begging for some support. To their credit the guys at VCP and on the main road did all they could. They were very careful about not hitting us but that meant their zone of fire was limited and I think the Insurgents realised this. This meant the fighting in that area was basically this cramped corridor. If we hadn't had the warrior and land rover fire the Insurgents would have quickly surrounded and destroyed us, if the Insurgents had been really stupid and tried to they would have got wiped out in short order.

But it was basically a futile battle. They had numerous spawn cars in the area, as we kept on dying and accidentally hitting civilians in the chaos our spawn times got longer...I was the last to die, on fire, bleeding, bullets whizzing past me I decided to blow myself up with C4. Heroic like.

Managed to take 3 guys with me though.

Another time on Al-Basrah was in .7. We (The insurgents) hadn't been doing very well, only two caches left and the Brits had a ridiculous amount of tickets left (like 300-350). On the other hand though, those 2 caches were both on the island and were very close to each other. We also had a few spawn points on there.

The plan from that point on was to transform the island into a fortress. The bridges were blown up, many RPG's, snipers and PKM's were gathered from around the city, some technicals were tasked with watching out around palace. IED's covered the main roads and the specialist weapon guys got up to the tallest building they could find. I myself was with them, armed with a PKM. A few Insurgents were still operating in main city to cause inteferance.

In the end, we destroyed the Brits. The vehicles found it especally difficult, with the bridges out they had no way across and stopping on the river banks to try and shoot us from afar guaranteed multiple RPG's heading towards them. A few brit infantry were able to sneak through occasionally but we made short order of them. The merlin got destroyed a total of 3 times trying to land troops on the island, the volume of .50cal and RPG fire just made it impossible and the fact they kept trying it made me facepalm. At one point two brit squads and a warrior were at palace and it sparked off a long range firefight which we had difficulties with. But in the end the sheer amount of firepower we had meant they were quickly dealt with. The challenger very rarely got in sight range of island, just for the fact its crew were being very cautious (rightly so) and the insurgents still in main city were running suicide IED attacks against it.

So yeah, a pretty awesome comeback. I'm not really sure what the brits could have done except maybe sneak one or two spec ops guys over, but even then, we had things very well covered. Maybe if we hadn't got so organised and hadn't focused on blowing up the bridges and keeping the RPG's with us it might have gone differently.

[black-wolf]

Albrashah, wednesday, 07:00

I was a SL of a squad and the commander orderd us to move into al brashah with some rovers. When we where in middle of the city (almost without shots) KAWOOM!!!!!! everybody was screaming with voip WTH WTF HOLY SHIT WTF JUST HAPPEND HOLLY COW ! And that kinds of things. one rover was taken out, with a HUGE explosion, it was burning and 2 of my men jumped out, the driver was killed by the explosion. Then we where totaly surrounded by , i think, 5 squads, and I orderd my squad to go into a building and wait for transport. We did, but our other rover was blown up by a RPG. We where firing a litle ( wasnt really hot), when suddenly the insurgents started a huge attack, 4 squads (4x6=24) where runing to our building. We where directly started to shoot. It was like omaha beach. Explosions at the roof of our building, a molotov was trown inside, killing 2 soldiers, about 18 insurgents where kilt.
Then they starded firing, al the time. that was our situatin for 3 miniuts, pinned down. Then someone said in the chat: Charlie squad! watch your status over! I said this is charlie squad! We are pinned down and are low on tea over! he said: roger charlie squad, standby evac ETA 1 minut over. Then a litle stupid dick headed child said in the all chat: THE SQUAD IN THE BUILDING IS GETTING AN EVAC!!! So the insurgents started again a attack. they almost reached the bulding when a KA-BOOM ended the live of 7 insurgents. the challenger was at our position, with 2 landrovers and a suply truck (the truck was for us) We ran to the truck, hopped in, and began to drive. then, the challenger was destroyd by an IED. we had to drive backwards, it was blokking the street. then to back rover exploded, but we where able to get past it. then we only had a rover and the truck. 2 pickups tried to shoot some soldiers out of the truck, we where taking fire, but hen we reached the edge of the city. we where safe there, the pickups drived away, and we are free.

[Grinch]

Al Basrah... being squad leader (not one of my favorite but i can manage the job) we just run through VCP and we were somewhere near the (cant think the word where the restore stuff and they put the things on ships ) then we were behind the "boxes" when we were just waiting with other squad.

I watch with binoc's 2 times nothing, then i go again i saw some green tracer just flying next to me. Squad 3 sniper with he's l96 try to find the enemy but got killed.

In a seconds the air was filled with smoke from our L85's and tracers flow everywhere... I called JDAM in wich came fast and blew the whole outskirts away. Then taliban drove over us .


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Second battle was on EJOD Desert we haved captured all expect main (I was in USMC side) then we were far away hills with my squad and we haved RP there.

There were all other squads in the north desert. Then wave after wave we saw over 20 guys running in open to USMC positions we fired everything we got. Just laying bursts with my M249 SAW as others used M16A4's (Those beautiful black rifles).

Suddenly i shot some flankers including some truck driver and then my SL and i was only alive runned away as APC chased us. Luckily from next corner i found friendly APC who chased that BMP. As our own humvee drove away leaving my SL and me running over the hills, the humvee came back but i couldnt get in (maybe it was full) then it backed and drove over my leg. I was wounded but not death. THen i was tired and disconnected after we were afterall winning.

Great team. Some T&T guy SL and i must say WELL DONE LADS!.

[Scot]

Operation archer, 21:00 GMT
We are Hueyed into the city, with my mate SL, 1 auto rifleman(me), 2 medic, 1 Light AT, and an engineer. So we get dropped off just a little outside the town. We set a rally and its all quiet on the western front atm. Then we move into the city and see an insurget running across the street, so we all fire at him and move on. First building, CLEAR, 2nd building CLEAR, 3rd building, OH SH** TAKE COVER!! So we all take cover(thanks new suppresion effect ) and our light AT guys pops up and takes the building out. Job done, no cache. so we re arm and move on. Suddenly from out of absolutely no where, its on. There were a billion insurgents( well at least 15+) and 6 men. They have us pinned down from two sides and we are currently have no absolute fix on which building except both are fooking close. Our light AT pops up to try and see which building. He spots one, jumps down, jumps up and gets an AK(i dunno what it was but lets say AK) to the face. Him down, and our rally about 400m away from us. So then i see 3 people trying to flank us going to a building , so i shout 3 enemy 355(dont remember what it was, jus and example) and we take 2 and hit the other(who later dies) but we are still pinned down, with the only attack we are doing is popping up and hoping one of us will get lucky with a burst. Our light AT guy reports enemy movement to our right, a lot of enemys. So with him sending an AT4 between them, we run lke hell back to a defendable position, While they re group. We fall back and defend just in front of our rally as we know its an easily defendable position. We lead them on, critically wounding one guy, but he gets up. We setup up all covering either side, and then it goes down. Insurgents just start firing from EVEYRYWHERE! We all fire back and after like a 10 minute fire fight, we think we have won as there is no one else firing back. We request back up for the approximately 100th time. Suddenly we hear On the way. YAY.... no... they come run straight into town and die at the hands of the insurgents. We request a huey rather than backup and finally it comes and we are air lifted to yank base. no. we got shot down with an RPG as we were taking off(hot LZ, me firing with my M249, felt like 'Nam). But that was the best firefight i have had in a very very long time. Comes right to the top of my list, and thank you insurgents, i got like 20 kills

[akmed]

In dam, me and another rifle man were camping the bridge. I was HAT. I shot and killed an APC and then with my HAT shot down 2 blackhawks

[gclark03]

Operation Archer as Insurgents, just near the VCP. We were hiding in the ridge just near that house on the side of the road, trying to clear those ruins to the upper right of the VCP - lots of fun. Actually, it's the only time I used all 90 bullets in my SKS well...and survived to get a resupply.

[[VENF] Gupyzer0]

Playing jabal al burj, as marksman / sniper i killed like 20 or 25 really funny, but we lost