Suppressing Fire!

Cyril Figgis.

I thought suppressive fire is standard military training. As a soldier, you are in combat like maybe 1% of the time during an actual war. Firefights are usually short. Its mostly waiting and patrolling and sleeping and more waiting. even in high-intensity wars like vietnam or WW2. More recent wars are even slower. So during those minutes or hours of actual fighting, suppressive fire is key to victory. It keeps heads down until backup/artillery/airstrikes can be called in. My combat training in the army was like 80% suppressive fire. I was in recon, so we mostly had fire-while-retreating scenarios where alternate halfs of a team fires and retreats.

Two points come to mind, strictly from the perspective of an armchair general.

First, you need first class logistics as well as industrial capacity to run a doctrine of fire superiority continously over lengthy periods of time. If you can't supply your troops adequatly, suppressive fire becomes a luxury. Basically, industrial prowess allows you to sacrifice resources instead of soldiers. The Sowjets, on the other hand, had ample manpower reserves, yet limited logistical capacities, leaving human waves as a doctrine.

Second, I suppose it's much easier on your nerves to be "pro-active" about incoming fire than to just wait for an opportune moment. The vast majority of soldiers in major wars were civilians with comparatively little training. During the later years of World War 2, for instance, the difference between seasoned Wehrmacht divisions and reserve/Volkssturm units was enormous, despite acute ammunition shortage in the entire European theatre. Interestingly enough, even the replacement of bolt action rifles with semi-auto rifles such as the G43 didn't increase ammo consumption as much as one might expect.

>> ^Aemaeth:
Call me ignorant, but I can't imagine anything we need to fire 3000 RPM at instead of 2000 RPM. At what point is it just ridiculous?


Suppressing fire. You hear that gun, you run. There's no two ways about it. Not to mention that what it really has a stunning effect on is light armored vehicles. You don't even have two shoot at anything for a full second. Just a nice quick squeeze and a thousand rounds say, "No one is getting out of that car."

Yup. You would be correct on that. (50 cals being suppression fire)

I've had a 360 since launch day. Best console I have ever owned. Will it remain better then the Wii or the PS3? that is yet to be known, but as of now, I still can game for hours on it. nothing is better then playing on live with all your co workers a co-op game of G.R.A.W. Shouting tactics to your team mates. Or playing Elimination Perfect Dark in a server with 32 players and having no lag what so ever. Jumping into a jet pack and driving it right into the enemy base then laying down suppressive fire and taking out the entire opposing team. Or getting into an ice cream truck in dead rising and driving it around the mall literally killing over 100 zombies a second.

no other console does that. No other console as of yet CAN! So you can be a fan boy all you want, but as of right now the reality is no other console compares to it.