Yesterday Henry, Joe, Jeremy and I attended Operation Bronze Trident at PRZ and it was certainly an interesting game… Initially there were three teams, tan, green and PMCs which was the side we were on however we really acted like a regular fighting force instead of adding a different element to the game. Anyway the game was a complete slaughter for the other teams, in fact later on game control combined both tan and green into one side to take us on and we still wiped the floor with them.

To be fair the game wasn’t very balanced, the other combined team had one gen 3 NV unit however while our team had the technological advantage it wasn’t the largest contributing factor. For me what I observed to be the biggest issue for the other side was the lack of centralized leadership and communication between their units. There was absolutely no coordination in their attacks and any resistance we did meet was quickly neutralized because their units would not get reinforced and the combined tan/green team was very spread out. Henry and I kept a relatively tight rope on the PMC group and everyone on our team was a team player which made things easy to manage.

GC came to talk to us about the situation, we volunteered to play low tech and not use night vision but the other team wanted to play this silly attack and defend in the two story structure where we were defending… I knew it’d be a slaughter but the tan/green team wanted that so we obliged and it turned out the way I thought it would. I’d like to stress that we had a small unit of maybe 6 players we stuck together that did not have night vision and that group did a ton of damage to the enemy as they know how to play together.

Anyway the game was called off at around 1:30AM, to be fair I feel the opposing team psyched itself out going into things and with low morale I’m not surprised the game ended ahead of time. I knew it’d happen but not quite that early… The PMC group packed up and we went to the local Dennys for a celebratory breakfast and that was fun, I got home around 6AM slept for much of the day and got to spend time with the family so I’m happy how things turned out.

I had a great time and it’s good to shoot with a bunch of switched on guys so I got my money’s worth.

On a side note Nick passed me an EOTech 552 that I’ll put on the FCC 416, now all I need is a real flashlight on it and I’ll be set with that thing, maybe I’ll use it a bit more moving forward. 😀