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Hi all, New to these forums but not the game (been playing since june) but have yet to find any posts here regarding frag grenades. Thought I'd just write a little bit about how many times they've saved my ass. I'm generally not a PvP'er and generally play a lone wolf survivalist type game plan although i've got a few friends I play with as a team we've got no organisation and generally meet up for the fun of it with no real plans. ANYWAY.. Heres just one example.. I was playing with one friend a few months ago, we were near the firestation with the powerstation on the north side of elektro, had been scouting up in the forest with the binoculars for a while and had confirmed visually there were atleast 6 players in and around elektro but the near constant gunfire confirmed it was likley there were more, regardless, i needed a weapon and my friend needed blood so the plan was a quick one, two sprint through the firestation towards the hospital and to swing round back north, i should add my friend had an enfield with plenty of ammo and i had, yep you guessed it, 3 'nades(1 from a deer stand, 2 from a corpse i looted en route to elektro). We moved low and slow down from dobry mountain sacrificing the cover of the forest and proceeded to drop onto the dirt road overlooking the firestation at which point my friend called eyes on two targets (one in bandit clothing) exiting the firestation heading due east pretty much in our direction, shortly followed by another bandit approaching from the south, in the panic I quickly rolled a 'nade down the hill in the direction of the first two players spotted, BANG, and my friend calls 2 down one is dead and the other is quickly finished off with a shot from his enfield, the third bandit approaching from the south atleast heard this (and possibly saw this) explosion and promptly turned 180 degrees back towards elektro. This was probably one of the fastest and most exciting engagements i've yet to experience in Day Z, not to mention sucessful.. And my point is, I really don't think there is a more useful weapon in the game, espicially for small groups and lone wolf type players.. It's and incredible combat multiplier and far larger groups than your own can be thrown into panic and disorder, if not dispatched completley by one or two grenades, because if the explosion fails to hit anything the noise and shock factor of grenades popping off left right and centre around a group will almost certainly make them think twice about continuing to engage yourself or your group. I've you've taken the time to read all this thanks, I'd love to hear anyone elses storys regarding grenades and how they've been put to use as I can't find much at all about them on here... OH, and I should add, after the engagement we no longer needed to run into elektro as the two corpses were fully geared out and we both ended up with coyote backpacks, some nice military grade weapons (M4 CCO SD and a AK74-SU), sidearms, food, water, medical gear, the job lot.. So yeah.. Not a bad haul really :D

Ah nice, thanks for the tip, I haven't really entertained finding vehicles as playing on my own for the most part I think it's more effort than the worth of it finding all the parts to fix one up just to be even more visible and audible to everyone else! That and the fact I never seem to come across vehicle spawns anyway!

To all the posts regarding grenade suicide i'm no explosive throwing god, I once bounced one off the door of elektro church (two bandits inside) tryed to run, broke my leg and was promptly put out of my misery by two bandits who proceeded to laugh at my plight over side chat :( lmao! Another time a friend of mine decided to throw a 'nade inside a hanger at NWAF (A HANGER WE WERE BOTH INSIDE I MIGHT ADD :|) i'm sure you can imagine the outcome.. I've only heard about these, cant say i've seen any in the flesh, don't they only spawn in a particular vehicle?