Da' great moments ... of organized group play

[GodOfGrain 191]

Hello everyone, let's share some stories of our experiences in organized group play. Besides a source of entertainment, we may also inspire each other regarding "what to do" in sandbox DayZ.

 

Side note, my experiences are from DayZ mod days.

 

Let's start with a classic:

 

 

NWA camping

 

Guys, that was great. Running a quite disciplined team of usually 5-7 people, we used to occupy the northern barracks at the NWA for a couple of weeks. (greetings to Azrail, Snake, Gordon, Rob).

 

We usually logged-in in the woods just outside of NWA. We carefully made our way in, secured the area and took positions. There were six designated positions (Alpha, Bravo, ...) around the immediate area of the northern barracks, as you can see in the picture below. We had spent some time in the arma editor to find the exact positions to give us 360-degree cover. Optimal group size was 6 people, but 4 or 5 could do it as well.

 

 

 

 

One player had to enter the area on his own first, which had something to do with the loot mechanics. This allowed us to cycle the loot in the baracks every 15-20 minutes. But before we started our first loot run, some preperations had to be made. While the whole squad had taken defensive postions, we usually set up a tent around the positions D-E-F. There is a hole in the ground, around 2 meters deep, providing perfect cover for our base of operations. In the tent we stored food, drinks, medical stuff and ammunition to set us up for the next hours.

 

After that was done, we set up barricades to protect our guys in the warehouse (postions B-C, as marked on the map). We carried some barbed wire with us for that reason. That was always quite a tense procedure, as you had to expose yourself to the southern treeline doing that. If everything stayed calm, one player would start looting the baracks. That was risky although we had the whole ground covered, as some people like to server-hop the barracks. (An AS50-round penetrating the barracks-walls has proven to be very usefull in these occassions).

 

Of course there was a lot of down-time involved. It's DayZ, we are used to it. Usually a lone survivor or a couple of guys would enter our territory. What a pity, they soon had three barrels pointing at them, opening fire at the same time. Sometimes an occassional group fight commenced, high times. We never left our positions until we retreated for the day, so there may have been other teams at the southern barracks doing the same. Some positions were less exiting (Player E had to stare into the woods with 15 metres viewdistance all the time). So we implemented a rotating system: After each loot run, players would shift positions clockwise.

 

We did this for two or three weeks, and then occassionaly came back to this strategy if we needed to stock up on gear. Was very fun while it lasted: Creating and refining the strategy, working on our communications and team discipline.

 

 

Ok guys, share your storys. Just keep it under the headline "group play" please.

 

Regards

Edited October 13, 2014 by GodOfGrain

[Calvin Candie 189]

Nice story, cool.

My group of 6 gathered in Gorka once and we ran to Elektro without wearing pants on. That is as far as we went concerning tactics.

I would love to play tacticaly like your group.

[GodOfGrain 191]

Nice story, cool.

My group of 6 gathered in Gorka once and we ran to Elektro without wearing pants on. That is as far as we went concerning tactics.

I would love to play tacticaly like your group.

 

Well, that's a concerted group effort! Well played

[alsmir 255]

I just can't applaud excessive camping and abusing loot farming even if you call it tactical waiting with lots of preparation.

 

 

Our group actions were usually all about rescuing someone that was dicking around and for example badly needs new wheel because he crashed his UAZ into barricades in the middle of Stary.

Most of the proper teamplay we had in Arma 2 missions, although I remember some successfull adventures:

 

DayZ mod, private hive, no crazy amounts of high-end loot

 

3 of our guys were travelling from Gorka towards west in UAZ, around Novy they we're spotted by enemy team in heli. Heli's crew started shooting at them. My teammates managed to make it to Stary, but at this point the car was badly damaged and they abandoned it and run towards nearest buildings. Heli was circling around. Enemy team dropped 2 snipers north of Stary.

 

At this point we had 3 more people online in our group: me - about 15 mins away from Stary when it all started, 2 more of my mates - travelling together SE of Stary, around 20 mins away.

It was getting dark, none of us had nvgs. Our teammates trapped in Stary were poorly geared (some AKs and M4s) and getting overrun by zeds.

 

I got to the hills SE of Stary. Carrying L85 AWS and M24. I was checking the situation with my scope, while waiting for 2 other guys to arrive. Spotted some sniper on the hill north of the tents. Seconds later it started raining, visibility got worse and I could no longer see him. Decided to flank around going E, NE, NW. Moving around unnoticed was taking a lot of time since the heli was still in the air.

One of our guys in Stary tries to run towards the market and gets sniped.

 

Reinforcements arrive - 2 of my teammates mentioned before. They took position S of Stary. One of them carrying L85 AWS and no backup weapon acts as a spotter. Second one is equipped with M107 and ready to deal with that chopper.

 

I'm sitting in some bushes next to Novy when a moment of brilliance comes for our sniper. He decided to expose himself and take a shot at the heli. Secon shot - pilot dead. Heli starts falling down, the rest of the crew parachutes (2 guys). Weirdly enough heli doesn't explode but just sits on the ground and looks undamaged.

At this point it's really dark. I can barely see anything without the scope of L85. Heli landed maybe 150m N of me. I wanted to make a run for it. But I don't have anyone covering me and there are 2 enemies around and at least one more N of Stary. I wait in my bush and overlook the heli.

One of the enemies runs towards it but I manage to take him out. Then we hear sniper shot N of Stary and message pops that another of our enemies went down.

I spotted remaining guy running away towards Stary hill and try to catch up with him. Not rushing it and stopping every 20-50m to scout area with thermal scope.

 

I've asked for some support on our TS but guys were to excited. Sniper and his spotter rush towards Stary with spare wheel. Remaining guys in Stary grab the gear of fallen comrade and get ready to escape. Then one of them rushes to the chopper.

 

I manage to get to the Stary hill. Guys in Stary repaired the UAZ and starting to gtfo, the other guy jumps into heli that can still work and gtfos aswell. I stop for a second to scout the area and notice two guys crouching over someone's body. Not taking any chances I unload my whole mag into them. They were 2 remaining guys from enemy team. Crouching over body of their friend that one of them popped by accident in the rush.

 

That was great experience.

 

Sry for typos.

[Karmaterror 982]

That's a cool net at NWA...only prob, you got no one on the hill outside the wall!! What were u thinking...that hill has LOS on nearly every one of your positions except the ones on the east side. Cycling loot could be dangerous if we had been on that hill (one of our fave spots)....

 

 

Anyways a story...of group play...I call this one "A Million Ways To Die In The West"

 

4 person group at NWA, we have a bus, offroad and a car. The bus being slowest takes the lead, the car 2nd and the offroad (me) 3rd. Our guy in the car is getting right up the busses arse beeping. The guy in the bus decides he needs to check his map...

 

The car hits the back of the bus....this knocks out the driver of the car and starts the bus engine smoking. I reverse and run up to see whats happening. As I get there the bus driver gets out to see whats going on and just as he does BOOM! The bus goes up and the car engine starts to smoke.

 

Nothing I can do for the unconscious in the car so I drag the now unconscious bus driver out of range and bandage. As I finish the car driver comes too and gets out....BOOM! the car goes up. I move in to drag him away but as I get hold of him the secondary explosion from the bus knocks me out aswell.  

 

The now conscious bus driver drags me to safety and we get healed up. The car driver gets killed by the secondary explosion off the car as im being dragged. Net result...bus and car gone (including near full inv of weps and ammo). We drive off in the offroad to grab our fallen friend from the coast feeling slightly disappointed but very amused :)

[GodOfGrain 191]

I just can't applaud excessive camping and abusing loot farming even if you call it tactical waiting with lots of preparation.

 

That's a valid point. On the other hand, NWA is a deathzone. We ensured that that saying stays true ;)

 

We did some other stuff as well which I might add later.

 

That's a cool net at NWA...only prob, you got no one on the hill outside the wall!! What were u thinking...that hill has LOS on nearly every one of your positions except the ones on the east side. Cycling loot could be dangerous if we had been on that hill (one of our fave spots)....

 

Which hill? You mean the one at the end of the runway in the south? That's to far and no direct line of sight. Perhaps the map is different now in the standalone, haven't come around to start playing again.

 

 

Great stories, both of you. Man, "million ways of dying"... we had such stuff too. Know exactly how you felt :) This mix of fun and dissapointment...

[harteman 155]

Hello everyone, let's share some stories of our experiences in organized group play. Besides a source of entertainment, we may also inspire each other regarding "what to do" in sandbox DayZ.

 

Side note, my experiences are from DayZ mod days.

 

Let's start with a classic:

 

 

NWA camping

 

Guys, that was great. Running a quite disciplined team of usually 5-7 people, we used to occupy the northern barracks at the NWA for a couple of weeks. (greetings to Azrail, Snake, Gordon, Rob).

 

We usually logged-in in the woods just outside of NWA. We carefully made our way in, secured the area and took positions. There were six designated positions (Alpha, Bravo, ...) around the immediate area of the northern barracks, as you can see in the picture below. We had spent some time in the arma editor to find the exact positions to give us 360-degree cover. Optimal group size was 6 people, but 4 or 5 could do it as well.

 

 

 

 

One player had to enter the area on his own first, which had something to do with the loot mechanics. This allowed us to cycle the loot in the baracks every 15-20 minutes. But before we started our first loot run, some preperations had to be made. While the whole squad had taken defensive postions, we usually set up a tent around the positions D-E-F. There is a hole in the ground, around 2 meters deep, providing perfect cover for our base of operations. In the tent we stored food, drinks, medical stuff and ammunition to set us up for the next hours.

 

After that was done, we set up barricades to protect our guys in the warehouse (postions B-C, as marked on the map). We carried some barbed wire with us for that reason. That was always quite a tense procedure, as you had to expose yourself to the southern treeline doing that. If everything stayed calm, one player would start looting the baracks. That was risky although we had the whole ground covered, as some people like to server-hop the barracks. (An AS50-round penetrating the barracks-walls has proven to be very usefull in these occassions).

 

Of course there was a lot of down-time involved. It's DayZ, we are used to it. Usually a lone survivor or a couple of guys would enter our territory. What a pity, they soon had three barrels pointing at them, opening fire at the same time. Sometimes an occassional group fight commenced, high times. We never left our positions until we retreated for the day, so there may have been other teams at the southern barracks doing the same. Some positions were less exiting (Player E had to stare into the woods with 15 metres viewdistance all the time). So we implemented a rotating system: After each loot run, players would shift positions clockwise.

 

We did this for two or three weeks, and then occassionaly came back to this strategy if we needed to stock up on gear. Was very fun while it lasted: Creating and refining the strategy, working on our communications and team discipline.

 

 

Ok guys, share your storys. Just keep it under the headline "group play" please.

 

Regards

My group does something similar, except we sweep the entire area for anyone we may find.  Start north of the tents, and complete a circle around the airfield, then to the barracks to the south.  We prefer assault to camping, cuz grenades.

[GodOfGrain 191]

My group does something similar, except we sweep the entire area for anyone we may find.  Start north of the tents, and complete a circle around the airfield, then to the barracks to the south.  We prefer assault to camping, cuz grenades.

 

Grenades can wreck your day, indeed. One day we got into a 2-hour-long firefight with another group in that position. Our last-man-standing was burried in the warehouse after a smoke grenade made the building collapse. Wonderful bug. :D

Edited October 13, 2014 by GodOfGrain

[Karmaterror 982]

That's a valid point. On the other hand, NWA is a deathzone. We ensured that that saying stays true ;)

 

We did some other stuff as well which I might add later.

 

 

Which hill? You mean the one at the end of the runway in the south? That's to far and no direct line of sight. Perhaps the map is different now in the standalone, haven't come around to start playing again.

 

 

Great stories, both of you. Man, "million ways of dying"... we had such stuff too. Know exactly how you felt :) This mix of fun and dissapointment...

 

Its a small rise on the opposite side of the strip to where you were positioned, its just big enough for LOS on the barrack and all the buildings. Heres some shots, still there in the SA as far as im aware :)

 

 

 

 

Edited October 13, 2014 by Karmaterror

[GodOfGrain 191]

Its a small rise on the opposite side of the strip to where you were positioned, its just big enough for LOS on the barrack and all the buildings. Heres some shots, still there in the SA as far as im aware :)

 

 

Nice pictures, appreciate that. Well, we found that it is impossible to cover the southwestern treeline anyway - such a vast area. So the guys in the warehouse were advised not look out of these windows, besides a small peak once in a while. And none of our other positions are visible from there.

 

But I have to admit: That was a bit based on luck. I wasn't aware of that elevated position, which indeed has a really good vantage point.

Edited October 13, 2014 by GodOfGrain

[StarLord (DayZ) 39]

Nice story. My only critique would be your sectors of fire, and not having a man posted where karmaterror showed you.

You've got men A and B covering conflicting sectors. The problem with that is when they go to check one or the other,

they're totally unaware of what's going on, on the other. Secondly, you have gaps in coverage. Particularly to the south.

Going off of your drawing all I would have to do is send a man to walk right up the hangar line and I could infiltrate.

You've got three guys (D,E,F) covering a sector that one man could almost cover. Just saying, it's pretty shotty.

Overlap the pie! lol The idea should be everyone have a designated sector of fire, which overlap about 20-30m, and they

never take their eyes off of that slice of the pie. This way you NEVER have the problem of "I didn't see them".

 

But hooah to you're spirit and cool story!

[GodOfGrain 191]

 

[...] Secondly, you have gaps in coverage. Particularly to the south.

Going off of your drawing all I would have to do is send a man to walk right up the hangar line and I could infiltrate.

You've got three guys (D,E,F) covering a sector that one man could almost cover. [...]

 

Yea, you are right. Actually now I remember that we had shifted one of those guys to watch south. Otherwise we wouldn't have had the roof of the firestation covered, too.

[jukaga 271]

Hello everyone, let's share some stories of our experiences in organized group play. Besides a source of entertainment, we may also inspire each other regarding "what to do" in sandbox DayZ.

 

Side note, my experiences are from DayZ mod days.

 

Let's start with a classic:

 

 

NWA camping

 

Guys, that was great. Running a quite disciplined team of usually 5-7 people, we used to occupy the northern barracks at the NWA for a couple of weeks. (greetings to Azrail, Snake, Gordon, Rob).

 

We usually logged-in in the woods just outside of NWA. We carefully made our way in, secured the area and took positions. There were six designated positions (Alpha, Bravo, ...) around the immediate area of the northern barracks, as you can see in the picture below. We had spent some time in the arma editor to find the exact positions to give us 360-degree cover. Optimal group size was 6 people, but 4 or 5 could do it as well.

 

 

 

 

One player had to enter the area on his own first, which had something to do with the loot mechanics. This allowed us to cycle the loot in the baracks every 15-20 minutes. But before we started our first loot run, some preperations had to be made. While the whole squad had taken defensive postions, we usually set up a tent around the positions D-E-F. There is a hole in the ground, around 2 meters deep, providing perfect cover for our base of operations. In the tent we stored food, drinks, medical stuff and ammunition to set us up for the next hours.

 

After that was done, we set up barricades to protect our guys in the warehouse (postions B-C, as marked on the map). We carried some barbed wire with us for that reason. That was always quite a tense procedure, as you had to expose yourself to the southern treeline doing that. If everything stayed calm, one player would start looting the baracks. That was risky although we had the whole ground covered, as some people like to server-hop the barracks. (An AS50-round penetrating the barracks-walls has proven to be very usefull in these occassions).

 

Of course there was a lot of down-time involved. It's DayZ, we are used to it. Usually a lone survivor or a couple of guys would enter our territory. What a pity, they soon had three barrels pointing at them, opening fire at the same time. Sometimes an occassional group fight commenced, high times. We never left our positions until we retreated for the day, so there may have been other teams at the southern barracks doing the same. Some positions were less exiting (Player E had to stare into the woods with 15 metres viewdistance all the time). So we implemented a rotating system: After each loot run, players would shift positions clockwise.

 

We did this for two or three weeks, and then occassionaly came back to this strategy if we needed to stock up on gear. Was very fun while it lasted: Creating and refining the strategy, working on our communications and team discipline.

 

 

Ok guys, share your storys. Just keep it under the headline "group play" please.

 

Regards

 

My old mod group ran a similar ongoing operation at the old Sobor tents back in the day. We would have snipers up in the rocks on the hill, another covering the western approaches, another in the large metal barn and then a couple in town while the looters cycled the tents. We would actually allow lone wolves in escorted to take their pick from the massive loot piles that built up over the course of the day. Eventually it would get around that a organized group was holding down the tents and other groups would come to attack us. We usually held, had some great battles back in the day. There was also an industrial site in the middle SE of the map that we would camp/farm for car and heli parts. It was kinda in a depression surrounded by hills and we could post guys there to watch over us, though I recall one time we were really just wanting to get some parts so everyone was cycling. Of course we got wiped and our two UAZs stolen. :)

Edited October 14, 2014 by jukaga