Mature squad for learning by experience.

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What's up guys?

I'm looking at putting together a squad for those players who understand the game but want to take their knowledge and skills to the next level. We'll be working mostly on efficient communication at first, but if we become proficient enough we may begin trying to stretch ourselves tactically.

Requirements: (there will not be many of these. I am a newb. I know very little of tactics. I hope to learn communication through the mimicking of what I see done by others on YouTube and whatnot. I don't really expect anymore than that from others.) Please don't let these scare you.

-Maturity: Age does not matter, as long as you are mature enough to follow commands and take criticism. We are all here to learn, and if you are not willing to learn with us or you are preventing our learning, then you will be dismissed (and, most likely, promptly shot).

-Basic understanding: The DayZ inventory system can be confusing at times, but it isn't hard to learn. A 10 minute YouTube video will teach you everything you need to know. The same goes with the map structure, knowing north is more dangerous and cities are more traveled. Status conditions. The difference between shock and a broken bone confuses quite a lot of people.

-Willingness to learn: Again, we are here to learn. If someone finds a paper on military tactics that is deemed useful, you will be expected to read it (though I don't expect this). When our squad is massacred by a lone wolf with an ax, you will be expected to reflect on your death.

-Ventrilo and a mic.

Please don't let any of this scare you. I myself am a newb and an easy going guy. I hope we will be an easy going group. The serious will be only brief interludes between the good times.

Rules, and these are subject to change. Please, again, don't let them scare you. They will be only common sense, and easy to follow.

-There will be no shooting on sight. It's simply too dangerous with a squad of people who may not be able to remember where everyone is at one moment.

-We will only kill in self defense, or in order to control an area. For instance, if we are traveling and we see a random player with no weapons, we will leave him unmolested. If we are trying an exercise to control a portion of Cherno, then any contacts will be eliminated. That's part of controlling an area.

-Don't loath death. Again, we're in it to learn. We are beginners. WE WILL DIE. Mistakes are how one learns.

-Think for the better of the group. Don't get attached to weapons that might be better in the hands of someone else. Don't flee during a loosing firefight. This goes hand in hand with the rule above. Don't try to be a martyr for our squad, but do not force others to be a martyr for you.

Finally, one last time, DON'T LET THIS SCARE YOU. It's not scary. Think of it as the college of squad work to the highschool or lone-wolfing. It may seem intimidating when reading the requirements, but really all you need is a passable test score and the effort to put a bit of your time into it.

Basics of learning strategies:

We hope to learn, by experience and practice, the system of squad warfare and tactics. This means that at some point we will likely travel to the north to test ourselves as a group. We will practice communication skills, and in death we will be expected to reflect on our demise and think over how we could have better handled the situation. Through this we will hope to build effective communication methods for spotting targets, as well as with decision making and action.

You need not have any skills, really, to join. If you do have a specific skill, though, feel free to join and teach us. I would be ecstatic if someone who understood rangefinding and marksmanship joined, as I personally want to learn sniping.

I do not want this to be a clan. I would rather we maintain a size under 6 people, though I would be willing to go up to 8. We will not be making bases or stockpiles. We will not play on a specific server. If we do find a helicopter or a bus or something then we might save it and come back to the same server later, but I would rather cross that bridge when we come to it.

I will be running a Vent server for us to talk over. Or, if someone can convince me that it's better, a TeamSpeak server.

So, if you're tired of lone wolfing and you want to buckle down and get serious, or you watch sniper groups on YouTube hunting down bandits and you wish you could start heading in that direction, this is the squad for you.

Feel free to message me if you're interested (Include your Skype username if you do, that would be best). If you think I didn't explain something well enough, or you have any questions, please, ask them.