Squad ICO Gameplay, playing on a 24/7 invasion server. This was a fantastic match with good communication from the squad leads. We spent the whole match shooting mortars from the mountain top, defending against the USMC and their amphibious landing.
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00:00 - Hitting the Beachheads
09:00 - Captain's Farm
11:39 - Denying the Attack FOB
15:22 - Final Battle on the Mountainside
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YO I was in this game, I was Itchy Paulsack running ammo to you guys, me and my Arma friends were running the squad on squad 1)
Good work!
Nice work. Get a new username lmao
lmao i love your username
For people wondering, yes this is as realistic as you can get with mortars. The reason the ingame ranges dont work is due to the immense height elevation. I was in the US Army and I was in fact a mortar man, on the 'battlefield' per se we would have what are known as FISTERS go out on patrol with scout squads, these Fisters would gather coordinates for us to use which would be more accurate than what we would have on an actual terrain map, thus making it easier to be accurate with our mortar system. In Afghanistan for example, we were in a higher elevation, this would make us have to adjust our zeroing by a few meters, and in some cases depending how high up we were we would be able to shoot even further by a few hundred meters. I love that Squad added mortars and even though it is extremely simplified, it is still accurate to how its used, my only complaint would actually just be the amount of rounds you can shoot over since in real life you can shoot as many as you like non stop as long as you have cold water to cool down the barrels every couple of shots.
Good to know, thanks for your service
Mortars in squad are my favorite thing to do. I'm so accurate with that mortar calculator. I promise you don't want me to have an endless volley. 😂
@@ohsam5954how can i make this about myself
@@youridepouri1366 idk why people feel a need to be douche bags on the internet. It's just a little small talk.
Shame it looks like they can’t do direct lay. Pretty cool for a game.
"High Angle Hell" I swear Squad players are more accurate than Hollywood when it comes to role-playing soldiers.
Everything has to be watered down in Hollywood so the normals can understand it and engage with it
When Squad is played by the right players, it is just do damn good.
That's just like PR. You may face professional level players one day and a bunch of clowns the next! 🤣👍
@@tyree9055 oh for sure. I have had some of the best gaming experiences of my life along with some of the worst in Squad lol
@@volairn70 Yep, nothing like trying to win with a losing team! 🤣👍
It was, Up until October lul
@@eillswim Squad die many moons ago long before ICO
As a FISTER, I 100% approve this. Obviously these guys don't have a fire direction center to do the math from a non co-located FO, so co-locating is the only option. This is essentially what we would do if we were set up at a support by fire position that didn't have room to set up aiming poles and the mortars would just fire in handheld mode. FIST stands for Fire Support Team btw, that's why we're referred to as FISTERS.
And some of you guys are damn good at your job too. I would know as an 11. Charlie
everything is easier when FDC shows up I was 60s for USMC so we were in handheld and direct alignment so we never used fdc. i still think handheld is the way to go tho.
So, what you're telling me is, there are teams in the US military whose mission is FISTING?
Do you FIST your wife also?
im a fister too! although i've never been in the millitary
"we are taking sniper shots" IMMEDIATELY JUMPS ON THE MOST OPEN POINT HE CAN FIND!
gamer moment
17:15 is just like "delete everything in that general area"
Yeah it's pretty great
Doing shit like this, being a medic, or even doing logi sometimes is more fun than actually playing infantry sometimes
The community is good, a lot of fun to be had just hanging out behind lines
That's what I did many years ago with the original BF1942. Played mainly Engineer and Medic.
If you like the mortar, you should make ranging tables for different maps and positions. Then you can just refer to it for mortar settings.
my first impulse was to start making a ranging table as soon the rounds hit the correct spotXD just call out the grid and the chart shows azimut and range
Its why the other guy said to use the calculator, there is an online tool you can use to compute a firing solution
@@JetJockey87 Aren't the online calculators oudated, Last time I played was 2 months ago and the sites were offline.
@@ddontyy some of them were, they brought them back
@@ddontyy Squad mortar XYZ is pinpoint accurate. You also have BM-21 and UB-32 ranging, it's a great tool to use !
Imagine a competitive tournament where teams have a commander (coach) with a massive map board like the military HQ and we can see on stream the HQ live creating tactics and communicating with his team while they play, and the opponent equally with the same setup, on top of that commentators talking about each teams tactics and sometimes tunning in the radio of HQ. That would be INSANE competitive gameplay live on Twitch 100k+ people watching or more
Thats a realy good idea
I'm down. Let's do this
needs to be alot of production for this, this has to be an event with a lot of money put into , and i dont know if there is any incentive to this, from the producers , maybe there is some convincing to be done from someone with money. Or maybe organize this from the indie side of the public, to buy a small stage in texas for 2k people and some gaming influencer to promote this. Its tough to make it happend
@@emanuel81111 I would be willing withen the correct channels to definitely donate. If this could ever be conceivable. It would seems like there would be a huge base that would love something like this. But you never know. I would freaking love it!
@@wilfredjurassicyeswhat are YOU going to do?
Wild noone on the other team decided to shoot at the big obvious fortified position on the hill that had LoS to almost everything.
probably a rendering distance problem.
@@benjaminloyd6056I mean if they Can see the others the others can see them, no?
@@wildwaters8348practical theory yes, but their could be tree clippings, land mesh, lower quality settings that may affect their ability to see or notice that far
@@pickleboy6059excuses... they just never once thought to look at the high ground up there bc who in their right mind would look away from the enemies infront of themselves to look at some random mountain behind them?
Range your map so you know where to put your rounds. "When the soldiers start yelling is when you stop firing ". Awsome
This has to be one of the more genius Squad FOB placement/tactic I've seen so far. Another good FOB placement tactic is called Castle of Thorns and is mainly for insurgents/militia team on urban maps, conceived by another KZheadr (KaptainKrunch97). The TL:DR of it is to find a building near/in an objective zone, reinforce it (basically becoming barricaded forces), and basically piss off the enemy team and make them lose resources by getting them to focus on you. Really fun from what I saw, but I haven't seen it used since the ICO. Should try it sometime!
"Tower of Thorns" is my favorite cheese. You can make it almost impossible to dig you out without tanks and explosives. If you do it off the point, the enemy wastes time not capping. If you do it on the point, you can hide 20 guys in a couple of buildings, and have 15 left by the end of the match
The type of team work you can put in background and fall asleep to.
I love how there is casually just a vehicle stuck in a tree 23:56
So uh, that was actually me, I was driving way too fast LMAO
Its nesting
you can see the enemy building their attack hab under the power line thing at 13:24, wouldve been a juicy target
Maybe I cut it, but I noticed and called it out way later, when we were almost done hitting the tower. We saw the Helo hovering with infantry running around, so we assumed that they were building aHAB and started hitting it hard anyway. It's seriously hard to zero mortars from the mountaintop, since the mils on the ranging dial aren't accurate.
only someone with hawk eyes will notice that.
i did have to put my nose on the reticle to see it@@Abfitaaz
it was obvious to me idk man@@Abfitaaz
nah bro what kind of monitor you have bro exceptional notice.@@koopssy
really fun to watch how good people play the game using team work instead of solo rushing the enemy which works but is not as fun to watch
I could literally watch this all day.
Hanging and banging love the mortar gameplay honestly wish I could find a squad to do this all the time.
Start your own squad and name it a mortar squad, you'll always get at least one other person
You shoulde definitely do more of this. It was so amusing to watch.
Most viewed video is chill mortar gameplay, I honestly want more :)
This video alone reignited my passion for mortars, time to get that my mortar manual from the army out again and find a squad asap.
Every time I've set anything up there I was annihilated lol. One time even by the marine attack helicopter when they weren't supposed to have rockets yet lol. Great spot.
Mortar gameplay is so much fun in squad. Whether you are on the giving or receiving end.
Artillerymen and mortarmen twitching as they try to watch this through!
I used to be a motorman in my Platoon. The max range (in game) on the 81mm is considerably neutered as those tubes can put a round 6km+ down range. However the physics imho are pretty accurate..the sound of the round leaving the tube is incredible accurate. I mean it’s a game at the end of the day..think they’ve done a fairly decent job replicating, though it’s far more complex than what’s being portrayed …having said that would be interesting to see if they could add in game setting the charge, cross levelling and traversing mechanisms (which not everyone could do, had be able to pat your head and run your belly at the same time) using the site unit to line up with the guide sticks to get on target one the FC provides the Fire Mission …of course you would need a Fire Controller, which I was also trained on…could get a round on target (within a two foot radius within 3 round..which is kinda being done with whomever is calling in the corrections….bearing/elevation ..drop/add/left/right 10 25,50 etc already ..I think even TOF is even incorporated in game 🤔 . I also find the use of mils using the binos fairly accurate. Computers are used today..back in my day, it was on the fly math…the MDFC (motor data fire calculator) was just being introduced towards the end of my time in…it basically looked like a Texas Instruments calculator on steroids..with the old red digital numbers. We were faster, each and every time…😂 We not only beat it..we were more accurate.
I can't play this game as I have bad ping, but I love watching SQUAD videos. And this is a banger!
Aint missing much tbh, ico up date sucks
I regularly have lag spikes and 100+ ping while streaming, squad is actually a lot more forgiving than most shooters when it comes to playing with dogshit ping... as long as you're not rubberbanding while trying to sprint to cover, or clearing buildings while lagging
@@ThunderBatRED I usually play on low ping but sometimes I try foreign servers with 150+ ping and it's still playable.
@@Rono99just play mee u get modded maps factions and it’s old ic
you suck@@Rono99
I feel like I’ve seen lots of clips of this game, pretty fun to see different perspectives
Very entertaining to watch, subbed
that spot with ATGM would be a lot of fun i think.
I was an 11 bang bang, love my charlies.
Looks like a really nice game if you find someone with the nerves to play it in the correct way, I assume I never noticed it because the gaming world is not filled with players wanting to work together.
Would be nice if structures and trees would take damage too to show players what devastation war also brings.
@@amadeuz819 I agree. Though I guess most don't have the time, money, or hardware for it. :(
@@amadeuz819 Thats on the devs. You need a new engine or an implementation of those kind of physics. DICE did it with Frostbite but others could too.
So weird to see one of my steam buddies in your squad after randomly finding this video 😂
i know you’re new, but when you are calling range adjustments, try to avoid saying things like “a little” or “a bit”. be precise. “left 1 degree, drop 50 meters, send three”
Damn this was fun to watch!
You should play squad more you’ve got a good calm voice & good editing skills. I want to see you succeed you’ve got my sub. Keep it up & keep pushing on it’ll pay off.
17:19 nice parking spot for that logi lol
One match I managed to get a sprut in this position, was hilarious because the enemy leo couldn't find us at all.
The dude on the mortar just doesn't listen good lord
There are mortar calculators online for Squad, because the elevation difference will massively throw off your accuracy with it.
15:40 jaja the truck
What was the mortar calculator you guys used? I still depend on the in-game calculator but that is, obviously, not the best.
good mortar teams just do numbers
This is the coolest freaking shit ever dude. I really wish i could get in on this.
Subbing just because you did this cool stuff
definition of the NASTIEST angle
thanks for putting videos in the way
videos in the way?
at the end cant see how many u ganked@@ThunderBatRED
@@iiikolby56 oh it was like 3, from the footage at the start that i cut out. I wasn't on mortars
11C Represent hooah😎
Impressive job !!!
This was comfy
I know this is completely different but my favorite weapon in battlefield 3 was the mortars. I was so good at it that most of the enemy team would try to hunt me down.
Gun 8 up! - lol
Just FYI, The hash marks on the binos are in Mils and made for adjusting the mortars right and left.
Fun watch... Though, please learn how to use your range marks on your optics... They work....
GG. I wish stats were not covered with previews in the end.
I moved to Europe and had to get rid of my gaming PC. I miss Squad so much!!!
need this game lol
wait thats norway i can recognize the hayballs :P and the coat of arms.
Every time I play squad I create my team and I name it MORTAR TEAM and I get a good emplacemet were we can hit lots of high traveled areas and call the distances for them
15:50 who the fuck drove a truck into a god damn tree? LMAO
I managed to find this on google maps. Its Uskedal in Norway.
They should add aiming posts to make the mortar experience more accurate. Have the ability to lay and adjust by sight but if you add aiming posts to the mortar line and have to lay the tube via the dial sight, your fires will be more accurate.
That'd be a cool mechanic
Kinda like in red oechestra 2?
Never done mortars in red orchestra@@quarreneverett4767
@@ThunderBatRED ah in red orchestra 2. Which squad hell let loose and post scriptum etc are inspired by but arent closw ro being polished the same. You can use a hand mortar that you can range or use degrees of direct fire
Mortaling mortars with mortars but high up😂
when i try and organize a mortar team either the squad lead doesnt mark targets properly or the mortar guys dont know how to aim it properly or keep firing on 1 spot doing nothing. when you get a good team of guys going its game changing. 1 elite squad is worth 2-3 unorganized squads
This would've been way easier if you were a squad lead so you could just directly mark targets.
Do mortars in Squad have a height calculator like the ones in PR?
Don't think so. I think it's just mils zeroed for level shooting
There are websites, but not ingame
Imagine super fobbing there and just raining hate. When I get a PC squad, insurgency sandstorm, dayz will be my first downloads
Insurgency sandstorm is a piece of shit game, dont waste your money on it
I'd like to watch actual mortar aiming and firing gameplay
It's too boring to have just my POV of firing, but when I get my friend's footage I'll be able to show what a mortar/frontline spotter team looks like
Tow would work awesome as well
I think we saw that the Kornet was unavailable on the layer. I can never remember what the circumstances are, but certain invasion layers lock out some of the weapons emplacements
@@ThunderBatREDyou should do a video with a TOW & Mortar hilltop team, if it’s allowable.
It's allowable, you usually lose the radio when you try it. @@MetaVizions
Hey, how can i get these realistic graphics? i like that smoke after exploding it stays long.
IDK what you mean, I play almost everything on low/medium except for textures. We were firing a lot of smoke rounds if that's what you're asking
soo satisfying
It really was
5:52 Is this map supposed to be in Norway? 'cause that's the Norwegian coat of arms.
how many kills did he end up getting
gg wp
Is this arma or something like battle field cause it looks like both but as far as i know arma is only one you can build in
Squad
where can i download this game?
Brother u have to do a Come-Back
Currently recording some Global Escalation matches, but i'm pretty busy. The next Galactic contention video is coming out first
I find it kind of hilarious that half of the video is just you giving your teammate good numbers, him deciding randomly "Nah, you know what? I don't like those numbers. I'm gonna go above/below that by 2-300 for fun. See what happens. Oh hey, would you look at that, I missed!" and then hearing you repeat the numbers you gave him.
game?
Rub butter on me mr
rah mortars
What game is this?
Is squad PvP or is it PvE This looks fun as hell but I prefer my milsims PvE, such as TAVR or Insurgency Sandstorm
Oh, sadly squad is always PvP though...
@@artyom1264 damn
Is the ranging from the attack-markers not accurate?
It's rounded to the nearest 50m, so no. We were also very high up, so the projectiles were actually shooting much further than it says when you use the mortar calculator or in game ranging dial
I’m just baffled they could stay there for so long in the open. No counter arty? No QRF to drop a small squad to counter and remove the position
There already exist ranging tables/maps online that let you mark exactly where you want to hit on the map and spits out exact radials and degrees relative to your physical position. It takes some of the fun out of walking in the mortars but makes it to where you can hit with pin point accuracy first shot. No forward observer needed.
i'll play this game when it's free..😢😢😁
This and Vic's are the only way to enjoy squad since the trashed it with ICO haha Literally infants trying to use rifles now 😂
Can this be played on Xbox x and if yes what's the title of this amasing Game Sure hope I can get this on X box
Squad is PC only
The 81mm has a 6km+ range…2km in game 🤔
Balance Reasons, 6KM is able to hit half the map from outside main. One mortar fob in the center would be used the entire match
It would be cool if OWI added artillery pieces in Squad and post scriptum at the main base to use. Similar to what hell let loose has.
People complain about the artillery at base gameplay in HLL though.
Big no
@@leonardwei3914 i never did. They have a limited range. So unkes you only lustened ti a few certain newbs.not sure where this arty bad is coming from
@@quarreneverett4767 "Artillery is wrecking us so send the snipers to deal with" gameplay loop is something a subset of longtime players have been complaining about for some time, not just "newbs" and "blueberries". To the point that the developers have openly thought about changing artillery gameplay in some manner (ie vehicle artillery, replacement with mortars, CO ability only, etc). I'm personally neutral on the matter, but I only have 500 hours in HLL and understand people who play much more than me may be annoyed by the gameplay loop by now.
This is my favorite current FPS, i wish the devs would stop mangling it.
Anyone else finding games lately that you've never heard of, and somehow are better than any other games? First Conan Exiles, now this???? WHy DONT OLD GAMES STILL ADVERTISE SO MANY PLAYERS ARE LOOKING FOR IN DEPTH GAMES AND I WISH I FOUND CONAN AND THIS LIKE 5 YEARS AGO...
To be honest I am to blind to even shoot at people so I just play medic to heal in squad
You should really learn how to use the stadiametric rangefinder on your binoculars!
So u have unlim. Ammo multible vehicles and u build no tow ? XD
So many people saying your editing is boring lmaooo
It's funny the algorithm picked an objectively boring gameplay to pump
cant see the score... had to use ublock and select your vides to blocks them thx
the ads block them? I don't have control over popups and midrolls, but i think i can remove most of them once this channel gets monetized. I think my flight sim content has minimal ads on my other channel, and i don't see banners when i watch without adblock
Imagine training to do this IRL 😅
Mortars are fun. Well, when the powers-that-be don't have you hump the tubes across a damn volcano. Fuck PTA. But, shoots were fun. Yeeting 240 81mm rounds in 60 seconds is fucking epic. I miss those days
Don't have to imagine I can remember😅
@@jealc0at least it was only the 81s I had to carry the 120s
@@magicpyroninja RIP
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What game is this or is this a simulator?
Squad