SECTION LEADING: THE CORE OF COMBAT

Delta has put together the first in a series of documents detailing the different team roles within CTB. The first up is the Section Leader.

"Being the section leader gives you tremendous power yet vast responsibility. Your team is relying on you more than you are on them. Your role is the father of the group. You are making decisions for them to action. While they trust that your decisions will help them see the end of the fight, you must trust yourself that you have given sufficient thought to what you want them to do. The following is a basic guide to how a section leader can get the most out of his team. It will outline two type of actions, offensive and defensive, each with their own unique ideas and uses. It will also attempt to cover the finer 
points of section operations, that sometimes get overlooked, such as logistics and forward-planning."


You can read the whole article here: Section Leading: The Core Of Combat

S70 Training Night

  
  
  
  
  

Armaholic announced that Placebo announced the 2010 Community Awards on the BI forums!
This is the third annual and we are happy to celebrate the passion and creativeness of our dedicated community.

The three phase awards event starts today with the nominations and continues with a voting phase in February 2011. Subscribers can nominate their favorite community created piece of work for Arma or ArmA2 (inc expansion/DLC specific mod content) till Midnight CET, January 31st 2011. Winners will be announced in the first two weeks of March 2011. 

Marek Spanel, Bohemia’s CEO, explains: "Last time around it was a great success. It proves to us that Community Awards are the right kind of event to support the Arma 2 enthusiasts and help them spread word of mouth about our projects. We would like to continue giving their great work more recognition beyond the usual hardcore community and use this opportunity to introduce the huge size of our Armaversum, as well as the unlimited gaming opportunities brought by the complex yet easy to use mission editor. Thanks to our dedicated community we are able to continue our work of adding and improving the library of military simulations available!”

All details including the competition´s conditions are described at Bohemia´s homepage at www.bistudio.com and on Arma 2 website atwww.arma2.com.

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Be sure to get your votes in! Make sure you get a vote in for AAW for best addon of the year, and let's not forget AusArmA, no.1 ArmA community website!

The Flipped Bushmaster

Video speaks for itself...

Christmas Break

That time again everyone - CTB is taking a few weeks off to eat our own body weight (or more) in whatever food appears in front of us and hopefully drunk a substantial amount. 

Regular activity will kick off mid-January 2011. 

AAW Mission Night Screenshots

What a turn out - 37 players, every one of them running the Australians At War addon! It was great to see so many community members getting the gear and turning up - due to the response we'll be running all nights with AAW.

I'll have an AAR done up at a later date, but for now here's some of the screenshots from the night. Don't forget to check out the AusArmA forums for more screenshots, videos and discussion: http://www.ausarma.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=540

Patches! - ArmA 2 1.08 / Op.Arrowhead 1.55 / BAF 1.01

Quote from BIS:
As a continuous support of its titles, dedicated community and customers, we are pleased to announce the release of 3 new patches which will improve the gaming experience of the titles from our military simulator line up!

Amongst the variety of tweaks and fixes detailed in the attached change-log files, these patches also bring a number of engine improvements, such as: stability and functionality fixes and improvements, various visual optimisations, AI behaviour improvements, new scripting commands and event-handlers, new grenade launcher optics in Arma 2: BAF, doubled texture and sound quality for BAF-Lite and much, much more.

Download them from ArmaHolic now!

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=12585

Points to note:

• If you have combined arms you only need the Arrowhead patch - it will update ArmA 2 for you if you have it installed
• Get the BAF Patch even if you don't have the DLC - "Doubled quality of BAF-Lite experience"