Blind Fire - ShackTac Arma 2

[@ClaymoreST]

I was the commander of the first tank you guys took out. We actually had you in our gun sights as we started moving down the hill for about the same amount of time you saw us. However I knew if we stopped you would have taken us out a lot easier. I figured I could get you if you missed the first shot but unfortunately Phil shoots good. This is a good reenactment of what it was like inside of the tank. goo.gl/aFmA7m

[@RiotHouseLP]

Love tank crew play, you know your a big target but with a lot of firepower. No guts no glory.

[@bheagle65]

Dsylecxi, I've been watching you for a while now, as a former T.O.W. missile systems gunner from 1984-1987 active... you did a Nice job as commander. I Hope we see more of you in helicopters tho, those vids are the best.... All the best to you, and your family.

[@Rocknoob49]

I think driver can be a very unthankful role in tank gameplay like that still without him you would be just a clumsy big gun

[@baum6801]

Poor OrgonUK (at 29.00 min.). He just fired his smaw at Jackal 1 (Morgananite) but didn't know he hit a tree, he was alone... against two tanks!

[@OrrgunUK]

Great to see this from the tanks pov. 28:57 - me getting my face blown off :D

[@ChaosRising0]

Gotta admit, that looked painful

[@Gabe4D]

That's some solid coordination.

[@colin8696908]

what a badass tank driver doesn't say a single word.

[@metsat8ll]

yay, chernarus and tactical pvp. my favourite combo.

[@BaerentoeterLP]

I love these tank gameplays

[@mattfan14]

Give Dslyecxi a vehicle with a weapon mounted on it, then immediately leave the planet. Don't look back. Never return. You CANNOT run, you CANNOT hide. The only way to win is to not play. Also, awesome video, Dslyecxi! Feels like it's been a while since we had some tank action.

[@JohnSmith-ud9ex]

Entertaining as ever D ! Well done to the driver I thought and a nice snap shot on the tank by the gunner !

[@MrTrebleCleff]

Would it help if you added what faction was against what in these videos? Because at first I thought it was Russia against American teams, then it was actually some kinda Chernarus clusterfuck and I got kinda confused who was shooting who.

[@GrimGearheart]

Love the videos Dsly. You and your community seem like a lot of serious fun. Still waiting for the mods you use to catch up with ArmA 3?

[@jordan1852]

Why do people keep asking why they haven't "moved" to A3 when A2 has way more features right now with ACE mod

[@GrimGearheart]

***** Well, I imagine like me, a lot of the viewers aren't familiar with what features come from where, be they modded or part of the standard game. I'm sorry I'm not intimately familiar with it. Secondly, A3 has been hyped on this channel for months now, of course people want to see more content with it, considering it's been out for 3 months now.

[@Matkovic99]

***** Oh I think he just means the mods, not specifically shacktac as a whole, I think as soon as ACE and more mods a created to suit how ST plays. Also there are some things that do have problems...or look retarded in A3...like for instance the cook-off when a vehicle blows up, you can see what it looks like on Beagle's channel

[@jordan1852]

Grim Games I didn't specifically AIM it at you i'm just saying that it's pissed me off when I see people saying why haven't you guys moved to A3. They say it likes it's a requirement when the next game comes out. Sure eventually you probably will be seeing A3 as casual as A2 butr ight now there's not much to do IMO.

[@jordan1852]

El Otero I haven't seen the cookoff in A3, infact I didn't even know there was one. Is there ACE or similer on A3?

[@Aflack246]

You command and execute very well; Your videos continue to be entertaining and tactical.

[@WopActual]

Ughh I miss ArmA. Couldn't play for a few months. These videos keep me interested.

[@007bAt]

Haha 22:30, that guy by the yellow house was like "fuck fuck fuck, gotta run!" Nicely done!

[@Recrohin]

Aawww yiss, been waiting for a new upload from you! grand!

[@Splode_]

I love tank crew stuff, keep it up!

[@Borgnrox]

Keep having fun playing and making videos, ...but we're still gonna have more watching them ! ;)

[@superjuca55]

Sorry for the plug, Dslyecxi, but Daaamn, the latest VBS3 Tech videos. Procedural snow and destructable buildings!

[@swish007]

It's crazy how tank warfare is so different here than in games like battlefield. More realistic tank battles are meticulous and cautious. The guys that win are the ones with more patience a lot of times. I always thought driving a tank would be awesome, but in some ways it's more dangerous than being infantry. Given how big a target you are, and that enemy tanks, aircraft, and guys with AT weapons can take you out pretty quickly. Tank battles are won inch by stressful inch.

[@bdculli]

Yeah. And people, due mostly to government propaganda, forget just how vulnerable tanks actually are. Tanks have to have a balance between mobility and protection, but to have enough mobility you have to sacrifice protection, doing it the other way around and the tank is too slow and vulnerable to have any positive effect on the battle (which it wouldn't even survive anyway because it'd be too slow and visible to avoid the threats endemic to a modern battlefield.) The thing is that the modern MBT's (Abrams, Leopard 2, T-90, Challenger 2: all GREAT tanks in terms of performance and capability) utility and combat effectiveness is greatly hampered by much cheaper, and cost effective threats such as man-portable ATGMs and even IED/Mine-type weapons. It is very easy and cost effective to make a more effective tank-killer using kinetic and chemical energy; the potential is virtually limitless. It is far more difficult (nay, impossible) to make an armor that can resist those energies in all circumstances. That's exactly what I love about Arma. Unlike other games, it treats war as it is, a symphony, and if one part is not keeping up it's end, the whole performance is destroyed; but if every part is on point, awesomeness ensues.

[@WoobooRidesAgain]

***** Actually, I would say that the biggest impediment to the use of heavy armored vehicles like tanks is that they are logistical nightmares to support, especially with the sorts of tanks we have today. The M1A1 Abrams is an absolute beast. I've heard stories where Abrams tanks took round after round of RPG fire with nothing getting through (the optics, though, have proven quite vulnerable to RPG fire). But the thing guzzles fuel like a fat kid guzzles down milkshakes, and during the First Persian Gulf War, they had a tendency to outrun their supply chain. It does not matter how awesome your tank is, if it has no fuel or ammo, all it becomes is a ridiculously expensive roadblock.

[@bdculli]

WoobooRidesAgain Very true, but most militaries are willing to bear the logistical costs and have accordingly sophisticated methods of supply that rely on multiple means of transport from various locations and routes. Those means are virtually unassailable by the modern threat we normally think of in the form of terrorism or insurgencies. During the invasion of Iraq tank units DID run out of gas and ammo, or were running on fumes before resupply came; but the type of enemy (and the type of war) that came after usually does not have the means to create large scale havoc to the logistics train, there's just not enough personnel, equipment, and opportunity to have such a large effect on the supply routes. They can hit a few convoys, sow a little chaos, but to actually attempt sever and/or hold a route makes them too vulnerable to counterattack. The key to an insurgency is live to fight another day. Of course in a major war between industrialized nations we have an interesting combination of both highly effective modern tank-killing weapons AND the ability of both belligerents to project power into the each other lines of communication. Maximum attrition on both sides. Let's hope we don't live to see it (or fight it.)

[@voxelemur]

This was extremely satisfying to watch.

[@DaBruzzla]

oh man that was horribly tense. The suspension of tank hunting is immense... thats why I also like the I44 adversial videos..... always cool tank battles... :) also: wasnt phil also your very good gunner on the last bmp video?

[@DaBruzzla]

QuakePhil Thx. Really nice lead on the shot. But what did you mean by lead FCS?

[@QuakePhil]

DaBruzzla In the Ace mod that we use there's a fire control system (fcs) for tanks, which computes lead for the shot if you are traversing with the turret while lasing the moving target.

[@Im_Foxtrot]

Your videos are amazing Dslyecxi keep them up!

[@williamwells5915]

Oh, and CHKilroy. Great vids. Thanks!

[@MrBeny]

Damn I love that radio chatter

[@Spritztechnik]

Cant wait til i get a new computer so that i can join in on shacktac! looks like so much fun!

[@williamwells5915]

Man...I just have to say that I start jonesing for new ShackTac content if it's been even a couple days. Even turned off my AdBlocker just for the ShackTac guys. If you guys are like me and love what these guys do, check out JuiceJive, Beaglerush, and JiveDilletantte as well.

[@djdavique]

22:31 some guy's running around that yellow building at the bottom of the screen =)

[@kamino78]

Very enjoyable mission! Do you have any infantry based videos coming up?

[@TheInfernalDawn1]

Can you bring more Tank Commander POV stuff from Shack Tac? I find Armored missions funner

[@buk1237]

Looks like everything went down hill for the enemy once you spotted their tanks.

[@Kayakdes]

Good shooting from the gunner haven't really tried tanks in ace yet but it looks tricky I guess they don't auto range like they do in normal arma am I correct?

[@fanjerry8100]

Everyone should play like this

[@express49]

Awesome team job !

[@shogun803]

this has to be the most tactical and realistic sounding commentary I have ever heard. What game is this, is it a multilayer game (clearly seems like it), and if so, is it against other players or AI?

[@dslyecxi]

Arma 2, and this is against players.

[@shogun803]

ty for reply :)

[@oWomenAreObjectso]

This video was amazing, got me pumped hahaha!

[@howl4838]

Man I would love to get involved with some groups like this. Game for the sake of gaming and not some stupid unlocks.

[@Kazic5000]

At 28:58 did you kill guys on your side?

[@mnkymanfoo]

That was awesome. Tank gameplay is best gameplay.

[@SargeTheSnail]

I thought u guys were screwed when the two tanks were charching u, but then the one tank messed up and went to town and then your gunner moped them up nice job

[@TheTrueRandomness]

at around 11:00 "Sh*t, I got [...] drive up to me"

[@dslyecxi]

"Jackal 2, go ahead and drive up to me" is the full quote, there was no "shit, I got".

[@TheTrueRandomness]

***** Thanks! Now that I read it, I totally hear "Jackal 2, go". Sorry for putting words in your mouth, I guess I had a case of "misheard lyrics syndrome"

[@Rocknoob49]

TheTrueRandomness ***** Had the same issue there. I think it was a mix from the radio cracking and a slow beginning of your sentence. Great video nevertheless

[@iCame4TheGame]

Rocknoob49 Yep. Totally a drawn out 'J' sound. I heard the correct quote the first time though.

[@wizdomkev7599]

Why do you never play any CDF missions?

[@NewMalikTTV]

What does it take to join your unit

[@StEvEMaCIas]

Was the tank Dslyecxi commanded a T-72 or a T-80? O.o

[@MrDescream]

t72

[@latviafriend]

Kilroy is alive?

[@michaelcurrier4492]

Were you engaging M1A1s or T-72s?

[@dslyecxi]

Both sides had T-72s.

[@jeffwhite1979]

Lol, yeah, to quote Phil - "What side are we on?" Great video, yet again Dslyecxi, and good team work in your tank.

[@michaelcurrier4492]

Thanks.

[@ragabara1031]

Luissen Tawnybrush The HMG was a NSVT, and is indicated on the top-right corner of the screen. It looks like insurgents vs CDF/US coalition troops.

[@Itsamemario0510]

Luissen Tawnybrush PKT would be the correct nomenclature if it were a PK platform, yes.

[@Jandles]

That one guy sounds like a Jimmyjam.

[@luckymitchel]

Great video

[@StEvEMaCIas]

Oh nvm... 7:36 shows a T-72B

[@EmothicVonHellsing]

Come on! Get some videos of Large Scale Arma III battles.

[@procrastinatinggamer]

Have you given the tanks in War Thunder a try yet?

[@dslyecxi]

I haven't yet. It's something I'd like to try, I've just been busy.

[@LtAce150]

***** Hey Ive had a problem with the t-72b from ACE, like it gives me a drivers view while in the gunners position. Have you ever seen/ heard of this problem?

[@DaBruzzla]

sorry... didnt watch very far yet...but had the tanks IR view modes?

[@makajadia2199]

THANK YOUUUUU

[@MrDescream]

carrying an akm as a tank crew. why? it's supposed to be an aksu. Great vid btw ! need moar tank crew gameplay :)

[@TheSergeantWaffle]

The AK was originaly designed to be a tank crew weapon, and then the AKSU was made for helicopter crews since they only had pistols back then as personal defence weapons... so technicaly he is supposed to have the AK as a weapon

[@brendanhealy3432]

I want to join and I am 18 but the link to your email or Gmail is down, when I click on it, it give's me a error message plz help love the vids it says "the default mail client is not properly installed" again plz help keep up the vids

[@headrockbeats]

Curb stomp!

[@Emanicas]

Tanks

[@Keinlicht]

lol "ei tank", someone doesnt know what ei stands for

[@Wagnersuperior]

putting "et" doesn't have the same ring to it though

[@Keinlicht]

Thats why you put "enemy armor".

[@QuakePhil]

Tanks are typically escored by infantry.

[@Keinlicht]

Right, but I doubt that was the intent of the map mark.

[@Wagnersuperior]

QuakePhil He is right. ShackTac never use tanks unescorted. Even in the open terrain were tanks are optimal, they still need infantry support.

[@NeoFromTheMatrix2399]

dem tactics

[@AUSTINwazhere]

So much profetionalism... until they forgot what team they are... Are we Russian? Are we fighting Americans? Insurgents? What war is this again?

[@Tibialstone7]

I wish that Bohemia Interactive would add interiors to their tanks. It's bad enough having copy and pasted tank models for both factions. Tanks are terrible in ArmA 3 IMO.

[@Wagnersuperior]

The tanks have different skins for the factions. It isn't BI fault that half the world drives T-72s !!! ChDKZ have a olive with green spots while the CDF have a darker green with black.

[@ragabara1031]

Wagnersuperior In a round-about way, doesn't that make it even more the reason for BI to add interiors to their tanks?

[@Wagnersuperior]

ragabara Tank interiors are difficult. I only know one game that has them, which is red orchestra 2. But that game only has 2 tanks. It would be cool nonetheless

[@descriptiondescriptiondescript]

Wagnersuperior operation flashpoint had it too (pretty much the first ARMA made by the BI)

[@RadeUeMasq]

STOP MAKING SHORT VIDEOS!!!! I liked your 1-2 hour videos, these 1/2 hour ones are too short

[@dslyecxi]

+Rade Gaming Expressing an opinion and making a demand are different things that come across very differently in tone. I edit my videos to avoid dead time, and if it comes out as 30 minutes, that's what it is. There are plenty of 40 to 70 minute videos in my recent history.

[@RadeUeMasq]

+Dslyecxi yea sorry bout that, didn't quite describe what I meant correctly, I don't mind the short videos, its what you mentioned about cutting the dead time, I do understand, thou I like those kind of moments where everything is calm, then shit hits the fan, always had my heart racing when I experienced moments like that

[@RadeUeMasq]

+Dslyecxi have you considered making a urban only mission, I mean something along the line as battle los Angeles, just one massive fight in urban environment

[@Deerintheocean]

arma 2 tanks suck, theres no interior view