How to (maybe) Survive an Ambush | Door Kickers 2

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[@karmakut]

love how you have turned doorkickers 2 into a milsim. 15 mins of straight planning and prep. you now have no excuse not to join arma ops

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

Ok. Just need an encyclopedia for the key binds. 🤣

[@mammoth157]

Would love to see this happen, huge fan of both of your channels, and love when y'all Collab.

[@genericcreator6467]

@@ControlledPairsGaming in my experience, if you’re just going infantry in ARMA the keybinds you need are pretty simple to remember. I can’t speak for literally any specialty though.

[@pjohns9532]

I agree with my fellow viewers here. Would love to see you lead a squad in some arma ops and see your decision making and why in some milsim combined arms gameplay

[@alanlopezr.7104]

@@ControlledPairsGaming It's scary at first but intuitive to learn somehow.

[@crapslap270]

That's the second time Necip has fumbled the grenade launcher lmao, first time was I think was a hostage rescue at a university where he shot a fence and fragged himself on live tv

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

Accurate. My dude has rough luck with the GL

[@luminaaeterna1259]

I think Necip should be off the UBGL lmao

[@tobiassanders9455]

Necip out here for comedic purposes fr

[@rsggbambino2710]

DAMMIT CARL!

[@knicechawt]

bro middle eastern TV would be nothing without Necip

[@KeyboardWarrior101st]

The thought of trying to pull a shield out during a near ambush just makes me laugh.

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

Lol same

[@upstander1233]

“Time out! Let me pull out my shield, thanks!”

[@trevorking735]

especially against HMG's

[@Trafulgoth]

Dude, that allied militia guy is a badass. He starts surrounded by traitors and fights 3v1, killing two by himself and getting shot point-blank in the back by an AK, but lives long enough for his buddies to kill the guy behind him. Then, he keeps firing on the machine gun ambush to the north, killing another baddie or two while the homies get to cover and take the position. Once that's clear, he runs up into the killzone with only the squishy chassis of a civilian truck for cover. While getting hosed with machine gun fire, he stands up and throws a couple of grenades through the smoke, finally taking a knee, presumably to put pressure on his chest wound and keeps his insides in.

[@obelix1996]

We desperately need Sheikh the Chad come back as a corporal (or better) in a later mission

[@Upperpeach]

Man I love these practical explanations of battle doctrine. They are super useful to send to my friends to learn and tighten up our own gameplay. Doorkickers is a fantastic way to show and explain all these concepts. Keep up the great work man!

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

Thanks man! That's what it's all about.

[@Bttl71958]

Within 3 seconds 7 enemy's dead, that ambushed happened so fast.

[@cazadorcrazy9194]

Absolutely off-the-wall mission. I used rangers and the crouch function to keep my guys alive, and more grenades than I can count. Been trying to do a CIA run but I don't think it's possible without the ability to use the mg's against the enemy in the game.

[@sykessaul123]

I managed a CIA run, it was fkn rough and I think I lost all but 2 guys but it was possible. Mainly about flashing/nading each MG position then pieing it in quick succession whilst they're stunned. You have to stack one side of the convoy though, you can't split.

[@ryanlu8747]

@@sykessaul123 I've done 3 star clean runs CIA with two guys, just gotta take it by bits and not expose yourself too much, bunch of restarts tho

[@mante6458]

Hey man, you handled that really well considering the layout. The thing with militia is that you need two men to handle a one man job, 3 or 4 to do a two man job and so on. Personally I like to stack them up in two man teams, one holding the gun over his buddy's shoulder. Weapon variety also seems to matter more with those guys, if you want a quick shot youn will have to give them a weapon with a high "aim speed" stat or they will generally lose against trained insurgents. Finally, crap ammo together wih crap accuracy is not a good combo, I've seen basic insurgents tank 4 basic AK rounds before going down. Another good reason to always have multiple militias watching the same corner, window or doorway.

[@kariko07]

9:35 Not finished and I’m already massively impressed - your breakdown of the reaction to short ambushes and the different types of fire.. this is why when it comes to tactical content you mix gaming and education and it’s awesome :).. You should run more PacMac style real-life courses.. you have a gift for sharing information in a way that makes people want to listen.

[@Mr133mike]

i never had any interest in this kind of stuff until i saw these door kickers videos by Pairs so agreed

[@andrew1575]

"Basically, it's a huge sh!t sandwich, and we're all gonna have to take a bite"

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

Valid

[@StevenL00]

You GOTTA unlock the APC 9K and M249 pairs! Especially the 249, swat literally SHREDS with that thing

[@horrorland01]

I beat this level with the SWAT team, I guess by sheer luck, because I tried to replay it and all my guys were wiped in seconds every time. Switched to the Rangers, same luck. BUT I did beat it once, so I'll take the W and move on.

[@mxyhem5733]

This has nothing to do with Door Kickers but we need more range content on the second channel.

[@brandthull5471]

Seconded

[@Catdaddy151]

Thirded

[@Jarhead1086]

When you said 2 types of ambush, my first thought was hasty and deliberate lol

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

Point and area, near and far, L and linear. Lol I feel you.

[@rosh597]

Absolute nutters mission this one. But I am glad you finally tackled this, with a solid explanation and planning, Pairs!

[@TheStevenWhiting]

The way you explain the tactics is what makes me keep coming back to the game.

[@faultline3936]

Finally. I've been waiting for you to play this map for about a month now.

[@zer1rgaming657]

Shit happens in war. It's just the nature of the beast, especially when you're on the X of an ambush without the luxury of pre-planning an assault (instead having to hastily execute a counter-assault). This reminded me a lot of a scene in "Mosul", where the SWAT team is also on the receiving end of an ambush: some needless mistakes are made, but they were also unavoidable in the chaos. Good work overall in not losing everyone, though. I'd imagine in a real situation, that would be the best-case scenario!

[@axemel]

The explanation of the battle doctrine and how you approached this mission really helped me form a plan that worked. I've been diving into this game lately and you videos have really helped me develop better battle plans. This map was very difficult, but I handled it by having the soldiers at the front vehicle kneeling behind the car doors and dropping smoke grenades at their feet. That limited the machinegun fire from the east, cutting the map off into an east and a west section. With my forces on the west side, this forced the mobile ambushers to come through the smoke to get at me. Not much blind fire through smoke apparently. Meanwhile, the rest of the team took down the machinegun from the north-west. Then I threw grenades past the smoke and cleaned up the eastern section. Very dicey and I had to trust the random generator to give me some luck, but I managed to get through it with no casualties. I appreciate your in-depth explanation of tactics and gear ahead of missions in this game. Very helpful.

[@elchjol2777]

I find with the Militia they work well if you pair a FAL guy with an M16 equiped buddy. The FAL takes a bit to get on target but it's near always a killshot while the burst fire of the M16 buys time for the FAL. The M16 is also decent on it's own.

[@JkCaron1]

You did way better than I did my first time doing this level! I did eventually get 3 stars, but the only way I managed it was to sorta cheese it, I only had a 3 member team with 2 below the armored vehicle and 1 above it. Without the 1 above, the enemy just immediately killed the allied militia, but with him there it pulled focus towards him and off the militia guy, who could then kill the few who start around him. Then I just had that one above sprint down to the cover of the armored truck and the cliff, and worked from there to pie off the rest of the map. Tough level for sure!

[@JkCaron1]

Mind you, this strat also took multiple restarts just to get RNG lucky and have the sprinter not also die on his run around and down.

[@nandoman4769]

Oh man this is a tough one. Exited to watch how you dealt with it.

[@Clasteau]

Good to see a new vid in this series, CP. Great stuff.

[@TheHyperfilthered]

Best way to get through this without casualties: Just two guys behind the middle car, and all the frag grenades you can carry and one smoke. Takes a couple of minutes to clear the mission with perfect score :'D Use your guy that starts on the left to carped bomb the machine gun nests in north. First should go behind the sandbags somewhere in the middle, because it's important to take out the rpg quickly to save your ally. Meanwhile your guy that starts on the right keeps his eyes toward the white truck because baddies will push from there. After the carpet bombing move the guy on the left and fetch your ally, then they move right (north side of the cars) to stand between the machine guns and the white truck (use white truck as cover from the machine gun in south). Smoke the road to blind the gunner at the end of it. Frag and push the southern machine gun. Frags, frags and frags all the way to the right, move using the bus as cover from the last machine gun nest, kill him, and you're done. I guess you could save time by taking a grenadier and slamming the western machine gunner with a 40mm through the smoke.

[@barryblues]

Awesome content. Keep it up. Love the Door Kickers 2 vids.

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

👊

[@MaximumNewbage]

On the briefing screen, when you are equipping your troops, if you click where it says "squad" in the upper right corner, you can change the unit you're controlling. As in, you don't need to use the Nowheraki SWAT for this mission (or any mission). You can use the Ranger squad that you've leveled up and bought gear for.

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

Correct. I elected the SWAT to stay on theme this time.

[@bennymountain1]

Man, this friggin mission. I dork out over every stage and try to beat it with no casualties (like in DK1 campaign mode, where they died for good). But not this one, lmao, I was happy when two of my guys made it out at all.

[@tylerblalack6684]

That wide open car garage in campaign 2 of DK1... fucked me up over 15 times i think before i got out with 'HyperPuppy' and his 3 teammates

[@virtuallyreal5849]

Cool beans 👍

[@GanjirahTheDoorKicker]

Man I still have to complete this map. I tried it when it came out then I never went back :D

[@l.k9043]

I want to say i really love how you say you will have dead in your rank as well , i know it sound silly but it had another level of realism , espiecially when you say it before your try beguin to really think about your strategy.

[@salvagedude625]

20:10 first suicide bomber was just gliding at the guys

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

Coastin

[@donwanna3906]

We have a heaping pile of death down there, so that's good.

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

🚫🧢

[@Yonoosh]

Think I played that mission 4 times before having a decent outcome. Just a good time for the whole family. 👍

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

Yeah I'm surprised how "ok" this went, tbh

[@Yonoosh]

@@ControlledPairsGaming Roll of the dice on that mission! Haha

[@timberwolfe1645]

Wow! I've had 2 stars on this level for weeks.....seeing you play and have men die makes me feel like a good strategist

[@rsggbambino2710]

I think they should add some sort of dog handler mechanic

[@tfwwhennofitlitgf3300]

RPK and front plate for everyone is the move

[@ruawee2925]

I have been waiting for you to do this mission for a while because I still dont know how tf im supposed to survive it lol.

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

It's tough even if you do it "perfectly"

[@GModBMXer]

That terminator insurgent was unexpected

[@TopherPearc]

That one was gnarly. 🎉

[@jayswizzle57]

Good shit👍

[@z34rk79]

No armor on his militia, interesting

[@maplesyrupguy8460]

Hey awesome video! I think you'd love a game called mud and blood, it's on steam and doesn't get nearly the attention it deserves!

[@crassiewassie8354]

LMAO you never have any luck with your grenade launchers

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

Right!

[@Three_Dog_Gaming]

I keep thinking of the "Dangerous Pie" at 22:22

[@guard1an839]

I swear, if someone can actually manage to complete this mission with three stars, I will be genuinely amazed

[@DracoAvian]

I've done it with high tier Rangers with mk18s and good ammo. They can reliably kill 1 guy each before they get a shot off. Then it's an even fight after that.

[@brandonmendez3284]

I’ve done it with 6 of the rangers and 4 of them had shotguns. Just learned that they are OP

[@Brokenfang77]

I play this game called star citizen., They have these bunker missions where you enter in from an elevator. And then once you're on the main platform, there's 2 levels. If you could make. A couple of maps that represented these bunker layouts. I would stream the s*** out of. These bunker missions before I went in and cleared. And explained what my intent is and how I'm going to clear the bunker. You could just call the maps. Bunker Buster, Are bunker clear, Are space bunkers. .. But I would really like to tool like this before. I went in to clear the bunkers. To describe what my intent is in the bunker Claire. If you're not familiar with this content, you go to my live streams and just look at a couple of the streaming bunker missions. They did. I got something like 600 hours of bunker missions.

[@holynder3181]

The best I was able to do on this one was to survive with 2 casualties.

[@candypower9988]

for a ambush this close I wouldve not gone for the militia because thier armor is worse than 1 man who can survive more reliably

[@joblessalex]

I just ran this one and survived with the one random dude and one of my guys.

[@piscesnocapkage96]

It should let you pick your squad but once you lock it in randomly selects a traitor

[@no1maximus]

Why didn´t you buy single plate for the militia guys? Cost only 4 stars.

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

Lol. Noted. Didn't even think about it. Poor guys!

[@no1maximus]

@@ControlledPairsGaming Why waste it on cannon fodder.

[@TheButterAnvil]

Is there a good FM or webpage where I could read up on the different types of fire?

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

Ranger handbook or 3.22-8

[@TheButterAnvil]

@@ControlledPairsGaming 👍

[@shawnhits704]

I’ve never played this game but always been interested in it, just hesitant cause strategy games are confusing to me and this seems like a lot

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

This is extremely manageable as strategy games go.

[@shawnhits704]

The only other strategy games I have are Call to Arms and Call to Arms gates of hell which seem like really great games once you get the hang of it but I could never get the hang of them. Would you say this game is a lot easier to manage? (If you have experience with call to arms)

[@marmite22]

@@shawnhits704 it's way easier than CTA and much more geared towards pausing to issue orders which means you can play the game at your own pace.

[@Glenndogamer35]

Is there any field manuals or other literature that covers the basic fundementals of combat with stuff like L shapes?

[@StevenL00]

Look up "Battle Drill 4: React to Ambush (Near)"

[@Glenndogamer35]

@@StevenL00 oh thanks fam

[@DracoAvian]

Get you a trusty rrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRANGER HANDBOOK

[@masao2922]

It is possible to get 3 stars with swat without militia or cheesing, you just need to move all your guys behind the humvee out of all the hostile firing lines and chuck frags everywhere, also the rpk comes in very handy here to stop hostiles from advancing while they push your position edit: i uploaded my own replay on my channel if anyone needs it good luck kickers

[@lucacollas]

did this map without casualties, a nightmare.

[@tylerb556]

I don't really like this game it's not my thing but I'm going to comment to show support for the channel 🤙🏻

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

👊

[@tylerb556]

@@ControlledPairsGaming 👊🏻 I really enjoy most of the content like ground branch and ready or not that's more my type of game

[@grav7616]

you know what im just gonna watch the whole vid

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

Legend

[@grav7616]

@@ControlledPairsGaming also, whats the mod that makes the corpses stay?

[@Lucidrom]

@@grav7616 No mod, you just need to open options.xml and modify: keepDeadBodies="false" to keepDeadBodies="true" You can find options.xml in C:\Users\YOUR_USER\AppData\Local\KillHouseGames\DoorKickers2

[@grav7616]

@@Lucidrom thanks man

[@Cannonbo]

this is impressive. i got nowhere on this map :/

[@Ryan_isnt_tryin]

I really hope they port Door kickers 2 onto phone cause God damnit I'm tired of replaying Door kickers 1 for the 36th time

[@tylerblalack6684]

Hell yeah brother lets see GarandThumb's ambush video beat fuckin Doorkickers homie

[@lioneaglegriffin]

What's the art behind you? do you make that?

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

I commissioned it for the channel. It's up on the teespring store.

[@NLTops]

The only way I managed to 3-star this level with 0 casualties is with my Rangers squad.

[@inabyt]

Ahy wouldnt you drive your cars into the guns or away from the killzone/next to the bus withe truck.

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

If it'll fit, sure.

[@janamberrausan7067]

I love your wallpapers pairs?,.how can i have one?

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

They're on the teespring store 🤘

[@BayouBaldwin]

Any idea when thus will come to android

[@Bell_420]

I did the same smoke rocket strat to kill that gunner at the end great minds think alike so you get a like

[@brentwyrick3300]

Unit lost CO?

[@David-uv2qn]

ayo early + i think your normal team is better than your "red" team just saying

[@CKlasseDTM]

Where did you get all this knowledge about CQB?

[@CKlasseDTM]

Absolutely love those videos btw

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

Fort Benning, mostly.

[@CKlasseDTM]

@@ControlledPairsGaming Oh it explains why you know a lot about it. I asked because, even if the basics are common, I can see some differences with what I learnt (here in France). But since I have only theoretical knowledge about CQB, i don't know what it is worth. Kudos from here and thanks for your answer.

[@thenukeofficial]

What is “a can”?

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

Suppressor

[@arguy3297]

Speaking of why bother with them in this mission?

[@thenukeofficial]

@@ControlledPairsGaming thanks

[@radiantbacon1502]

This is not a mf I want to mess with

[@Clasteau]

Okay, for starters, I DO NOT LIKE WHAT I SEE TO THE NORTH... holy #(*$^#@, explosives, stat, like YESTERDAY PLEASE. This scenario looks like it is gonna totally blow, like my dice rolls on game day.

[@tobiassanders9455]

What about your career made you so good at explaining and breaking down CQB stuff? Is this typical for people in the military or are you just special?

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

Lol I'm not special. But I'm glad you appreciate the videos!

[@Clasteau]

SPOILER ALERT ... ... ... OMG, can't believe getting hosed by that blind fire.

[@Peter-Slash]

You just spent 15 minutes before getting to the point. :( I did not enjoy that, far too long before even getting to the explanation. I don’t even know what to say. It was just so… boring.

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

You're unique in that position, since this channel was built on using games to explain doctrine and to abandon that would cease to deliver on the value proposition that brings thousands of regular viewers here. If you find it boring, you are not the target audience.

[@maxwellthomas1220]

Why are you advertising guns? I assume you are American but for me it's illegal to have guns.

[@ControlledPairsGaming]

We're allowed to protect ourselves here.

[@b4dluckl4m3r3]

And why not? I'm too from country with shitty gun laws where you can't defend yourself with gun. But he is advertising holster accessory, not gun, so you still can buy and use with holster for, idk, airsoft gun if u r into this type of things ✌🏻

[@arguy3297]

His main audience is more than likely Americans