Clan Duels

Ultimately, every person on the team is going to need to have some semblance of leadership skill for it to be an effective team. Think, for a moment, if the squadron leader were shot down. Yes he could still give advice from spectating, but his awareness has been cut down significantly. The responsibility should then fall to someone else.

Now I'll just let you know my opinion on something. I think to be a truly effective competitive team, we need to treat this like it's an actual battle with actual consequences. The job for the leads should be making sure all eight of us are alive at the end. Leaders need to know the planes we'll be flying as well as the ones we'll be flying against. From turning time to shear limits to optimum climb angle to accuracy of guns. There needs to be a set of tactics for different engagements.

 

Just so we're clear, we're discussing two different positions at the moment.

First, Nraged wanted a go-to person that he could contact if he got a challenge from another squadron or for some other reason needed to get in contact with the Squad Battles/Competative Group. Nraged can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think he mostly just wants one or two people who he can talk to about Squad Battles related things and then let them relay it to the rest of the group. I actually didn't want to push more responsibilities on you since you're already an officer but if you want it Nraged did say he wanted more than one person and I think you're obviously more than capable.

Second we're starting to think about who we want to be in charge during actual battles. The way I see it, we'll want a more than one person (I'd suggest 3 or 4) who are all trained for the squad leader role. In battle this would help relieve the burden on the overall leader by letting him delegate command of one of the flights (i.e. 4 planes) to someone else who is also comfortable with that role and if the leader get stuck in a fight then there would be someone else who could take charge while he is occupied. It would also help in that real life means we shouldn't rely on any one person to show up to every single competative match we fly. As far as who should take on this role, I think it's still quite open for discussion. I can vouch for SeansBacon's ability to lead a 2v2 fight after flying on his wing in duels, but there are a lot of other people in the squad who have the ability to lead if they want to take on that responsiblitiy.

 

i think it was miss worded i would act as ambassador to other clans that's all....

 

Well if we needed people for coordinating and planning during a match Bacon and I are most likely able to step up. We both have a good experience from being officers in Planetside 2 and leading 48 man platoons or even just 12 man squads can help with your leadership abilities. The main thing at the moment is that we are being dragged into the competitive scene in the Planetside division and it might interfere with our War Thundering, but if we are needed to compete I'm sure we can make it work.

 

Sithian if we could get you and Bacon on for some of the meets that would be amazing

 

I would be willing to take a shot at leading either a 2 or 4 man group to see if i can do it.

 

Unfortunately if we are practicing tonight I will not be there.

 

Agreed. Even if you two can't make regular appearances in WT I think practicing with you and seeing how you run a squad would be really beneficial.