Time to Open a Can of Worms - Weapon Data in OOB's

[Suhiir]

Yup, your alternative interpretation is undoubtedly just as reasonable as any other.
Since chances are in 1983 everyone involved, except maybe the Army Platoon Sergeant, was green.
And the fact that no one was hit also proves the point that rifle range accuracy is not combat accuracy.

MarkSheppard said:
As for your story; there's a reason the Army has emphasized heavy weight of fire when doing suppression; they found out in World War II fighting against the German Army that one of the biggest problems they had with brand new riflemen coming out of basic infantry training was that they had been trained in the States to emphasize accuracy; e.g. to fire at identified targets; and this was useless in the real world; where you did not see clearly identified targets. It took a lot of time to break the new arrivals of their habit of waiting for a target, and instead to randomly fire in the general direction of the enemy.

Forgive me if I gave the impression I was claiming volume of fire didn't work as a method of suppression.
I was just saying accurate fire can do the same job with far fewer men and much less ammo.

That said, I'd expected this discussion to go pretty much as it has (why I titled it "Can of Worms"). On the off chance I was wrong I thought I should at least toss it out.
I'll stick to necessary changes to the Weapons tab (adding M249(3) SAW's and such).

Thank you all for your input.