03-12-2012, 02:25 PM
Variable, I'm 100% with you on cover vs. concealment. I remember playing OPFOR for 2nd Ranger Battalion in Panama in 1997. We had set-up jungle patrol lanes, where we made contact with them, and they would execute a react-to-contact battle drill, followed by squad attack, where they used fire and maneuver to close with and destroy the enemy (us). We started blank, and then set up E-type and Ivan targets where we had been for them to go live. We had been using these huge trees with the fanned out bases that look like walls you can hide in between, for "cover".
Nope. After going back to our positions to do another blank-fire for the next squad, there were holes passing through our "cover" like it wasn't even there, and this was from 5.56 weapons. It cut through layer after layer of very large, water-rich trees like they were paper. It was a very sobering lesson in cover vs. concealment for me, as I realized that had I been there, I would have been hit with projectiles that still had a lot of energy in them.
Same with cars & most walls. Bricks and boulders seem to be the only real cover I can think of off the top of my head.
Nope. After going back to our positions to do another blank-fire for the next squad, there were holes passing through our "cover" like it wasn't even there, and this was from 5.56 weapons. It cut through layer after layer of very large, water-rich trees like they were paper. It was a very sobering lesson in cover vs. concealment for me, as I realized that had I been there, I would have been hit with projectiles that still had a lot of energy in them.
Same with cars & most walls. Bricks and boulders seem to be the only real cover I can think of off the top of my head.