You have 30 minutes starting from when you enter the site. Not from when you launch your mission. Your team could have been in place for several hours or even several days if you wanted. Also, I never said you had to use helicopters. I said that they were an option.Tyyr wrote:Time constraints. I've got 30 minutes which is not enough time for me to drop off the troops far enough away for them to make a silent approach to the property and still have any buffer for completing the mission and pulling out before the site is pasted. Alternately landing my troops first then knocking the power out is a non-starter. A 14 acre plot isn't that large. Assuming the villa is dead center in the plot and the plot is a square then you're only looking about about 320 feet or so from the villa to the tree line. You don't have anywhere near enough room to land helicopters before hand without alerting everyone that you're there.
You're not factoring several things. One, your team is 30 seconds behind as is from the power outage. Two, your team now has to cover the ground between the LZ and the target location. Then they have to clear out all the hostiles without harming the target. You start shooting at a moving vehicle and you risk killing the target. Your team is expendable, the target is not. Now with that, even if you can do your entire run up in just 90 seconds. Thats 90 seconds for his guards to drag him out of bed, go down one flight of stairs and drive off.Tyyr wrote:That's why some of the first guys on the ground are the fire support teams with 7.62 weapons. It's a simple thing to put a few rounds into the engines and tires of any potential escape vehicles. They're not landing minutes after the power is taken out, they're landing within seconds of it being knocked out. Figure 30 seconds after the power line is down they're on the ground ready to shoot, if that much. The guy in the house is likely asleep as are most of his guards. I'm just not seeing how this guy is instantly up, in the car and gone, between the power going out and the troops hitting the ground. If the guy was sleeping in the car with it running maybe.
Its 30 minutes starting when you order the first shot. Not from when you leave base or deploy on site.Tyyr wrote:Which is a nice thought but with the time constraints given how am I supposed to get someone in there silently to do it? With a 30 minute window and lord knows how long a trip from the staging point to the target time isn't on my side. My initial thought was a drop off well away from the target, walk in slow, take the power out silently, and then move in but with 30 minutes from wheels up to BOOM that's not gonna work.