>>97310607
If your GM asks you "Are you sure?", you should take it as a request to rethink what you're planning.

>>97310749
It was clearly briefed as a routine patrol.

If the GM asks "are you sure" the answer is no, retard.

>be GM
>we just started up Alternity, a sci-fi milsim TTRPG
>I've planned out how I want to start the campaign for the players
>theyre going to go on a "routine" patrol (hehe, they won't know what hit them when shit gets real)
>the players are taking to the game without a problem, fuck yeah--except OP
> I brief the players as their IN-GAME commander, " this is going to be a ROUTINE(WINK WINK) PATROL"
> "OH WOW A ROUTINE PATROL IN MY TABLE TOP ARRR--PEE-GEE GAME, I guess I won't need any of my special gear that I need to anything ive set this character up to do"
>" ARE YOU SURE, OP?"* WINK WINK*
>"yeah you said its just a routine patrol, nothing out of the ordinary could happen"
>I gave this retard chances to get his special gear before the campaign starts in earnest but he didn't, because he is an autistic retard and now he's screaming at me WEEKS LATER BECAUSE he doesn't have any of his SPECIAL GEAR

>>97310607
>We beat them off pretty good
Gay
>>97310866
Not in my group, everyone's a masochist and knows shit is going to go down and says "yes"

Honestly OP maybe you should just try to go and get a girlfriend

>>97310845
Routine patrols going wrong is a staple of military fiction, and military reality for that matter, and it'd be a pretty weird military campaign if intel was always accurste. Beyond that, I'll repeat that if GM asks you whether or not you're sure, you shouldn't take it as a meaningless question.

>>97310904
>and military reality for that matter
Long Tan is a good one for this
>what do you mean everyone only brought two mags?

>>97310607
Did the rest of the table also leave behind most of their specialist equipment? Would taking all of your gear instead have given you any consequences?

Mind, I'm just asking for my curiosity, cause I think giving due consideration to just quit the table is warranted. But not because either of you are pricks, mind. More cause you two are having communication issues and probably would be best served just not butting heads constantly over it. While you could probably have done better arguing your case on how you feel very ineffective due to being trapped without your gear and how you'd like to rebalance things a bit by having it retconned, it's likely your GM is not backing down on this despite seeing how miserable you are, so it'd be a lot less of a headache for you to just spend your time somewhere else.

>>97310607
> I shout at him, that he fucking told us as the Commander that it was a routine patrol, so I wouldn't need that gear anyway
Based GM enforcing roleplay desu.

>>97310607
>GM sets up the most obvious video game tier opening ever
>Player is too autistic to understand
>Literally asks "Are you sure?" among (likely) other hints that the player should bring the GEAR HE WAS GIVEN AT THE START OF THE GAME
>Comes to /tg/ to piss and shit himself
Classic

>be group scout
>leave the scouting gear at home
>because it's just a routine PATROL
You fucked up. Let's not even start with the whole "if you're playing it, you know it's not going to be routine" discussion.

>>97311001
I already made this post multiple replies before you... fuck you

>GM says its going to be a routine patrol
>It actually is a routine patrol.
>We do our routes check some locations talk to some people.
>Return to base
>Eat tendies
>Spend the next few sessions at the base doing our various daily duties and training
>mfw when I get latrine duty
>Spend the session cleaning toilets
>At night we go to the pub for pool and darts
Seems to me that op came from 5e and expected a similar experience.

>>97311090
OP IS A RETARDED 12 YEAR OLD WHO HAD TOO MANY BIG FEELINGS
-HIS GM

Ok I clearly explained this wrong. That's on me. Lets try again.

>>97310749
>>97310866
>>97310890
>>97310904
>>97310886
>>97311001
No. You're wrong. That's not what the GM meant. I know what he meant and you don't. "You're sure" is just conversational filler, or like just making sure you heard something right. For example, if I go to a restaurant with my girlfriend and I order something and the waiter then goes "Are you sure?" I will think he just wants me to confirm my order, maybe he misheard it. I don't expect him to whip his dick out and slap me in the face with it, and then start fucking my girlfriend over the table. Neither do I start preparing myself for that eventuality. Because it would be insane to do so and think that was a likely scenario.
And "routine" just means that something is ordinary, that there's nothing special about it. That's literally what the word means. I don't know how else to explain it and I don't understand how you guys aren't getting it. Like if something is "routine" then you know it's going to be just the standard experience.

>>97311007
No, you're wrong. It's a reassurance patrol, like we practised in Army Cadets at school. You don't want to sneak into the village, you want the villagers to see you coming, so there's no need to bring the stealth equipment. Likewise, there's no need for the special surveillance gear. We don't need to listen to their conversations from across the valley.

>>97310939
I didn't see what their preparations were. I think maybe I'd marched out to get a beer from the fridge.

Anyway, it just kinda hurts my feelings, because I was really enjoying the game. For once I got really into it and I did the salutes and the double stamp during the briefing like at cadets. Also, part of my special gear was ECM equipment so we not getting fucked over by drones all the time, but because that was low probability I didn't take it, but SUDDENLY the technician is able to make some. But I can't go back and get my shit.

>>97311346
based autist

>>97310607
I think it's a shitty player story

>>97311346
Please get diagnosed by a psychological professional for autism, OP.

In what world do people sit around a table to play routine patrols where nothing happens

>>97311346
>No. You're wrong. That's not what the GM meant. I know what he meant and you don't.
Alright, I'll bite. Since it's pretty much roleplaying 101 that GM asking "Are you sure?" actually means "Don't be sure, what you intend to do is dumb", what is your basis for thinking that your GM did not ask this question with its common - in RPG context - meaning in mind?

>And "routine" just means that something is ordinary, that there's nothing special about it.
Sure. It was supposed to be a routine patrol. Intel was bad, commander ws wrong, it turned out to not be routine. Again, a staple of both military fiction and military reality.

>>97311418
>>97311090
It's not about nothing happening, it's about something so utterly bizarre and out of the ordinary happening that there's literally no way to prepare for it. Literally ZERO chance of being properly prepped. I was ready for a firefight with local guerillas. I was ready for a disagreement with the locals over our presence. I was ready for a riot or a mine. I WASN'T ready and neither could I have been, for being whisked away on a fucking space yacht. It was really fun till it dawned on me I was getting shat on deliberately. I'm not autistic, you all are if you can't see that.

>>97311346
Honestly, at this juncture, your main thing is either talking to your GM about how you feel underpowered and would want a workaround due to the miscommunication, or finding a different game. As much as your feelings might be hurt in the moment, it's better to not yourself get bitter about it. Sometimes this kind of miscommunication of expectations happens, and you either reconcile it or you don't.

>>97311346
Spin it however you like, even if all that's already been said was refuted (it hasn't been), you're still a retard for making a gear-dependent build and then leaving the gear at home.

>>97311346
>>97310607
First of all, what benefit did you gain from leaving a portion of your starting gear behind in the first place? I’ve never once started a new campaign and felt tempted to part with my starting gear for any reason. What was your logic here? What made you say, “it will be better if I leave this stuff behind”?

Secondly, why not just get your millionaire playboy NPC boyfriend to just buy you new gear?

>>97311465
In what world is it common practise to ask "Are you sure?" to advise players about anything other than you want to be sure you know what they're trying to do? How are you supposed to understand that?
Stop fucking with me, that's not how language works. I know how language works, I'm currently doing a literal language and literature degree.

> Intel was bad, commander ws wrong, it turned out to not be routine.
Yes, like a firefight, or getting into a minefield or getting sniped at. Not being whisked off planet away from your base and gear. we also didn't radio back to base now I think about it, so they're probably still looking for us wondering where our patrol went.

>>97311346
Even an autist could have memorized "Are you sure?" as an indicator that someone may not respect your decision. I know because I did it.

>>97311467
Anon, I really hope that you're baiting right now and that we're all just falling for it. That'd be the best case scenario here as far as I can see. Alternative is that even when being able to tell the story however you like, with us only hearing your side, you still manage to make your GM seem more reasonable than you, and that you're unable to understand why that is even when multiple people clearly explain it to you. If you're not baiting, I'd sincerely and with best of intentions suggest you to do some serious self-reflection, maybe re-read this thread and think on the replies you got - not the ones just insulting you but the ones explaining things to you - once you've slept on this and have cooled off a bit.

>>97311467
Your GM gave you multiple chances to take your Special Needs Gear with you. You are so autistic you did not realize you were given the chance.
Your GM probably hopes you shout at him again so he can kick your ass in front of everyone around the table, OP.
You are the type of person to commute to a table top RPG game session and expect that "routine patrols where nothing goes wrong" are somehow a thing that happens.

>>97311501
Brother, this is one of those things everyone knows about RPGs. It's something everyone who's taken part in any RPG-related discussions on the Internet should know. It's genuinely surprising that someone posting on /tg/ doesn't know that.

>>97311501
>" I'm currently doing a literal language and literature degree"
Trying to use being in college as some show of intellectual authority is even doubly more so retarded at this point seeing as everyone on this thread already thinks you're autistic. And now youre telling us youre wasting money on a degree?

>>97311499
>>97311500
In cadets they taught us to only take what we need. If it's summer, you don't take your winter sleeping bag and cold weather gear. If you're not going to cross a river, you don't take your ropes and shit. If you're not going to be out at night, there's no need for night vision (not like we had any, but you know that's what was said)

>>97311518
As I said before, I am literally, not figuratively, but literally being trained to understand how language works by academics at a university. At great expense to the taxpayer more so. I understand fully what was meant by "are you sure". It's a query to make sure that the querier understand the proposed action of the queried. Moreover, it's common military practise to get people to repeat back orders and their proposed actions.

>>97310607
>planetary
>space yacht
>Alternity

>>97311558
FWIW, as a GM, every time I ask "Are You Sure", it's not used in the "Is this the action you want to take" sense like normal human language works. GMs know that telling people directly certain options are bad ideas only gets them to double down on it, so "are you sure" is more like "I feel this is a very bad idea, and I want you to think long and hard on it before affirming this is what you want to do so you know I didn't force you into this later on". It sucks, but that's part of being a GM.

>>97311521
Like how is he being reasonable? We have a fucking space yacht! The guy could drive us back in a few days! As is I'm nearly useless to the group.
And when you consider that the GM allowed the technician/electronics guy to fabricate an ECM device to replace the one I left behind it becomes even MORE blatant. The GM just dislikes me and wants me out of the group, and rather than talking to me about it he's trying to force me out by fucking with me.

>>97311558
Do you understand how subtle social cues and prompts work?

>>97311558
A pretty key part about how language works is that it's context-dependent, with the same expression often meaning an entirely different thing depending on the situation, who's saying it, who's it being said to, the speaker's tone of voice and so on. If you didn't know what the expression means in this context, okay, fair enough, no one knows everything. It's is still frequently used in RPGs as a means for GM to ask a player to reconsider without outright breaking all immersion and telling the player OOC that he should do something else. It was reasonable for your GM to expect you to understand it the way he intended it, it's not your fault that you didn't, but next time you'll know better. As for this campaign, as people have already suggested, you should have an honest talk with your GM and see if it leads to anything.

>>97311558
>they taught us to only take what we need
Like the gear your build depends on? Look anon, unless the GM somehow enforces draconian rules for fatigue related to weight carried, there's no reason not to take anything.

>>97311600
Yes! I'm taking a course in university that's all about that! The literature part of the course literally, not figuratively, but actually literally talks about that the whole time.

>>97311598
You SHOUTED at him over a table top rpg, of course he doesn't want you around.

>>97311581
>>97311609
But that's wrong. How is anyone supposed to know that? You guys are just fucking with me now.

>>97311620
He was doing that BEFORE I shouted at him. I shouted at him BECAUSE of his actions. Are you trolling me now?

>>97311627
Anon, even outside of the RPG context, asking someone "are you sure?" when you think he's about to do something wrong is pretty common. That's supposed to make the other person think again about what he is about to do, or what he just said.

>>97311639
I've never heard anyone use it like that, or seen it in a movie, or read about it in a book.

>>97311627
No, we're not, that's the exact reason GMs go "are you sure". For the exact reaction you're having in knee-jerk doubling down on your decision regarding how that phrase goes and then getting upset at the GM afterwards for something you decided on your own. That's why the words "are you sure" are spoken, so you can't say that you weren't given time to think about your decision or even ask questions to make sure it was the right one.

>>97310607
Do you have autism or aspbergers or some kind of other disorder that stops you reading social cues, OP? Be honest.
It really sounds like you're in the wrong here and I wouldn't want to play with someone with such a hair-trigger temper who 'gets mad' and 'shouts' about a glorified board game.

>>97311581
Same.
"Are you sure" is the phrase a GM uses to stress to players that 'this is a bad idea' while still letting them make the choice themselves.
That's been a pretty universal experience for me.

>>97311627
Well, you're supposed to know it from now on because several people ITT have told it to you.

>>97311650
>>97311651
>>97311656
The GM could literally just let me go and pick up my stuff. And we even have a good reason to go, to report back to base. He is being completely unreasonable. We could even say we did it in downtime to prevent it intruding on the session, although I'm 100% sure we should actually role play reporting back since we basically went AWOL.

>>97311644
Well take the positive in all this and consider that you have learned something new. In the future, if they ask you the same question, if you're in douby ask for clarification, something like "Why are you asking me that?"

>>97311671
So you're saying WEREN'T sure about leaving your equipment behind then? So why did you say yes?

>>97311686
So I should be prepared for the waiter in restaurants to slap me in the face with his dick, when he says "are you sure" because that's normal and what he actually meant? Thanks. I guess.
I'm sure that'll be really helpful

>>97311696
I don't know how you came to that conclusion from what I said.

>>97311703
Why, instead of resorting to what I suggested (asking for clarification), are you bringing up dicks in your face AGAIN (the all caps is intended to put emphasis on the word for dramatic effect)?

>>97311671
Try talking to him then.
Have a bit of give and take- say that you missed the hint that your gear would be necessary but explain you were trying to roleplay a 'routine mission' and that you can't play your character properly without your gear so you'd like the GM to think of a way to get it to you like having it brought in by an NPC or airdropped alongside some other item or something (you and him figure it out).

Getting angry about it and assuming the man is trying to screw you over is childish. Speak to him like an adult. You both have the same goal- enjoy playing a TRPG.

You seem to have some sort of persecution complex as you also believed that people in this thread giving you genuine advice were 'just fucking with you'.

You sound like you have a personality disorder or some other mental condition, honestly. I don't mean that as an insult, more of a diagnosis from a psychology dilettante.

>>97311715
I'm making a point that when you say "yes" to a question like "I'm sure", you can't take it back. So either you're sure about your decision or not. If you wanted to tell your GM that you had a different expectation regarding a routine patrol, that's one thing, but you can't act like he didn't give you fair warning if he asked specifically to affirm the decision compared to all the other players who he immediately gave the okay to on their loadouts. That part was on you for not thinking about why he would ask you if that's the loadout you wanted compared to the others.

Are you from outer space, OP?
Did your species send you to Earth college to understand human language and social cues( of which youre doing a bad job at)?

>>97311703
You should be prepared to consider the context and to understand that the same words can mean different things in different contexts, anon.

>>97311728
I'm sorry the dicks in the face upset you. It's meant to be an analogy of something extremely unlikely to happen. However, this is 4chan and if imagery like that upsets you, I don't know what to tell you. It also can't be the worst thing you've seen this week on here.

>>97311731
>You seem to have some sort of persecution complex as you also believed that people in this thread giving you genuine advice were 'just fucking with you'.
Again, this is 4chan. The place where people gave advice about making crystals that would have released poisonous gas into people's houses. It's quite likely that you would all collude through nonverbal signalling to fuck me over, because you think it's funny.
I also have no psychological conditions and I would never go to check if I did, since such an action would automatically eliminate me from my chosen career of joining the military as an officer.

>>97311753
No, I understand that. As I said, I'm training in literally that very thing.

>>97311741
I think it's weird we're still focused on that part of the interaction, rather than the GM's unreasonableness in not allowing me to go back for my stuff. There's literally no reason for him to say no, apart from a desire to curtail my fun at the table.

>>97311781
> military
>autism
Sounds like you'll be in good company, Anon. Especially when they use AI to fill your role regarding language.
Oh wait, that's something you've had years to think about.

>>97311781
>It's quite likely that you would all collude through nonverbal signalling to fuck me over, because you think it's funny.

Put me in the screencap lads.

>>97311781
>I'm sorry the dicks in the face upset you.
It's more curiosity about it being your go-to analogy.
>I would never go to check if I did
I would strongly advise not to follow through such a statement, but I fear it will be useless. Anyway, you either up your emulation of normal social behaviour, or you're not going to get far.

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>>97311781
>It's quite likely that you would all collude through nonverbal signalling to fuck me over, because you think it's funny.
Dude, there have been memes about DMs asking their players "Are you sure you want to do that?" for decades at this point. Silly as your persecution complex is, no, 4chan did not collectively decide to gaslight you on this one.

>I think it's weird we're still focused on that part of the interaction, rather than the GM's unreasonableness in not allowing me to go back for my stuff.
Cause you're being unreasonable in getting angry at him for a decision you yourself made.
>There's literally no reason for him to say no, apart from a desire to curtail my fun at the table.
Given how you apparently didn't talk to him about this calmly and ask for a workaround but instead went to accusing him of going against you specifically, it's more likely he just didn't want to deal with your losing your shit over a game. That's why we're pointing out you fucked up hard when you blamed him for a mistake you made.

>>97311781
It's pretty fucked up if the very fact of visiting a psychologist prevents a military career. What country has a system that backwards? Anyways, there is clearly something unusual in how you communicate and understand other people's communication. This is not an insult, it's not bullying, it's not a trick, it's an observation. It's possible to learn to communicate better and to understand better, but that's only going to happen if you acknowledge that you have work to do in these areas.

>>97311830
He already is an expert in human language and communication, Anon, that's why he's going to college to be a military language guy.

>>97311856
>>97311798
Becoming an officer requires a degree. It doesn't matter in what. It makes sense to do one in something I enjoy and am good at.

>>97311856
On the side of the aliens during their invasion of Earth, no doubt.

>>97311879
Since you're going to fail the language course maybe pick something else

>>97311781
Do you often feel people are colluding against you somehow?

>>97311879
Sure, anon, go for it. No one is telling you to give up on your dream. It'd not really a big deal if you are a bit autistic. I mean, it's not a big deal in general, but a structured military environment can suit people on the spectrum just fine. My country has a compulsory military service, and I can say from my own experience that a lot of career soldiers are kind of weird people, but still good at their jobs.

Bruh I'm autistic and I would have reconsidered.

In the last 7 sessions have you tried asking if the next station or whatever can have your exact loadout spare?
Is this a "I said nothing and nothing changed" problem?

>>97311978
Its a "I'm a proudful autist without humility" type issue.

Good bait

>>97311856
He's such an expert that he couldn't pick up on the GM giving him a chance to reconsider.
If OP says he's gonna jump off a cliff and his friend asks if he's sure, his friend is obviously fine with him dying, he just wants to make sure he heard it correctly. There's no world in which his friend is asking because he'd want OP to think twice about jumping off a cliff.

>>97311418
Yeah but was there anything in game to suggest to OP that it wasn't? You don't expect to be ambushed and cut off from HQ on a 'routine patrol' IC or OOC. For all OP knew it was just going to be a story hook from one of the villagers that he could go back and prepare a specific mission for.

>>97312288
Anon, let's assume they'd actually went out for a routine, uneventful patrol. They could have had their base destroyed while they were away. For all you know, you are at risk of losing anything you're not carrying.

>>97312288
Was there any real reason not to have your gear?

>Be me, the OP
>Linguistic genius and master of human nature
>Secretly wants a waiter to slap me in the face with his dick and fuck my girlfriend
>I doesn't have a girlfriend
>Go to a restaurant
>Order gumbo
>Waiter says, "Are you sure?"
>I said yes
>He didn't slap me in the face with his dick :(
>crawling_in_my_skin.wav
>I go to an RPG game to cool down
>Make some scout with kickass gear
>First mission, a NPC says it's a routine patrol
>He's clearly a psychic who can predict the future, so I have no reason to doubt him
>I decide to go in my shorts and nothing more. Why wouldn't I?
>GM says, 'Are you sure?'
>What a nice guy to ask me this
>"Yeah, I'm sure."
>BETRAYAL!
>How could he do this to me?
>He said it would be a routine patrol!
>I scream at him, right into his treacherous face
>It's all a conspiracy to kick me out of the group!
>/tg/, please help!

OP I'd like to apologize for calling you autistic, you should continue your college courses but exit the campaign.

autism

>>97310607
>>I think he should let us return to base to pick it up but he says it would mess up the "story rhythm"

Serves you right for 'playing' (i.e. story-listening) a story game. Next time play an old-school game where player agency is king.

>>97310607
The GM told you AS THE COMMANDER, NOT THE GM that the mission was routine and you're essentially butthurt that the character he was playing is not omniscient. He even asked you out of character if that's really what you wanted to do, really hinting that you shouldn't.

>>97314156
>GM character says I won't die
>My character ends up dying
>Why does GM hate me?

>>97314289
>I play a TTRPG
>I think everything is going to go routinely on a "routine patrol" in a TTRPG
> I get mad when it doesn't.

>Alternity
>planetary
>space yacht

>>97313883
>my decisions should have no negative consequences because otherwise you're storyshitting

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>>97311566
Can... can anyone explain what this guy is shitting his pants about?

>player actually expected a routine patrol to go smooth
This is so fucking funny to me.
I don't think there was ever a moment in TTRPG history where a routine patrol went on without anything happen ever.
Thats the whole fucking point of playing RPGs. Something happening out of the ordinary.
Also I'm really curious what this important piece of gear is.

>>97314785
Odds are they arent "useless" they just dont get to do their uber cool stuff
>I only get to shoot people, I dont get to do sneak attack as well as staying invisible

>Waiter, I will have one of your finest spaghetti dishes
>extra sauce
>I do not require silverware
>"Sir, are you sure?"
I hate when waitstaff make idle conversation

>>97311346
>>97310607
Sorry OP, you are just retarded. Or maybe autistic. How you managed to miss such an obvious story set up and warning is completely on you.

>>97314785
I'm unsure about that as well. In most of the games I've played players would have all said something if someone said they aren't bringing any of their class specific weapons or tools. Seems like something fishy there. I'm also just unsure why he cared enough to leave equipment behind. Does the group play with weight actually mattering? I didn't think I've ever been in a group that actually cared about carry weight.

>>97314913
> I didn't think I've ever been in a group that actually cared about carry weight.
I am sorry that happened to you. I hope you get better soon.

>>97310845
Learn social cues before playing social games, sperg. Otherwise stick to soijaking over trains and stacking blocks really high.

The GM is kinda shit, but not for the reasons you think.

It's fine to make a player like you sweat over a bad decision: The mission was explicitly gonna be at Sea and you didn't pack your floaties? that's on you, if you get what I mean.

What is shitty is that you're obviously trying to repent, agree you were kinda wrong and would like your gear now. It is 7 sessions after the initial mistake. If he was fair, The commander would find a way to airdrop/ shuttle over your missing gear by now.

>>97314573
I wonder if the post he's responding has something to do with it.
I figured it out, but fuck spoonfeeding.

Good thread, good job OP at baiting.
He even replied multiple times.
Easy 7/10

>>97310607
well you see there's good metagaming and bad metagaming and when you don't good metagame it's just as bad as when you do bad metagame

>>97310607
>scifi milsim
Your first red flag lmao

>>I get mad at the GM and tell him this is bullshit, he said it was going to be a routine patrol
come on now

>>97311781
>It's quite likely that you would all collude through nonverbal signalling to fuck me over
4chan has neither the ability nor the inclination to collude in that fashion, for such a goal

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>>97310607
>is told that they're going on a combat patrol
>decides to not bring any of the stuff that allows them to do the job they were hired for when the combat patrol finds combat
>whines that they don't put the war on pause so you can run to the closet and put on your fighting panties
You are the problem. Solely you. If you haven't even figured out a way to get your shit or scrounge some enemy equipment after 7 sessions, then you're too stupid to play. You GM did nothing wrong.
>>97314156
Even if it was just a routine patrol, why would you not bring your shit with you? You think some retarded marine in Iraq would just leave their long range radio and squad machine gun at base if they thought it would be a boring patrol? He's a hired soldier, why wouldn't he bring his soldier shit when he gets sent out to do soldier things?

OP
HAS
BEEN
BLOWN
THE
FUCK
OUT!

>>97311558
>in cadets
The other anons are wrong. You're not autistic, you're fucking retarded.

>>97319623
>You think some retarded marine in Iraq would just leave their long range radio and squad machine gun at base if they thought it would be a boring patrol?
Well yeah, if the colonel says it's just going to be a normal patrol. Why bring all the gear if nothing is going to happen? If something was going to happen you'd have been told in advance.

>>97319794
Pretender, not even OP would say something this fucking stupid.

>>97310904
metagaming faggot

You guys got baited so hard with this one.

The multiple references to "how we dun did it in Cadets" and his future military career (while presenting the picture of a person who is completely clueless and unable to read signs and signifiers) gave it away.

The restaurant example (re: "Are you sure") was also glowing. If a waiter asks you "are you sure" hell fucking no you aren't, and you change your order. They know something you don't know.

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>>97319796
uhh...?

>>97319796
But a real muhreen would.

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>>97319870
You say this, but I actually did spend a few enlistments wearing the monkey suit and there's a wealth of braindead chucklefucks that will gladly leave all of their gear to uselessly walk in a patrol for an exercise until they get notionally killed (while they stand there with their mouths agape) and complain it "wasn't supposed to happen." If it's any consolation, these idiots either get sorted out before an actual deployment or they get phased out of their line unit into some kind of support role way in the rear. The latter are the loudest faggots who brag about being infantrymen, by the way.
My point is OP could be for real and he'll fit right in, trust me.