Don't get me wrong, my play style varies quite differently from what I play in run and gun games like UT and Quake. I treat games by Tom Clancy with a bit more caution - one life to live mentality. I don't want you to get the impression I simply dive in and start blowing stuff up. Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon or both thinking man shooters. If there is a comparison it is something akin to to MGS (i.e. play very slow). I engage only if I have to, and suppress when I need to. I have a pretty good grasp on fire arcs and how to enter a room ( I play enough America's Army to know). As well as when to commit and when not to. Fight the good fight but make it so your forces remain in one piece. There is always a sense of urgency and real life at stake which is why I always love Tom's games and books but the game play . . .
I'm not an expert or ex military by any means but GRAW plays excruciatingly repetitive. I just like the genre and sense of realism. However what gets me irked is how a lot of times you got to die to figure out where the enemy is. For example, you don't got the UAV in the fourth or fifth map. There's a heavy gunner's nest up the road. No prob right? Split the team in 2 fireteams and converge from 2 locations. Draw fire from the first, pop a grenade and you're done. Cool right? Oh did I mention there was 2 convoys that happen to find you and unload not one or 2 guys but 6 enemy combatants (including one vehicle with a machine gun mounted on the hood?) Now my forces are running for their lives, and the team has been split up. One usually gets shot trying to cover the other. Its an easy matter of recovering but now I'm a man down. Crap, restart, reload, trying it again, and anticipate the enemy convoy next round. Thats what I'm talking about. Its like my second team (or even I) step on a trigger (a la Indiana Jones) and instead of a big boulder coming down on me a scripted event happens and I'm suddenly in a firefight I'm not equipped to handle. We call that, "setting you up for failure."
Should I have not split my forces, perhaps. Should I have gone it alone, perhaps. Should I have been equipped as a sniper and take the guy out from long range, perhaps. There are a crap ton of scenarios and every single gorram one of them, i got to die or one my fellow team members die. Not to question your tactics, but you seriously go in alone? Last I check thats a quick way to die, boss.