This Arma 2 firefight video has a teeth-gritting, cinematic ending

What does it take to rattle 80-some veteran players of Earth's most hardcore military sim?

ShackTacbossman Dslyecxipointed me to this insane firefight and extraction attempt in one of his recent videos. Short on ammo, shorter on men, and their backs literally against a wall that may or may not be indestructible, Dslyecxi leads the survivors of a trapped infantry unit as they improvise an escape plan.

Dslyecxi contextualizes the chaos: "At themark, we're all critically low on ammo. As a fireteam leader, I've given everything I had left to other members of my fireteam, and I'm running around trying to see what we're going to do next. There are enemies swarming all over the exterior of the compound and we have reason to believe that they've started to breach into it in some areas as well. It's very much a fog-of-war period at that point. There are reports that the convoy has arrived, and while I saw a few of our vehicles earlier, I heard quite a few explosions and wasn't sure if they were still alive. I'm just waiting for orders and seeing where I can help out in the meantime. We get those orders a few minutes later, which starts the chain of events leading to the crazy finale."

We've highlighted a few more of Dslyecxi and other Arma players' variously heroic and hilarious moments in the past: watch them here. Dslyecxi also has a Patreon pagewhere you can support his continued creation of combat and tutorial videos.