What are the most important things for running an Operator Game?

I've played a couple of OPERATOR games, a mix of ground combat and planes&mercs. I've never considered callsigns to be that important - half the time, you'll all be referring to each other by your real names anyway.

As a matter of fact, my group's most recent DH game took a turn for the OPERATOR when the GM developed a fondness for having cunts in fortified positions lob grenades at us.

>>51576745
Read up to the point where you're the most educated individual in the group regarding operators operating.

Otherwise, this is just going to be a circle-jerk of people correcting each other with "that's not what a real operator would do."

>>51576812

In addition to this, you can brush off any attempted correction by saying "Well maybe that's how they do it today, but in the Imperium it's different".

Yes, it's a bit of a cop-out. It's also a totally valid point.

If it's 80's, radio discipline. In certain parts, when they the need calls for it, any OOC talk will be interpreted as breaking radio silence and alert the enemy. Somebody did this for a game we were in during the operating phase and it really did set the mood.

>>51576745
I'd say you need an operation, first.

>>51576745

Houserules for Dark Heresy 2E that make acting in an Operator manner desirable.

>>51576745
Don't sweat realism too much. Operating irl is boring as fuck

>>51577700

There was a quote I read once in a Horrible Histories book that went along the lines of "If you want to experience what it's like to fight a war, go out into your back garden and dig a hole. Wait for the hole to fill up with rain. Then sit in the hole for 12 straight hours."

>>51577732
This reminds of the 'The Viz's top tips. It had stuff like

>Soldiers, if you want to know what it's like to sit in a hole in your garden half full of water, simply stay in your trench for 12 hours.

>>51576793
>>51576837
>>51577700
I'd say most of my games tend to be pretty removed from realism, I prefer to run things based on the rule of cool without things getting too outlandish.
>>51577100
I like this idea alot.

>>51576745
In my opinion the most important thing is to make combat fluid, dynamic and lethal. Don't make the game too simulationistic, it will brake the pace and the ambient.

Next important thing is equipment. There should be enough equipment to make the players happy (guns, optics, NVGs, breaching charges, grenades, cameras, detectors...).

And UAVs.

>>51578740
I'm currently planning to use Dark Heresy 2e which has the potential to be pretty lethal, I suspect that ample use of breaching charges and smoke/flash grenades will impose enough positive modifiers to hit to keep combat pretty fast too.

>>51577100
I dig this