History Creator / ShackTactical

* GoodBadBug: In Universe. In [=ShackTac=], a bug isn't usually seen as "Good" if it has beneficial results (in fact players are discouraged from exploiting bugs to their advantage); But it is ''definitely'' good if the results are entertaining. The more people die in a bizarre and amusing way, the better. And ''[=ArmA=]'' has a very wide variety of lethal bugs.

-->'''YouTube comment''': "RIP lone infantry man. You will be [[PinkMist mist]]."

* PlayerVersusPlayer: Roughly half of all videos released by Shackers on YouTube feature this style of missions (called "Adversarial" missions), as opposed to playing cooperatively against the AI (called "Cooperative" missions). In most Adversarials, one side will be defending a small area of the map (and possibly some important assets or hostages), while the other side will be assaulting them. The defending side generally has around 1/2 as many soldiers as the attacking side, but will have a much better position to use as a force multiplier - giving an overall balanced game that could end with victory for either side. Adversarials tend to be relatively shorter missions (30-60 minutes on average, as opposed to several hours), and feature a much smaller-scale than Cooperatives (a hundred players fighting against each other, as opposed to a hundred players fighting against hundreds of AI soldiers). Heavy assets are also less likely to be used, as they tend to tip the balance too easily to one side.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7NQ684xdR4 No Pressure]]'', Taconic thought he was firing on maybe two tanks, and was planning to [[HitAndRunTactics change position right after shooting a rocket at them and then try again]]. Just after firing, however, Taconic sees that he actually just fired at an entire tank column, with four or five visible. All of those tanks fire on Taconic's position as one before he even has a chance to move. It's probably safe to say that there [[NotEnoughToBury wasn't enough of him left to bury]].

'''IND Soldier:''' [[OhCrap Jesus]] [[ParanoiaFuel Christ]].

-->'''Player in chat:''' Oh ''fuck'' man. He got ''annihilated'' by those tanks.

* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: In the short video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYE6xW4ZKOI Oh No, An Ambush!]], Dslyecxi realizes that a group of four players are stalking him. After dodging their initial attempt to kill him, (during which they briefly lose track of him) he turns the tables, flanks them, and cuts them down. By the end of the video Dslyecxi is seriously wounded but all four of his attackers are dead and probably wondering how it was possible for things to go so wrong.

** [[spoiler: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz70YjQcKFA Absolute Madness]]]] ends with only three men from the original platoon, and one from the ''rescue platoon'' sent to retrieve them, making it out alive.

** [[spoiler: ''https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz70YjQcKFA Absolute Madness]] ends with only three men from the original platoon, and one from the ''rescue platoon'' sent to retrieve them, making it out alive.

** During the [=UAZ=] ride in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz70YjQcKFA]]'', the passengers make jokes about Cappy's incredibly bad medical situation while he's unconscious in the front seat and bleeding to death after having been run over by an enemy vehicle.
---> '''Ghostboots:''' If anyone wants to smother him with a pillow...\\

** When Cappy is run over by an enemy vehicle in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz70YjQcKFA Absolute Madness]]'', his medical diagnosis is ''so'' hopeless that the Alpha survivors consider leaving him there to die instead of wasting bandages on him. Nevertheless, they manage to get him into their vehicle and spend a metric ton of bandages trying to stop his bleeding. In the end [[spoiler: he is left to die at the extract point, but only because an enemy vehicle rams the Jackal he's in so hard that his still-bleeding body mysteriously disappears]].

** There are multiple times during ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz70YjQcKFA Absolute Madness]]'' where someone gets injured so badly that their medical diagnosis screen shows a whole litany of colorful injury entries to every bodypart. This culminates with Cappy getting run over by an enemy vehicle and being dragged for 25 meters underneath it. In all cases, the injured people are saved ([[spoiler: or would have been saved, had the rescuers had more bandages]]).

* OnlyMostlyDead: In the ''[=ArmA=] 2'' [=ACE=] mod, which was used by Shack Tactical for many years, getting shot does not always equal death - a player may "pass out", requiring medical attention to bring them back to the fight. During the [=ACE=] era, the troops had to check fallen friendly bodies to see whether they were still alive.

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz70YjQcKFA Absolute Madness]]'' is the story of Dslyecxi, [=Chris(CHA)=] and Ghostboots repeatedly surviving one completely hopeless situation after another for over an hour. Along with KnightDefender, [[spoiler: they end up being the Platoon's only survivors]].

* DrivesLikeCrazy: At the end of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYPyFbObkXo Company of pFNGs]]'', Beagle arrives in an Mi-8 helicopter to evacuate what remains of Dslyecxi's platoon. As they egress, an enemy anti-aircraft gun opens up on the helo, threatening to shoot it down. Dslyecxi orders Beagle to dive, which Beagle does - [[spoiler:and then fails to pull out and crashes the helicopter into a hillside. Strangely, most of the men survive]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/user/Beaglerush Beagle]] is a player from Sydney, Australia who held a key position in the group, and made many video uploads over the years. Beagle left ''Shack Tactical'' in early 2015, and is now more known for his popular ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' live-streams. Beagle's girlfriend, Jamball, was also a member of [=ShackTac=] for a few years.

* Just barely averted in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrYYsDDW9Og Why Did I Say That]'' by Mr. H. At the start of the video, when he sees a friendly chopper attempting to shoot down an enemy helicopter, Mr. H cynically predicts that the enemy helicopter will be shot down right on top of them. Less than 2 minutes later the helicopter is shot down and does crash ''almost'' right on top of them, and it's miraculous that it didn't kill anyone from the group.

* YouHaveFailedMe: Very, very rare, but in some cases Dslyecxi has punished members who have done a FriendlyFire on teammates, mostly if said teammates were assigned to be group leaders and officers for that mission.
** One prominent example near the end of ''[[https://youtu.be/kDP50m0fnSQ?t=13m43s Foymer's Barn]]'', after Madcows accidentally shoots team leader Tatertot.
** In ''[[https://youtu.be/pWDS5XvzvHI?t=14m3s FAC Tanoa]]'', when everyone believes that [=Chris(CHA)=] accidentally killed Morgan (the Platoon Leader for that mission), Dslyecxi tells Chris to "Stay behind, [[TheBait distract the enemy for us]]" -- which everyone there knows is obviously a SuicideMission.

* YouHaveFailedMe: Very, very rare, but in some cases Dslyecxi has punished members who have done a FriendlyFire on teammates, mostly if said teammates were assigned to be group leaders and officers for that mission. One prominent example is his UnfriendlyFire on Madcows near the end of ''[[https://youtu.be/kDP50m0fnSQ?t=13m43s Foymer's Barn]]''.

* YouHaveFailedMe: Very, very rare, but in some cases Dslyecxi has punished members who have done a FriendlyFire on teammates, mostly if said teammates were assigned to be group leaders and officers for that mission. The most prominent examples being his UnfriendlyFire on Madcows nearly the end of ''[[https://youtu.be/kDP50m0fnSQ?t=13m43s Foymer's Barn]]'' and in ''[[https://youtu.be/pWDS5XvzvHI?t=14m3s FAC Tanoa]]'', when everyone believes that [=Chris(CHA)=] accidentally killed Morgan, the Platoon Leader for that mission, Dslyecxi tells Chris to "Stay behind, [[TheBait distract the enemy for us]]" which everyone there knows is obviously a SuicideMission.

--->'''Beagle:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcMs53LhH38 I'LL SAVE YOU, TIMID! TIMID, I'LL SAVE YOU!]]