# Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 17, 2000, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-clancys-rainbow-six/7748 "2000-02-17T17:48:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![StarvinMarvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7993a0/32.png) [@StarvinMarvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvinMarvin)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-clancys-rainbow-six/7748/21 "2000-02-18T19:52:00Z")
Tank did we work together??? 🙂 Seems like some of use have been on the other side of big fences. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-clancys-rainbow-six/7748/22 "2000-02-19T11:01:00Z")
tbone, why read the 900 page novel when i get the answer right here on straight dope? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-clancys-rainbow-six/7748/23 "2000-02-19T20:01:00Z")
I doubt it Marvin; kinda hard to slip an M-1 Abrams covertly past a “Fence”; however, the units I was assigned to (Armored Cav) get to do a lot of “Forward” work, and as such I got to meet and work with all kinds of “unconventional” military types. My current job still has me in contact with the military community on a day-to-day basis, and I still keep my ears open (you wouldn’t believe what some people will say when they think no one else is listening, or can understand!). _ **\ExTank** _\ ---
**Author:** ![SilentKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e8cbc/32.png) [@SilentKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SilentKnight)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2000, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-clancys-rainbow-six/7748/24 "2000-02-20T02:00:00Z")
Has anyone played the game though? ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2000, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-clancys-rainbow-six/7748/25 "2000-02-21T13:24:00Z")
Of course [we’ve played the game]. Thing is, the in game characters are pretty stupid. I’ll station on of my guys with a good field of fire, and when I switch back to him, he’s staring at the wall or his shoes, waiting for a bullet in the back of the head. They also have a tendency to rush into a room in one direction and get picked off one by one, though maybe I just wasn’t giving the right orders. Not to mention the terrorists seeing one of their dead buddies and thinking nothing of it. I usually played it Doom-like with a single character, and one or two as separate teams in reserve. ---
**Author:** ![RussellM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed8c4c/32.png) [@RussellM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RussellM)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2000, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-clancys-rainbow-six/7748/26 "2000-02-21T15:23:00Z")
[/Quote] tbone, why read the 900 page novel when i get the answer right here on straight dope? [/Quote] microshroom - In general, why bother at all? I’m sure you will always find an easier option than doing anything yourself. Russell ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2000, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-clancys-rainbow-six/7748/27 "2000-02-23T17:25:00Z")
> [@](#): > > In general, why bother at all? I’m sure you will always find an easier option than doing anything yourself. > \*\* russell – actually, posting on this message board has been by far the easiest. =) ---
**Author:** ![TheUnforgiven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TheUnforgiven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheUnforgiven)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2000, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-clancys-rainbow-six/7748/28 "2000-02-23T17:54:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Vestal Blue: > \*\* > Not to hijack the thread, but who likes Clive Cussler? > \*\* Ooh! Me! Clive Cussler is my second favorite author, behind King. I’ve real almost all of 'em. I don’t know what makes the books so good to me. They all follow similar formulas, yet they’re not all the same at all. ---
**Author:** ![Boris\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@Boris\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boris_B)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2000, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-clancys-rainbow-six/7748/29 "2000-02-26T00:49:00Z")
My only connection to Rainbow Six has been the game. I too find it frustrating how bad the artificial intelligence is. If you let a team go into a room on their own, they stand a fair chance of all being gunned down by the same shooter. I also find it frustrating when teammates have bunched behind me, and I throw a grenade, turn to run, and since they all follow in my footsteps and the grenades have such a short fuse, one of them always gets killed or wounded by my grenade. But that’s probably my fault. ---
**Author:** ![Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trout_Mask_Replica)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2000, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-clancys-rainbow-six/7748/30 "2000-02-27T03:11:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Boris B: > \*\*I also find it frustrating when teammates have bunched behind me, and I throw a grenade, turn to run, and since they all follow in my footsteps and the grenades have such a short fuse, one of them always gets killed or wounded by my grenade. But that’s probably my fault. \*\* That’s why you have your team hold at a safe distance while you go on ahead and toss the grenade. 🙂 SWAT 3’s AI is way better anyway. I just wish the game didn’t run so damned slowly. 🙂 – TMR [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-clancys-rainbow-six/7748.md?page=1)