Hello Everyone,
Three on Ten is a tough nut to crack unless all Ten are grouped together in a kill zone.
I agree that an L-shaped ambush is a good strategy. There are two types of
ambushes: Hasty and Deliberate.
A Hasty Ambush occurs when you have little time to prepare for it because the opportunity
didn't present itself until just before the moment it would be most effective to employ.
Your team has to train Battle Drills so that each person knows what to do and where to
set up for the hasty ambush. If you try to wing it without rehearsals or drill training,
the resulting cluster is just going to alert your enemy that you are trying to set up on
them and you may find yourself in the Kill Zone instead.
A Deliberate ambush is one where you expect or have reports (or intelligence) that
the enemy will be a certain location at a certain time. Then you set up and wait.
The ambush is signaled to a start by the most mass-casualty producing weapon (SAW)
or the Squad leader opening fire. If you have a three man team, try to have one of
the equipped with a SAW if available.
Use terrain to your advantage. If there is a road for example cut into a hill with upslope
on one side and downslope on the other, take an upslope position that will make them
retreat deep downslope with your SAW or SL opening fire at the far end first, and keeping
your riflemen quiet until someone makes the mistake of trying to get upslope as well.
Then your hidden riflemen open fire on the hapless souls caught between the road and
your "further upslope" fire team. Even if you only kill half the 10, you have now made
it 5 on 3, which is better odds than 10 on 3. Not everything has to be decided with one
contact with the enemy. With 5 on 3, they have lost the 3 to 1 advantage needed for
attack and you now have made them more cautious and less likely to press an attack
with nearly even odds but if they do, be prepared.
Like the other fellow said, read FM 7-8.
Respectfully,