Post by Hefe on Sept 30, 2007 9:55:07 GMT 7
Supressing and Flanking
Throughout history this strategy has been used as one of the most effective ways to take out your enemy. It is really pretty simple, one man (or team) shoots off supressing fire at the enemy, keeping them behind their cover, and another man (or team) gets behind, or on the side of the enemy and takes them out. While this seems pretty easy, there are many ways you could mess this up, or just do a bad job at it. So here are my thoughts on each of the two jobs.
Supressing
This is an extremely important part of the strategy, and if the supressing team does a bad job they will get their Flanking team killed. One of the best ways to supress an enemy, is to fire at him relentlessly, even when they are behind cover, as long as you keep shooting, the enemy will most likely be too scared to come out. So if you are going to be doing the supressing, make sure you have a good ammount of ammo and a good AEG or automatic gas gun. An extremely important part of supressing the enemy is to know when to stop, if you keep the enemy behind their cover too long, they might move around and find your Flanking team, so remember to stop shooting once your flanking team is behind the enemy. I know this kinda contradicts what I said earlier about continuous fire, but it is an important part of the job, so I will risk sounding stupid to get the idea across. One of the best ways to keep the enemy supressed is a grenade, tossing a grenade will keep the enemy behind cover for sure, and will provide a great distraction for your flanking team.
Last Resort: if you see your flanking team has been spotted by the enemy, and is being fired at, MOVE IN! The enemy cant fire at both of you, so as long as you are not outnumbered, run towards the enemy with your guns blazing and hope for the best.
Flanking
In order to be a succesfull flanker, you will need to be silent and invisible until you strike. You need to make sure the enemy doesnt even suspect you are there. As a flanker, you will be moving in on the enemy to make the kill, the best way to do this is wait until the enemy is behind their cover, and then quickly run to the side and find new cover. Keep running from cover to cover towards your enemy when they cant see you, and they will never know what hits them. Once you are behind, or right next to, your enemy, make sure you aim perfectly, and then let out a stream of bullets. The more bullets fired, the better, unless you are perfect and can take the enemy out with 1 shot. The main thing you should be focusing on is speed and stealth, if your supressing team runs out of bb's before you are in position, you may be spotted and killed. This is a hard job, so it is not recommended for newbs.
Last Resort: If you are spotted by the enemy, just take cover and give some returning fire, in this instance, you will need to lure the enemy out from their cover, so the supressing team will be able to run up and take them out quickly.
Well, thats pretty much the basics to suprresing and flanking tactics, I'm guessing you all already know this, but better to be safe then sorry.
Note: If you are playing in big teams, you can have two of each team, two supressing teams (set up next to eachother, but not too close) and two flanking teams (each one should take one side I.e. team 1 goes left, team 2 goes right)
Now get out there and flank your enemy!
Throughout history this strategy has been used as one of the most effective ways to take out your enemy. It is really pretty simple, one man (or team) shoots off supressing fire at the enemy, keeping them behind their cover, and another man (or team) gets behind, or on the side of the enemy and takes them out. While this seems pretty easy, there are many ways you could mess this up, or just do a bad job at it. So here are my thoughts on each of the two jobs.
Supressing
This is an extremely important part of the strategy, and if the supressing team does a bad job they will get their Flanking team killed. One of the best ways to supress an enemy, is to fire at him relentlessly, even when they are behind cover, as long as you keep shooting, the enemy will most likely be too scared to come out. So if you are going to be doing the supressing, make sure you have a good ammount of ammo and a good AEG or automatic gas gun. An extremely important part of supressing the enemy is to know when to stop, if you keep the enemy behind their cover too long, they might move around and find your Flanking team, so remember to stop shooting once your flanking team is behind the enemy. I know this kinda contradicts what I said earlier about continuous fire, but it is an important part of the job, so I will risk sounding stupid to get the idea across. One of the best ways to keep the enemy supressed is a grenade, tossing a grenade will keep the enemy behind cover for sure, and will provide a great distraction for your flanking team.
Last Resort: if you see your flanking team has been spotted by the enemy, and is being fired at, MOVE IN! The enemy cant fire at both of you, so as long as you are not outnumbered, run towards the enemy with your guns blazing and hope for the best.
Flanking
In order to be a succesfull flanker, you will need to be silent and invisible until you strike. You need to make sure the enemy doesnt even suspect you are there. As a flanker, you will be moving in on the enemy to make the kill, the best way to do this is wait until the enemy is behind their cover, and then quickly run to the side and find new cover. Keep running from cover to cover towards your enemy when they cant see you, and they will never know what hits them. Once you are behind, or right next to, your enemy, make sure you aim perfectly, and then let out a stream of bullets. The more bullets fired, the better, unless you are perfect and can take the enemy out with 1 shot. The main thing you should be focusing on is speed and stealth, if your supressing team runs out of bb's before you are in position, you may be spotted and killed. This is a hard job, so it is not recommended for newbs.
Last Resort: If you are spotted by the enemy, just take cover and give some returning fire, in this instance, you will need to lure the enemy out from their cover, so the supressing team will be able to run up and take them out quickly.
Well, thats pretty much the basics to suprresing and flanking tactics, I'm guessing you all already know this, but better to be safe then sorry.
Note: If you are playing in big teams, you can have two of each team, two supressing teams (set up next to eachother, but not too close) and two flanking teams (each one should take one side I.e. team 1 goes left, team 2 goes right)
Now get out there and flank your enemy!
