After posting to another thread in here it gave me an idea and actually something more to post. Tactics.
Now those that play with me know I'm a very vocal player (Voice Chat) in game but believe me my vocals are 99% of them time tactical and are for the benefit of the team and of course for the overall goal of winning. The other 1% is disgust with the team and stupidity in general. Most of what I say in game will only benefit any player for increasing their scores and becoming an integral part of the team for future battles in RO and is to help those rookies, newbs, noobs or whatever. I will also give play by play from within a zone to help players get to that zone and inform them what is going on there. Now people you have to remember when I say ZONE it's a small area and doesn't cover the whole damn map.
One night I kept yelling telling folks where the same 5 Veterans were and how we got there and it's funny how the veterans can die and almost seem to literally walk right back to ANY ZONE from spawn in seconds but yet the other half of the team is simply lost or have absolutely no clue?
Then you have people saying well I JUST DIED going where you said. Well lets see? It's not always easy and I never said you'd NEVER get shot at (The maps are quite expansive folks), and yes you can get picked off from the other side of the map.
I've played this game for years and I know who is always beside me or who will join me in just about any zone by names on the list. You all know who you are and I thank you for your support.
I spend about 90% of my time in the cap zones and I must remind everyone I will ONLY use the bolt action gun - except tank maps or if I run totally out of ammo. (Yes it is a single shot ONLY for those rookies).
People always wonder HOW is it that MOST of the TOP SPOTS are occupied by rifleman (Bolt Action) because WE are ALWAYS CAPPING. The game is simple and there are 2 GOALS in game. CAPPING and DEFENDING.
Now this post is not toward the veterans and all the veterans know who they are and they know who I am and so on, so lets keep it civil and informative so that any noobs, newbs, rookies or what have you can improve while playing on a PUB server.
Sure it's a game, and so is football and hockey and so on, but do you think teams enjoy losing??? You have that kind of attitude on the field you are simply asking to have your arse beat.
Now most that do use Voice Chat are trying to help so don't interfere with those trying to help, sure if someone is talking about vacation or something outside of the scope of the game feel free to tell them to shut up.
Ok, now finally moving on. First and foremost DO NOT BLOCK DOORWAYS, DO NOT CRAWL UNDER YOUR TEAM MATES, AND ALWAYS SINGLE FILE through a doorway, this is a good start.
Second folks the key to capping is CAPPING. Getting in the ZONES. You get 10 points for doing so, it's a TEAM effort, regardless of how good some of us veterans are you can RARELY if EVER cap a zone ALONE.
Now SQUAD LEADERS LISTEN. You are the MOST IMPORTANT person to capping you count as like 3 people in ZONES by yourself, SO GET IN THE ZONES. Also if you DIE, you cost a few more % of reinforcements toward your teams loses. So if you have no clue or never get into zones DO NOT PICK THIS ASSET.
There are 3 types of maps in game, Offense, Defense, and what I call Seesaw (Back and Forth). Know and learn your maps, study the maps and use the ingame map to find zones and when someone says RIGHT or LEFT that means from spawn toward the zones.
Now on OFFENSE, REINFORCEMENTS mean NOTHING to the offensive team, this DOES NOT mean just keep running like lemmings into a machine gunner or arty strikes. The reason for this is the maps are TIMED, you have to CAP EVERYTHING to WIN and usually not in a great amount of time. You hardly run out of reinforcements on offense, sure it happens but only due to complete stupidity. I call it Moths to a light. When everyone says arty RIGHT, everyone goes RIGHT??? I can't explain this one, but it simply racks up there as plain STUPIDITY. This holds true when your own Commander or Squad Leader says "I have arty coming RIGHT" then the whole team goes RIGHT??? Folks JUST LISTEN!!! The map will also show you where arty is coming from your team, AVOID IT.
Next: Unless it's a SEESAW type of map, examples: Basken Valley, Barashka, I even think Arad, to name a couple, others can post the others that fall into this category.
A SEESAW map is one that can go either way and the ZONES can be RE-CAPPED and EITHER team can win by CAPPING them all in succession or have more caps and reinforcements when time runs out. This is a REINFORCEMENT type of game and who owns more and has more reinforcements in the end WINS.
DEFENSE is the other, the exact same thing holds true here as well, GET IN THE ZONES. SQUAD LEADERS once again, most important. The key of course is knowing what your team is supposed to be doing per map. On the defense side REINFORCEMENTS and TIME are EVERYTHING. To name a few of these would be Leningrad, Stalingrad Kessel, Smolensk Stalemate. You do your team no good if you are NOT in the ZONES or at least killing something. At a certain % of reinforcements the TEAM has to fall back, certain maps require this. Stalingrad and Smolensk are fine examples. You have to fall ALL THE WAY BACK at a good 15-20% and simply let the other team come to you.
Now a big problem is folks have a tendency to want POINTS, it is what will put you on top, so capping is what people do. But folks Stalingrad is one that has a SEESAW in the beginning, the key is DO NOT WASTE all your reinforcements trying to constantly get the Warehouse back, it's fine when you are on Defense if your reinforcements allow it meaning that you have more than the Offense, once this dips lower you have to fall back and let them come to you. This is one of the biggest maps based on both reinforcements and time for the defensive team and for the offense one that the reinforcements means NOTHING because you can ONLY win by capping everything and time rarely allows for you to just clean sweep the defense.
Last but not least what I call PLAYING HERO. Yes I use this a lot. People will get into a given zone then the meter starts moving in your teams favor. Once this meter is moving your team has more than their team in ZONE. STAY DOWN, STAY HIDDEN, PERIOD. Once it's capped then go crazy. You'll see this especially on Konigsplatz. You have 8 guys laying behind a hill and you start capping and that one guy has to look up over the hill to try and get that ONE extra point and bingo PICKED OFF!!! Now you have 7 guys in zone having to wait for a single guy to spawn and get back to zone. Before that lone guy can get back all 7 are killed by a single frag.
The worse display of this was the other night on Pavlov's House. We were capping and I screamed DO NOT PLAY HERO. We almost capped and missed by less than a hair, because one guy had to step out of the room we were in with a pistol into a hall way with a machine gunner and BINGO he was killed and the time ran out with less than a hair left on the meter for the WIN, we LOST due to that one guy playing HERO. I said this in my other post PLAYING HERO = 0...
So people if you want to increase your scores just follow some of the things mentioned within this post and what others may add and you'll notice your name near the top of the list in no time.
I almost for got to add. People RESUPPLY. You can resupply your Machine Gunners, (The big guns)... Use your G key to do so by default, it shows up on your screen when near him and it will first say Needs Ammo, the closer you get then it will tell you Hit G.
Every time you die you can RESUPPLY ONE time ONLY, unless you keep going back to a RESUPPLY area and going back to your machine gunner and do it again over and over. A RESUPPLY point on your map is the RED Circle with the Minus sign in it, you'll hear a noise when you've gotten resupplied, you can do this for all of your weapons. You get 5 points for doing this (Resupplying machine gunner that is), and if you play DH you get this for RESUPPLYING the Bazooka as well, DH point system might be a bit different though.
So I hope this thread will help out some of the new folks just joining us and help keep those from constantly YELLING on voice chat about GETTING IN THE ZONES. This will help make the PUB servers a happier and stable place to play.
See you all on the battlefield. Maybe we'll see some of you newbs, noobs, rookies, near the top of the list with the rest of the veterans.
Now those that play with me know I'm a very vocal player (Voice Chat) in game but believe me my vocals are 99% of them time tactical and are for the benefit of the team and of course for the overall goal of winning. The other 1% is disgust with the team and stupidity in general. Most of what I say in game will only benefit any player for increasing their scores and becoming an integral part of the team for future battles in RO and is to help those rookies, newbs, noobs or whatever. I will also give play by play from within a zone to help players get to that zone and inform them what is going on there. Now people you have to remember when I say ZONE it's a small area and doesn't cover the whole damn map.
One night I kept yelling telling folks where the same 5 Veterans were and how we got there and it's funny how the veterans can die and almost seem to literally walk right back to ANY ZONE from spawn in seconds but yet the other half of the team is simply lost or have absolutely no clue?
Then you have people saying well I JUST DIED going where you said. Well lets see? It's not always easy and I never said you'd NEVER get shot at (The maps are quite expansive folks), and yes you can get picked off from the other side of the map.
I've played this game for years and I know who is always beside me or who will join me in just about any zone by names on the list. You all know who you are and I thank you for your support.
I spend about 90% of my time in the cap zones and I must remind everyone I will ONLY use the bolt action gun - except tank maps or if I run totally out of ammo. (Yes it is a single shot ONLY for those rookies).
People always wonder HOW is it that MOST of the TOP SPOTS are occupied by rifleman (Bolt Action) because WE are ALWAYS CAPPING. The game is simple and there are 2 GOALS in game. CAPPING and DEFENDING.
Now this post is not toward the veterans and all the veterans know who they are and they know who I am and so on, so lets keep it civil and informative so that any noobs, newbs, rookies or what have you can improve while playing on a PUB server.
Sure it's a game, and so is football and hockey and so on, but do you think teams enjoy losing??? You have that kind of attitude on the field you are simply asking to have your arse beat.
Now most that do use Voice Chat are trying to help so don't interfere with those trying to help, sure if someone is talking about vacation or something outside of the scope of the game feel free to tell them to shut up.
Ok, now finally moving on. First and foremost DO NOT BLOCK DOORWAYS, DO NOT CRAWL UNDER YOUR TEAM MATES, AND ALWAYS SINGLE FILE through a doorway, this is a good start.
Second folks the key to capping is CAPPING. Getting in the ZONES. You get 10 points for doing so, it's a TEAM effort, regardless of how good some of us veterans are you can RARELY if EVER cap a zone ALONE.
Now SQUAD LEADERS LISTEN. You are the MOST IMPORTANT person to capping you count as like 3 people in ZONES by yourself, SO GET IN THE ZONES. Also if you DIE, you cost a few more % of reinforcements toward your teams loses. So if you have no clue or never get into zones DO NOT PICK THIS ASSET.
There are 3 types of maps in game, Offense, Defense, and what I call Seesaw (Back and Forth). Know and learn your maps, study the maps and use the ingame map to find zones and when someone says RIGHT or LEFT that means from spawn toward the zones.
Now on OFFENSE, REINFORCEMENTS mean NOTHING to the offensive team, this DOES NOT mean just keep running like lemmings into a machine gunner or arty strikes. The reason for this is the maps are TIMED, you have to CAP EVERYTHING to WIN and usually not in a great amount of time. You hardly run out of reinforcements on offense, sure it happens but only due to complete stupidity. I call it Moths to a light. When everyone says arty RIGHT, everyone goes RIGHT??? I can't explain this one, but it simply racks up there as plain STUPIDITY. This holds true when your own Commander or Squad Leader says "I have arty coming RIGHT" then the whole team goes RIGHT??? Folks JUST LISTEN!!! The map will also show you where arty is coming from your team, AVOID IT.
Next: Unless it's a SEESAW type of map, examples: Basken Valley, Barashka, I even think Arad, to name a couple, others can post the others that fall into this category.
A SEESAW map is one that can go either way and the ZONES can be RE-CAPPED and EITHER team can win by CAPPING them all in succession or have more caps and reinforcements when time runs out. This is a REINFORCEMENT type of game and who owns more and has more reinforcements in the end WINS.
DEFENSE is the other, the exact same thing holds true here as well, GET IN THE ZONES. SQUAD LEADERS once again, most important. The key of course is knowing what your team is supposed to be doing per map. On the defense side REINFORCEMENTS and TIME are EVERYTHING. To name a few of these would be Leningrad, Stalingrad Kessel, Smolensk Stalemate. You do your team no good if you are NOT in the ZONES or at least killing something. At a certain % of reinforcements the TEAM has to fall back, certain maps require this. Stalingrad and Smolensk are fine examples. You have to fall ALL THE WAY BACK at a good 15-20% and simply let the other team come to you.
Now a big problem is folks have a tendency to want POINTS, it is what will put you on top, so capping is what people do. But folks Stalingrad is one that has a SEESAW in the beginning, the key is DO NOT WASTE all your reinforcements trying to constantly get the Warehouse back, it's fine when you are on Defense if your reinforcements allow it meaning that you have more than the Offense, once this dips lower you have to fall back and let them come to you. This is one of the biggest maps based on both reinforcements and time for the defensive team and for the offense one that the reinforcements means NOTHING because you can ONLY win by capping everything and time rarely allows for you to just clean sweep the defense.
Last but not least what I call PLAYING HERO. Yes I use this a lot. People will get into a given zone then the meter starts moving in your teams favor. Once this meter is moving your team has more than their team in ZONE. STAY DOWN, STAY HIDDEN, PERIOD. Once it's capped then go crazy. You'll see this especially on Konigsplatz. You have 8 guys laying behind a hill and you start capping and that one guy has to look up over the hill to try and get that ONE extra point and bingo PICKED OFF!!! Now you have 7 guys in zone having to wait for a single guy to spawn and get back to zone. Before that lone guy can get back all 7 are killed by a single frag.
The worse display of this was the other night on Pavlov's House. We were capping and I screamed DO NOT PLAY HERO. We almost capped and missed by less than a hair, because one guy had to step out of the room we were in with a pistol into a hall way with a machine gunner and BINGO he was killed and the time ran out with less than a hair left on the meter for the WIN, we LOST due to that one guy playing HERO. I said this in my other post PLAYING HERO = 0...
So people if you want to increase your scores just follow some of the things mentioned within this post and what others may add and you'll notice your name near the top of the list in no time.
I almost for got to add. People RESUPPLY. You can resupply your Machine Gunners, (The big guns)... Use your G key to do so by default, it shows up on your screen when near him and it will first say Needs Ammo, the closer you get then it will tell you Hit G.
Every time you die you can RESUPPLY ONE time ONLY, unless you keep going back to a RESUPPLY area and going back to your machine gunner and do it again over and over. A RESUPPLY point on your map is the RED Circle with the Minus sign in it, you'll hear a noise when you've gotten resupplied, you can do this for all of your weapons. You get 5 points for doing this (Resupplying machine gunner that is), and if you play DH you get this for RESUPPLYING the Bazooka as well, DH point system might be a bit different though.
So I hope this thread will help out some of the new folks just joining us and help keep those from constantly YELLING on voice chat about GETTING IN THE ZONES. This will help make the PUB servers a happier and stable place to play.
See you all on the battlefield. Maybe we'll see some of you newbs, noobs, rookies, near the top of the list with the rest of the veterans.
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