The Art of War for dummies (with pics)

[Nick_Gunar]

All screenshots were made in differents servers (some full, some 50+ players), different time, different teams.

Is it me or there is something wrong about those pics? What do you think of the squads tactic?

























I didn't make all the maps available in PR or there will be tons of pics lol


PS : EJOD desert is my personnal favorite

[Nick_Gunar]

Is it that almost all of your squads seem to be heading across hotly contested areas to claim a non-essential position without any support? Or are you talking about the rest of the team?

OMG, I thought it was quite obvious lol

So many views and just one reply..... indeed, there is something wrong

Look at EJOD Desert please, everyone in East NOBODY in West ??!! do you think it is logic? is it how you play?

Seriously, comon on..."non-essential posistion"? since when an uncappable flag is a "non-essential position"? What do you think it will happen after the "essential position" has been taken by the enemy and noone is here to defend the "non-essential position"? There is a HUGE boulevard for the enemy. Heck, they can even flank them so easily lol.

This is just the thing no to do : 7 squads on a side, 1 squad in the middle and nobody on the other side. If the enemy is smart (I assume he is), he will split his force and attack both sides.

This is a quick 10min map play.

If you tell me I am wrong, well..... I will just keep on playing

[LtSoucy]

Each map has its own tactic's on how to win the battle. For example ill do EJOD, The MEC team and easily get men and troops up to the high western ridge line. By doing so they are able to halt all movements of US troops from the west and center, its a huge choice. For the US, they can easily get onto the eastern ridge. By doing so it gets them a good foothold in the city and allows them to halt all MEC movement to the east and south.

Both allow great positions but its mainly people who learned back several releases ago that use these tactics too, then it carries onto the newer players and always has been a tactic on that map. At times as you see some MEC squads on your team might of been attacking the US troops foothold in the eastern hills. the Western hills might of been taken by a brave american squad or something, you never kmow what is happening in the other ridges.

[Nick_Gunar]

I just took EJOD because it was a crystal clear exemple. I want to talk about global strategy and not some kind of particular ones for certains maps.

I don't understand this "blitzkrieg" tendency.

Here are 3 more pictures. In the first two (same map, different teams: first is China, second is US), the bridges are not destroyed nor mined (an enemy can so easily build a FOB in an "non-essential" position ^^). Look at the first one, 3 APC on the same side lol.
In the third one, it was an excellent domino game (as you can guess, we lost all the flags).








To be more specific, I'll take an easy exemple : a football game (indianapolis colts vs new-england patriots ). Peyton Manning wants to pass/run to the right and all his blockers, tackles go to the right (except one guy in front of him) and nobody on the left to prevent a possible blitz !!
Risky tactic, can work but not very common, isn't it?

Ps: I was not SL.

[Myru]

the biggest mistake i can see in your 2 quai river screenshots is that there is actually noone defending the north bridge, even worse there is no FB nearby. If sq2 was smart, they would have got an apc to support them, destroyed the bridge mined the ford north of it and set up a FB at a safe location, to make it pretty easy to prevent the enemy from claiming the flag.

[ma21212]

you really need a compitant commander. to tell each squad what to do.

[1GeKKo3]

All maps appear to be using poor tactics in my opinion. No where near enough FBs and nobody is defending. Against a competent enemy you would be capped out.