I did not write this, I saw it on the official MAG forum and thought it
would be a good idea to have it here as well as sometimes these things
tend to disappear over time and I know if it's here it won't go
anywhere.
All credit to oHIKARUo and Thagmor for writing/compiling this stuff.
ADVANCED DEFENSIVE TECHNIQUES "IRON CURTAIN" This
technique applies to both Acquisition and Domination scenarios. This
technique involves the use of APCs, you know the APCs that are parked
all the way in the back? Yes, those APCs are key components in
determining whether or not you will lose a defense mission. The
effectiveness of this technique is reliant on how many APCs are used,
if every single APC is used in this technique, then the attacking team
has one HELL of a nasty fight ahead of them. 1) At the start of the mission, spawn in the rear spawn point. 2) Take control of an APC 3) Drive the APC to the rear of your bunker. 4)
Objective as the driver is to constantly scan the battle field for
enemy threats, both near and far. Keep scaning past your bunkers rear
to make sure the attacking team isn't placing a charge. Your job as
the driver is to ensure the APCs survival, keep your repair kit handy
for quick repairs, and be ready to fall back if you are taking heavy
fire (you will take heavy fire, trust me, the attacking team will
absolutely want to kill you). 5) The gunner needs to also
scan for targets both near and far and kill anybody attempting to plant
a charge. If a charge is planted, the driver needs to defuse it while
the gunner watches over the driver defusing the charge. 6)
Both the gunner and driver need to use the mic and the driver needs to
call targets as they appear. The driver needs to emphasis to the
gunner that the bunker is the highest priority and any calls to defend
the bunker must be immediately dealth with.
Performing
this technique makes it almost impossible for the enemy team to destroy
your bunker. The most common way that this nearly pefect defense fails
is because a player on your team will drive off with your APC when you
are making repairs to it. This is usually more danerous than an enemy
team with RPGs. So the advice I give the driver is to use judgement
when exiting the vehicle, and make sure you don't do it near ANY
teammates that you do not have direct communication with (same squad). You
can provide effective cover for up to 2 bunkers and provide cover for
the cracks that most attacking infiltrators use to slip past the
bunkers in most cases. You are basically a huge pain in the ass for the
attacking team. It can be argued that you are an even bigger pain in
the ass than the notorious bunker turret because you can MOVE
QUICKLYand make repairs safely. This is makes a huge difference when
an attacking team has a squad of guys that just planted a charge and
are watching over it. The only thing really capable of defeating such
a force in short time is an APC along with a few ground troops will
barely give you enough time to defuse it. A platoon
leader as a driver/gunner would significantly improve survivability for
the APC and its crew. The reason being is that the platoon leader has
the special ability to regnerate vehicle health. "ACTIVE SPAWN DENIAL" This
technique applies to both Acquisition and Domination. This technique
requires a machine gun (LMG, MMG) or a sniper rifle (preferably 50 cal)
to destroy helicopters and the RPG to destroy APCs. For helicopter
removal laying prone and shooting at ANY portion of the helicopter, as
long as it results in a hit indicator (the diagonal red lines) is all
you need to destroy these helicopter spawn points. Doing so will
severely cripple the attacking team for several reasons 1) The
attacking team will not be able to respawn from there until another
helicopter is sent in. 2) The attacking team that was waiting to
respawn will now have to sit through another wave. If the blockade is
in effect (Domination only) then this is even more punishing for the
attacking team. The key to successfully suppressing the attacking
team from spawning is to attack the helicopter as soon as you can see
it and as long as the hit indicators are showing up after you hit the
helicopter. If you can manage to start firing at it while it is in mid
flight before it touches down, it is very possible to destroy it before
it "settles in" causing the occupants to wait for yet ANOTHER wave.
You can lock up an entire squad for 3-4 waves depending on how long you
maintain this suppressing technique. After destroying the helicopter
a few times you will soon realize how popular you became with the enemy
team and you can almost guarantee that they will send any remaining
squads to take care of you. I personally use the machinegun on a bipod
for this but you can also use the 50cal. The APCs
are a high priority target for the defensive team for the same reason I
outline in the offensive technique "mobile spawn point." The APC is a
vehicle of destruction if used conservatively while maintaining close
proximity to the objectives that the attacking team needs to
capture/destroy. The best weapon to take APCs out is the rocket
launcher. The machineguns and sniper rifles do damage the APC but not
to the degree of rocket launchers. Rocket launchers also
cause panic to most APC drivers because of the psychological effect of
being shot at with a rocket. If your team is doing fine guarding the
REAL objective then you can allocate 1-2 players to this task and it
will seriously reduce the amount of enemy troops coming in at what
seems to be a non stop pace.
"ROUGE REPAIR" tactic/concept by delligerent written by oHIKARUo
This advanced defensive tactic applies to both Acquisition and Domination missions.
You are required to obviously have a repair kit for this. Armor
selection is up to personal preference, but I personally suggest light
armor for the added mobility. The other reason that I recommend light
armor is that if you are detected and even if you are successful in
killing those who found you, it is highly likely you will die
immediately afterwards by more of the enemy, or by a persistant enemy.
The key to this tactic is stealth, without stealth this will not work
at all and the element of surprise (more like horror) will be lost. I
also recommend doing this alone, it would be nice to have more than one
person along for this mission for the sake of saving time. However,
the trade off with having more people is the significantly increased
chance of the attacking team noticing one of you which will quickly end
up with EVERYBODY on the special mission dead. For the sake of this
write up we will make it a one man operation. The
situation in which this tactic is applied is when you are facing a
blockade of enemy troops and you are pushed back to the far reaches of
your base compound. During this blockade it will be VERY difficult to
escape from the new front line which is certainly going to be packed
with an entire platoon of enemies. This is where you have to exercise
discipline and remember the golden rule of stealth, DO NOT FIRE UNTIL
YOU ARE SPECIFICALLY FIRED UPON. If the enemy doesn't shoot at you, he
doesn't see you or may actually have mistaken you for a teammate! Ok
slip through the enemy blockade, this may take many tries if you are
not good at being sneaky or if you simply catch bad breaks, or lastly
if a teammate attracts attention while near your position and gets you
and himself killed. Now that you made it past the enemy
blockade the job got a little easier. This isn't a walk inthe park.
It is safe to say that the most commonly patrolled piece of equipment
once it is destroyed by the attacking team is the anti air
infrastructure unit. Bunkers are almost universally overlooked at this
point because they are so far behind the new front line that has been
drawn. Start with the furthest bunker (either all the way on the right
or left, use your judgement). Repair the first bunker to 99%
condition, do NOT finish repairing it now for the quick EXP gain. If
you repair it now you will probably be lucky to survive another full
minute and your bunker will be destroyed immediately and you will have
your cover effectively blown (they will want to see a dead body before
they give up looking for this engineer.) After you repair
a bunker to 99% move on to the next bunker and do the same thing until
all 4 have been repaired to 99%. I'll repeat it again, stealth is
vital here. You do not wan to kill anybody and end up with a stalker.
Just let them go, you have a big objective to accomplish 5 experience
points is meaningless. After the four bunkers are repaired to 99% head
to the anti air unit and repair it to 100%. After you repair the anti
air to 100% quickly move to the bunker (either all the way to the left
or right) and finish repairing it to 100%. Move along quicky and get
the bunkers all up to 100%. At this point in the mission you want to
maintain stealth and bypass enemies that are not shooting at you. If
you start shooting at an enemy even with the advantage of surprise, and
you miss, or if the enemy is a better shooter than you, what will
happen is you will end up dead only completing part of your mission.
Avoid this disappointing result by sticking with stealth. Repair the
bunkers to 100% and you have now given your team the front line back.
As long as your team takes advantage of this and fills the front lines
again, you will have set the ground work that will end up absorbing
even more time from the attacking team leading your team to victory! Something
to note, during Acquisition a gate is usually blown open at this point
in the game. You will want to move in and repair the gate to 99%
between traveling to the next bunker. This way you won't have a bunch
of unmanned bunker turrets and a gate that is left wide open for the
enemy to slip through with the prototype. Including the gate in this
mission will increase your chances of success and preventing an
upsetting, and avoidable loss.
ADVANCED OFFENSIVE TECHNIQUES
"FORWARD SPAWN POINT"
Part 1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIzibuPdq8I&fmt=22 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIzibuPdq8I&fmt=22 Part 2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIoDhCfK5-k&fmt=22 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIoDhCfK5-k&fmt=22 This
is rather straight forward, after the defending team's front lines are
completely destroyed and you have disabled their Anti Air take your
squad's APC and bring it up to the outskirts of the front line. You
don't want to bring it into the thick of things because it will still
be destroyed rather quickly. Instead keep it at a choke point, at a
safe distance for the gunner to take out anybody attempting to re
secure the forward bases. You need to use your mic and let your squad
know to spawn inside your APC instead of taking the para drop since it
will be safer and quicker to get back into the action. Not to mention,
depending on where you are parked your squad can be further ahead of
the air drop. Bring a repair
kit and fall back whenever your APC gets damage, the last thing you
want is to have it destroyed as it is a long way back from the APC
spawn point to the front lines in this point of the match. Being
conservative here outweighs any immediate gains you might get from
being risky. A platoon leader
as a driver/gunner would significantly improve survivability for the
APC and its crew. The reason being is that the platoon leader has the
special ability to regnerate vehicle health. "BUNKER BUSTER"
This
is more or less the proper method to take out enemy bunkers with the
highest success rate possible. This can be done alone, and if
possible, if can muster more squadmembers to follow your lead you will
be MUCH more successful... to the point that taking a bunker is
childsplay. Follow these steps: - First, get to the bunker alive.
- Second,
plant a charge at the bunker if the coast is clear. If the bunker is
not clear do NOT plant the charge you must clear the bunker.
- Third,
go to the side of the bunker that the players spawn from. The spawning
side of the bunker is almost always the RIGHT side of the bunker...
wait at this position and you will see players emerge from the bunker.
The players who exit the bunker cannot make any moves for the first
second after they exit. Take advantage of this.
- Four, hold this bunker door down until the bunker blows up.
This
may seem like common sense, but most people watch the charge instead of
the bunker door. The bunker door, 9/10 times is the source of the
defending players who will attempt to defuse the charge.. holding this
key point down will increase your success rate to levels you haven't
known were possible. If you are
able to get a few squad members that follow your lead, you can have one
player plant while the rest of you cover the door and immediate area,
then you can divide the attacking group to bunker door duty and area
overwatch duty. No bunker will have a chance once you planted a charge
if you have a group.
------------- None of you seem to understand...I'm not locked in here with you, YOU'RE locked in here with ME!!--Rorschach
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