cTk_Instinct
09-19-2006, 03:24 PM
My promised squad control tutorial.
Allright most important thing is that you get rid off your playing as a lonely soldier.
The game plays not very well if you try start robbing around with one guy and let all others stand behind a wall for using them when your one man died.
Basics,
if you want to have the most control of your soldiers, do following:
Give them the order not to move free and set your squad commander. Squad Commander should be a soldier which isn't very useful, a smgunner for example. Never choose a Sniper, mgunner or bazooker.
If you selected not to move free, your soldiers will go on walking around and searching for cover if you don't place
them covered. Once they are in cover, most won't follow your commander, but it's not a good way to move him. If you want to regroup your squad, press on move free and let them get to good cover and press hold position again. You can click hold position already when every soldiers is leaving position, heading for new cover.
If you just want to make your squadcommander move, place everyone behind a cover, doubleclick on a soldier which should hold cover, click on your ex-commander and move him to new position, when he's there doubleclick him again.
If you just want to get control of just a single soldier, click once on him and everything is fine. All others will keep in cover.
Fast selection. If you are searching for your squad, doubleclick on the squad picture on your left. Singleclick if you want to select the squad, it makes it easier to get all soldiers when they are spread over the map.
Dismissing squad and controlling every soldier isn't a good idea, the game is not designed for that and it will make you fuzzy, so just use this feature if you want to create new squads or if your squad contains only 2 soldiers. Also they won't share ammo.
improved controls,
your squad is not always very well protected when sitting at one place. So click on squad members in not to move mode and get them to near cover, so they can backup the rest of the squad from other directions.
If your enemys are close use your mgunner in direct control or try throwing grenades. Often your men get hit when throwing grenades or even killed. So take a soldier which is next to the squad let him fire at the enemys position and get another soldier from another side and frag them out. AI doesn't like to get attacked from multiple sides.
Sometimes its not bad at all attacking just with one men, but keep your others in well position to back him up when he gets overrun by many enemys, which happens quite often http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif
If you get attacked by armored cars let your men hold position and get your bazooka out of this position. The armored vehicle will just fire at your squad or your at-guy. If the armored car trys to kill your bazooker get him to cover and try to snipe the vehicle with the rest of your squad, or even get another guy and get him to a 3rd direction and blow it up with at grenades.
If you have to retreat, for example from an enemy tank, click on the free move button, click on a cover out of reach of the tank, click soon again on hold position and get hands over you bazooker which should run in another direction.
I hope I could help some guys, even with my english, as I'm not a native speaker.
Personally I don't have many problems with playing this way. When I have some, than because I made mistakes on my own http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
Update#1:
Creating new Squads
You can create squads when click on dismand squad (dismand symbol on your right bottom) and select them via boxselect. Those soldiers you selected will form up a new squad, double click for setting squad commander.
If you forgot a man, don't dismand your squad again, but press shift and left mouse button on the soldier you want to add. Now he joined the squad, if you won't to leave him the squad press shift and left mouse button again.
Melting squads. On your left you can see images which display your squads. Select a squad you would like to assign to another by pressing the left mouse button, than hold shift and click on the other squad. Both squads will melt to one squad after this step.
You can easily assign a tank to a squad(visversa) this way.
Advantages of your squad.
Your squad will share stuff when you are taking enemys inventory. You can hear it when your soldier say something like "I need ammo" "I need a grenate"
So if you are in a squad, your men will share their ammo and grenades. Awares you from picking up everything with different soldiers.
Update#2:
If you want to have full control over your soldiers and want to play it in Soldiers way, (which is not recommended) you can set your men to not fire and not free move, so they will just do what you say them to do.
Squad on not to move, just let them get away from their position if a grenade hits or a tank is driving over it http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
This only works if they are in cover, otherwise they will search for one:
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/9629/1nn8.jpg
Squad Commander got to new cover without moving any other squad members. Doubleclick on a soldier which covers and move your squadleader, when hes in position double click him again.
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/2554/2nk3.jpg
Questions are welcome!
Allright most important thing is that you get rid off your playing as a lonely soldier.
The game plays not very well if you try start robbing around with one guy and let all others stand behind a wall for using them when your one man died.
Basics,
if you want to have the most control of your soldiers, do following:
Give them the order not to move free and set your squad commander. Squad Commander should be a soldier which isn't very useful, a smgunner for example. Never choose a Sniper, mgunner or bazooker.
If you selected not to move free, your soldiers will go on walking around and searching for cover if you don't place
them covered. Once they are in cover, most won't follow your commander, but it's not a good way to move him. If you want to regroup your squad, press on move free and let them get to good cover and press hold position again. You can click hold position already when every soldiers is leaving position, heading for new cover.
If you just want to make your squadcommander move, place everyone behind a cover, doubleclick on a soldier which should hold cover, click on your ex-commander and move him to new position, when he's there doubleclick him again.
If you just want to get control of just a single soldier, click once on him and everything is fine. All others will keep in cover.
Fast selection. If you are searching for your squad, doubleclick on the squad picture on your left. Singleclick if you want to select the squad, it makes it easier to get all soldiers when they are spread over the map.
Dismissing squad and controlling every soldier isn't a good idea, the game is not designed for that and it will make you fuzzy, so just use this feature if you want to create new squads or if your squad contains only 2 soldiers. Also they won't share ammo.
improved controls,
your squad is not always very well protected when sitting at one place. So click on squad members in not to move mode and get them to near cover, so they can backup the rest of the squad from other directions.
If your enemys are close use your mgunner in direct control or try throwing grenades. Often your men get hit when throwing grenades or even killed. So take a soldier which is next to the squad let him fire at the enemys position and get another soldier from another side and frag them out. AI doesn't like to get attacked from multiple sides.
Sometimes its not bad at all attacking just with one men, but keep your others in well position to back him up when he gets overrun by many enemys, which happens quite often http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif
If you get attacked by armored cars let your men hold position and get your bazooka out of this position. The armored vehicle will just fire at your squad or your at-guy. If the armored car trys to kill your bazooker get him to cover and try to snipe the vehicle with the rest of your squad, or even get another guy and get him to a 3rd direction and blow it up with at grenades.
If you have to retreat, for example from an enemy tank, click on the free move button, click on a cover out of reach of the tank, click soon again on hold position and get hands over you bazooker which should run in another direction.
I hope I could help some guys, even with my english, as I'm not a native speaker.
Personally I don't have many problems with playing this way. When I have some, than because I made mistakes on my own http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
Update#1:
Creating new Squads
You can create squads when click on dismand squad (dismand symbol on your right bottom) and select them via boxselect. Those soldiers you selected will form up a new squad, double click for setting squad commander.
If you forgot a man, don't dismand your squad again, but press shift and left mouse button on the soldier you want to add. Now he joined the squad, if you won't to leave him the squad press shift and left mouse button again.
Melting squads. On your left you can see images which display your squads. Select a squad you would like to assign to another by pressing the left mouse button, than hold shift and click on the other squad. Both squads will melt to one squad after this step.
You can easily assign a tank to a squad(visversa) this way.
Advantages of your squad.
Your squad will share stuff when you are taking enemys inventory. You can hear it when your soldier say something like "I need ammo" "I need a grenate"
So if you are in a squad, your men will share their ammo and grenades. Awares you from picking up everything with different soldiers.
Update#2:
If you want to have full control over your soldiers and want to play it in Soldiers way, (which is not recommended) you can set your men to not fire and not free move, so they will just do what you say them to do.
Squad on not to move, just let them get away from their position if a grenade hits or a tank is driving over it http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
This only works if they are in cover, otherwise they will search for one:
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/9629/1nn8.jpg
Squad Commander got to new cover without moving any other squad members. Doubleclick on a soldier which covers and move your squadleader, when hes in position double click him again.
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/2554/2nk3.jpg
Questions are welcome!