Card Drunook
DoC Deck of Contractors
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Posted - 2014.04.15 04:47:00 -
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While I'm out of lurker mode a bit of advice from someone who does use the same setup you do.
- Accept that most of the time you CANNOT kill a tank solo.
Your goal in those times is to make it run away, which allows you as a commando to get back to killing infantry. It's nice that you now get points for damaging tanks. I've had a couple matches now where a single tank gave me 3-400 WP because I'd hit him, he'd run away then heal and return and I'd just hit him again.
- Learn how to read when you CAN kill a tank solo.
This is one of those things you just have to pay attention to and get a feel for. Sometimes a tank will be in a position where you will be able to kill them. It has to do with a lot of things, the tanks position relative to terrain, how the tank is fit, how good the driver is, how much damage it already has taken, where the enemy team and your team is. There is no recipe that works all the time, but experienced players have a feel for this, so when you see one solo kill a tank ask them how they knew it was possible. Most of the time they aren't thinking about it while doing it but I'm sure most will be able to point out to you what they saw that let them know that THIS time they could kill the tank.
- Use teamwork.
As both a tanker and a dropship pilot the scariest thing in the game is a coordinated AV group. Three people in starter AV fits, coordinating to fire at the same time can put 24 missiles into a tank in under 3 seconds. That will kill instantly many of the tanks you see in ambushes, and it's using only MILITIA gear. A group coordinating using better gear can do a LOT more damage in even less time. While this isn't a practical tactic against coordinated teams, in pub matches talk other people in your squad into bringing in swarms as well. Your squad will lose a lot of your ability to kill infantry (but by sticking together it won't be as bad as it sounds at first) but you'll gain the ability to kill tanks near instantly.
Also, it looks AWESOME when you get 4 people alpha firing on a dropship, you just see this stream of missiles swirling at the target.
There are a lot of other things that can be done as AV (especially if you get demolitions to level 5), but this should give you a good start on using the build you said you're using. It sounded like what you wanted advice on was how to use that, not on AV in general. |