Small Unit tactics primer

[Doppler]

Ok while i'm not in retail yet I'm going to try and blend a few things I've been picking up on the boards along with my experiences for beta. Obviously a lot of youse guys can skip over this although hopefully it will help vets some too.

This is gonna ramble a bit but forgive me.

Know cover, love cover use cover. Rocks are cover, hills are cover, walls are cover, hulks of vehicles are cover. Trees and your teammates are not cover, neither are light and close to death vehicles (many people have found this out the hard way).

Crouch. This is not doom, running while shooting is worthless. If you deathly cannot crouch for some reason (hopefully it is because your c button is broke) at least stand still. About the only gun i personaly seen that can be used at any kind of distance while running is the thumper.

Dont shoot your teammates in the back. This seems fairly simplistic but youd be suprised. If theres an enemy down the corridor and your teammates are in front of you unclench yourself from your trigger guard and dont shoot. Let them take care of ti or be taken care of.

Watch your grenade spacing. While this doesnt mean as much in planetside as real life it's still important, a gaggle of troops draws fire. Also when moving across open country do three things. 1) Stay off the road, you stand out even worse then normal (in your nice red blue and purple uniforms, whould someone PLEASE toss me a can of grass green spraypain, thankyou). 2) Stay away from groups. See above 3) Stay away from MAX's in the open, same goes for tanks, nothing draws fire like a TR MAX charging across a courtyard, once they kill it or it gets out of cover they will kill you, and unless you have surge, your a lot slower.

Pretty quick ill throw in some more detailed things as soon as i draw up some diagrams.