Your own strategies that have worked

[Drusky]

The Mini-map

Use the mini-map, the mini-map is your friend.Repeat after me:I love you mini It seems that some players have heightened reflexes. Their speedy responses do in fact border on the supernatural. The force is not with them, they have no midi-chlorines, they... use... the... mini-map <echo on> mini-map mini-map mini-map <echo off>. Playing with both eyes on the other unfriendly two legged fraggers running across your screen is not enough. You must keep your third eye on the mini map (not that eye, sis!). This will come with practise. Practise, I don't want to hear that any of you new-age filth have been meditating your way to a higher consciousness. You're looking for red dots in your vicinity, pay special attention to the little arrow on the red dot. If its pointing your way make sure the arrow on your dot is facing toward it(your dot is blue and different to the other blue dots, it never leaves the center of the mini map) Be clever if you can and get behind the red dot. Surprise is a wonderful thing. Many red dots heading your way is baaaad. When I see this and I am alone I leave. I leave C4 near the flag. I leave it in a discreet place. I leave the area. If you are a patient viscious fragger then you will be hiding somewhere watching your flag on the mini map. When it turns white you snigger excitedly and press the detonater. The flag and pole miraculously survives the ensuing explosion every time, you get to go and put your flag back up, you get to wipe out a whole squad. Squads love peeps that do this, they will throw things at you to show their appreciation; bullets, grenades, rockets... Consider these gifts an honour. There is the possibility that the squad is sly. The sly squad will find your c4 they will frag it with a grenade. You will know this when: you hear no boom (if you're close enough) you see no; you killed, you killed, you killed :sob: the flag becomes an evil other colour ^EDIT: DUE TO EA PATCHING YOU CAN NO LONGER DESTROY MINES, C4, OR CLAYMORES WITH GRENADES OR ANY OTHER EXPLOSIVE Do not run into the flag area knife held in teeth throwing grenades, emptying your clip and peeing acid (domonic quote). You will die. You are sly. You are clever. You want to live. You.... used the mini map. You will come and take that flag back seconds after that squad has left. You will receive points, your team mates will love you. Ok maybe not, but you will love you, love will be emanating from the clouds(stoke quote) In your euphoric state all will be well till one of your |WrG| buddies greets you with a genial TK. But such is life.

Now don't be a lazy swine and wander off to contemplate your navel. Post a nice scenario that has worked for you. Pretty please

[doobiwan]

Condubious Say:

"Strategy is for those who can't run fast enough . . . "

[Drusky]

LOL
Lazy swines

The Run Bar

We all want to sprint the whole way across the map fragging peeps as we go, this is a dream, a vision, a fantasy, you havena got the stamina capn. Paying careful attention to your run bar is important, nay crucial and don’t let the fragger from the next clan tell you it’s not. Knife him and listen to me. While you have a third eye on the mini-map, I love you mini, and two eyes on the evil fraggers from the other team, your other eye (not that one) is on the run bar. You never run down an alleyway unless you’re in a rush to meet your end. This goes for any area that is protected from general view. Running is for open ground and desperate situations Open ground: You walk to the end of the alleyway. You look left and right to see that there is no immediate danger. Now using the abundant run in your run bar you high tail it across the open space to the next piece of carefully selected cover where you start walking again. Desperate situations: You see a full squad moving in on your position, you are alone, you take out 3 of them at range with your last pistol clip, your knife has worn to a stub, it’s time to run. Aren’t you glad that you have a full run bar and they do not. An opposing team, evil fragger runs past you down an alley. Pah! Lemming. You unsheath your shiny new knife and lo with your full run bar you chase him down and chook chook your desperate need to knife an evil fragger is sated J

[TG]

That pesky run bar is my bane.

I never look at the friggin' thing. I run everywhere with lots of huffing and puffing in between to catch my breath.

I hates you run bar!

[doobiwan]

Me too, that way it feels like real life . . .

[Drusky]

The Ladder

Your wife gets a ladder in her stockings, this is a disaster, the end is nigh. When you see a ladder in BF2, you will feel the same. You want to climb the ladder, There is another world at the top filled with beautiful women that love you, and maybe a sniper to knife (oh bliss):snigger: You don’t really need a reason. It’s a ladder, it goes somewhere, who can resist that. Unfortunately in BF2 the ladder really is a disaster and does represent your coming doom. Once on the ladder you can only go up or down, no one has ever jumped off of the ladder or even just let go. Not once, never. The best you can do is take a careful look around and climb away. Once on the rungs your run bar becomes useless, now there is only ladder speed, I like to call it slow. Myth: You can shoot at peeps from the ladder. You can shoot yourself while clinging to the ladder. You are invulnerable while on the ladder. The ladder makes you invisible (You will never be invisible. Your buggy may vanish into thin air leaving you hovering above the ground clutching a steering wheel. You however will remain opaque, solid and shootable always) Fact: Your limpet like grip on the ladder can be loosened by a few shots to the cranium, your cranium. I expect any |WrG| squaddie will oblige. On the ladder matter can occupy the same space. You can see the inside of your squaddie while sharing the ladder with him. I can personally attest to the fact that Punky’s skull is quite hollow, not astonishing news really. The ladder is always worth climbing,

That’s all I have to say about ladders.

Follow The Leader

You’re in a squad, you’re not the squad leader. You must obey the leader, this is true, this is good. If you don’t, you may as well go lone wolf. In that case don’t expect anyone to care when you are fragged, knifed and riddled with bullets. Your critically injured bod will continue to lie there croaking “medic” in whatever language till the count is down. Have a sip of tea, eat a cookie and choose your next spawn point. LW gaming has its place but lets talk about the good squaddie. The guy that will bring out the sun on a cordite-overcast day. He wants to have a common objective, he wants to work with the squad. He also has few nice habits which he reserves especially for squad play, he: will not be distracted by the ladder. will not ask the sql what kit he wants him to be, the sql has enough to do without thinking for you. will use his naws, press tab and see what the squad has and decide what the squad needs. If he is unsure, he will pick his fav most fragugly kit. will always say “spawning as [chosen kit]” over voip. will spot stuff. will not discuss non game topics for extended periods over voip. will advise the sql on possible next objectives. “We can go there or there, it’s clear” or “I smell arty”. I think the most NB squaddie skill is good squad movement. A lot of guys complain that they just die all the time while playing squad. Your |WrG| squaddies may be TKing you but it’s more likely that you’re moving badly. A few points to consider: Don’t follow the squad on autopilot. Move the way you do when you play LW, look around, be alert, and use cover. If this results in you lagging behind, so be it you will catch up, don’t use up all your run bar and become an easy target. Conversely keep tabs on where your squad mates are, don’t leave that handy AT booitjie out to die. Move separately wherever possible, if the squaddie in front of you goes left round a building, you must go right. A bunched squad is a noob tuber’s fav target. Try not to clump around a flag, we only play for points of course, but someone must play sentinel. You can always run in for a point at the last minute. Don’t let your sql get killed, he’s your mobile spawn point, he’s your link to the commander, move ahead of him, take risks for him (think ladders) but still think before you take that risk refer to the first point. When you die, let the squad know you’re down and if possible give them a running commentary. Think before you speak. “He’s coming, they’re coming, we’re all gonna die.” never helped anyone. Try giving useful info, direction, and numbers, distances.

I of course would rarely be seen doing the things that I have suggested on this ol thread

[stoke]

Unable to spew a vast array of comments like Drusky due to unending boredom torture at work, all I want to add is:
Jump onto a ladder - if it's only one storey high, then you're already half way up.
Run key slides down a ladder. I have no idea what run key is - I always double tap.

[Drusky]

Run key slides down ladder!
/Stares past computer screen into nothingness wondering at the possibilities
/decides to find longest ladder to try this out.

lftshift to activate run

/wonders about running backwards.

[Darnit696]

I have to ask this... I know I will be lauged at well into next year but hey. Ever slide up a ladder... A woman's leg comes to mind... concentrate BF2ladder BF2 Ladder...

[Drusky]

The Roof

There's a good song about the roof, I like it a lot. The chorus goes: on the roof it’s peaceful as can beeeee on the roof the world can't bother meeheee This is not the song that I hear when playing BF2. I hear this: thuh roof, thuh roof, thuh roof is on fyah thuh roof, thuh roof, thuh roof is on fyah thuh roof, thuh roof, thuh roof is on fyah It has a rapid hip-hop beat; gets me jumping up and down, running around and ducking. Sometimes I even do the worm. It's as if there are fire ants in my fatigues. The roof is not all that bad. You probably got to climb a ladder to get there. It’s just unwise to hang around up there for longer than it takes to chook, chook a sniper. You can see everyone for miles… and they can see you.