Originally Posted by Spulat

Camo rush to the flags doesn't work as often as you think, based on how frowned-upon most Recon players are on the TG servers. Most people don't even have Recon unlocks up to that point.

The map is one of the first I played on 2142, and to this day, I still fricken hate it. Unless I have a number of field upgrades, I'll typically log off for the round when this map comes up.

Infantry-Only, or otherwise.

I'm going to regret spilling my secrets, but here goes:

First of all Spulat -- camo rushes are not frowned upon. As others in the thread have stated, camo rushes on Berlin are pretty much the bread and butter of all SLs.

Two -- unlocks are key on Berlin, yes, especially for the Squad Lead.

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Breaking through is ... highly unlikely if:
1. Without the extended camo and Ghost unlocks from Northern Strike. Both are essential -- no question about it.
2. The other team has smart SLs like Silver etc.

So, how do you fool a smart EU SL who is watching with all his intent for that lone red "cross" recon running camoed through the middle of the road?

Well, for one and easy: use the ghost unlock. This wipes you off the Sat-Track, UAV, IDS, Otus, and even spotting. Awesome stuff, eh?

But it's not quite enough.
Sentries (like the one in Silver's screenshot) will lock onto you even if you're camo'd and ghosted. This is tricky -- stay behind cover and stay out of its line of fire. If need be, head a bit closer to the Crossroads flag, then loop back toward Roadblock, or just run North of the building between Roadblock and Crossroads.

Even with all that -- camo makes a lot of noise. You need to wait and let your team get ahead of you. You need to let another squad or just random pubbies make noise and distract people like Silver, so that you can take advantage of his distraction.

Make sure you're not the first guy running for Crossroads -- about 25 people are going to be looking at you, camo or not, you're going down, and fast too.

Beyond that ... trick people. Trick smart people. They're expecting a sole recon SL, eh?
Why don't you let your entire squad spawn ghosted and camo'd and run ahead of you?
Soon as one breaks through, a smart EU SL will treat him like he is the PAC SL. But that's not the PAC SL -- that's one of your SMs. And there goes the smartest EU squad -- off on a wild goose chase.

So what do you do? Conviniently exploit the confusion and tell everyone to spawn medics on you ... while you're alone on the Crossroads flag

Trick smart people. Don't do what they're expecting you to do.