Lyramion

The problem is usually that the Squads don´t push out combined preasure. The north Squad will scrimish around with nades at the snowwall. The south one will be suck in a stalemate with rockets. And the single squad pushing on crossroad will get mowed down.

That is all the reason to start out with the recon cloak confusion so spin their mind around and mask your plans.

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RogueEidolon

I'm honestly in favor of a direct push right up the middle with the squad leader in back. If you do this with two squads and have at least two snipers, I'm confident you can pull it off. It really depends on what the enemy does. If you expand this tactic, I'd put two squads up the middle and one squad on both north and south alleys. This way if the enemy diverts all their manpower to the middle, the north and south squads can flank.

My two cents.

Adaxa

What I find that usually works on both vehicle and non vehicle FOB is not the recon rush, but rather the portable spawn point. The squad leader goes recon and brings both the cloak and the decoy. He runs up the middle road leading to Cross, on the right side, and positions himself beside or inside the truck on the right side of the middle road. Now, the squad leader does not rush past crossroads. This is exactly what they're expecting. Instead, he uses himself as a mobile spawnpoint, close enough to the flag so that his lemmings..er SQUAD MEMBERS can rush the flag and throw their bodies on it. When done quickly, this can overwhelm the enemy, and I have done this to great effect. He continually cloaks as much as possible to hide from the enemy and the decoy shields him. It's a good tactic, and I have used it many times for success.

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PsyPsy

I've noted some things and here's some tips and tactics that might help:

1) Rush Crossroads up the middle:

At the very beginning: You have to have a close spawn, light armor, and have your squad hold spawn until you're on the flag or close. You can put a beacon on the cars right before you get the the flag and prep for a second wave (make sure you spawn in at the same time).

Equipment recommendations: SL beacon (to set up a second wave of spawns), nades (to clear flag), shotguns (CQC), medic hubs, defibrillators, mines (to protect initial rush when flag goes down), light armor.

1a) Crossroads drop down

This is tricky, but if you can keep your squad alive long enough, it'll cap the flag in seconds: Gather your squad on the catwalk that drops down right onto Crossroads directly east of the flag. Hide your entire squad around the corner just above the ladder. Then countdown, simultaneously run down that catwalk, drop down on flag, and spread out. The flag should go down in about 5 seconds. The problem is you can't stay too around the corner because people will see the grouping and toss nades down that walkway.

Recommended equipment: pretty much the same as above, with a bit more emphasis on healing because you will take some damage before your rush. Also IDS or Otus (to check if flag is clear).

NB) Crossroads Tips

NEVER NEVER NEVER sit inside the wall of Crossroads flag. It's instanadegib time in there. Go a little past that U shaped wall around the flag to the next section just to the north and lie down. People will be shooting from the north, but you can cap there and avoid most of the nades and rockets. Also, make sure to let your commander know that you're capping it when the flag goes down. In the Crossroads drop down rush, the flag gets capped really quickly if it works.

3) Rush north slope.

You have to do this quickly and all together, preferrably after a collective nade barrage. You will lose some people, but if the SL can break through, he/she can keep running to Square, thus pulling part of their front line away.

Recommended equipment: light armor, active camo, mines (to slow down pursuers), SL beacon (drop right when you get to the bottom to provide a distraction- eventually they'll blow it up, but it should give your SL some time to push), rockets/grenades (to clear slope), close range weapons (to cover SL), medic hubs (to heal on the way to the flag).

4) Rush south side.

If you do this you have two choices. a) Ladder b) Building just north of ladder. Again, this is both for diversion and for Roadblock flag. Similar to the North slope tactic, this has to be relatively clear or else your squad will pay. In this case, the second floor of the building is preferable because this will force the PAC team to take shots in the rear or turn around and engage you.

Recommended equipment: IDS/Otus (provide intel to team further behind enemy lines), mid range weapons, ammo/medic hubs, defibrillators, sentry gun (to cover building hallways or above ladder), mines (to cover building hallways or above ladder).

DocGuo

I'm glad to see this topic still running....we should play more infantry maps on the 1st server!!!!!!

Let's all go to the map rotation topic and ask for fall of berlin no vehicles!!!

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