Thread: Countering the damn ROFLCOPTER

I can give you reasons why the Roflcopter owned so much that rounds - many of them don´t even directly relate to the Roflcopter itself. The natural Nemesis of a Roflcopter is a Gunship.

A) The PAC Team only gets 1 Gunship on the Titan Spawn
B) The PAC Gunship is so much worse than the EU Gunship
C) The EU Team had very good pilots in their Gunship
D) The SAWW still bugs out too often

Once the Roflcopter has no real natural Enemy he can just go around and do what he wants. Sort of like the Rabbits in Australia did. A good Gunship can demliosh even the best Roflcopter. Back then on Squadplay I killed the No1 Transporting crew worldwide often by just tossing TV missiles at them from far.


E) Having one of the best Transport Teams worldwide on the other does not really help balancing:



While awards in the game don´t say much usually both Reaper and me made our Aircraft Combat Medal which needs a whole lot of 8000 Kills in Airvehicles.





Now enough with dancing around the "problem". While I love driving a Walker I am still always preaching the usage of EMP Grenades which usually would be counterproductive to my kills and lifetime. But I like challenges so I will give you some insight on the Roflcopters weaknesses.


A) Anything being above a roflcopter has a hugh advantage since the Transport guns do not have a very large angle to shot upwards. A Gunship coming from above usually means a sure death. But even an enemy Transport being brought up to a height can totally destroy another Transport being below. Even more if there are 1-2 SAWWs in its side to support the Gun fire.

B) Anything being on the right side of the EU transport is safe usually. The right gun (left if you look at it from the front) is borked and won´t deal any damage unless it has a freak moment. Flying a PAC Gunship or Transport I always try to attack from that side.

C) Walkers are a big area denial for the Roflcopter. The Roflcopter cannot harm them while they have very fast traveling projectiles that will ignore shields plus EMP to support them. This factor will be ruled out tho if the Transport has excellent Gunship support to get rid of the Walkers on the map.

D) Hide in APCs to protect yourself. The Roflcopter cannot harm any armor. Again this factor gets dangerous when the Gunship support is there. The driver seat of the APC has a wide arc up. You can try to shot out a passenger with your main gun or even EMP the transport with a luck shot.

E) SAWWs hidden in unusual places. Search yourself some bush aside like normally only a lonewolf Sniper would. Keep targetting the transport but do not fire. I am sure the pilot will get nervous after a while

F) If you see a possbile map upcoming that is prone to being Roflcoptered and you seee a possible Roflcopter Squad on the enemy team make the right choices of the flags to initially aim for. For example on Sidi: Aim to get a good Pilot into the Gunship at Reactor Core. Keep the Gunship alive at all cost herassing the Transport. Also aim for Warehouse or Offices corresponding to whatever side spawns the Walker for you.

G) Stop spawning on the Silo or Flag that is camped. While this is not solving the problem of the Tranport directly it is often the better choice. Spawning in on a flag or silo that is camped is similar to spawning into a flag that is under fire by an APC or repeatenly rushing into corridor 1 or 2 when there is RDX all over.

Head for another silo or flag and set up an anti air defense there before the Transport makes it its home.