Hi everyone. Though I'm new here, and only played BF2142 for about a month (99% of that time as Recon) I'd thought I'd share a few of my favorite tactics.


My number one favorite, though I don't get to use it all that often, is to shoot motion mines with the Zeller, WHILE THEY ARE BEING PLANTED. This usually takes out the engineer who is laying them down, since he is in the blast radius of his own motion mines. The same goes for an enemy recon who is relaxing near his own APMs and RDX's.

After unlocking the Zeller, I went back to the default sniper rifles, but realized that I had a very important job in taking out enemy explosives, so went back to the Zeller. That, and the fact that a couple of pistol shots after a Zeller body shot does very nicely in CQC.


Recon does very well as a squad leader, in my opinion. What I've done in the past has been to issue orders (attack, defend, etc.) then lay down support fire as a sniper. So, if I see three enemies incoming to a position, or defending a position, I lay down three body shots (on running targets), and my squad easily mops them up. If I see an enemy engineer with a Pilum setting up a shot, or an enemy recon with RDX running toward's my team's armor, simply pick them off and save the armor, and help my squad in their defense/offense. Plus, since I am able to scope and see threats from far off, they are alerted in the netbat system, and are almost never caught unaware. Also, I see other players getting hassled by a sentry gun, having to pop out of cover a few times to take it out, getting hurt in the process. Whether I'm close or long range, one shot with my Zeller or regular sniper rifle takes it out for them. This tactic works great in Titan defense/offense as well. Sometimes I'll pop in a hallway, hit the sentry but not bother with the enemy, clearing the way for my guys to take out the engineer who's trying to plant another sentry. I don't get any points for this, but it helps my team.

Since I like to be versatile, typical equipment consists of Zeller/RDX/Camo, or Zeller/RDX/APM.

This may sound a little crazy, but I'm now trying to get really good with the Zeller at close range firefights, which is challenging to say the least. One shot with the Zeller, pop behind a corner, bring out the handgun, and pop them at point blank, or one of my team mates finishes them off. Although, I've noticed that even though the enemy is dead center in the middle of my screen, my Zeller doesn't always register a hit if it's not scoped. Is this an artificial miss modifier that 2142 adds to sniper rifles if they're not scoped?

There are a few more things I'm trying to figure out as well, such as accuracy modifiers to sniper rifles, even when scoped. Are the sniper rifles more accurate when crouched on one knee, prone, or standing? My observation is that standing is the least accurate, but I can't figure between crouched and prone.