Do you have a strategy for mine placement? What ideas do you have to maximize the efficiency of mines for your team and squad?

One of the reasons I enjoy playing Engineer is because of the mines. I like the expanded variety of mines in BF 2142 (EMP - motion). It's always alot of fun laying some mines on a flag or silo, moving from that position, and five minutes later having the "You killed ....." at the bottom of your screen and looking up at the ticker and seeing you took the poor sucker out with your motion mines half the map away. Seeing a motion mine activate, and run off like a dog chasing a car, is priceless. Additionally, having an EMP mine activated by a vehicle, you can really feel the opposing drivers frustration knowing they are a sticking target without any options beyond abandoning the vehicle. I like the fact that mines are not activated by your own team which was a pet peeve of my mine in BF 2 where no one ever seems to pay attention to active mines (nice to see the problem has been solved in the 22nd century).

I don't play the Recon kit so perhaps some one can shed some ideas of placement of the Anti-personal mine. For the Engineer kit, the EMP and motion mine are a deadly one two punch and are an effective defense as you are at the flag and silo and well after you have left. I find too many players throw the mines down without thinking of how they effective gameplay.

Some strategies of mine for laying mines:

1)Mines can be seen and can be easy to get a visual on them from a distance if you are careful. So, hide your mines from view by taking advantage of obstacles. Entrances to flags or silos usually have barricades which prevent a driver from seeing what is behind them - lay the motion mines behind the barricades. Placing the motion mine at the edge of the barricade is usually close enough to active the mine by a passing vehicle. Besides the barricade at the entrances, I like to lay the motion mines out of view around the flags and silos. Flag crates are a great hiding space for the motion mines as everyone likes to roll up with a vehicle, cap it, and roll off. Three or four motion mines popping up from a flag or silo is always a nasty surprise!

2) If you need to lay mines in the open, I found it to be most effective by placing the EMP in FRONT of the motion mine. The EMP mine disables the vehicle which gives time for the motion mine to activate and hone in for the kill.

3) Mines can affect behavior. LET the enemy driver see the mines at what ever position you are defending. Force him to go around to another entrance, let him enter and trap the vehicle. He can't leave the mined entrance and tanks and APC's can be taken down by quick moving infantry, especially in the confines of a base. Use the mines as choak points.

4) Like the sentry guns, you can hear and see the motion mines activate and hear the EMP mines. That's always a good clue to the proximity of a vehicle.

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