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05-14-2007, 01:42 AM #1
Theoretical Tactic to take Inner Bridgelock on Suez Canal
I thought up a quick idea for taking Inner Bridgelock on Suez Canal for the PAC team.
Typically, the most common tactics are for one squad to take a gunship or car over to the big building to the North of the CP. This usually ends up in a huge ticket loss because all the defenses of the CP is now focused on you.
I propose that two squads work together to take innerbridgelock. First, one squad leader takes a car to the Southwest corner near all those buildings. The SL goes into the warehouse building (same one as the building south of Eastern Docks on Tunis) and has everyone spawn in and hold that position. It is easily defendable due to the wall preventing rocket attacks and vehicle attacks. I myself survived 3 minutes solo in this one spot against the EU bridgelock defenders (would have lasted longer if i had more supplies, and my only vehicular problem was the EU gunship). This will draw the attention of the EU commander (which may also help your other squads take the eastern CPs) and quite a few of the EU defenders. Once this squad effectively draws most (if not all) of the attention of EU, then a second squad can either attack from the northeast or northwest, or even from the north if they can get a gunship. The key however is to get the entire squad onto the flag at the same time or else it will take too long and the EU commander will notice it if too much time is taken. I think the best way to do it is for the whole squad to hold spawn until the SL gets into position, then he calls spawn-in and drops a beacon when everyone is spawned.
And voila, you got innerbridgelock and probably trashdump by now. If everything works out, then you'll either have most of the EU defenses at innerbridgelock, very few IBL defenses, or manageable defenses which two squads can easily handle (with the help of commander support of course). And the beauty of this plan is that it doesn't have to be well coordinated. All you need is for the first squad to take up a defensive position in the southwest section of IBL before anyone else attacks.
Alternative: If no one attacks the first squad, then that squad can hold until a second squad comes and then the first squad can assist the second squad by flanking the defenses.umm... hello?
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05-14-2007, 08:42 AM #2
Re: Theoretical Tactic to take Inner Bridgelock on Suez Canal.
Sounds like it would be worth trying.
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05-14-2007, 09:03 AM #3
Re: Theoretical Tactic to take Inner Bridgelock on Suez Canal.
I forgot about the fact that sometimes IBL is already empty (the usually happens if there is a commander who doesn't feel like our assests are worth protecting). In this case, you can just get on the flag, preferably with both squads at the same time to take it as fast as possible. Either way, you're trying to cap IBL with the least ticket loss possible, which is how I came up with this tactic.
I know from experience that the area Southwest of IBL is very very defendable because of the difficulty of getting heavy armor in there, and the inside of that building is sheltered from explosives (besides frag grenades, which can't be avoided). Inside is one of those open containers (like the one directly north of junkyard on tunis harbor flag). perfect for headshots because only the head shows up over it. With the help of a SL with an Otus, the squad is virtually unstoppable, even if they aren't that good.
The second squad basically does what all TG try to do in the start of the round, anyway. Take a car or gunship to the north of IBL and get a beacon there. But if you have the first squad as a distraction, it will be much easier to get onto the flag (recon squad with invis works better).
The only way I see this not working is if the commander splits the defense in half, but even then, that's half of the defense each squad has to deal with. And with any luck, it either will draw the attention of the rest of EU from the eastern bases, or the rest of EU won't be paying attention.
Here is a sketch!

Notice that I did not alter the original picture. 'Tis layered! (though the layers got lost in the file transfer)Last edited by Aerosecurity; 05-14-2007 at 10:51 AM.
umm... hello?
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05-14-2007, 11:25 AM #4
Re: Theoretical Tactic to take Inner Bridgelock on Suez Canal.
Nice map. Without it I had no idea what you were talking about!
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05-14-2007, 12:10 PM #5
Re: Theoretical Tactic to take Inner Bridgelock on Suez Canal.
You might want to consider an alternate route for Squad 1 that might put them in place a little quicker. The path takes you under two bridges, isn't as easy to navigate but isn't often defended. I hardly ever see anyone at the southern bridge at OBL and they may get by unnoticed. The solid green line would be the preferred path, I don't recall the path to take south of Dry Lake, but I tried to add it from memory...




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05-14-2007, 01:33 PM #6
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Re: Theoretical Tactic to take Inner Bridgelock on Suez Canal.
I've taken that path before, if your buggy is moving you can make it through the river and possible up the other side.
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05-14-2007, 07:53 PM #7
Re: Theoretical Tactic to take Inner Bridgelock on Suez Canal.
Yeah, i was wondering if one could go through from the south, but generally the trashdump/drylake area is as heavily defended as Oilstation. I guess it would just depend on where the commander says it's clear and the skill of the driver. But once you get to the spot I have indicated, you should be relatively safe from direct attack. Even if they managed to get heavy armor in there, they'd still have trouble firing into the warehouse. And since there are no APCs on this map, you are safe from mortar fire.
The only way for EU to clear you out is to expend a large amount of infantry on both sides of the building pushing at the same time. Or, possibly, if you can get a man on the roof of the building, he can drop frags down into the hole (if he's support, even better). I'm not quite sure, but EU may be able to get rockets in there from the northwest tower, the one to the left of the EU gunship spawn. I haven't been there in a while, so I'm not sure how high the wall is.
Every tactic needs a counter because we may be on the other team.
The best way of defeating this tactic is to hold off from attacking that squad and ease them out before their sister squad arrives. Once the second squad arrives, squad 1 will start sending out troops to flank the defenders allowing an attack from two fronts.umm... hello?
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05-18-2007, 11:13 AM #8ozimandeasGuest
Re: Theoretical Tactic to take Inner Bridgelock on Suez Canal.
Good idea, would this work with a infiltrator mixing it up from the south side too? it would cause a lot of confusion...
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05-19-2007, 10:04 AM #9
Re: Theoretical Tactic to take Inner Bridgelock on Suez Canal.
I was playing is Suez last night and we did this exact thing.
I didn't take any screenshots but this plan worked out perfectly
and we managed to take Inner Bridge Lock withen minutes. After
that we held it for the entire round.

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05-19-2007, 10:23 PM #10
Re: Theoretical Tactic to take Inner Bridgelock on Suez Canal.
I have a very simple solution that I employed a couple days ago that worked with perfect success.
Full squad, all recon, all with stealth and either APM or RDX equipped (the more RDX the better). Take a car down the northern path described on the map and set up a beacon across the river to the west of the base, making sure to hide the car UNDER the bridge so they cant see it parked over there. Deploy your squad at full stealth and maximum sprint across the bridge and immediately RDX the UAV and Sat Track, effectively blinding the other team. Move fast from the sat track to the flag and deploy APM on both side staircases. Assuming you have only lost a maximum of 3 people in your squad by this point, you have the flag in under 15 seconds.
After that, neutralize all of the other assets with RDX and you now have a toothless commander and a good defensive position.
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05-29-2007, 12:32 AM #11
Re: Theoretical Tactic to take Inner Bridgelock on Suez Canal.
Oh, good idea Ferris.
I actually completely forgot about this thread. It's good to know that it has the potential of working consistently, and that variations on this plan will work equally well. I guess it just depends on the situation that arises. If Innerbridgelock is heavily defended, then my plan will have the greater potential to work. If it's lightly defended, then Ferris' plan would work the best.umm... hello?
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05-29-2007, 08:47 AM #12
Re: Theoretical Tactic to take Inner Bridgelock on Suez Canal
Well i would say your only problem would be all the dang EU forces spawning in for vechiles. So just remeber that if there is a vechicle left unmaned get a guy in it right away. Also dont blow the assist until you cap the flag as they will yell the enemy is there and proably send someone. I know to the flag will tell but remeber they wont be able to sucide in as they would be if you take out the assist first.
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05-29-2007, 07:57 PM #13
Re: Theoretical Tactic to take Inner Bridgelock on Suez Canal
I don't think any TG would ever suicide unless they absolutely had to (ie. stuck, all the way across the battlefield with no transportation, etc.) I believe the sat-trac and UAV is the first thing you should take out. Why? Because then the commander will be the only one who knows you're there, and even then, he doesn't know how many of you are there. Chances are, if the commander is TG, he would not allow Innerbridgelock to go undefended, if so, you'd have to alter you tactics a bit. If the commander is not TG or is unexperienced, then Inner will most likely be lightly defended. Also, if only one or two guys take out the assest, that still leaves at least 4 people on the flag, and it's going to go down pretty fast.
Then it's just a matter of defending. Chances are the defenders will go up the stairs which will be APM'ed, allowing the squad to concentrate their defense to the west stairway while they wait for reinforcements. The worst case scenario is that the walker will come back and wipe out the squad on the flag.umm... hello?
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