Thread: Tactics: Gunship Gunner

Gunner's bible

Gunner's rule: Eyes
Your the main eyes of the team. The pilot is to focused on the aircraft to keep a eye on all aspects of the battlefield. Gunships to have aircover from air superiorty aircraft, thus they are multi-roled aircraft. Making your job just that much harder. You need to talk 90% more then the pilot or your not doing your job. Use the Commo Rose often to spot targets your looking at. The Pilot should be looking at the NetBat about 50% of non-combat flight time. This gives your pilot a better sense of battle awareness.

Gunner's rule: Tracers give you away
Your gun is a give away in this battlefield of non-radar assisted weaponary. If your start shooting at something your tracers give a path back to your aircraft. Although your loud and noticeable, a few seconds of initiative migth be the difference of life and death. Don't fire on targets that can't be killed. Tanks, Walkers, APC, Transports over 10% health, and Gunships over 25% health. Never fire at another gunship until you clear it with your pilot or you have a sure shot and your enemy is aware of your posistion.

Gunner's rule: Distances = reaction time
The more distance you have from anything will give you more time to react to threats. Learn to engage targets outside of visual rage with guided missles. This will farm up kills to death ratio without giving up your air superiorty at the same time. Watch your NetBat while scaning the sky. If you see armor in front of you and there are no contacts. Take a distant shot. Learn fine movements of the guided missle. Never correct your movement until your missle makes it's movement .7 seconds later(pending ping). All guided missle movement is delayed reaction and leads to over correction and misses almost everytime to a untrained gunner. This forces the pilot to to use fine and slow movements to line up a gunship. Thus over-exposing the gunship more then it needs to be.

Gunner's rule: hotseat
Be ready at all times to take control of your aircraft with "F1". There is always the chance that your pilot can be killed with random shelling, AAA, or bullets. If your pilot is killed yor dead unless you can get control fast. The best way to notice is listen to your engine noise. Empty engines make a higher pitch noise then hover mode. This is the lack of air into the engines at 0% thrust. Thats your "Q" to punch or launch.

Anyone else want to add some tactics and ideas?