This topic has come up in other threads. We do a pretty good job most nights getting folks to work as a team on offense mostly because the bomb carrier is the SL by default and the fact that we have a decent number of folks willing to give it a go. Defense lacks an SL unless someone tries to coordinate but mostly folks just go where they want regardless. Sometimes that works well but just as often the ad hoc defense gets whittled down pretty easily.

Do folks see a way we can make a defensive SL happen for regular play or do we leave it for scrims and Captain's matches.

Ideas so far - more are welcome:

*Captains' Match style. First bomb carrier leads the whole map. Players that spawn defense pick an SL for the whole map as well. Options might be that you have to lead for one defense then an offense and you could switch. Or switch anytime as long as someone else gets designated.

*2 round minimum. If you spawn defense first round you have to call it and lead the defense then the assault. If you spawn offense and grab the bomb you're obligated to lead the defense next round.

*The easy one. We don't change anything.

If someone is willing to take up the SL responsibility on defense they should expect and get cooperation from their squad. Whether a defensive SL is to become hard coded like the bomb carrier, the key thing for me is what's implementable either via a minor rules mod or a gentlemens agreement for S&D. If it makes more sense to just leave it alone then we will.

CoD5 provides some rudimentary squad tools that we've tried in the past to good effect. We would set up an A team and a B team that covered their respectively lettered objectives on defense then work together to plant on offense. We started the squads and staffed them first round. They definitely worked better if the SLs for a side remained the same for the whole map. We could easily make joining a squad and following the SLs orders part of the CoD5 rules and SOPs.

Does anyone know if CoD6 will continue the SL functionality that was put into CoD5?

The floor is open to anything SL related across the CoD game spectrum and not just the question regarding defensive SL for CoD4. Please be sure to indicate the game version where appropriate.