Originally Posted by google

The tank support squad seems really useful and effective. However, I would not advise clumping so much armor together on maps such as kashan. Even if the support squad has AA when needed and a bunch of engineers, on CAS missle can ruin everything. It also helps to have have two tank squads spread out across the map to support many different squads on the battlefield.

How the tank squad fights is their problem off course, logically, they will stray farther away from the sullply point on a map like Kashan. It still keeps its value though. On Kashan getting an AA emplacement up is one of the key aspects of this tactic. Usually you will also be in a good spot to add in the AA kit and be useful in protecting the tanks and firebase with that. I haven't seen any jets insist on attacking our firebase when it has an AA emplacement and a SA-7.

Cas could really beat this tactic though. One bomb would wipe out the whole firebase and everything near it. Usually though the firebase will be built in a depression as low as possible. That way the CAS spotter will need to be on the target itself to lase it most of the time .

When all your armor goes down, you are very much in trouble and usually you will be taken down by a pack of tanks. That is no problem though, you just move out behind the next tank wave and do it again.

Most of the timethis tactic is simply a lot of fun. It is a useful variation on the run-in-get-killed-by-tank gameplay many desert maps tend to give for infantry. If you want to, you can even send those engineers in one of the many jeeps you will collect from the firebase to cap a newly available flag.

The other day with some of the E-1st we mounted a decisive rush-assault on refinery with a tank (crawlingeye-remember?) and a landrover. We were able to locate the enemy bunker and get our tank to take it out, securing the impending victory for our squad.