Originally Posted by Fishbone

I got the advice from a regular to go on TS when squad leading. I have it installed and did check it out one time, but I am still a bit uncertain about it. So I would like to ask for a few tips on how to properly use it.

Which key-bindings do you use to avoid conflicts or such? (And no I am not that new that you can make believe in the awesomness of Alt-F4.)
What are the most important commands to remember?

Some people have custom binds to take them to specific channels. Personally, I find it easier to just alt+tab out of game and switch manually. Therefore, the most important and only bind you really need is your push to talk button, which you can set to any button on your keyboard.

Originally Posted by Fishbone

How do you know for sure that you are in the right channel? Telling your plans to the opponent would be stupid but being in the wrong, empty, channel is a waste of opportunity.

Very simple, when you join a channel, ASK. All you have to do is say "which team channel is this" and you'll pretty much instantly get a response as to whether it's USMC, Chinese, British, MEC, militia, etc. So if you join the wrong one, theres only one other choice.

Originally Posted by Fishbone

On a related note, my SL worked together over TS with another regular and both used locked 4-man squads as the squads should be seen as fireteams. Which are effective with a small size. And I can imagine that talking on team speak and having 5 SMs talking over VOIP might be a bit much. Just to make sure, is it ok to lock squads if the intention is to cooperate with another squad over TS? And this while keep checking the squad list to be sure that other players are still able to join a squad.

Thanks,
Fishbone

Fish, locked squads are always alright if theres a specific intent. You're just not allowed to have one man locked squads or locked squads with no purpose. If you've got two guys who are both medics walking around doing nothing in a locked squad, probably a bad idea and someone might gripe at you. But for demonstration purposes, ill give you a short list of things that are ok to have locked squads for:

• Armor squads
• pilot squads
• dedicated AT squads
• sniper/recon teams
• multi-squad coordination
• fireteams
• special operations squads
• commander support

Now, the key idea is to be smart about locking the squads. If there are already 8 squads running, creating a 2 man sniper/recon squad probably isnt going to go over well. Otherwise, you're probably ok.