Free weekend is over, but lots of people picked up the game...

Here's an instructional video I found on Youtube. It shows the first and second cap zones on the new map Mamayev Kurgan. Interestingly the Axis never make it past that CP, which is quite rare in my experience.

The narrator does a fairly decent job of explaining the game and and its different modes, so it's worth watching just for that if you're new to RO2.

Another thing: a lot of the server settings can be tweaked so friendly names show up very distinctly in this video. Where I mostly play this is not the case, and in fact I TK'd BigGaayAl (my SL!), and he did the same a few minutes later on this map. Also, since the narrator is a "Marksman" he doesn't belong to a squad and thus cannot spawn on squad leader.

Spawn on SL is FIXED and BigGaayAl and I had some great success on this map because of it. We were flanking along the right edge as Axis and came across an enemy squad dug in around a series of trenches and bunkers. We were far from the cap at the time and normally we just bypass them and go for the jugular, but for whatever reason we decided we were going to grind it out there. Since squad size is about 10 per side, it was a brutal skirmish were the enemy SL stayed safe and BigGaayAl also stayed out of the action to provide a spawn point. They would kill us, we would kill them; rolling grenades into the bunker opening then running it with bayonets fixed immediately after they detonated. We finally cleared them out after several minutes but then found they had just displaced further back along another line of trenches and bunkers. At this point we decided just to ignore them and push left and into the cap. It was thrilling and hectic, and I need to make sure and record some of the action soon and post it here. Until then, this video will have to do!