Humvee Tactics?

[NoobbaneR]

I had been interested in trying to use 2 or more humvees or other lightly armed vehicles in a squad on insurgency maps, and looked on here for any guides on doing so, but i notice there isnt a thread on the topic in any of the sections.

Has anyone got any suggestions for what such a squad could do to stay alive best and help out the team? perhaps as transport vehicles when apcs are down (a 4 man squad with 2 humvees could transport a 6 man squad)

Also does anyone know why squad members cannot shoot out of their windows? i know its not meant to be grand theft auto with drive bys and stuff like that but im sure its pretty realistic to be able to do. :P

[Dunehunter]

Because if you can fire your regular weapon out of the window, you can shoot an AR or an AT weapon out of it too

[Rudd]

watch different vectors and you'll be fine.

[NoobbaneR]

that makes a lot of sense unfortunately

tho an AT4 in a humvee is still no match for an apc which would blow the thing straight out of the water anyway?

[Dunehunter]

And heavy AT?

[NoobbaneR]

i dunno how accurately could they shoot from the windows, were they under zero deviation cos they werent moving, or loads of deviation cos the humvee was?

and also surely only a bad apc squad would get blown up by one? it would atleast make humvees half useful in conventional warfare as well as asymetrical war

[him_j]

well we had an APC squad set up, with 2 APC's. We were working with 2 infantry squads giving them cover fire, and they used us as cover to cross open ground. you could set up by an infantry squad so they can use you for cover against light arms fire.

mind you we were all using mumble so it was slightly easier to communicate. It would probably be pretty difficult to acomplish with the Team Chat,

[NoobbaneR]

had a great game in humvees today on operation archer(edit: i think it was operation archer, it was USMC v taliban the one with the castle), took me ages to scam 3 humvees, but once we did we killed everything we passed, apart from two big reds, that always seemed to drive at my vehicle

we stuck to basics having lead vehilce cover front, lead vehicle had no essential personel in, i was driving mid vehicle, whose gunner covered the sides, and rear vehicle covered the back, which had medic in it.

it was really easy to share targets because as we drove in convoy, you could use simple directions like left, right and behind, and then the other gunners just follow the tracers of the gunner who spotted it.

however i think the only reason it went so well was because it was a taliban map. on any other map there would just be tons of mine spam, bordering on the ridiculous, i wish they would make iraqi insurgents work like taliban, so they could request a wider variety of kits, so they didnt need to depend on mines for taking out armour.

is there any US v Taliban maps set in a city? i cant remember

[Qubetube]

Nope, both US-Taliban maps are pretty rural. Kokan has all those small compounds, though.

[dtacs]

Originally Posted by Qubetube

Nope, both US-Taliban maps are pretty rural. Kokan has all those small compounds, though.

I have one question, why did you reply to this post which is over a year old?

What possible reason would you have for replying? Not trying to be a dick, just trying to understand why on earth people reply to these threads as if they were made yesterday.