Armor Formation

[agentscar]

A good formation of armor that I've found,by experience in Kashan Desert is to have Main Battle Tanks,and AA travel together.For the USMC for example,the Bradley veriant in BF2/PR is the AA version with stinger missles,so it can take out enemy aircraft with those (rare).But if a light vehicle/hostel AA,or infantry run up,it has that 30mm. cannon to deal with them,while the M1 Abrams can take care of enemy tanks/APC's and taking out heavy bunkers.Same goes for Chinese and MEC,but different vehicles.The MEC formation would be made of M1 Tunguskas,and T-90's.While the Chinese one would have....Dang it,don't know Chinese vehicles...If only the reg. Bradley was here,with it's TOW missles and Machinegun on the turret working.Along with more armor.

[[R-CON]Cp]

My idea of the perfect kashan armor squad:
2 tanks (with 2 men in each tank ofc)
1 AAV
1 repair truck

[[ABA]Littledragon]

Originally Posted by Cp20000

My idea of the perfect kashan armor squad:
2 tanks (with 2 men in each tank ofc)
1 AAV
1 repair truck

could do with at least 1 scout vehicle to give heads up, time spent in Recce is rarely wasted...............

[[R-MOD]Mongolian_dude]

Originally Posted by [ABA]Littledragon

could do with at least 1 scout vehicle to give heads up, time spent in Recce is rarely wasted...............

That could be left down to the scout chopper, if we are speaking Kashan or Kufrah.....Providing he isn't 'pWNz1Ng_tEH_N0ubz', as he'd likely put it.

...mongol...

[Darkpowder]

Littledragon is right i think ( i wonder why )

With proper use of recon elements all the one person tank drivers would soon learn the error of their ways. The reason people still play one man/tank is that they haven't yet learned any real tank tactics. (Go read a book sometime, they work).

An enemy tank maneuvering for an ambush getting spotted by a recon element, can inform their armour they are in communication with quickly enough for the direction of threat to be passed on, and hopefully airsupport and preferably TOW/AT equipped mechinsed armour on the flank of the direction of advance.

Perfect Squad imho, (alas constrained by squad numbers).

2 Tanks,(2-men in each tank).

1 engineer as Scout and repair guy when needed, infantry on bike or repair vehicle, (can also occupy commander position for "riding to the front gloriously"(SL)

1 AAA/SAM vehicle. (Can do as an APC role in terms of anti-infantry / light vehicles).

I would prefer to operate with mobile command and resupply posts, where individual armoured squads can come off the line for a few "minutes" to repair and reparm, with APC, Repair and Command Truck in proximity. Command truck can act to fortify these command posts with AAA and other resources as necessary.

Command posts in Armour heavy maps are useless in the frontline, so they are best kept just to the rear to fight off light infantry and light vehicle assaults.