Al Kufrah Oilfield tactics

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Originally Posted by swiftdraw

In this case, no. Mongol AlantaFalcon, fuzzhead and a few others were pairing up in tanks and our tanks weren't even getting close. Mostly, our tanks would charge their position as a single tank or maybe a pair and got knocked out rather quickly. The armor coordination on the MEC side really did us in.

The point still stands though. When the life expectancy of an infantry starts to plummet in the face of paired enemy tanks, it's better to have two HAT available to smack ONE of the tanks hard enough to kill it than to damage them both, or worse- damage two individual tanks from two seperate pairings.

Tankers get wary in the face of HAT troops. The second they get hit by a HAT round, they're put on the defensive - the HAT trooper becomes their biggest priority (unless there's another tank in the area) because he's the only thing around that can seriously hurt/kill him.

Hit him once, he's going to repair and come gunning for you.

Best case scenario is that he doesn't, you survive long enough to get a second shot on him, he dies. Worst case, he's able to fully repair and then kills you - leaving that HAT kit unavailable for 5 minutes. In either situation, that tank's buddy is still around. Alive or dead, you're still facing an enemy tank - and now you're out of ammo and need to find a handy ammo bag.


Now, if there's two of you working together, the worst case scenario is pretty much the same: you die, and there's still a tank up.

However, if you've worked together and made sure your first shots go to the same tank, you've GOT a definite tank kill. Now, if you both survive long enough to reload and get your second shots off- thats TWO tanks down. If you both die, you've still made the remaining tank MUCH more vulnerable to your team's air support and armor, because you've taken his buddy out.


The only drawback is that your side has no HAT cover elsewhere. On the positive side is that whereever you and your HAT buddy go, your team *know* they have the capability to knock out a tank within seconds.

What's more is that you two can move around the battlefield, so it's not even that you're limiting the HAT to a single point on the map:

Infantry are mobile, dead bodies aren't.

[swiftdraw]

Well, then you got yourself a dedicated tank hunting squad. I mean, if you're going to cap flags and stay in one place for an extended amount of time, two H-AT in one squad would be rather detrimental to the team if the tanks don't come to you. But as I said in a previous post, a highly mobile AT squad is a viable strategy for a squad, but thats why you have tanks on your side too.

Edit: I was referring to Reaper saying a lot of tankers go solo and thus easier to take out. When I said 'in this case no', I meant about there being two people in a tank, and not just one. Also you usually had two tanks cover each other, backed into a corner making for a difficult approach to take out the tanks.