Driving the Bus and Field Capture Tips
Courtesy of VonBeer's Boot Camp
1.
Stay Low
When you are transferring Troops or Supplies it is best to stay low. If
you keep below 200ft you will not be visible to enemy Radar. For the easiest way
to stay below Radar use your external keys these are; F3 for external, F4 for
chase or F5 for Fixed position. (F2 to get back to your cockpit.) Flying the
plane from one of these views makes it a lot easier to stay low but be able to
still stay just high enough above the ground to avoid a belly scrape. You
don’t have to get quite that low as long as you’re under 200ft above ground
level. If you’re over level terrain or water, put it on auto and use the F8
key to Pan around and look at the scenery ;)
2.
Communicate
Try and keep communications up with your Team-mates to let them know you
are On the way, as well as to maintain a damage report and enemy status on your
destination. The last thing you want to do is fly blindly to your drop only to
find either an Ack or Enemy up and just waiting to shoot you. Or even worse
getting there after a 15min trip only to be just beaten by another Goon or M3,
even though its always good to have more than one Goon in the area, keep the
Comms up to try and avoid the confusion and from having a bad sortie.
3.
The Drop
To make a good drop there are a few ways to do it but before you do your
drop its best if you set your salvo settings to 10 that way you only have to
push the trigger once. To do this use the dot command; “.salvo 10”. Here are
a few ways to do a well executed Parachute drop: Find either the Map room or
re-supply zone and climb Vertically above it releasing your troops when you get
over 800ft AGL, and either do a full 360 degree loop, or spiral upwards until
you stall or all troops are out. This should keep the troops in a tighter group
on landing making for a more organized advance. The best way is to land as close
to the Map room if you can, but only if you can take off again and I think since
the introduction of the killer trees this is nearly impossible ;-)
4.
Deep Breaths
Patience, sometimes you will come
across a particularly pesky field. Either the Ack has gone down at different
times and keeps popping up or a strong Defense of enemy Planes and Tanks is
there. So the best thing to do is circle out of the visual Range of the field,
keep the Comms up with your Team-mates, they will tell you when its clear. If
you do get there and the Acks pop up or a Tank was hiding, after you Explode!
try and keep calm, don’t chastise anyone, just go on a nice long B17 ride
somewhere and blow the hell outa something :-) . So, if it looks like the field
you are attempting to get isn’t going to die easy just wait for the Go signal
instead of a mad dash and hope for the best style attack.
5.
Dirty Tricks
No Fighter support, help around or
coming, you are close to the field and you see an enemy Tank or Plane. If there
is a good chance they haven’t seen you, drop your troops as discreetly as
possible then either make your way home or try to lure the enemy plane away or
occupy the Tanks by letting them fire at you. Your troops may be able to sneak
the field. I have done this before and it works quite well providing the enemy
falls for the decoy. Only use this, as a last resort and if help is on the way
you should try to wait.
6.
Six! Six! Six!
Always check your 6. If you see a
fighter inbound all is not lost wait until he is about 1.4 away and execute a
sharp turn left or right using a notch or two of Flaps, and the fighter will
generally overshoot because of his speed. Of course they will turn back but if
you can keep avoiding their bullets and turning you might get lucky ;-)
7. Perkies - Try to RTB alive, that’s the name of the game for me, going out and doing my job then bringing that puppy home makes the sortie all the more worthwhile, not to mention the perk points :-)