Gypo
15th June 2005, 22:15
COMMANDER MODE EXPLAINED!
I'm going to start from scratch as if whoever is reading this never knew about Commander options.
First look over on the right when picking your soldier kit(class such as sniper,engineer,ect). Then on top you'll see a squad tab.Go into that tab and You'll see commander up top.You'll either see an apply button or mutiny. Apply means no commander has been chosen for your team yet.Mutiny is so you can kick your commander if you think he is not doing his job(or if you just want his job).
Now assuming you're voted in, While you're ALIVE,hit the commander key(caps lock is default)to bring up your Map and options. Then on the left you'll see squads separated into groups and you'll see various icons representing the soldier kits within that squad.Highlight the squad you wish to give orders to then goto the map and right click which orders(from a drop menu when you right click)you want them to follow.
Squad leaders can also ask for certain requests such as supplies,artillery or UAV. To see these,on your map you'll see a white circle highlighting the area in which they want these requests. Right clicking them gives you a menu that simply says accept or reject their request.
Now You have other options as well.On the left where you highlight which squad you wish to give orders too, if you right click on that specific squad a different menu drops down. Within this menu you'll find commands such as Watch out artillery coming, Telling a squad that they better listen to you and even being able to Disband a squad if they persist to ignore your orders.
The buttons on the left side on top show Artillery,UAV,SCAN, and Supplies. These are pretty basic.Left click the button then go over to the map and left click where you want these items to go or destroy.
If certain bases are taken by the enemy then the item which is controlled by that base will be greyout. If you have just used the item you'll see an energy bar timer letting you know when you can use it again.
Artillery means just that,to blow up a radius that you or one of your teammates pick. make sure that you tell your squads if they are near that you plan to send artilley where they are.You must tell each squad individually this.UAV is a drone plane that sends a signal to you and your troops letting you see enemy movement in a certain radius.This is especially helpful when picking an artilley target.Scan is what it means.It scans the entire map to show you(not sure if your teammates see this)where ALL enemy movement is for a brief moment.Very helpful when trying to figure out where enemy troops are moving in from.
And finally Supplies. These Supply boxes are much need pieces that help your ground troops survive in the battlefield. They heal you and rearm you and I even think they repair vehicles. I pretty sure I did that once. Make sure you drop these somewhere where they won't get stuck on a roof or drop them out in the open where your troops can get shot.
I suggest practice this by yourself for a few minutes due to people being VERY impatient with people learning commander mode even though we are ALL Still learning it.
Use commands wisely especially artillery as you may need them at a specific time and have to wait until the bar fills up to use it then its too late.
I hope this helps all of you as I think it was a MUCH needed guide. Anything you may want to add is only going to help the next guy and even me if I missed anything. So far I know that commanders only talk to squad leaders and then they relay that info back to their team.So its important to have as many squads as possible to make your team work as a complete unit.
Good luck and have fun!!!
[added Jun 12 2005 4:45PM]
Also I do know there is a limit on how many squads that can be made as I played only 1 game that filled this limit.I saw somebody posting how to make 255 player games but thats pretty crazy since you can only have so many people in a squad and so many squads.
Maybe they can adjust squad limits as well.
I'm going to start from scratch as if whoever is reading this never knew about Commander options.
First look over on the right when picking your soldier kit(class such as sniper,engineer,ect). Then on top you'll see a squad tab.Go into that tab and You'll see commander up top.You'll either see an apply button or mutiny. Apply means no commander has been chosen for your team yet.Mutiny is so you can kick your commander if you think he is not doing his job(or if you just want his job).
Now assuming you're voted in, While you're ALIVE,hit the commander key(caps lock is default)to bring up your Map and options. Then on the left you'll see squads separated into groups and you'll see various icons representing the soldier kits within that squad.Highlight the squad you wish to give orders to then goto the map and right click which orders(from a drop menu when you right click)you want them to follow.
Squad leaders can also ask for certain requests such as supplies,artillery or UAV. To see these,on your map you'll see a white circle highlighting the area in which they want these requests. Right clicking them gives you a menu that simply says accept or reject their request.
Now You have other options as well.On the left where you highlight which squad you wish to give orders too, if you right click on that specific squad a different menu drops down. Within this menu you'll find commands such as Watch out artillery coming, Telling a squad that they better listen to you and even being able to Disband a squad if they persist to ignore your orders.
The buttons on the left side on top show Artillery,UAV,SCAN, and Supplies. These are pretty basic.Left click the button then go over to the map and left click where you want these items to go or destroy.
If certain bases are taken by the enemy then the item which is controlled by that base will be greyout. If you have just used the item you'll see an energy bar timer letting you know when you can use it again.
Artillery means just that,to blow up a radius that you or one of your teammates pick. make sure that you tell your squads if they are near that you plan to send artilley where they are.You must tell each squad individually this.UAV is a drone plane that sends a signal to you and your troops letting you see enemy movement in a certain radius.This is especially helpful when picking an artilley target.Scan is what it means.It scans the entire map to show you(not sure if your teammates see this)where ALL enemy movement is for a brief moment.Very helpful when trying to figure out where enemy troops are moving in from.
And finally Supplies. These Supply boxes are much need pieces that help your ground troops survive in the battlefield. They heal you and rearm you and I even think they repair vehicles. I pretty sure I did that once. Make sure you drop these somewhere where they won't get stuck on a roof or drop them out in the open where your troops can get shot.
I suggest practice this by yourself for a few minutes due to people being VERY impatient with people learning commander mode even though we are ALL Still learning it.
Use commands wisely especially artillery as you may need them at a specific time and have to wait until the bar fills up to use it then its too late.
I hope this helps all of you as I think it was a MUCH needed guide. Anything you may want to add is only going to help the next guy and even me if I missed anything. So far I know that commanders only talk to squad leaders and then they relay that info back to their team.So its important to have as many squads as possible to make your team work as a complete unit.
Good luck and have fun!!!
[added Jun 12 2005 4:45PM]
Also I do know there is a limit on how many squads that can be made as I played only 1 game that filled this limit.I saw somebody posting how to make 255 player games but thats pretty crazy since you can only have so many people in a squad and so many squads.
Maybe they can adjust squad limits as well.