BF2S Forums How do I practice for commander???

yep when people abuse you, you're doing the wrong thing, when they're quiet, you must be doing ok

You have a few main functions as a commander:
1. UAV
2. Artillery
3. Supplies
4. Scan / Mark
5. Command the Squads

You best set the UAV where the main fight is going or if you see someone/a squad taking an occasion and attacking the enemies main base which would give you a huge advantage (vehicles, position, attack from the back etc.)...usually your teammates are running like lemmings to one single point at the front everyone wants to capture and maybe 1-2 tries something else, mostly even COMMANDING them to attack another point fails... I had squads that denied every single order I gave them.

Best to use Artillery where the enemies main force is or tactically...say you do a scan and you see a single guy or two are trying to cap a tactical position, bombard it and thwart their attack , coming to Scan...it's probably the most important of the "commander tools"...you'll always see when single individuals run somewhere hidden on the map to cap your own main base and you can "spot them" on the 3D-map directly as commander for everyone else to see them and command a squad to attack them...futhermore you can detect and mark snipers and if you defend your main base as commander it will be a lot easier with a Scan.

Commanding is pretty much left to you and your tactical "finesse"...you can command squads to defend, attack, demolish something, repair something or move somewhere as you probably know and I usually don't try to nerve them with obvious things...like one enemy base is left and commanding them all to attack it or something like that, I keep it to tactical decisions...like trying to pass the main force and capture a flag or order them to repair/demolish something etc. Sometimes they listen, usually they don't

man you get the most abuse being commander, if ya drop artillery and youre men get killed because they ran into it, they blame you, if you go into battle while commander you get shouted at because you cant do your job properly, if you stay back, against you get shouted and for hiding and doing you job properly.Basically you cant win.

Charmin wrote:

Not to be cocky but I know i have tactical skills, In BF though i have never played commander yet simply cuz i dont know how it all works. And dont want to bother anyone playing.

So from all you experienced commanders, what would be a good start to learn the basics.

Hey.

You can take a look at this side http://www.secretsofbattlefield.com/command2.php

Last edited by Daxmann (2006-01-03 07:50:01)

Err i'm not meaning to bust your bubble but in public bf2 you're actually not the man who controls it all. Your team isn't listening to you. Never. To be a good commander you just need to support your team. Drop supplys, place UAV and arty wisely, spot every enemy that you see and tell them via chat/voip if someone attacks one of your bases.

The whole strategy part is for clanwars and that stuff

Not true, the best way to practice being a commander is threw single player, You can control the difficulty settings and bump it up a knotch to see if your commander skills can be up to the challenge. Everytime you apply for commander in the single player you get it. Hints no artillery when your not the commander. If you haven't played the single player yet a good cheat would be to log on as commander and control the whole field while killing people hehehhe (medice preferred choice). Use the Uav and supplies to your advantage and you will win.

commanding is relatively easy once you start playing. just make sure you avoid dropping artilery on your teamates (they show up on the map) and make sure you use uavs and supply drops

your teamates also prefer it if you actually fight as well - many commanders just stay at a base and hide, which i think is stupid!

the best commander is the one that fights like everyone else - captures flags etc - and gives orders and artillery etc.... - my highest score was through doing this, and it is really easy, as you just do something (capture a flag) then every few minutes send the artillery on its way, then carry on fighting until its ready again
as for pratice, you just need to find a decent server (so you get the position), or you ask your team if you can go commander, or simply play in single player

before long youll have your command ribbons and badges like me :p

no the points get added to you command points - trust me i know

and it is much better to help your team, as your an extra player - you can fulfil your duties as a commander and play, its not that hard - only took me a few hours to get my vet commande badge, and staff officer ribbon

it is relativley easy to check the command screen every minute, to carry out your actions, while actually giving your team support on the ground

Most people don't seem to realise that you can spot enemies as the commander and call them out to the team.  Please, rightclick->spot on the red blobs after you've run a scan.

Even fewer people realise that you can see all enemies in the zoomed in commander view and spot them for the team, even without an active scan/UAV.  An active commander can cover one flag with the UAV while manually spotting around another flag.

Personally, I think that you are a much better team asset if you sit around spotting instead of fighting.
If your team know where the enemies are, it's a hell of a lot easier to kill them.  It's a much more useful asset than just an extra fighting man, especially on 32 and 64-man servers.

I don't get pissed off at fighting commanders (unless they're in a jet/helo), but I always prefer a stay-at-home commander.

Yeah, easiest thing, just put UAV everywhere, all the time. scan when ur uav is down, and dont place atry where a bunch of teammates are lol. if theres a group of bad guys, say like 10, you might think, awesome 10 points for me if i drop arty on them, but if you have a bunch of teammates around there, let them take care of the threat.

drop arty at bases that the enemy is trying to take over as well. when the arty hits, a bunch of people could spawn and then get hit by your arty.

remeber, just right click on the squad screen, and thats where you can tell people to repair things, put mines down, and other useful things. you can also tell the squads to attack or defend a certain area, by right clicking on it, and press attack or defend.

also, if you right click the squad on the left, you can commend them, rebuke them, let the squad leader know of any uav, arty, or supplies are available and so on.

i bet i have repeated what most people have said, but i didnt take the time to read every post. hope this helps!

May I direct all you lost sheep to BF2S Wiki.

AirForce2076 wrote:

just practice in singleplayer

Exactly.

k61824 wrote:

I don't think you get points for killing ppl with arty (it's counted as kills but no actual point, good for earning every combat badge except knife, pistol, transport and explosives)

No, it's the other way around. You get teamwork points, but no kills for arty.