but i am playing in a bf2 comp tomorrow night and the first round is at the gulf of oman, if you look at my stats you will see i have played that map for a total of 44 mins so i dont have much of an idea about it. can anyone point me towards a good guide for that map or can someone here give me some good tips on how to be good at the map. thanks
I suggest you walk the map (on your own server) and get used to it.. and then play the heck out of it online.Mr_Sinistero wrote:
but i am playing in a bf2 comp tomorrow night and the first round is at the gulf of oman, if you look at my stats you will see i have played that map for a total of 44 mins so i dont have much of an idea about it. can anyone point me towards a good guide for that map or can someone here give me some good tips on how to be good at the map. thanks
I am a firm believer in free stuff ..check out EA Games free extract from Prima Guides for the Gulf of Oman map. I am not sure if this is what you are looking for. Gulf of Oman is a beach-head map, which means you have to secure all 4 beach-heads (on size64 map) if you are playing USMC to get tactical advantage. If you are MEC, you have to keep USMC from landing on the beaches, especially since the USMC arti is on the beach. The tanks and APCs are on the 4 beach-head flags, so it makes sense to cap them early. Defending them is altogether a different proposition as more often than not, once these flags are capped, hardly anyone defends them (especially USMC), or at least thats what happened in the rounds I played.
This is as much as i can offer. maybe some of the seasoned gamers have better input here.
This is as much as i can offer. maybe some of the seasoned gamers have better input here.
From experiance, the only places which have someone defending, is at the construction site or Hotel. These two outposts have high buildings, with construction lot having a crane. What's that mean, snipers.
If your alone on foot, scan the area more than usual, hotel isn't as bad as it's one building, but construction lot is a lot harder to spot a sniper. If you manage to cap the flag, but not kill the sniper, depending on him he could cap the flag witihn a few seconds of you leaving.
Use transport a lot (jeep's and buggy's) it'll get you from one flag, to another, whether it's to cap a flag or to defend one being capped. This is the best map for transports, buildings to hide behind and weave in and out and with tanks trying to chase you makes it so much more fun.
One final tip, if the MEC hold all the outposts, take one of the two or three (depending on map size) back outposts. All the MEC will be on the beach, so if you can get around them then attack the rear bases. They will then go to cap this flag, opening up the beach for the USMC.
If your alone on foot, scan the area more than usual, hotel isn't as bad as it's one building, but construction lot is a lot harder to spot a sniper. If you manage to cap the flag, but not kill the sniper, depending on him he could cap the flag witihn a few seconds of you leaving.
Use transport a lot (jeep's and buggy's) it'll get you from one flag, to another, whether it's to cap a flag or to defend one being capped. This is the best map for transports, buildings to hide behind and weave in and out and with tanks trying to chase you makes it so much more fun.
One final tip, if the MEC hold all the outposts, take one of the two or three (depending on map size) back outposts. All the MEC will be on the beach, so if you can get around them then attack the rear bases. They will then go to cap this flag, opening up the beach for the USMC.
thanks for the help guys, i took all the advice given and played my butt off but some of my team ran around like they had never played the game before and we lost, oh well, always next time.
Yeh I got an suggestion. The map is teh suxz0rs . Try to get a vehicle or just simply die..
Watch out for ace pilots and for APC's around the cornor.
Anti-tank, engineering and Spec Ops could come in handy on this map.
Watch out for ace pilots and for APC's around the cornor.
Anti-tank, engineering and Spec Ops could come in handy on this map.