BF2S Forums Using commander role to get your combat badges. Cheezy or not?

It's cheezy. badges should be earned the hard way, not the arty way.

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

aaack, I voted no but I meant yes, I thought it said ground defense and for those I honestly don't see how 20 GD kills IAR is doable at all. As far as combat, get your boots dirty.

Same here.  Commanders should stay the hell out of planes and helis.

I've used arty for my expert sniper and spec ops badges... thats just because for both kits I've gotten 50+ kill rounds without having the time.
So I did it the easier way

i don't think it's right EXCEPT for expert Ground Defence

if anyone can get that normally, without arty, i'll give them Karma for the rest of my life

I can't comment, since I haven't even spent 1 second as a Commander.   Doesn't sound like any fun to me..

Last edited by [mcp]eltorrente (2006-07-12 17:12:29)

In the case of the Ground Defense badge (while I haven't gotten it myself), it can be done with alot of hard work shooting down Blackhawk whores on Mashtuur or taking out the Chineese on advance when you control the airfeild on Wake.

I don't think that there is a badge you need to use the commander trick to get, there all attainable, with alot of work.

twiistaaa wrote:

i think its bad for everything except mmg and aa. only because with both of them you cant really go out and do the work you have to let it come to you, and a good pilot wont mess with aa and even a begineer can sneak behind an mmg.

Only recently got Veteran Ground Defence (using the Gatehouse TOW on Dalian plant against Chinese coming from their uncap), so I don't know if I'll be able to manage the Expert GD the honest way, but I'll give it a try.

But I'd disagree that you can't get the Expert AA badge the non-cheesy way, because you don't have to use fixed AA sites, you can use the mobile AA.  Also, you can chase it down on Armoured Fury where the aircraft are that bit more vulnerable (slower, no afterburners, very fragile scout helo's).  Plus of course, mobile AA is pretty good at slaughtering infantry, especially the Linebacker with its big splash damage, so you can pick up a few 'easy' kills that way.  That's how I got it:



And yes, I died seconds after that shot was taken.  (already damaged, and that little red "x" on the right is coming from some dude I can't see...)


For me, the badges provide satisfaction at a job well done.  I've very little interest in getting them cheaply (like I did with the Expert Knife, all I did was patch the game...).  Expert AA is my first Expert badge, and it's nice to know that it's there because I put the effort into it.

MrE`158 wrote:

twiistaaa wrote:

i think its bad for everything except mmg and aa. only because with both of them you cant really go out and do the work you have to let it come to you, and a good pilot wont mess with aa and even a begineer can sneak behind an mmg.

Only recently got Veteran Ground Defence (using the Gatehouse TOW on Dalian plant against Chinese coming from their uncap), so I don't know if I'll be able to manage the Expert GD the honest way, but I'll give it a try.

But I'd disagree that you can't get the Expert AA badge the non-cheesy way, because you don't have to use fixed AA sites, you can use the mobile AA.  Also, you can chase it down on Armoured Fury where the aircraft are that bit more vulnerable (slower, no afterburners, very fragile scout helo's).  Plus of course, mobile AA is pretty good at slaughtering infantry, especially the Linebacker with its big splash damage, so you can pick up a few 'easy' kills that way.  That's how I got it:

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h95/M … efence.jpg

And yes, I died seconds after that shot was taken.  (already damaged, and that little red "x" on the right is coming from some dude I can't see...)


For me, the badges provide satisfaction at a job well done.  I've very little interest in getting them cheaply (like I did with the Expert Knife, all I did was patch the game...).  Expert AA is my first Expert badge, and it's nice to know that it's there because I put the effort into it.

Nicely done.

But I must know what your secret is to staying alive in that thing. The armor is absolutely terrible and even if you've got an engineer in the turret he can't even duck to avoid snipers.

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

aaack, I voted no but I meant yes, I thought it said ground defense and for those I honestly don't see how 20 GD kills IAR is doable at all. As far as combat, get your boots dirty.

easy palace mgs on warlord

ok u both owe me then cuz i got it the hard way (wasnt hard, got it a little past halfway in the round) btw it was a 16 player 64 size warlord i believe. and for expert aa hop in the tungska on ghost town and you should have the 20 kills in no time.  anymore questions?

Last edited by ig88 (2006-07-13 09:17:55)

cheezy

i earned mine the hard way

I use artillery to turn the tide of battle in favor of my team. I have received 3 badges while commanding; 1. AA vet while commanding on wake , 1/3 of my kills were from the AA 2. the veteran combat medic while commanding on wake, used the AA to defend the ship and got half of the needed kills with it while protecting it from base raping J-10s and the rest from arty except for the 1 guy I killed twice trying to blow up my toys. I got my final kills at the end of the round (BTW this was the first that I was awarded with some of my kills being from arty, before this I had no idea that you could earn them that way) 3. expert ground defense I spent a very long game defending my toys on karkand. In that game I may have had 40 kills with the Anti-tank kit killing people coming to blow the toys. A few I was able to take out with the mounted machine gun but most I had to dismount to kill the sneaky ones who didn't want the easy kill (me sitting on the mg). I probably got half of the kills for the badge with arty drops.

I did not set out to earn the AA badge and the medic badges through arty but they came any way. I could have earned them without it, heck my expert medic was earned on sharqi after I had piloted for a friend so he could get 20 something kills for his he-lo ribbon and then I let him pilot so I could get my expert medical badge. That round we had 70+ kills in the he-lo and I had 3 on the ground (he lost his connection before I got to 40 so I decided to pound ground until he could get back in). I earned it and he rejoined and we got the chopper back.

I think it is best to just enjoy the game and get what you want out of it. I enjoy the teamwork, the challenge, and meeting new people in the game. A shiny little image that says I attained a goal is just an image and nothing else. I can't pin it on my real uniform and go to work and say look what I got playing BF2 so it really means nothing. Just play, have fun, and stop sweating the dumb stuff.