I'd actually never thought this through, by blocking a garrison by your proximity, you are actually preventing a replacement garrison being built within 200m, which can seriously hamper an enemies ability for example to reinforce a point.
One thing that needs way more emphasis is the role of the support player in the squad. As a support player you should be on the SL as often as possible or dropping supplies in strategic points on the map and redeploying on or near manpower nodes so your supplies refill 50% faster.
And leaving the support slot open on a squad can be key. Drop your supplies and rotate off when you die so anyone can hop on and drop supplies at the OP...
@@nightwolfactual8977 Agree with both of you. If you're hip pocketing the SL, redeploying and making your way through manpower nodes and deploying back on the OP that can be way more effective than role hopping the Support slot. Although for red zones garries without another squad's support player, you'll likely need to swap as well. Worse, other than no support players, is a support player on the flamethrower grind who doesn't redeploy and doesn't role hop.
One time I asked my squad if anyone could take the support role one of the answers I got was "bro nobody wants to play as support" and a bunch of guys replied like "yeah yeah". I kick all of them out of my squad and demand a support soldier. I know it sound like I'm squared and not very fun but its the opposed, this game is more fun when you play it right
The whole searching for enemies on defense can be really fun if you get a whole squad working on it. Lately I like offensive mode because it's less worrying about constantly building garrisons which can be difficult on a pub server, and more fun can be spent fighting over a single point.
Hunting down enemies on the flank defence is the single greatest way to play this game. I love defence for this reason, Getting that flank on attacking enemies causes so much panic for them.
I prefer to defend also. The main problem is that if squads aren't happy to defend dynamically then you will be overwhelmed and surrounded anyway, meaning you don't get the chance to reconnoitre out to the flanks.
I like the you stress the importance of playing "active" defense. You obviously need some people to duke it out in the strongpoint, but it's SO important to maintain map control and disrupt attempts by the enemy to set up within your own blue zone.
1. As a commander I will remove attack garries when we need to bolster the defence, but not when there is nowhere else to spawn. Removing the only garrisons by the commander is a really bad play. 2. Many player think that just sitting in the strong point is defending. Much better defensive play done your sq covering the rear sectors. A bonus here is that a squad can block any enemy garrisons by just proximity while you hunt them. 3. Getting behind the enemy and just backtrack enemy movement is always good. 4. Nice to see your video's again.
What I see on the tournament games is that you will have MOST of the team defending and holding strategic flanks, and then a few squads pushing the point - if an opportunity develops then a couple more squads might join, but only if it's safe... In tournament games, they know that Losing a point is worse than not taking one for a bit longer. Why the average drop-in gamer can't process this is still beyond me. - It's like the game 'Could' be framed like a tower defense, where you dig in and hold off the waves of hordes as they crash against your walls, but instead it's seen as bug-lamp automation, where the players "see next point over there, cool, spawn as close as possible and fight your way to it..." People think they're playing a big map version of unreal tournament, or Doom, when really they're paying a First Person RTS.
The Squad leader should NOT be killing anyone who isn't a direct threat to him. He should be doing all the other jobs and if he has nothing to do, use binoculars.
I couldn't disagree more. The squad leader kit is excellent at killing enemies. Spending time doing busy work that has no impact isn't a better alternative.
@@monoespacial Busy work? Building nodes, garrisons, OPs, defences, flanking the enemy and winning the game is busy work? Most importantly, talking to and strategising with the commander and doing as he asks is busy work? People spend way too much time chasing kills, that is literally reason most games are lost. It is a massive problem, there is no way you haven't noticed that, you have mentioned it dozens of times in your videos. If people want to get kills, they should do literally any other job. That is all I am saying.
Whats fun is that i rememeber watching monos videos a year ago and leanring so much about the gamee. Now when i watch them i see his mistakes etc but im always impressed with his decisive movement and chaining together kills with good shooting and shooting position/repositioning. In terms of effective squad leading its nice to let people do what they feel like doing at times but in this game timing is so critical you have to be in the right place at the right time shifting your cap weight at the right moment and limiting the opponents ability to move their cap weight , I find its great to lay down move and attack markers for a good communicative squad and you can multiply your combat effectiveness.
Excellent video, I will have to borrow those tactics when I play next time. I will try to catch one of your live streams with a glass of something from the Uco valley !
in some case I do the same maybe not in this situation but if you have squad that do not listen it's the best thing to do.. force them to defend and secure an then build attaking Gary
Good idea for a video.. just didn't feel very well executed. If the purpose was to teach people how to be a better squad leader and win games, I don't think it was clear and easy to follow enough for most people who might be looking for that kind of help / advice.
2:35 there were no backups near maison so he tried to cover his ass by dismantling the attacking garry, at that point it was already a cap race that looked in your team's favor. That garry was also the only way people could get last wave of respawns to get into maison should cap race be lost. If he had any defensive garrisons setup, he wouldn't have to remove your garry. Common commander L, they only see the red side of the map until it's too late to make backups
Every class plays its own (mini) game, so does SL as well. Ig driving supplies for garrisons is needed than do so. If babysitting is needed, do so. Order the squad around, always give some instruction, knowing how much room all roles need to have (tank hunter, supply drops, reconises, flushing flanks). I also left my squads for big parts of the game, supporting them in where to spawn and what to expect (relay info), rarely babysit or stick around them..
I watched this live and thought you did an amazing job, blocking the Garry spawn was genius and something I wouldn't have considered at the time. One thing that really annoyed me while watching was how many times you had tell other SL to build garries with support players while they would reply "there's no supplies, I need an air drop"
I don't know what is happening on public servers. Sometimes I watch support player in the map with their SL by their side and no for a single second they think "hey let's build a Garry". Sometimes you'll have a SL lead passing by some sups and just won't build a Garry. And my favorite: Squads without SL.
Or in the house drop nades downward or smoke so that they have to blindly move into your kill zone. Let me know if you want to squad up. I also try to keep everyone together because were more powerful with the loadout of 6 players
Hii , I love ur videos and take notes , it helped me to get really good as an infantry man but can u help me out with ur setting? I can't see players long distance (it gets pixelated) especially tree lines etc ... Love from India 🇮🇳
So the active sectors for a strongpoint is always the same four squares and is referenced by all the other possible active sectors (strongholds not active in this match but could be active another time)? So it’s never just the for squares that are directly adjacent to the strongpoint right? I hope you know what I mean but I haven’t found and answer to it so far.
I think you made the right decision to keep the enemy garrison locked out and keep them busy. You may have been killed trying to dismantle it without support. Thanks for another great video!
No thanks! Buildings already provide an advantage in protecting you from artillery and bombing runs, giving “stealth” from flares would just encourage more boring, static gameplay by campers
@@JOHN-um2 I am like level 9 squad leader, I win games all the time with just my squad. I am also a good commander and excellent tank driver Level 10, 0.8% of players are on my level in a tank. Tell me again how I can't play?
What has been tuff in this game is there is a hand full of good commanders, plus this squad lead role should be locked till level 20. We have new wave of people on console. So we get a lot of no mic level 1 not knowing nothing of the game and it makes the game hard to enjoy. If you start to play this game please have a mic and listen to learn.
You are a highly skilled HLL player no doubt, but you are also that kind of SL that is everywhere and nowhere. You could be playing solo squad and you would be as good as in this video. You talked about this at the end of the video.
I partially agree. However, what I was doing was constantly changing flanks and building garrisons for the rest of the team to be able to attack from those angles, as well as taking down a few key enemy garrisons.
I once played defense as a Spotter (Recon Squad Leader) and the entire time my Sniper complained about me not being up at the enemy Arty to help him clear them out. I understand why he was angry with me but no-one else on our team was paying attention to our backline. "We have the middle point, it doesn't matter if they destroy the back Garrisons." Is something I hear a lot in command chat. All it takes is a good push and you're suddenly are back at your HQ sector crying about how "tHeRe'S nO gArRy".
I'd actually never thought this through, by blocking a garrison by your proximity, you are actually preventing a replacement garrison being built within 200m, which can seriously hamper an enemies ability for example to reinforce a point.
are you talking about when he was hiding in the building?
It's actually brilliant. I've captured points like this by finding a hiding spot
Ya just a big risk if you do get killed. But if you have an anti tank friendly aiming a rocket at the thing behind you thats another thing 👀👀👀😈
One thing that needs way more emphasis is the role of the support player in the squad. As a support player you should be on the SL as often as possible or dropping supplies in strategic points on the map and redeploying on or near manpower nodes so your supplies refill 50% faster.
And leaving the support slot open on a squad can be key. Drop your supplies and rotate off when you die so anyone can hop on and drop supplies at the OP...
@@nightwolfactual8977 Agree with both of you. If you're hip pocketing the SL, redeploying and making your way through manpower nodes and deploying back on the OP that can be way more effective than role hopping the Support slot. Although for red zones garries without another squad's support player, you'll likely need to swap as well. Worse, other than no support players, is a support player on the flamethrower grind who doesn't redeploy and doesn't role hop.
@@d-rotthat definitely faster for blue to have that 1 committed player, but like you said you’ll need the 2 for red.
One time I asked my squad if anyone could take the support role one of the answers I got was "bro nobody wants to play as support" and a bunch of guys replied like "yeah yeah". I kick all of them out of my squad and demand a support soldier. I know it sound like I'm squared and not very fun but its the opposed, this game is more fun when you play it right
ho damn, I didn't know about the manpower nodes refilling supplies faster!
The whole searching for enemies on defense can be really fun if you get a whole squad working on it. Lately I like offensive mode because it's less worrying about constantly building garrisons which can be difficult on a pub server, and more fun can be spent fighting over a single point.
Hunting down enemies on the flank defence is the single greatest way to play this game. I love defence for this reason, Getting that flank on attacking enemies causes so much panic for them.
I prefer to defend also. The main problem is that if squads aren't happy to defend dynamically then you will be overwhelmed and surrounded anyway, meaning you don't get the chance to reconnoitre out to the flanks.
I like the you stress the importance of playing "active" defense. You obviously need some people to duke it out in the strongpoint, but it's SO important to maintain map control and disrupt attempts by the enemy to set up within your own blue zone.
It's the best way to play this game. Most fun I have is flanking attacking enemies and getting their garrisons/ops.
And you don't even have to be half this good to make an impact. This is the dream though.
Madeline = Maison du Creek. Yes, I'm indeed an idiot.
1. As a commander I will remove attack garries when we need to bolster the defence, but not when there is nowhere else to spawn. Removing the only garrisons by the commander is a really bad play.
2. Many player think that just sitting in the strong point is defending. Much better defensive play done your sq covering the rear sectors. A bonus here is that a squad can block any enemy garrisons by just proximity while you hunt them.
3. Getting behind the enemy and just backtrack enemy movement is always good.
4. Nice to see your video's again.
Coming in late, reading the game, and creating opportunities for your side to win the fight...
Now that's soldiering...
What I see on the tournament games is that you will have MOST of the team defending and holding strategic flanks, and then a few squads pushing the point - if an opportunity develops then a couple more squads might join, but only if it's safe...
In tournament games, they know that Losing a point is worse than not taking one for a bit longer.
Why the average drop-in gamer can't process this is still beyond me.
- It's like the game 'Could' be framed like a tower defense, where you dig in and hold off the waves of hordes as they crash against your walls, but instead it's seen as bug-lamp automation, where the players "see next point over there, cool, spawn as close as possible and fight your way to it..."
People think they're playing a big map version of unreal tournament, or Doom, when really they're paying a First Person RTS.
Mono apologizing for not bossing around his squad because he's busy killing half of the enemy force
Sometimes we do good things, sometimes we only roleplay Arnie, sometimes both - it happens naturally :D
The Squad leader should NOT be killing anyone who isn't a direct threat to him.
He should be doing all the other jobs and if he has nothing to do, use binoculars.
@@All_Hail_Chael yes Mono is just a stats whore!
I couldn't disagree more. The squad leader kit is excellent at killing enemies. Spending time doing busy work that has no impact isn't a better alternative.
@@monoespacial Busy work?
Building nodes, garrisons, OPs, defences, flanking the enemy and winning the game is busy work?
Most importantly, talking to and strategising with the commander and doing as he asks is busy work?
People spend way too much time chasing kills, that is literally reason most games are lost. It is a massive problem, there is no way you haven't noticed that, you have mentioned it dozens of times in your videos.
If people want to get kills, they should do literally any other job. That is all I am saying.
Just found this game and in deep trying to learn tactics - Thanks for some informative strategy & game play
Whats fun is that i rememeber watching monos videos a year ago and leanring so much about the gamee. Now when i watch them i see his mistakes etc but im always impressed with his decisive movement and chaining together kills with good shooting and shooting position/repositioning.
In terms of effective squad leading its nice to let people do what they feel like doing at times but in this game timing is so critical you have to be in the right place at the right time shifting your cap weight at the right moment and limiting the opponents ability to move their cap weight , I find its great to lay down move and attack markers for a good communicative squad and you can multiply your combat effectiveness.
Excellent video, I will have to borrow those tactics when I play next time. I will try to catch one of your live streams with a glass of something from the Uco valley !
I imagine he removed that Garry to force people to defend who are ignoring him 😅
in some case I do the same maybe not in this situation but if you have squad that do not listen it's the best thing to do.. force them to defend and secure an then build attaking Gary
Great video Mono, learned a lot from this. Thanks for sharing
Well done and thank you for the tips sir.
this game needs leaders!
Great vid
Honestly killing a squad mate to get them to redeploy with supplies is a great idea 😂😂
Good idea for a video.. just didn't feel very well executed. If the purpose was to teach people how to be a better squad leader and win games, I don't think it was clear and easy to follow enough for most people who might be looking for that kind of help / advice.
2:35 there were no backups near maison so he tried to cover his ass by dismantling the attacking garry, at that point it was already a cap race that looked in your team's favor. That garry was also the only way people could get last wave of respawns to get into maison should cap race be lost. If he had any defensive garrisons setup, he wouldn't have to remove your garry. Common commander L, they only see the red side of the map until it's too late to make backups
Every class plays its own (mini) game, so does SL as well. Ig driving supplies for garrisons is needed than do so. If babysitting is needed, do so. Order the squad around, always give some instruction, knowing how much room all roles need to have (tank hunter, supply drops, reconises, flushing flanks).
I also left my squads for big parts of the game, supporting them in where to spawn and what to expect (relay info), rarely babysit or stick around them..
I watched this live and thought you did an amazing job, blocking the Garry spawn was genius and something I wouldn't have considered at the time. One thing that really annoyed me while watching was how many times you had tell other SL to build garries with support players while they would reply "there's no supplies, I need an air drop"
I don't know what is happening on public servers. Sometimes I watch support player in the map with their SL by their side and no for a single second they think "hey let's build a Garry". Sometimes you'll have a SL lead passing by some sups and just won't build a Garry. And my favorite: Squads without SL.
Great video
Or in the house drop nades downward or smoke so that they have to blindly move into your kill zone. Let me know if you want to squad up. I also try to keep everyone together because were more powerful with the loadout of 6 players
can you please tell, hwat graphic settings are you using?
buena Dick Winters!! jajaja
Hii , I love ur videos and take notes , it helped me to get really good as an infantry man but can u help me out with ur setting? I can't see players long distance (it gets pixelated) especially tree lines etc ... Love from India 🇮🇳
Video settings*
16:54 had me rolling XD
So the active sectors for a strongpoint is always the same four squares and is referenced by all the other possible active sectors (strongholds not active in this match but could be active another time)? So it’s never just the for squares that are directly adjacent to the strongpoint right? I hope you know what I mean but I haven’t found and answer to it so far.
Mono would make an Amazing Spotter
I think you made the right decision to keep the enemy garrison locked out and keep them busy. You may have been killed trying to dismantle it without support. Thanks for another great video!
i think flare guns should work only when some one is on the field or e.t not in buildings.
I know it's not about the video, but what do you think?
No thanks! Buildings already provide an advantage in protecting you from artillery and bombing runs, giving “stealth” from flares would just encourage more boring, static gameplay by campers
Great vid. How many kills do you average?
This is not COD mate, the Squad leader normally gets 1-2 kills a match if he is doing his job.
@@All_Hail_Chael😂no. Dear god no. You don’t know how to play the game then.
@All_Hail_Chael nope, he can easily do his job and get alot more kills than that lol.
@@JOHN-um2 I am like level 9 squad leader, I win games all the time with just my squad.
I am also a good commander and excellent tank driver Level 10, 0.8% of players are on my level in a tank.
Tell me again how I can't play?
@@BobetoSlimHe literally admitted to not giving orders so he could get kills.
That is not his job as Squad Leader.
What has been tuff in this game is there is a hand full of good commanders, plus this squad lead role should be locked till level 20. We have new wave of people on console. So we get a lot of no mic level 1 not knowing nothing of the game and it makes the game hard to enjoy. If you start to play this game please have a mic and listen to learn.
For thie first Gary I would had put in in the south in blues zone and then a second on in red zone.
yo the enemy is never so blind when I play them lol
Is stupid if another friendly player can destroy your stuff
Only commander
You are a highly skilled HLL player no doubt, but you are also that kind of SL that is everywhere and nowhere. You could be playing solo squad and you would be as good as in this video. You talked about this at the end of the video.
I partially agree. However, what I was doing was constantly changing flanks and building garrisons for the rest of the team to be able to attack from those angles, as well as taking down a few key enemy garrisons.
holy shit is it EASY to shoot anything in that game
i win games by not playing HLL
I once played defense as a Spotter (Recon Squad Leader) and the entire time my Sniper complained about me not being up at the enemy Arty to help him clear them out. I understand why he was angry with me but no-one else on our team was paying attention to our backline. "We have the middle point, it doesn't matter if they destroy the back Garrisons." Is something I hear a lot in command chat. All it takes is a good push and you're suddenly are back at your HQ sector crying about how "tHeRe'S nO gArRy".
Excellent job being able to record yourself without showing the aimbots you use.
Err... your title is wrong.
It should say, "How All Hail Chael wins games on his own and has no quarms about letting the entire team know this fact"