How Do you Capture Bases?

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Hello im a little new and been seeing people around in the online arenas capturing bases.

How do you do this?

[Virage]

If it is an airfield, you must destroy each building and ack in the small square town nearby and then drop 10 troops out of a c-47 or m3 near the map room in the town.  

If it is a Vehicle Field, you must destroy the ack and get 10 troops into the map room on the SW end of the field.  There is no town to destroy.

[Bruv119]

virage pretty much said it all.

There are many problems with capture though.  Now towns have 8 nasty auto acks.  When you kill a building or an ack gun in town they stay down for 45 minutes.  You NEED every last building dead and get ALL 10 troops into the map room.

The map room is centred in the middle of the town near the big white fuel tank.  Sometimes bailed pilots can hide in there with their pistol and kill troops running as they run in.  

Other problems are defenders.  1 plane can easily up and try to defend by bombing GV's (Ground vehicles).  If you kill the ords on base (white bunkers) they will have no bombs or rockets to shoot you with unless they fly from a different field.

The enemy could also roll defensive GV's in a bid to protect their town.  if you kill their VH (vehicle hangar) they will stay down for 15 minutes.  giving you time to do the work and capture.

[Blagard]

One more point to add to what Bruv119 and Virage said. The town has one building you cannot destroy. It is the large hanger like building. So every building except this needs destroying. (Including radio masts, water towers).

Buildings can be destroyed by almost any means, bombs, rockets, machine gun bullets, shells from ships or vehicles. However whilst one bomb may knock out a building (or two) it would take a heck of a lot of bullets to do the same job.

If you drive a tank to a town, you want HE rounds (High Explosive) as fewer are required than AP rounds (Armour Piercing). Ideally take mostly HE rounds with a few AP to defend against the enemy tanks if they should show up!  It typically takes two HE rounds to knock out an undamaged building. Perhaps twice as many if using AP rounds.

I have driven to a town after having the turret of my tank disabled. I then use the hull machine gun to kill the town ack! - better than just giving up.

[Bruv119]

Good additions Blagard....

Amazing how much we can respond to a single one sentence question.  
This dam AH is darn complictated eh  !

I see your from the Uk you ever thought about joining a British squad?  


Bruv
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