Basic Tactics and Hints
1) Low Honor = Misunderestimation: One misconception in America's Army is that honor directly correlates to skill. This is not true, for a variety of reasons. They include:
- 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc Accounts: Often players with high honor start 2nd, 3rd, 4th, accounts. Also, they may have accounts with various tags. There is always accounts that were stolen too.
- Players may actually play the game as intended despite the influx of rushers and stat mongers to the game. By this it is meant low honor players could focus their sessions on providing covering fire and teamplay rather than personal point gathering.
- Cheating: A user who cheated may have high honor from cheating on public servers, but that doesn't mean they are going to be able to beat you in matches without their cheats.
- Bought Accounts: Via services like Ebay, you can buy high honor accounts.
So, remember, honor is not equal to skill. But you can trick those who don't believe by playing on a low honor account.
WARNING: Many accounts on eBay are possibly stolen, or were used for cheating. If you use one of these accounts, there is a possibility you may be banned from the game for doing so.
2) Check Your Fire... And Your Six: It is never good to shoot your own team. Once they're dead they can't cover you. So check your fire, and check your six too. The OpFor can sneak up from behind.
3) Noise Is, Well, Noisy: Believe it or not, the OpFor have ears. This means you can be heard, yet not seen. Your goal is to be neither seen nor heard. So stay low, stay quiet. (PS from RandomSAW- wear headphones so you can hear OpFor trying to sneak up on you. The advantages of wearing headphones are endless)
4) Love Your Neighbor Like You'd Like To Be Loved Yourself: George W. Bush's idea of being a good neighbor applies to America's Army. Be sure to respect your teammates, espically those around you. Teamwork is key. If someone needs an extra grenade, or a smoke thrown, help them out. If you don't, they may be reluctant to help YOU later.
5) The Gun Fires THAT Way, Soldier: Know your weapon. Remember that spamming a door with the M4 against a RPKer isn't going to work well. You have 30 bullets - they have about 6 times more. And remember that you can't throw a grenade an infinite distance either.
6) Thou Shall Not Cheat: If you are cheating, stop reading here and quit playing this game. If you still want to game, get a Game Boy, that way there's no way for you to cheat.
7) Use Thy Sight: Use Your sights/scope when ever possible. You will be amazed how many more kills you get by taking the extra second to bing up your sights.
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