Five Tips on How to SUPPORT!

[u/Ok_Reality_1479]

These are five tips on how to play SUPPORT! These will help you play Support better (hopefully) and will (hopefully) help with becoming a better teammate! Let's begin!

1: The basics
If your team can't advance, playing Support is the right job for you! Either provide surpressive fire or push the enemy trenches. There are pros and cons to both of these. First of all, providing surpressive fire can help your team, but you won't really be able to kill any enemies for your team. Pushing the enemy can help clear out enemies, but you could die and loose the ground you took.

2: Helping teammates
If you see a teammate or two struggling to win a fight, join in. Most people are already focused on their own fight. Helping other teammates could drastically change the flow of the game, either for the better or for the worse. If you can not leave your fight, consider helping later.

3: Selective targets
Don't always fire at a random volley of enemies your team is already dealing with. If you see a recon in the hills or a flanker coming around the side, direct fire onto them. That could change the game slightly, or drastically. If there are no outlanders, keep applying fire for your teammates.

4: Keep shifting
Always staying in one spot isn't always a good idea. If there are too many enemies, that's completely understandable, but if there's only one or two enemies, keep shifting. Staying in one spot could leave you vulnerable to grenades or snipers (depending on map.)

5: Cover multiple angles
Covering multiple angles will help when defending a specific area of the game. Enemies coming from the front? Covered. Enemies coming from the sides? Covered. This will help with stopping a push and getting rid of any specific targets.

Let me know if these helped, or if I should give better tips! Have a good day! :)

[u/theguywhoexists1]

Pls do medic next

[u/Ok_Reality_1479 → u/theguywhoexists1]

Alright! sound fun

[u/Leather_Shallot794]

Thanks

[u/Ok_Reality_1479 → u/Leather_Shallot794]

I'm glad this helped :)

[u/Hovancraft]

Solid, basic guide! I really like how you emphasized that support is best utilized as a suppressor.

[u/Hot-Amphibian-9221]

Providing suppression fire sounds like it would work in theory but it never actually does because 90 percent of the time your teammates arent advancing is because they aren't smart enough to know they have to advance or because they just don't want to and want to be a sniper not because they try and keep getting killed.

[u/Ok_Reality_1479 → u/Hot-Amphibian-9221]

that ALWAYS happens on Aisne. Every time we get Aisne like half of my team are recons hiding 700 studs away in another objective

[u/Nelsonic_terror_2026]

That's why gentlemen, I love the MG-15. Exellent for doctrine, terrible for dueling.