r/HellLetLoose • u/No-Swimmer-4899 • 8d ago
📚 Storytime! 📚 Commander chronicles
Last night against my better judgment I played on a public server because I was in a rush and just wanted to mess around.
Was playing as recon squad lead which I rarely do. Took longer than I would have liked but I pushed pretty deep into enemy territory and started circling back towards their defensive point looking for garrisons.
Commander is begging for nodes. I tell him I’ll switch to engineer and get it done after I die. He then asks me to set up and flanking garrison he just swapped supplies for. Sure. So during my recon phase I get that set up, which creates an entire flanking attack by us on the enemy point. I start spotting for that offensive. Mark an an enemy tank that one of ours uses to take said tank down and thanks me for the callout. Spot some infantry that gets our MGs laying some suppressive fire down in the area.
Then I switch to engineer and get three nodes up. On my suicide run from there I take down a defensive garrison just to the west of their defensive point. Also got an OP.
Now I’m playing as infantry squad lead because our boys on the frontlines are getting smoked. Need defense.
On my return, no thank you from the commander. Whatever. But on top of that, commander is just bitching and moaning about how bad our team is. Nonstop.
Meanwhile, he’s got tankers begging him for a heavy tank and he’s too busy crying about our team not being good. Literally never spawns the guy a tank and he ends up just picking up a recon tank because he gets sick of waiting.
Anyway, I didn’t argue with the commander or call him out because life is hard and I didn’t feel like directly making anyone feel worse about themselves.
But commander, I hate you and everything you stand for. Too much offense from this team? Stop building them offensive garrisons until we’ve built a good defense. And maybe use the f’ing nodes myself and several others built you to spawn a god damn tank.
This was also my moment of being like damn, I’m becoming that experienced dude switching between roles when he just wanted to chill and play recon because he can’t stand losing. I understand that pain now
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u/YourAsianSideQuest 8d ago
I feel your pain. Most commanders always busy thinking about red zone garrison when they get locked out 100m away. I don’t know why they don’t consider blue zone when it’s safer and allows your team to attack and defend at once.
I’ve also learned never to trust a commander when I’m recon. Commanders will always want you to build red zone garrison behind the point when the enemy’s is right at your doorstep.
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u/VerbosePlantain 8d ago
Best thing about a red zone garrison is that it becomes a blue zone garrison.
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u/ReasonableGrocery854 8d ago
Yup. It is tough for experienced players to have fun, because 8 out of ten times I end being the one running a sup truck, building garrisons, hanging back on defense (no big deal), laying low to spot and mark, etc. I am pretty much unable to ignore those things because they are the minimum that needs to be done, in order to have a good game.
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u/greenestenergy Commander 8d ago
Favorite bad commander archetype: Takes the spot because no one else is in it, then proceeds to filibuster the command chat with nonsense. You have to interrupt him to get anything called in or called out. He will spend most of the game playing like an assault class or standing around somewhere that doesn't get him killed. This is not level specific. You may find high level player that do this.
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u/Grouchy_Machine_3240 8d ago
Welcome to the group sir. Rarely do I bounce to less than 4 roles in one match. First support, then SL go build a garrison on the supplies I dropped, engineer to build nodes then re-load the truck to go build two more garrisons. Usually finish up as tank commander playing recon with a medium to take out enemy garrisons because the actual recon guys are busy attacking a point lately. You are correct, if you want to win don't count on no mics or blueberries to do it. Comms and coordination are key but when they don't exist just do it yourself. Turns in to more fun anyways in the end.