Taking down armour convoys?

[.Churr.]

OK... When playing maps like Karkand you'll probably see a lot of these.
Convoys of armor vehicles (Tank/APC) with engineers. Like my sig; that was a shot from a real game.

Obviously they will be automatically repairing each other. This renders most of the attacks useless, transforming the convoy into an almost unstoppable killing machine.

It's very annoying when you are playing on the other team: when you are in an armor vehicle, chances are once they spot you all you can do is RUN.
If you are playing on foot it's even worse - you will be raped to death.

I couldn't find any good ways of taking these down...

1. C4 "Jihad" Jeeps - Well, if you have more than 1 armor, there are more chances of one them spot you and kill you. But it's a feasible solution.
2. AT Units - Unless you have a good team, that can fire AT units in unison, (what is very very hard to find) these are TOTALLY useless.
3. AT Mines - Reasonable; but you would have to sneak into the convoy and place them. Otherwise, they can simply remove your mines while covering the engineer.
4. Armor - If you are alone, you are certainly going to die. There is no way a single armor can defeat a convoy (alone). Unless they are way too dumb.

Any good ideas? :|:
PS: Sorry, the other thread seems to be screwed up.

[Pilo-II]

Re: Taking down armour convoys?

You can always destroy the boxes with a granade or AT thing and then proceed onto the tanks.

[.Churr.]

Re: Taking down armour convoys?

You can always destroy the boxes with a granade or AT thing and then proceed onto the tanks.

It's not the box, but the tanks/apcs themselves manned by engineers.
They will automatically repair each other.

[Pilo-II]

Re: Taking down armour convoys?

Ah yeh sorry didn't read the whole thing.

It is a stupid thing, I hate it when there are 3 tanks around a flag and are just raping anyone that spawns and none of them, nor the ones on foot, try to take the ****ing flag.


It'd be good to have a good team with AT and take them all out. But that's hardly ever going to happen on a public server.

[Black_lagon]

Re: Taking down armour convoys?

OK... When playing maps like Karkand you'll probably see a lot of these.
Convoys of armor vehicles (Tank/APC) with engineers. Like my sig; that was a shot from a real game.

Obviously they will be automatically repairing each other. This renders most of the attacks useless, transforming the convoy into an almost unstoppable killing machine.

It's very annoying when you are playing on the other team: when you are in an armor vehicle, chances are once they spot you all you can do is RUN.
If you are playing on foot it's even worse - you will be raped to death.

I couldn't find any good ways of taking these down...

1. C4 "Jihad" Jeeps - Well, if you have more than 1 armor, there are more chances of one them spot you and kill you. But it's a feasible solution.
2. AT Units - Unless you have a good team, that can fire AT units in unison, (what is very very hard to find) these are TOTALLY useless.
3. AT Mines - Reasonable; but you would have to sneak into the convoy and place them. Otherwise, they can simply remove your mines while covering the engineer.
4. Armor - If you are alone, you are certainly going to die. There is no way a single armor can defeat a convoy (alone). Unless they are way too dumb.

Any good ideas? :|:
PS: Sorry, the other thread seems to be screwed up.

instead one AT shooting guys!! 2 AT shooting guys..

[BurnTheWeed]

Re: Taking down armour convoys?

Two AT guys and an support guy should be enough, maybe have a medic to revive anyone if they get hit. It's true that the convoy repairs itself but it's not fast enough to counter 2-3 well placed rockets. An engineer can keep up with one AT guy but not two.

[Dooshy]

Re: Taking down armour convoys?

Yeah, it doesnt repair anyfaster with mroe than one engie, so just keep blasting them. This is one of the reasons I stopped playing kark recently. In any other map, just call for the helo or aviators to pwn those tanks.

[Uranium235]

Re: Taking down armour convoys?

Me and my friends do this all the time. Its called teamwork. Use teamwork in reverse then making your own convoy of engineers. Problem is the noobs on your team then dont use their kits purposes. You will see snipers in tanks. If your gonna take a tank you damn well be engineer. If your team fails to realise that. Tough luck.

[Phrag]

Re: Taking down armour convoys?

C4 booby traps work well. Try to figure out where the convoy is going or, better yet, lure it somewhere and have C4 waiting. Another idea, since one piece of armor is almost useless against three, put C4 on the armor and leave it some where you know they will see it. When the guy gets out for a nice fresh piece of armor, blow it. Even artillery can help. If you are going to die anyway, wait until they are in a narrow street, call in arty and pray that you get the C4 down before you get blow to bits. Its hard to spot a spec-ops running around in the middle of an arty strike.

One thing to remember, if you have a spec-ops that gets C4 on some armor but dies before he sets it off, GET THAT KIT! You can set off the C4 laid by another player if you grab their kit after they die.

So there is my completely serious post about armor convoys in which I got to say booby and blow it with out technically refering to sex. I love spec-ops. :)

[.Churr.]

Re: Taking down armour convoys?

Yeah, it doesnt repair anyfaster with mroe than one engie, so just keep blasting them. This is one of the reasons I stopped playing kark recently. In any other map, just call for the helo or aviators to pwn those tanks.

And this is even more annoying, because helo and aviators are even more hard to kill.

I've been playing Karkand a lot recently, and based on my overall experience, I'd say you got roughly 10% of chance of getting a convoy, and 1% of chance of seeing people doing teamwork to kill your convoy/armor.

[Marveric]

Re: Taking down armour convoys?

Block all roads leading to the convoy with AT mines, then have a few SVD guys guard the mines against engineers.

[WarGimp]

Re: Taking down armour convoys?

It takes teamwork to run a good armoured collum. Why should it not take teamwork to take 'em out?

As mentioned above, 2 ATs should be enough to waste a vehicle even if it's in the repair zone of another. With 3 Ats, you should be able to bring down any one piece of armour in one volley. I especially love doing this with RPGs, BTW. Hehe, had lots of fun playing in a specific anti-armour squad on Surge (I think it was Surge).

You can also C4 'em. Yeah, it's not easy sneaking up on a convoy, but if you use teamwork, it's not that hard. Get a couple squadmates to distract the vehicles while the spec opps guy moves into position. I've managed to wire 3 vehicles to blow and got away with it 'cause I had some mates playing decoy for me.

[[UT]MajorHavoc]

Re: Taking down armour convoys?

the solution is to "focus fire" using atleast 3 AT guys on voice comms (2 will not work when there are engineers manning 3 pieces of armor). you always pick one of the APCs as a target and all 3 fire simultaneously. but good luck getting that to work in a pub.

[Chalk.One]

Re: Taking down armour convoys?

Capture all the other flags on the map....

[The_Misfit]

Re: Taking down armour convoys?

Teamwork, teamwork, teamwork....

I usually play in a squad w/clanmates, so if something like this is going on we'll have a SpecOps guy and 2+ AT's work them over.... In matches, when attacking a main we'll sometimes drop in 6 guys - 5 AT, 1 medic, 1 SpecOps and be able to clear the main of armor. Amazing what happens to an armor colum when you drop 5 AT rockets at once on them

Also, as far as being alone and in armor, there are ways to combat things like this. Target 1 vehicle, usually an APC (easier to destroy). Put a round into him, and then use smoke and buildings to strafe. If you can get 2-3 good rounds into him fairly quick, and from a distance, you can drop the APC. That's one less engy. Usually you don't see 3 vehicles, its more than likely 2. If you take one out it makes the playing field much more level..just depends on how much damage you take in the process.....