If you get jet as USMC on dalian

[Sparabara]

Please, if you get the jet at the beginning of the round as USMC on Dalian plant, immediately fly over the warehouse or maintenance building, bail out, and TAKE the flag. Once you've taken it, you can suicide and re-spawn at the carrier and take the jet again. Too many potentially good rounds on this map are ruined because no one does this, and as a result the USMC team is stranded on the carrier for the whole match. The blackhawk dummies try to fly to the main entrance in the hopes of not getting tv'd out of the sky, rather than landing on the closest flag. The boats aren't very effective in quickly capping the flag as it takes them too long to reach the coast.

Thanks

[akawho07]

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i think that is a big problem all players sit and wait for the plains chopper ect .
i just wish thay would go for a flag a.s.a.p , but thay dont

just have to put up with it

[Shask]

No way, I'd get much more points (and a better K/D) by staying in the air.

[Sparabara]

Yeah a lot of players do wait for planes/choppers, but even this can remedied by a few good players who can cap flags, and the jets bailing out at the start of the round.

Anyway, if the USMC is stuck on the carrier, and the chinese team has 2 competent players in the chopper, you can bet that NOTHING will get even close to land.

[Sloi sauce]

I usually hop out and grab the reactor. I favor USMC acquiring a heli and tank over a warehouse with nothing more than an APC. Besides, you can go to main and docks from the reactor tower flag, so I don't see the point in going for warehouse first.

[(TM)KillJoy]

OMG! ...I agree with Sloi! wow, this is a very, very weird day. Something really bad is going to happen to me. Better not get out of bed today, stay home, and call in sick.

[Sloi sauce]

OMG! ...I agree with Sloi! wow, this is a very, very weird day. Something really bad is going to happen to me. Better not get out of bed today, stay home, and call in sick.

Logic. It's what the cool kids use...

[DontKnockIt225]

Wouldnt me suiciding cause me -2 points and a death?!!?!

[imported_kiwi]

It's not only Dalian but Dragon/Wake and other maps too. If you are a squad leader then taking flag is so easy if you use F35 as a high speed taxi, jump out and all squad spawns on you

I usually hop out and grab the reactor. I favor USMC acquiring a heli and tank over a warehouse with nothing more than an APC. Besides, you can go to main and docks from the reactor tower flag, so I don't see the point in going for warehouse first.

I almost always attack that flag at the start of the round when in J10

[Sparabara]

I usually hop out and grab the reactor. I favor USMC acquiring a heli and tank over a warehouse with nothing more than an APC. Besides, you can go to main and docks from the reactor tower flag, so I don't see the point in going for warehouse first.

The reason I think it's more effective to go to the warehouse or maintenance as opposed to reactor is because they are sheltered from J10 attacks. A j10 pilot that knows this map will perform a bombing run on the reactor towers flag cause he knows that most people usually go for it first. I usually go for reactor first too, because I'm a chopper whore in all honestly, but I've learned to look out for incoming J10s while capping it, and jumping into the building if I spot one, most people wouldn't do this, it'd be safer for them to use a sheltered flag to cap first.

Wouldnt me suiciding cause me -2 points and a death?!!?!

Yes but you'd get back half of it by taking the flag :)

[Sloi sauce]

Yeah, I always look for the J10s. They seldom get the chance to bomb me, because I see them arrive and hide in the house for a moment.

[LaikaSB]

Best thing for USMC to do on Dalian in my experience is to take the cobra and immediately stall the PLA coming out of their main base. The longer it takes the PLA to take that first flag, the more time the USMC has to take everything else, including the reactor towers.

A good pilot coming from the carrier can fly straight to the center of the map, kill anything already out in the open, and then sit up against the side of one of the mountains to ambush anything leaving their main.

[Sparabara]

That's not a bad strategy but usually the enemy will cap the main entrance before the chopper gets a chance to prevent them if they act quickly. Besides, I hate it when the round is lopsided and 1 team has all the flags. It becomes boring for everyone.

[coldmist]

As Tsovehr said above, I--and the team--do better if I stay in the air.

I usually loop around and take out the attack helo and bomb city entrance (killing their attack-helo-pilot-in-waiting) in one pass, and my team usually takes all 3 flags on the shorline before the J10s have a chance to stop it.

Most teams do much better off with me in the air in an F35 than trying to cap a single flag. If I can't take down the J10s, I can usually at least draw them off the other players for large chunks of time as we dogfight away from the flags.

[USI_Krusher]

It's not only Dalian but Dragon/Wake and other maps too. If you are a squad leader then taking flag is so easy if you use F35 as a high speed taxi, jump out and all squad spawns on you

Spawning as US on Wake, and being first one into a game usually, I would grab an F35, and use it as a high speed taxi for the airfield. My clanmates would hold off spawning on me, until I told them on vent. Fly high, then do a HALO jump. Land on the roof of the L shaped building at the flag, and your mates spawn on you. 5 US taking only seconds to turn the flag to US. And, most of the Chinese are heading towards the tips of the island. Both J10's gone (most times), and attack heli as well.

Now, getting the rest of your team to spawn there at the airfield is a totally different story! :laugh: