What's all this talk of tank whoring beeing so easy on Karkand?

[puglous]

People constantly associate tank whoring with Karkand, but from my experience, even though this map has no air-power, the design of the map is a tank's worst nightmare. Tight streets that are easy to block with mines completely, tall buildings allow anti-tankers to shoot you where your turret can't reach, and special ops can sneak up on you anywhere.

If you WERE to put jets in this map, getting into a tank would be suicide.

Anyone else agree?

[firezip]

Re: What's all this talk of tank whoring beeing so easy on Karkand?

tanks are fast, humans are not

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Re: What's all this talk of tank whoring beeing so easy on Karkand?

tanks are fast, humans are not

Actually you can catch up to the tank and still have enough sprint left to get away before you blow the C4.

Original Poster:

Yes.. It is very difficult in armor already but if you're a gunner with a good tank driver my best advice to you would be.. The CTRL key. :)

[imported_OBCD]

Re: What's all this talk of tank whoring beeing so easy on Karkand?

when the tanks decide to play for the team capping flags and going through the map, yes it can quickly turn into a tanks worse nightmare

BUT- most of the time they sit back around major battles and spawn points reaping the points and kills which i think is why people associate karkand with tank whores

[EvilP]

Re: What's all this talk of tank whoring beeing so easy on Karkand?

I got owned trying to be all teamplay-like on Karkand today in my tank/APC. Just fly all over the map killing people. If you stick around they'll stick C4 on you. If you slow down it means it takes longer to drive off for repairs. Hit them from where they don't expect it and leave behind a smokescreen.

It wouldn't be TOO bad with jets since there's a lot of cover with the buildings and cliffs, but the whole map would be carpetbombed since it's tight enough to allow good infantry gameplay. (unlike most other maps)

[BIFF EXPLODER]

Re: What's all this talk of tank whoring beeing so easy on Karkand?

tanks dont have an easy life when i'm in the other team heheheh

lots of times the last thing they see is a mine rolling on top of their tank and then BOOOOM!! heheheh so funny...

[BG1]

Re: What's all this talk of tank whoring beeing so easy on Karkand?

It depends on how you play with the tank, if you try to help the team and cap flags etc. you're going to die much more than a guy who just lurks right outside of the hotzone and picks off infantry, going back and forth with a supply box or two next to him.

[rombaft]

Re: What's all this talk of tank whoring beeing so easy on Karkand?

Once you know the map, you won't get blown up so fast by C4 , because then you know where the spec ops will come from and you just keep an eye on those spots .

Also , because the streets are small , they can sneak up to you, you spot them , and when normaly you shouldn't be able to kill them anymore because they are to close, just shoot at the wall, this way the blast radius of the tank shell will kill the spec ops to .

And another major point on the map is, when beeing USMC, just drive to the left at start, and there you have it, just shoot who spawns .

Final conclusion, you can get blown up by spec ops, but before you get blown up, you probably have killed a whole bunch of guys already

[HABO3]

Re: What's all this talk of tank whoring beeing so easy on Karkand?

it's **** easy if you know what you're doing...

look at this guys stats for proof

http://bf2s.com/player/-=RD=-Volx/

the way he uses tanks on S@K (I've been on servers multiple times when he was doing it)...a 7 year old could do it and get the same results. No skill just whoring.

[almanac]

Re: What's all this talk of tank whoring beeing so easy on Karkand?

The tank (and any armor for that matter), is there to provide support. They will rack up all the kills so the infantry can cap the flag and move on.

No way in hell should any armor be capping anything on Karkand. If anyone tries, I would just call them dumb. The only flag on karkand that I would cap in armor is Suburb. All the other flags are suicide.

It's important to keep your armor at distance and protected. If the US APC and tank both go down right off the bat, usually that kills the US rush or at least slows them down a lot.

[FlyingEgg]

Re: What's all this talk of tank whoring beeing so easy on Karkand?

That guy shown above is, in a word, an absolute whore. When the most played map is karkand, combined with the fact that the most used weapon is C4, and the most used vehicle being a tank..... yeah. It's people like that who make miserable what should be an enjoyable game.

It's true what is being said about tank/apc whoring in Karkand. Armour will barely be in any danger if they sit back and let the danger come to them. A tank operater that enters the action amongst the infantry is going to find himself bombarded by C4 and rockets before he can say "Die, puny un-armoured ones!". It's all too easy for tanks and apc's to sit back and farm the souls of whatever poor sod should happen to spawn in the wrong place. In truth, it's the only way the operators can 'suceed' in Karkand.