Basrah 64 strategy help

[Rudd]

Sometimes the British find themselves in the position that they don't know where any caches are, and aren't close to getting the intel points to find out.

As a SL my instinct is to pull out to VCP or other secure locations and wait until the insurgents make a mistake and expose themselves to fire so that we can get some intel.

If they don't come out I might take the squad to the western village or the eastern oil derricks to do a sweep for caches manually- because those areas are isolated and vulnerable to long range support fire from vehicles. If I have a good pilot I might go to the eastern island after securing the bridges. I don't go in to the main city, and I don't do what alot of people do and take lone apc's in to the city where they are fodder for RPGs and IEDs.

But my strategies are time consuming and tbh rather boring for my squadmembers (especially if the insurgents aren't obliging us with the occasional attack) - its fine for me, but I feel bad when my lads aren't enjoying themselves

Would you say the above is the right way to go, or be far more aggressive and just sweep the city until caches are found or intel points are gained?

[Cyrax-Sektor]

The city is usually where the Insurgents are most deadly. The little room in the alleyways often make short work of ambushed British soldiers. One grenade, Molotov, IED or RPG could wipe out everyone.

You will find an abundance of spawn points in the city, which you can knife for intel. Any possible weapons on it can also provide intel, from what I've heard. Also, if any Insurgents spawn, they'll most likely head to a cache if they're the defender type. Give the enemy a new shadow or 6.

Rallies can also be easily concealed with all the buildings. My advice: the Officer gets onto the roof, drops down to another roof not frequently accessed, and have squadmates close enough to set the rally. Hidden and often easy to protect.

Those are all tactics if you go into the city for cache hunting. I believe the Industry-sweeping and Village-clearing method is a better approach, leading to less casualties and the British put their long-range weapons to their best use. And any Insurgents deaths and civi arrests, plenty of intel can be earned.

I don't mind manual searching the cold spots. The objective is to destroy caches, not kill everything. But the occasional firefight will keep players entertained.

Also, at times, a squad doesn't have explosives to take care of the cache. Just use Molotovs and RPGs on the cache. Two cocktails will reduce the cache to white-smoke level.

[Scot]

Well I for one love the manual sweeps of everywhere as it is like RL, and clearing the village compounds is a good idea.(btw this is said from a Squad member POV) I have a love/hate relationship with being in the city as I never know where the insurgents are and there are normally a lot of civillians in it waiting to ambush me. However i do love that side of it as you never know when the next firefight is.

[SiN|ScarFace]

The compound to the west always has at least a spawn point and guys to get intel from.

I played that map last week or the week before as British using two apcs, two mech infantry squads and the chopper all working with the commander. It was pretty epic to see two apcs roll in from the west dismount 12 troops a few hundred meters out, move in to sweep that compound, clear it and egress back to the apcs, to do it all again at another location. I wish someone recorded that. First and last time I will probably experience that for quite a while, it was made possible by the usual suspects, who don't usually get down on some Basrah.