Insurgents are not a conventional force. Play them like a conventional force, you will die and die and die. The simple fact is their equipment sucks. Compared with the M4s of Korengal and Ramiel, and the L85s of Basrah, the equipment is inaccurate, and bigger recoil than the NATO forces. However you can win as insurgents because you have one thing you don't have in AAS mode. You have the element of surprise. They don't know where you are, what you are attacking, how many there are of you. So use it effectively.
How many are you leads me nicely onto my next point. Just because you don't have rallys, in no ways means you don't use Voip and work as a squad. Working as a squad is even more important than ever when playing as insurgent because again, you put an M4 against an AK47 or SKS, I would say 8/10 times the M4 wins. However you put 3AKs and 3SKSs against 6 M4s along with the element of surpirse, you have yourself a damn good opportunity. So ALWAYS work as a squad, and ALWAYS listen to your SL.
So insurgents can't be used as a convenitonal force, we have gathered that, so what can you use them for?
Well lets go through the main one:
Ambushing:
There are IEDs on the insurgent side. These are bloody useful, they are a big explosion in a small package. Now lets see how to strategiaclly place IEDs.
FIELDS and use of deep foliage:
Fields are an insurgents dream spot for IEDs. The IED is so small that if NATO forces move through there, 9/10 they won't see it. Now NATO forces like areas like this as they offer huge protection, but with huge protection comes great loss of vision and awareness. What I like to do is bait them in.
Blue Dots - Insurgents
Purple dots - US/UK Forces
Red dots - IEDs
Now here we have 2 insurgents, I prefer them with Aks who see the US/UK and fire and bait them towards the field. I can guarantee that 9/10 the US will follow. The diverters make sure that they go to the field and not either side. Obviously you can kill them beforehand, but they do get through sometimes. The important thing here is to have your IED holders be either completely hidden or not to shoot. This relys on good comms from the other 4 to know when to blow them. So you either kill them, or drag them in the field and blow the living hell out of them.
That's just a pretty simple idea there on ambushing, obiously there is road ambushing but that is pretty damn easy to be honest so I won't explain that here.
Now another huge thing about insurgents is to use your head. There is nothing more fun than sitting back as US/UK forces with an ACOG/Susat and picking off stupid insurgents who try and snipe with the SKS or AK. So don't do it. Use Vietnam tactics and get up close the enemy, don't shoot until you are certain of the kill. Also a tactic I like using a lot, is take out the back man, and then open up on them from behind(no sexual pun intended) and you will get yourself at least 3 kills.
Continuing with using your head, when you die and then spawn and die, a clever thing to do is either all spawn together as 6 people(took out 2 full squads with this method), or spawn somewhere different, again with all your squad and take out those soldiers.
Finally on using your head, a lot of the time, being insurgent involves waiting for some poor guy/s to walk along into your sights, and then you kill him, by all means hunt the US, but hunt them around the cache, so you always have defence, as insurgents can win a hell of a lot if they wait for the US to come to them as if you are an AK lieing down waiting for some poor sod to run towards you, you will kill him, but wait for him to get close then shoot, don't try and long range shoot, as you will most likely lose
These are just a few of my methods as a insurgent, I don't claim to be a hugely awesome insurgent player, but don't moan about how they suck as they can easily win every time, they have the advantage in that they have surprise, they have the possibilities of ambushing, if used right they can take on any squad that gets in their way, so lets just summarise my points:
1. Insurgents aren't a conventional army, don't play like on. Ever.
2. Squad play is, in my humble opinion, the most important part for insurgents, play like a squad. Always.
3. Ambush your enemy, bait them, then kill them.
4. Don't try and be an AK sniper. You will fail. Hard.
5. Wait for the enemy and you will kill them.
6. Use your head.
Feel free to post anything you want to add, but don't spam my thread, or you can be sure you will have an IED up yer arse
