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hi guys!

today I saw purple and light blue smoke on a match.

what means each one?

Light blue is the unique colour smoke for the UK forces

Green is the standard colour for all teams

each team has a unique colour, officers press 9 to access that

it is ammo linked with green smoke, so you only carry 2 coloured smoke grenades at any time

iirc, green is used to signal, unique colour is to warn that a friendly fire incident has occured

iirc, US = purple, MEC = gold, PLA = orange, Brit = blue

What you saw were signal smokes. Each faction's officer kit comes with a different color smoke grenade. The US Army has purple smoke grenades, and I think the British has light blue.

These smoke grenades last 90 seconds, just like green smokes, and the ammo is linked to the green smokes (IE you can throw 2 smokes and 0 signals, one green and one signal, 0 green and 2 signal). The signal smokes are accessed by pressing 9, just like mines or grapples.

They are primarily used for marking targets, marking extraction landing zones, marking supply request drop zones, and marking your own location to prevent friendly fire incidents.


Edit: I guess both are used to signal your location. The only difference is that when you use colored smokes is that people know who you are. Green smokes can be any faction, so you don't know who threw it.

oh, I didnt knew about the fraction smoke, thanks!

Dr2B Rudd wrote:
iirc, green is used to signal, unique colour is to warn that a friendly fire incident has occurred

Wow great way to use it. Like when a friendly chopper or plane keeps hitting your position.

I use the colored smoke after a firefight to say to every friendly in the area "we have control here". Unfortunately it also says to the enemy "go shoot them here".

I have also used signal (colored) smoke in the past as a distraction. A vehicle is firing at my AT guy's position, I throw some signal smoke as far away from me as I can (away from my AT buddy), enemy looks at the smoke, BAM! No more Tungusta for you!

waldo_ii wrote:I have also used signal (colored) smoke in the past as a distraction. A vehicle is firing at my AT guy's position, I throw some signal smoke as far away from me as I can (away from my AT buddy), enemy looks at the smoke, BAM! No more Tungusta for you!

Grey smoke works just as well for that.

I use signal smoke for attack runs and extractions.

On the horn to the aircraft, I explain where everything is in relation to the two types of smoke, eg:

"Enemies to between the green and grey smoke, friendlies in the blue."

or

"Need extract from the north/south aligned green smoke. LZ is safe in between them..."


They just give you more options as an Officer for denoting special areas. I like them a lot.

What's the best thing is to steal the enemy officer kit, and pop their smoke to confuse them .

haha that is a good thing

I use it for all sorts of things, mostly to signal that I control an area.

Too bad chopters often cant see the smoke then....