Commander Guide Options

[MonkeyFiend]

Commander guide for BF2.

Once you are commander, pull up the commander screen by pressnig 'caps'

Firstly the commander screen:



In the commander screen you'll have buttons for scan/artillary/uav/supplies (medic box thing) - click a button and then click on the map to drop the selected item roughly in the place where you click. Artilillary is not available in infantry only.

Some of the text changes depending on your language setup e.g. some people may see 'Fabrik' instead of 'Factory'

If you right click on the map you can zoom in - you can usually also use the mouse wheel for this.

The other menu options on the right click menu can be used to send your teams to various points on the map to attack or defend etc., They can also be used as shortcuts for dropping supplies/UAV/scans etc.,

The buttons for squads/kits etc., allow you to send specific squads to areas of the map e.g. squad 1 to hotel, squad 2 to suburb or can be used for sending specific kit groups e.g. Engineers to the karkand bridge for demolitions.

Just below the main buttons for uav etc., there is a box that shows either a green V or a red X - this shows whether the squad leader has accepted or refused your command.

If you scan, enemy will show up as red dots on your map - your team will not see these. You will need to spot them (by right clicking and spot) - although be careful of spotting too many enemy as people complain about commander spotting spam. Don't spot people under a UAV (as these do show up to your team)

thats the basic of commander functions

MonkeyFiend

[=R6= Raile]

one really important, and often over looked or possibly not even known, bit.......

you can spot enemies without scanning..

simply right click on the map, and hit spot. if an enemy is even anywhere near where you right clicked, it will spot them.



This is extremely useful. When I play commander I rarely ever scan. It's not needed. Simply use this technique on important areas/high traffic zones, to make sure noone is sneaking outside of the frontline, and use the T button while playing, to place uav's, and you can do fighting commander, while always having a UAV, while also not letting your team down by allowing enemies to get around your front line..
oh and if the scan commander asset is blown up, you don't have to wait for it to be fixed. Gawd I hate listening to commanders telling me they can't spot cuz it's blown up.................

VERY few commanders use this unfortunately