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Offline Duke_Dutch

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How to use Anti personel Mines?
« on: 21-06-2010, 22:06:07 »
Hello every one,
I am new on this forum en quite familiar with FH2, and I now how to use most weapons.
But the use of Anti personel Mines never seems to work with me. unlike antitank mines that you can place on a road and mark with flags to prevent you allied tanks from being blowing appart, Anti personel Mines cover only a small place on the map and are not possible to be marked with flags. So most of the time when I place a Anti personel Mines I got a teamkill. It even hapens that a allied soldiers stept on it when I have just placed it infront of me.

So my question is: Do you have any tips for me how to best use these mines?

( oh, and if this question is already being asked, please close this topic)

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Re: How to use Anti personel Mines?
« Reply #1 on: 21-06-2010, 22:06:02 »
Yes=

-Use mine defensivly and only offensivly when you are in the middle of enemy territory
-Use mine at choke points or at places the enemy will likely get trough (Like infiltrating an enemy flag and place a mine at a PAK gun or any other object)
-expect to get a teamkill. It is barely avoidable.
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Re: How to use Anti personel Mines?
« Reply #2 on: 22-06-2010, 04:06:24 »
placing mines are a bit tricky, I think the S mines rarely could stop an enemy attack, but they give you a warning when someone passed a certain place, it is especially useful when your enemy is sneaky, for example: in Op. Hyacinth.

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Re: How to use Anti personel Mines?
« Reply #3 on: 22-06-2010, 10:06:12 »
if you have a sniper you can cover your back with them.

if you manage to sneak behind enemy lines try to mine their static guns.

if you are capping a flag you can try to mine one entrance point so you can focus on others.


however you use them be aware that teamkills are very likely.

even if you spam the ingame (voice)chat with warning messages that you s-mined the churchtower there will still be friendlies who dont get it and go up the tower :(

just be generally careful where you place them. be very aware when you use them and dont spam them randomly like some people do with grenades.
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Re: How to use Anti personel Mines?
« Reply #4 on: 22-06-2010, 16:06:38 »
Thanks for your advice  ;)
Is seems obivous that mines are weapon with selective ways of usement.

the idea of mining a at gun is realy clever, ;D

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Re: How to use Anti personel Mines?
« Reply #5 on: 22-06-2010, 16:06:17 »
if you have a sniper you can cover your back with them.

if you manage to sneak behind enemy lines try to mine their static guns.

if you are capping a flag you can try to mine one entrance point so you can focus on others.


however you use them be aware that teamkills are very likely.

even if you spam the ingame (voice)chat with warning messages that you s-mined the churchtower there will still be friendlies who dont get it and go up the tower :(

just be generally careful where you place them. be very aware when you use them and dont spam them randomly like some people do with grenades.

for many times I scream to a dude in front of me (In game) not to move his tank forward, I even stand myself in front of him.

well he stopped, but right after I walk away, he drive forward...

it is very bad idea to place a mine if it is in a place that a random guy in your team is supposed to appear.
« Last Edit: 22-06-2010, 16:06:12 by General_Henry »

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Re: How to use Anti personel Mines?
« Reply #6 on: 22-06-2010, 17:06:32 »
oh

and try to remeber where you placed your mines
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Re: How to use Anti personel Mines?
« Reply #7 on: 23-06-2010, 00:06:24 »
It´s also useful to know that you have to be flat on the ground to start placing a mine but you can then get up and run around until like 3 seconds later you are throwing the mine about 20 cm. This is enough to throw mines out of windows or over small walls and such.
Best example would be Fall of Tobruk as allied. If you sneak into the building in the front line where the Germans are running towards and around you, it´s a good tactic to throw S-Mines out of the windows facing the enemy. No teammate will be running around there (deadzone!) and you can secure other directions.
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Re: How to use Anti personel Mines?
« Reply #8 on: 23-06-2010, 14:06:03 »
I use them when I am behind enemy lines or in a position "on the sidelines" alone and have reason to believe somebody might be after me to get my sniper rifle ;)

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Re: How to use Anti personel Mines?
« Reply #9 on: 25-06-2010, 12:06:53 »
I find that placeing them in visible spots where your team can see them is best it reduced my tk's alot or in enemy gun postiions lol
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Re: How to use Anti personel Mines?
« Reply #10 on: 25-06-2010, 12:06:36 »
I love placing one of them on the ground and the second then on a wall, as most enemies start looking for mines on the ground after they get taken out. ^^
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Re: How to use Anti personel Mines?
« Reply #11 on: 25-06-2010, 21:06:06 »
Usage of s-mines requires a lot of expirience. You have to know where people are used to move and where people are not used to move. On many maps there are certain paths and bottlenecks where both friendly and enemy units tend to come along. But knowing those spots isn't all. You also need to have a feeling which faction attends these spots next. And that has to do with flag cappings. People behave like lemmings. Once they've capped a flag, they move along. And even more troops will spawn on the new position. And most likely they move to the nearest enemy flag next. Accordingly you should mine the path between these two close flags while or shortly after the enemy has capped that flag. Which, of course, requires you to be at that right spot. But most important is to make sure that no friendly units are using that path for a counterattack. Then you would blow up your own men. Accordingly, being lonely is somewhat essential sometimes to make proper use of s-mines. Once there are a lot of blue arrows around you, you should not make use of them.

Another approach is to place S-mines at spots, that are only being attended when a flag is being capped. Most flags offer a few covered positions for attackers, positions where people gather or hide when capping, while the defending team does not go there. These can be spots not even far from the usual transit routes. The question is here: where would you hide if you'd be trying to cap a flag all alone? Then you know where to drop them.

Edit:// I sometimes drop mines out of the windows above the doors. If I want to leave, I take a window on ground level. Of course you should be aware that no friendly units come along.


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Re: How to use Anti personel Mines?
« Reply #12 on: 25-06-2010, 21:06:38 »
Expert talking  ;)

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Re: How to use Anti personel Mines?
« Reply #13 on: 25-06-2010, 21:06:46 »
Sometimes I drop one when I need reinforcements, they seem to attract allies.

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Re: How to use Anti personel Mines?
« Reply #14 on: 26-06-2010, 05:06:54 »
Generally I put them in places where I would definitely get teamkills or that no enemy would feasibly be in, this seems to usually give me a better score and effectiveness then when I try to place them smartly.