I agree with the previous poster. If you actually direct your forces not just dropping crates, things can get quite interesting.

Just couple weeks ago I had quite nice experience with Project Reality commanding. We had several squads, including one dedicated to attack helos and one dedicated to helo transport and resupply. That’s where VoIP comes in handy. Imagine: squad 2 is under heavy fire from enemy squad and requests air support, I contact attack helo SL: “Enemy fire point at F4 keypad 6, we need air support”, SL relays it to his pilots, guy flys in, gets a lock from AA, spots it, manages to evade, falls back, relays location to his SL. SL contacts me back, letting me know where AA is. I mark it on the map, and order squad 3, which is nearby, to take out enemy AA at, say, C4 keypad 9. Squad 3 does its job and in minutes birds fly in and rain hellfire on the enemy stron point. Squad 2 lets out sighs of relief.

At the same time, my demolition squad requests supply drop at C8, and another squad requests air-drop behind the enemy lines close to that location. I contact my supply/transport squad and relay this information. Logistics works out perfectly and in one helo flight we pick up and move squad and then make supply drop to get some mines for our moles. And so on, so on, so on.

Really, given the disdain expressed on this forums to BF2, I would like to point out that Project Reality would give serious reality check to FH, both in combat and logistical realism or in teamplay. Without teamplay one’s almost universally worthless in PR. Still, I did come to like FH2 very much, I just like people to appreciate the differencies, and take things for what they are. On the axis of realism FH2 is way closer to BF2 than to PR, while obviously still more challenging than the vanilla.

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Another point of comparison. It’s already had been mentioned here: idea of dropping supply crates (and repair stations, if that would be considered, although I prefer the grunt with the wrench / smoke nade combo) behind the truck and then going back to base to rearm, like it’s done in PR. By the way, there are nice tactics out there to speed things up like supply guy drives back to base on the truck, then picks up shiny new tank, drives back to the squad, takes injured tank back for repair and rearm, while squad keeps on moving.

Idea of special kits being issued from supply areas was also implemented there — walk up to the crate, select “Request Kit” from the commo rose, then select kit and heed messages (whether it is available to the team or not).

Few things:

1. Field dressings. Absolutely positively always maraude them from the corpses of friends and foes alike after being shot, before using my own, while possible.

2. LMGs. For ambush or defence, with long sustained automatic fire — MG34, no exceptions. It has decent size drum and very favourable iron sight for defence — you see everything and are able to quickly point and shoot the target. Bren’s iron sights are horrible for covering wider spaces, and in close quarter defence you wouldn’t have much time to react while zoomed. Besides, relatively small magazine size spells many a deaths at close range.

Bren has it’s advantages — being able to shoot from the hip is one of them. Also, it is good for supressive fire — single-shot/short-burst pinning down of enemy sniper/rifleman, while the rest of your squad is advancing/flanking. MG34 could be used the same way too, but it seems to be more effective in short burst at long range rather than single shot.

Didn’t have much chance to practice with Italian gun, still waiting on American, Russian, Japanese MGs.

3. Tripod MGs (Vickers and Lafette MG34). Those are very good mobile supressive/covering fire points. Vickers has iron sights without much zoom, while MG43 has optics, wich helps a lot. However, Vickers can be turned around 360° without much problem, while MG34 has limited lateral range and you have to slowly move the whole lafette using strafe buttons (A/D by default) to turn it around.

Both are very accurate though and even with Vickers I was able to mow down targets that are only as little as 5mm tall on the screen. Better than you can do with standard infantry rifle. Plus, giant-sized magazines.

Negative side of using those is that you present high-profile target for the enemy, compared with prone machine gunner and you can hardly find decent cover. But, unless there are enemy snipers or armored vehicles around, you have nothing to fear from the distance when it comes to small arms fire. At close range though, you have measely sidearm at your defence, so, in squad play, I would also have rifleman or assualt next to the machine gunner to protect him. NCO would work fine for that. Also, NCO or scout could act as the spotter with binoculars for hidden targets (works charmingly in Project Reality as well).

4. Cars with mounted MGs and APC can also be used as mobile supressive fire bases. I recently put emphasis on it in BF2 — you can rack up tons of kills on maps like Jalalabad.