BF2:Squad leader
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Overview
Your main job as a squad leader is to keep your squad acting as a unit, fulfilling your commander's orders. If there are no orders to fulfill, then your secondary job is to get your squad to do something useful for your team. Squad leaders have the responsibility to keep their squads working as a unit. If you don't wish to deal with this, consider not being a squad leader, as having an ineffective leader can be much less fun for your squadmates and much less helpful to your team.
Being A Squad Leader (At All)
Squad leaders have the responsibility to keep their squads working as a unit. They can request supplies, artillery, UAV and orders from the General, as well as giving orders manually to their squad.
The Squad Leader Interface
The majority of the squad leaders day to day role will be played through the quick communication menu and the overview menu.
Quick Communication Menu
Pressing the quick communication key (default: T), will bring up the quick communication menu. From here you can issue orders to your squad members, as well as requesting things from the commander.
If you have fulfilled your commanders orders, take a look around and do something proactive by issuing a new order to your squad. Even using the MOVE order to a position close to your objective will gather your squad and focus your combined firepower should a new target stray into your sights.
Overview Menu
Pressing the overview menu key (default: Caps Lock) will bring up your squad command screen. This is where you can issue orders on the larger scale than the quickmenu. Right click on a location and request orders from your commander, or send orders to your squad at the location you right-clicked on (eg. if you're peering across the map at a distant flag, you'll order your squad to do something at that flag; or request artillery at that flag)
Squad Leader Tasks
Requesting Orders
You request orders from the quick communication menu.
- To request orders from the general press the quick communication key (default: T), then move the mouse to the right to select "NEED ORDERS"
Reqesting Things of Commander
From both the quick menu and the overview menu you can request the following things from your commander. Request things often, whenever you need them, as the commander can get it to you in as little as 30 seconds (for supplies). Commanders try to drop supplies in bases that have just been taken over, but otherwise, they have no way of telling who needs what.
- Request supplies
- Request UAV
- Request artillery
The commander will be informed that you have requested what you did, at the location you chose; and will give him the quick ability to accept or reject your request.
Issuing orders to your squad
From both the quick menu and the overview menu you can give the following orders to your squad.
- Move to location
- Repair at location
- Defend location
- Destroy object at location
- Mine location (only available through overview map)
Managing Squad
From the left side of the overview menu screen you have control over your squad
- Click the "Manage Squad" button on the lower right corner of the squad listing (the left portion of the screen). A management menu will pop out.
- Merely check the boxes corresponding to the kicks/invites you want, and click apply.
- If you don't want to be squad leader but you are, the simplest way to get out of it is to leave your squad and rejoin (or join a different squad), the next person on the list will become the squad leader
- If you click on the lock beside your squad name, so that it lights up, noone can join your squad without you accepting them (page up) - unless you invite them.
Mobile Spawn Point
- When the round begins, spawn in as quickly as possible and tell your team where you're spawning in, so you can all start together.
- If you notice players who consistently don't spawn on you, give them a heads-up to ask that they do so. They may not know they can spawn on you.
- As squad leader, you are a mobile spawn point for your squad. DO NOT drive/fly around in a one- or two-seated vehicle the whole time and leave your squad to spawn at a flag. If you know a squad member is dead and will respawn, try and be on foot in a safe area or in a vehicle that has empty seats he can spawn into. When attacking a point, you should STAY BACK in a safe area near the point and cover, so your squadmates can respawn on you. DO NOT run in and get killed. If you do, your whole squad has to trek back in from the near
