Case 1: Ammo / Med spam

If you spam 5 meds to save 1 marine, and he kills the skulk, you've wasted meds. What's even worse is if the marine dies. Perfect your aim so that you can med almost on the marine to save res.

Same for ammo. If a marine wants ammo, don't spam 5 packs for him. Most likely he'll die before he uses it.

Dropping 2 packs will suffice, unless he's doing something like gunning OCs or RTs down, in which case you may drop more.

Case 2: Weapon Spam

Imagine you have 7 marines.
You drop 7 shotguns/HMGs for them.
They move out to the hive.
A skulk kills 1 half way to the hive.
As everyone has a weapon, the weapon is wasted and not picked up.

If you dropped 3-4 weapons for 7 marines instead, the weapons will continually be recycled until there are more guns than marines.

SGs/HMGs/GLs are good, but remember that the LMG excels in the medium range damage category. A full shottie/hmg team won't kill a fade blinking down the corridor, but a LMG has the cone to do so.

you speak the truth.
good thread

He should get a mountain top temple to sit and meditate in

A thing I find extremly strange about comms in Pubs as well the complete lack of a mix of weapons as well.

In a lot of games I find comms just go Hmg hmg hmg hmg... and don't mix it up.

HMG/SG is a killer combo on fades especially if you can get them coming in, 2 Sg blasts on a non cara fade will garuntee that on escape in a straight corridor that its a dead fade.

I hate it when comms drop me ammo and medpacks, when I don't call for them.

Comms should never drop stuff unless the marines are doing something that's worth the res.

Another common sense commander post.
Thanks for posting it anyway!

~Egad

makes sense to me, plus it reduces the spam part of medspam.

Save the cash from not medspamming and dropping many'a packs of ammo and buy gunz.

Me likes teh gunz.

I never end up doing the weapon recycle, I dont know why.
But I always just figure, if I dont give everyone a shotgun, the others will just stay in base whining about how they dont have one (In pubs atleast).

I'll try mixing up the hmg/shotgun idea though.

nice point.

still i dun find a reason why some comms will med a marine facing a full-hp-fade 1vs1. add this, dun med in some cases if its not gonna kill

Medspam is unbelievably useless, in my opinion. Of course, there are exceptions - like, a fade in the deep red, who almost took down your marines - you give him a medpack, he might survive.
Don't med against full-health onos or fades... or drop ammo or rt's if one is coming.

ahaha medspam usless ahaha.... AHAHAHA. Jesus christ.

well, mrben, thats why less than lucky is a delta clan and NG is a new omega clan.

Medspamming is definetly not useless, sasy you spend 10 res on meds and you get 2 back from rfk. Not only did you only use 8 now, BUT you have marines on the field, which is much more important. Field positions win games, watch any skilled comm and notice they avoid beacon at all costs, but try to drop phase gates. They want to hold position.

So you guys hate the anti-lifeform weapon? Idiots. Sure, throw in one or two shotguns, but if you've got an AA, you should hand out HMGs the majority of the time.

9 3/3 HMG marines with welders, & catpacks will own hives....

idealy you want a good mix of weapons, HMG, SGs, and a very few LMGs (Quick reload is more helpfull than most realize)
1/3-2/3 hmgs
1/3-2/5th SGs
1/3-1/5th LMGs

ive pulled it off in a 6vs6 pug.. had all all that by about 6 mins. granted for 6vs6 it only realy works on eclipse

risky though, since you dont get an obs, except just before you drop all the hmgs

I agree with the 7 shotgun point. Very wise comm.

Guys, don't compare just the res costs - compare position too. It's like in chess... pieces have point values, but position is important as well. For example, a bishop in a corner is useless.

Likewise, a marine or a group of marines locking down an important area... like cargo on tantith or double res on caged... if some medspam will save them and let them secure it, it is DEFINATELY worth it.

Medpacks to save a marine knifing an rt can let him finish it. That's ~8 res (estimate) for 15 res of rt - 25 if you count the gorging cost, even more if you cound the res that the aliens now AREN'T getting, and the time an alien has to spend going gorge (time spent NOT attacking you!).

Ammo and med drops are EXCELLENT for morale. Your marines will love and obey you if you keep them well stocked with ammo and medkits. AND THEY WILL HUMP THE ARMORY LESS!!!

I'd say more important than conserving res by being cheap with drops is securing and destroying res. Meaning going out and building nodes, and shooting down alien nodes. If you spend 10 res on ammo and meds to shoot down a node before aliens can arrive, that's a win. As for morale... well taken-care-of marines obey you.

As a commander you have to learn the difference between spamming 6 packs of ammo when someone calls for it and dropping 2 meds when the rine only gets parasited... there is a very fine line between spamming and simply knowing how to command...

Pub comms that drop ammo and medpacks?

Grave digging eh?

Some similar tips with the same message: TAKE CARE OF YOUR MARINES!
http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index....opic=93389&st=0

As a rambo marine, I will rather jump to death than have the comm waste 10 res on me... If you want RFK, tell your marines NOT to get ammo and give them packs of ammo instead. If they won't hump the armory (most still will) then you will get more kills (and deaths) because of more marines in the field. Dropping 5 meds while in the middle of a fight is annoying to me, because i know that the comm could have dropped a shotgun to someone instead.

It could be worht spending those 10 res for you if you are fighting for something important which you should.

Ramboing in some useless corridor is sure something to be ignored but then you shouldnt put comm in situation where he needs to save you not letting rfk for nothing....