Good tip for Blackhawks

[Dr. Bullet]

Well, both the blackhawk and its MEC/PLA equivalent.

Anyway, this is my guide on how to be unstoppable.

For Capping Flags

Pilot should be a medic. That way anyone that gets shot will be automatically healed.

The gunners (with main chopper guns) should be support so that the other guys will have unlimited ammo.

The other three seats should be engineers whose sole job is to wrench on the chopper.

Also, something I've been seeing the last couple of days is pilots landing to cap a flag. Allow me to admonish you: NEVER LAND! I was in a chopper that was OWNED by a sniper. He got 6 kills of it just by tossing grenades into the crew area. Landing puts you in too much danger of: mines, C4, grenades, and easy headshots.

Put the Engineers to Work

Fly low and fast over enemy vehicles so that the engineers can drop mines. The chopper is a fast, effective way to get to those pesky enemy vehicles and blow them up.

Be a Nuisance

Replace two of the engineers with Spec Ops. This way, your team has a very fast way to get to the enemy commander's assets. Simply fly near the assets, the Spec Ops guys toss some C4, they are re-supplied by the support guys, and when the chopper is far enough, they detonate.

Of course, you don't just want to sit there waiting for their assets to be repaired, so you can fly around and the Spec Ops can C4 vehicles, flags, even troops.

The important thing to remember is that the C4 isn't detonated too soon.

Engineers, Start Wrenching

Sometimes when you lean down to fix the chopper, you don't get the special noise or the little wrench picture. Don't worry, keep wrenching! Just adjust the area you're wrenching at and watch the chopper's health bar. If it goes up (or goes faster since you have other engineers), you'll know it's working.


Closing Thoughts

It's always a good idea for the pilot to start a locked squad and for the crew to be invited to it. That way 1) You don't get guys who just want to be in the chopper, and 2) If you get killed, you can spawn in the chopper. Furthermore, the pilot should always be a medic. His guys in the cabin are going to get shot up, and as long as he's a medic, they'll be healed automatically.

I hope you liked it...if you have anything to add, please do. These tactics make for great fun (at least for the chopper people), and I'm always open for more ways to have fun :D

[Light_Wolf]

#1: while flying, try to sweep across ground level for an easy cleaning of pesky inf. :evil:
#2: If you are sneaking into an enemy's base, try to fly as close to the edge of the map and as high as possible.
#3: Never EVER try to take a loop in da choppah. (tried a few times... does that mean I'm a moron? :rolleyes: )

[Qwigleet]

Thanks for telling even more people how to be a blackhawk whore.

I hope they patch it so the chopper has to land to cap a flag.

[Dr. Bullet]

Thanks for telling even more people how to be a blackhawk whore.

I hope they patch it so the chopper has to land to cap a flag.

Sounds like someone's been owned by the BH a few times :laugh:

It's easy enough to get around. Throw some C4 high up on the flag pole, detonate when chopper gets near. If that's too hard, get the AT kit. A well placed AT missile can take out the BH easy. It just takes *GASP!* practice!

And if that's still too hard, you can always get in a 50 cal machine gun. It doesn't take much of that to bring the choppers down.

[ttopi]

This happens so often and is really annoying... Pilot jumps out of a full BH... So DON'T f****ing jump out when you have passengers... :mad:

Of course you can hop to driver seat and try to take control, but usually you are using guns, repairing and stuff and don't notice that driver just bailed out.

Sometimes engineer just can't repair BH, no matter what you try. I think that's a bug.

[FM_Echo_One]

I used to drop mines but not anymore. Too many nooblets can't see the friendly mines and punish so why risk it.

[FaultySanity]

2 supports? I dont think they would contribute to the blackhawk very well...

Something like:
-3 Medic
-3 Engineers

or

-2 medics
-3 engineers
-1 Support

[Chalk.One]

Support is really the only other class (aside from medic) that can contribute to the chopper crew while using the guns.

[Dr. Bullet]

I suppose you don't need 2 supports, but anything else wouldn't really help. Besides, share the pointage :D

[Major_Rosha]

If you have more than 1 Support, the other can be in one of the non-gunner seats chunking grenades onto enemy troops and ammo packs onto friendly ground troops (if you aren't going to have all engineers in the non-gunner seats)

[ArmyOfOne*]

To totally own(and not just BH whore) you need a mic for the pilot. He calls out targets for his mini gunners and they hit them. For even more ownage have the gunners have mics to call stuff out they want to shoot. For some fun have the engies and specops throw tons of explosives out the side creating an unpassable region good in ur opponents uncappabale or on surroudning roads. I am normally not medics when I fly but support. I have my gunners be medics and heal 2x as fast and I ressuply.

[j4k3]

i disagree on having two support guys. just one support guy, one medic (pilot), and the rest engineers.

also, name your squad something like HElO WHores or BlackHawk or Helicopter or whatever and if someone joins your squad, make sure to tell him to become an engineer next time he spawns and if he doesn't, kick him out of the squad.

one more thing - don't immediately cap flags! fly around the area first to give your gunners chance to kill all the baddies before you cap flags.

Thanks for telling even more people how to be a blackhawk whore.

I hope they patch it so the chopper has to land to cap a flag.

NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!

[Lt.Kris]

Thanks for telling even more people how to be a blackhawk whore.

I hope they patch it so the chopper has to land to cap a flag.

i know u ******.

helicopter whores screw up the game!

[Hugh G. Wrection]

I'll add another critical tip:

1) DO NOT FLY DIRECTLY TO THE FLAG AND HOVER ABOVE IT. Make a couple wide sweeping circles around it first so that the gunners can eliminate most of the enemies around the cp.

2) After that, hover about the flag, but keep the blackhawk in constant rotation so that there are no blind spots that the gunners can't hit.

[Tardy2005]

i know u ******.

helicopter whores screw up the game!

Yeah except any team that can't work out how to down a stupid Helicopter deserves to get it's *** wiped. Honestly as other's have said, one person can take down a Blackhawlk if they try.