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How to give infantry precise instructions?

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I have Operation Arrowhead. I don’t have any other games from the series.

I am playing an automatic scenario in “My Missionsâ€.

I am a squad leader. The current task is to take out a high value target.

I am leading a squad. As we approach the target I see that it is an enemy radar. So clearly we have to destroy it.

At about 200 meters, I am laying on the top of a small ridge looking down at the target. My men are standing perhaps 10 meters behind me.

In the distance at about 400 meters, an enemy truck appears carrying an enemy squad.

They bail out of the truck and begin firing at us and generally moving on our position.

The enemy are very vulnerable while they bail out of the truck and begin moving into position. I need my squad to open fire NOW!

I have my squad advance to the lip of the ridge and fire on the enemy.

My men don’t seem to know they should go prone. Two of them are wounded almost straight away.

How can I give a very precise order in a hurry?

Can I give a whole series of orders with a single keystroke:

-Switch to line formation

-Go crouched

-Move up level with me

-Then go prone and fire on the enemy.

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You generally can't tell your people to fire right this minute. There is a 3-3 Fire command but they may or may not obey. There's a mostly-broken Suppressive fire command.

Of course you can't execute all those mutually exclusive orders with one keystroke. But if you know your stuff, typing 8-8, 7-6, 1-1, 7-8, 2-1 is the work of a moment.

Men in Combat or Danger mode will almost always prefer prone when not moving. They are most likely to fire when they are not moving. So get them in position and tell them to stop. Then give them the targets once they don't have to worry about buddy systems and covering each other. If they don't fire then at a nearby, vulnerable then, it's probably because they are being suppressed.

If you want everyone to see something that's on your screen, tell them to Watch There.

Edit: Oh, and men with M4s are going to be quite reluctant to shoot at a truck 400m away. Larger caliber weapons would help that. There are several AI mods that increase the range at which the AI is willing to engage.

Edited by maturin

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I think the best Tactic in this situation would be to send your MG gunners and snipers to the lip of the rige and tell them to go in Danger mode. Leave those men there, they will surpress the enemy. Take the rest of your Squad and engage the enemy at closer range

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Yep, what they said.

Just spend some time the editor with you leading a group and go through all the different options in the ~ menus 1-0.

Once you are familiar with each command you will be unstoppable.

That is of course until you squad draw their pistol and just stop in a crouched position telling you they “can’t get there†LOL

I kid, the AI are actually really effective when you know how they react to each command.

Good luck!

edit: Sorry, in answer to your question. You will need to give all of those orders individually. If you need just one or a few units to do this select them with the F keys (corresponding numbers for units)

Again though, once you are familiar with the locations of each command in its respective menus you'll be awesome.

Also, using . on your numberpad will give you command view (dont flame me, its just so he can see what the different formations etc are).

This can also be helpful when watching your units do their thang.

Edited by Grub

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  Joe98 said:
..My men don’t seem to know they should go prone..

Yes the AI (artificial intelligence) robots are usually pretty dumb and we have to nanny them along; but look on it as an interesting test of your leadership to get the best out of them..:)

For example I just set up this little exercise inside 2 minutes in the Editor (the Ed is a great simple way for running tests etc)

I placed myself ('player') and 4 men (AI bots) on the Ed map to form my squad, then hit 'Preview' to begin the game.

Okay,for this exercise hit the period key '.' on your numpad to go to the Tactical view to get a better overall birds eye view of your boys, and hit the numpad '+ and -' keys to zoom to a comfortable level.

Move the mouse cursor around the edges of the picture to further adjust the view if you like, and you should be seeing something like this, (you're the guy in the middle)-

AA-ords1.jpg

Okay, hit 'Space' to light up the squads icons along bottom left of the screen and hit '7' on the main keyboard.

Piece o' cake! A list of stance orders will come up on the left, so just select the one you want (eg 'Prone') and the boys will drop prone like this..:)

Hit 'Z' to make yourself drop prone too.

AA-ords2.jpg

Okay just to sum up, the two-key sequence to get 'stances' is Space and 7. You can play around with other stances too like Crouch and Stand.

Incidentally you can change formation too, the sequence is Space and 8. For examp here I order my boys to go into Column (compact), great for moving down alleyways in towns like a SWAT stack.

AA-ords3.jpg

Try out all ten number buttons too (1 to 0) for fun to see what they do, but don't forget to hit Space before each one.

Oh, and to exit Tactical view just hit period again.

Edited by PoorOldSpike

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add this too:

Comprehensive and In-Depth guide to commanding your AI squad

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=107231

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There are also some voice command programs for ArmA II

VAC for Arma2

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=98078&highlight=VAC

http://www.dwvac.com/profiles.html

Edited by Gnter Severloh

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Tell the AI to stop and hold fire. Now tell them to get down and watch the position where the enemy is. After a short while the AI will start saying, eyes on target etc. That means they are targeting someone and ready to fire.

If you then, while they are in stop because that prevents them from trying to get a better position before starting to shoot, tell them to open fire.

They will hopefully all shoot at once. At least those that have targeted enemies automatically.

Example:(Btw the video isnt about what you are asking, but it shows what I mean.)

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In my voice profile I have a "... ambush" command that does the multi thing you are asking for.

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