If you are running a t-72 your he rounds are important for shooting down habs. And frag provides minimal structure damage. Ap is the way to go in t-72s.
HE used to be the fastest way to take down radios, but it's been changed so that AP does more damage to radios. HE is still the ammo for any other emplacements / fortifications.
Glad to see the tip about the ATGMs on the IFVs. A great tactic I always love to play with the Bradleys that absolutely obliterates the enemy BMP before they can even react.
Communication is so important that whenever I had teammates who refused to communicate/cooperate even the smallest usual threat to our armored vehicle turned into a deadly one.
Distance measuring is ALWAYS in the center of the screen UAV cannot be destroyed with he/heat rounds, including ZU-23-2, but can be destroyed with any direct damage projectile starting from 12.7. If you are fixing in FOB repair station and see UAV above you - IMMEDIATELY shoot it down and move away from the repair station. Enemy might have called an air strike on you. Pretty much all ATGMs can one shot an ammo rack but few of them are not capable to penetrate 5 tier armor. TOW - most of the times able to penetrate 5 tier Kornet - some of the times tier 5 Konkurs - can’t penetrate tier 5 Maluytka - can’t penetrate tier 5 but high damage per shot Abrams has fastest reload speed (for some reason, I think developers just like it and made it OP which actually doesn’t make any sense gameplay and realistic wise) of 6 seconds. T-72B3/T-72S, Challenger, Leopard have 8.3 seconds reload. T-62 - 12 seconds. Most powerful tank cannon is T-72’s, capable of penetrating Abrams’s ammo rack from front. Least powerful T-62, can penetrate Abrams from front ONLY in the cannon. T-72B3’s ATGM is a round loaded into the cannon, you can’t switch to it fast. Fly distance is around 1000 meters, it just falls after that. Always try to pick with only turret sticking out. Best tank to do that - Leopard. THICC TURRET can only be penetrated from the side. DO NOT GO IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT IN TANK. YOU *WILL* DIE
Some more tips: Maluytka ATGM will go up after you shoot because of the recoil it makes,rocket follows your guide. Fly distance approximately 1000 meters. When playing on BMP-1 have your HEAT round loaded, so you can shoot enemy IFV with it and shoot ATGM after that. Be sure to keep distance, because BMP-1 can’t do ANYTHING to armor when it closer than 100 meters. If you are in tank and you know that enemy team doesn’t have an active tank, keep HEAT rounds loaded so you can shoot both infantry and armor. Challenger’s Squash round is capable to penetrate BMPs. Artillery can damage armor Be aware of insurgency and militia IED drones and motorbikes It takes 4 IEDs to guaranteed destruction of HAB and any vehicle. If you’re on the drone just DON’T smash into the vehicle, it will be destroyed and the vehicle will have time to run from explosion
Always use the spotter seat if you can, a third person to look around while you're focused on your target is incredibly helpful, will spot armor, hats, combat engis, watch the rear, and if they have a gun, they can kill them too.
One more strat to throw into the mix, don't underestimate playing possum (playing dead). If you are the final gunner hold-out in a tracked IFV on a contested battlefield (especially one in the open); just take your hands off the stick for a second and let people think the vehicle is now abandoned. They will switch to focusing on infantry tactics again and give you the chance to surprise them with enfilading HE fire after a minute or two of inactivity. This can be the deciding factor in a fight as the sudden loss of the enemy's front line creates a large opening for your team to counter-attack, including a chance for your crew to regroup, repair, and retreat to rearm. This also works to a smaller extent in light vehicles as well. If your humvee or mrap gets lit up by a tiger and you're the sole survivor, simply release all controls and hit the gunner seat. The natural unsteered drift of the vehicle may give the enemy confidence they killed everyone while you charge the machine gun and start to return fire. In these situations, visualize there their crew are at in the vehicle and use the AP nature of these larger machineguns take out the crew (staring with their gunner) instead of trying to blow up their vehicle since they will already have a damage advantage on you. Note: these methods rely on you being in a relatively open area, ideally supported to some extent by friendly infantry. If you are deep behind enemy lines, or in dense foliage/urban environments where combat engineers and AT can easily flank or crawl to you, it may already be too late for you.
Great guide Honcho! Being a hardcore veteran infantry squadleader, I know nothing about tanking. This guide was very useful. Maybe even got me a bit interested in commanding a tank for a change 🤔
I saved a friendly BTR once while a Abrams was next to them. The American infantry had used a bunch of smoke grenades I rolled up and pushed them out while the trailing smoke the whole time
You can repair in the direction the gun is aiming. Over pressure doesn’t kill that close. It’s only when you are in front of the muzzle. The issue arises when you are shooting HE or frag at enemies. If you hit a tree next to you or clip the ground you will kill your crew. But with ap you have nothing to worry about because ap doesn’t do damage to anything it doesn’t touch. A lot of specifics when it comes to armor.
@@A_Honcho that is wrong. simply put. your gunner can shoot in whatever directions he wants when you are right next to the vehicle. Its bad information. Its important you update this because when you have to get shots off but you are yelling at the repair guy to move out the way you are just going to lose fights.
@@alphawolfgang173 well it doesnt matter where the gunner is looking because if you are laying down next to the vic repairing you wont die to over pressure
@@jackjohn2733 often times the gunner is paying attention to where enemies are shooting from and generally aiming at them, so you might want to position yourself on the other side of the gun to try and avoid incoming fire, if youre not surrounded. ive been a treadhead since bf1942 first came out, i might know a thing or two.
A good tip is to explain why you're telling your crew to do something so they understand. If your crew understands why your telling them to do something then they're more likely to do it. It also helps to make sure they don't mess up.
And you certainly enjoy dieing to my hand, because I always make sure to use a Sabot round on you for that's instant respawn and to send you across the map 😂
i love people who hop on and revive their crew it makes my job way easier whyy you telling them @honcho!!!! now they gonna use their brains instead of just hopping out😂😂😂
All of them apart from the Stryker, however! One of the 25mm LAVs (Aslav /lav 25 or Coyote) has a bugged turret. So you can damage and immobilise the turret but the damage doesn't transfer to the main Hull
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Solid guide, not much fluff just great info.
Thanks dude 🙌
Just a small note, frag/HE rounds can also destroy radios (and incredibly fast), that way you don't waste AP in case you have to fight some armor
I always get people telling me to use AP round with IFVs
If you are running a t-72 your he rounds are important for shooting down habs. And frag provides minimal structure damage. Ap is the way to go in t-72s.
@@jackjohn2733 but, if I'm not wrong, with the HAB health buff you can't even take them down with the amount of HEAT the T-72 gets now
@@JF_Suzuki you can, but it takes most of your HE now
HE used to be the fastest way to take down radios, but it's been changed so that AP does more damage to radios. HE is still the ammo for any other emplacements / fortifications.
Glad to see the tip about the ATGMs on the IFVs. A great tactic I always love to play with the Bradleys that absolutely obliterates the enemy BMP before they can even react.
It's such a strong tactic when used its unreal
Love this channel, haven't touched squad in months and these are useful to keep me updated
Thanks dude
communicate with your crew, knowing bearings and having great comms is crucial for armor. never go without infantry support.
100%
Hello.Good tips and very nice shot 7:17!
Thank you!
Communication is so important that whenever I had teammates who refused to communicate/cooperate even the smallest usual threat to our armored vehicle turned into a deadly one.
Especially when against Insurgents!
Distance measuring is ALWAYS in the center of the screen
UAV cannot be destroyed with he/heat rounds, including ZU-23-2, but can be destroyed with any direct damage projectile starting from 12.7.
If you are fixing in FOB repair station and see UAV above you - IMMEDIATELY shoot it down and move away from the repair station. Enemy might have called an air strike on you.
Pretty much all ATGMs can one shot an ammo rack but few of them are not capable to penetrate 5 tier armor.
TOW - most of the times able to penetrate 5 tier
Kornet - some of the times tier 5
Konkurs - can’t penetrate tier 5
Maluytka - can’t penetrate tier 5 but high damage per shot
Abrams has fastest reload speed (for some reason, I think developers just like it and made it OP which actually doesn’t make any sense gameplay and realistic wise) of 6 seconds. T-72B3/T-72S, Challenger, Leopard have 8.3 seconds reload. T-62 - 12 seconds.
Most powerful tank cannon is T-72’s, capable of penetrating Abrams’s ammo rack from front.
Least powerful T-62, can penetrate Abrams from front ONLY in the cannon.
T-72B3’s ATGM is a round loaded into the cannon, you can’t switch to it fast. Fly distance is around 1000 meters, it just falls after that.
Always try to pick with only turret sticking out. Best tank to do that - Leopard. THICC TURRET can only be penetrated from the side.
DO NOT GO IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT IN TANK. YOU *WILL* DIE
Some more tips:
Maluytka ATGM will go up after you shoot because of the recoil it makes,rocket follows your guide. Fly distance approximately 1000 meters.
When playing on BMP-1 have your HEAT round loaded, so you can shoot enemy IFV with it and shoot ATGM after that. Be sure to keep distance, because BMP-1 can’t do ANYTHING to armor when it closer than 100 meters.
If you are in tank and you know that enemy team doesn’t have an active tank, keep HEAT rounds loaded so you can shoot both infantry and armor.
Challenger’s Squash round is capable to penetrate BMPs.
Artillery can damage armor
Be aware of insurgency and militia IED drones and motorbikes
It takes 4 IEDs to guaranteed destruction of HAB and any vehicle. If you’re on the drone just DON’T smash into the vehicle, it will be destroyed and the vehicle will have time to run from explosion
Solid advice!!
The Malyutka recoil annoys me because its not supposed to do that 😂
Also don't get greedy. I recently baited two enemy tanks into an ambush where all of our armor and both HATs were waiting.
I'm bad for being baited, but sometimes I just do it for the content 😂
If a wheeled APC is Engined you can come up behind them and ram into them as a Speed Boost to get them out of danger.
Yes! I love doing this. Did it using my tank once 😂
Another Quality guide. Well done man.
Thanks dude
Always use the spotter seat if you can, a third person to look around while you're focused on your target is incredibly helpful, will spot armor, hats, combat engis, watch the rear, and if they have a gun, they can kill them too.
Nice video I'm still learning things about this game with over 500 hours lol
I'm still learning and I'm close to 2k 🤯
@@A_Honcho The biggest pointer was deffo having a half decent crew! If I see another 1 man armoured Vic on the battlefield again...
One more strat to throw into the mix, don't underestimate playing possum (playing dead). If you are the final gunner hold-out in a tracked IFV on a contested battlefield (especially one in the open); just take your hands off the stick for a second and let people think the vehicle is now abandoned. They will switch to focusing on infantry tactics again and give you the chance to surprise them with enfilading HE fire after a minute or two of inactivity. This can be the deciding factor in a fight as the sudden loss of the enemy's front line creates a large opening for your team to counter-attack, including a chance for your crew to regroup, repair, and retreat to rearm.
This also works to a smaller extent in light vehicles as well. If your humvee or mrap gets lit up by a tiger and you're the sole survivor, simply release all controls and hit the gunner seat. The natural unsteered drift of the vehicle may give the enemy confidence they killed everyone while you charge the machine gun and start to return fire. In these situations, visualize there their crew are at in the vehicle and use the AP nature of these larger machineguns take out the crew (staring with their gunner) instead of trying to blow up their vehicle since they will already have a damage advantage on you.
Note: these methods rely on you being in a relatively open area, ideally supported to some extent by friendly infantry. If you are deep behind enemy lines, or in dense foliage/urban environments where combat engineers and AT can easily flank or crawl to you, it may already be too late for you.
Regarding armored convoys, looking cool AF is the most important consideration.
Great guide Honcho!
Being a hardcore veteran infantry squadleader, I know nothing about tanking. This guide was very useful. Maybe even got me a bit interested in commanding a tank for a change 🤔
Thanks dude ❤️
BTR 82a is probably the best place to start off with Armour
I saved a friendly BTR once while a Abrams was next to them. The American infantry had used a bunch of smoke grenades I rolled up and pushed them out while the trailing smoke the whole time
That's awesome to see! Exactly why you work together 💪
i've got 500 hours on squad and yet you're still teaching me more about this game :)
Haha thanks dude
Can you make video and show us where to fire and with what gun / weapon? like where to shoot bradley? with tow where to aim against BMP-2?
You can repair in the direction the gun is aiming. Over pressure doesn’t kill that close. It’s only when you are in front of the muzzle. The issue arises when you are shooting HE or frag at enemies. If you hit a tree next to you or clip the ground you will kill your crew. But with ap you have nothing to worry about because ap doesn’t do damage to anything it doesn’t touch. A lot of specifics when it comes to armor.
Unfortunately in Squad, OP will still take an effect. I know this because I've lost count how many times I've killed my crew in the past 😂
@@A_Honcho that is wrong. simply put. your gunner can shoot in whatever directions he wants when you are right next to the vehicle. Its bad information. Its important you update this because when you have to get shots off but you are yelling at the repair guy to move out the way you are just going to lose fights.
@@jackjohn2733 repair guy should pay attention to where the gunners looking.
@@alphawolfgang173 well it doesnt matter where the gunner is looking because if you are laying down next to the vic repairing you wont die to over pressure
@@jackjohn2733 often times the gunner is paying attention to where enemies are shooting from and generally aiming at them, so you might want to position yourself on the other side of the gun to try and avoid incoming fire, if youre not surrounded. ive been a treadhead since bf1942 first came out, i might know a thing or two.
A good tip is to explain why you're telling your crew to do something so they understand. If your crew understands why your telling them to do something then they're more likely to do it. It also helps to make sure they don't mess up.
Oh 100% yes!
Funny thing. If I'm not mistaken that's the direction my country's military is going in. As in I've had issues before over teamwork before.
get a crew that listens, dont ask why or debate, if commander says reverse you reverse.
With all this knowledge, honcho still dies by my hand (so does everyone else)
And you certainly enjoy dieing to my hand, because I always make sure to use a Sabot round on you for that's instant respawn and to send you across the map 😂
If you are on a 99A or a T72, you see enemy tank 1000 meters away or more on the hill, it´s better to engage him with a TOW for the first shot.
Yea, especially if they don't see you it'll pretty much guarantee you a hit
Please, I beg you, I suck as medic so much, I NEED a medic guide to live
Aight, I'll get on it soon fam 💪
@@A_Honcho yessir ty so much
i love people who hop on and revive their crew it makes my job way easier whyy you telling them @honcho!!!! now they gonna use their brains instead of just hopping out😂😂😂
I know but it drives me wild when I see it happen on my team 😂😂😂
@@A_Honcho 😂😂😂
What vehicles get hull damaged by taking hits in the turret, is it all vehicles BUT vehicles with RWS/CROWS vehicles?
All of them apart from the Stryker, however! One of the 25mm LAVs (Aslav /lav 25 or Coyote) has a bugged turret. So you can damage and immobilise the turret but the damage doesn't transfer to the main Hull
how to get in gunner?
you mean traverse