SentinelX wrote:What i do find is that cartel needs "hit'n'run" to succeed, but if the needs come to take a straight up fight they are lacking seriously. Scorpios do decent damage, but have such slow RoF that it's laughable. Even with Otomatics tanking, the army, cost for cost, will be in favor of US/Chimera. The only really good units i find from Cartel are the AMOS (god i love this one...) and the Spectre (not due to it's stealth, but it's actually a decent tank all in all)... Oh and hinds are decent. Tanky AF, but the autocannon misses quite a LOT...
Do i really need to play more infantry heavy then? Should i only focus on armored units until i get to the Prototypes bay?
And i know PoW's are something i need to capture at every chance i get, but they don't drop as often as with the other factions. Everything Cartel has literally shoots to kill.
And wth is up with Commanches Eugen? If i order a HOLD FIRE, they should HOLD fire and not drop their entire load on a random unit that happened to pass by...
The way I start off for defense is Vipers + hinds + arty turrets (All with their repair center upgrades) Can kill any ground army at choke points. The napalm bomb that the hinds have are absolutely amazing and when you get like 5+ hinds dropping the bombs on an approaching army it will kill most of them. Leaving the vipers + arty turrets to clean up. AMOS is definitely good but expensive early game and yes. Infantry heavy is the way to go early on, When set up in buildings i've had 10 vipers spread out in a town destroy a huge chunk of a guy's MGS strykers when he pushed before they got cleared out. Letting my hinds + vipers + amos clean up with ease. Generally though, my advise is expand towards the enemy with refineries, near checkpoints and put the arty turrets on those. You can put up to 3 (maybe 4) arty turrets on them without the arty turrets blowing each other up. If they break through all of this though you're probably screwed but i've had this hold many pushes since the AI on roads sets them up as natural choke points. Just remember to spread out the infantry (at the least in a single long line) so enemy shots only hit 1 at a time. Keep hinds away from infantry, and watch the fireworks
Yes, most early game unit cartel has shoots to kill which sucks but AMOS do not, the Hind's incendiary attack (not the bomb) will just wound infantry. Great source of early PoWs are banks for this. Fly a hind up and fire bomb it. Force them out then pick them off with the hinds auto attack. Should give at least 1-2 if you're lucky
But I find Spectres with otos will drop a lot of wounded guys due to otos dealing like a .25 damage to ground. So Spectres go BANG and then otos just poke and yay pilot! 