Thread: Operation Shingle Strategy

I was, and may still, post this in an article but for now here is my $.02 worth.

OK…I am by no means an expert commander nor an expert on Shingle. All I can do is relate what my experiences have been and what I have taken from them. Hope it helps.

During one game, while commanding, I had an epiphany. I noticed that Columns was a lynch pin, of sorts, but the enemy commander put to much emphasis on it. We had lost columns early on, so I called out orders to avoid columns at all cost to which, out of the ordinary, about 95% of my team followed the order. I told them to hold the right flank, Dunes and Refugee Camp, and had one squad running the perimeter, with a spawn beacon set up just beyond the outer wall at north of Dunes, to do node control at warehouse and Dunes.



Then we held ground.

Now I don’t know or recall who was the commander of the PAC but they were forced to attack out and they ignored dunes and warehouse to try to take Dunes and Refugee, we had a positive of flags and their points were dropping. So the started to attack Dunes. This put them out in the open as they crossed the road from Columns and Command for my entrenched defenders of Dunes and of Refugee to continue to cause the tickets to plummet. Also, due to the lack of overhead protection, artillery bombardments help to lessen the ranks.



As their team was bashing themselves relentlessly against the ranks, I sent the roving squad on a mission to take out assets and see about taking command. They were able to take the assets and hold the flag with just the occasional defender spawning on the outside perimeter of the node. With the exceptions of not having the flag down and the lone sniper with a crate on the roof, command was ours.

This left Columns as the only true area of enemy presence.

Now, for the cope de grace.

Having the control of command frustrated the PAC commander (He was camped out in the monorail platform and we left him there.) because he turned his attention from attacking dunes to trying to clear out command. I told the roving squad leader that he was a sacrifice and to hold Command as long as he possibly could. Make PAC bleed for it.



While PAC was focused someplace else, I sent the two squads that were at Dunes to launch a full out attack on Columns. There was little resistance, most of which were trip mines and sentry guns. They cleaned the place out took out the spawn beacon on the roof and flipped the flag. This left Command only with most of the PAC defenders still in the field.

Of course the sacrificial squad was unable to hold command. But they did their job and had spawned at dunes. And now command was open for attack. The refugee camp, with the aid of the two walkers from EU base pushed into Command and cleaned out the ground defense.



Now I would love to tell you that we went on to take command and win the game, but the ticket count from the preceding bloodbath had dropped the PAC tickets to a point that the game ended before we could take command and do a final clean-up.

Now, I know this may not be exactly what you wanted in an answer to your question “How do I do better on Shingle” but there are so many variances to individual game play skills, abilities and styles that I can’t really tell you much beyond a used strategy and hope you can see a place that might fit your style.

On a personal note about kits, I am a support fiend. I will use the vanilla support gun for its quick reticle contraction, long range and large clip, but it still is formidable at close range. Plus the infantry sonar is priceless.

I hope this helped some and if I should think of anything else to add I will.

-Spanky

Spanky, that sounds like some amazing commanding. I really need to squad lead under you sometime.

Thank you, but as much as I would like to say I could duplicate the occurrence I have commanded Shingle more after that and to abysmal ends. Variables have been a BIG factor. One or two squads that listen, a superior team opposite me, stars out of alignment...etc

I tend to lob one to test the range then shortly after 2 more at the same range and the last one about 6 feet back. It seems to almost always work.

I hate columns because usually when you take it, immediately there are a thousand rocketeers shooting rockets at the cubby holes everywhere on columns. It's impossible to move 5 steps while defending because you're constantly being pounded by rockets, and are not able to take out the rocketeers because they either:
A. Have a guy watching the bottom so that no one takes out their ticket bleeders.
or B. Kill you before you can even get to a set of stairs.

Usually if it's the EU who controls Columns, the commander of the PAC will send a squad over the bridge from Command Center into Columns, while a squad from the bottom comes up. The roof is a blind spot, and enemies can see better up than you can see down through that grated floor...

I find that if I get my squad to take every other place than columns, then we can just let them have columns, and rip them apart from places like Dunes and Trenches (great angles with great cover in both of those areas). Shingle is FAR from my favorite map (sort of like Backlot in COD4), but I'll play it just to win.