BF2S Forums Why supports shoot attack choppers?

No matter what, shoot at a chopper. Chances are you won't live to use all of your ammunition anyway (unless your acc. is low and you need the whole clip to kill a baddie). What the avergae (And by avg. i mean almost every) bf2 player doesnt realize is that if everybody shot at a chopper when they saw it, it would go down (or retreat for rep's) much faster. People don't ever shoot because it doesnt blow "fast" enough. If you see a chopper, shoot at it, and encourage bystanders to do the same.

It's worth it when chopper is smokin other than that even if you covered and pilot has dynamic light on high you can see muzzle flash outta your support weapon easy kill I usually just land on them because they tend to prone a lot

I always shoot a machine gun at the odd smoking attack chopper, or generally anything that's smoking. You'll blag a sneaky kill or 2 if your lucky!

tvmissleman wrote:

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The best way to think about it is like this:

Suppose there's a helicopter being attacked by a guy with a SRAW and a guy in a Humvee. Now suppose a PKM-armed soldier joins in. Obviously in the second situation, the helicopter is taking more damage.

There's no way to instant-kill a helicopter except for the TV guided missile, so if you want to take down a helicopter, you want to inflict as much damage as you can, as quickly as you can. (This applies to armour as well.)

So yes, it's worth firing at the helicopter with a PKM, not because the PKM can destroy the helicopter but because even if the PKM does only a few bars of damage, that's a few bars of damage that someone else doesnt have to do, or is doing at the same time, and that helicopter has less time in which they must take out a greater number of targets. You also change the stakes. If a helicopter is firing at regular infantry, they're firing to get kills. If they're firing at something which is firing back, they're firing to stay alive and the more you hit them the more likely they'll break for repairs. (Any pilot who stays in the combat zone with less than half health is suicidal)

Against both helicopters and armour, the key to beating them easily is putting heavier fire onto them than they can handle / than they can respond with. So if I happen to be playing support with a PKM, and I can help teammates damage a helicopter, I will do so.

You can laugh, but not for very long.

I frequently shoot at attack choppers with pretty much anything even though I know it won't do much damage. My goal is to distract the pilot and gunner, especially when the pilot is already trying to keep track of multiple targets. If I shoot and hide I can protect my teammates without dying. If I do get killed, I'm willing to die if it distracts the chopper from killing my team's armor.

Hacial wrote:

When I'm in attack chopper, I notice some little fire coming at me and I easily spot it, then I figure out it's support shooting me. What's the point with that? They want to get killed? Because when shooting enemy chopper you could aswell put some big flashing neonlight sign "I'm over here kill me!" (Click my MC Hammer...)

Hmmm...

Because the attack chopper is a bigger target, and they can increase their accuracy with the gun?

Seriously, any amount of damage or harassment to an enemy chopper is better than none.  Afterall, if people weren't shooting at choppers, who'd be killing them?  I do agree with you that the LMGs are weak against the attack choppers, but if there is some chance that more than one person is damaging the chopper, it increases the chance that the chopper is destroyed (or more likely, the chopper pilots will tuck tail and run).

EDIT: Punctuation.

Last edited by TrueArchon (2006-07-04 01:32:25)