Small But Helpful Tips

Here you will be shown quick, but very helpful tips and tricks to improve your performance in Pawn Tactics. The information here is widely known by experienced pros, but not the the average newbie.¹

• Do not place two claymore mines too close to each other:
  • Since grenades can destroy claymores, putting claymores close to each other will allow a single grenade to destroy multiple claymores. On the other hand, putting them far apart will require a player to use more than of his\her grenades to destroy you and\or your teammates' claymores.

• The support class can not only heal your health…
  • But it can refill ammo for your main and secondary weapon as well²! This is especially useful for snipers who are more likely to live and see the point where they run out of bullets.

• The sniper bullet does only 50% damage to a Recon, which has very light armor…
  • But that doesn't mean it won't even dent a heavy classes' health! It will actually do more damage to a heavy (with full health) - so much damage that a heavy would be finished off with a stray bullet.

• When placing claymore mines…
  • Make sure to put it somewhere that the enemy has to pass through in order to kill you or reach your flag/base. Ideal places are in tight passageways, doorways, or even right on top of your flag. Due to that, the enemy cannot bypass your claymore, and will either have to destroy it, or wait for friendlies. Never place the claymore in a spot that the enemy does not need to go through or where the enemy could easily walk around.

• Place claymores on flags…
  • Since grenades can destroy claymores, they are essentially useless (except for fending off recons). Therefore you should place claymores on flags and by doing that, most enemies will usually not see it, step over it, and die. That is because most claymores are now placed on entrances, which distract most enemies from any other "hidden" claymores.

• Use flashbangs:
  • To take out campers. If you throw a flashbang inside a base, and hide behind a barrier before it explodes, anybody inside the base will be blinded. However, if you hid behind a barrier, you will still be able to see, rush inside, and kill many players on the other team.
  • To capture a zone. In order to capture a zone, all you have to do is stay there for a few seconds. The way flashbangs can be useful is for heavily defended zones. All you have to do is throw a flashbang in a zone, walk in, and let the flashbang explode. You will be blind, but so will your enemies. The blinding screen of white will allow you to stay in a zone longer, and possibly capture it.

• When you are a heavy and you are fighting another Heavy
  • Don't use the minigun to fight back. Instead, you should use the secondary weapon, which is the Desert Eagle. It may seem suicidal, but listen to this:
    • The heavy class wears heavy armor (duh)
    • The minigun uses explosive bullets
    • Heavy armor reduces all damage a player takes by 50%
    • Heavy armor also reduces all damage caused by explosive bullets by another 50%
  • So by using a minigun, which deals 13 damage regularly, you will only deal about 3 damage per round to a heavy!
  • Now let's look at the stats for the Desert Eagle:
    • The Desert Eagle uses armor piercing bullets
    • The heavy class is very vulnerable to armor piercing bullets, because armor piercing bullets do twice as much damage to a heavy!
    • The Desert Eagle (after taking in the fact heavy armor reduces all damage by half) will do an incredible 25 damage to a heavy (despite it's heavy armor) per shot!

• Shoot around and through corners:
  • If you have a long gun (e.g. Vulcan or Sniper), then you can shoot around corners. Place your long gun over the corner of a barrier so the the end sticks out. This allows you to shoot while behind a barrier you can't shoot over.
  • Also, in a 2 by 2 tile area, if there are two barrier tiles diagonal to each other, you can place your gun so that the end sticks out the other end of the barriers. This fully protects you from bullets coming at you from the front while you can shoot back.

Footnotes

1. This article was taken from "Easy and helpful tips and tricks", made by IrishDragon1234

2. Grenades will not get refilled