Yup. Actually, 'XanderF'. I'll probably be on much over the weekend - the wife works.
Assault on bridge is very hard
It seems that way at first.
Trust me, though. With a 'good' team - it is EASY. You can't rush at first, spread out - have a couple guys (with a SAW if possible) go to the hills to the far right where you can lay down some suppression fire on the defense (almost always 1 or 2 def guys will rush the arch and be prime picking).
After a couple minutes of this, slowly approach the arch. Don't get too close. Basically, lay down suppression fire so that the sniper can take out the guys in the windows (there are ALWAYS guys in the windows). Have a unit or two with the 203 toss a few grenades at the stairs of the opposing bridge.
That will take care of almost ALL the bad guys - in fact, I've seen games won because all the bad guys ended up dead using said attack.
If any are left, they are usually (stupidly) trying to sneak around behind the defense, or are camping in the hills behind the bridge. You do have to watch out for the campers. Have one or two guys suppress the hills with grenades and gunfire while 1 or 2 more run for the exit.
new airborne mission is ridiculous to defend, not even fun to assault bacause of it.
That one WAS designed as a trainer mission. I think they borked it, though. I guess we'll see if some decent defense tactics arise.
defending Insugent Camp is near impossible
Really?
I always thought defense on this map was easy.
Couple tricks:
1) STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM THE WINDOWS!!! Seriously. And don't leave the building.
2) 2 guys should be on the bottom PC - one deeper into the tunnels facing 'out', the other just inside it (from the base) facing the door to keep anyone from coming in the back way. Make sure you know who the other guy is, so if you see his death message go by, run to his location (or throw a nade that way).
Similarly, 2 guys on the top PC. One in the stairway - real far down so a nade into the upper room won't get him. He just needs to keep poking his head up to make sure no one is on the upper PC. Another guy in the room with a SAW on bipod covering the two doors.
3) Everyone else should just be walking around inside the base STAYING AWAY FROM THE DAMN WINDOWS!!!!