They can give orders to squad leaders but there is no guarantee those orders will be followed unless squad leaders decide to do so, and even then it depends on whether the other people in their squads also listen to their instructions. Mostly the commander functions like a central switchboard for all the various squad leaders they share the command comms network with. It's structured to help teams take advantage of them: each team is led by a commander who can call in special abilities and reinforcements using an RTS-like trio of strategic resources: manpower, fuel, and munitions. Every map features its own variable set of victory locations, and each one transforms the meaning and significance of other parts of the map.
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And if all those units are on the ridge, there is no way to take Yamki from the front.Īt its best, Hell Let Loose is full of these move-countermove dynamics. A squad leader on that ridge can tell the entire team, all 50 members, exactly where the enemy is and what they are doing.
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A tank parked on that ridge can render the entire approach to Yamki almost impassable, slowing infantry with its two machine guns and then blasting them with its main gun. A machine gunner can force infantry to crawl across the fields around Yamki on their bellies, half-blinded by the "suppression" effect of the shots snapping overhead and occasionally killed by the ones that dip into the tall grass. A sniper on that ridge can smite any infantry that stands still for more than a couple seconds. It can be decided on the entrenched ridgeline almost a kilometer away, which commands views stretching across and behind the village.
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What makes Black Matter’s Hell Let Loose special is that the battle for this one little hardscrabble patch of Soviet soil isn't solely or even mostly decided by what happens inside that tiny magic circle marked on the map. The village is now under fire in a 300 degree arc, while our team has one last team-wide respawn garrison near the village that is under a constant spray of machine gun and rifle fire. But there is a circle on the map with a two-colored bar that shows the tug of war for the control point in Yamki, and our commander is tunnel-visioning on it, hectoring every squad leader to rush in there and survive just long enough for other players' respawn timers to finish counting down.
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You can't put too many people in Yamki before you're just jamming more fish in the barrel. We have about 40 infantry on our team across eight squads, and Yamki is really nothing more than a row of small wooden houses, burning ruins, a couple ditches, and a vegetable garden. We don't need more people at the tiny steppe village on the Kursk map. "Hey squad leaders, we need more people on the point. A peevish, flat Midwestern voice hisses from my headphones.