Tips for Urban Combat
By Chris Coley
- When your unit assaults a multilevel building try to work down. Attacking
down adds speed to your assault. You also don’t have to worry about the
chance your own grenades might roll back on you. If you work up you force
the enemy against a dead-end, the sky. This reinforces their will to win.
Working down you can force the enemy out of the building and to your
comrades on the ground.
- There are two different ways to attack a room: systematic and dynamic
entry. Systematic entry means to engage the enemies in the room from the
outside through windows, doors, or loopholes. This reduces the danger as
would be in a dynamic entry. Dynamic entry involves a fast, hard, hitting
strike into the room. A dynamic entry should use maximum speed, surprise,
and force. Either form of entry is effective.
- Before attacking a certain area you should see if anyone or how many
people are in the area. Before checking out a hallway, room, or around any
corner, have someone cover you. Lay down and slowly peek around the corner.
This reduces the chance of being seen; most people will be looking at about
head or chest height for any movement. You can also use a small dental
mirror to facilitate this.
- For a dynamic assault stack up on the same side of the entryway. This
reduces the chance that you could shoot your teammate on entry. The first
man through the entryway should roll left, the second man roll right, and
the third man covers them both. It also prepare the room with grenades.
- Always leave somebody in a captured room.
- When you fire at enemies lower/higher than you aim low. Paintballs and
other projectiles don’t experience gravity when they are fired at
different angles.
- Place snipers on upper levels. They can provide information and
reconnaissance, as well as engage targets at long range. Their hides should
be at an oblique to the kill zone, this means don’t have them dead on to
the area.
- Watch out for stairwells. They are excellent places to put booby-traps and
to conduct ambushes.