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What's better for a gang, rocketeer and mml and rocket launchers, or machine gunner, machine guns and heavy mg's? Or should I pick sniper to use with them? What's the breakdown? I know it use to be sniper was all you needed.

Also, would the mml and rocket launchers best be broken down in camp? mml are as good as mg to me, but rocket launchers have 10 shots only.

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Posted Aug 22, 2018, 3:38 am

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Unless your car setup always uses RLs, I wouldnt specialize in Rocketeer ever. I would get a few specs in sniper first, then decide what you want that ganger's role to be. Is he going to be a MGer? Or is he going to be a heavy gunner? Then spec accordingly.

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Posted Aug 22, 2018, 4:21 am

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Ive been training for weapon appropriate specs before sniper, to try it out.

Always gone for sniper and moving targets previously.

100+ gunner
40+ HG
80+ bals

Rocketeer 2

missed 5 out of 100 at 70m. Horrible

hg reached 50, sniper 1

now I can start to hit at 100 7/10 maybe

I agree with Longo

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Posted Aug 22, 2018, 11:28 am

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Thanks fellas.

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Posted Aug 23, 2018, 1:58 am

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Rocketeer is a good spec, but it requires that you a) have a vehicle set up to maximise it and b) take into account how rocket launchers work (i.e. the relative speeds between the target and firing vehicle). Combined with sniper and other specs (like rapid reload and rapid shot) it can be devastating.

Rockets are good if you are chasing or being chased (and rear mounted) so that the speed difference between the vehicles is minimised - head on is actually not the greatest use of rockets.

Rockets also work well as side mounts due to the lack of recoil from them, but again the relative speeds between vehicles. A number of my old BPUs had RLs on the sides and they worked a treat for circling a target with the BPUs superior manoeuvrability while the dedicated gunners ran the front guns (which would build accuracy faster) while the driver emptied the RL.

I found that most of the gangers I gave rocketeer were combat drivers running them as secondary weapons, though one of my TX Buzzers ran a rear mounted RL that I could drop shots at insane distances - having ammo to burn building accuracy helps though.

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Posted Aug 24, 2018, 9:27 am

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Im using these things all wrong. :thinking:

heh, this thing just flashed on the tv, pee wee herman arguing, "you're an idiot!","I know you are, what am I."

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Posted Aug 24, 2018, 12:25 pm	Last edited Aug 24, 2018, 12:27 pm by Bastille