Soviet cons vet 1: trip wire ability

[Palo]

Is anyone using the trip wire ability? is it useful?

[DROPbear]

Hardly have the time to use them, since it hardly help any support weapons other than just giving you basic intel where the enemy movement and act accordingly.

Its basicly a mini S-mine with flares once triggered for 10 mun. Most players will just use mine instead which a potential of squad wipe.

[Necrocatist]

It's useful for the following reason:
1. Your units can shoot farther than their line of sight, so it's good for snipers and mg's.
2. They're supposed to scatter infantry (as if they were hit by a mortar for example). It gives you time to relocate your mg.

[Kuci]

It costs 1/3rd of a "good mine". It doesn't do any damage afaik and getting vision usually isn't too hard anyway. I find it quite useless but I see the purpose of it, protecting flanks etc.

[ck00021]

It's particularly usefull if you have incen barrage.... or a nearby mortar or howitzer if you place it on an approach path to a capture point. Esp if the point is valuable (eg. a cut off)...or fuel or something u wish to deny the enemy. If you are lucky (and more often than not) i do think it results in one gren model loss.

[DROPbear]

Originally posted by Kuci:

It costs 1/3rd of a "good mine". It doesn't do any damage afaik and getting vision usually isn't too hard anyway. I find it quite useless but I see the purpose of it, protecting flanks etc.

it does kill, if the model is within its tiny blast radius. Usually i will result to a model lost. Some lucky cases will result to squad wipe (badly wounded squad)

From my experience it hardly benefits Maxim, as maxim does not have suppression power at range.

[ShodaN]

Well it´s cheap and can be placed rather fast so sometimes I use a ton of them at a single point. But only on remote ones, since any kind of tiny explosion can set them off.