Gears of War Team Layout
by LockDown on May.18, 2009, under Gears of War Guides

Dibs on the Torque!
So you and your team is getting steam rolled? But why? You did everything correctly and played as hard as you could. Something I’ve noticed between me and my fellow running mates is this, we have are own strengths and weaknesses and we have noticed it. I’d like to explain further what I mean. Now I’m not saying do this every game because believe me it can suck out the fun of it, but when you really want to win, use your strengths even if you want to use something your not good with. Example:
Gizmoh-
Expert-Torque Bow/Speed
Strengths-Torque Bow/Sniper/Hammer Burst/Scorcher
Weaknesses- Boomshot/Throwing Frags/Hardcore Offense
iTz Cond3mned-
Expert- Shotgun
Strengths- Shotgun/Boomshot/Sniper/Boltok/Hammerburst
Weaknesses- Torque Bow/Inks/Gorgon/Lancer/Scorcher/Too Aggressive
iTz Fubu-
Expert-Hammerburst/Medic
Strengths- Hammerburst/Sniper
Weaknesses-Torque Bow/Inks/Too Defensive
Corsian-
Expert- Decoy
Strengths- Torque/Shotgun
Weaknesses- Survival/Speed/Maps
(Corisan is a new player therefore his full abilities have not yet been discovered)
There are our four regulars, so you can see all four of us have different strengths and weaknesses, and luckily we all four are experts with different weapons. Therefore when we are really getting beaten, we play on those strengths Cond3mned and Fubu stay near each other and dominate against most teams using the shotgun and hammer to make a devastating offense and defense. Corisan(new player) draws fire like its nobodies business and he tends to risk his life to pick people up. I generally pick up the torque bow, or follow cond3mned and Fubu using my Hammerburst.
In every squad your members excel with certain abilities. Its always good to utilize them especially if you plan on using gamebattles. Now again ill repeat, don’t do this every game, you will get bored because we all love the power weapons and not all of us are pro with them. When I play with schnikes I forfeit the sniper to him because I’ve seen him have better headshot percentage than I. Basically the point of this article is to tell everyone that we all have strengths and weaknesses and dominating in clan matches and public matches relies on using those and slowing improving your weaknesses.
The best setup so far is to have two people good with the four common power weapons and two people good with the shotgun/Hammer. I’ve been experimenting with the idea of using a lancer as the leader of attacks.
Explained-
Team of 5(since clan matches restrict either all lancers or all hammers)
Four members use the Hammerburst and one uses the lancer. The lancer is a great support weapon since when you hit someone longer than 2 seconds they begin to slow down thanks to the high rate of bullets, while the bullets don’t do a lot of damage, the slow alone allows your teammates hammer’s to find their mark easily. Plus if any enemies get brave having a lancer lead the attack is quite a defensive maneuver. Since the lancer can rev a chainsaw many players will back off immediately no one wants to get vacuumed in. I need to test this theory more, but I cant stand losing the power of my Hammerburst. I’ll get back to everyone on the success of the Lancer Leader as soon as I can.
As with all my articles if you ever have any questions you can post on the forums or email me at superjunkail71@gmail.com
(I really do check this email address guys!) >.<









May 18th, 2009 on 6:37 pm
I have no weaknesses
jk.. i would say my biggest weakness would be the sniper i dont get much practice with that.. schnikies hogs it hehe jk.. its cool though he gets shit done with it so its all good
May 18th, 2009 on 6:39 pm
snhcikes could share the wealth especially when you guys are dominating, that would allow you to tone up your downsides, and he could try something new too.
May 18th, 2009 on 6:41 pm
no he does im just messing with him really.. if any one asks for it he will glady let them have it.. im just bustin his chops
May 18th, 2009 on 6:43 pm
I hate those people that are like ” oh let me have the sniper..let me have the sniper..let me have the sniper and wont shut up unless they get it.. now that gets annoying
May 18th, 2009 on 6:48 pm
i hate people who block your shots after they dont get the weapon.
May 18th, 2009 on 6:50 pm
YES!! i know the kind of people you are talking about.. your racing to a weapon and if you get there first.. they get all pissed.. none of us are like that but ive played with plenty of those people
May 18th, 2009 on 7:01 pm
i dont hog the sniper, mr. boomshot
.. i too hate the people the get pissed when you get the weapon before them.. theyll start bitchn or start shotting at you and blocking your shots.. kinda retarded
May 18th, 2009 on 7:10 pm
This sounds good. I play a bit, but I’m not avid about it so I don’t even know all my own skills and weaknesses. I like to joke around and say I’m the comedic relief lol Kinda like Carmine I guess?
Great article, though I’m wondering if it should go under Clan news rather than standard news?
Let’s play again sometime, maybe tonight?
May 18th, 2009 on 7:20 pm
yeh my first guide went under uncategorized. Simply because where do you put improvement guides? i dno… but whodey moved it to clan news so followed suit. I dont know if i will be on tonight.. had an odd fascination for World at War lately.. but i might be.
May 18th, 2009 on 7:21 pm
recognizing your weaknesses and strengths is somewhat difficult simply because every action you take you generally think thats the right one at the time, I play a lot with cond3mned he helps me spot my weaknesses when i cant. A gears buddy helps anyone improve.