Bandit Tactics

[DirtHeroz 0]

So I am an old school bandit shooting at people heaps but now I am try play dayz with more skill than running in and killing everyone. So if you have a good tactic for being a bandit plz let me know by posting

[pr3llox 63]

well i like to hunt people down... thats what defines a real bandit in my a opinion (not KOS people or camping snipers on the elektro hill that gets killed after 2 sec because a new spawn with hatchet takes him out!)

1. when you engage a group, take the first one out.. retreat further back from your posistion 20-40m

2. take the next guy down that comes along, then flank left or right, doesnt matter wich direction.

3. take em by surprise from behind or the sides and repeat the whole cycle.

just some tactics...

When i play I would rather hunt people then to find gear my self but stay away from the coast since you almost just find newly spawns..

U should try to try it too and no im not talking about running into NWA and stuff to murder people, try to spot them for example in forrests, scan tree lines where ever you go.

I hope i gave you some useful information at least.

Edited February 24, 2013 by KC Pr3lLoX

[TheBambiAvenger 146]

well i like to hunt people down... thats what defines a real bandit in my a opinion (not KOS people or camping snipers on the elektro hill that gets killed after 2 sec because a new spawn with hatchet takes him out!)

1. when you engage a group, take the first one out.. retreat further back from your posistion 20-40m

2. take the next guy down that comes along, then flank left or right, doesnt matter wich direction.

3. take em by surprise from behind or the sides and repeat the whole cycle.

just some tactics...

When i play I would rather hunt people then to find gear my self but stay away from the coast since you almost just find newly spawns..

U should try to try it too and no im not talking about running into NWA and stuff to murder people, try to spot them for example in forrests, scan tree lines where ever you go.

I hope i gave you some useful information at least.

Thanks for the info. You actually seem to have thought this out really well, they are good tactics.

[pr3llox 63]

Thanks for the info. You actually seem to have thought this out really well, they are good tactics.

cant freaking wait until the dogs gets into the SA

btw all those tatics comes from a lot of deaths and experiences, but its worth.. i really enjoy being a bandit also i hate using sniper rifles.. I just like the rush of getting up close before i take down my targets and my reward is awesome gear, also i got plenty of other tactics to share if you need anymore...

[Horny goldfish (DayZ) 10]

Simple when you find someone rob them and after take their morphing and break their legs

[Target Practice (DayZ) 1335]

Simple when you find someone rob them and after take their morphing and break their legs

Wow. Just wow. Nice 'tactics'. And here I was thinking your username probably meant you wouldn't have much to add in a sensible discussion.

Coming back to actual tactics, I don't play bandit all that often, but I find that there's a lot to be said for waiting in the forests at the sides of roads. Many players are smart enough to know that running down the middle of the road is bad for your long-term health, but aren't confident enough (or simply don't have the gear) to navigate using just the map and compass, so will run full-sprint through the forests next to roads, particularly near player hotspots like cities and military areas. You can catch a lot of players by surprise like this.

[Statik (DayZ) 2695]

My MAIN tips, when fighting anyone whether it be 1v1, you 1v10, is simple. MOVE.

After firing your first few shots, move your position RIGHT AWAY. If the enemy are in control of a certain position (e.g. Devils Castle) move atleast 200m. This way they'll be scanning where your shot came from and you can pop them from a completely different position.

If they're on the move, you only have to move by about 50m after each shot/burst. This was they won't know where you'll be popping out of, and they'll just get scattered.

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If you sniping some place (i.e. the devils castle senario again) you don't need to be on the tree line! Setting yourself farther back in the trees makes you MUCH harder to hit, as most player just scan the tree line for snipers. If your farther back in the treeline, and only have say, a 10 degree F.o.V, you can always just watch that spot, or rotate around that line of sight, scoping in on different positions.

When sniping never skyline. Skylining is laying ontop of a hill. When scanning the enemy will see you on the horizon, as your figure will stand out along the top of the ridge, hill, ect. Instead, move slightly more down the hill, or beside something such as a rock, where your figure will "blend in" more.

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If you have a light machine gun (i.e. the SAW), GO PRONE. So many times I have been attacked by a standing/crouching player with a machine gun, and they can't hit worth shit, due to the massive kick. Go prone, scope in, and DO NOT take your finger off the trigger. You want a long spray of lead death, not short bursts.

My most important tip, is be patient. Wait until you have that shot, don't see a player and immediatly spray. Set things up!

Best of luck

P.S. I typed this from my phone, so I appologise for any spelling/grammar, or short forms!

Edited February 24, 2013 by Z_StaTik_z

[trunkz jr 61]

If you have a friend, have him take a few pop shots to get their attention to look in that direction, then you yourself sneak him and ambush :)

[codave 121]

Choke points are either your friend or your enemy. What I mean by choke points are those spots that a player is forced into going. If one does not exist naturally, create one. This is very easy on servers with an over abundance of vehicles.

Sandbags and wire fencing scream ambush, it's better to use vehicles. Busses and URALs are good for this. You can partially block the road in a spot that isn't easily passable on either side, has guard railings, a small bridge, or buildings. Shoot out a tire, burn it out, something. A well traveled road between towns is good. The times I do this I like to conceal myself behind the roadblock, so they pass me and I can attack from a rear flank. You have time since you'll hear the vehicle coming. If you've set it up properly, around a curve or over the crest of a hill, they won't see it from a half Km away either. If they can't go around it, they'll have to get out and move it.

Satchel charges can be triggered a few hundred meters out, M203 HE can be fun as well. If you've got good aim, shoot out a tire when the car stops if you want. If you like AS50's, hit the engine. However you want to do it.

The point is to create a situation that allows you to pick the place where you initiate contact. Just spend a lot of time scouting out the map, you should see things that give you ideas. The only downside is that it requires some patience, and even after a few hours nothing may happen.

[Aimstrong 50]

Thanks for the info. You actually seem to have thought this out really well, they are good tactics.

You as a hero need to know this because you have to protect the bambis :D

I'm now a bandit (not murder!) I kill the bandits and survivor and then I give away this guns to the bambis. Does this mean I'm a Bero?

[misterwit 118]

You as a hero need to know this because you have to protect the bambis :D

I'm now a bandit (not murder!) I kill the bandits and survivor and then I give away this guns to the bambis. Does this mean I'm a Bero?

No, it means you're a pinata with legs.

Oh yeah, advice. All I can say is that fights aren't worth fighting unless you get the first shot and you see them before they see you. This means that before any shooting happens, you should know what cards are on the table. If you're outnumbered, make sure you don't get greedy and don't be afraid to move.

Edited February 25, 2013 by misterwit

[Horny goldfish (DayZ) 10]

Wow. Just wow. Nice 'tactics'. And here I was thinking your username probably meant you wouldn't have much to add in a sensible discussion.

Coming back to actual tactics, I don't play bandit all that often, but I find that there's a lot to be said for waiting in the forests at the sides of roads. Many players are smart enough to know that running down the middle of the road is bad for your long-term health, but aren't confident enough (or simply don't have the gear) to navigate using just the map and compass, so will run full-sprint through the forests next to roads, particularly near player hotspots like cities and military areas. You can catch a lot of players by surprise like this.

[Horny goldfish (DayZ) 10]

Wow. Just wow. Nice 'tactics'. And here I was thinking your username probably meant you wouldn't have much to add in a sensible discussion.

Coming back to actual tactics, I don't play bandit all that often, but I find that there's a lot to be said for waiting in the forests at the sides of roads. Many players are smart enough to know that running down the middle of the road is bad for your long-term health, but aren't confident enough (or simply don't have the gear) to navigate using just the map and compass, so will run full-sprint through the forests next to roads, particularly near player hotspots like cities and military areas. You can catch a lot of players by surprise like this.

Don't judge a book by its cover

[Target Practice (DayZ) 1335]

Ordinarily, I'd agree with you, but in that particular instance, the rest of the book wasn't really all that hot either. Anyway, let's not derail an otherwise useful thread.

[lindey 69]

Bandits tactics, ha... Three words:

1) Tent in the centre of Elektro

2) Long-range rifle

3) Mountain Dobriy

Gentlemen, curiosity works at it's finest.

[osiriszoran 33]

how do you even run into people? I seem to only find people around the most frequented cities and loot spots. rarely ever i see anyone off the beaten pathes.

[PracticalTactical 164]

Get a group of players together and be real friendly. Get them to stand about looting something then shoot all your bullets into their bodies! *absorb the rage*

[unkillable94 149]

"Old school bandits" were definitely not shoot everything that moves kind of players. Old school bandits held people up, kidnapped them, etc.

My best memory as a bandit back in the day was holding a couple guys up making them drop their weapons and taking everything we wanted out of their bags, then loading them into a heli that came to us when I had them detained. The one guy was a well known bambi killer on the server, had a CCO SD and would go around elektro yelling friendly with promises of blood bags and weapons, then shoot anyone who fell for it (he targeted unarmed bambis in particular), and his friend was his accomplice. Needless to say this guy disgusted us as actual bandits, not deathmatchers or coast huggers. We took him out into the wilderness and said for being such a good sport we were giving them an ATV loaded with gear. They seemed happy enough. When we got there we had them go out and kneel in a field while we "grabbed their ATV from the woods." I still remember the speech we gave them months later.

"Well gentlemen, in an unfortunate turn of events there is actually no ATV, nor any gear. We realize you enjoy killing unarmed players on the coast, being nice and then stabbing them in the back. This prevents them from gearing up and coming up north where we can rob them or engage in real PvP. Needless to say, we don't appreciate you doing that. So we are going to even the odds a bit and let you know what it's like to not be able to play the game like you did to them."

At this point I walk up behind the friend with my 1911 and put a round in the back of his head execution style.

"But we won't be as generous with you, my friend. No, you'll just spawn on the coast and start the cycle over. We don't want that. So we will leave you with a parting gift, and that gift is a bullet from this gun that just killed your friend, from the same mag even. But it's not going in your head. No, that would be too merciful."

Now we had him stand up and I put a round into his knee. We wished him the best, loaded up in our heli, and left him with broken legs and no morphine 6 kilometers north of elektro. We never saw him or his friend on the server again.

I have killed very, very few players (or even fired on them for that matter) aggresively in my time here, I've killed plenty of bandits or survivors in defense of myself, my team, or our property, but extremely rarely do I kill not in defense. These were two of those such kills, and I'm damned proud of them compared to my others.

If Far Cry 3 were out at the time I would have thrown in an insanity reference, but alas it was too early. It did the job, though.

Edited February 27, 2013 by Col Brown

[misterwit 118]

"Old school bandits" were definitely not shoot everything that moves kind of players. Old school bandits held people up, kidnapped them, etc.

My best memory as a bandit back in the day was holding a couple guys up making them drop their weapons and taking everything we wanted out of their bags, then loading them into a heli that came to us when I had them detained. The one guy was a well known bambi killer on the server, had a CCO SD and would go around elektro yelling friendly with promises of blood bags and weapons, then shoot anyone who fell for it (he targeted unarmed bambis in particular), and his friend was his accomplice. Needless to say this guy disgusted us as actual bandits, not deathmatchers or coast huggers. We took him out into the wilderness and said for being such a good sport we were giving them an ATV loaded with gear. They seemed happy enough. When we got there we had them go out and kneel in a field while we "grabbed their ATV from the woods." I still remember the speech we gave them months later.

"Well gentlemen, in an unfortunate turn of events there is actually no ATV, nor any gear. We realize you enjoy killing unarmed players on the coast, being nice and then stabbing them in the back. This prevents them from gearing up and coming up north where we can rob them or engage in real PvP. Needless to say, we don't appreciate you doing that. So we are going to even the odds a bit and let you know what it's like to not be able to play the game like you did to them."

At this point I walk up behind the friend with my 1911 and put a round in the back of his head execution style.

"But we won't be as generous with you, my friend. No, you'll just spawn on the coast and start the cycle over. We don't want that. So we will leave you with a parting gift, and that gift is a bullet from this gun that just killed your friend, from the same mag even. But it's not going in your head. No, that would be too merciful."

Now we had him stand up and I put a round into his knee. We wished him the best, loaded up in our heli, and left him with broken legs and no morphine 6 kilometers north of elektro. We never saw him or his friend on the server again.

I have killed very, very few players (or even fired on them for that matter) aggresively in my time here, I've killed plenty of bandits or survivors in defense of myself, my team, or our property, but extremely rarely do I kill not in defense. These were two of those such kills, and I'm damned proud of them compared to my others.

If Far Cry 3 were out at the time I would have thrown in an insanity reference, but alas it was too early. It did the job, though.

What a drama queen.

Surprise, this is a game, not your Walking Dead fanfiction. The "holier than thou" attitude people carry around is warrant enough to grab the nearest dinner bell and roam cherno cackling like father gregori and shooting everyone.

[unkillable94 149]

What a drama queen.

Surprise, this is a game, not your Walking Dead fanfiction. The "holier than thou" attitude people carry around is warrant enough to grab the nearest dinner bell and roam cherno cackling like father gregori and shooting everyone.

So because I'm proud of a kill I made that justifies shooting someone who may have been playing the game for 5 minutes and is just trying to figure out what to do, who doesn't even have a weapon or know where to find one?

Edited February 27, 2013 by Col Brown

[CF Mallard 18]

Me and my friend run this con where he does all the killing so I myself never gain the bandit skin and I head to an area we know survivors are gathering and I head in with some sob story about how my friend bambi broke his legs on a building and needs morphine or our car full of loot broke when we hit a random object and we need help then I lead them to an area he has vantage over and their exposed and he shots the most armed to the least armed and then I loot and we run off together into the bandit sunset back to camp.

[Target Practice (DayZ) 1335]

Nice. That's quite a cool idea.

[goldenrebel 2]

Pretty cool ideas, I play on a Taviana server and I since I already got end gear I thought I'd try doing something banditry for the adrenaline. Anyone got good lone wolf suggestions for being a bandit? I was thinking maybe highwayman or just be a contract killer which would be interesting.

[DK McWormfood 10]

I'm not a bandit by any real measure but I will kill anything i consider to be a threat, or if i really need/want something they have.

Taking on a group is really hard to do, even when you have help. The most important thing is situational awareness. If you are in a position to get the first shot away, you have the initiative, but it isn't the whole fight. you need to take into account the terrain, your weapons, their weapons (including stuff in backpacks) and where they have been and are going.

e.g. if you see a survivor with an AK running from balota to cherno, he (probably) wont have much besides what you can see and you could take him out with an enfield as long as you are in cover (hint, aim low, the leg-break really puts the shits up people)

If you are between stary and the NW airfield, and you see 2-3 bandits carrying ak/m4's you can almost be sure one of them has a sniper rifle and they will be on skype/teamspeak to eachother. Your best bet in this situation (unless you have a mk48 and they are running straight towards you) is to keep your distance and stalk them for a bit. Teamspeak is great, but they are probably yapping over it and making plans. If they don't spot you straight away you can be reasonably sure they are a bit distracted. You will almost certainly need an automatic weapon to take them on (M14 is my personal fav). My advice would be to wait until they are doing something (fixing a vehicle. looting a corpse) or even better, shooting at someone else, then take them out from max range. An exception to this would be if they are in a really tight group and you can drop them all without needing to reload, either with them walking past you in such a way that they line up nicely, or if they stop in a tight group.

An experienced group will do neither of these things, but you will be surprised as how many mistakes even good players make. People tend to play this game for several hours at a time, and will inevitably lose concentration, get bored, or answer the phone without logging off safely.

It is also important to CONFIRM YOUR KILLS. They are not going to congratulate you on your economical use of bullets, they will however shoot you in the face if they survive. Put 2 rounds into each stationary corpse ASAP.

As someone else mentioned, patience is very important, but i would add that taking the initiative and situational awareness will win more firefights than any weapon combo.

Edited March 5, 2013 by DK McWormfood

[DK McWormfood 10]

Another thing to remember is that it is possible (but not easy) to break off an engagement. If you realise that you have bitten off more than you can chew and want to live to loot another day, wait for someone to reload or change position and start making your way out. Angles are more important than distance, esp in towns, but you will need to be able to avoid the people who will now really really want your skull as a coffee mug.

Plan an escape route before you engage. Not only might you fail to take out your target, but there might be other people around who will not hesitate to kill you when your fire gives away your position. you will need to take into account things like dead ground (slight variations in the land that will conceal you from certain angles), dense trees, ridges (don't skyline yourself) and hills.

Forests are a double edged swords as they offer some cover, but unless you can break contact you will be pinned down behind a tree and flanked.

Anything that breaks line of sight will create doubt and delay your attackers, and may give you an opportunity to double back and ambush particularly stupid people, but when trying to escape, be unpredictable, quite and do not give them a second chance to spot you.