Interesting tactics

[Hippy 3]

In this thread we discuss the more unconventional means of how to get those juicy murders and loot. Whether it be a grand scheme that you and your friends spend hours meticulously planning or a habit that you find works well whilst living the life of a bandit.

I'll start with an odd one that whilst it failed horribly did make me and my partners chuckle for a while.

We were looting Stary after losing everything a few hours earlier due to an ambush at a heli sight, we needed good weapons etc. to get us back in the game. We stationed 2 men to loot whilst another 2 snipers armed with DMR's provided overwatch from the barn and the hills to the north whilst i roamed the whole area.

I was south of stary in the fields when i heard it, the low humming of a vehicle drawing closer. My friend in the barn exclaimed "It's a tractor to the fields in the East!"

Naturally everyone panicked and started blindly looking to the east for a look (and shot) at this tractor.

Once i got eyes on I could see it was heading straight for the red barn where our sniper was (That driver had balls of steel) "OPEN FIRE" I shouted at him, Our sniper stood up and took a 3-4 shots before he was shot in the shoulder by a DMR along with another man down by the tents who was killed instantly.

The tractor swerved south, knowing his job was done, however he didn't anticipate a man in a ghillie suit with an m16 waiting for him in the bushes.

I opened up on the bastard and he fell out of the thing riddled in bullet holes. Murders: 1

Now back to the sniper, He assumed our man in the barn was our only man providing overwatch, he flanked west and then south around the entire town until our sniper in the hills to the north spotted him in the bushes and presently ended his life.

So in the end they failed. But the tactic worked, For a couple of vital seconds everyone in my squad were fixated on taking out that tractor, exposing our hidden snipers in the process.

If it hadn't been for me in the bushes to the south he would've gotten away and if the sniper had been a little more stealthy whilst heading around the town he could've got more of us.

[DevilDog (DayZ) 455]

People are curious beings. Set up a fire and people will wonder up to it. It is great if you get a kill and set up a fire nearby. People will wonder over attracted by the fire, then see the body and think they got some easy pickings. As they get in close bam, take em down. Try to bury a body though so you don't get a pile up. Too many bodies scares people off.