Bad company 2 seems to be pretty well balanced out for the most part, but  I can't figure out the counter for a mortar strike. Every single time the MCom station is armed .. the recon start to mortar the building making it impossible to get close to it. And when you die, there's no way to tell where the mortar strike is coming from. So basically .. a dude can just camp out someplace and keep mortaring the place until it is destroyed. I recently saw a topic based on this (about mortaring for demolishing buildings) but didn't see anyone have a counter for it. Any ideas how to get around this ?

Kill the reconers.

" Kill the reconers. "

" @BigBoss1911 said:

" Kill the reconers. "

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Move.

Aggressively smoke both the target and recon guys. This means you have to sacrifice points because you don't get jack shit for smoking, but it's the best way to handle it. Me and my squad of guys usually have 1 assigned smoker (me, usually) whose only job is to camp out with an ammo crate and make snipers miserable. It works pretty well, but it's not a perfect solution.

" @natetodamax said:

" @BigBoss1911 said:

" Kill the reconers. "

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" Aggressively smoke both the target and recon guys. This means you have to sacrifice points because you don't get jack shit for smoking, but it's the best way to handle it. Me and my squad of guys usually have 1 assigned smoker (me, usually) whose only job is to camp out with an ammo crate and make snipers miserable. It works pretty well, but it's not a perfect solution. "

" Move. "

" @natetodamax said:

" @BigBoss1911 said:

" Kill the reconers. "

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" @Nasar7 said:

" @natetodamax said:

" @BigBoss1911 said:

" Kill the reconers. "

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This is somewhat impossible if you're trying to get to a crate. "Oh wait guys, lets take a second and try to find the Reconers that are hiding a half mile away bombing us to hell!" doesn't exactly cut it. "

" @Nasar7 said:

" @natetodamax said:

" @BigBoss1911 said:

" Kill the reconers. "

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This is somewhat impossible if you're trying to get to a crate. "Oh wait guys, lets take a second and try to find the Reconers that are hiding a half mile away bombing us to hell!" doesn't exactly cut it. "

If you cant kill them, smoke grenade the bastards.

" @wh1terav3n said:

" @Nasar7 said:

" @natetodamax said:

" @BigBoss1911 said:

" Kill the reconers. "

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This is somewhat impossible if you're trying to get to a crate. "Oh wait guys, lets take a second and try to find the Reconers that are hiding a half mile away bombing us to hell!" doesn't exactly cut it. "

It's pretty much the only solution though. "

" @natetodamax said:

" @wh1terav3n said:

" @Nasar7 said:

" @natetodamax said:

" @BigBoss1911 said:

" Kill the reconers. "

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This is somewhat impossible if you're trying to get to a crate. "Oh wait guys, lets take a second and try to find the Reconers that are hiding a half mile away bombing us to hell!" doesn't exactly cut it. "

It's pretty much the only solution though. "

Yeah .. you pretty much need a well coordinated team .. one who hunts down the recons, and the other part who protect the base. Kinda sucks that we don't have cross squad chat. Most people would tend to stay near the base to protect the MCOM's .. and it's still pretty hard to spot the recons who are wayyyy far off from the target being mortared. "

" @wh1terav3n said:

" @Nasar7 said:

" @natetodamax said:

" @BigBoss1911 said:

" Kill the reconers. "

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This is somewhat impossible if you're trying to get to a crate. "Oh wait guys, lets take a second and try to find the Reconers that are hiding a half mile away bombing us to hell!" doesn't exactly cut it. "

There are...12 people...on a team?  Right, so one or two going to kill recons while the rest of the team focuses on wrecking the crate shouldn't be too hard. "

There are...12 people...on a team?  Right, so one or two going to kill recons while the rest of the team focuses on wrecking the crate shouldn't be too hard. "

" @Venom2112 said:

" @natetodamax said:

" @wh1terav3n said:

" @Nasar7 said:

" @natetodamax said:

" @BigBoss1911 said:

" Kill the reconers. "

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This is somewhat impossible if you're trying to get to a crate. "Oh wait guys, lets take a second and try to find the Reconers that are hiding a half mile away bombing us to hell!" doesn't exactly cut it. "

It's pretty much the only solution though. "

Yeah .. you pretty much need a well coordinated team .. one who hunts down the recons, and the other part who protect the base. Kinda sucks that we don't have cross squad chat. Most people would tend to stay near the base to protect the MCOM's .. and it's still pretty hard to spot the recons who are wayyyy far off from the target being mortared. "

I usually just sweep my crosshairs across the horizon while mashing the back button so the game spots them. "

stabbing the recons in the back with a knife.

" @Nasar7 said:

" @natetodamax said:

" @BigBoss1911 said:

" Kill the reconers. "

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This is somewhat impossible if you're trying to get to a crate. "Oh wait guys, lets take a second and try to find the Reconers that are hiding a half mile away bombing us to hell!" doesn't exactly cut it. "

" @jakob187 said:

There are...12 people...on a team?  Right, so one or two going to kill recons while the rest of the team focuses on wrecking the crate shouldn't be too hard. "

Yeah .. but even then, the recon just respawns within a few more seconds and continues mortaring the target. Though I agree, it's a part of the game and I guess you'd need to send some assaults to smoke those recon asses. It just gets frustrating dying over and over again .. when you are playing with random people who just camp and don't spot.  I like the smoke idea though .. it seems like a valid counter for the mortar strike. Maybe I should start using that more instead of the 40mm GL. "

If you're getting repeatedly caught and killed in mortar strikes it's a definite sign that either you're not quick enough to run when you hear the shells falling (the sound gives you warning) and you're not being a dynamic enough member of the team.
 
Remember what McTavish said to Soap on their first mission together : "Check your corners!"

The solution is simple really. I don't care about crates in destructible buildings too much. They are meant to be lost in the grand scheme of things. As for mortarstrikes. I don't like getting killed by them either, but they aren't really effective as long as you stay on the move.

Run. Run away. And never return.

I usually just sweep my crosshairs across the horizon while mashing the back button so the game spots them. "

Stab the damn recons in the back until they change kit :)

" @Venom2112 said:

" @natetodamax said:

" @wh1terav3n said:

" @Nasar7 said:

" @natetodamax said:

" @BigBoss1911 said:

" Kill the reconers. "

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This is somewhat impossible if you're trying to get to a crate. "Oh wait guys, lets take a second and try to find the Reconers that are hiding a half mile away bombing us to hell!" doesn't exactly cut it. "

It's pretty much the only solution though. "

Yeah .. you pretty much need a well coordinated team .. one who hunts down the recons, and the other part who protect the base. Kinda sucks that we don't have cross squad chat. Most people would tend to stay near the base to protect the MCOM's .. and it's still pretty hard to spot the recons who are wayyyy far off from the target being mortared. "

I usually just sweep my crosshairs across the horizon while mashing the back button so the game spots them. "

It's like the matrix. You just have to realize there is no mortar strike. Jk well the good news is mortar strikes don't really last too long so unless the snipers on the other team are strategically calling in their mortar strikes in one after the other you should be able to wait until the barrage is over and then run in.

This is why I play conquest.

Sit in a corner of a building crying and rocking back and forth. 

" @emkeighcameron:I just discovered how much smoke grenades help the other day. They're fantastic, but it doesn't matter how good the people I'm playing with are or how much they help, I'll be the only one using them. No one realizes it either, how smoke can completely change the outcome of a match. "

" either kill the recon or play conquest wich is 100 times better ! "  

You can't counter mortar strikes, they hail down on you at blindingly fast speeds. The only thing you can do is reduce their frequency. And the only way to do that is do what everyone has already mentioned, kill every recon dude you see.