Your primary objectives should be:
1. Buddy up inexperienced squad members with veterans holding squad positions before missions. The squad will come across all sorts of survivors. Some will be compliant and quiet, some will be loud and obnoxious. Treat every unknown survivor as a potential hostile that may be working with a bandit squad to move on your position. Offer aid and gather any information as quickly as possible then move the squad. Do not provide escort for survivors or allow unknown survivors to follow your squad if it is outside of the squad’s mission. Try and use non-lethal means of force to prevent persistent followers before using lethal means if the squad’s safety is at risk. Remind squad members to keep comms quiet during high stress scenarios.
2. Do not hesitate to issue orders. You will not always win. Your decision will not always be the perfect decision. Be confident that your decision is the best decision you can make, as quickly as possible, in the given circumstance. Do not show uncertainty in your orders or you may have distracted squad members suggesting alternatives in a critical moment that requires quick decisions. Your squad members will know their jobs and try to perform them to the best of their abilities, make sure you allow qualified squad members to flexibly perform their duties when giving orders. If a Medic vetoes your order for a squad casualty, your primary objective will be to rescue the injured squad member. Use signaling devices to expose and communicate enemy positions quickly when calling an order to open fire.
3. Plan the squad’s route and mission before entering high risk areas. Re-assign squad weapons and gear if necessary to make sure that Assists and Recons have appropriate armor and weapons. If possible, avoid sending squad members alone without a buddy to complete tasks. Your squad will move when you say move, so make sure that you are not moving them into a disadvantageous position. Try to maintain cover with choke points during movement and watch out for ambushes. Treat hostile forces as having their own Recon hiding in an unknown position. Once a threat has been eliminated, wait a moment before taking action. Calm your squad if necessary by giving them a time frame for movement. Example: “Good takedown! Let’s wait here for a minute before moving on.” Move your squad away from the location where shots were fired after a hostile target is eliminated. Know when the mission has been completed and call the end so that the real life players of the game can break away from play time if necessary.