Walking the Thin Line

I'm a Noob and die more often than not so take my comments with a grain of salt. ( used in the traditional sense.  Not in as an irate forum member.   )

In an effort to not die as early or as often I've started giving it 30-45 seconds or so at the start of the game to see how the Greens deploy.  I also use this time to study the make up of the Red team figuring that eventually this will help me...  lol

When in a Medium I'll usually pick the flank that the least Greens are going to just to do my part to even things out across the map but I always look for a Heavy to tag along with.  I try to play peek-a-boom in conjunction with the Heavy always trying to stay on his far side so I don't inadvertently impede his shot or block his movement.  (I'm sure some Heavy drivers think I'm using them as a meat shield and to some extent I am but so far no one has bitched about it.)  I try to time my popping out to shoot for the red reload hoping that the Reds focus will stay on the Heavy.  If there are other Red Mediums in the exchange I'll concentrate on them where I stand a better chance of actually doing damage.  On the maps where it's possible I'll look for ways to flank the Reds but honestly this seems to get me killed most of the time.

In my Lights I usually end up dead trying to scout.  The maps and Red view ranges are such that I find scouting pretty pointless a lot of the time.  I'm hoping this will improve as my skills & perks grow.  On the maps where I can't really scout I concentrate on staying in the game until I can start scrounging kills off of already damaged tanks or try to make it to the Reds rear to hunt Arty or camped TDs.  I'm still having pretty mixed results with this strategy.

I don't have any Heavies.  I really don't like TDs so I don't play mine often and Arty is Arty so no real suggestions needed there.

As always YMMV.