Phantom Doctrine – Beginner’s Tips & Tricks
Tips and Tricks for Beginners
1. Make sure you take weapons with you that your agents are trained in, as this can be very useful if you get into a firefight.
Also specializing in pistols and revolvers allows you to mod them with a silencer (a pretty common pickup from loot stashes in missions)
2. Try and train a few agents with the Paramedic ability. It is very useful when trying to escape with unconscious enemy agents.
3. If you are going into a room, try and make sure you only use one movement point. Make sure you have peeked through a doorway or ordered a spotter to check the room first to make sure it is empty. If need be, you can find a hiding space to wait out the next turn. This is especially important with rooms that have windows and patrolling guards outside.
4. Talking of guards. You can get away with knocking out ONE guard (make sure you hide the body). Any more than that, and the enemy WILL get suspicious. Radio protocol is a thing, people.
5. Make full use of the infiltration phase. Split your team up and do a perimeter sweep of the grounds so you can spot loot caches and, most importantly, CCTV controls. Preparation is everything.
Later on, make sure to spread your agents around the globe. It is VERY handy if you have had time to do a tactical recon and can place spotters.
6. If you do get into a firefight, try and put your team in high positions and flank the enemy. Use the different modes like suppression and headshots to tip things in your favor. Never leave home without some Frag grenades and Flashbangs!
7. When you are fairly sure that you are three or four moves away from finishing the mission, order your exfil. Nobody wants to be standing about for three turns once things go sideways, as it is pretty much guaranteed to turn into a `Fish in Barrel` situation. Sure there is a chance your EVAC will be compromised, but it beats getting shot to pieces.
8. Ladders are your friends. Who needs the silly ol’ stairs when you can scoot up onto a balcony and recon the higher floors.
9. Watch your route marker! You wouldn’t want to accidentally crash through a window in front of a guard, stumble into a restricted zone and back out to a safe zone now, would you?
10. Rotate your strike team’s composition. Keeping everyone leveled up is way better than having a handful of Super Agents who then end up hospitalized!