Hey all…does anyone here have a suggestion as to what the best size squad is? I have squads that are 4-6 7 and 8 members but anything other than my main guy I am controlling get killed right away and I lose the use of the 2 guys I really want to use…Is there any way to control these AI bots so they don’t just run out in the line of fire…It totally screws up my game play
I put 4 in sniper squad. Small numbers of Ai mates tend to be less dumb. I also just use 8 dudes for rifle squad because 9 is too hard to manage. Otherwise always max.
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Those mkb/stg44 sniper squads indeed need no more 
three “assault” snipers, 1 bob the builder and you’re good to go.
If the squad is too big, it’s more easily spotted by smart enemies.
Also, and I’m not certain about this, does a 9 men squad will cost more ticket than a 5 men squad? (If both are riflemen squads) I can’t seem to find data about this…
2, 3 or 4, I dont like giving away kills, and the AI is stupid and anything larger just gets killed for the most part.
I do have one 9 man squad, the Italian one from Tunisia, the custom one, there great, but unless your really careful with them, there mostly cannon fodder.
I have yet to figure out how to make a squad smaller though, seems like once you go big your stuck with it.
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Somebody said the other day they, Thought , that every squad was 7 tickets, no matter the size.
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There are orders you can issue to them some U tube videos show this, I generally order them to “x” stay and hold this spot, and then run ahead of them, that way there in some sort of cover so If I die and start anew, there also better at “Holding” areas like a trench apparently than open ground, and they seemingly hater to stay in a building .
No, but remember everyone suffers this issue, some days its the only thing that stops me quitting the game forever is that everyone’s AI squad is retarded as each other no matter what side you are on.
It takes Practice to Manage a big Squad, you really need to know the AI’s limits and to manage them, and you need to be fast with the switching of Soldiers, Placing them out of harms way.
Almost all squad have a number of soldier between 5 to 7, only trooper squad as 9 soldier, anyway the choice of how many soldier add is on you, personally i go always with full squad because one more rifle is always useful
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Nope Same ammount, you can try it in costum match doing a 1v1 aganaist cpu
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5 to 7.
9 is a waste and only gives enemy kills.
5 it’s enough to have a powerhouse and an engineer.
7 is the sweet spot imo in this game.
Tanks and planes full always.
Less than 5 makes no sence since they will take same Tickets to deploy.
If LF, have the most variants of everything in Atleast 5 squads.
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Outside of doing some extreme cheese (like grenade barrage), minimal number possible for the squad in question works best. In practice you only need an engineer and an automatic gun anyway. Adding any more soldiers (or rather training and equipping them) only increases the resource drain without offering any real benefits (in most situations). If you’re absolutely drowning in resources, then you could start experimenting with expanding beyond the minimum.
THanks to all that have responded…