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Battlefield 1942: A Player's FAQ

Version 0.35

Last Edited: Sunday 29th February 2004

Author: [UCF] Mr_Cynical (carzor@davidarussell.co.uk)

Author's Note: HUGE apologies to all those who contacted me regarding permission to host the FAQ on their sites- my comp crashed the other day and I lost all my emails (and loadsa other stuff- I had to download the FAQ from GameFAQs to get it back). Please e-mail me once more and I will try to respond quickly!

No prizes for guessing what the ASCII art is :P

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*Contents*
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1. Preliminary Stuff

--1.1 About the author
--1.2 Contacting Me/Email Policy
--1.3 Why bother writing this?
--1.4 Changes/Updates
--1.5 Legal Stuff
---1.5.1 Copyright Notice/Disclaimer
---1.5.2 Distribution
----1.5.2.1 How to get permission to distribute
----1.5.2.2 Authorised distributors
--1.5.3 Credits
--1.6 Frequently Asked Frequently Asked Questions

2. Infantry Guide
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--2.1 Different classes
---2.1.1 Common Weapons
----2.1.1.1 Knife
----2.1.1.2 Pistol
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---2.1.2 Assault
----2.1.2.1 Main Armament: Automatic Weapon
----2.1.2.2 Explosives: Grenades
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---2.1.3 Scout
----2.1.3.1 Main Armament: Scoped Rifle
----2.1.3.2 Explosives: Grenades
----2.1.3.3 Special: Binoculars
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---2.1.4 Engineer
----2.1.4.1 Main Armament: Rifle
-----2.1.4.1.1 Bolt-action rifle
-----2.1.4.1.2 Carbine
----2.1.4.2 Explosives: Detpacks
----2.1.4.3 Special 1: Wrench
----2.1.4.4 Special 2: Anti Tank Mines
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---2.1.5 Medic
----2.1.5.1 Main Armament: Sub Machine Gun
----2.1.5.2 Explosives: Grenades
----2.1.5.3 Special: Healing
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3. Ground Vehicle Guide
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--3.1 Jeeps
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--3.2 Tanks
---3.2.1 M4 'Sherman' Tank (Americans/British)
---3.2.2 M10 'Pershing' Tank (Americans)
---3.2.3 Panzer IV Tank (Germans)
---3.2.4 Panzer VI 'Tiger' Tank (Germans)
---3.2.5 Chi Ha Tank (Japanese)
---3.2.6 T34 Tank (Russians)
---3.2.7 T34-85 Tank (Russians)
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--3.3 Artillery
---3.1 Priest (Americans/British)
---3.2 Wespe (Germans/Japanese)
---3.3 BM13 Katyusha (Russians)
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--3.4 Half Tracks
---3.4.1 Allies' Half Track
---3.4.2 Axis Half Track
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4. Aircraft Guide
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--4.1 Spitfire (British)
--4.2 BF109 (Germans)
--4.3 Corsair (Americans)
--4.4 Zero (Japanese)
--4.5 Yak9 (Russians)
--4.6 P51 (Americans)
--4.7 Ju87 Stuka (Germans)
--4.8 SBD 'Dauntless' (Americans)
--4.9 SBD-T (Americans)
--4.10 AichiVal (Japanese)
--4.11 AichiVal-T (Japanese)
--4.12 Ju88 (Germans)
--4.13 B-17 'Flying Fortress' (Americans)
--4.14 Fighter Tactics
--4.15 Dive Bomber Tactics
--4.16 Heavy Bomber Tactics
--4.17 Low Flying Chancer



5. Naval Guide
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--5.1 Destroyer
--5.2 Battleship
--5.3 Aircraft Carrier
--5.4 Submarine
--5.5 Landing Craft
---5.5.1 Allied landing craft
---5.5.2 Japanese landing craft
--5.6 PT Boat
--5.7 Dinghy
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6. Map Guide
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--6.1 Battle of Midway
---6.1.1 Spawnpoints
---6.1.2 Vehicles
---6.1.3 Strategy
--6.2 Battle of Britain
---6.2.1 Spawnpoints
---6.1.2 Vehicles
---6.1.3 Strategy: Allies
---6.1.4 Strategy: Axis
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7. Anti-Cheat Guide
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--7.1 Spawncamping
--7.2 Vehicle Camping
--7.3 Teamkilling (TKing)
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Section 1- Preliminary Stuff
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1.1 About the Author

This is the first guide I have written for ANY game, so bear with me- if there's anything you don't understand or think could be improved then please contact me!
If you must know I'm a student from Glasgow, Scotland who spends far too much time playing games and not enough time studying



1.2 Contacting Me/Email Policy

If you have any issues with the FAQ- suggestions, criticisms (no flames plz
:P), requests to distribute etc. then feel free to either email me or add me to MSN Messenger (the address for BOTH is cynical@silentandlethal.tk)


1.3 Why bother writing this?

Battlefield 1942 (BF for short from now own) is one of the most complex games around- try finding anything with a more complex range of tasks that the user can perform-infantry combat, flight, car driving, tank/armoured truck driving, even ships and submarines can be piloted and used to your every whim. It can be done without a guide (hey I managed but I spend too much time playing the game as I already said) but with this guide hopefully you can skip at least some of the boring learning and actually start enjoying the game.


1.4 Changes/Updates

Version 0.4.1
Changed my e-mail address because the old @silentandlethal.tk one will expire very soon

Version 0.4
More maps added to Map Guide

Version 0.35
Map Guide started
Anti-Cheat Guide started


Version 0.3
Ground vehicle, aircraft and naval guides complete

Version 0.2
First release! Probably typos and errors, but hopefully these will be pointed out by readers. Class Guide is complete. Next version will hopefully include the vehicle guide or at least a good proportion of it


1.5 Legal Stuff

1.5.1 Copyright Notice/Disclaimer

This guide and all its contents are copyright (c)2004 David Alexander Russell.
You may NOT re-distribute it inany way without my permission. 'Battlefield
1942'is the intellectual property of Digital Illusions CE, Electronic ArtsInc. and/or other third parties and I make no claim to it (or any related intellectual property of any other third parties) whatsoever.


1.5.2 Distribution

1.5.2.1 How to get permission to distribute

If you wish to re-distribute this guide in ANY way then please email me to ask for permission. I will usually give permission subject to the following conditions
-The guide must be reproduced INTACT, with no modifications, in its original .txt format
-The guide must not be commercially exploited (e.g. sold for money, put on magazine disc, subscribers-only website)
(NB: the above does not include sites with MODERATE amounts of advertising)
-The FAQ is held on your own web server (rather than leeching off someone else)
-You check my GameFAQs contributor page regularly (at least 1 time per month) for guide updates