"I'm gonna show you something beautiful ... everyone, screaming ... for mercy" - Ultron
Well ... you wanna light sh*t up with fire-works eh? Well it isn't that easy to tell you the truth.
When you take CAS, it's important to tune in to ALL squad channels ... yes ... yes you heard me right ... ALL squad channels.
This is because mid-op ... most likely the SL's and/or the lazing scout specialist will die and the aSL's will have the lazes.
Starting off:
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Get into the power-loader and grab the rocket-launchers and install them on the right side of your DS.
Then get the laser targeter and install it in either electronic installation slot, doesn't matter.
Get the mini-rockets and the 30mm GAU chain-gun and install them on the left side of your DS.
IF THE TRANSPORT PO ALLOWS IT ... grab the cooling system, you NEVER want to NOT be ready for a CAS, you'll know why if you've played SL or scout specialist.
Grab the ammo from the surrounding storage rooms around the outside of the hangar, they are buttoned, so that should help you determine what is ... and isn't ... ammo storage.
Loading and extra equipment:
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In order to load ammo into the weapons, simply grab the ammo in the power-loader, and click on the appropriate weapon.
Extra equipment can be "purchased" using the DS fabricator, but to be honest, even the laser "sight" is ... ehhhhh ... not great, if the SL down there thinks it's a good laze, then it's good enough for you. Unless they are a complete dumbass and laze themselves like someone did one time and completely fucked over about 12-15 marines defending on ice colony, but that was the first ... and ONLY time i've seen CAS fuck up, and that's the SL's fault.
Gameplay:
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To fly CAS ... first set the the flight type to "fire-mission" and DO NOT click optimize flight, other-wise you'll cut CAS time in half ... yeah ... you'd think it would be doubled ... nope.
When called for CAS simply launch the DS on fire-mission, and voila.
Wait ... you need to know how to fire.
This is VERY simple actually.
Simply go to the weapons console on the right-most side of the cockpit and click it, this should bring up all of your ship "attachments".
Click on a weapon, and click the desired laser designation you wish to fire on, these will be labeled alpha laser, charlie laser, etc. and then the location of the target.
Click on the one you wish to fire, then the weapon will auto-MAGICALLY fire within 0-3 tiles of the laser designation.
PRO-tips:
CAS can only be fired in open areas, this means caves, buildings, and other such are NOT viable targets, so if you are begging for someone to call CAS and marines are pushing caves on LV ... then ... yeah ... good luck buddy.
Launch your biggest ordinance missile(s) first. DO NOT GIVE THE BUGS A WARNING ... OR A SECOND CHANCE FOR THEM NOT DISCOVERING THE LAZE, THIS IS CRUCIAL, since if you hit them with the MASSIVE one, this will stun them for a VERY long time, then hit them with ANOTHER one, stun them again, THEN fire the mini-rockets, these are smaller versions of the rockets, but boy do they hurt almost as much as FATTY's and NAPALM's, just doing this correctly will gain you a LOT of kills, even just 2-3 rockets will finish whatever was stunned, off. You then just incinerate the area with 30mm GAU chain-gun fire, this is just a general like ... NOPE ... YOU AIN'T GOIN' HERE, kinda deal.