Battle Cry of Freedom: Beginners Guide (How to Start)

Sappers
Building defenses on the front lines and supplying men
Hit J and get a list of things you can build for your team.
From Defense to Ammo you support your team

Flag Bearers
Rallying Men Around the Flag you able to bring a sword with you also to defend yourself and to attack enemies

Musicians
Hit J to bring up your music menu by playing music you give buffs to guys around such as more accuracy.

Surgeons
Carrying Bandages around they can see who is injured and heal them
To heal slap them with your bandage don’t accidentally use your knife

There is going to be many servers to choose from probably alot of them empty I will show you how to filter servers.

The first thing you will want to do is hit the little human icon left to Name this should filter servers from from most players to no players. This should help you you find other players also playing the game.
The next thing you should check out is all the boxes in the bottom for different servers for example if the servers have voice chat on, max ping or forcing first person only.

Battle Cry of Freedom has 3 different movement speeds
Walk,Run and Sprint (official names)
Walk is like a slow March to go into it you hit shift and to go out of it hit shift again
Run the default speed is more like a fast march
Sprint allows you to sprint hit alt to sprint you can only sprint for so long before running out of Stamina.
Another trick is if you hit Y while moving you go into right shoulder shift which allows you to recover your stamina faster.
(A Soldier in Right shoulder shift)

Aim right click and shoot with left click.
V for first person and B for iron sights with your gun. R to reload
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A bit more then that so when you notice you selecting your troop you can see what type of ammo and gun you are picking. The different guns and ammo have more or less accuracy which you can change out by click on them.

Ammo Types & Benfits
Buck Shot – Shotgun ammo in your musket
Buck and Ball – 3 shots loaded into your gun and fired will tear people apart at close range
Round Shot – Just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ short distance and low accuracy what they used in the revolutionary war
Pritchett – Less Range then Mini Ball but does more Damage
Minie Ball – More Range does less damage then pritchett

Types of Guns
Shotguns –
Get close pull trigger
Muskets –
The least accurate of the guns these old things can only shoot Buck Shot, Buck and Round.
Rifled Muskets –
You can start hitting stuff at longer ranges and can pick from Pritchett and Minie Ball
Rifles –
The most accurate of the guns and the longest to reload you can hit stuff up to 120 meters accurately
Breech Loaders –
Also rifles but they have knew type of loading technique that allows them to load in half the time of a Rifle only the Union Sharpshooters have these.

BulletDrop and Wind
Every gun has a different range when your bullets start going down so I recommend testing out the gun to find it’s range. In the top mid right there is also a wind indicator to show you wind speed and direction something else to account for.

Take off your Bayonet using N to have less sway and also N to put it back on

If you ever played Warband or Holdfast you can easily skip this section but if your new games with melee system this will be a good read.

The Basics
X – To go into Melee mode
You have 4 directions for attack and block from that not all weapons can attack in all directions and some can’t block.
To change directions move your mouse in the direction and hit Attack (being leftclick) or Block (right click)
Melee is turn based meaning lets say if you block you have turn priority meaning if you both immediately throw stabs yours will land first

More Advanced stuff
Other then attacking and Block some more advance topics

Holding
Holding your attack to hopefully to get the enemy to stop blocking and to throw your stab only holding for a short period of the time or they will reset up there block

Feinting
Doing wacky movements to try throwing your enemy offguard and getting them to miss there blocks

Dragging
Instead of attacking your enemy directly stab and drag your attack hopefully causing

Chamber/Chambering
If you throw a attack at the right timing you can block a enemy attack and throw a stab at them. If you want to try to land on you must match the same attack direction and then when you notice them going for a attack also throw your attack at the same second do a little mouse flick in the direction of the attack to get a bit more time for it to happen.

Voice chat is automatically disabled to enable go to options, audio and then voice chat to make sure the box is green and then save settings. To mute people go into the leaderboard if they are talking should show a green mic on there name left click there name and then hut mute.