The Art of Leadership

Note!

''Leadership is usually something that comes with, and while in some ways can be practiced and learned from, not everyone can do it. There is no shame of being incapable of leading, ESPECIALLY if you are playing a game with random people who are probably heavily unlikely to cooperate with you. You will most likely lose at first and feel like you fucked up, but in order to get better at leading you need to learn from losses in order to achieve victory. Legends of Victory were built with a Road of Failures.''

This will be a very unusual guide as there is several ways to lead without them being wrong entirely, so we will just give you mostly advice and tips.

Understanding Leadership

 * 1) Remember that you are a playing a game with randoms. - People can't usually be punished from across their computer, and they don't see you directly or likely feel you. You rely on their willingness to actively cooperate with you. If they do not cooperate with you, they are likely just here to shoot things and revel in chaos. Try and steer them in other ways, be it either moving the brood as Queen or having a few people including you suddenly move to another direction. Manipulating the Horde is easier than you think.


 * 1) Failure is Inevitable. Learn from It and Rise. - As was said before, you are not going to likely succeed on your first attempt. Even if you do, there is eventually going to be one defeat. This is fine. Learn why you have failed or succeeded in order to become better. No matter how bitter the defeat is, it ultimately serves a lesson, even if harsh. There is little reason to stay mad at what happened for a long time.


 * 1) Have a strategy in mind before you deploy. - A squad with no strategy or what it really wants to do is a terrible squad. If you are the CO or Queen, this is even worse. Figure out what you want to do for this round. Maybe you want to attempt to defend a location with everything you got and let them come? Then you will obviously need a good place and enough supplies to do so and must prepare yourself for that.


 * 1) Learn your Tools and their Limitations. - Understand what your squad excels at and what it sucks at doing. If you are Delta SL and most of your squad is bringing Chainguns, it might be more effective to stick with Alpha and support them just behind their frontline melee. If your squad is mostly Snipers instead, then you must adjust to that. Figure out how your tools work and what their limits are.


 * 1) Predict your enemies, learn their Weaknesses and Strength. - Know thine enemy. For example, Mercs are at their best early game and have all their supplies, but if they have no supplies being delivered or their objectives picked up, then they are in deep trouble. That means that taking out their PO's could prove to be highly beneficial and you can try and find a way to do so. Do they seem to be perhaps trying to separate and search around the map in small groups of 3-5? They are trying to find the Brood and you should group up and quickly take out these pockets. Use your Strengths to strike decisive and critical blows against your foe's Weakness.


 * 1) Try out new ideas and ways and accept Criticism. - Biggest factor to your improvement will be logical Criticism from others. Even if they may sound Harsh, it is for your own good. In the end they point out what they see as errors of your ways. Never also hesitate to try out new ideas from time to time, and never do the same trick too much. Otherwise you become predictable and complacement until you get hit with a powerful and harsh Wake-Up Call.'

(Could use a lot of improvement.)