👥 Buddy Teams

The buddy team is the core of everything we do in SPECTRE. No one moves or fights alone — your buddy is your backup, your spotter, and your lifeline.

🔍 What’s a Buddy Team?

A buddy team is 2–3 players who stick together and operate as a single tactical unit.

• Gryphons: 4-man team = two 2-man buddy teams
• Devilbirds: 6-man section = two 3-man buddy teams

Your job is to cover your buddy, move with your buddy, and survive as a team.

🎯 Core Responsibilities

🔁 Cover Each Other

• When one moves, the other covers
• Never move at the same time unless ordered

👁️ Shared Awareness

• Always know where your buddy is
• Watch different angles — avoid tunnel vision

📡 Communicate

• Speak clearly and often: “Moving,” “Set,” “Covering,” “Contact”

🚶 Moving as a Pair

Buddy teams are the basic unit for bounding and fire-and-maneuver.

Example: Bounding

1. Buddy A says: “Moving.”
2. Buddy B replies: “Covering.”
3. Buddy A moves to new cover and says: “Set.”
4. Buddy B now moves.

Simple, effective, and keeps you alive.

🧍 Formations & Spacing

You’ll often be part of a fireteam formation — wedge, column, line, etc.
Even in formations, you operate as a buddy team.

Spacing Rules:

• 3–5 meters in the open
• 1–2 meters in buildings
• Always maintain line of sight

If you lose your buddy, call it out and link back up fast.

🏠 CQB & Tight Spaces

In close quarters:

• Use MBF (Muzzle Before Flesh) — your weapon clears past your buddy before you shoot
• Stack cleanly, one behind the other
• Don’t crowd corners or doors

⚠️ Common Mistakes

• ❌ Losing sight of your buddy
• ❌ Both players moving without cover
• ❌ Forgetting to call “Set!” when bounding
• ❌ Bunching up at corners or breach points

✅ Summary

• Stick together — fight as one
• Take turns moving and covering
• Communicate every step
• Watch spacing, especially in combat or tight terrain

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