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Destroyer

Destroyer

Got 10 kills each with Tank destroyers and Mobile Artilleries

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How to unlock the Destroyer achievement in Battlefield 3 - Definitive Guide

To get this achievement, you will have to get a total of ten kills with any of the two Tank Destroyers together, the SPRUT-SD and the M1128, and ten kills with the two Mobile Artillery vehicles, the BM-23 and the M142. Thus, you can get 2 kills with the BM-23 and 8 with the M142 to be done with the Mobile Artillery vehicles.

If you have premium and have tested out the new maps you will have noticed that getting ten kills with an Artillery vehicle is going to be comparable to giving birth to a couple of moderately sized hedgehogs. This thing is basically a mortar with a range of 600 units. (Is battlefield measured in meters or yards, one might ask?) Only it's aimed like a grenade launcher and has a spread of a minor city with six missiles in a burst. You couldn't hit the ocean from a boat with this fucking thing, and it takes two shots to eliminate a tank. I did spend entire games shooting in the general direction of a flag without even getting a hitmarker...

Now since it's so hard to kill things with it and because of the fact that people always position it far away from action, it rarely gets taken out. Good thing right? No, this merely means that you have one or two chances to get it in an entire match before someone on your team hogs it for the rest of the game, forcing you to leave and find a new one or wait for the match to end and rush for it in the beginning of the next.

However, after hours and hours of frustration I started playing more casually and took a ride in the gunship. That thing is a raping machine from the seat with the heavy cannon and after fifteen kills with it you unlock an anti air missile for your puny little mortar. Suddenly you have a long range plane eater that nobody will even care about shooting at. Search for a conquest game with Bandar Desert as the next map in queue, wait for the current game to end and take the Artillery as soon as the match starts. Position yourself just after the little hill in front of your spawn area and go crazy on anything that can fly, happy hunting!
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11 Sep 2012 20:29

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Srsly, you are bitching. Arty is acceptably easy.

But +vote for awesome storytelling
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By on 11 Sep 2012 22:19
Aiming the arty takes a bit of o knack but the easiest way to range it is each horizontal mark on the crosshair equals 100m range - that should give you a base line for how high you should be aiming. As soon as you fire, hit the start button and look at the map - where your shots hit will show up as a series of rings (or pings) and you can adjust your aim based on that.
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By Hirsute Dave on 12 Sep 2012 14:36
Great tips all of you, I might be bitching a bit but only in the interest of historical accuracy and the level of solution awesomeness.

Dave, how do the 100 m/bar work, I feel like raising the sights one line would give you a lot less than a 100 meters extra distance. The map thing is great though!
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By a1d3d3e7 on 12 Sep 2012 20:09
its 15 kills
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By Maka91 on 12 Sep 2012 20:48
Yeah it is, changing it now..
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By a1d3d3e7 on 12 Sep 2012 21:02
The best way to use the bars for aiming is to pick an objective flag as your target. The distance should be visible on your HUD so if it's 300 metres away you raise the crosshair up so that the third biggest line is roughly over your target and fire.

Then it's just a matter of checking the map and correcting from there.
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By Hirsute Dave on 13 Sep 2012 14:32
Thx for the tip with the Gunship
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By Lockdown BE on 18 Sep 2012 13:48
The anti air missiles are definitely the key to getting this. For Gunship kills, I recommend playing rush on any map. The attacking team gets a gunship and if you can get in it you'll rack up kills in no time. Much easier on the smaller scale rush sections then the barren wasteland that is these maps on conquest.

Now for the artillery kills, do as ISAAC1982 says and stay on the outskirts of the map and just rain down on converting flags and stationary vehicles. You'll get a kill once in a while, but make sure you prioritize the air vehicles because they are far easier targets. The vehicle is also a decent battering ram, I managed to get my final kill by running some poor guy over.
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By IXI FalcoN on 21 Dec 2012 06:03
I'm going to admit to being a fool as I like entertaining others with my idiocy, only half read this...got the gunship kills, then switched to support and whipped out my mortar thinking how do I do the AA shells? clap
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By HiradC on 14 Apr 2013 14:33
Great guide. Got my last kills with the gunship in one game and had the achievement half way through the following match. Powerful, and as a1d3d3e7 says, no-one bothers to try and destroy you. Big help, thanks.

+1
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By R1KM4N on 14 Jun 2013 01:52
Finding it impossible to get kills in any seat of Gunship, raping machine? It's instant death whenever I get in it, shot down by heloes and jets instantly. Plus everytime I get into the Mob Art I get instantly fucked by heloes and RPGS.

Like evry other chievo I'm gonna have to work 10 times harder than every one else
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By o DEEVIUS o on 06 Jul 2013 20:37
Yeah they have nerfed the damage from it heavily since i wrote this, sorry...
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By a1d3d3e7 on 08 Jul 2013 13:13
"You couldn't hit the ocean from a boat with this fucking thing..."

Upvote lol.
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By JxnnyV on 07 Feb 2017 01:54
Looking to boost

xX Anton 91 Xx
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By xX Anton 91 Xx on 21 Jun 2023 08:44
I took down two choppers with the default weapon yesterday! That was 4 kills. Also flattened a quad and ran two other infantry over, that was another 4. Roadkills do count!
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By LAFTA on 12 Sep 2012 08:22
"ten kills with an Artillery vehicle is going to be comparable to giving birth to a couple of moderately sized hedgehogs". This seriously made me chuckle at work, in fact I was lolling for a good minute or so. And calm...

I only realised about the AA missile unlock after I got this. At first I thought this would be a seriously difficult one but found a few nice spots on the Death Valley (dark foresty map) and half hour later once I got used to the range I had the achievement. In fact I managed to get 5 kills in the space of two minutes by time I was approaching ten total kills. I think the key is find somewhere quiet around the outskirts of the map. Do not fire every time it reloads as you draw attention to yourself especially from the air. Every now and then fire a single shot just to work out range. Once I seen a flag being attacked or a vehicle going stationary I let a whole barrage out and 50% of the time I'd get a kill or even if I just got a disable vehicle by time I'd get a reload I'd get kill on the next barrage as they'd be repairing it. So I think it is all about patients with this one.

BTW, I wasn't laughing about how hard you made it sound, I just f*cking loved your reference, perhaps too much.
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By Isaac1982 on 12 Sep 2012 12:48
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Hi Guys,

here is my Guide for this Achievement. You need total 10 Kills with both Tank destroyers and 10 with the Mobile Artilleries, not everyone 10 Kills for each Vehicle!

Tank Destroyer are SPRUT-SD (RU Only) and M1128 (US Only)

Mobile Artillery are BM 23 (RU only) and M142 (US only)

Tank Destroyer available in any Armored Kill DLC Mode and Map.

Mobile Artillery only available in Armored Kill DLC Conquest Mode. Flags Overview (one Flag for each Team! )

Alborz Mountain: spawn at Flag B and Flag E

Armored Shield: spawn at Flag A and Flag E

Bandar Desert: Deployment Area (both Bases)

Death Valley: spawn at Flag A and Flag E

In my Video you see all 4 Vehicles Ingame.

Regards

PS: Sry for my English, german :)
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11 Sep 2012 18:17

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You can also get an Artillery vehicle as attacker on Armored Shield, it should be easier to use when you only have one place to shoot at and everyone will be there trying to protect the bombs...
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By a1d3d3e7 on 11 Sep 2012 20:37
Let's make this simple....

You Need:

10 Kills w/ either Tank Destroyer Total (Any AK Mode)
10 Kills w/ either Mobile Artillery Total (AK Conquest Mode Only)

The tank destroyer is easy to get kills with. People have more trouble with the artillery. To make it easier, the artillery has a trick to master which is this:

Fire > Push Start > See where your shots are hitting on the map > Readjust your aim

Thanks to the map showing where your hits land it makes it a little easier to hit certain targets. The best part is that the range is long enough you don't even have to leave the safety of your spawn area to use it.

Additional

If you unlock the air-burst round you can quickly switch to it (Push Y) to fire off two more rounds. It slaughters infantry but doesn't do much to anything but lightly armored vehicles.
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12 Sep 2012 21:06

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As of the date I posted this I don't have the achievement yet because I have been having WAY more fun playing Tank Superiority than Conquest Mode in the new DLC. I'd give it a day or two till I pop it. 6 Kills and counting!
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By Nonfaith on 12 Sep 2012 21:10
Thanks, great tip I did not know it showed hit markers on the map (because who would think to press start anyway??). Thumbs up from me.
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By xLoCk 0nx on 13 Sep 2012 10:47
Glad to hear! I finally got it myself, got 12 kills on Armored Shield. People love capturing B on that map.
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By Nonfaith on 13 Sep 2012 15:18
thumbs up from me great tip about pressing start to see were the rounds land
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By ProudBowdy on 14 Sep 2012 12:33
Excellent guide, this start method is much better than using the boring ineffective Gunship. I got 9 kills on Death Valley in one match using start. Nice one.
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By o DEEVIUS o on 06 Jul 2013 22:17
Best solution. Start Burton to check hit makers I totally forgot about that. I can tell your a Bf veteran.
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By j2kworld on 22 Sep 2013 23:12
Yep, one of those horrible Col. 100s.
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By Nonfaith on 24 Sep 2013 04:16
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To add on to what the previous posts say, I'd say the easiest place to get the mobile artillery kills is on point B in Alborz Mountain. Get in the mobile artillery and DO NOT MOVE. Aim towards point C and aim as low as u can in order to get easy kills at C. To get kills on enemies at point D, aim as high up as u can, then adjust to the right and fire a few test rounds, noticing the arc on the rockets. Within 3 to 5 games of trying this method, u will have the 10 mobile artillery kills. Tank destroyer kills can and should be done in mere minutes if you have even the slightest knowledge of the ground vehicles in this game.
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15 Sep 2012 06:51

It's recommended to rent a server you which will cost £1.19 (or your local currency equivalent)

Map: Alborz Mountains,
Game Mode: Conquest
Capture flag "C" then wait a minute commit suicide and choose to go into the Gunship get a team mate to go to "C" and keep firing until they die.

Once done the trophy will unlock.
Please note you need a minimum of four gamers to start a match
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06 Jan 2020 09:58

These new vehicles are available in Rush, Conquest & Tank Superiority. You will need to get 10 kills with each new type of vehicle, and it is ok to mix US and RU variants. I recommend the Conquest gamemode, and the locations of where these vehicles can be found are listed below.

Tank Destroyers:
SPRUT-SD (RU Tank Destroyer)
M1128 (US Tank Destroyer)

Locations: (Tank Superiority)
US/RU Deployment(s)

Mobile Artilleries:
BM 23 (RU Artillery)
M142 (US Artillery)

Locations: (Conquest)
Death Valley: Flags A & E
Alborz Mountains: Flags B & E
Bandhar Desert: US/RU Deployment
Armoured Shield: Flags A & E

These can be a huge pain to get kills with using the regular artillery. One tip is to get 10 kills from inside the Gunship, as this will unlock Anti-Air abilities on all Mobile Artilleries. Now just sit back from the action and tear up anything in the sky, easily getting 10 kills (compared to the normal method).

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