Grenades

Grenades

High Explosive (HE)

These are excellent additions to any player's arsenal of weapons (one is maximum you can carry), if possible I try to buy one every round just for the initial damage factor. If you are about to go into the heat of battle, what better to weaken your opponent than a well timed High Explosive grenade. If you're lucky/skilled then he can be below 50 health before you even see him, meaning you're in with a great chance of winning any battle and you haven't even fired a bullet yet.

It can also be used in quite the reverse and you can keep any HE grens until you're pretty sure a guy is near death (perhaps after a long range fight with you?). While you both take cover to reload switch to your gren and lob it in his direction....if it lands anywhere near him it's your lucky day hehe. Another good thing about HEs is that they aren't limited to damaging one person (obviously), so lob one into a crowd of injured opponents and watch the kills rack up (beware if friendly fire is on).


Flashbang (FB)

Again, I try to buy at least one of these per round (2 is maximum), as theyre great when attacking or even when you're retreating. On the attack there's nothing better to throw one into a room/tunnel and burst through only to find an opponent who is facing the wall, spraying his gun and hasn't got a clue where you are.......talk about easy kill.

On the defensive, it's very effective to use one of these before you either reload or try and make a dash to a safer area (perhaps back amongst your team). When using these, however, do be aware of your team mates.....they'll get very unhappy very quickly if you keep blinding them. All in all it's best to keep FBs for when you may really need them, there are lots of people who waste them by throwing them at the first opportunity they get. Possibly even wait til you hear an enemy so you have an indication of where they are.



Smoke Grenade (SG)

The least used grenade of the 3 available, but still very handy in certain situations. One of the most common uses for these grens is obviously for covering purposes, especially against snipers. A sniper may be blocking a route you need to cross in order to penetrate a bomb spot/hostage room.....a quick smoke grenade in his view should buy the time needed to make the dash across his scope view.

Can also be good as a distraction, for example, you want to rush left but throw a smoke gren to the right to draw the enemy's attention allowing you to slip through and behind enemy lines.