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Subject: Any tips on firefight Chieftans??!

Hey guys, I was just wondering if anyone has any tips on how to take down the chieftains! I doubt I'm the only one to have their lines of defense broken when a hammer chieftain charges towards you! So if anyone has any tips on how to kill them and the fuel rod ones, please post them here!

  • 05.22.2010 6:38 AM PDT

well one way to quickly take a cheiften dowm would be to get a single fire weapon like a magnum or a covanent carbine and try to take off there helmat then take a shot at there exposed head and it should be a one shot kill

  • 05.22.2010 6:50 AM PDT

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  • 05.22.2010 6:51 AM PDT

I'll try that later, thanks! Another thing I heard works is that one person shoots it with a fully charged plasma pistol, then shoot him with 1 rocket and they die

  • 05.22.2010 7:17 AM PDT
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ON crater I faced a good number of them, one charged at me at the dead start of the round. I recommend a plasma weapon to take of their shields, and frags through at the ground or well placed stickies help. Once the shields are gone, boom headshot.


OR get a hammer and go 2 hit kill on them.

  • 05.22.2010 7:20 AM PDT
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There are several good ways to take out the cheiftains:
- Plasma weapon for shields, then a single-shot weapons for the helmet/head

-Use a Gravity Hammer, but make sure you actually hit him. If you miss, he'll hit you the moment you're next to him.

-Grenades. Lots of grenades. Stickies bounce off of their armor, but frags and incendiaries work quite well.

-If they do a short hop towards you and swing, try to jump over them. If your sensitivity is high enough, you can turn around in mid-air and assassinate them.

-If there's more than one person playing, make him charge towards P1. P1 then jumps out of the way while P2 bashes his head in from behind.

-If you do try to use Heavy Weapons (Rockets/Fuel Rod), make sure that you hit him more than once and that you hit him quickly. If you land one hit, but then have to reload, the chieftain will turn on his invincibility.

  • 05.22.2010 9:18 AM PDT

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When he's running towards you, just jump over him and smack him in the back. As for the Fuel Rod Guys, shoot them.

  • 05.22.2010 11:28 AM PDT

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Stick their hammer, it works.

  • 05.22.2010 12:19 PM PDT
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If you only have basic weapons let him run at you and then run towards him. Right as he starts to swing jump over him and try to assassinate him in the air. I've done it a few times like that but you can also jump over him and back up and unload whatever you got on him, rinse and repeat. Use smg until you break his armor off then pistol shots at his head till you take him out. With the war chieftains keep your distance and try to bring him to a place where you can do a wide strafe and just unload and head shot with pistol once armors gone. These are all tactics if you have starting weapons.

  • 05.22.2010 12:37 PM PDT