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A Sandbag Cover is a defensive structure built with sandbags. It can be upgraded to a Sandbag Wall.
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A defensive wall that hinders enemy movement and provides cover during combat.
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Construction
The Sandbag Cover can be curved and its length can be between 4 and 10 meters. Its total health is proportional to its length. Since cost doesn't scale with length it's preferable to always build them with the maximum length allowed (10m).
They can be built nearly anywhere, even on beaches, roads, Bridges, ice, or on the paved areas inside large towns. However they still can't be placed on rocks or inside structures.
Use
Protection
The Sandbag Cover provides some cover for players crouched behind it. Players can vault over it by pressing Space.
It is particularly useful on top of a destroyed Bridge or hill, where vehicles won't be able to ram it, and in combination with Barbed Wires.
Resistance
It is immune to small arms and heavy machine gun fire and is pretty resistant to all explosives except the Demolition type. It can be run over and destroyed by all land vehicles (except for the Ambulance, the Bicycle, and the Motorcycle), this will drop a portion of the sandbags used to build them. It is extremely cheap to repair, 1 Basic Materials repairs 10% health.
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A defensive wall that hinders enemy movement and provides cover during combat.
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— In-game description
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Construction
Upgrading a Sandbag Cover into a Sandbag Wall requires 3 Sandbags.
Use
Resistance
It is immune to small arms and heavy machine gun fire and is pretty resistant to all explosives except the Demolition type. It can be run over and instantly destroyed by all land vehicles (except for the Ambulance, the Bicycle, and the Motorcycle), this will drop a portion of the sandbags used to build them. It is extremely cheap to repair, 1 Basic Materials repairs 10% health.
Protection
The Sandbag Wall is a taller and sturdier version of the Sandbag Cover. It provides cover for players standing behind it. A soldier can see and fire over a Sandbag Wall by standing on something, like a Storage Box or another Sandbag Cover, giving them a great firing position.
It is particularly useful on top of a destroyed Bridge or hill, where vehicles won't be able to ram it, and in combination with Barbed Wires.
Artillery Protection
With its cheap cost, extremely efficient repairability, and good High Explosive resistance, it is a great tool to withstand artillery barrages. It can be used to protect other structures less resistant to artillery, such as Safe Houses, Garrisoned Houses, Town Bases at Tier 1 and Tier 2. A tight sandbag wall built around them can absorb the damage of all the shells that don't directly hit the building. The garrisoned windows and player firing positions on those buildings won't be impeded by the wall since they are on the second floor.
Tactics
- Sandbags work well in combination with Barbed Wire. Putting barbed wire in front of sandbags makes it much more difficult for enemy soldiers to vault over and prevent them to use your sandbags as cover.
- Be sure that placed Sandbags don't block view of nearby defensive structures like Rifle Pillbox.
- As they can be rammed by vehicles, sandbag covers cannot be used as a roadblock. Tank Traps and Barbed Wire Fences are much better options for blocking vehicles.
- Sandbag Covers and Walls shine in areas where vehicles cannot easily ram them and other defensive structures cannot be placed.
Trivia
Sandbags structures used to be constructed using Basic Materials. This was later changed with the introduction to Sandbags, which are Large Items, requiring a more robust logistical network, such as cranes and flatbeds.
Gallery
A sandbag cover and sandbag wall.
A Sandbag being carried to build a Sandbags Cover.
A soldier can see and shoot over a Sandbag Wall if standing on a Storage Box.
A truck runs over and destroys a sandbags wall, leaving some sandbags materials on the ground.
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