Your role on the battlefield

Hooah soldiers!
Welcome to ZelMasters first simple guide in the "Private Pricks Pick"-series for Battlefield 3.
The purpose of this guide is to give you an outline on what the various type of soldiers offers on the battlefield, and may make it easier for you to decide which type of soldier you want to be.
Now, let it be said that each of these type of soldiers are equally strong, however on different areas.
Remember - Battlefield 3 is about teamwork and tactics, and this decides what team comes out with the win.

The Assault Soldier
This is the frontline soldier. They charge into battle, as well as function as medics. Playing as an assault soldier orders you to not only lead the battle, but also keep your squad healthy with medic packs and revive fallen teammates with the defibrilators. As assault you should also try your best to flank the enemy. These soldiers are however not meant to stick around in the back, waiting for their fellow comrades to lead the assault and then revive them. It's assault class - not medics.
Remember, and I absolutely have to repeat this: You don't have a sniper sight on your scope. Yes, you can shoot and kill on some good distance, but the assault soldier charges the frontline - he doesn't hang out in the back with a sausage asking the snipers how their day has been. Get your ass in there, don't be pussy!
But once again, have some sense. Don't charge headbutt in like a tank, you're not invincible to bullets. Clear the area, and focus on capturering the objectives in the game.
If you like the feeling of turning around to your squad going: "Oh you're all dead? LOL - come to daddy noobs, I'll ress yall like a BOSS", then this soldier is definitly something for you. Just don't be a suicide medic going in for ress in the middle of the fucking warzone. Do you know anyone who, with bullets flying around their heads, immideatly thinks: "I need to ress that guy in the open!" That's like going into the controle room, looking at all the buttons, and choose the big red one that says "SELFDESTRUCT". Nobody other than the villians do that, and you're not a maniac, use your brain.

The Engineer
These guys should be considered part human, part machine. There is no other soldier that has a better function/disfunction with vechicles as these guys. With their rocket launchers (the RPG or the SMAW) they can take out tanks as well as create shortcuts, like blowing up the freaking wall in front of them. Being an engineer you are destined for two things:
Your first priority is to maintain, repair and command the vechicles on your team. This being said, other soldiers can also command these vechicles - but can anyone but you save a burning vechicle from blowing up? Don't fucking think so! Besides, being able to land as a helicopter pilot or quickly repair a damaged tank is quite freaking useful, and often gives the edge in a head-to-head tank fight. Besides this, they are also the best anti-vechicle soldiers with mines at their disposal as well as head-seeking missiles for jets and helicopters.
They are not equipped for long range gunfire, but can be just as effective as an assault on close range. Their true strength lies in their vechicles and their gear.
Did I mention these guys carry fucking rockets around in their pockets? If you like the "IMMA FIRERING MA LAZOR!!!" - then this soldier is definitly for you.

The Supplier
It doesn't sound awesome to be the "ammo guy" who hands out the ammo, does it now? That's where you're wrong. Being the Supply soldiers allows you to carry the light machine guns - and these badboys can mow down an enemy squad within seconds, making them the strongest soldiers in narrow cluster-areas. Smart positioning is key with this soldier, but besides bringing ammo to the team and being a mowlawner when it comes to defending/attacking areas, these guys also specializes in explosives. These soldiers live on the edge when it comes to anti-vechicle. How many people would charge up behind a fucking tank, place C4 on it and run away screaming "BOOM BABY!"?
You have to be quite insane in order to do so, but the madness doesn't end there. A popular tactic has been the explosive car-bomb. This includes the supply soldier to C4 up a jeep, making it a ticking bomb that will detonate with a single hit. Once the bomb is set, the tactic is to drive this head to towards a tank, jump out shortly before, and detonate. Madness - indeed - but it works!
Also claymores are used to setup defensive areas in key positions. This is an excellent tool for keeping a clear backside for the squad, and also functions as a warning in case it blows up - alerting you of the enemy teams whereabouts.
Being the supply means being the crazy "bombman". With endless C4, a light machine gun and a freaking mortar as well, these fellas don't fuck around. However, don't sit around in your lone mortar like a lazy blind and useless fucker. You have shit to blow son!

The Recon
These guys probably get more hate than the rest of the soldiers. "Damm camper noobs" these guys hear alot. But that's what these guys do - from a far range these soldiers of steadiness specialize in perfection shots. Where other soldiers can go "SPRAY AND PRAY" - the recons do not believe in prayers. Nothing is a coinsidence, these guys know their tools. Taking out enemy troopers is one priority, but it does not end there: The main objective for the recon is to gain intelligence of the enemy teams movement. Being the prime scouts of the game, the recons can often turn the tide of a battle. Being able to see the enemys movement grants such a massive advantage for the entire team - and gives planes and airstrikes a much higher chance of destroying enemy targets.
Not only do they function as excellent scouts and marksmen - these soldiers also take pride in flanking the enemy, creating new spawn points for their squad, making a sneaky maneuvre to change the front into two directions. They are also able to mark enemy targets such as helicopters and tanks for engineer rocket strikes. The recons are sneaky, silent ninjas that deliver vital intel. Spys and scouts - these soldiers will knife and snipe to the win, and often deserve more credit then granted.

That rounds up the simple introduction of all these badass classes. Take your pick!
Are you the battlefront? Or are you more the science type, firering rockets to collapse buildings and commanding vechicles?
Are you the crazy bomberman, with trigger fingers on the detonator, eager to see fire and explosions? Or are you the ninja type, gathering the vital intelligence like James fucking Bond, and discretely taking out your foes?

Make your choices. What's it gonna be soldier?

Looked like you had fun making this, from where I was sitting

Anyway, didn't read it, but probably GJ! Let dem nubs be proz!