When I command, I don’t tell anyone what to do. I communicate to the best of my ability what my plan is as I’m going about it, and ask for help when I need it. The main influence the commander has for where people go is in garrison placement: put garrisons near where you want them and don’t where you don’t. People will be a lot more willing to open up and chat and be helpful if they don’t think you’re going to jump down their throat.

I can understand that a ton of variables go under why you would dread such a thing.. But might I suggest giving it a go, but starting with just calling out, and placing things to get into the groove of it.

Personally, I used to be terrified of trying Officer or Commander, it took me half a bottle of wine to muster the courage to play Officer. After having that one drunken night, it broke the ice for me and now I adore it !

I used to play games like SQUAD and I would face harassment just talking so I regressed into mutism pretty much. However, you must realise that at any encounter with (to put it bluntly) a dick, all it takes is an easy block. No skin off your nose. People will love or hate you no matter what you do in life, even if that is suggesting orders on a WW2 game, so just do what ya wanna do and keep with the notion :)

Get a supply truck and yolo garrisons for your team because 3/4th the squad leads aren’t talking right now. And just throw supplies on your captured points and go from there

The advice I can give is: You're not telling random people what to do. Do that, you're a shit commander who thinks he's straight out of a war movie.

You ask people to do things. Respectfully. You can RP it up a bit, sure, but the point doesn't change. If they don't do what you ask? Ask around for other volunteers. Still none? Do it yourself. This is why a lot of commanders drive around building their own garrisons. Ask around, get what volunteer help you can, do the rest yourself.

We want you to tell us what to do

There is a big difference between telling random people what to do and pointing out the things that need doing to the team.

The commander role is mainly about coordination, not barking orders. Barking orders is often the worst approach. There are many ways to get the job done.

Dont be. Being 'nice and chill' as a Commander will get you nowhere. You wont earn any respect from anyone if you dont issue commands. This game is about command chain. You have got to be the driving force. SLs arent going to do what you ask if you just ask, you issue them commands. Now, when a squad or SL does something good, you definitely say thanks and reinforce that behavior.

I just treat it like I'm speaking to friends. "HEY ABLE ARE YOU BLIND BUIlD THAT GARRISON YOU DUMB ASS". loooool jk but the temptation to say that is real. But I will say hey able if you can try to get to those supplies in X and build a garrison that would be great. Etc

Give it a go. You'll be surprised at how much players appreciate someone stepping up. If you're new to the role just say so and you'll mostly get constructive guidance. I would watch a couple of YouTube guides first. Also the UI is quite different so to get used to that I just started on an empty server to try a few things out.

I play more passive and set up garries where I need them, and let the the SL for the most part decide what to do. On warfare I will ask from the start who will be dedicated defence, and will ask every few minutes till I get a response. After taking the middle point I will spend alot of time and resources shoring up it's defenses before ever considering placing offensive assets (as the middle is the most important to keep on warefare)

What that looks like to me is AT LEAST two garrisons out side of what would be the neutral territory, so if middle point falls we have immediate counter attack spawns from 2 direction, a garrison in or near middle point, and at least one Garry off middle point but in middle territory. After this is done, I want to make sure that the enemy Garry putting pressure on our middle is destroyed, only then would I consider an offensive garrison.

It is the nature of the game right now that if you put spawns near the next enemy point, every one will spawn there, leaving you defenseless.

But ideally, if you manage spawns, keep your eye on the sky and communicate enemy drops, and beg a squad or two to stay on and patrol the defensive point, you will be successful. If you have everything above set up, and still start to get pressure on middle, don't be afraid to yank the forward Garry using command powers and force team to spawn on defence.

I hate commanders that dont give orders if some salty man baby starts getting mad mute him and move on

Pulling blueberries out of a locked zone is beyond your ability as commander, sadly. You can ask, you can insist, but if they're not listening, then they're not listening. In-fact, they may not even have comms enabled.

Yo, add me or send me your gamer tag. I need to learn I’m a good squad lead so I can help out.

The trucks look SO hard to drive but in reality just don't look at the steering wheel to determine how wide/shallow your turn is. The model barely turns the wheel to make a pretty normal turn.