Barbed Wire (Structure)

Description

Template:Building The player-constructed Barbed Wire drastically reduces both friendly and enemy infantry movement. It does not affect vehicles in any way. The easiest way to remove it is to dismantle it with a Wrench, but it can also be quickly destroyed by Half-track and Field Machine Gun fire in particular.

When placing barbed wire, it's important to remember that it stops both friendly and enemy movement and should generally only be put in areas that the enemy will want to move through but your team will not. For example, you could place it on the far side of sandbags to deny the enemy the ability to use it as cover from your direction of fire, or on the side of a building that enemies will want to take cover behind.

Common mistakes include placing it in the middle of roads behind the defensive line, where it is guaranteed to inconvenience only your own team until the battle is over, or placing it immediately in front of the defensive line, where it will prevent allied soldiers from advancing but will not prevent enemies from using anti-structure items, such as High Explosive Grenades, on them. Even placing a solid line of it outside HE grenade range may be detrimental in that it equally prevents your side from pushing forwards through that area.

Barbed wire appears to block the line of fire of pillboxes if it is placed too close to them.

Buildable Structures
Defenses	Manned Foxhole Gun Nest Light Pillbox Pillbox Sunken Pillbox Gun Turret Howitzer Watch Tower Garrisoned House Emplacement House
Protections	Barbed Wire Sandbags Sandbag Wall Tank Trap Chain Link Fence Reinforced Wall Fortress Wall Bunker Gate Heavy Gate
Spawn And Storage	Storage Box Encampment Field Base Outpost Frontier Base
Medical Support	Field Hospital Hospital