The Battle of Midway was a Pacific-theatre battle of World War II, fought in 1942 and featured in the game Battlefield 1942
Real Battle
The Battle of Midway is widely regarded as the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. In June 1942, the United States Navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) attack against Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese.
Battlefield 1942
This map is a mixed bag. The main focus of combat is the planes that spawn on the aircraft carriers and on Midway Island itself. However the availability of landing craft, and the fact that a tank spawns at the radar station control point, can also lead to a significant amount of land-based combat.
Midway is a map focussed primarilly on naval and air combat, mostly ocean but with a small island with two capture points in the middle of the map.
Each team gets an armada of ships and the action tends to happen around the airfield, a flag location on the central island. This changes sides often and is well worth fighting over due to the large amount of aircraft, though anyone looking for easy targets would be best looking elsewhere as it also has 3 anti-aircraft guns on it. There is a small capture point just off the main island and things might get busy there if the airfield owners don't own that too. There is also a good paratrooping and sniping position behind the hangar, where no objects cant be found.
There are also two ocean flags due north and south of the central island (Multiplayer only). These can be capped by ships or even planes. Though they're not spawn points they're still hotly fought over. A good team can really dominate on this map due to there being only two possible spawn points beside your ships so if a team controls the island and has decimated your fleet then that last remaining ship is going to get awfully busy. This is a fun map to play if you like flying or driving ships, the high point being the mad rush to the airfield when the game starts.
Tips and Tactics
from Battlefield 1942 Tips and Tactics, added by author
This is a majority tickdown battle, so control points are key.
- Planes, flown right, can capture the sea control points by circling them for long enough.
- As a submariner you can spawn camp where the enemy ships spawn, if your morals allow it.
- When an enemy ship is first spotted, fire your ship's guns aimed at 0 elevation.
- If you are planning to man a ship, be an engineer who can repair the ship - why be anything else?
- If a number of teammates spawn on the sub and you are driving, it's polite to not immediately dive and instead drive your teammates to where they can jump off and get on another ship.
- Ram the side of the enemy battleship with your destroyer and it will tilt up and not be able to fire at you. You can also beach enemy ships by pushing them with your ship on to shore.
- Pilots: keep your team informed of when you see enemy ships.
- Worth repeating: you can note where the enemy is landing troops by seeing where empty landing craft appear on the minimap.
- The tank is important for controlling both island flags. You can keep it happy and healthy while waiting for the enemy to land by parking it in the hangar.
- In a clan game, consider keeping the fleet together, capturing one flag at a time. You'll have overwhelming firepower if the enemy splits up.