Augustus Gloop

Having commanded a couple of the TG beta tests of the map, I feel like I have a start on what the tactics for this map will become.

EU: Bleed is your ally, but you must cover 5 very exposed points for as long as possible at map start, with PAC having all the transportation. My advice is to have a squad spawn at each of the 4 island points, with the two island tip points packing a SAW to help with downing the initial transport rush. One member of each squad could be directed to spawn at the hanger to grab armor and bring it forward. If PAC is smart, they will move ALL their troops to attack one point and maximize their chances for stopping bleed. This is where your armor mobility will come in handy since they will be short on transportation at that point. The longer you can hold PAC off the island, the longer bleed has to cut into their tickets.

Once an island point is lost, if PAC is still unstable, a quick rush might push them off for another bleed period. Remember that walkers can charge right across the bay as though it wasn't there.

More likely it is time to consolidate your forces on two island points on the same side of the island, and holding the core. Perhaps one squad each on the island points, since they can reinforce each other, two squads or more holding the titan and hangar. Some SAW folks in the titan flight deck or on the titan roof could go a long way toward keeping PAC off your titan.

Then a bitter fight as you hold your ground, and try to keep them off the core.

PAC: Bleed is dogging your heels from the first moments. You have two choices: You can load your transport and take off, trying to avoid all the AA to get your guys behind the front lines... or you can pod out to one or both of the island's tips.

My suggestion is to front load your chances of immediately grabbing a point by having one squad leader take the transport with his squad holding spawn until he's out of danger so he doesn't lose all of their tickets in an unfortunate driving or AA accident, and all the other SL's podding onto the same island tip, then calling their squads in. EU should be weak, being unable to predict where you will attack first, so you should be able to make the easy jog to the flag, overwhelm the forces there, and cap the flag.

The dual attack style means that the transport can act as a decoy, with only one person in it to die if caught, while the less high profile pods have a chance to deploy safely.

PAC should then move to cap the second flag on that side, helping to close off avenues of attack.

With two secure flags, PAC can either move on the other island points, using a diversionary attack on the core to keep defenders there, or move on the core and dig in at their current flags. Switching back and forth suddenly can help keep EU off balance and maximize the number of times their troops will be out of place.

Ideally, EU should always feel in danger of being capped out.


Let's hear your thoughts on this map's strategy!

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Razcsak

EU SAAWs will be critical on this map, I think. PAC's air advantage is fairly strong and, unlike many maps, actually has a pronounced effect on the gameplay.

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ThaDoctah

EU Titan make airships go boom! I agree, having a SAAW if you're defending those extremity flags is a big help, they're just not completely necessary for every squad to have especially near their titan. Of course if the PAC manage to grab the titan... well, as Pvt. Hudson would say, "That's it man, game over man! Game over!!" But he always was an eccentric one.

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Lorax74

As PAC, once you do manage to capture an island point setup a defense on it so you don't loose it again. Once you have the point secure, slowly progress forward keeping your new piece of armor safe and secure as it snipes from the rear. If you are lucky and there's an FAV available, consider making an FAV run along the inside of the cost line and attempt to get up the ladder to start an assault on Core.

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draeh

I agree.

The Titan AA guns only protect the back half of the map. The SAAWs and static AAs will be crucial in keeping PAC from landing forces. PAC can land transports in the hangar bay having never come into the range of the Titan AA guns.

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ThaDoctah

Any air asset coming off the PAC hangar is well within range of the aft-firing Titan AA gun, whether the pilot is crafty enough to approach skimming the water so that they don't end up in the AA gun's firing arc is a different story. I know I'd be hard pressed to guide that flying bus on the straight and narrow to the EU titan's hangar but I'm sure there are others that could do it no problem. As such I'd ammend my previous post with that it would probably be a good idea to carry a SAAW defending the EU titan to prevent such an attack vector as described above.

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CorpDuty

has the tg server been updated to the new patch?

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Augustus Gloop

It's not a new patch yet, it's a patch beta. Likely we won't be getting the beta until it's officially a patch.

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