That’s not always true. Alliance don’t gift SF to horde, the map does. They get a free softcap. I played several games the last two nights that alliance tried to take SF and unless we communicated to keep players split to hold SHGY too, it failed.
For horde, just throw bodies at one of them and use the rez disparities to get the other. Alliance don’t have the luxury of having a cave respawn to recapture SHGY if they lose it. Horde can fall back on that if they lose IBGY fighting for SF or SHGY.
Hey I don’t disagree. They are gifted a soft cap on the most important GY in the game.
And if the alliance at least puts up a fight to take it back to win it over and lose. That’s fine. That’s the map messing us up.
But that’s not what I’m seeing.
In all my AV matches on this pally I’m now farming rep with. ALL OF THEM. The idiotic strat we’ve come up with is…
lol wait for it.
Cubby! (because oh my god. Horde have never seen that one before and I’m still not sure what the hell this does really. They know we are in there)
Then fight at SHGY and try to wipe them all while SF timer ticks down.
Fight some more…wiat for SFGY to turn red.
THEN “mount up guys we are taking IBGY!”
As we are now divided in half, willingly. Horde who now can spawn behind us and infront of us…wipe out SHGY, then turn their attention to IBGY and wipe us out there, knowing that our reinforcments are now cut off at SPGY.
We do this. The horde do not make us do this. That’s OUR strat! We are so clever.
I’ve won SFGY fight at the start. It’s easier to defend a flag cap but it does boil down to who has the better comp and players in that fight.
It is the only winning play for the alliance and now we refuse to even try. Instead WE (not the horde)…WE…have devised this idiotic strat which someone somewhere said it “worked some night like 4/5 times bro! Serious!”
That’s on us.
Either at least try to fight for SFGY at the start or just roll over and die.
Know why the cubby strat works? And it does. I have 5 wins using that exact strat the past two days. Because although horde should know by now exactly what alliance are doing, they still cap SF and they still zug zug SHGY for 3-4 wipes. Only one horde group was smart enough to to avoid it and go straight for SPGY.
Horde don’t understand the map better. They have map advantages to fall back on that alliance don’t.
Once SF caps and alliance wipe horde at SHGY, horde rez at SF, not IBGY. We don’t have to fight a rez wave to softcap IBGY. We just have to deal with the same ol same ol cave respawn to hold it.
Once horde have SF, and we divide to IBGY they swing over. Take SHGY which they know bottle necks those who died at SPGY which is forever away. Then swing down and pick us off from both in front and behind.
Abusing the starting GY spawn advantage.
I’ve just now explained to you twice why this is a dumb dumb strat. If you keep going with this ideology, you really don’t know what you are talking about in AV and the lose rate is partially on you and those who hold this strat dear’s shoulders.
The strat works because horde let it. It’s easy for them to negate and they don’t which just proves horde don’t understand AV better than alliance. Alliance who are sent north are forced on defense, which doesn’t seem to be something most alliance do willingly so it works out.
Sure there are many other strats alliance can try, all of which rely on defending SHGY and taking another GY. Again, not something horde have to worry about. If IBGY falls, use the cave respawn to get it back.
Im not sure why the hostility and I really don’t care, but I’ve explained to you why the strat works and just like either faction, once a strat works a few times, they stick with it. How many years did alliance zerg Galv? How long have horde been zug zugging SHGY?
What proof you are referring at ? Except Reaper who obviously didn’t time well horde cave running back time to IBGY (but still show it’s longer than 25 seconds) I would very much like to see it.
My proof :
It’s a testimony and if you are not aware of it, a testimony is a proof and a fact, not an opinion.
Oh yeah of course right after the 60 horde get teleported there when the proximity alarms are tripped which creates the volcano that swallows SHB that sets off the electric fence that prevents any alliance from passing SHGY.