It’s the real Epic PVP. Which node should the Alliance take first? There’s never a more toxic chat than in IoC Alliance side.
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That would be Hangar, not “hanger”.
English is stupid. Are you voting for Hangar?
Hangar.
Yes. Go hangar or go home. Only yellows and oranges go docks.
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??? sorry what?
Rogues and druids, lol.
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Right right
Either side can complete a win without Hangar if their assault is protected in full and committed to interfering with the others efforts.
Hangar provides the only vehicle that can’t be destroyed, so obviously you want to have that in your pocket for a win.
I’ve lead and won without it when the opposing team neglected to deal with glaives / demolishers in tandem. That’s also thanks to their gunners on the ship having poor coordination.
-If- your team can handle the lag spike at Hangar’s battle, then you got a good chance at a win, but not guaranteed.
For alliance - Hangar + WS is best in my opinion. WS is key because otherwise horde uses demos to protect glaives. People also ignore Refinery + Quarry and it’s 30% bonus to gate damage.
Docks are solid alternative for horde, because they just need to protect one bridge and alliance range has to cross the water to get a clear shot at the glaives.
Docks are absolutely a trap strategy for alliance now, because horde can come at them from all the sides.
Hangar+D is the single most effective strat in IoC. the only way to lose is to not execute the strat. if you get any node other than hangar, the only chance you have at winning is if the other team fails to execute hangar+D.
what i mean by executing hangar+D correctly is to capture hangar, but then send everyone on your team to defend the base from glaive/demos instead of dropping in to run bombs. you should leave about 5 at hangar at all times to defend it, 5 in the gunship leaves 25 to kill glaives. if hangar gets attacked, the players in gunship can teleport to the hangar flag to help defend making the defense 10 strong.
killing glaives is easy, use a glider from your base’s cannon tower to kamikaze the glaives, blow all your cds and get as much damage out as you can before you are killed.
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For rando alliance?
good luck.
You are probably better off hoping for a cocky/incompetent horde team than anything else.
And be really wary of a horde team with 4-5 shammies that ignores hangar…
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That’s where gliders come into play. Glide down from tower…bubble, wings…you know the drill.
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Hangar is almost always a win.
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You can win with docks. It’s a bit more difficult, but can be done. As things are presently, hangar is the go to strat and ally still get there about 8 seconds before Horde does because they whined so much and blizz gave in. Still, all strats are viable in IOC.
This is like Switzerland mocking a developing nation because they asked for food
Still true though 
Assuming efficient pathing, no they don’t.
I hate trying to kill glaives when horde has them. They have such a better place to protect them than alliance does
I always vote hangar no matter what because i’ve seen one too many glaive driver spend the entire bg not actually hitting the gate and not correcting his aim either
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Hangar tends to be better than Docks because the former takes way more people to mess up to derail the strat, and even then the consequences aren’t too bad. With Docks all it takes is one braindead driver, and you have half your gatekilling ability. And if both are braindead, you’re basically sitting on a useless node.
You can also glider down to Quarry from Hangar, which is good for defending that node. The extra siege damage can make a big difference.