The alliance commanders are completely irrelevant. The large bunkers give a lot of room to work with. The poor SHB commander is dogpiled by the initial zerg comprised of 75% of the horde team, might as well not even have him there. The commander ‘guarding’ aid station is completely inactive unless you for some reason aggro him.
On the other side of the coin you have a small group of alliance trying to take ibt. A tiny enclosed space with not only horde guarding but also the commander picking people off. The commander guarding relief hut HAS to be dealt with. He’ll aggro no matter what and he has to be killed at some point which pulls people away from east/west and also makes recapping relief hut easier.
The commanders changed the dynamic of the battleground to favor defense. And the map design makes defense easier for the horde. You can tell the shift in win rate between factions started change around the time it was ‘redesigned’
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Are you talking about the lieutenants guarding the GYs/towers that have been there since vanilla or did they add new ones?
There was a period of time where there weren’t any commanders/lieutenants in AV. I think they readded them around the time of Korrak’s revenge?
I see. Wouldn’t a better solution be to simply move the Alliance LTs closer to the flags? If they just removed them again, what stops it from going back to a straight zerg-fest that heavily favors the Alliance?
Alliance never got enough hugs from our parents. Let us have a BG where we can win consistently. Its only fair.
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I don’t think moving the commanders would change things a whole lot. The layout of the map will mean the horde zerg will wipe out the SHB commander regardless of his position. And because the alliance doesn’t have a linear path like the horde only a small handful try for IBT which means the commander creates utter havoc, especially in close quarters with horde defenders accompanying him.
And to be completely honest an epic map that actually favors the alliance wouldn’t be a bad thing. Looking at the w/l rates between horde and ally in epics its not like them having a slight advantage would be cataclysmic.
Shouldn’t this be in the bgs forum? I don’t think anyone who isn’t familiar with AV will understand what this is about.
Someone misses her dark lady
The only thing you have to do is CC them but people are dumb and just keep attacking them lol.