Sunday, 18 November 2007

Horde Strategy for the new look Alterac Valley

More of a note to self than anything, as no one is reading this, but I wanted to capture some thoughts on what worked well.

I've now had the opportunity to see a properly functioning Horde team at work in AV, and feel a little more positive about the average honor gains - 2300 honor from 3 games in 90 mins starts to make up for some of the nightmare games of the previous night.

So, here are some of the things that worked well for us, from a Horde perpective:
  • At least 15 go to defend Galv and the surrounding towers, defending Galv inside so he can take an active part. Stay here until the initial Alliance attacks are thwarted and they are fragmented. Some can then move up to support the offence.
  • 1 or 2 stealthers go and ninja Dun Baldar north/south
  • 5 or so go to take SH bunker and stay to defend it til burned
  • Rest go to take our Balinda and SH gy, then onto IW.- Push up to SP, especially if stealthers have been able to take SP Aid Station
  • Some defence stays on Galv, TP and IB, and be ready to trinket home to stop stealth attacks on FW towers.
  • Minor priority given to protecting mine and taking theirs - makes a marginal difference to reinforcements.
  • Push through to Vanndar, and win.
With this approach, we twice killed Vanndar, finishing with 500-550 reinforcements remaining (the second time, Alliance had 5 reinforcements left when we killed Vann, so we stopped killing Alliance PCs), gaining 600-650 bonus honor in 30 mins.