Has anyone had a look at Lattice lines and thought of the strategy behind them???
Over the course of the latest Esamir Territory Alert on Briggs today, I had been looking at the problem the NC or whomever controls the Northwestern Gate has in this Continent.
Heres a quick screencap of it for anyone not in game that wants to look at it...
Here are the problems...
1: The Biolabs for the Northwestern Gate are close but are directly connected to opposing gates, this means that after capturing the Biolab, there is only ONE other path that could be used to attack and gain ground that doesn't end at a Gate early. Even then, the it still will lead to the Northwestern Gate being the sandwiched gate for the other two factions to fight against due to the close proximity to these Biolabs vs the one in the far Southeastern corner...
2: Freyr Amp being in close proximity yet has 4 points to attack it from, granted one is continuously connected to personal warpgate, the other 3 are quite easy to reach and prevent the Amp from regaining a safeline during an attack against it due to the Mani Bio being a choke and Snowshear as well...
3: If the Northwestern Gate gains control of the Tech Plant, they discover that there are two paths left to them to reach the Southeast, where a LARGE hunk of the Continent for Territory Control Alerts lie. Saerreo Listening Post and The Octagon. The problem is that these two locations are 2 of the most Defenseable locations on Esamir. This means that unless the Northwestern Gate can break through one of these points, they will be locked into their corner...
All 3 problems can lead to this. If 2/3 Factions arrive for the Alert, the opposing Faction that is paticipating can capture and hold Saerreo and Octagon and prevent the Northwest Gate from advancing into the south, that with a strong Squad or Two leaves them able to capture all the remaining territory between the NE and SW Gates. Thus winning the Alert...
Thankfully for this alert the TR didn't attempt to threaten the VS (Who wasn't playing today) and left us to hold enough ground to win...