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2: NC and TR

3: NC, TR and Vanu

[kisame12794]

Really? I was standing near herbs point for at least five minutes, and the bar stayed the same. Unless there is a button you need to press, in which case, derp.

[TheBronzePickle]

If there isn't at least one friendly territory next to the one you're trying to cap and the cap hasn't already been started, you can't cap behind enemy lines. At least that's how it was before the whole 'tug of war' system came out. There's no need to press a button, though, you just stand by the point until it's captured.

[QuakeIV]

If there isn't at least one friendly territory next to the one you're trying to cap and the cap hasn't already been started, you can't cap behind enemy lines. At least that's how it was before the whole 'tug of war' system came out. There's no need to press a button, though, you just stand by the point until it's captured.

Incorrect, I was part of a team that airdropped on an enemy biolab well behind enemy lines and captured it.

[Silent_Thunder]

If there isn't at least one friendly territory next to the one you're trying to cap and the cap hasn't already been started, you can't cap behind enemy lines. At least that's how it was before the whole 'tug of war' system came out. There's no need to press a button, though, you just stand by the point until it's captured.

Incorrect, I was part of a team that airdropped on an enemy biolab well behind enemy lines and captured it.

Was it completly clear of influence when you arrived? Losing adjacency will not stop an in progress assault, and Bio labs tend to turn into 20-30 min fights given the right conditions. I've seen fights in them last while the surrounding territory has swapped between all three sides several times.

[Knight of Fools]

Until the defenders get the Defended message by driving off a good majority of the enemy and taking back all spawn points or if a point has begun to be taken (Or there's a permanent spawn of some sort, not including Sunderers), it can still be taken over. You can't Battlefield the spawn points in this game, though.

[Cthulhu]

Yeah, I didn't get that really, until I'm thinking about it now.  When you get the defended message is there any ingame effect besides your control bar filling back up, like temporary uncappability, or is that accomplished naturally because if you get the defended message they've probably been driven back?

Speaking of which, sweeping advances are probably the most fun part of the game.  Just driving forward and moving down enemies as the line slowly recedes.

[kisame12794]

Damn. Really wanted to be able to capture territory behind enemy lines. Send in commando raids behind the main force to cut them off, or cause a disturbance to take heat away from the frontlines.

[Cthulhu]

You can still fuck around behind enemy lines, but it'll be tough to take full installations like that.

Grab a galaxy and a squad of organized people and you could probably shut down a base they're using for reinforcement by destroying/hacking all the spawners.

Can you hack spawners?  I know you can hack turrets.

[mainiac]

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[Knight of Fools]

Can you hack spawners?  I know you can hack turrets.

Nope.

Your best bet for capturing behind enemy lines is to capture a territory and just knife in as deep as you can go. It tends to draw a lot of attention, though, so don't be surprised if half of the million TR's on the server zerg you in hopes of getting an easy kill.

I'd be more comfortable doing something like that with a platoon rather than a squad. Imagine cutting through and simply cutting off their warp gates, preventing them from effectively regaining resources and drawing their attention away from the front... It'd be awesome.

[Neyvn]

Can you hack spawners?  I know you can hack turrets.

Nope.

You can hack Terminals which can spawn vehicles and change weapon load out but you can not hack a spawn room where players can spawn into the area. Though a smart thing to do when assaulting through the lines towards a Lab/Amp/Tech base is to send an advance force to shut down all generators and the SCU so that the enemy can not spawn at the location...

[Vattic]

Imagine cutting through and simply cutting off their warp gates, preventing them from effectively regaining resources and drawing their attention away from the front... It'd be awesome.

Pretty much what I spent this evening doing. On Amarish the TR had higher population followed by NC and then VS. TR had almost all the way up to the VS gate and NC held only the 6-8 areas around their warp. We set out from the NC gate taking: Blackshard Tungsten Mine, East Hills Checkpoint, AuraxiCom Substation, Granite Valley Garrison, Auraxis Firearms Corp., Highroads Station. A few others got taken also but I forget. This allowed both the NC and VS to take back a lot behind us and to our sides.

We spent ages at Auraxis Firearms Corp. with lots of AA M.A.X. and HA with HAWKs. Seeing off plenty of air. Highroads Station is what broke us in the end with so much air and many tanks rolling in. Easily one of my best nights in game so far.

[Siquo]

Pffft. Mattherson? More like Laggerson, amirite?!

SiquoBay12 on that server, but having destroyed tank-hulls popping in and out of existence, hundreds of unexploded grenades, and people phasing through the world isn't fun. Think I'll stick to the EU servers, until they fix all that

[Neyvn]

On AU Briggs...

TR decided to Swarm Indar last night. And Swarm they did, nearly 50% of the Population was TR...
I took a Platoon to Scarred Mesa Skydocks, captured it back from the TR with some sneaky Gal flying by a few of us and Held that for over 7hrs. Why didn't we push out you ask? Cause there was a TR Gal coming at us every 20mins...

Sadly the TR ended up conquring Indar later that morning but I had to sleep as I had been up for nearly 18hrs trying to turn tables on the TR...

[Silfurdreki]

Imagine cutting through and simply cutting off their warp gates, preventing them from effectively regaining resources and drawing their attention away from the front... It'd be awesome.

Pretty much what I spent this evening doing. On Amarish the TR had higher population followed by NC and then VS. TR had almost all the way up to the VS gate and NC held only the 6-8 areas around their warp. We set out from the NC gate taking: Blackshard Tungsten Mine, East Hills Checkpoint, AuraxiCom Substation, Granite Valley Garrison, Auraxis Firearms Corp., Highroads Station. A few others got taken also but I forget. This allowed both the NC and VS to take back a lot behind us and to our sides.

We spent ages at Auraxis Firearms Corp. with lots of AA M.A.X. and HA with HAWKs. Seeing off plenty of air. Highroads Station is what broke us in the end with so much air and many tanks rolling in. Easily one of my best nights in game so far.

This was on Miller, right? Me and a couple of friends were in a push from the Bio Lab south of the NC warp gate (Onatha?) through Silver Valley Arsenal and Splitpeak Pass and then joining your group at AuraxiCom Substation. I went off to Raven Landing from Auraxis Firearms Corp., though, and got pushed back trying to take The Ascent with far too few people.

All in all, it was a really great night.

Cutting off their warpgate from most of their territory felt like a huge victory, seeing as the NC on Miller are usually hard pressed to hold our closest facilities. I feel like it should be a greater penalty to be cut off from the warp gate, something like increased spawn time (maybe 50% more time?) in cut off territories, it would make cutting off a target mean something for the current assault.