Two problems with what you've said here....
1. you are basing what you say on you, not the community. I would be very surprised if 5% of the missions run had even half of the things you mentioned in them. Today most just say "ok everyone up heavy here and we'll take the next base in line". As long as the horde moves together.
2. "I refuse to give any of my tactics here but I assure you there is some pretty creative ways to take a base." Lets make the game better for everyone, but I'll keep my secrets to myself. I'm glad the trainers don't have this attitude, as well as the majority of players. So in stead of spreading the wealth and teaching others how to go about making good and meaningfull missions you would rather keep that info to yourself.
Granted you may be just saying that so as to keep your post short, but this is part of the problem. even those running the big missions aren't bothering to use any tactics, or strategies, they just hammer the next base in line.
1. Well, yes I am basing it on me. I will let others speak for themselves. I will say Falcon23 goes through the same routine. Although I think I am far more creative.
2. Okay I will give out my tactics, I was insulating myself there. Cause buddy I am going to get hammered. I might as well say ouch now.
You see a base flashing with no radar. So you up an ILII and head to town to kill a tank but before you get there the town is captured. You say what the heck, It just started flashing. That was me, I killed the town out of radar alarm range with a panzer. Blame Mugz, he taught me that btw. You ever successfully defend a base where the two bases radar ranged overlapped and no gv spawn near? You then think I am taking this fight to the bish. Lets go boys. But when you get there and start to fight the base you defended is captured. That was me driving an m3 from the one base to the other. You ever have a high cap over a base looking for a goon and no gv spawn near. But it gets captured anyway, that is me again in an m3.
You ever see a plane flying over a factory near the radar range of a base, that would be my comrade playing decoy while I am tearing down the town in an osty. You think well just a milkrunner since there is no gv spawn to the base. Told you I can get into your head.
With the panzer I have taken many ports with no gv spawn simply by staying out of dar alarm range and shelling the ack, the vh, and then the manned ack in that order. Generally I have comrade beside me in an m3. We simply just walk in and drop the troops.
So many maps have spawns to factories or to bases that aren't really all that far to the base beside it. When maps don't I call it Getback proof. One key thing is I try to leave the water tower up. So when someone glances at the town and sees the water tower they think the town is up. Learned that from Falcon23. I can take that down with my m3 on the way in.
Ever see my squad name? It's MGVA. Stands for Marathon Ground Vehicles Association. Was a running joke with in the Rolling Thunder community. This is one of the reasons I don't mind hordes. Helps my cause when everyone goes to one base. I've played a huge roll in wining wars with these tactics.
So there you have it. Are you willing to do it. Probably not. For most it is boring. For me it's pure exhilaration and adrenaline. It gets so intense sometimes I shake. I mean I just drove a half hour or more and it could fail because of just one upper.
Let me give you an example. One day RT ran a mission to a base where the radar range overlapped. There is no gv spawn there. They got the town down in short order but the goon was killed and the Rooks upped in mass. Not to be thwarted I spawned in from one base to the base the rooks were attacking. But the spawn is only about 15 miles from the target base. I have about 40 minutes to get there. No biggie. But about a third of the way there I see a low ki. So I stop. But golly he sure sounds close. So I jump into the pintle gun and swing around to see a spit diving on me. I ping the spit and he crashes into a tree behind me. I now have been spotted. Do I continue. Well the Ki never came down so I think the guy in the spit didn't tell anyone. So I continue but I take a longer route out of the usual flight path. Is the town going to pop? It's getting close. I sat over a hill looking at the town. It's still down. Is there a werble in town? I don't see anything but it's now or never. I run into town while several planes pass off to the seaside and drop troops. It takes. Gawd was that intense. I could barely talk afterwards. Now you think the town is flashing so someone should have looked. However remember the radars overlap so what they probably thought it was just a con near radar range.
Now Bj229 caught me one day btw. I killed is hurricane and then his ILII, Rotten rascal comes back in an m8 and kills my osty. He just couldn't let it go.
