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Offline bustr

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Help Me Understand Strategic play in the MA
« on: February 09, 2013, 08:08:23 PM »
There is absolutly no right way to play in the LWMA. There is only what you choose to do now to entertain yourself.

Having said that I would like to understand what I see from the map during prime time 5pm california and what I fight against. POTW my squad is a knight only squad and prefers to not country jump to give you my refrence point.

In the past 9 months or so I've been seeing more cohesive action amongst squads in the bish and the rooks. At times the coordination of attack and defence reminds me of SFO. Also the altitiudes flown at to control airspace are higher than I've seen in some time as a standard procedure.

Strategicly I'm seeing the coordination of large numbers openly presenting themsleves at higher altitiudes projecting force across several sectors impacting resources that can serve the single feild or several feilds targeted for capture. It's easy to see this in action visa the group coordination and compairing the IDs of those you are fighting to the obvious large number of squads online in each country at the time.

So help me understand all of this strategic coordination of so many squads. Years ago I would recognise it as the Rooks Joint Squad Operations that prompted Hitech to introduce ENY. That was a magnificent display of offline coordination and strategic force projection. 300+ players each time completely shutting down the arena and dominating any defenders to the point of making players logoff for the evening. One of those unintended consiquences of allowing players to form squads. At some point the squads might coordinate themselves into an unstopable super group and kill the game.

So is this time just a tipping point to which large numbers of bish and rook squad members have more time on their hands during the week? Or have the established squads of those countries in the last 9 months evolved into loosely aligned large strategic groups coordinating their efforts from lessons learned in SFO? Once you let an elephant into the room with it's boy band dance group performing Michael Jacksons Thriller routine. It's kind of hard not to notice the dancing elephant.

So help me understand this large scale strategic play coordination and how you gentelmen are implementing it.
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Offline Gixer

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Re: Help Me Understand Strategic play in the MA
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2013, 09:47:18 PM »
Years ago I would recognise it as the Rooks Joint Squad Operations that prompted Hitech to introduce ENY.

Well someone else who remembers the RJO days.   :salute

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Re: Help Me Understand Strategic play in the MA
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2013, 12:10:43 AM »
Well someone else who remembers the RJO days.   :salute

CO's like Ghstdncr of Nightmares someone who I will always remember as being a great CO and Co leader of RJO missions, only wish I'd saved some film or screenshots from those missions.


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Re: Help Me Understand Strategic play in the MA
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2013, 02:25:31 AM »
Gibberish :old:

Knights are always outnumbered and thus communicate more :old:

We won the map the other day :old:

Bishops and the other one are horders and vulchers :old:

Being in knights is character building, ie you cant win all the time and you will not be a spaceman or president :old:

I am in charge of all the Knights by the way except Alfamega who is a law unto himself :old:
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Re: Help Me Understand Strategic play in the MA
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2013, 02:40:46 AM »
Having said that I would like to understand what I see from the map during prime time 5pm california and what I fight against. POTW my squad is a knight only squad and prefers to not country jump to give you my refrence point.

6:56pm pacific today:




it really is quite predictable, between 4-5pm, numbers switch, bishops go low, knights and rooks outnumber until about 10pm (pacific time)

« Last Edit: February 10, 2013, 02:52:21 AM by kvuo75 »
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Re: Help Me Understand Strategic play in the MA
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2013, 02:43:11 AM »
morning Kvuo :)
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Re: Help Me Understand Strategic play in the MA
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2013, 02:48:14 AM »
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Re: Help Me Understand Strategic play in the MA
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2013, 02:53:04 AM »
morning Kvuo :)

wait.. its only 1am. i'm good  :aok
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Re: Help Me Understand Strategic play in the MA
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2013, 03:48:39 AM »
Actually, I too find that at different timezones, different countries seem to hold the numbers.

For me when I log on it bishops>knights>rooks. By the time I log off its bishops>rooks>knights. Im sure there's probably some time of the day when the bishops get outnumbered too.

That being said,I typically fly for the side with the least numbers. For a while I used to fly knights but recently I have switched to the rooks. Personally, I find that during the hours Im on, rooks are a better organised bunch where people actually call out what fields are under attack, how best to defend them, what startegies to employ etc. And then I also see people who actually respond to that.

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Re: Help Me Understand Strategic play in the MA
« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2013, 04:11:39 AM »
Actually, I too find that at different timezones, different countries seem to hold the numbers.

For me when I log on it bishops>knights>rooks. By the time I log off its bishops>rooks>knights. Im sure there's probably some time of the day when the bishops get outnumbered too.

yeah, the screenshot i posted shows it. (prime time USA)
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Re: Help Me Understand Strategic play in the MA
« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2013, 04:13:23 AM »
What about me?  :old: :cry

Morning Rebull :old:

Your Awesome :)

Whats your view on strategic play time?
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Re: Help Me Understand Strategic play in the MA
« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2013, 04:31:50 AM »
Morning Rebull :old:

Your Awesome :)

Whats your view on strategic play time?
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Re: Help Me Understand Strategic play in the MA
« Reply #12 on: February 10, 2013, 08:49:38 AM »
There is no "right way" but there are plenty of "wrong way".

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Re: Help Me Understand Strategic play in the MA
« Reply #13 on: February 10, 2013, 09:55:03 AM »
There is no "right way" but there are plenty of "wrong way".

I like this.

The thing about AH is that a player or squad can make it be as directly "arcade-like" as they wish, or as "simulator-like" as they wish.  One thing I have noticed in my years of being here (started in Jan '08) in terms of which country does what and when that the pendulum swings to and fro like the family jewels of a naked old man in the desert.  Obviously, at least in the past 12-18 months, one of the chess pieces seems to like the "tactic" of completely eliminating any defense of an airfield so the capture is as easy as finding a welfare recipient in Chicago and New York.   

The sad thing is that those people who want to abide by some sense of a simulator experience vs gamer-arcade-point scorer or "horde for the winz!" player gets crucified here in the forums and in the game for wanting to do so.

The strategy is the whole thing is well laid out, imo.  I think HTC finally added a dimension to AH that had been missing: attacking the strategic target/industrial complex actually has an effect on the front lines w/o restricting game play.  While I have some issues on some of the localized effects of some very arbitrary numbers in terms of resupply perks, all or none effects of barracks and ordnance, etc, I think AH is certainly far better that what it was in terms of what it has to offer.



       
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Re: Help Me Understand Strategic play in the MA
« Reply #14 on: February 10, 2013, 05:51:52 PM »
Gibberish :old:

Knights are always outnumbered and thus communicate more :old:

We won the map the other day :old:

Bishops and the other one are horders and vulchers :old:

Being in knights is character building, ie you cant win all the time and you will not be a spaceman or president :old:

I am in charge of all the Knights by the way except Alfamega who is a law unto himself :old:
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