Last night was another example of a bish horde gathering. It time to put together a horde so if a time limit is set for tower players, then it should be no less than 30 minutes.
When I logged in at 730 est, Rooks and Knights where hitting the Bish on two fronts. Bish had about even if just a bit more in numbers as the other two teams. Puppies squad night starts after 8PM, so the numbers started climbing then. Our squad alone sometimes makes up half the team.
The Rooks had taken 4 bases from the Bish in the south and the Knight were trying to clear the Bish off an island in the NE. Puppies started running missions first to stop a couple of base takes in the south and then we started pushing back. With an ENY of 12 that was climbing each time we looked it was harder and harder to push back..... which is the point of ENY by the way.....That stopped us from splitting our force to work both fronts. But as as a group that works together well we did ok and cleared the Rooks from that island in the south. At first there was defense with a few Temps and Jugs, but once they they switched to GVs it was much easier.
Once we got the island back in the south the Knight were trying to more on to another island in the NE so the Puppies switched fronts to stop them and push them back. There was a Battleship group and I couldnt tell you how many trips it took to kill that thing carrying an ENY of 25.
It seems to me most times our squad is going the team we are hitting disappears. They dont even seem to start a fight on the other front. Maybe they are the tower sitters. I hope Hitech does add in the tower sitters timer. Set it short, say 10 minutes, if the sitter hasnt left the tower take him out of the ENY calculations. He can sit for hours or days, but at least a team wont be penalized for the sitters.