You can protect ords? Today it's like trying to stop a V1. One suicide dweeb after another, hordes have plenty of them and can throw them away with easen because that's how the game is played today. Pork everything so no one can fight back, bring 50 guys to one base and totally flatten everything so no one can fight back. Like - said, nobody is interested in fighting any more. It's all about the base count, and we get them the quickest and easiest way we can.
Again, thru my rose colored glasses, you use to take a base because it was at a higher alt and you didn't want the defenders to "drop" in on you when you took the next base, or you took a base because of the GV spawn points, either to help you, or to slow the defenders. Today you take a base because it's the least defended or most out of the way, oh and the new one, because it need a shore line because it's easier to NOE over water than land.