Well, what I have noticed, most of the new maps start with mauling of knits strats.
Its wise to watch where buffs start and you know they are going to 30k, meet them half way and shoot them.
Not so long time ago I did this. Took heavily armed fiffer, fuel for couple of hours, climbed next to the moon and started patrolling between our strats and con bases.
As radar bar grew bigger, they regularly disappeared off map, to the world of Gods (picture shows me peeping after them) and were flying there back and forth, up and down. Couple of brave ones then descended from stratosphere and sneaked in trying to do it NOE. And ditched, when saw me approaching.
If they knew it's me, they would have stayed and fought, perhaps, knowing my non-existing gunnery skills but I had no big name sign hanging from the plane. I promise to put it there next time.