If you are the good player in the game who is annoying the enemy then the enemy will swap into whatever turret you are using. If you ar not annoying them they won't. So use whatever the _________ you enjoy using and annoy them.

WEll I do not know what tis means but you seem happy. :) Grats on your first post here.

I rarely play DM. In all the other modes [today] the players with the most team-minded players generally wins. This is because team work creates synergy: the group is stronger than the parts added together as individuals. The ability to judge proper moments to attack, fall back, feint, and so forth varies greatly from player to player. Having a sense of communication with the tanks around you, varies greatly from player to player. Create a team full of players from the able end of these spectra and that team will win often. That synergy is real is indisputable. That there are common words in the English language used to describe how various individuals respond in various ways to the same challenges. is also indisputable. One of those words is 5 letters long and begins with the letter "s", regardless of claims made elsewhere in this thread. Some time yes one team will have a favorable equipment mix. I recall a recent Massacre game. Enemy had two heavy hull vulcans. It was no man's land to attack them. The level of coordination to take them out just was not going to happen in a 'pick up game'. OTOH those vulcan were werful because they knew what they were doing. They were spread out to cover different angles and each other. OTO,OH there are still plenty og noobs out there at Marshal rank and above.

Yes I have been in some kill fests when one team breaks through the defenses into the rear. But its a bit of a diffeernt case. Close range tanks have a better time on Desert. A shaft sitting in one spot cannot cover all the approaches. On Massacre I can see everything from the corner perch. Desert, Massacre, Highways, Brest ... there sure are no shortage of long rage maps for shafts, rails and other long itters to hang out. What would be really novel is a map where everyone says, "Watch out for all the Smokys. That map is just tailor made for Smoky." Ha! Never in life. :) NThis may or may not be true. Making the map wider means the corner perches will have shallower angles. The existing ridge lines will shadow a bit more square footage. But it looks like mayyybe TO has fiddled with the hills and ridges a bit too. A few choice placements and the sight lines wil no longer go accoss the map. It will all depend on how well they did the re-design.

The War #1 map WAS a hexagon map. They were just drawn distorted to make it look lie, you know... provinces.. But each province touched 6 neighbors in a hex pattern. Except at the borders of course. Trying to organize these new teams will be even more like herding cats. Cats with catnip but no Ritalin. Cats with catnip and AK's. On the upsaide chaos is fun to watch. Time to open a popcorn stand. Unless of course the mods are tasked to forbid such a dastardly thing. [wink]

I cannot be sure but I think and very much hope they have reduced the lines of sight across the entire map. Widenng it and adding a bit more high ground in the middle might dramatically change the ability of long rage weapons to just maul the center zone and enemy rear for that matter. I must admit I am pleasantly surprised to see Massacre get fixed. The new map was so flawed and I liked the old map so much. Maybe now Massacre will return to its former glory. :)

I just had a game with my Colonel in a game with a Marshal on each team. But there were Captains too! Note they finished in 3rd on each team. I think they were our Isidas. There were some late player adds as you can see. The game was not full. I did well but Striker on Massacre is a good match. his account has striker mu10 and Titan mu8. Protections 30% to 35% for the foes in this battle. With good gear you have a fighting chance. With good teammates also then you can beat anyone :). ---- Well if there is a silver lining ere it is this. There is now a tangible reason to rank up. Once you get to Marshal it just gets easier. After rank and rank and another rank of fighting your m2/10 gear against m3 to m4 gear you reach Marshal. Now you can mu your stuff over base m3. You spent weeks and months fighting m4 gear with m2/10. Now you get to fight that same m4 with m3/2 ... m3/7... m3/10 ... it just gets easier and easier. :) It some sort of reason to rank up at least. :)

For Pro battles yes. For basic game play no. Skyscrapers is a gimmick map like Madness was. That does not mean it isn't fun for a change of pace. It just does not belong as a core game map.

Word. No, wrong on every count. YES teams capture resources, YES the Rocket determines the winner, NO, K/D does not determine which team takes over a territory, YES "Stars" do determine which team takes over a territory. The War lasts until one team wins. Sorry to be glib but that's the way it is. It will last at least 5 turns but the odds are it will last at least 6 turns. It could last 10 or more. No one knows. 1 Turn = 2 days. Membership will be random. With hundreds of thousands of players your concern here is extremely unlikely. Last time paints cost what? 100 Cry? The paint cost is insignificant.

Honesty is always to be respected. You are at Brigadier which may well be one of the worse ranks to be at when the modules were split. I have a Colonel account and I hace MajGen accounts. The Colonel hadn't had a chance yet to buy a bunch of triple modules. So now that account is left with no protections against some turrets and each single now costs 100k. My accounts just a bit igher in rank have all modules and are fat and happy. If your Brigadier is like my Colonel yes the competition can be pretty stiff when MM puts you in a game with Marshals or even above.

Well, a shotgun is a close range weapon. Real life does not apply. TO is a game not a simulation. :) Hammer can erase an enemy with a single shot. The others have no impact where Hammer has tremendous impact force. Hammer can engage at medium ranges moderately well. Fir and Freeze modules are seem much more than ha,mer modules. But mostly these are different play styles. Some player will just find one or the other more fun. That's always the bottom line for me.

These maps are not in MM because they have not been re-examined and re-designed for MM use. Besides, Skyscrapers is far larger than normal MM maps. It is a special sort of map not really suited to core gaming. Noise is pure crap. It would be madness to put this turd of a map in the MM system. Courage, Factory are not jogging my memory, But like any map they'd need to be reviewed by TO for the MM system before inclusion. I am glad to learn MAssacre is getting afacelift. The old mMassacre was my favorite map. The new one is just a barrel for Shafts shooting fish and you're the fish.

Of course this event will be in the non-Pro section. That is how TO is structured. How many years will it take for people to learn this? Viking, Taffy, Izzy... were any of you contacted by TO before tis event? It seems if they were going to contact active players from War #1 they would reach out to at least one member of the EWC. More TO propaganda or fact? ---------- Three factions seems better. Randomized teams spoils my plan for War #2 but that's OK. This will reduce but not eliminate dead-weight mults flooding into one team. The stars system if set up correctly will also remove the ability for mults to sabotage a team. Hmm... now organizing ateam made of random players speaking 40 languages using different forums ... that's gonna be harder.

This is the only context TO gives the players. So unless you are a Legend there is no way of knowing if your rating is good for your rank.

Yes I've seen that now. Tehre was a glimpse of the Massacre base area without the nooks or garages cut into the rear cement wall. I'd hat to see the only irregular terrain map go away. I with there were a few more maps designed arounf the irregular terrain concept.

Massacre looks to be missing the "garages" aka nooks cut into the back concrete wall of the base. The fatal flaws of this map, the raised corner sniper positions, still remain. Of course if the terrain itself has changed maybe the sniper roosts will not be as bad. I hope they do fix it. It's no-tank's-land now.

78,104 Marshal. Smoky 69,202 MajGen Isida 69,041 MajGen Vulcan 69,868 MajGen Smoky 61,813 Colonel Striker

Yeah this is what I mean. It just seem to me that term was always a bit silly. But I understood the frustration then because non-buyers did not obtain many Supplies through missions back then. Back then there was a dramatic difference between Buyers and free players when it came to Supplies stockpiles But that was corrected almost 18 months ago. Today the term just seems obsolete to me. This does not sound like a controversial topic. But you never know what will be tasty to the trolls..

Well, two weeks ago if you got in a game with 3 enemy magnums you just quit that game and tried to get one worth playing. Today you quit teh game when you see 3 enemy freezes. Which you do about one game in four.. Great over-compensation TO. Wunderbar!

Well in the first place I did not say "everything" depends on the player now did I? No I didn't/ So take your straw man arguman down please.. I disputed your claim that players skill has no effect on success in TO. in the 2nd place, it isn't 2011 anymore. I don't care what one ***** did back then.. That means nothing. Third, part of player skill includes knowing how to milk the game's economic system so you are no over-matched m3 to m1. Fourth, yes a weaker tank can in fact beat a stronger tank. Not if your idea of playing TO is to se an enemy, stop, and trade shots in open terrain of course. But a player who applies guile and dare I say it skill can beat it. Bottom line, you use the word "skill" unmlike the rest of the world. Clearly, obviously, and irrefutably there are some players who play this game much better than others. SMH.

If you use one turret exclusively you might as well get alterations. You might learn some new tricks even if they are just used on special circumstances. I look at this fno-freeze freeze alt as in the same boat as teh vulcan alts. They aren't needed. They don't seem that useful on paper. But when you tun out of other items to MU or upgrade then you might as well add the alterations to your toolkit. But if you do not use freeze hardly at all... then meh. Why bother?

I have taken only a couple small looks at this rating thing. I will not claim the following is carved in stone but it seems on the right track. No question rating is affected primarily by rank. No matter what your rating is it will go up by thousands of points the moment you rank up. The mid-point rating for a rank seems to be spaced about 2,500 to 3,000 points above the rank immediately below. Individual playing history can more the player's rating about 1,500 - 2,500 points upwards or downwards. In other words a low-rated Major and a high-rated Captain could have about the same rating score. I made a suggestion the Ratings page include the top 40 or 50 efficiency scores for ach rank. That would give players some context to see how they are ding. The current list of top 100 ratings will always list 100 Legends. Everyone else in the game has no idea how to make sense of their score. But tis suggestion was not even posted to the forum. It went into the review bin and never came out. SMH.

What is the basis for this prediction?

The module bust up has moced all module unlock to Marshal. Nothing unlocks now from Brigadier to General. It is a stark wasteland. This has me thinking TO will assign Drone Batch IV to unlock at LTGen or MajGen. This at least puts something in this gap. Batch II unlocks at WO5. Where will Batch III unlock? Capt or Major seem good bets. Batch II and IV will of course cost more. But will their MU cost be higher too? My guess is the MU cost will go up too. --- I've seen many drones floating around but I cannot remember a game where a drone player was also an unstoppable rekking machine. Haven't heard much mentioned of it out side one clan war report. Anyone?

Some low accounts will get windfalls from containers. Imagine a new account that get 25k from opening its 1st container. That 25k goes a long way at entry levels. :o But as a game plan? Kits are SO 2016. The rules have changed a lot since then.