Strategy: What am I Doing Wrong?

[dfoofnik 341]

It is extraordinarily easy to buy a strong hull, a strong turret, and a strong paint. Put them together with a few hundred thousand crystals and you have a million-crystal wonder that can defeat other tanks with ease.

But you still lose.

Why?

Because you don't learn how to use that tank. You count on brute power to kill more tanks than you lose.

The first time you face an equal opponent, he mops up the battleground with you.

 

I am really pleased when I face a tanker who doesn't know where he can get shot from, what paint works against what opponents, and when his teammates are a weak link that he'll have to cover. He can kill me if he gets the chance, so I don't give him a chance.

- An Isida kills me twice, then tries again when I'm wearing Irbis paint. Surprise. I blast him while he's sputtering.

- A railgun keeps popping out and shooting me. Oops. He popped out twice from the same place. Dead.

- A thunder blasts me, and hides behind a wall on Monte Carlo. He forgot there's a hole in that wall.

 

I always try to learn from a loss. Unfortunately, I can't always stop and share with my teammates.

- We have a won game on CP. I'm about to shoot our opponent with my Shaft and my teammate (who has no chance to kill the guy) steps right into my line of fire -- we both get killed and lose the battle.

- A Titan is practically unkillable because he has an Isida behind him. I go behind him and kill the Isida. Meanwhile my teamies have shot the Titan futilely and been killed, and we lose by one flag.

- We have a 20-kill lead in TDM with 2 minutes to play, but raiders are killing us faster than we're killing them. I put my tank on Pause and wait for time to expire. One  of my 5 teammates *quits* and the other 4 get killed 30 times in 2 minutes and we lose. We didn't have to keep playing.

 

It's not always your fault when you lose. But do you really want to be a loser when you can be a smart winner??

[Zenyth 6,494]

PREACH

[stawp_thundertime 275]

SHHHH, you might reduce the amount of buyer by telling them there are other ways to win than buying more drugs and MUs.

And we wouldn't like that would we? :ph34r:

[I3loodShot 3,119]

dont play the game it sucks

[Bugs.meeny 1,013]

Teammates who dont think about what they are doing? Story of my life  :mellow:

[GoldRock 6,165]

Topic moved from Game Discussion by the moderators, as agreed!

Edited May 1, 2016 by GoldRock

[Hex 11,520]

Wow. Nice.

[cryptor 589]

Nice.

[Acrid 36]

wow