Making stronghold fun
You just reminded me of how Stronghold made me like Conquest :P When they first announced Stronghold, I thought it would be my favourite PvP mode, as I’m really not a fan of Conquest.
When Stronghold finally launched, it made me appreciate Conquest so much more. I hate whenever Stronghold comes up. I’m not sure how well your suggested changes would work in practice, but Alliances Battles are something that I miss from GW1. Larger teams, instead of 5v5.
I’m not sure how well Alliance Battles would work in GW2 though, mainly because of the size of the teams. I can see it now, just an army of Reapers condi bombing all over the place, but I digress.
I do agree that Stronghold could do with some changes, as it just doesen’t feel fun to play. Something about it seems….. off. The way it was intended, I think, was that you’d have a couple people defending your keep’s lane, a couple of people attacking on the enemy keep’s lane, then have someone go and get supply.
It’s ended up that people just zerg it though. At start people spend supply, then rush the keep.
In 3 team version you can’t really zerg bc there is 3rd team to mix water