Defending Against Overwhelming Numbers
We have all been there!!! but to me some of the best fights in WVW are when a low population server takes the time to correctly siege a keep and rally for an amazing defense against large numbers. This type of situation can bring out the best from both sides. My example without using server names was a battle for Valley the other day. We built up Valley with SUPERIOR SIEGE on all inner doors out of AOE range, key placements on the vista as well as door coverage with trebs and catas. They had been stomping us for hours and when they came the were not prepared for it and the bags flowed, it seemed like everyone on the map came for the fight.
The better fight happened when they returned and I am glad they did. Knowing now what they were facing it was great to see how the strategy changed. They started working the outer walls from all sides systematically killing off our exterior siege, once the outer was breached, they did well in not clustering under our AC fire, although some of the newer folks provided some solid bag fun for us. They were on the walls flash building bali’s to work on the vista siege as we were working to keep up enough siege and occasional rushes to keep them at bay. They did have a few Golems and yes I know they could have easily built 10 or 15 and made the cap very easily, but I am glad they didnt because it made the fight one of the best I have been in.
North inner finally went down, we poured AC and personal AOE’s down on the choke holding them off as long as we could. They then sent their waves of small groups of heavies inside and up the walls to start killing the siege, but not without heavy losses, once they beat down our siege the battle for the circle was on. Both sides kept coming and in the end they won the day, but those are the fights that keep me coming back. It sucks to lose your stuff, but if I can persuade the lower population servers to take the time to defend your time spent playing this game will be much more satisfying than just running around trying to avoid the larger server. Well done on both side, hope it can happen again!
Even more epic when you get double teamed, and you wipe the other two servers continuously.
Not long before FA was pushed to silver league, I was on when one of the other servers was straight karma training in our BL, and we had about 10 people on, somewhat early on a weekend, like 8 am est.
Being outnumbered by 4 to 1 or more, we started draining their supply. The few of us on the map started using supply traps, upgrading objectives before they’d take them, hitting them with supply cows. They caught on and started taking camps, and we kept up the whole strategy, with a heroic upgrade on north camp right before it capped.
We still lost a lot of our BL but did manage to slow down and annoy the karma train by quite a bit, which was the idea. Most of those guys are there for the easy rewards, so if we make it take forever they might leave. They left before taking our upgraded northern points, which was a big win.
Two examples for me from last round. A four hour SM battle (defending) – eventually lost out to superior numbers.
Same day we battled constant raids on the EB keep (after losing SM). Golems, cata’s, trebs. Front gate, back gate, water gate, walls knocked down. Unfortunately the overwhelming numbers became too much of a challenge and we were attacked from three different directions, ran out of supply & the siege was slowly but surely wiped.
One bonus. While they used golems it was not a golem rush where the enemy have 10-15 of them followed by 60 players.
SM keep was way more epic when The Lord was on the 2nd floor
~Tarnished Coast~