It’s a numbers thing. You run to one side of the map and wipe their pvdoor, only to have to run to some other side to take care of a separate pvdoor. They you have to go to your BL because their 3rd and 4th group are there.
I feel like this is a reference to the recent BL wipe of FC. I don’t necessarily know where you were in that but it is part of our tactics. We only have a couple particularly large WvW guilds, but a lot of smaller organized ones and that is what we do – each work our own thing. We also have a couple of serial map hoppers, which means the pressure can hit anywhere.
Our most recent push on FC BL, I’m not certain we did have the numbers but we did have an organizational advantage. We pulled 10-15 FC to our group of 5 by throwing a golem at watergate while our larger group took Bay. Then the small group moved on Dawns while the large group moved on Garrison. Our group of 5 managed to take the tower and pick off 10 people trying to reinforce the garrison group because the FC militia was unsure if they should be fighting on rescuing to the valued objective.
Perhaps you had gotten reinforcements in after that, but once a single objective remained we did not have enough to actually fight you straight up.
Its not something unique to us by any means either, we just managed to execute it successfully there. Just before that three FC groups had hit three different objectives while trying to retake their BL, but working it with militia doesn’t quite work as well as organized groups. And, of course, it works better with more numbers which we definitely have this week – but more numbers in total isn’t more numbers on a map or all the time either.
Anyway, I spent about 10 hours in FC BL this morning/afternoon and it was a great back and forth with both sides pressing advantages. I’d like to thank VLK for setting me up with a hills late last night and hopefully it’ll be returned to them tonight with the shiny new waypoint if we can hold it til then. Also thanks to the FC commander who portal bombed the west cliff of hills for some reason, leading to 6 instant fear kills for me :P
PS. Should TTA want to investigate, 9 hours into that 10 hour run we saw a TTA thief on the outer walls of [EDIT: y]our hills inside the keep. It was fairly suspicious, though nothing came of it.
Genesis Theory [GT] – HoD
