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Last night, Mags took Mendon and built trebs to knock down the wall of OL keep – this shouldn’t have worked. There are so many ways to counter those trebs, the simplest of which was our 30 person zerg turning up to AoE them, but TC was busy killing the tree champ >.>, and then went to the wrong side of Mendon, focusing on the gate when they should have just blasted some trebs
Excepting when you are drastically outnumbered, the reason most towers and holdings are lost is because folks don’t defend them properly. They’re lost due to poor play, poor decisions, ignorance, innocence and what I like to call gawping fish syndrome – when players would rather stand on walls staring than take the initiative and ‘act’.
Neither Maguuma or DB have much of a chance of defending anything in EB when TC is out in numbers and they are not, and everything you do manage to take ‘will’ be taken away again, but that doesn’t mean you don’t take the opportunity to start to stymie some of TC’s less than stellar tower captures.
Playing as red and blue in tier 2, TC would lose all their holdings in EB each and every night to BG or SoR. And each and every day we’d begin the slow process of returning our keep to 1700/1700, and upgrading each tower as best we could. We’d force BG, SoR, KN, all of them to leave Mendon or OW with their 30ish or so players who thought that some swiftly built and well executed siege would result in a swift tower cap, because I know how to counter everything you can throw at a tower, and while I’m doing that, our icons/zerg are arriving to flank and force the enemy to break.
Which is all a long and convoluted way of saying that while entering a map and seeing that you own nothing is extremely frustrating, you’re not going to be able to change that without people being willing to stay back and defend what you take (like Mags did with Mendon and its trebs last night).
As far as roaming and fair fights go…WvW isn’t the place for fair. Given the choice of fighting 2 people at, say, Speldan, and possibly losing, allowing the enemy to flip the camp, I’m always going to elect to run over those 2 enemy invaders with more people if I have them available. I’m not out to test my skill, I’m not interested in open field combat – I’m interested in defending what my server owns. And most of the time, that doesn’t require me fighting out in the open. Instead, I’m sitting on the siege I built, knowing exactly what I can do with it.
I rack up more deaths than kills each week in WvW. WvW isn’t about how many loot bags you gain, or how easily you can defeat people in small, scattered encounters. WvW is about fighting, doggedly, to take towers, keeps and camps, and then fighting all the more stubbornly to hold on to them.
Mags and DB, you’ve both killed me dozens of times this week as I kite around Golanta or Rogues, trying to hold up your caps. Sometimes I die, and you get the cap. I am sad. Sometimes, I die, but you don’t get the cap, because I lived long enough for reinforcements to arrive (it’s what I do). I am happy. Sometimes, I don’t die at all and the zerg arrives and there is much death and running away. I am pleased.
But this is what I do. This is how I contribute. I make taking ‘my’ towers difficult. ‘My’ camps. ‘My’ stuff. You’ll still take my things, sometimes
, especially camps, but that won’t stop me from building them back up and being there again, next time. And maybe next time, because I’m there, you don’t get my stuff.
This is why I WvW. This is what I do for TC. I am the blood that bleeds for EB (and I bleed oh so well!)
I’m certain both Mags and DB have players just like me, and I hope that whatever holdings you do manage to grasp this week, you’re gaining as much pride and enjoyment from keeping them out of TC’s hands as I do keeping your eager hands off my property.
~Nyari Cil, Queen of EB
Oh Nyari how you wound me, as I am the idiot commander that didn’t think of just hitting the trebs with AOE. I groaned on mumble when I saw that tree champ at Speldan, as I knew I had just lost control of my group for the next 10 minutes. Fun night though, pleasure fighting with you.