Guild Wars 2

I say a squad of infantry that crawled through a couple chicken houses would give you a a run for your money. All testosterone and fierceness mixed with some poultry funk would burn the hair from your nose.

Oozo.7856:

Was it a pig farm? If it wasn’t a pig farm then you will not be prepared.

Porky.5021:

I’m partial to cookies, particularly chocolate chips.

Cookies are nice, folks always go for free stuff, food or gear. Are you going to spend the cash on the next piece of siege or on the recruiting effort?

One of the very real problems in any large organization is manpower, building it, training and retaining. Recruiting can be focused at an individual, team, guild or server level. With the free server transfers ended what effects have been seen on your recruiting efforts? Are you still advertising for guilds to come to your server? Are you actively using the guest feature to bring folks over and run in your teams?
What do you do as a guild member, server leader to bring people into WvW? Are you running recruiting events? Are you using direct engagement? Are you bringing people into game from other platforms?
If you have a tactic that has or hasn’t worked please discuss it below.

Before you can manage a battlefield you have to be able to issue clear commands
In order to improve communication when in a leadership position here are the basics on giving a clear commands. If you are relaying information on a battlefield situation such as supply status, or enemy location you can be specific but you are not directing. With a command you are directing. This is significantly different from a request.
The structure of an effective command is as follows: person action location time.

Examples of ineffective commands
Hey come here!
Attack Speldons!
Rally on me!

Each of the above commands do not include your current location, who the command is directed to or a specified time.

Man the siege!
Fall Back!
These commands leave out the location, time, and person. These commands have assumptions on time and depend on visual contact to verify or obey. Because no person is specified the task may not be executed. This same principle can be applied to individual command and small unit commands.
Examples of effective and necessary individual commands
Dr Acula place a ram on the left side of anz door now
Or for a unit
AOD man the water gate siege in the next 30 seconds stay there until I give another order or you are wiped

Fuzzywuzikins lead your group to Pangloss now and setup two arrow carts behind the supply point and two ballistas in front of the supply point then remain on station to defend
Gold take your group to DR Borderlands to support the attack on hills and return once that attack in complete

You can issue a command clearly and to great effect but you must have the knowledge base first. Know your people or at least the leaders of the people on the map. Look at the people following you. Learn their names. There may be 200 people that play on your server in WvW regularly but once you know 30-50 of them by name and the guild leaders as well you will be better able to issue specific commands.

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I am learning a lot and have seen some good command and coordination this week. Well done and may next week be more lethal for our opponents.

I am not tarnished coast but the comments on departed players remaining in game is something I have experienced a lot. My brother always logs off earlier then me in the evening and the blue dot for his location persists in the spawn point the rest of the night.