Vitric Forge - How To Deal With Wall Snipers?
#1
Posted 10 May 2017 - 04:17 PM
While the attacking team gathers outside the nuisances on the wall start sniping, receiving only minimal return fire due to ECM and poking from good cover.
When pushing into the doors, the enemies on the wall give away your position to their team and shoot people in the back, so ignoring them is hardly an option.
On the other hand, concentrating on the nuisances and bringing them down will cost a lot of time, especially when they stop poking for a while.
So, what's the best way to deal with such a situation?
On a slightly related note: What IS mechs could be used to duplicate this tactic?
In before Spiders.
#2
Posted 10 May 2017 - 05:19 PM
The big thing to remember is that every ton sitting up on a wall is a ton that you don't have to burn through to get to the gens. This is actually a good thing for you. Once you have taken the omega area, their poptart antics basically fall apart, since you can just sit behind omega and the surrounding buildings and either farm the gens or the re-spawns.
Duplicate? Probably the best option for that would be the BJ-3 with PPC'S, and a few panthers as well. That strategy really isn't all that effective unless they do it with goose-peep night gyrs and huntsmen, to which the only IS analogy for would be one of the marauders, but that tonnage is far better off sitting as part of a firing line instead of popping off at the back.
#3
Posted 10 May 2017 - 05:27 PM
But it's easy to counter.
The potatoes all stack the middle - so just roll in right gate, using buildings, torso twisted so not to take rear dmg. Get to the rear Generator and just start burning it down. Make silly clanners pay for stacking high with JJ as Night Gyr/SHC etc simply do not have the DPS to stop it.
Works every time.
#4
Posted 10 May 2017 - 05:31 PM
justcallme A S H, on 10 May 2017 - 05:27 PM, said:
But it's easy to counter.
The potatoes all stack the middle - so just roll in right gate, using buildings, torso twisted so not to take rear dmg. Get to the rear Generator and just start burning it down. Make silly clanners pay for stacking high with JJ as Night Gyr/SHC etc simply do not have the DPS to stop it.
Works every time.
My opinion is based on 1-2 "snipers". Don't think I could ignore 6 night gyrs.
#5
Posted 10 May 2017 - 05:31 PM
As for IS on defence, you can send up most Mechs with jump jets. BJ-3 or Grasshopper are pretty handy for getting up there, though I prefer using my Marauder 5D. If you want to go Old School you can get a Victor up there for PPC and Gauss fun, though it's not recommended.
Play about in the training grounds to find a way up there and see what works.
#6
Posted 10 May 2017 - 06:09 PM
Sincerely,
A helpful Clan loyalist
Or you could just do what some of the good pilots above suggest.
#7
Posted 10 May 2017 - 06:14 PM
Bud Crue, on 10 May 2017 - 05:31 PM, said:
Ye you can, trust me. Just pump the gens if the teams are that dumb to stack people that heavily. I've seen it happen a couple times now and it's ended in losses. One we were a tad disorganised so I think took till 2nd wave to be over. Other game was over in 5mins.
Much salt from Clan side... But stuff it. You play with dumb tactics and leave gens wide open, blow them apart with a counter tactic.
#8
Posted 10 May 2017 - 11:51 PM
Then try and spawn camp or gen rush. Theyll come to you.
Alternately, get get some spiders and go wreck the roof.
#9
Posted 11 May 2017 - 12:27 PM
If you got more tips for vitric forge, please post 'em.
Marquis De Lafayette, on 10 May 2017 - 06:09 PM, said:
If playing clam, that would actually work due to no min range on CLRM.
#11
Posted 11 May 2017 - 03:34 PM
Now. *IF* the attackers get their guys on the roof and people are having trouble with them, a sniper can be quite helpful by getting on the high ground between the left and middle defending drop zone. You can shoot at a good chunk of the roof area where they have no cover. You will have cover because there is a vertical piece of rock here you can hide behind.
#12
Posted 11 May 2017 - 04:01 PM
If they have good shots, laugh at them and dunk it.
If not, farm these ******* till the last mech.
Edited by Dark Wooki33 IIC, 11 May 2017 - 04:02 PM.
#13
Posted 13 May 2017 - 01:32 PM
justcallme A S H, on 10 May 2017 - 06:14 PM, said:
Ye you can, trust me. Just pump the gens if the teams are that dumb to stack people that heavily. I've seen it happen a couple times now and it's ended in losses. One we were a tad disorganised so I think took till 2nd wave to be over. Other game was over in 5mins.
Much salt from Clan side... But stuff it. You play with dumb tactics and leave gens wide open, blow them apart with a counter tactic.
Yeah, one time we faced a lance of elite comp players who all went up top. They were very good, but they didn't understand FW or that map well enough. We stayed under cover, farmed the crap out of their pugs, and in the end it was their four against our twelve.
#14
Posted 13 May 2017 - 03:53 PM
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