[How To] SotA

[Thidan]

Hello.

Today I'll be teaching you HOW to play SotA (Strand of the Ancients) as easy as possible and having an extremely high winning streak (If this is followed 100% of the time).

We'll start with the attacking phase.



The key to taking the relic is to overrun the defense.
to do so, you need as many tanks/vehicles as possible.

*PREPARATION FADES*

When you get off the boats, EVERYONE should get some seaforium and get 4 (four) tanks and choose what side to go. (Green lines)
The 2 (two) tanks from the opposite side follows the tanks on the side you've chosen. (Red-ish line)
Once the first gate is destroyed, 2 people, stealthers preferred, go on a ninjaing spree and takes the 2 graveyards (White circle) and get 4 more tanks.
4 people get one tank each, starts attacking the closest gate in the direction of the relic (Gray line) and to a 95%, the relic is yours.
This is a tac that many people TRY and do, but forget telling everyone to get seaforium and the GYs.
Taking the GYs is a key to victory, but may also be a key to beeing defeted.
Why?
Well, taking the GYs makes the opposite team spawn closer to the next gate, but when you have 6-8 tanks zerging, it's easymode.
Also, if all the zerging goes well and oyu have ~5 tanks at yellow gate, do NOT take the souther GY, that's a NO-NO. That way you get 15 players from the opposite team into defense, thats a big problem and your chances to win are reduced by alot.



Defending the relic.



The key to defending is falling back in time, right?
Tell me, how many times have you lost due to people not falling back in time?
A bulletproof tactic to increase your chances of winning i sto have the first 4 gates defended by 2 players each. (Red dots).
At the purple and red gate, have 1 of the players spam the GY flag just incase there's a rogue nearby trying to cap it. (Green circle)
Notice the 4 yellow dots?
That resembles 2 people on seaforium duty. They should do EVERYTHING they can to disarm seaforium charges.
This tac has been successfull in 27 of my 182 SotAs (29 attempts with this tactic) and IMO, it's the best one availible.
Sure you get more ACHIEVEMENTS!!1111!11!1 while zerging beach but let's be honest, defending the beach in 10 mintes? How often does that happen..?


If you feel like this is common sense then GOOD!
GO AND TEACH MORE PEOPLE ABOUT IT!
If you find this new, awesome, now GO AND TEACH MORE PEOPLE ABOUT IT!



I'm out, need 14k more honor for my cloak.

~Thidan

[Sicco]

Never done that BG or what it now is as I don't have wotlk yet but looks good to me ;>

[Evilphtbstrd]

sound strategy and a great little guide , but as always unless everyone wants to listen then chaos as usual

[namnida]

seems like a pretty usual strat the pugs and even premades use on my BG

[origar]

Actually yes this is how to play SoTA but unless its premade u will NEVER. be able to learn all the other retards to do this in 1,5 min and also its not so hard to figure out that this is the way to play