After the breakdown of DTF a group of players that worked as a squad within the tribe decided to form their own tribe. Originally a group of us applied for Wasted as our skill level and teamwork is worthy of any tribe on the map, but through either timing or no interest, or the fact our account Impulse2011 did attack one of the council members shortly after checking for interest :icon_eek: we were not interviewed.
Fast forward to Halloween. The whole day off, planned around being in front of the computer for some other world ops, i log on, a few minutes go by and the phone dings. Incoming from Wasted sent to hit a village of ours. Immediately triggered a response by the group as we organized for this attempt to snatch some villages. So i scan the sending account. Oh I know that guy we are tribemates on another world, so i message and we immedieately get in to conversation about how fun the day is going to be.
See, holding a grudge, getting mad at an attacker, is all silly business at the end of the day. Players are fully capable of being tribemates on one world and opponents on another. It's been quite a while since i've been on an account, or in a tribe that was an underdog so I'm looking forward to this.
Over the course of the day several more attacks are sent, and the apparent landing time for these attacks on multiple villages is 21:00:00. Being aware of the surroundings I'm aware that there are 3 potential villages that could reach me with nobles before I have a chance to snipe with anything worth a damn.
Enter: Pre-Snipe
At the time the snipes were actually sent, there are no noble trains there yet. Assuming the Rams hitting at or around the 21:00 mark and the forced distance between noble trains allows me to gamble on a window of support sent. The arriving defensive support after caps off this window again off the assumption that all these incomings are real. I time it like i would any other snipe and let it fly. Now comes the waiting game. If the players time as they are supposed to then my snipe should land right in the middle of a train. This allowed me to use a full village of defense to send to two different noble targets where had I waited to send once nobles were in bound, it would be out of range.
The attack on Village 003 is a little different but using the same concept - The nukes and support are so tight that I had to assume that the nukes shown were shown as anti-snipes and the noble train would be laced in between. This means my support would need to land in a much tighter window so I placed it right after the last potential anti-snipe. This is the train I am more worried about due to the very small oppertunity that I have to hit the noble train that has not yet been sent.
All attacks have been timed very well so far within a few ms of each other up to a second leaving some recap time if neccessary on 01 but almost nil recap time on 03. Both sets of attacks are coming from players/accounts that i have a great deal of respect for so if i lose the villages then I've lost them to good skilled players.
On to the problem with predictability - When a tribe telegraphs their moves it becomes easier to find ways to defend. Within the first half of the day we were able to discern the landing time of ops based on a few well timed attacks and some randomly thrown fakes/distractions. An observant player can easily find the common theme. This allowed me at a chance to save the villages for the current time. This could have been prevented with throwing random nukes ahead and not focusing on a single point in time to have everything land. It's okay to mix up the strategies instead of using the same methods over and over. Timing is great but only if the person you are attacking isn't equally as good or possibly even better at timing. To be fair, i was so good at timing on this one that I sniped the attacks an hour before they were sent
On to the results
Slight mistake in the sending, having noble 3 land after his own defense, but these things happen. The pre-snipe sent landed after noble 2 and after the anti-snipe so would have effectively shot the noble down.
Village 01 suffered a change of hands as the pre-snipe landed in a spot at the end of the 21:00:00 landing time and Flaming Lambo squeezed their nobles in a bit earlier than I expected. Well done
So pre-sniping 1/2 villages not to shabby for it's initial run. Feel free to use this strategy in your tribes, when you are expecting close range nobles and thank you to Wasted for giving me something to do today
