Pistolfuddyduddy wrote: What is this thing you call "pump" .. And why would it not be a good strategy to bomb with your best bombers, and escort them with your best fighters?
Forgive me for this repost:
Here are some tactical possibilities (other than just sneaking) to deal with a red dropper:
If you're in a bombing game and a red chaser starts dropping, your team can possibly counter him with one blue chaser. The funny thing is you don't need to shoot him, just keep him busy while your teammates make a run. Or if all of your team still insists on carrying, spread out so the chaser can only target one of you at a time while the others shoot at him or just focus on a run. If he goes after one of you while you're spread out, that one should drop and evade as long as possible, again keep the chaser busy as long as possible so the others with bombs can finish the run. If
none of the blues drop and stay easy targets it makes it easy work for the red chaser to take out all of the blue bombers. Odds are (especially if a blue also drops) that some blues will make in to a good range to get in tanks. If one does you should consider dropping and covering that tank. Tanks often do a lot of damage, especially if they have good cover.
If the red team all drop to go after your tanks and chasers, as soon as a blue gets killed and respawns back at your base... its perfect time for a sneak. Send one with 2 bombs up or around as everyone else is scrapping mid field. One good sneak with two bombs will put the reds on alert and if they have any sense they will start patrolling for more sneaks. This may take their chaser/dropper out of the middle of the field. In fact, some people have posted about how they have managed to draw defenders away by showing up on the maps to the side/ above or behind the enemy base. This is what I try to do while reds often complain about me "camping". If there are no incoming blues I will do what I can to lead as many reds away as I can. If they choose not to try to follow me I'll go after them. (Not over their base. That's pointless kill mongering, as it keep the reds in position to defend against blue bombers.) Many times I have managed to drag 2 or 3
dropping defenders out of the middle so incoming blues have a much better chance... There is so much going on that a chaser will not just be in the middle picking off bombers.
Come on! Can't you see? There are many ways to play these games! This is "Meta" gaming. This is where you are constantly trying to anticipate what your enemy is up to and they are trying to do the same. If everyone opens up to the possibilities it can be a fantasticly played strategic game. The alternative is what we now have: a game where high ranked, experienced players whine and complain about anyone who does not just go straight up the middle, whether ist's another experienced player or a level 6 noob who has just started playing and has almost zero chance of making a successful run straight on.
Basically, I'm saying that if one red dropper can ruin your whole geme experience, don't you think you should try something new? What good does it do to whine?
So, whine and complain, insult and shame, get upset because someone is playing "unfair" according to a game limiting mindset held by people who have been playing for a year or more, which has no "rules" to enforce it? Or step up your game, engage your brain, step outside of the straight and narrow "valley of death" and make a game which engages all types and skill levels of all players?
Checkers... or chess?