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Hello and welcome to this video.
Today I will be discussing the E5 Start on airfield.
A quick look at the map shows two heavy routes:
one to North and one to the south.
There are also several TD camping locations
around the bases and a few that dominate the north of the map
The center hill offers good opportunities for mediums to
interfere with both heavy lines
as well as spot TDs.
Unfortunately, there is a very real danger that
the opposing team's TDs might keep you bottled up on the reverse slope.
If this happens and the other team's heavies don't advance, you become irrelevant.
The bushes at E7 and E5 offer a wider variety of options.
From there, you have a wide field of fire.
If necessary, you can also trade shots on the heavy line.
If neither option is working, you can reposition to the southern area.
This means hill or F6.
Here are some replays showing this route.
Here we are on airfield in a tier 8 matchup.
XVM says that we have roughly a 50-50 chance of winning.
Since I am in a fast medium, I proceed to E7 and make it there without incident.
Right behind me is a highly rated AMX 50 100 player.
This is a very good location for autoloaders.
I start out looking for targets of opportunity through the bushes.
I pull back when spotted and wait until I disappear before popping out again.
This is an effort to reduce the number of hits I take.
Once targets are no longer available, I switch to the heavy line.
XVM says that IS-6, IS-3, and T32 are very good players.
Judging by the way they are pushing, our Tiger IIs might need some help.
I take an easy shot on the KV-1S, but decide that this is not a good corner to be trading shots on.
Instead, I reposition to take shots on heavies who are moving to meet out southern advance.
Once these are no longer available, I reposition to F6.
Our northern heavies don't look like they are in a very good position right now.
Flanking from the south could significantly improve their situation.
I take a slight detour to prevent the KV-5 from taking shots on me.
I make a horrible first shot and the IS-3 decides to start backing towards me.
Thankfully this is right into the line of fire of my teammates. like the G6 KV-5.
The IS-3 makes a mistake in angling his armor and pays.
In the meantime, our highly rated AMX 50 has been destroyed.
He is raging at them for not being reliable. I didn't think they were so I shifted to F6.
I have no business trading with this KV-5, but I do anyways... and I suffer the consequences.
As if to drive the point home, I am hit by the T32 as well.
Almost dead, I move into proximity spotting range.
Arti takes out the T32.
The opposing team is pushing the heavy gap again.
I reposition to take flanking shots on them.
Seeing that they are not facing me, I remove the KV-1S from the fight.
The T-71 sees me as an easy kill.
He is probably right.
We trade a few shots.
...and I save myself by ramming.
An IS-6 appears and I am completely screwed.
or not.
Finally, amidst celebration, the Tiger II get me.
However, a quick look at the scoreboard shows the game is practically over.
The damage itself isn't anything special.
However, I also did significant spotting damage and lure a large fraction of the enemy team into kill zones.
Thus, I played a significant role on the northern front.
Next up I'll show your standard cammo abuse game.
Here, I stay at E5 for almost the entire game,
but find no shortage of targets.
I rely on the standard cammo mechanics drill to survive.
This is clear bush, spot,move back till bush is opaque, then shoot...
and repeat... When spotted, retreat...
untill they can't see you anymore.
This is a 50-50 tier X game with me at the bottom.
Despite us having more green, our worst players are concentrated at our highest tier tanks.
I start out by moving to E5 immediately. Immediately things don't go too well...
My Pershing isn't fast enough to get there without taking a hit.
I am spotted by an opposing Pershing and take another hit. I then move into a protected area.
Figuring someone else can take the pershing out, I start searching for targets.
I make a few more mistakes and take more hits than I should (Pershing is spotting me)
Pershing out of the way, I become more careful
and move into cover when spotted.
I spend the rest of the game defending center and south while my team pushes north.