Question for (NA?) blueberries and worse about Prokhorovka south spawn

[_Goliard 343]

Why the fuck do you camp H0 all game?

 

[bjshnog 4,447]

+1

[Migizikody 234]

[sr360 4,987]

That's where Tioga hosts his anime club

[2Pac_Alive_in_Serbia 7]

I think H0 is cancer but I like G9 because it allows you to light the enemy for your team mates at F6.

[MrsmilieyfaceC8 668]

even better is when a triple platoon of the only tier9 heavies you have go village when nemy has 3+arty and a t30 going hill

[bjshnog 4,447]

Just had a battle on this map where my team did this (there were about 6 fucking tanks camping and NO enemies on that side of the map).

 

What the fuck?

 

I mean, the enemies had the only purples, and we still managed to totally steamroll them, of course, but why the hell don't they move?

[SoliDeoGloria 417]

I work the ridge in mediums, sometimes faster heavies, depending on team composition, if encounter on north spawn, I snipe from the reverse slope of the hill.

[Enaris 215]

Because it's the safest spot to hide from the inevitable overwhelming force in the A-B 1-2 Box.

 

 

[YesThatWasAPCR 1,600]

Someone told me there were Colorado Brownies in H0  

[sniper_012 38]

I usually go to F6. On the rare occasions I do go hill, it usually ends in me derping down the hill with some pubbies on my heels.

[Rexxie 10,788]

I like H0, its safe and gives you shots on most of the map :[

[TouchFluffyTail 596]

I'm more annoyed with the people who camp both ends of the 1-2 line uselessly.

[2Pac_Alive_in_Serbia 7]

I saw this video awhile ago by Dez. The spot doesn't look too bad if you have good gun depression and some view range.

[arstechnophile 50]

I prefer F9/F0 myself, lighting town/A0/the north slope of the hill. It's risky but I'm constitutionally incapable of sitting back and sniping.

[tefftorbes 866]

I've always liked more aggressive positioning on the hill, getting in to the G9 area has always been good for me in tanks with adequate camo...

 

But more recently I've been running the 6/7 line more and flexing as needed and have had good luck there too.

[kaomera 0]

Hills are OP. I usually want to head up top of the hill in a med or TD (which is all I play anyway); I die with zero damage way too often but more often I end up doing OK up there (damage-wise; not really 100% sure about actual contribution). I'll usually only get stuck on the slope if I end up being the only one (or one of two) headed that way - usually because of lemming farm in J2 / K2. If the enemy start pushing up through town and I don't leave fast enough I get stuck.

 

It's mainly an issue that I'm unbad enough to not want to bunch up with the ~45%ers, but I'm nowhere near good which leaves me pretty lost if I try going somewhere new to me. I'm really unsure of how to play the middle effectively on Prok.

[KingBlueDevil 22]

My DPG on Prokhorovka skyrocketed once I finally figured out going mid was best and I felt like an idiot for not realizing it sooner.

[UbaldoBastardo 65]

Cause one time I went there and had a crazy epic game, so now I go there every time hoping to recreate the magic.  Serious answer: I'll always play middle if I'm in a scout.  I'll play middle with other tonks if there are 0-1 arty.  I feel safer going H0 and trying to stay unspotted for a bit with lots of clickers. 

[Smbakeresq 109]

What always gets me about this a similar spots is why do you play a game to just to sit there? Any game at all?  In this game, don't you want to be shooting your gun? 

 

Maybe I just do not get the fun the bump on the log had.

[Euchre 141]

Current game meta has taught pubbies that sitting in a useless spot and sniping the incoming steamroll gets you some damage and a loss, instead of 0 dmg and a loss.

 

But explaining to them that the game basically has to be lost for their position to be useful is about as effective as slamming your dick in a door.

[dirtd0g 1,181]

I've always enjoyed central locations... Just took me 8k games to learn how to actually play the middle before I started doing anything useful there.

[Mawdy 374]

I like H0, its safe and gives you shots on most of the map :[

 

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[flintcoin 10]

With the refusal of hardcamped 1-2ers to move up since they don't understand camo mechanics then the 6 line has become the farmfest line.  IF they moved up right after spawn they could get shots on what is lit on the opposite end.  Since they don't, whenever someone berates them enough and they try it lategame they get smooshed and the behavior gets reinforced.

Sitting on the road over the tracks (either side) has much more utility if you are in a squishy td then either the 1-2 line or the island/hill.  

[Zinn 1,333]

EU pubbies have been doing that shit forever, so it's not exclusively an NA thing. To summarize, meta changes way back in the day made the hill a great place to park your ass from the south spawn but when they changed the map and made said hill more bumpy and exposed, plus gave access to the shit island up north, the camping simply moved a bit backwards. If you sit on the top of the square in question, you have almost exactly the same advantage as the middle of the hill, only you're unspotted at all times (all dem bushes + distance) and almost nobody can shoot you even if they do spot you (can't be hit from D6, most of the middle or the north island, while anyone shooting from opposite side of hill will be detected and rekt from mid or the camping square). If you sit at the bottom, you can still cover a good bit of the village and anyone peeking up the middle while being undetected and somewhat arty safe. On top of all of this, the square in question is also the perfect spot to defend your own cap circle from, since you have a massive height advantage and cannot be spotted due to the railroad blocking much of the view from the west.

 

Basically, while the position is pure shit from the perspective of anyone wanting to play the game properly and win, it couldn't be a more perfect pubbie spot. Pubbies might be stupid but they sure as shit ain't blind, so when they see people sitting there doing damage and being safe up until the final steamroll in either direction, they obviously want to try the same thing. WG desperately needs to redesign that map in general.