Guild Wars: State of the Game: April 9, 2007

The April 9th "State of the Game has hit the virtual stands today. Focusing on ways to break the enemy team in flag stand battles, the author, Christian Brellisford, says:

Flag stand battles are some of the most engaging and exciting fights in Guild vs. Guild combat. Often, teams go back and forth between deaths to alternating flag stand captures without either team completely caving in to the pressure. Sometimes it takes upwards of 15 minutes of fighting before one team finally disintegrates; other times it happens in the first few bloody moments of the fight.

Breaking the enemy means pressuring until the opposition can no longer handle a full fight at the flag stand and must retreat or rethink strategies. There are many ways to break an opponent, from countering a skill to capitalizing on a positioning mistake to a catching a lucky morale boost. The Celestial Tournament generated some examples of this process I will discuss below.

Brellisford gives several examples of ways to break down the other team including the "simple" fact of recognizing that a team is broken. Head to the link above for a read.