Thread: Gravelpit - A or B first?

Every time you spawn on offense this inevitable question comes up. Having played this map so much I have heard every argument.

"B, because its harder to get + we can't let them get set up, we can get A afterwards because its so easy to take."

"A, because its easier - we may as well get it out of the way, we are just going to get spawn camped at B anyways, and we can flank them from C after we get A."

Thoughts?

I would also like you to explain how you defend this map, because IMO it is the hardest map to defend. Most of the time it isn't a question of IF you can defend, its a question of HOW LONG you can hold them off.

As long as you get A with greater than 2 minutes left I think thats fine.

Sometimes I call A rush first, sometimes I ask for one scout to see about grabbing A, sometimes I just take a nap.

I do agree that from a defense standpoint, A is harder to hold than B.

B first...

If you cant get through your B hallways and clear out the demos and soldiers, you have problems other than what point to capture first... If they have a full head of steam setup at B, concentrate most of your resources to A while still having some go B. This way you can cap the point at A quickly with more people and possibly still have a chance to take out the defense left at B.

A. It's reasonably simple to capture (and defend), and if you get it quickly, it gives you another angle of approach for B.

People usually only send a couple of people to attack A, so you only need a couple (or even just one) people to defend it. The idea is that you force them to send more to A to cap it, which bogs down their assault on B. If they ignore A, you just turtle at B.

I see what you did there.