Yamaxanadu [Basic Tactics and Map Layout]

My area of expertize are kamikaze runs (mostly with mobile vehicles), setting up ambushes and skirmish strikes. I can be called irresponsible player since I do not care about my own safety at all. I prefer the mobile vehicles like my T-54 or AMX 50 100 but can cope well with KV-2 and Churchill I / III. But because all my depot is currently on RU server I can't use them for training. I get Tier IV US TD so if you want I can platoon with you. Otherwise I can give you only hints about tactics and map layouts.

So currently I can give you only two types of lessons:
-basic tactics (greatly affected by player style);
-map layout hints.

P.S.
My time is +11 GMT.

Kamikaze runs... you're Ding's high tier sibling or something?

Kawashiro wrote:Kamikaze runs... you're Ding's high tier sibling or something?

Maybe... I like to try crazy things like this one:

I think Kawa... the purpose of a kamikaze run is not technically an inevitability that we are going to die. While obviously the word 'kamikaze' defines as a suicide run, what I tend to do in a kamikaze run is basically to undertake an extraordinarily difficult course of action that is unlikely to keep me alive, but benefit the team. Hence, my death, while likely, is not inevitable.

I always think kamikaze runs as I call them has 2 main benefits:
1) It allows a bold course of action you enemy will most likely not expect,allowing you to generate a major advantage to your team as long as you are alive for the duration that you are alive.
2) You'll be amazed by the effect the kamikaze run can have on your team, because for some reason your team will actually stop camping and attack if you lead them or else they will camp and snipe properly knowing all the enemies will attack you instead of them.

I must admit I use the kamikaze run tactic every time I end up on the southern base of Serene Coast (a notorious camp map) with a fast tank. I rush all the way to the north right into enemy tanks knowing my chances of survival is slim, BUT during all that time I am alive, one of the above two factors occurs and hence Serene Coast is never as horrific to me as most of the community would agree it is to them.

Just my 2 cents Kawa on the interpretation of kamikaze runs... I don't want you to think I go in there TRYING to get killed,but instead it is I expect to die but it's not entirely inevitable.

And yes...Yama is my evil older sibling MWUHAHAHA!

What you described on Serene Coast Ding, I just call rushing. Have a good replay where 2 t9 or t10 meds rushed the island from the south and me and Scot followed to the city with our E-100s and won the game in 5 mins. 2nd fastest Serene Coast ever for me

Vallu01 wrote:What you described on Serene Coast Ding, I just call rushing. Have a good replay where 2 t9 or t10 meds rushed the island from the south and me and Scot followed to the city with our E-100s and won the game in 5 mins. 2nd fastest Serene Coast ever for me

Nah rushing can still make sense if you know where to go and how to run...because when you're rushing there is still an option of running away.

My distinction between rushing and kamikaze runs are different. Kamikaze runs are illogical from a survival perspective, and also kamikaze runs have no way of retreat once fully committed. Also, ultimately, rushing still keeps the expectation you'll survive, kamikaze runs do not. This expectation has a big difference,as when you still intend to survive, you can never be 100% committed to the detriment of your enemies, it could be 99% or whatever, but never 100%. In kamikaze runs, because intention to survive is doesn't exist, you are fully committed because technically you have nothing to lose, and you will annoy the enemy all the way to the last possible second in your position.

Take my example in Serene Coast... I never went to the island (never even been there is 8000+ battles), instead when I said I go straight into the enemy I quite literally mean I go STRAIGHT INTO the enemy mass, I get a respite by taking cover behind houses and such, but generally if the enemy is not even half, but a quarter decent, they will kill me, but by that time my team either makes a full-on assault or already sniped enough of them to make a big difference.

The amount of options increases drastically, once you don't care about getting out.

And welcome to the academy

Well, kamikaze runs are suicide runs where your objective to inflict major damage with minor sacrifice. Or distract enemy long enough to help allies with their capture.

Yamaxanadu wrote:Well, kamikaze runs are suicide runs where your objective to inflict major damage with minor sacrifice. Or distract enemy long enough to help allies with their capture.

There ya go! Compressed into one sentence!

I have done rushes as well, but they're carefully planned ones. On Serene coast south side, if both teams have 4 or more arties each, I usually warn my team beforehand, tell arties to hold fire until arties are spotted, and dash alongside the beach using houses as cover, and then go up the middle slope that's arty cover + cover from the majority from the map. That way you can spot the majority of the enemy with minimal damage taken + allies can help you fend off people that try to remove you.

Well of course kamikaze is supposed to inflict more damage than it's supposed to inflict on your team, but remember that its a very high risk thing that doesn't necessarily return much great. Suddenly dashing into the enemy just to realize your allies didn't know you were dashing there or arties are reloading can just mean your sacrifice was in vain. That's one of the major issues with scout kamikaze rushers, most of the time they don't even report to allies what they plan to do, thus just dying without meaning.

Lol Kawa great minds work alike eh?

I do that too.... but only if I deem there isn't much to be gained anymore by 'kamikazing' so to speak. Kinda like a change of course in the middle of the road.

Kawashiro wrote:I have done rushes as well, but they're carefully planned ones. On Serene coast south side, if both teams have 4 or more arties each, I usually warn my team beforehand, tell arties to hold fire until arties are spotted, and dash alongside the beach using houses as cover, and then go up the middle slope that's arty cover + cover from the majority from the map. That way you can spot the majority of the enemy with minimal damage taken + allies can help you fend off people that try to remove you.

It is skirmish strike. The main objective of skirmishes are to stall enemy advance and inflict minor damage constantly.

I find it pointless to rush down right the middle of the road, it exposes you to the hill climbers, the city drivers and enemy artillery. Going along the coastline avoids 2/3 flanks. You spot enemy faster if you drive down the middle road, but if you seriously want to do that at high tiers where accuracies are 0.35- with alphas enough to kill you in 2-4 shots, then be my guest.

Also I deem it as a rush, not skirmish. Skirmishing is inflicting minor damage at a distance with fast maneuvers mainly to harass the enemy rather than dealing a hard blow. Doing the thing I described can deal a massive blow to the enemy by taking out their artillery or leave a bulk of their force vulnerable if successful. Skirmishing is something more akin to a Patton popping up and down to annoy 3-4 enemies on Steppes.

Efficiency greatly depend on vehicle mobility... And size. In some cases HP pool.

I've dealt with many AMXes trying to go down the middle road on Serene coast when I start on the North side. It's very rare that everyone on our team misses them. Of course a T-54 might have higher chance of success, but would you really want to give up a brawling master for 1 attempt scout run? In my opinion, slowly spotting the enemies from safety is better than to spot all of them once and then die, because your allies are never going to be able to fire on all of them during a short time period anyway.

I usually use T-50-2 for kamikaze run, sometimes I can use even T-54 (but through west hills and with heavy support from my SPGs). There is always holes in enemy defenses. The question is how hard to exploit them.