Dear Alliance,
Listen up. It's not rocket science.
In AV - If you capture something and nobody else stays, you need to stay. Because chances are as soon as you leave, the Horde will come back and capture it. I don't care if all their offense is currently making our defense bend over and scream like a girl - one of them WILL double back when you least expect it. And if you get overrun by a big group, you have time to type it while they are pwning your face.
There's no point in rushing the RH if we don't have a graveyard further south than Stonehearth. Why? Because as soon as somebody dies, they get kicked all the way back up and might not be able to get back down. Grab Snowfall on the way past at least, PLEASE.
And bottlenecks? It's no good screaming at people to "just run through" when you're a warrior in plate armour and I'm a warlock in the equivelant of wet paper tissues. I'm talking to you, dude who trash talked that one match last week.
Speaking of bottlenecks - WTF Blizz? Why is the Allance bottleneck right up by Dun Bald-whatsit, and the first Horde one right after Galv? At least they can take Iceblood and Stonehearth before we get them trapped. We can barely kill the orc.
And then there's the way that Horde seem to often use addons to join as a group. Ugh. At least in the next patch everyone will be able to do that without using an outside program. I can't believe they left it so that it was possible.
Back to you, Alliance. Don't think I've forgotten you.
Is it so hard to fight on the objective, not the road? I'm talking about AB as well here. I don't care if you have a hero complex and you want to go and try taking the farm. While you're messing around there, that mage and rogue are taking the lumber mill back, and then you're going to get your face kicked in and we lose with only 1 flag. Take three bases and then hold them. Don't chase people, don't run away from the flag so it can be capped while you're being sapped. Come on now.
The saving grace for AV is that usually we get more honour for a loss than we do for a win in other BGs. Don't just stand at Galv with your tongue hanging out. Go capture Iceblood Tower at least.
Sigh.
Love and kisses,
Eme.
The Horde kind of have 2 bottlenecks - there's one up by Stonehearth too, if the Alliance know what they're doing. I've seen a lot of times where, assuming the Horde don't have graveyards North of there, a small group can keep people from getting up the map.
"And then there's the way that Horde seem to often use addons to join as a group."
Aah, Preform AV Enabler. Queues your group at the same instant so you try and get in the same BG, works about 80% of the time. Only works if you're Horde, 'cause the guy who wrote it doesn't like Alliance XD Though there are edited versions out there to make it work for Alliance.
Another quick lesson to Alliance, to really fuck up the Horde: Take a group of 4-5 people, preferably preformed and on Vent, and go around recapturing bunkers. If you don't let Stonehearth bunker die, you'll win. Doubly so if you keep Icewing alive too. Pretty much all there is to it.