Tactics Talk: Pull 'em into a crossfire

 Had a game on Safe Haven the other day that exhibited a tactic I wanted to talk about for a moment.

I want to call your attention to the CC-1 MK 2 on our team and the T95 on the enemy team. Our CC-1 had just been calling for help, realizing he had a tough nut to deal with the front of a T95. I signalled to the CC-1 to "Fall back" and he did exactly what I hoped he'd do. He reversed back about 20m where the T95 couldn't shoot him from the door. 

What the T95 did then was push forward, out the door, and turn to face the CC-1...giving me perfect side shots on him. What the T95 did after that was foolish...rather than reverse back out of the crossfire he found himself in he turned to face me....giving our CC-1 perfect side shots to finish him.

Notice the 50TP behind the T95? He didn't learn from the T95's mistake and did the exact same thing, pushing out the door right into the crossfire between me and the CC-1.

The ISU-122S was our third victim, en route to an easy win.

The lesson

For us, creating those angles where the T95 has to turn his side to one of us to shoot either of us made him vulnerable and let us take out a tough foe.

For the T95...he shouldn't have pushed out like that and put himself in that situation. He should have been more patient. MAYBE he could have worked with the 50TP and had the 50TP face me and deal with me which might have let the T95 focus on the CC-1. Maybe. But pushing out of his cover in that situation all but guaranteed he was going to die.

And once he realized he was in a crossfire he needed to reverse back into cover - not sit in the crossfire rotating from one to the other ensuring that one of us always had a side shot on him. 

Especially when I play MTs I'm always looking for opportunities to create multiple angles for enemy tanks so that myself and a teammate can get shots but the enemy can only deal with one of us at a time. Whenever I see two tanks push the same corner, the same angle, I usually feel like that's a misplay - making it easier for their opponent to angle their armor and use their gun against both at once.

GLHF!