Assault On Sandtrap

Or How I Learned to Start Running and Hate the Elephant

I was playing a bunch of Big(gish) Team Battle with some friends from the EvilBIP group and we landed on our first game of Assault. Sandtrap seems to be the Coagulation of H3, because most of the BTB seem to be played there. A good mix of Valhalla too, but mostly Sandtrap.

The game was neutral bomb, so the bomb spawns in the valley between the two main structures. Anyway, we got matched to a group that really knew what they were doing. We ran out to get the bomb, full force. I think that since there was no "base" we kinda forgot about defenders.

They moved their Elephant away from it's spawn point by a few thousand feet. Smart thinking. "Clever guys" I thought.

A few seconds later, I'm trucking past the valley in a 'goose and spot an Elephant do there. I'm flabbergasted.

They moved our Elephant.

To the valley where the bomb spawns.


To quote Hudson (AKA Bill Paxton) from Aliens, "Game over, man! Game over!"

So, it was a nice simple recipe for them
1) wait for the bomb to respawn
2) pick up the bomb
3) jump into the Elephant and plant the bomb
4) defend for 15 seconds

The game should have been over pretty quickly, but we put up one hell of a fight. Unfortunately, we had no chance of moving the vehicle, since they were swarming all over it constantly.

So, your lessons here is to remember that the Elephant is a vehicle and can be moved. As such, it must be defended even more so than a normal base. I don't know if you can get it onto the upper tier around the map, but if it was out there, you could see the enemy coming.