There is a protected tunnel along the top of the T (ALPHA-BRAVO-ECHO) inside the spacecraft's wing.

The "roof" offers a path along the center line (BRAVO-CHARLIE-DELTA), plus strong position and cover.

The debris offers cover on both sides of the map. Use it, because someone will be firing at you from the roof, the far end, or both!





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Fellow Pilots,Happy Friday! I'm gearing up for a trip to London where my children will antagonize both tourists and "keep calm and carry on" locals. We're equal-opportunity like that. But before I hop aboard the National Express, today's post is about the U's early tactical assessments for Dreadnought, the newest map in War Robots.The community manager at Pixonic told a group of content creators (YouTubers and writers like yours truly) that the most exciting ideas he's seen over the last several months come from their new map designer. I agree! If Moon, Valley, and Dreadnought are the shape of things to come, we know we're going to have very entertaining terrain on which to fight our battles.A crashed space craft (perhaps a Star Wars-inspired Imperial Star Destroyer ) is the distinguishing feature on Dreadnought. Just in case you thought War Robots fans were nerds with a lot of free time, you should see what's on the interwebs about Star Wars. Wow. Who knew the Star Destroyer has a crew of 37,000?!?!Because much of the ship is navigable on two levels, it’s a new feel for our game. While this battlefield is symmetrical, the beacons are laid out in a "T" instead of the more familiar "X" of Yamantau or Shenzhen. Each team has only one "home" beacon, with three laid out across the midfield line of the map. If you are a footballer (inexplicably, we call this game "soccer" in Canada's underpants), you will probably know what you need to do - when the defense is massed against you, move the action to the far side of the field.Nothing has changed about our victory conditions - holding three beacons is how you win. We will assume your team is capable of holding its home beacon, because if they can't, there's no need to think about tactics. Dreadnought throws a curve at you, because it isn't usually possible to hold all three "centers." Instead, the magic is in besting your opponent on a constantly shifting seesaw.It's also like dodge or "battle" ball, as it was called during my nerd-smiting days:Let's look at the actual map:Getting down to business, battles on Dreadnought are going to shift sides. A lot. So, we offer some helpful movement hints:For simplicity, let's assume blue spawns on the engine side, with A as a home beacon and the high side of the ship to your left. At the U,That's E, B, and D if you spawn on the bow of the boat, with the high side of the ship to your right. Of course, the red team isn't going to make this easy, because BRAVO is just as close to their home beacon as it is to yours.We recommend attacking along the high side of the craft, and then making your subsequent decisions based on your enemy's weakest position along the center line (BRAVO-CHARLIE-DELTA) - go there! In the video below, the pilot wanders all over the place. The center beacons change hands about a hundred times, and our hero doesn't worry about it. He does a lot of damage, which obviously helps, but he's more interested in HeyChee firepower than strategy related to the map. This battle takes all of the ten minutes allotted.At press time, the U is working on a more focused video; I'll update this post when it's available.Have an amazing Friday, weekend, and Martin Luther King Day (again, for those blessed to be living in Canada's undies). All classes will be cancelled at the U until we return on Tuesday, January 16th, 2018.With love,Where y'at, phD