Map Mondays: Steppes

xtc4, on May 08 2018 - 09:29, said: The east still seems to be the key to the map. As before, a team that wins the east can most easily dominate both bases and flex back and forth between them.  I almost never go west in any tank; my team's deployment has to require me to go west before I go there. (The canard that heavies go west and mediums go east is just foolishness and always has been.)   More than any other map, I see players texting that they are going west because "someone has to protect that flank." I want to gnash my teeth when I see that. Your flank is wherever you are. A team can pretty easily lemming train east and protect the base from the hull-down positions around A7 or G0.   In the old days, I might have rushed out to the spotting position at E7 in a light tank. But nowadays, that move seems almost suicidal and rarely bears fruit.   If you spawn north and have a hard turret, that side-hill position at B9-C9 still seems pretty dominant.