Guides for Combatants
For all
- Learn the names of your direct combatants.
- Memorize the group designation to which you belong
- Have an appreciation of your abilities in relation to those of your teammates.
- Don't be intimidated.
- Sign in and out at the command. (e.g., when you pause alone, when you change flanks, when you change armaments).
- After you have won, reorient yourself and do not hesitate to intervene elsewhere on the battlefield.
- Acknowledge commands (e.g. with „Oink“ or „Yup“ or „Joh“).
Line-fighting
- Keep an equal distance from the person next to you
- Learn the names of your direct fellow fighters
- Always align to the right and left
- If you lean out, you die
- Survival is more important than killing
- Stick together
- Be Never faster than the slowest
- Don't talk during the battle and the show, or no one will hear the commands.
- Die out loud
- Stay calm
- If you can't tell friend from foe, flatten them.
- If your position/group is outnumbered, stay calm and retreat to the reserve if necessary.
Long Weapon Combatants
- Learn the names of your human guards.
- Die loud
- Remain calm
- Repeat commands
- Look around
- Change your position
- Direct the pressure of the line through your activity
- Coordinate your protective wall independently and on your own initiative, they are a part of your armament
flank protection
- Stick to the line
- Have patience
runner
- Who you can't beat, at least confuse him
- Initiative is control
- He who is stronger must be kept busy
- If you're behind the line:
- What fights behind is missing in front
- A name called purposefully behind the line can change many things
- Be faster than better opponents and better than faster (and sink the ship in the harbor)
* Make it fast when it's easy.
Back up
- Don't get too far away from your line.
- It is enough to control the enemies
- Form a tunnel when a breakthrough happens
- Control the space
Reserve
- Have patience
- Keep a constant distance from the line
- Listen to the command
- Don't intervene too early on a breaking line
- Watch for runners
Skirmishers
- Don't take chances. Alive you are chaos in the heart of your enemies.
- Attack in sync with the other skirmishers
- A well chosen target destroys the fighting power of your enemies (prestige targets)
- Always know where you can flee to
Command
- Learn the names of your groups
- Be loud (and warm up your voice)
- Act like you know what you're doing
- Try new things
- Remember what (didn't) work
- Don't think in battle (do it before)
- Play games
- Take the initiative
- Give feedback to individuals that they can do something with (coach function)
- Make concrete suggestions for improvement
- Mark mistakes directly after they have been observed
- Give feedback only if it is desired