Basic Match Tactics for Dust 2 – Episode 2 – The Decoy

The Decoy is an interesting tactic as it takes a step up from other tactics by introducing the team to the concept of mind games and tricking the enemy.  The idea behind decoy tactics are to keep some members of the opposite team busy at one site, whilst your team get into the other.

Team B, consisting of 4 players and the bomb, are heading to A, in this instance they are going to go via long.  They hold off either outside long doors or at long a behind the corner, not letting the enemy see them.

Meanwhile, team A, a lone wolf, trots off to B tunnels.  His mission is to let any enemies at B know that there is someone there.  A nice flash and a smoke, as well as some shots into B will keep anyone there occupied.  Until they know for sure where the bomber is heading, they have to stay there and protect B, a noob may even call B just because they have seen someone.  A CT covering mid may also come over to protect.

Once adequate noise and presence is made known at B, team A then head down to A.  At this point it is usually 4 vs 4 or 4 vs 3 in the Ts favor, with one or two tied up at B still.  It is then their job to obviously get the bomb down and secure the site. Note that once the bomber is spotted, any half-good team will call the play as A and get his team mates over as quickly s possible.  This is when the lone wolf heads to lower tunnels to provide back-up against any CT heading through mid and short.  He can stay in the tunnel entrance or use his discretion to go up mid and short to guard the site or to go through mid doors and CT spawn.

In this example we used bombsite A as our target, but it can easily be flipped by having the Ts wait outside tunnels whilst the decoy smokes and flashes long A and generally makes his presence known.  If the bomb gets planted at B then he can head to crossover to snipe or go through mid to doors or lower tunnels.