Basic Match Tactics for Dust 2 – Episode 4 – The Tour to Short

Yay, another tactic where everyone sticks together.

We’re going to go the long way to bombsite A, but on the way we are going to cause a distraction at B to hold off anyone there.

First step, lob a smoke from spawn to mid doors.  Everyone rushes tunnels and heads right.  Someone, not the lead guy, lobs a smoke into B and sticks with the rest of the crew.  Everyone runs from lower, up mid, and there’s a nice cloud of smoke at the doors to protect against any sniper.  The team need to be on guard for any CT rushing long doors, the could meet him head on at tree so get ready to take anyone down.  Head through to short, its important that everyone is still together, there will likely be someone at short but he/they wont stand a chance against five Ts.  Then it is the job to secure the sight and plant the bomb which the team should have their own tactics for this.

This is not a tactic that you are going to use every round.  The benefits of it though are the distraction at B, holding off B defenders, and it buys time to draw out any rushers from long.  Sometimes you want to hold outside of a site when you know the enemy have a tendency to rush most of the time, on this tactic, a long rusher will come face to face with the full team around the tree (if he goes through T spawn then thats one less guy to worry about for now).