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The mansion is surrounded by hedges and other cover. |
Type: Hostage rescue
Hostage location: Indoors
Size: Medium
Estate is a modified version of an older Counter-Strike map called Mansion that has since been removed from the retail version of the game. The map features a large, square three-level building that looks somewhat like the White House, but with fewer overweight interns running around. Hostages are being kept in the large mansion, and it's up to the counter-terrorist team to liberate them by any means possible.
At the beginning of each round, the counter-terrorist team must quickly and decisively infiltrate the mansion to disrupt the terrorists from setting up and digging in. To do this, most of the team should rush to the front door and windows that offer immediate access to relatively safe cover points within. Meanwhile, a lone AWM sniper or two can pick off aggressive terrorists that try to fire on the advancing counter-terrorists from the house's many windows.
As you rush the house, throw a flashbang grenade or two through the windows to confuse the terrorists and flush them from their camp spots. Once inside, roll from bottom to top, sweeping behind corners, couches, tables, and any other obstruction for kneeling terrorists. Beware the small bedroom that holds two of the hostages, as smart terrorists looking for grins will camp the room with AK-47s and blow away counter-terrorists through the walls when they hear footsteps.
If you're a terrorist on Estate, you must act quickly once the round starts. On Estate, time is the enemy because fast-moving counter-terrorists can easily close the gap between their spawn point and your location inside the house. If you're still buying weapons and ammo 30 seconds after the start of the match, you'll be caught unprepared by a wall of incoming counter-terrorists.
Instead, rush to turn off the lights if they're on, then set yourself up at the top of each of the two stairwells that face each other near the front. Remember the movie The Rock where the infiltrating SEAL team gets obliterated by the enemy force due to the SEALs being at a lower level? Height can work in your favor. Stay upstairs, sweep the full hallway and stairwell in one quick move, and clip any counter-terrorist that comes through the front door or front windows.
Once the round progresses past a minute to a minute-thirty, begin expanding your local sweep to include the rearward hallway as well to catch counter-terrorists that are coming through the back of the house.
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The underground tunnel is just one way to infiltrate the mansion. |
As counter-terrorists, you can dominate any terrorist that's foolish enough to rush you on this map by hanging around your spawn point. Ringing the doorbell is a surefire way to annoy camping terrorists. When they can't take the ringing anymore, they'll rush outside only to meet a hail of bullets. Ringing the doorbell also sends a psychological message to all the camping terrorists in the house that says, "I fear you so little that I'm letting you know where I am by ringing this bell."
