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Assault has many ambush points for terrorists to use. |
Type: Hostage rescue
Hostage location: Behind the double doors in the room near the upper ledge
Size: Small
New players might find Assault extremely unbalanced in favor of the terrorist team. The bottom line though is that this map has also been in the game since the beginning, and it's balanced just fine for either counter-terrorists or terrorists to dominate. Skeptical? Let's look at the right way to attack the terrorist fortress on this intimidating map.
You've got to have your wits about you when you spawn in, don't be wondering if an AUG or an AWP would serve your needs better when game clock seconds are ticking away. Buy your weapons and immediately start running for some cover. Once you establish a balanced environment where the terrorists know to stay in their building or be punished, you can execute the map's true strategy as a counter-terrorist.
The best thing to do on this map is to execute the same strategy as in the garage from Siege, where counter-terrorists must distract and divert the terrorist's attention by using grenades from where their main force will actually be rushing from. Right away, your team should rush the ledge to the left of the counter-terrorist spawn point. You're not going to camp there for real, but you're going to appear to camp there for the benefit of the camera-watching terrorists inside. Once they see one or two of you camping, they'll communicate this to their teammates, which aggravates some of the jumpier terrorists into running from their protective enclave to come and get you.
Next, after a minute of game time has elapsed, come off the ledge and begin the main thrust of the mission, which is to grenade, smoke, bomb, shoot, and generally cause a massive commotion in the vent from the outside roof. This will draw all kinds of attention from the terrorists to each other in the building and will pull them from their back door and front door camping spots. Meanwhile, a counter-terrorist sniper should be crouching just short of the main garage door opening, where he'll have a great view of any terrorist that goes to the small ladder in the base to the vent to help defend it.
By now, the terrorists should be in a general panic, not knowing where and if the counter-terrorists are breaching their warehouse. Enter in groups of two or three from all three entry points - the main door, the back door, and the vent - and keep moving. Chances are that the terrorists will see you before you see them, so mobility is key. If your teammates have managed to execute these strategies, they will have a numeric advantage over the remaining terrorists.
There's a very easy way to dominate Assault from inside your warehouse. Have one team member camp in each corner of the upper level and have one monitor the vent, and you've got a good chance right from the start that your side will win.
What happens more often than not though is that your teammates will lose focus, get injured, or get distracted. Then, counter-terrorists will pour into the base like water that's beginning to break through an old concrete damn. If you don't have enough proverbial fingers to plugs the holes, you'll be overwhelmed. Try to have your team stay inside, and once it does, figure out where each team member is congregating. The vent is the most important piece of this puzzle. If it's compromised, any campers on the lower level are extremely vulnerable, so make sure you task yourself with protection of the vent, since that's the only person in the game that you can count on 100 percent.
Protecting the vent doesn't mean camping inside it. As tempting as this may be, if counter-terrorists wisely grenade the vent before getting into it, you'll be toast. Stay outside the vent on the upper ledge and frequently jump from side to side to look through it. Simultaneously monitor the threat from below to the right, as snipers and counter-terrorists looking for some recon will creep up to the very opening of the base and try to take potshots at vent campers standing on the ladder.
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This roof leads to the main vent. |
Just like Militia, Assault can be defended from one area by two terrorists indefinitely, just enter the hostage room and wait. The bonus is that the terrorist cameras are available from inside the room itself, (this is a glitch - use them through the wall), which makes it an amazingly self-contained area. Plus, no counter-terrorist ever remembers to save a grenade to flush out camping terrorists by the time he's penetrated that far into the base.
