The Second stage is the very campy stage where along the southern edge, you have the surviving scout cautiously spotting the ridgeline while the defending campers are preparing to take a shot at the enemy scout should it be lit up. The heavies and slower mediums are arriving at reach A3. During this time, an arty on the surviving scouts team can choose to preaim A3 or prepare to rain death on the first targets that gets lit along the ridgeline.

Third phase is the breakthrough phase in which one side is able to break the stalemate at A3 or able to score sufficient kills along the ridgelines. In either case, the Mediums at A3 are set loose and few are the times that I’ve seen a team that lost the second phase pull through in the third phase as the team pushing the advantage will usually very quickly clean up around A3 and force tanks off the ridgeline. Once it is visible that most of the ridgeline has re-engaged in cover against tanks coming from the North, the advantaged team’s ridgeline campers typically go on the offensive themselves. Artillery have a field day in Phase 2 where the majority of prospective targets are either moving very little at A3 in areas that most if not all artillery can get a decent angle on… thereby punishing passivity, or by blindshooting into the few pieces of concealment or angling around cover that many tankers like to shoot from the corner of.

Camping on this map does have a strategic value to it due to the way it is set up, as one person put it… a larger version of Province. However, if you camp all day, any artillery worth his salt will eventually get bored of waiting for lights and start putting shells into your bush or your corner.