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Written by Chris "bootman" Boutt�

Introduction to The Titans Playbook

The Titans have come a long way in the past year. After being counted out for quite some time, they are finally making a comeback. After winning a CPL Qualifier as well as their ESWC Qualifier to represent their country of Denmark in the ESWC World Finals, they gained a lot of respect.

What happened at the ESWC World Finals was not expected by anybody, and this was The Titans walking away with the gold after a very well played tournament. The Titans brought a lot of new tactics to the tournament as well as incredible gameplay from the entire lineup.

The Titans have reinvented defensive formations on many maps, which has really been throwing their opponents off guard during most of their matches. One of the most notable tactics has been their defensive side of de_dust2 that impressed many and really made one rethink how this side of the map is to be played.

In this playbook, we will go over de_dust2, de_nuke, de_inferno, and de_train. Unfortunately, due to a lack of demos and The Titans being a European team, we did not have the capability of covering their tactics on important maps such as de_cpl_mill and de_cpl_fire.

Learn from The Titans' new style of play and how successful it is, but also pay attention to their weaknesses that may or may not cost them important matches at the Summer CPL 2004 event. But most of all, enjoy!

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after reading "Table of Contents" i understood that this article is too clever for me :/

big thanks to benchan for uploading pics and editting! EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH RIGHT HERE!

I'm not seeing the pictures? CONFUSED?

Just as I get up to look at a PM I got on IRC, I find this article. Kind of late I think but better then never. Ill read it tomorrow looks good gj

late? it was due monday...rofl

I see some of the pictures but not all......cry....

Nice write-up. ;)

That... was a great article. bootman, you rule.

Not all martyrs see divinity... but at least you tried...

nj boot;d

This comment was edited at 07/26/2004 5:19 AM

just that tt got owned by a swedish, not very good, clan in a cup some days ago..

they only won the worlds most random event ever.

Good Job bootman *HIGH FIVE* buddie.

ps: bootman is loosing all of his hair.

#10 OMG THEY GOT BEAT ONLINE NO WAY!

unbelievable article, good job

Rossetti

Another amazingly well put together article for us. Great Work Bootman!

AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 2.8GHz, 2x1GB Kingston PC2-6400, EVGA GeForce 8800 GTX, Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5

my pictures didn't show when i had a pop up blocker running.. i turned it off, the pictures appeared, the elves rejoiced and made me cookies.

very concise write up, kudos to mr bootman.

i think the observatoins about tt's habit of using some weird and over-optimistically aggressive setups were particularly pertinent. it'll be interesting to see if they can repeat their performance at eswc where they basically won on some extremely clutch plays - it'd be hard to rely on that thru a longer comp i'd say.

lol thats an old old dust2 defensive setup, but old is new since people havent used that since 1.1 :> Nice write bootman :D

keek!

And the point is... ?

Awesome writeup, read the whole thing so quickly! MORE MORE!

Very well done! The one thing I've noticed about the Titans is that despite their sometimes simple strats or unorthodox aggresive positioning they are always very patient and stick to the gameplan. They really know what to do in any given situation and each player can count on each other to perform their task.

the best

cry me a river #10

i�m sure if a swedish team had won, you wouldn�t call it the "most random event ever". so do all of us a favour and show some respect instead of being c0cky and arrogant.

beautiful article =)

And the loss on gamepox online cup was partly because thay had to play with a last minute standin for KK, who is also the in-game leader, so quite a loss there.

But then again they walked through lower bracket eventually winning the online cup so there.

whos this bootman fellow

Nice read =)

#10 Shut up. It was online and they played with a mix-team. They still won the whole tournament and vic came 3rd.

Great article, just wonderful! Bootman's playbook is the best that have happened in over a year here at GotFrag?!

This comment was edited at 07/26/2004 9:02 AM

hi my nem is toktoktutu chong, wnv are gooder then fantic , jungl he snip so gooder !!

The defensive tactics on dust2 are the which mouz are using.
They have the positions!

Play hard! And go for noob!

am i the only one who remembers 3d using this defense on d2 back in 1.3 when ksharp made that legendary demo against iwa? its not so new.

okay article, but i think you relay too much on 1 HLTV demo for each map, mostly ESWC, where there were some teams who were easy to beat, and therefore TT didn't want to reveal their tacs and then just did the same over and over agin..
f.eks most of the time Eraz will join up egene inside on Train, and not so often outside by Drally, only when they expect a rush on alley? i gues :)

nice write up, better recognise

amazing write-up, the titans so cant use anything of their old starts coming in to CPL though :P

I just don't get why alot of newsites are analysing alot of topclans tactics. God i think it is lame.

This comment was edited at 07/26/2004 9:47 AM

#33 I agree :/

awesome article from one of the finest writers on staff

and #29 that is not the setup that 3D used against iwa. 3D put ksharp alone on the catwalk, with two pushed long a and two in the b / middle area. ksharp had the cat by himself, whereas there are two titans watching that same area (albeit one spotting beforehand)

Awesome writeup made here, it's very nicely written and documented, this is the kind of journalism we need to see more of!

// Naz - HLTV.org

#33 i don't really think it matters... the other topclans (SK, NoA etc.) analyse the demoes themeself, which most likely is an even better analysis (no offence Bootman :))

gr8 article, keep the writing up :)

I don't understand the massive critisizm of TT's train play. In my oppinion they are one of the strongest clans in the entire world on de_train. If any clan had one map they could vetoe against TT, I would recommend de_train. They also consider it their own best map. Furthermore I must tell #10 that TT were without INGAME TAC LEADER KK in the match against VIC, they ONLY lost 13-16, and they prolly just wanted another map in the final, to get as much prac as possible. Besides calc is nothing in that lineup, the whole teamplay will be screwed up. :) Not saying calc is a newb, but he doesn't fit the playing style that well - imo anyway.

Nicely spotted with the de_inferno tacs, I still don't get why Drally is covering that site, he would be so amazing in middle. Aw well.

One thing there is to say about TT, is SIMPLE T-side tacs. Mostly anyway. Besides that, don't count too much on those "standard" tacs, they are good at switching tacs, and making up new ones IN THE MOMENT.

Besides about two months ago, they often did a boost to the ledge in middle, in dust2, the ledge above the middle double doors, to surprise offensive catwalk CT players.

Other than that I think it's a very well written article, and some WELL-documented arguments, and I'm sure KK could get more than enough out of this, to maybe correct some of the errors in his otherwise pretty solid, and clever tacs.

Last thing I want to say is, that TT is probably also on of the best clans in the world, to take advantage of EACH players STRONG sides. E.g. eGene on de_train. He covers that hallway above b-site VERY WELL. More than often he takes down 2-3 guys before going down himself. eGene is also well known in Denmark for his amazing backstabbing, and read of the game... offensive CT play IS eGene's STRONGEST feature. He's one of the best at it... anyway that was all I had to say for now. :)

This comment was edited at 07/26/2004 11:35 AM

Titans own @ d2

bootman, one of the few to get his work in on time. very professional on your part. cheers.

GJ Bootman !

#30 there are quite a few matches where they setup in a 1-4 setup more than half of the time.

#33 i find the train tactic very interesting and probably think it would work a lot better if the inside player played more defensively and had some sort of swift backup. If he pushes up to the stairs every round it puts a lot of pressure on him to get some kills and if he doesn't the inner site can be taken in a 5v1 or even 5v0. they run a great de_train, but once teams realize how they are setup, it won't be so pretty.

and you guys are not reading the titans CT tactic if you think 3D has been running it. like #36 said, u are thinking of 3D setting someone up on the lower part of the long A ramp for a spot and then flashing the terrorists from the ramp to get backup from long A. the most important part of this tactic is seeing how much pressure is taken off of the two B players as they only have to focus on one entryway.

I agree #40, bootman how many demoes have you seen, it sound like 1 or 2 on every map.

#10 Listen to #27, his right. It was online and they had an standin. Of course VIC had it too, but they aren't random, lets wait and see at the CPL event?

Good articale! MORE OF THIS! :D

FRANK THE TANK!

i watched most of the titan's matches at ESWC

GO 3D GO!

#covenant cal-premier

So are the Titans cursed now that theres been a playbook done on them? Or is that only if Midway does it?

Gj Bootman, very nice read.

well dust2 isnt really new, kind a old defensive part and not very stable at long a rushs, even if it looks like long a is covered extremely good, also middle/b splits are a weak part of the tactics.

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