The Offense

Now the offense is very hard to predict. I have my own personal way of scouting out an offense to zero in on keys as well. Here we go.

We start out sort of like the defense going to an overview look and just holding down fast forward watching the various splits. Most teams if you look in an overview only have 2-3 tactics, this makes things a little easier on us don't you think?

Let's go ahead and pick on Rival again for this portion of the article.

Rival de_inferno offense

Rival's offense on inferno is very basic and not too hard to get a grasp on. When we look at their offensive side we see 2 basic tactics.

The first tactic is going to be a slow banana rush. This consists of all 5 Rival members going banana and setting up quick to pick off any defensemen peeking the banana. After this is clear they slowly walk up and hold the banana. When it is time 2 smokes fly to the right side to blind any crossfire coming from spawn area, 1 or 2 flashes over the roof, and when they round the corner there will be about 4 or 5 flashes all over the bombsite blinding every possible area as they take over.

The next tactic will be a default setup in a 1-2-2 formation. 2 up the middle, 2 in the hallway, and 1 watching the flank coming from banana when the rush occurs. This tactic is very basic and not nearly as coordinated with flashes and smokes as the banana tactic. A few regular flashbangs take place when they are ready to enter this bombsite, but nothing special. The 2 players from the middle will go to the right while the hallway players jump off of the balcony. Rival doesn't do what many teams do, which is take the left side to make the defense have to worry about a spawn flank to bombsite B.

Looking above we can predict Rival's tactic very easily. How? By peeking banana. 2 Players in bombsite B with flashes over and a quick peek. If you don't see all of them there, they are in a default tactic and this gives the banana players a good opportunity to push up on the lone flank watcher and bottleneck the rest of the offense.

One more thing we can watch for after doing a couple restarts of the demo is going to a free-look mode and seeing what kind of smokes and flashes teams like to throw upon entering a bombsite.

There is not much one can do about an offense. Because of this, I enjoy offensive style defenses. A lot of flashbangs and peeks to see where the offense is and then holding a position after taking an enemy down to shut down portions of the map.

The Conclusion

This concludes bootman's how to make a playbook guide. It is not that hard to do and it really makes one wonder why teams don't do it more. It takes me about an hour a map, but if you subtract the time I take in photoshop to resize and edit screenshots and then upload them, that probably takes off a good 15 minutes.

Now that you sees how simple it is, don't you think it is worth it to win that match?