Yesterday a random event give me a simple idea.

We were playing on volcano (open space & no AGT/obelisk). The game was very offensive and many buildings were down on each side. At the end the GDI had the refinery left and Nod the airstrip (strong advantage for them). I took a shotgunner+ion beacon, infiltrate the Nod base, and placed the ion (+C4 on it)outside the airtstrip building...

5 engys jumped on me. I only killed one them before exploding under their C4... Later one of them died with my C4 but with 3 engys left, i believed that my beacon had no chance to survive. And a nuclear strike was called....

Suddenly I see the GDI victory screen !!! And the scores show me that the ion beacon was successful ! How can it be possible with 3 engys left near ???

I got the answer in the next game, when "Mr.Mendoza" (thx u guy !!!) told me as a sniper, he had killed all the engy left...

So this was a start for building a little little strat :
- with teamwork : try to place the beacon in line of sight of a teammate sniper.
- with no teamwork (harder need a lot of luck ) : take a sniper and try to defend your beacon by yourself ! (on some tricky map this is possible)

Yes this is not the greatest idea, but i think it could help sometimes...

I used this tactic on Islands the other day. I planted a beacon right next to the Hand and ran up the ramp on top of the wall. The engies trying to defuse the beacon hardly moved and were easy to pick off. I think I killed 5 of them.

~buzd

i held off about 6 engies trying to get to our beacon (which was placed right in my kill zone)

pretty funny watching them running with their blue beams of death and getting hit.

and they kept coming back for more -- haa haha

ion sat coming - nice sparkly blue thingies - boom - game over, man - game over....