"I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor, dumb bastard die for his country."

When I played Macaca I defended at The Destructor every damn time and I was con-dead in less than 200 hours. Over the course of this character it became clearer and clearer that Thror (who had recently returned) was coming from a mindset like the one from 'Patton' I quoted above.

Being a 'student of war' does not mean throwing your life away when the odds are totally stacked against you. It means risking your life when you've got a good chance of killing the other guy or driving him off.

In my experience a lone Arial scout who stands at the Destructor vs. two invokers and an AP with lightning-control is just going to make Thror mad. He'd be better off going for a hurl throat at their outer than ending up a corpse in at the Shrine.

Protecting or retrieving the Cabal item should be anyone's priority, but when the odds are super-heavily stacked against you there's no shame (from what I've taken away from Thror's lessons) in living to fight another day.


As for the Ragers ganging:
It shouldn't ever happen unless:
1. The Village is defending.
2. The Village is retrieving.
3. The Village is taking your item.
4. You are a Lich/Mummy.
5. You are a decked AP with tons of charges. (There hasn't been one bad-ass enough in a really long time to warrant a gang.)
6. You attack a group of Villagers.

Obviously it doesn't always work out this way, and sometimes even the best intentioned Villager will have autoassist on and get involved, so don't automatically assume it's douchebaggery (even though sometimes it is just that.)