War Thunder — AbandonedFactory

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A good spot for flanking the enemies on A. The route swings you onto the point's shoulder, where the vehicles fighting over the circle expose their sides to an angle they are not defending. A-fighters are ideal flanking victims — committed, oriented frontally, and too busy with the point's main exchange to audit their flanks. Arrive while the point is actually contested, when the targets are dense and distracted, and work through them from the outside of the fight inward. After the sweep, the same position lets you either support the cap or reset for the next wave of contesters.

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A good flanking spot — but the route's real instruction is in the second half: better to stay sneaky. The protected line in is quiet by design, and the position at the end rewards preserving that silence; announce yourself early and the angle collapses into an ordinary, contested corner. Played sneaky, it is a slow-burn farm — you take deliberate, unhurried shots on targets that never localize you, and the position keeps paying for as long as the mystery holds. Resist the urge to fire at everything that moves. Choose the shots that stay anonymous, and the spot works the whole match.

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The direct route to A — the straight answer to the objective. It is the fastest way to put tracks on the point, which makes it the opening-minute default and the emergency-retake lane for the rest of the match. Directness is a known quantity on both teams: expect the lane's watchers, pre-aim the established angles, and treat every piece of cover flanking the route as occupied until proven otherwise. Best driven when tempo matters more than stealth — first cap, fast reinforcement, coordinated push. It does exactly what the name promises, in both the good and the bad senses.

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If you are fast enough, this is a good way onto the A site — the qualifier is the whole route. Speed converts this line from a gamble into a play: quick vehicles clear its exposed moments before the enemy's early sightlines harden, arriving at the site while the defense is still a rumor. Slow vehicles on the same path arrive into a formed defense and regret it. So gate the decision on your garage — in something brisk, take the line at spawn and be part of A's first fight from a flanking vector; in anything ponderous, give the route away and take the covered options instead.

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Light tanks have the advantage on this ground — the route threads spaces where speed and a small silhouette outvalue armor, and the position it reaches rewards exactly those traits. Heavier vehicles can technically follow, but they arrive later, show more of themselves in the gaps, and lose the initiative that makes the spot work. In something light you get there early, tuck into the geometry, and work the angle with the first-move advantage the route was drawn for. It is a class-specific tool: bring the right vehicle and it is a free edge; bring the wrong one and it is just a slow detour.

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If you manage to reach this place, an easy five or more frags are waiting — it is a spawn-peeking point, and the traffic it watches never really stops. The 'if you manage' is the honest part: the route mixes direct and flanking legs across ground that punishes the careless, and arriving is the skill being tested. Arrive intact and the position converts the enemy's deployment into a queue: vehicles roll out along the watched lines, fresh and blind, and the frags accumulate at whatever pace you can aim. Farm with discipline, favor the targets that cannot answer, and cash out before the reprisal organizes.

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If rushed, this route pays five or more frags on the players rushing A from their spawn — a good position whose value is a race. Their A-rush and your drive both leave at match start; arrive first and their wave crosses your gun in file, committed to the point and blind to the angle. The interception geometry does the aiming: they are moving predictably, you are stationary and prepared. Every second of delay on your end lets more of their wave pass unpunished, so the rush instruction is literal. Commit at spawn, set up on the lane, and turn their opening play into your opening scoreboard.

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Optional refinement of the position: stay behind the wall and the piles of trash — they protect your hull completely while you spawn-peek toward A. The debris is the armor; what the enemy can hit is a turret, briefly. The operating pattern is spelled out: if you take a hit, smoke and fall back to the previous position, reset, and return when the smoke has done its work. That escape loop is what makes this an easy five-plus spawn-peek spot rather than a one-and-done gamble — the position regenerates because you always have somewhere to be while the enemy's attention burns out. Trash as cover, smoke as insurance, repeat.

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A strong early-game push that requires a fast vehicle to work — the timing window is the surprise on the enemies rushing the factory, and slow tanks miss it. The protected line carries you in quickly; the payoff begins once you are inside the building. From in there, you look out the other side at the enemies crossing beyond, and the picks are free — they are moving through what they believe is dead ground, and the building's windows disagree. It is a position that converts one sprint into a match-long overwatch. Make the run at spawn, claim the interior, and tax every crossing you can see.

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Good cover for the point — this protected route delivers you to the piece of hard cover that makes holding the objective sustainable. The difference between capping in the open and capping behind this cover is the difference between donating your tank and keeping it: the position eats the sightlines that normally make the circle lethal, letting you hold, defend, and re-cap from behind something solid. Use the route both to take the point and to reinforce it later — the covered approach means your reinforcement actually arrives. Unspectacular, essential, and the reason this point stays holdable at all.

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A genuinely strange and useful trick: with a tall vehicle, you can use your binocular view to see and shoot over the concrete walls — the optics clear what the gun barely does — and the same setup watches over B. In practice you sit behind solid concrete, invisible to everything, while your binoculars run the overwatch; when a target commits, you rise into the firing solution you already built and take it. Height is the entry requirement: short tanks see wall, tall ones see the map. It is niche, it looks absurd, and it produces kills from a position the enemy literally cannot render as a threat.

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Cap this point — the route's mission statement, direct and unapologetic. The line is the practical answer to the objective: the shortest reliable path that puts your tracks in the circle and the timer on your side. Points win these matches, and somebody has to actually stand on them; this route is for the player willing to be that somebody. Drive it with the cap as the only goal — no detours, no farming on the way — and let teammates handle the overwatch. Best at match start and at every moment the point flips hostile; the route does not age, because the mission never does.

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Camp the enemies going to the cap — the route sets you on the lane they use, where the point-bound traffic delivers itself to your gun. The attached warning deserves respect: many enemies use this lane, so be careful — the same volume that makes the position rich makes it dangerous, and the difference between farming the traffic and being overrun by it is pacing. Engage the targets you can kill cleanly, let the overwhelming waves pass rather than announcing yourself to all of them, and keep your exit honest. Played with judgment, the lane's volume works entirely for you; played greedy, it works entirely against.

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The perfect spot for anti-air — sized, in fact, for more than one vehicle, so bring a friend: a pair of SPAAs here covers the sky properly. The protected route in matters because AA vehicles are soft and this map's transit is unkind; arriving intact is half the position's value. Once set, the spot's sky coverage over the battlefield's active air lanes lets radar and eyes do their work with ground cover keeping the counter-battery honest. CAS decides matches this game, and a manned AA position here quietly deletes that factor. If the enemy is flying, this is where your team's answer parks.

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The direct route to A — the straight line, driven for speed. It exists for the moments when arrival time is the whole question: the opening cap race, the urgent retake, the reinforcement that has to be there now. The trade is the usual one for direct lanes — everyone knows where it runs, so the route's watchers are a permanent tax, and your gun should be forward with the known angles pre-aimed the entire drive. Take it when tempo demands and skip it when stealth serves better. It is the simplest tool on the map, and simple tools get used every match.

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Best Route for Flanking almost the whole enemy team, ive gotten multiple Nukes using this tactic.