Lessons learned taking down a dozen L8 portals.

SYB King organized an attack on the L8 portal farm in Jack London Square this monday.  We had 2 L6s and ~4 lower level players. Some things I learned

- Planning helps.  Know your targets and your XM spread.  Scan the area for portals with closely spaced resonators.

- Stock up big time.  We collected all the L8 items.  Also bring low level stuff for the players that are just getting going.

- Move fast, 2 resistance were on site within 30m

- Attack from a single direction if you can.  Make sure no one's sucking down XM ahead of your attacks.

- New client allows you to rapid fire many XMPs.  You're likely not going to waste those on a L8 portal.

- Have a parallel XM source.  We attacked the waterfront but could move two blocks up to enemy portals we were not attacking and move back.

- Have a "Medic" driving a car that can move people to nearby portals with lots of XM and bring them back to the battlefield all charged up.

- Open a 2nd front.  When resistance arrived I took out a bunch of control fields nearby while I recharged.  It seems that it would be a decent tactic to cycle people in and out quickly between the two attack areas.

- Have lower level people to hold the portals you claim since there will be counterattacks.  They can get big AP placing res on portals being counterattacked.

At the end of the day they only retained 2 L8 portals.  We knocked down over a dozen and farmed them dry.  They sent in reinforcements and took them back.  However it'll take them a while to get them back to L8.

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