Overpass A Site: Wall of Smokes Strategy

Introduction

This strategy is quite straightforward and easy to follow. It allows your team to get onto A site on Overpass with little to no effort and with minimal use of smokes. This strategy is best used on a buy round or if you are on an eco and need to plant the bomb to get more money moving forward. The theory behind it is very simple, you want to block the enemy team from seeing you at all times so you can plant the bomb and secure the extra dollars or even win the round. With this strategy two players will need to be on long and one in toilets. All of this will be explained below.

Ingredients:

At least 3 Terrorist players
2 x Smoke grenades
1 x Flashbang (Optional)

First player

This is the first smoke that you're going to want to throw as it takes a longer time to pop. What this smoke does is block vision from 'Optimus', or 'Truck' depending on what you call it. It also blocks vision from the stairs so you can plant the bomb without being disturbed. It's quite tricky to get this smoke correct. On Long there is a corner. Fit yourself into that corner nice and tight so you're right into it. Then aim your crosshair at the brick wall that's poking out towards the long corridor. There are bricks on this wall, aim at the second one down and to the far left of this brick. After that, move your crosshair all the way into the sky until you reach the top of the leaves. Once at the tip of the leaves release and the smoke will land in the correct place. The problem with this is that the leaves move, so another way you can calculate the smoke is by looking at the clouds. The clouds have a little section where they are disconnected so aim in line with that disconnected cloud. If this smoke isn't working for you, keep trying and trying to get a feel for it. You should always try out smokes in a server alone before trying them in a match. When the smoke has been thrown, you're going to go and plant the bomb. After the bomb has been planted run back up Long and hold it from there. It should be fairly easy to hold the bomb now as the CT players have to come to you, let them and just hold the angles.

A video of the smoke being thrown. Use it as a guideline.

Second player

The second smoke you're going to want to throw is a smoke that will block the CT's from seeing you run down Long to plant the bomb. Normal smokes for Bank do not work for this strat because a CT sitting behind the Boxes can peek you. With this smoke you will block vision from the Boxes and Bank, making it safe for you to run down long. The first thing you're going to want to do is go up to the streetlight that's sitting on long. Look at the base of the lamp and aim in the middle of it. You're also going to want to push yourself all the way into the lamp. Now do a 180° turn and aim into the cylindrical object that's sitting above the wall. Aim at the middle and move your crosshair right to the top of this object. Release the smoke. It should bounce off of the truck and into the middle of the Truck and Boxes, blocking vision completely. Again, you should try out this smoke in a private server before attempting it in a scrim. See the gif below that you can use as a guideline.

After you've thrown this smoke, run down Long with the bomb planter and check the left corner of Long where somebody can be hiding. After you've checked that corner go back to Long and hold it, making sure nobody can come from behind and surprise you. Once the bomb, has been planted just hold the angles with the first player going for the re-frag.

The second smoke being thrown, use this video as a guideline.

Third player

Now you may be wondering why you need at least 3 players alive on your team to do this strategy. The reason behind needing another player is so they can hold the smokes. If a Counter-Terrorist is feeling lucky they might find it fun to throw a flashbang into the smoke and run through it. Killing the person planting the bomb and ruining the strategy completely. For this, the third player is going to be in Middle, preferably in the Toilets so they have some cover after the smokes fade. Just holding the smokes as someone plants is not all that this player has to do. You can also throw a flashbang onto the site, behind the boxes blinding the players that are still there. This can stop them from running through the smokes in the first place. Once the bomb has been planted you're going to want to bait yourself to the players trying to retake. This is because it makes it harder for them to get the players on Long if you're constantly pressuring the retakers, shooting at them, throwing grenades and running around in Toilets to stop the other two players from dying which will hand you the round.

The smokes after they've landed.

Conclusion

This strategy is quite easy to pull off as it only requires 3 people. If you have more it's always a plus as retaking will be much harder for the CT players. There are a few problems like the CTs running through smokes and sitting on Long Corner but if you clear those areas it should be fairly easy to keep them at bay. This is almost a guaranteed round on the Terrorist half and if it works you can always try it again on another round to see if you can snag another round win. But bear in mind, smokes aren't walls. Players can always run through them, the same goes with any strategy. It's all about teamwork and communication that makes this strategy work.

Thanks for reading.

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