Community Barnblitz strategy

Community Barnblitz strategy
Basic Information
Developer(s):	Unknown
Map Info
Environment:	Alpine
Setting:	Daylight, Snowy
Map Photos

This article is for learning how to play more effectively on Barnblitz.

General Strategy (All Classes)

As with many Payload maps, stay with the cart. It will allow you to win the game faster and the bonus health and ammo regeneration can keep you in the fight.
Use the many hight variations and building scattered throughout the map to give yourself either an offensive or defensive edge.
Due to all the buildings and varied areas on the map, Spies will find it very easy to hide, always keep an eye out, or Spy-check often.
The map has a lot of varying paths with many ways to get to one point, try using a path that is not being covered, it will give you some safety when moving and your attacks will come as a surprise.
Barnblitz has many choke-points and closed-in areas, use these to your advantage to deal large amounts of damage to enemies who will not have a chance to escape.
The map has a relatively large amount of health packs and ammo pick-ups, knowing where these are located and how to get to them quickly can save you in a bad situation.

Use the map's closed-in areas to chase and attack enemies, as they will have no way to dodge your Scattergun spread in such a closed in area.

The map's high points can be used to escape enemy fire and also to preform surprising arial attacks.

Along with the small, closed-in areas, Barnblitz has a few wide open places, use these sections of the map to dodge incoming enemy projectiles.

Your speed and close range power will allow you to use the maps alternate routes to preform quick and devastating surprise attacks.

You are most effective on the cart, as your ability to push twice as fast will help the team, and the health and ammo regeneration can help you out of a tight spot.

Your ability to rocket jump can make very effective use of the maps high points, allowing you to get to an important position quickly, and even rain rockets on the opposing team.

When attacking, the enemy Engineers will set up buildings in places such as the corner of buildings, since players tend to gather around these buildings, use your Rocket Launcher's splash damage to inflict wide-spread harm.

The map's tight areas will help you greatly, as enemies will have no ability to dodge your rockets.

Stay alert, your large battle presence and high damage output will make you priority, and attacks can come from any direction on Barnblitz.

On defense, helping a friendly Engineer hold a point could be very helpful, as Demomen and Soldiers can attack a Sentry Gun outside of its range.

The maps choke points and closed-in areas are a great advantage to you, as you can set up ambushes and contain enemies very well.

Using the elevated areas as a Pyro could prove effective, you can use your airblast to reflect incoming fire, deter enemies, as even jump down into the fight to cause damage and chaos.

Using the map's varying routes, you can often show up behind an enemy team, surprising them, dealing damage, and causing them to loose focus on the objective for some time.

Engineer buildings are crucial on Barnblitz, use your airblast to reflect incoming enemy projectiles and protect the sentry gun.

Often times in the wide open areas of the map, players will gather around a Medic or another common point, use this to your advantage to cause wide-spread fire damage.

As with many payload maps, setting sticky-bomb tracks along the tracks is a very good idea.

The map has many buildings, tight areas, and blind corners that you can use to create highly effective sticky-bomb traps.

Using the many elevated points on the map, a Demoman can lob grenades down onto enemy teams and cause a large amount of damage.

Some health packs and ammo pick-ups are used very often, take advantage of this and set a sticky-bomb trap around them to surprise enemies.

Some walls and obstacles on Barnblitz will not fully block the explosion of a sticky-bomb, place traps on one side of these obstacles to create unseeable traps that still cause a lot of damage