Yeah I spent a lot of the weekend in AV -- only about 12-14K honor though. I can only take it in small 2 hour doses (preferably with booze).

One strategy I picked up on when playing D at Ice Blood is that it is really important to stop the allys who make a break for the relief hut / frostwolf towers right from the Ice Blood choke point. Even with a good D there, all it takes is 1 or 2 to get through and cap your frostwolf towers and relief hut -- sometimes even before they have been able to cap anything else.

So I'd usually set up the totem forest next to the mountain away from the ice blood flag. They usually take the tight turn right between the mountain and fence things. From that vantage you can pick off those runners 1 by 1. They never even dismount. They just take the instagib. Sometimes over and over again (I killed one paly 10 times before he hit his bubble to run past me)

With a good defense at Ice Blood, I was in a few games where we completely shut the Allys down at ice blood with nothing cap'ed behind us for the entire game.