Need a little help with BAF

I did multiple runs of BAF last night and we could not get past the part with the escapees. When I did this on the beta server it was signifcantly easier due to everyone having the incarnate nukes already. We tried camping the exits, we tried camping the spawn points, we tried sending runners after them and still we fail each time. Its like its the longest 5 minutes in the game for some reason. Any strategies for this part would be great. I hope it doesnt come down to requiring 3 bubblers with force bubble just to do this.

Force bubble is useless there actually. What you 'need' to easily success: 6 control archetypes(dom/troller/anything with an aoe mez)
Put one at each spawn point. Then have all your damage patrol the walkways and destroy the commandos. Watch the backs of the exit points.

I've succeeded in 4/10 of the BAFs I've done in the escapee phase. I've failed twice after that due to critical buildup of 9CUs.

The Commando's are IMMUNE to ANY type of control. What you need to do is not try to slow them or hold or immobilize or whatever and just kill them. Get the higher Dmg AT's like scrappers, blasters, or even brutes to go after them and let the control and other types take the others that actually can be held, slowed, or whatever.

I haven't completed the trial either but I've never been on a team that had a problem with the escapee's part. The part that always get us is the battle with Seige and the tons of 9cu's that spawn.

I've only done one BAF (others crashed at the door), but my fire/storm troller was able to control one spawn point all by herself with easy. Outside of Commandos who didn't even stop to say hello, I was able to stop all of the rest.

So from that, I would say put a troller/dom at each spawn point with back-up of a few scappers/blasters/Corr/Brutes to take care of the runners.

I did 5 successful BAF trials yesterday. And not any of them had a specific mix of ATs. I just took whatever ATs people wanted to bring. What I do on that particular part is something similar to what Snow_Globe discribed. I put a team of 5 people on the north spawn area, 2 teams of 5 on the south spawn areas, and a team of 5 on the 2 spawn areas on the north east. Then have 4 people patrol the middle grounds to catch any stragglers. Worked every time.

Badaxe, I don't know if your server is similar, but on Victory and Pinnacle people don't seem to join the queue, instead forming leagues via the badge channels or by hanging out in Pocket D and joining a league that got started in a badge channel. You might also check out your server here on the forums and see if people are planning trial runs.

Never underestimate MMs here, other ATs have access to the sets too.

Trick Arrow has the Oil Slick and Glue arrow these work on the minions. While the pets pound them. (Controllers and Doms Pets too)

Dark has Tar Patch, slows and debuffs while pets attack

Traps has Caltrops, Poison trap for minions, Trip Mines and Acid Mortars for minions, lts, and bosses. (Defenders and Corruptors also) Device Blasters have Caltrops and Trip Mines also. Plus they can get early hits and AoE attacks in to damage all of them.

I think Storm has a Sleet like power(Knockdown and minor DoT), Cold Dominations Corr/Def/Controllers)

Soft Control powers at the spawn point keep the minions there so they can be handled by those with less damage.

The Bosses and Lts, should be up to all the damage types. I know melee gets the short end of the stick here, but if they can get them as they come out the higher damage longer animation attacks first are best. then proceeds with the faster animation attacks for constant damage. Blaster and Corr are good here too, as Range is better for moving targets.

Got the Not On My Watch badge on one run for having no resistacne escape. THe next run with the same league left only 2 resistance escape.

What we did was 6 teams at each (green dots) doors. Caltrops, Earthquakes, Bonfires, Tar Patches, mines, you name it, were planted there. Trollers, Dominators and the like were holding everyhing and killing them. Those un-held (Commando) were getting hammered by the damage dealers (blasters, brutes, scrappers, etc...). Damage dealers were responsible to follow Commando when they were getting away, but would come back if they went to far away from their green dot. Those Commandos that ran too far would be dealt with by the damage dealers near the other green dots they would pass by.

I'm still suprised we got the badge since the teams were made on the fly. People were warned to click Options on their minimap and enable Leaguemates. With that, you see the green arrows of all the league on your minimap, your own team being a darker green color. So we said spread to the 6 doors equally and people moved around till we where about 4 at each doors.

One thing also when you do trials. Always say in Local, Broadcast, Request and even Team while you're at it, to have people add League in a chat box so they can read it. Lots of Leagues are using it and many people don't even have the idea it exists.

I'm 2 for 2 on BAFs.. and we have never let one escapee go. My blaster is fire/fire/flame and i stood at the doorway with as much AoE running and just watched stuff die. i prioritize targets by going after bosses and LTs,a nd the troller or dom at my dorr made sure minions got held in the Aoe long enough to die without me having to target them.

BAF is crucial in that you need to looka round and be aware who is at your dorrway, and balance out the damage amongst all six doors.