Sanctuaries and "Beach heads" Poll and discussion

[duck]

Can someone explain what the beach head concept is, not following..

[Talek Krell]

PS2 is ditching the concept of sanctuaries in favor of giving each faction some uncaptureable bases. Either one on each continent or one for every few continents. Ostensibly the point is to allow people to get into battle faster.

[Xyntech]

Just picture a miniature version of the sanctuary, but sitting on one of the actual continents of battle, off at one of the far edges of the continent

We don't know how many beach heads there will be for each empire. Speculation runs anywhere from one per empire on every continent, to each empire only getting a single beach head on one continent and none on any of the other continents. We just don't know yet.

Given that we have seen concept art of warpgates, I think it's safe to assume that not every continent will have a beach head for every empire. Why have warp gate links if you already have a beach head that you can spawn at on every continent? Still, this is only speculation until the devs give us more info.