A Main HE Grenade from Heaven

Steps

1. From heaven, walk to the front railing and position yourself at the center, looking directly down toward the A main entrance below.
2. Look down at the A main doorway. Find the floor area just inside the entrance where the lobby corridor opens into A site. Focus on the center of the doorway at ground level.
3. Place your crosshair on the center of the main entrance floor, right at the threshold where Ts emerge from the lobby. Aim at the midpoint of the doorway opening on the ground.
4. Throw with a standing left click from your elevated position. The natural downward arc from heaven drops the HE directly into the entrance.
5. The HE grenade drops into the A main entrance and detonates on the floor, dealing 40-70 damage to any Ts pushing through the doorway. The confined corridor amplifies the splash damage.

Tips

• Heaven gives you a risk-free position to throw the HE because you are elevated and behind a railing. The Ts cannot shoot you during the throw animation.
• Throw this as an opening move before the Ts reach the entrance. The HE detonates just as the first players arrive, softening them for the gunfight that follows.
• If the HE lands too far inside the site (past the entrance on the A site floor), your crosshair was aimed too far past the doorway. Center it on the threshold itself.
• If the HE bounces off the doorframe and detonates in the lobby, your aim was slightly off center. Make sure you are aimed at the open space of the doorway, not the frame walls.
• Combine this with the A main smoke from heaven for a devastating combo - HE first to deal damage, then smoke to block vision while Ts recover.
• Practice in an offline server with sv_cheats 1; sv_infinite_ammo 1; sv_grenade_trajectory 1; sv_grenade_trajectory_time 10; mp_roundtime_defuse 60 and use bot_place in the entrance to test damage values.

When to Use

This HE grenade is a core defensive tool from the heaven position on Nuke. Use it when:

• Early round denial thrown at the A main entrance to soften Ts before they even step onto the site
• Utility stacking combined with smoke and molotov from heaven to create a wall of damage and denial at the main entrance
• Anti-rush defense when you hear fast footsteps in lobby - the HE punishes the lead Ts and slows the entire push
• Economy warfare by dealing chip damage every round to keep T-side economy pressured even when they do not execute on A
• Pre-smoke damage thrown before smoking main so the Ts take damage before the visual block goes up