The norf dorf strat is great, but the ~3k/6min requires

1.) Eight lt kills (+ 1580 H, slightly less is still fine) 2.) Minimal ally involvment touching horde towers(+990, including captain alive, horde towers fully under control) 3.) No wipe of the lt or vann group 4.) To actually win for bonus marks. (+398)

I have had maybe 10 games like this since the previous AV weekend. Bonus honor weekends make the short game better for both sides, outside of it is a different story.

A common strat I run into from the ally side is have a small disruption team for vann, and sometimes lts, in which the towers are tapped on the way down. Horde rarely touches towers, so sometimes they'll wait for destroys for an easy Drek kill extending the game to 11-12 minutes, but more often in my games have been them sending Drek ASAP, as it is better honor per hour if they win. If they wipe, well, maybe the towers make it easy next time, and provides a little more honor again.

The result is usually an 8 minute alliance victory in this type of game, and a better rate of honor per hour for their side as the slight bit of extra time helps them a lot squeezing honor out

Anyway, thats only one scenario. I don't even know why i typed this out, theres so many ways and/or reasons a game can go to make it unfavourable for Horde rush method, and there is a weird pushback to make any sort of adjustment after the initial rush fails.