HP and Ammo, possibly the 2 most important blocks in the game of blocknload, but yet so underrated and missunderstood. The goal of these boxes is to replenish your health points and ammo over time, which means that if youre low hp, you can heal back to full hp in a matter of seconds, which means not dying that makes it so you don't have to wait half a minute to respawn, healing up, and not giving the enemy extra bricks to build more defenses or offensive blocks.

The hp and ammo boxes are meant to be a quantity over quality block, every good player will tell you that he rather has 6 crate covered hp and ammo stations than 1 covered in sandbags impossible for enemies to reach, but also for you, which brings me to my next point.

Place your hp and ammo at the locations where your team mostly needs it and will run around at. You can't expect your team to keep running to that one single hp and ammo box that you have in the whole map, you are meant to place alot of it, and place it at the locations your team needs it most. Ofcourse don't place it next to eachother because healing doesn't stack

There's 3 major points in the map that require the most focus of hp and ammo blocks, obviously you need to spread them out as much as you can but the focus are on these 3 points:
- The own defense including the tactical positions like a nigel sniping position
- The high ground attacking position, where your team will have the ability to camp and shoot their projectiles from, killing and damaging the enemy players and baseprep
- The blockbuster, this one is probably the most important one, knowing that the blockbuster in most games is a win or lose situation

Which heroes are meant to do the majority of hp and ammo:
In most games you have 2 brains, one being either attacker or off-defender (the defender searching for spawns and sometimes helping the attack) and one being the main defender, a vander or a tony with their turrets or teslas. the attacking brain should be the one doing the majority of the hp and ammo placements during the game, whether it be a genie, an eliza or a trondson. The most important thing you can do as these 3 heroes is place alot of hp and ammo!

Where to not place your hp and ammo: It doesn't matter!, even if it's on radar you can use it to quickly hide and heal up, especially as eliza where it will be hard to face you from close range with your gas

Pro tip: use your enviroment to cover your hp and ammo, use cornerblocks to hide and use granite to cover your hp and ammo. At the same time if you have certain block skins, like the white brick skin, or the basic red brick skin, you can easilly hide your hp and ammo in walls making it nearly or fully invisible.

How to place your offensive hp and ammo

How to make full use of your hp and ammo.
The trick is to make sure that you have as much area coverage with your placement as possible, so that whenever you move from one location to another, to have a better view, a better location to shoot from or a better location to defend from that you will be constantly healing.

Aslong as you are standing on heals, it will make it way easier for you to fight enemy heroes 1v1, 1v2 or even 1v3. Especially when you have some kind of shield, like killer shield or genie lamps, you will have heal and a shield at the same time, making you nearly invincible.

Hp as bait, in high level the first thing you want to do is take out the hp before you start fighting a strong enemy like doc which can melt you in a matter of seconds, a tip is to wait for people to go for it, or to place mines or traps near it so they are trapped or damaged in a certain area within your reach, then when they go for the hp, your mine will explode and a few shots will be enough while they are crouched and stuck underneath a block. This way you get an easy kill and a defender will be down giving you an opening/opportunity to attack

Offensive brain trick: drop hp into the enemy cube when you are rushing it, so that you are healing and meanwhile chopping away at their cube.

When people are fully commited to camping hp and ammo and they are having a major setup on a certain location, with heals, glue and other types of traps, it will be hard to 2v3 them. The best way to counter this is to make the attackers fall back and defend for one second, stopping this constant barage of bullets and projectiles, killing the attackers and taking out their hp and ammo.

When you as defender dont have vision of the enemy hp and ammo, make sure to use your headset and your ears, because the hp boxes give off a constant sound that is easily distinguised from things like mines.