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Re: Defense in Ultimate Ascent

How tough is it to play defense on a climb and dump robot?

After poking around in the rules and the Q&A for a while, here's what I've gathered:

Letting the climber push you into their pyramid is bad; probably gives you a technical and gives them a free 30 point climb.

It is possible to legally play 2 on 1 defense against a single robot.

It is legal to block one of the feeder stations, but not both at the same time. It is not a penalty to touch the opposing feeder station as long as you're not also touching an opposing robot that is in the feeder station.

Those indicate to me that climb + dump robots should be defended on their way to the feeder station and back. But after they reach their own auto zone again, it gets really risky to try to defend them unless you think their drive is too weak to push you around.