[Boltman]

The way I see it is Stronghold's main difficulties are in "Timing and Vision". I am fairly confident teams will come up with bots to do some/most/all scoring plays (assuming they have enough vision) the hardest part is doing the what I call 16 scoring plays( goal and/or cross a defense twice) as an alliance in 130 seconds with a 20 second endgame.

Last year timing was an issue too... the best bots efficiently stacked 6 with a can and noodle and had ultra efficient cycle times.

As for vision.... last year was half court this year full court with obstructions.

This year there are no relatively quick "multiple score"cycle possibilities to a close scoring platform, for instance there is no relatively quick 42 point plays to be had in under 30 seconds. This year its individual scoring plays the entire game many "scoring plays" of which take the same about of time as a 42 point play did last year.

That is where the difficulty is IMO this year.

Bottom line in Stronghold there is no one obvious killer strategy like last year due to lack of multiple high-score play actions. Teams will struggle match to mach based on their alliance partners and only the best will be good enough to be effective every match.