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Re: Breaching sally port by throwing it open

There were several Q&As, and all of them said pretty much the same thing as Whippet. You have to disengage and re-engage with enough of an interval to attract a ref's attention. Several have suggested an annoying or at least distracting light or sound display to get the refs to look; sounds like a marginal strategy. 3946 decided rather early that category C (drawbridge and sally port) was the defense we were going to leave on the table for a "solo breach", especially as easy as it is to cross and damage with cooperation between even cockroach* robots.

* Cockroach is 3946 for robots with a working drive system and nothing (or at least not much) more.
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