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Re: Defense Type and Position Selection
After having gone through a regional- I don't give a Flying Toaster about defense selection.
Unless my opponents are known to be really bad at something in particular, I'm probably going to put the Moat, the Rock Wall, the CDF, and the Sallyport in almost every time for the purposes of my own visibility.
If my opponents are bad enough that their alliance can't get a breach done regardless of what I throw at them, I'm going to win the match anyway, at which point who cares what defenses I place?
People seem to get stuck on the moat and ramparts equally, and the CDF is both more difficult and easier to see over. The Sallyport might occasionally be replaced with the drawbridge if I really don't want my opponents to have an easy 10 points sitting on the table.
Defense selection is cool, but lends very little strategic value to the game once you get to a point where every robot at the event can get a breach solo.
(And if you can't get a breach solo regardless of the defenses placed, you probably messed up your strategic design from day 1, because robots near the bottom of our picklist at Tech Valley got solo breaches when their partners lost comm. There are a few exceptions to this, but for the most part this holds.)
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