[Alex Salomonsky]

Originally Posted by n0cturnalxb

I've been reading this thread for the past few days (.. okay, so I skimmed the last few posts!), but..

Even though defense MAY be a good strategy, I don't necessarily think it's wise to build solely for defense. My team was leaning towards the defense-only strategy and I.. became very annoyed, very fed up.

What's the point of building a box on wheels?

That's all I really have to say. Build for offense, but make your robot sturdy. Make your chassis strong. That way, you have two options and you're not so limited - if your alliance doesn't have enough offense, you can contribute; but if you have too much offense and not enough defense, your robot can STILL DO defense. ... Whereas, if you built a box on wheels.. you're not going to be able to contribute much to offense, whether you want to or not.

I agree, people on my team want to build soley on defense too, and I think its stupid, defense ,IMO, is a last resort when you go to comp. and you find out your lifting device is ineffective. Plus, you're relying on the fact that your partners are not soley defenders as well, like football, you can't with all defense and no offense. Plan for offense, if ineffective, play defense.