[Shoob189]

Personally, I think you should go with your alliance if they can provide solid reasoning for you to play defence (which they seem to have done) and if they aren't dictating it to you and not listening to your opinion. Being a main strategy person on my team, one of the most frustrating things I've run up against is when we come up with a strategy with one of our alliance mates and the other alliance mate refuses to cooperate without providing good reason (ex: they don't cooperate just because they don't like it). I believe in making sacrifices for the good of the team. If I can provide something my alliancemates want, I'll do it even if it is less favorable to me (ex: playing defence with a scoring bot). It is a hard decision to make (especially if you just got it working). Who knows, mid-match the oppertunity may come where you need to put one up or change strategies.