A video guide to playing shutdown defense in Stronghold

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Originally Posted by IronicDeadBird

Actually no I was assuming two strong offensive robots and one robot running secret passage to low bar to make sure the excess boulders in the castle don't go to the opposing alliance. That alliance where two fantastic robots are together with a third robot that is flexible is whats generally known as the number one alliance (standard serpentine pick #1 rank team picks #2 rank team and their third pick is usually a good drive base with good drivers). Again the strategy trades accuracy for volume of fire and if you run a low goal high goal combo every missed shot a high goal takes can be cleaned up by the low bot if the high goal shooter is being defended on (at which point the low goal robot has a free courtyard to run those 5-6 low goals). As for red losing control of the match I posed "what if it happened" not that it did and the point still stands if the mix up I proposed was executed and at any point the side with the defensive robot lost resource control what would you do? I also at no point said you only score low goals in fact if we want to add kiting into the strategy we can have tons of fun where we run a low goal robot to the secret passage low goal which makes it that juicy robot that if it accidentally enters the secret passage can get tagged for points, and a high goal robot shooting closer towards the spy box with the human player to assist with aiming (which is a major threat) at which point you are hitting two sides of a tower and a defensive robot can't cover both the low goal of one side of the tower and the remaining goals on the opposite side of the tower.

All of these complicated strategies go into trying to beat an alliance that has consistent outerworks high goal shooters which have dominated the regionals they've went to so far (118, 1986, 16, 2056, 1114). You even said it at the end of your post, trying to beat teams at their own game rarely works. On top of all that, at the end of the day teams with consistent high goal shots will always end up outscoring alliances that choose to make low goals a primary component of their offense.