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[Syvan]

(08-03-2012 03:14 AM)GreatGonzales Wrote:  Loss to strong pressure on foundry. Would appreciate some advice from the community.

First, Foundry is a challenging map to defend on. I didn't see very many unit control problems. I think on turn 4, I would have attacked the runner with the heavy and saved that movement wit to respond later. Also, turn 22, I would have taken out the soldier if you had the available wit rather than the runner. As you can see on the next turn, things don't go well.

I think what did you in is that you moved your medic to the distant spawn, but built almost all your units at the base spawn. Once you are under pressure, that distant spawn is almost useless. I have been using moving the medic to the base spawn when I am player 2 on Foundry. It has allowed me to withstand most attacks, but there may be better ways to use medic in the distant spawn.

Once he controls your wit space for a few turns, the game is essentially over. You are able to hold out for a while, but in the end the extra wit allows him to pressure you essentially for free.

One thing you can consider doing is dropping a soldier on that wit space when it is blue, spending a turn not attacking then build and move an extra unit at your far spawn. This is very dangerous though, so you have to predict their moves well.

Also, I couldn't easily tell how defensive your mindset was, but you should be comfortable taking a couple knocks on your base, since they are spending unnecessary wit to attack it that you can turn into a decent advantage. Just make sure you have a plan to keep it with at least 1 health