Tips for New Players

[swimj]

A few specific tips:

In the early rounds it can disorient your enemy to send runners to "predictable" locations where a medic/sniper might be and eliminate it. Especially the medic because it gets very hard to eliminate as the game progresses (when you really wish you could!) and you have more pressing things to spend your wits on.

On the other side of that coin, don't leave your medic/sniper within easy striking range of your opponent's runners, especially not within the spawn point. I've generally found it's worth the few wits to move them around at first and have them available for later w/o needing the costly spawn.

The order of your steps matters. Usually do the least risky or most necessary steps first (like eliminating a threatening runner) since doing so not only hurts your opponents sight (see above) but also can improve yours, potentially advising your next moves. In short, do certain moves before uncertain ones.