Foundry Strategies???

[Alvendor]

Got a request to add some thoughts in this thread specifically what to do as P2 on Foundry.

As above the most aggressive player is usually the winner on Foundry. So the question becomes what can P2 do to become the aggressor? P1 has an advantage in that the sniper moves first but P2 starts with more wits.

My favorite move at the moment is to move up the predeployed runner to the wit space and see if P1 is threatening my sniper with a runner. If so I take out the runner with a new runner, move sniper towards medic and create a new soldier mid. Now I have a soldier more than the opponent in the middle of the map and is in a good position to be the one applying pressure.

If my runner on the wit space reveals P1 has two runners threatening my sniper I create two runners myself and take them out, this makes our situation fairly equal and the game can branch off several directions from there.

You generally want to pump soldiers from the mid spawn as they can be used both for defense and offense. Soldiers from the back spawn are more for offense as they require an extra move for defense. Because of this it is often good to trade units from your back spawn with opponent's units from mid spawn (assuming the same wit cost). This means it is seldom an error to create a runner from the back spawn to take out an opponent's runner.

"The delayed sniper attack" is something I noticed on this map from several high ranked players. Both players have been building up the army. The one who initiates attacks with all soldiers/heavies/runners but leave the sniper. Next turn the defending player tries to take out as much of the attacking force as possible. On the third turn the attacker moves in with the sniper as the defending player no longer have units to take out the sniper. In this way the sniper is safe and can be devastating in cleaning up remaining defenses.

Finally something that applies to all maps but maybe especially for Foundry. If both players have been massing units: If you can get in a position in which you attack with all your units and spend close to all your wits in the same turn you will probably win.