Sick of Foundry

[Emuchu]

If you're defending a Foundry Rush, you're in for a hard battle.

The main difficulty with Foundry Rushes is that there are two distinct rushes that have to be spotted and defended in different ways, and if you choose to defend the wrong one, I believe the match is already forfeit.

Rush 1 is when Player 1 sends a Runner or two to kill Player 2's Sniper. Player 2 can defend against this initial attack by making it difficult to kill the Sniper. Healing the Sniper or placing a Runner in the way will drastically increase the cost of killing the Sniper, but even then, it's still an uphill battle for Player 2, since Player 1 still has the initiative to challenge the corner Wit Space. I once had this approach thwarted by Player 2 deploying an early Bombshell by his base in anticipation of the rush, and sacrificing his Sniper, although he didn't follow through very well afterwards, and started trying to rush me back.

Rush 2 is when Player 1 ignores Player 2's Sniper altogether, and simply rushes Soldiers into Player 2's back door. This can be defended against, as well, but Player 2 will likely lose 2-4 base HP in the process. The major problem with defending this rush is that if you spend Wits protecting your sniper, you won't have the resources for the Soldier army storming your back door.

But anyways, I wouldn't fret too much about the Foundry, for now. The next patch, which Alex estimates will be submitted at the end of the month, gives Player 2 a few bonus starting Wits, which the beta testers have said are helping immensely. So just fight hard in Foundry while you still can, so you can tell the newbies how good they have it down the road.