Wrong Robot!

 Fellow Commanders,

In today's live laboratory lesson, we have the strange and the familiar.  On Springfield, the U advises controlling the dam/farm side of the field if you spawn up on the docks.  That's the familiar part.  Weirdly, a player attempts to do this in a really slow robot - and he's always in the wrong place at the wrong time.  If you are playing slow, get somewhere and stay there.  Dig in like a tick.  Make your enemies come dislodge you.

Instead, this slow robot spends half the battle pursuing a fast robot.  Even with an installed jump drive, it doesn't work, and the red team is quickly submitted by armbar beacon control.

One of our keys to victory is "exploit favorable matchups."  The flip side, of course, is avoiding really bad matchups.  Sometimes we get overpowered by a stone killer, but sometimes we're just chasing someone around and can't catch up.  Let them go.  Use your strengths to your advantage.  In the example above, the Bulwark couldn't catch or kill the Loki, so he should have focused on defending a critical beacon.  It's not rocket science.  Actually, it's like the game of chess in Star Wars that Chewbacca plays against C-3PO.  The pieces are "alive," and they engage in combat ... but it's still chess.  Win the board, not the individual skirmishes.

Remember: 

• Don't mech out.
• Exploit favorable matchups.
• Play the fastest hangar you can.
• Control territory by any means necessary.

Your humble servant (retired),
Dr. Yat


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