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Discussion: Team Fortress 2 / Team Fortress 2 - Tactics & Map Discussion - [Engineers] Gravelpit Defense: Where to place your turrets and why! - Far too often I see Engineers place their turrets in the far back corners at
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10-07-2007, 04:58 PM #1
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[Engineers] Gravelpit Defense: Where to place your turrets and why!
Far too often I see Engineers place their turrets in the far back corners at base B. It offers them a little nest where they can heal their turret and be healed by their dispenser.
Problem: Only the engineer is healed and they're left open for the demomans sticky bombs to be taken out in one great fell swoop.
Answer, better placement. Believe it or not it might look out in the open but it is actually protected more than you know. Look below:
View 1:
View 2:
As you can see in View 2 oncoming forces that would be too far out of range are blocked and the turret is far enough away from the window that any demo man or soldier can't rely on splash damage. Due to the rock in front if any one has any attempts at taking down the turret they'll have to put themselves in the turrets line of fire.
Benefit #2, this allows you to have your dispenser in the open so that your forces can make better use of it. I chose the right wall since it's pretty hard to take down unless a demo man starts lobbing grenades from the far side off to the left, which ideally should never happen.
A second turret would be nice facing out the two sides in the back to prevent any demomen from taking down the central turret and dispenser.
Feel free to throw any criticism my way, I've found this works best for me in my opinion.
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10-08-2007, 04:48 PM #2
Re: [Engineers] Gravelpit Defense: Where to place your turrets and why!
Yes this is good, I've been starting to experiment in this direction but this write up means I can jump ahead
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10-09-2007, 01:23 AM #3
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Re: [Engineers] Gravelpit Defense: Where to place your turrets and why!
Nice I do the latter - but after seeing and reading this makes more sence.
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10-09-2007, 03:25 AM #4
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Re: [Engineers] Gravelpit Defense: Where to place your turrets and why!
I don't think I mentioned this but skip throwing up the teleporter exit at first. Trust me if you don't get that turret up to level 3 a soldier or two can rush and get it taken down in no time. Instead after you get your turret up to level 3, throw up the exit.
Make use of those ammo pickups too! Don't wait for your dispenser...
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10-09-2007, 10:05 AM #5
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Re: [Engineers] Gravelpit Defense: Where to place your turrets and why!
That seems like a bad spot, depending on the distance from the ramp you could probably stand on the ramp and still hit it with anything. Also if you stand far enough back pass the rock you can shoot it without it shooting back.
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10-09-2007, 02:07 PM #6
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Re: [Engineers] Gravelpit Defense: Where to place your turrets and why!
I've already tried it, it doesn't work. The right side of the barn area gets in the way of the ramp. On the other side of the rock at the angle you have to shoot you'll only hit the top of the door frame at best which won't even scratch your turret. Only uber soldier rushes will destroy it, but they get thrown back against the wall due to the rockets.
Originally Posted by Zoopy_T
Also a demo man getting behind you and laying down his bombs stands a chance but like I said that shouldn't happen.
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