Why are you defending with a mini-sentry?

[HoBoMiKe]

I'm not telling you NOT TO....
but...

some of these engineers are of questionable intelligence.

[GhastlyGhostJr]

Because its a 100 health still pistol on a stick that the 2nd weakest class in the game makes

[absolute fibbery]

Originally posted by HoBoMiKe:

I'm not telling you NOT TO....
but...

some of these engineers are of questionable intelligence.

If we are talking cp, or payload last point, yeah, I question them

[Flavor]

Originally posted by GhastlyGhostJr:

Because its a 100 health still pistol on a stick that the 2nd weakest class in the game makes

[??Crashguy2??]

Putting it in sneaky places can net either sick sneak killz, or force some people to retreat if they don't know where its coming from.

Also, it can actually track scouts properly.

[Drapperbat]

Sentries are only good when the team is actually protecting you at the times when the sentry can't, like when it's getting sapped or when a soldier is pestering it with cross-map rockets. Dispensers and teleporters are usually far more important than a level three sentry, and when the team can't keep enemies off the engineer's back while he tries to get his buildings set up, the extra health and sentry-disposability provided by the gunslinger really help the engineer by giving him the time, metal, and self-protection he needs

[Emurinus]

Does this thread happen to be Hightower related?

[淵 Magia Baiser]

I like to fondle my teamates with my robot hand.

[atsuo]

because i can!!!!

[rept]

Sometimes DM is more important than a sentry nest. Depends on where I'm defending.

[absolute fibbery]

Sentries are good for area denying, mini's go well for picking off weak classes in good spots in maps gamemodes like koth or attack or defend

[Tsar Platinum]

Tbh, mini's on defense aren't that bad if your team is stupid enough to not defend your sentry

[HoBoMiKe]

but guys, why do you DEFEND with a mini? everyone seems to be describing an offensively placed sentry, i'm talking about engineers that build a mini to defend things like
-their own intel
-the final control point on their side of the map
-right outside spawn

like putting a mini forward is ok, even leaving it near the ENTRANCE to your base is ok....

but if you're gonna play defensively, why not just use the big turret?

[GHASTLY]

I can see using a mini as your defense sentry if your team isn't helping, and you don't want to sit there building a L3 over and over again.

With the pisspoor teamwork I've been seeing from pubs lately, I don't blame an engie who doesn't want to spend two minutes building a sentry only to see it destroyed in two seconds because his team has never played a video game before.

[GHASTLY]

I mean it's not tactically optimal, but when your team is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, tactically optimal might be an option.

[??Crashguy2??]

Originally posted by HoBoMiKe:

but guys, why do you DEFEND with a mini? everyone seems to be describing an offensively placed sentry, i'm talking about engineers that build a mini to defend things like
-their own intel
-the final control point on their side of the map
-right outside spawn

like putting a mini forward is ok, even leaving it near the ENTRANCE to your base is ok....

but if you're gonna play defensively, why not just use the big turret?

Final control point/intel defense might have a mini because using a bigger gun might just get it sapped for no payoff or just be too slow, especially if you know they are steamrolling you and you need it RIGHT NOW, I guess?

If you just want to play battle engie, I guess. I occasionally use the mini sentry as a distraction and shotgun the person from another angle if I get bored on 2Fort or something.

I've also placed it on a ledge above the payload in that tower section of Thunder Mountain and it seemed to work pretty well on account of no one being able to hit/notice its smallish hitbox while its semi-concealed in the general confusion. Maybe they were all just noobs or something, but it got a decent streak that one time. This sort of thing might apply in general, but it isn't usually as helpful a plan as you might think.


That was me trying to use logic, though. To answer the original question, if I were to take my best guess, they probably either want the additional health, or they want to be able to reliably have anti-scout turrets...