The Bent Dipper

8 variations / easy

This method takes a little longer to set up than BL's Balls because the walls you need to build are closer to the enemy pill and therefore a longer distance for the man to travel. I like it, though, because it has more variations than the usual tricks, and because I figured it out on my own. Once again, the wall I've inverted in the illustration is not necessary, but is useful for positioning your tank. As with the Sneaky Bastard trick, two pills in the first and third block square positions can be particularly lethal to enemy builders.

Both BL's Balls and the Bent Dipper are good setups for shots like this, where you need to fire between two diagonal bases (such as these in the northeast corner of Wash DC map):

You can then watch for the enemy's man and shoot the base it will walk through, killing it easily.

Thomas Michael Apodaca (apodaca@colorado.edu)