Engineer Strategy

Of all the time spent playing Engineer on Team Fortress 2 I have come to realise that everyone often destroys your buildings first.
They don't understand the might of the shotgun or a whole clip of the pistol point blank and as such ignore you... which is a grave mistake.
I often set up a level one sentry just around a corner with me hiding somewhere on the other side of the corner with the sentry in my line of sight. The sentry is the bait, if you will, I am springing a trap.

The Soldier comes around the corner and sees a Level One sentry just sitting there, it shoots him a few times as he quickly ducks back behind cover. Any Soldier worth his salt knows that he can easily take out a sentry around the corner by shooting the ground near it. So he starts to position himself, gets in view of the target and shoots. All the while you have run up to him shot him six times point blank with the shotgun and he is dead.


Of course this doesn't always happens. The pyros just rush it and the spies just sap it and even a clip of shotgun shells won't take down a full health heavy but it is an interesting observation that more often than not people will take out your stuff before taking out you.


I sometimes use this to my advantage as I am running away, I plop down a dispenser which subverts their attention for a few seconds. While this isn't much I figure I am going to die anyway, may as well.


And now i'm off.