Forward Castle

Ah, the forward castle drop. “Castle in the face” as some players call it. More often than not, I see people at the lower level (900 to 1050 elo) place forward castles. In some games, it’s even as if they have no other plan, even when you have cleaned out their base, they place a castle foundation in your own base, or next to you. It puzzles me. When you commit to a forward castle, you commit to 650 stone, which is a lot. Not only that, you commit to the time villagers take to mine that stone, which could be used on gathering otherRead More →