Fighting Sentries

If you're outside the sentry's range it's pretty simple to take out a sentry, but generally there isn't enough space for that to be an option. I've played as engineer and have had perfectly hidden sentries destroyed, but I can never tell how they got killed.

When playing as soldier, I pop around the corner, launch a rocket or two, then go back. I end up getting dodging the sentry rockets, but still get hit by the bullets. Meanwhile, the engineer is sitting there repairing his turret so I don't make any progress.

I've also tried playing as Demoman and can't do much better. I don't know how many stickies or pipes it takes to kill a sentry, and I have trouble aiming when i only have the split second I see the sentry to figure out how the grenades will arc.


Any tips?

3 stickies, 2 pipes to kill a sentry. Adjust your aim before you pop out, and only go out far enough for your gun to shoot. Shoot the wall or the floor to kill the engy first if you're a soldier, demos can just plant 3-4 stickies and detonate them all at once. Just work on your speed at peeking around the corner.

3-4 pipes to kill a sentry, 3 stickies.  As for soldier, aim for the ground behind the sentry to make the engineer suffer damage as well. this will help you a bit, by either killing him or making him back off.

If the engineer is hiding behind his sentry, I have no option but to take out the sentry first. It sounds like I should just use demoman when taking out sentries.

Like Chro and I said, if he's hiding you can just shoot the ground beside him or any walls near him.

normally 3 stickies is more than enough to kill both the engie and the sentry together and sometimes the dispenser. I don't recommend u to take down a sentry by yourself because most of the time enemies must have noticed u and will start targeting at you unless you have a buddy to provide cover against the fire it is usually not recommended to go up against a sentry by your self.

Like most have said, you can use a demoman or soldier. Sometimes you can help others take out the sentry be sapping it, or have a go for it your self by sapping and stabbing the engineer quickly. I'd suggest sapping the dispensor then the sentry to distract the engineer for a second.

Some sentries are impossible to destroy alone if the Engineer is gun humping. You must get multiple people to spam it, or use an uber. Turbine's main hallway comes to mind.

Lies. Gun-Humping engineers can be taken out by demomen. all you need to do is have a good aim from afar. you can launch pipes high enough to pass the sentry and directly hit the engineer. it is difficult to pull off and you need a good feeling on how to handle that grenade launcher, but it is highly possible. Instead of launching them directly at the sentry, lob them high into the air into the general direction of the sentry

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If you can't get the engy, it's almost as good to get the dispenser. It's not always as well hidden as the engy himself is, and you chew through 200 metal pretty quickly repairing a sentry taking rocket hits.