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Turn-Around Strategy
1 of 10: This strategy is the quickest and simplest one to set up for, and it doesn't depend on your bringing any sentry guns with you from previous areas. Due to this, it's the best choice for new players and for those who just want to get this whole thing over with as quickly as possible.
2 of 10: What you do is take the sentry guns out of their storage slots and then put them right back in, except turned around to face outward.
3 of 10: The way to do that is to pick up a sentry gun, then drop it on the floor nearby. Move around to the front of it and pick it up again, then put it down in a container slot.
4 of 10: Put one sentry gun in the far left slot and one in the far right slot, then put the remaining one in the slot that's directly across from the health charger. (The leftmost of the two center slots, in other words.)
5 of 10: Get in the slot across from the armor charger and stand there with your shotgun or pulse rifle, ready to shoot any soldiers who appear in front of you.
6 of 10: TIP: Instead of having a weapon ready, why not keep throwing bugbait all over the place? It won't interfere with your sentry guns, and any soldiers who come near you will be immobilized until the sentry guns can finish them off.
7 of 10: TIP: If not losing any health or armor is a major priority, then crouch in your slot while holding an indestructible item in front of you other than a sentry gun (like an upright barrel).
8 of 10: Just stay in your little container slot and blast or bugbait whoever you see (or hide behind your barrel) until the battle is over.
9 of 10: You should be able to easily survive this, and can always heal up with the health and armor rechargers once it's over.
10 of 10: ALTERNATIVE: You could combine this strategy with the Barricading Strategy. Totally barricade one end of the hallway so that soldiers can't even see in from that side, then stand in the container slot closest to the barricade, having placed your sentry guns in the other three slots. This isn't a really big improvement, but it is an interesting alternative (especially for those who, like me, enjoy the barricading strategy a lot).
