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| 0s | hello everyone welcome to the channel |
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| 3s | today we've got an exciting H mirror |
| 5s | match up with excellent micro Market |
| 8s | Madness and a devastating night chain |
| 11s | this match was played on the polium |
| 13s | finals of from October if you are |
| 15s | interested in playing this tournaments |
| 17s | yourself then check out the description |
| 18s | where we left the link for you to join |
| 20s | it my name is Ratz I'm a very |
| 22s | experienced player from the pulley |
| 23s | Champions discard and with me today is M |
| 26s | Lampa hi everyone I'm M Lampa I've been |
| 30s | playing polytopia at a high level on PO |
| 32s | Champions and Challenger mode for about |
| 34s | a year now so looking at the spawns we |
| 37s | got vs in the north Corner playing as uh |
| 42s | Brown HRI and we got Chris in the in the |
| 47s | Eastern Corner slightly more towards the |
| 50s | South playing as the purple |
| 53s | HRI and they both got two animals in |
| 56s | their Capital four forests so pretty |
| 58s | even spawns War got a lighthouse but |
| 61s | that is not that important in HRI miror |
| 65s | matchups they also both got decent |
| 68s | resource indicators so they should |
| 70s | expect a relatively good City |
| 75s | density to be fair that two animals on |
| 77s | the capital on HRI are guaranteed so um |
| 81s | aside from the for Forest that they both |
| 82s | have it's indeed very s they also both |
| 88s | have at least two animals on their |
| 89s | secondary Village as you can see here so |
| 92s | they both are able to go hunting and |
| 95s | have a very similar open here where |
| 98s | nobody gets behind for no reason because |
| 100s | of bad generation or something like that |
| 102s | they have a very similar start yeah it's |
| 106s | also worth pointing out that they both |
| 108s | go for the standard HRI opening of |
| 112s | training a warrior and turn |
| 115s | zero you don't really want to turn an |
| 117s | Archer at on herri in the beginning |
| 120s | because the arch cost three stars which |
| 123s | would not enable you to get a workshop |
| 126s | on turn three like both past it here |
| 130s | with uh the capital and they would be |
| 132s | missing a star a star for for that so |
| 135s | therefore the |
| 137s | warer fulfills that role perfectly with |
| 140s | costing only two stars and not delaying |
| 143s | the first Workshop more than one |
| 146s | turn because you also want to expand |
| 148s | right you want to get those extra |
| 150s | Villages here and crucially they enable |
| 154s | you to train more units to combat other |
| 156s | things and contest Villages and also to |
| 159s | get more workshops in the |
| 161s | future yeah and and like the main point |
| 165s | why you train a warrior over an Archer |
| 167s | is that if you train a warrior you end |
| 170s | up with exactly Nine Stars in turn three |
| 173s | which is just enough to buy hunting and |
| 175s | Hunt to animals yeah so now in turn four |
| 179s | um you will see the first explorer of |
| 181s | the game in the second city as you often |
| 185s | see it with |
| 188s | HRI um the Explorer ends up going quite |
| 191s | ends up being quite good even though in |
| 194s | the |
| 195s | beginning there was like a |
| 197s | moment where you really had to be afraid |
| 200s | that that Explorer would just go around |
| 202s | the lake and not give as good |
| 205s | information as it end up |
| 208s | giving this does the same |
| 211s | and he also has this Explorer going the |
| 213s | right direction both players get the |
| 215s | meeting STS both players get their |
| 217s | Village the second village Explorer and |
| 219s | both players also cannot upgrade their |
| 222s | third Village because they don't have |
| 224s | two animals on |
| 226s | that boss does decide to take climbing |
| 230s | here which is a very devastating go to |
| 232s | his economy however it does enable him |
| 235s | to contest this Village that is close to |
| 237s | him and also it enables him to contest |
| 240s | this ruin further down even yeah it's a |
| 243s | lot harder for Chris to fight with |
| 245s | because his capital and also his third |
| 249s | City just a further away than wor the |
| 252s | city at least the neutral |
| 256s | City but now um let's take a look at |
| 259s | this because Wars managed to um secure |
| 265s | the city and now also get a defense |
| 268s | boosted Warrior onto the ruin |
| 270s | now if you wonder why that Warrior |
| 272s | defense boosted usually you only get a |
| 274s | defense boost in cities and on |
| 278s | mountains but HRI starts with the |
| 280s | archery Tech and the archery Tech comes |
| 283s | with a defense bonus on Forest so all |
| 286s | your units get a defense bonus on Forest |
| 289s | and in that Archer against Warrior |
| 291s | interaction you need two archers to kill |
| 294s | a warrior that is not defense boosted |
| 298s | and you need three archers against the |
| 300s | Warrior that is defense boost and |
| 302s | because of this Wars ends up securing |
| 305s | the ruin |
| 309s | here yeah we get Forest three on Chris |
| 311s | Chris says well I can't really contest |
| 313s | this effectively so I'm going to |
| 315s | continue with my economy Rush uh we see |
| 318s | forestry relatively early on hudrick |
| 320s | here um and on the other hand Voss can't |
| 324s | really do the same because he went |
| 326s | climbing and trained so many units to be |
| 328s | able to contest these things |
| 330s | also the ruin I would like to mention um |
| 333s | another |
| 334s | Explorer the way that the ruin works is |
| 337s | it can give you all these kind of things |
| 340s | like stars 10 Stars three population an |
| 343s | Explorer a swordsman or uh at random |
| 348s | technology however the Explorer can only |
| 352s | be in the result of the ruin if there is |
| 354s | at least one for tile in the two radius |
| 358s | uh around the ruin so in this case |
| 361s | you could say well there's no forti |
| 362s | around the ruin because the ruin the |
| 364s | explore can't work on water but that |
| 365s | doesn't count the ruin still procs and |
| 367s | explore because there is fork in range |
| 369s | and |
| 370s | therefore it is actually gives him quite |
| 373s | a lot of value with that ruin to get the |
| 376s | lighthouse as well in the South |
| 379s | [Music] |
| 381s | slightly working towards a giant on his |
| 384s | Capital but also crucially div Vision |
| 386s | right um yeah but I just want to mention |
| 389s | it did not help his economy that much as |
| 392s | maybe like a population ruin a star ruin |
| 395s | or even like a forestry ruin or an |
| 398s | organization ruin would have helped him |
| 401s | so it's not the best result for his |
| 405s | quite leg glaster economy like you're |
| 407s | looking at eight Stars per turn in turn |
| 410s | nine like that's not usually what you |
| 412s | want to |
| 414s | see it is tough |
| 423s | now here we see usually we see always |
| 426s | how archers prepare the units um to like |
| 430s | to make them low HP so the Warriors can |
| 432s | finish him off but in this case the |
| 435s | reason Chris doesn't want to kill that |
| 437s | warrior with the Archer with the warrior |
| 440s | is because if he does so the warrior |
| 442s | would be one t further towards Ross and |
| 445s | therefore it be easier to for Ross to |
| 447s | kill it because there's a warrior and an |
| 449s | archer in range that right now are not |
| 451s | in range but would be if he was to move |
| 454s | one t further up and therefore he |
| 457s | decides to not do it just take the kill |
| 460s | on one of his archers to work towards |
| 461s | the veteran Archer also going to keep |
| 464s | that in mind because |
| 466s | veterans can give you a free recovery on |
| 468s | the unit or um set up half the unit with |
| 472s | more HP running |
| 474s | around but in this case um Chris plays |
| 477s | it relatively defensive he just wants to |
| 480s | work on his economy and players at |
| 481s | Advantage right he sees how how Voss did |
| 484s | take climbing at a very early stage of |
| 487s | the game where it did punish boss's |
| 489s | economy and |
| 491s | also at this point both players have for |
| 494s | cities so Chris just plays into this |
| 497s | economy Advantage here and continues to |
| 499s | get another Workshop I believe in the in |
| 501s | the East here there as well that's |
| 503s | that's no it wasn't the best I think |
| 505s | heay one for more unit yeah he trans |
| 510s | really important to have enough units or |
| 511s | otherwise your opponent can just |
| 513s | overwhelm you yes 100% I always like to |
| 517s | say stop here you can always like to say |
| 519s | how um economy is great but the Army is |
| 523s | what wins games right yeah you're |
| 526s | building your economy to make more |
| 528s | military basically |
| 531s | exactly so I love if you go back to turn |
| 533s | 10 here I I was missing out on that |
| 535s | comments here |
| 538s | um boss |
| 542s | use this with one |
| 544s | Archer to shoot the Warrior on the city |
| 547s | there because there is a mountain |
| 549s | blocking Voss blocking Chris from |
| 551s | actually retaliating on it however he |
| 553s | did take climbing anyways because |
| 555s | there's a ruin on the East that he could |
| 557s | step on that was on a mountain so |
| 560s | therefore he just gambled or kind of you |
| 562s | can say gamble but he did Force um Chris |
| 566s | to take up to take the climbing Tech and |
| 570s | yeah like it did set Chris's economy uh |
| 575s | behind like a fair amount like he's |
| 578s | investing eight Stars into climbing with |
| 580s | eight Stars he could have also upgraded |
| 583s | with fron City to level three and taken |
| 586s | a workshop in his East city which would |
| 588s | have been plus three stars per turn so |
| 592s | it's not the worst trade for Wars he |
| 594s | obviously didn't know that Chris also |
| 596s | gets the mountain ruin for it if it was |
| 599s | just for the um attack there on on the |
| 601s | Archer probably wouldn't have been worth |
| 603s | it also because now um he does get a lot |
| 607s | of retaliation going on here but also |
| 611s | the mountain Ru is crucially can be very |
| 614s | very helpful right it can give you star |
| 618s | R I was going to say it can give you |
| 621s | Stars which basically makes a plus two |
| 624s | tra and in stars and additionally you |
| 626s | get attack for it um but also population |
| 630s | could speed up your process towards a |
| 632s | giant like the ruin can can snowball |
| 634s | your game play a lot but um yeah CR was |
| 638s | didn't know about it so he did get |
| 640s | punished for it at the end yeah looking |
| 643s | at this turn I I feel like for is |
| 646s | overextending a little bit here um like |
| 650s | he's also sending that Archer forward |
| 653s | there in in the west I'm not sure if he |
| 656s | can support that P so vs decided here to |
| 659s | will first hit um with a warrior that is |
| 662s | not immediately next to Chris's Village |
| 665s | which means um that his Warrior actually |
| 669s | ends up being out of range of a new |
| 672s | Warrior he's |
| 674s | training this |
| 679s | turn and so now if you take a look at |
| 681s | what crit and what Chris does here um he |
| 684s | last hits that warrior with his own |
| 687s | Warrior |
| 691s | and now um Boris has less units in range |
| 694s | that can help killing that |
| 699s | Warrior I see cuz otherwise he would |
| 701s | have been able to kill two Warriors |
| 703s | there not just one but like in this case |
| 706s | he attacked both the warriors on on the |
| 709s | city and the defense t on the forest but |
| 711s | otherwise he would have been able to |
| 712s | kill both Warriors and further engage |
| 716s | this |
| 717s | effectively so yes I I agree that |
| 719s | positioning was not optimal but then |
| 723s | again um this game is going to be |
| 725s | decided by by other places other than |
| 728s | small slight mini misplay on one side |
| 730s | here which takes can happen you right |
| 733s | yeah it's it's just important to point |
| 735s | out that like these kind of things often |
| 738s | decide like okay um how much value are |
| 741s | you actually going to get out of your |
| 743s | units like Archer micro is a lot about |
| 746s | um stacking veteran kills and not taking |
| 749s | unnecessary |
| 752s | hits here we see an Explorer from V |
| 755s | which crucially gives him another |
| 757s | Lighthouse also gives him a little bit |
| 759s | of Vision on the rest of the map now we |
| 761s | see that there is basically a huge Lake |
| 764s | on the southwest of the map with a |
| 766s | village in the South Corner a village in |
| 768s | the west corner and actually also one |
| 770s | Village in the lake that we can actually |
| 772s | see from W's perspective here we see the |
| 774s | shorelines um there is more than likely |
| 777s | a village in that Lake there is a |
| 779s | village in indeed and that Village can |
| 781s | be reached by a bridge however the |
| 784s | question is if that is even worth it |
| 787s | even if you have markets later on the |
| 788s | line because crucially that Village |
| 791s | underwater only has fish to upgrade it |
| 794s | with and fishing unless the teams want |
| 797s | to build a Navy here that Village is not |
| 799s | going to be really useful for either of |
| 801s | these players right now I'm pretty sure |
| 804s | that every leges map on small has |
| 807s | exactly one of these Lake villages |
| 810s | that would be a very interesting |
| 812s | interesting fact that I don't know if |
| 814s | that's true or not but um we can prove |
| 817s | it yes so I know that in continents it |
| 821s | works exactly like that for example oh |
| 824s | inter and on Pia as |
| 828s | well also the the Pangia ocean cities |
| 831s | are always decided on the map size how |
| 835s | many you have on the ocean yes so what I |
| 838s | want to ask you here is um do you agree |
| 841s | with taking Explorer here over a |
| 843s | workshop because his economy really is |
| 846s | not strong right no uh although I would |
| 851s | argue uh no no I I I was going to say if |
| 854s | that Lighthouse would have been crucial |
| 856s | for the first giant then I would have |
| 858s | said take that Explorer but because that |
| 862s | Lighthouse I mean effectively you're |
| 863s | going to get the first giant with with |
| 865s | SOS and not with the with the lighthouse |
| 868s | in that case so I I would disagree here |
| 870s | we do take B go here I would like to |
| 872s | touch that on on that on on Chris unless |
| 874s | you want to add something on the v's |
| 875s | play from last turn you know and what I |
| 877s | would like to say about Chris's turn |
| 880s | here is that even though he would have |
| 883s | the option to go aggressive with like |
| 886s | his Archer and his Warrior there for |
| 889s | example to kill like some more units of |
| 891s | Wars he decides against it to prevent |
| 894s | being out of |
| 897s | position and you C units and builds up I |
| 901s | would like to touch on this uh B go in |
| 903s | the city here uh do you agree with it |
| 906s | because I always have people tell me or |
| 910s | I always have people argue to try and |
| 913s | take especially um population growth in |
| 916s | the first city that you want to get the |
| 917s | Giant on because it's faster but in this |
| 920s | case I would argue it is actually faster |
| 923s | to border go that City why because the |
| 927s | only way for you to get a giant on city |
| 930s | is with uh Sills and the fastest way to |
| 933s | get a giant in that city which is |
| 935s | slightly cheaper for the first giant |
| 936s | that is is to border growth because this |
| 939s | way you don't need additional Tech to |
| 943s | get the first giant now you can use the |
| 945s | rending forests that you can that you |
| 948s | gained with the water growth to get the |
| 950s | first giant you have to mention that um |
| 955s | if you go for population growth here um |
| 959s | um he would already be at three out of |
| 962s | five population for the next shine and |
| 965s | placing a Som here gives him five |
| 967s | population so if he went for the |
| 971s | population growth Choice mathematics and |
| 974s | The Sawmill and then immediately also |
| 976s | plac the park of Fortune he would be |
| 979s | able to pop two giants instantly yeah |
| 982s | but he again he needs the additional |
| 984s | Tech to do it right yeah the first giant |
| 987s | is more expensive and maybe he doesn't |
| 990s | want to place his spk of Fortune in the |
| 993s | capital yeah I mean that's what that's |
| 995s | what I said like the first giant |
| 997s | actually I mean the first giant |
| 998s | technically is less expensive because he |
| 1001s | doesn't need to get additional tech for |
| 1003s | it but further Giants are more efficient |
| 1007s | effectively speaking if you get the SOS |
| 1010s | first to get the first giant yeah he's |
| 1013s | he's paying more stars uh for his future |
| 1016s | Giants but the first giant is cheaper |
| 1019s | that's exactly what I wanted to |
| 1022s | say okay so we |
| 1025s | see well we keep seeing that Archer |
| 1028s | Warrior action just trading units and |
| 1032s | Wars actually goes for um for a |
| 1035s | population growth here even though if he |
| 1039s | went for Border growth he would be |
| 1041s | able well he would also get like a |
| 1044s | significant amount of |
| 1046s | resources but um Wars actually has |
| 1050s | enough forest in his Capital so that he |
| 1053s | doesn't need um mathematics to make |
| 1057s | giant this population that's because of |
| 1060s | all the lighthouses right he's got three |
| 1062s | lighthouses he needed only two but three |
| 1065s | ligh houses basically made him able to |
| 1067s | do that play with the killing |
| 1070s | Monument yeah the lighthouses helped him |
| 1072s | get that giant without needing |
| 1075s | mathematics and that's why he is able to |
| 1077s | go for population growth here |
| 1079s | and when he uses the park of Fortune you |
| 1082s | you usually want to place your monuments |
| 1085s | quite quickly especially early on |
| 1088s | because like this upgrade right here |
| 1090s | just gives him five stars immediately he |
| 1092s | can use again reinvest them and it also |
| 1095s | gives them an additional star per turn |
| 1099s | like that's a play I See quite often |
| 1101s | that people sit on their monuments for |
| 1103s | way too long and they steadily lose |
| 1107s | value the longer you sit on them and |
| 1109s | back to Chris where we have been talking |
| 1111s | about the body growth play so much that |
| 1114s | he just gets the population Ru anyways |
| 1116s | and the play all along just does not |
| 1118s | matter anymore because now he just gets |
| 1122s | the first giant basically for |
| 1125s | free because the population yeah and he |
| 1127s | places his Park of Fortune in the front |
| 1130s | but he cannot pop a giant there yet he |
| 1132s | was to population short and Wars is the |
| 1136s | first one to get mathematics now |
| 1140s | [Music] |
| 1142s | B is boss is first in MA getting the |
| 1145s | mathematics Tech however boss has not |
| 1148s | established really a whole lot of lumber |
| 1150s | Huts along the way and Chris does get a |
| 1153s | lot of value out of all his Lumber Huts |
| 1156s | all all of SOS my bad all of SOS he's |
| 1158s | going to place in the future because |
| 1159s | he's already placed all these Lumber |
| 1161s | Huts he doesn't need to place them |
| 1162s | anymore it's a lot of stars in the |
| 1164s | economy that he was able to invest |
| 1165s | earlier in the game that boss is going |
| 1167s | to be lcking out on |
| 1170s | now yeah and what you can also see is |
| 1174s | that like by Chris really was laging |
| 1176s | behind an army early on like now he has |
| 1179s | seven archers sitting there marching |
| 1182s | towards Wars two giants as well and as |
| 1185s | you can see like Wars was forced back |
| 1187s | off with his |
| 1190s | units and Chris can be on the aggressive |
| 1193s | side now right like he moves up right |
| 1195s | next to the cities immediately kills the |
| 1198s | newly trained Warrior |
| 1200s | the veteran sword and putting some |
| 1202s | pressure on the side as well and now |
| 1205s | makes a level five s in the |
| 1209s | capital and like also like seeing that |
| 1212s | catapult there in the front for Wars is |
| 1214s | like like it's so annoying to have a |
| 1217s | catapult uh yeah in range of like two of |
| 1220s | your cities so you basically cannot |
| 1223s | really use |
| 1224s | them and Wars decides that he wants to |
| 1227s | go for Riders to |
| 1229s | try to deal with like with archer M and |
| 1232s | the catapults that are about to |
| 1235s | come yeah so currently the rout for both |
| 1238s | players is kind of |
| 1240s | like now you've got the army of archers |
| 1244s | but you can't really engage with just |
| 1245s | that and the Giants so we now support |
| 1248s | the Giants with catapults maybe be |
| 1250s | efficient with it but more importantly |
| 1253s | the next route for both players is into |
| 1255s | riding and then either we go into |
| 1258s | Knights or we go into markets that's the |
| 1260s | two options that both players currently |
| 1262s | have um markets crucially work really |
| 1265s | well with sers if you look at Chris's |
| 1267s | position he's got a level five s on his |
| 1271s | capital and a level three soml on his |
| 1273s | second village there's a spot in between |
| 1276s | where if you place a market on your |
| 1278s | Capital that will be a level eight |
| 1280s | Market the entry cost for him to do that |
| 1284s | I did the math earlier I think it is 41 |
| 1287s | stars for one market of the B so eight |
| 1290s | for riding 12 for roads that's 20 plus |
| 1293s | trade is 36 plus the market is plus 5 so |
| 1297s | 41 but then that pays it that market |
| 1300s | itself pays itself off in just five |
| 1303s | turns and he can then Place more markets |
| 1305s | as well elsewhere right so crucially |
| 1308s | that's going to be a huge jump that |
| 1310s | Chris is going to try and work towards |
| 1312s | and on the other hand V doesn't really |
| 1315s | have those options for really good |
| 1316s | Market spots um so it could still work |
| 1320s | towards markets but it's not going to be |
| 1322s | as |
| 1323s | effective um and cruly if you see at the |
| 1326s | Army disparity that we have going on now |
| 1328s | and especially with that catapult um if |
| 1331s | Voss doesn't want to lose the cities |
| 1334s | then he might need to get Knights as |
| 1336s | soon as possible yeah as you can see |
| 1338s | like um Chris right now has 27 Stars |
| 1342s | next turn he's going to get another 20 |
| 1344s | so if he spend at most six stars and |
| 1347s | other things until then he's able to |
| 1349s | place a market next turn and what you |
| 1353s | also have to keep in mind like you said |
| 1355s | the market pays off within five turns |
| 1358s | but it's also like R riding and roads |
| 1360s | are like super useful tags for fighting |
| 1363s | as well so of course yes yes so if you |
| 1367s | keep in mind that you probably want |
| 1368s | these two Texs anyways you only end up |
| 1372s | spending the 16 stars on trade and the |
| 1376s | five for a market which pays off last |
| 1379s | when three |
| 1381s | turns yeah here also like a nice cheeky |
| 1384s | play with moving that Arch and M range |
| 1387s | that promoting it after taking |
| 1391s | damage now it's really difficult for him |
| 1393s | to actually kill that Archer it this |
| 1395s | veteran is difficult to kill and |
| 1397s | therefore he doesn't even try we get a |
| 1399s | free Siege here denying three stars of |
| 1402s | income Voss does claim a village on the |
| 1405s | west which is completely useless for him |
| 1407s | because it has no more than one fish in |
| 1410s | it and |
| 1413s | now we get the market set up B also |
| 1417s | picked up free spirit before capturing |
| 1419s | that Village so he definitely wants to |
| 1421s | go for a night |
| 1424s | here right now he's mainly building up |
| 1427s | catapults but Chris is thinking the same |
| 1429s | he also picks up free |
| 1431s | spirit usually Chris can fund that all |
| 1434s | right Chris is able to fund that because |
| 1436s | he has this Market Advantage now we get |
| 1438s | get an Explorer it does go into the |
| 1440s | corner we have another Mountain R |
| 1442s | Happening Here Yeah like the first |
| 1444s | explorer I agree a lot more because like |
| 1446s | Chris already is at 34 Stars per turn at |
| 1449s | one Workshop is not going to be as |
| 1451s | impactful as |
| 1452s | Vision any more than |
| 1455s | this but also the secondary Lighthouse |
| 1457s | there nicely shaped the Explorer it's |
| 1460s | going to allow him to potentially get |
| 1462s | another oh now it goes quickly we have |
| 1465s | the knights here get Giant in his |
| 1467s | Capital with with ro |
| 1469s | what I noticed here is that um Chris is |
| 1472s | kind of scared to walk in right like it |
| 1475s | kind of feels like War set up a death |
| 1477s | trap here so he sees that catapult and |
| 1480s | the giant behind the city and like I |
| 1483s | mean these two units alone can weaken |
| 1486s | the giant to pretty low amount of HP but |
| 1489s | War actually does not have another |
| 1492s | catapult in range but and yeah I just |
| 1496s | wanted to point that out that Chris is |
| 1498s | just keeping his Knight stationary in |
| 1501s | front of for defenses we talk about |
| 1505s | efficiency right that's like the also |
| 1506s | the thing um what using a giant to Siege |
| 1510s | a city that you know the siege is not |
| 1512s | going to last because there's a there's |
| 1514s | 100% one catapult in range that's 100% |
| 1516s | two archers in range and that's a giant |
| 1518s | in range um that's also the thing Giants |
| 1522s | have an attack stat of five and a |
| 1524s | defense stat of four so if you have two |
| 1527s | Giants face on whoever attacks unless |
| 1530s | the other person has a defense bonus on |
| 1532s | that giant then it doesn't matter |
| 1534s | whoever attacks with that giant is going |
| 1536s | to eat a lot of damage so stepping onto |
| 1540s | the village to Siege with a giant to eat |
| 1542s | a catapult shot to eat two Archer shots |
| 1544s | and a giant hit which I believe kills a |
| 1547s | giant let me double check that real |
| 1548s | quick for you um so we have a catapult |
| 1553s | archers and a |
| 1555s | giant it doesn't quite kill a giant the |
| 1558s | giant would survive with 8 HP in that |
| 1560s | order that I just said if you do a |
| 1561s | different order I believe you can get a |
| 1563s | giant slightly uh more damage but then |
| 1565s | you could probably finish it up with the |
| 1567s | rider over there um is not that |
| 1570s | effective right we have talked about how |
| 1573s | you don't want your opponent to hand out |
| 1574s | free arches to your opponent um and that |
| 1577s | also applies to your Giants you don't |
| 1579s | want them to just get melted right now |
| 1580s | so it's kind of a standoff happening |
| 1581s | right here yeah like forever who |
| 1584s | advances uh it feels like bad to advance |
| 1587s | because you immediately lose like a lot |
| 1589s | of units by walking into the range of |
| 1591s | your opponent is the second catapult in |
| 1593s | range by the way I don't know if you saw |
| 1594s | this but in the West City there's a |
| 1596s | catapult oh yeah right so there's a |
| 1598s | second catapult we didn't even see it |
| 1600s | but yes there's another cult in range so |
| 1602s | that giant if it steps onto that Village |
| 1605s | is going to get absolutely shredded for |
| 1607s | no value except denying three stars of |
| 1609s | income for The Siege yeah Chris doesn't |
| 1611s | even see that catapult over there yeah |
| 1614s | and that is crucial because um we also |
| 1617s | saw another Siege earlier in this in |
| 1619s | this turn from Chris where he used a |
| 1621s | rider to kill an Archer and bounce into |
| 1624s | the city something along the lines like |
| 1626s | that which the rider cost three stars |
| 1630s | the city would produce five stars of |
| 1631s | income so that in itself is already |
| 1633s | productive but also crucially Chris is |
| 1637s | has a huge economy Advantage with the |
| 1639s | markets that boss doesn't have so even |
| 1641s | if he was to go negative on that he |
| 1643s | would still be positive overall because |
| 1645s | the income disparity is so high |
| 1648s | yeah but did you see what wars also did |
| 1651s | this |
| 1653s | turns did he train the night yeah that's |
| 1657s | right he trained the Knight he trained a |
| 1659s | knight with 19 Stars per turn he he does |
| 1662s | not lot he does not have a lot but he |
| 1664s | has a knight and two Giants and three |
| 1667s | catapults and now do we does Chris see |
| 1669s | the do see Chris see the Knight no Chris |
| 1672s | does not see the night Chris just barely |
| 1675s | does not have Vision on the Knight |
| 1679s | but he has his own night imagine one of |
| 1682s | these players would have gone diplomacy |
| 1684s | diplomacy would actually give you Vision |
| 1685s | on the capital so he would have been |
| 1687s | able to see |
| 1688s | it yeah know but um that's that usually |
| 1693s | diplomacy would have been for another |
| 1694s | day right for later on where you can use |
| 1697s | the clocks later right now it's kind of |
| 1699s | their Force to go the route of knights |
| 1700s | and um yeah Chris does not have the |
| 1703s | vision yeah let's see what Chris ends up |
| 1706s | doing here |
| 1709s | h i I think he made a mistake there |
| 1711s | right like he could |
| 1712s | have um moved one Archer up to hit the |
| 1716s | Giant and then hit with a knight I think |
| 1719s | a knight only dies when attacking a |
| 1721s | giant then the defending giant is at |
| 1724s | full HP still let me check on |
| 1729s | that yeah maybe you can fact check that |
| 1731s | really quick yeah the Knight would have |
| 1733s | survived if the giant had three HP |
| 1737s | less yeah so if as you said yeah that's |
| 1739s | another thing if if he would have been |
| 1741s | able to Step One Archer forward to hit |
| 1743s | the giant the Knight would have been |
| 1746s | able to survive with one HP and again |
| 1748s | deny one round of income on that |
| 1754s | City yes so now really aggressively uh |
| 1757s | training the Knight right in the |
| 1763s | front and yeah I think War still sees |
| 1767s | that he can't get his night through |
| 1769s | anywhere and now now Chris is like okay |
| 1771s | I'm done with this I'm going in did you |
| 1773s | see that play though did you see that |
| 1774s | play what V just did V got spiritualism |
| 1779s | to place to to grow a forest south of |
| 1783s | Allway that way if you don't know um |
| 1786s | there are two types of rough terrain |
| 1789s | what is rough terrain rough terrain is |
| 1791s | terrain where if a unit walks onto it |
| 1794s | without using a road um it loses all its |
| 1798s | remaining movement points right |
| 1801s | so |
| 1803s | um he can't use the road to run into the |
| 1806s | forest because it is not his own like |
| 1808s | the territory is occupied it's it's the |
| 1811s | city territory of War so he can't even |
| 1812s | if there was a road he couldn't be able |
| 1814s | to use it I wouldn't be able to use it |
| 1817s | Forest fully blocks any any Knight |
| 1821s | movement further into into his |
| 1824s | territory a knight can move all the way |
| 1827s | until the Knight hits the Forest but the |
| 1829s | Knight cannot move past the |
| 1831s | forest yeah and that is why Forest |
| 1834s | places with Forest there because if you |
| 1836s | take a look at like the terrain over |
| 1838s | here like there's this um four tile wide |
| 1842s | passage uh southeast of for |
| 1845s | cities and as you pointed out only Wars |
| 1849s | can use the roads placed inside the city |
| 1852s | bers and right now like the southwestern |
| 1856s | part of the passage is already covered |
| 1858s | with forests and mountains so there's |
| 1860s | all only this one tie |
| 1863s | left that is like a potential weak point |
| 1866s | with |
| 1867s | defense and so voice decides to research |
| 1871s | spiritualism and place |
| 1874s | Forest even though his economy is like |
| 1878s | really yeah it's not in a good shape |
| 1881s | right he's a 19 STS per turn playing |
| 1883s | against like double of that from Chris |
| 1890s | it is kind of a desperation move right |
| 1893s | but at the same time now we see that |
| 1897s | because Chris doesn't have any Vision on |
| 1899s | it he goes in like |
| 1903s | this oh this is going to hurt to watch |
| 1906s | isn't |
| 1907s | it yeah it really hates when that |
| 1910s | happens to you again if you take a look |
| 1912s | at like how the units are positioned |
| 1914s | right now if there wasn't that forest in |
| 1917s | that tile Chris could |
| 1920s | um I'm not sure if he could actually use |
| 1923s | one Knight to snipe that Rider that the |
| 1925s | stone of controlling |
| 1928s | him maybe it would be possible but I |
| 1931s | guess it doesn't matter anyways because |
| 1933s | ver for is blocking so Chris can't reach |
| 1936s | like War's back line with a rider |
| 1940s | catapult archers and Warrior and |
| 1943s | critically also the Knight and yeah I |
| 1946s | think Chris feels like he doesn't want |
| 1948s | to keep having the standof maybe he |
| 1951s | thinks that vus doesn't have Knights yet |
| 1953s | and he wants to make the attack before |
| 1955s | vus gets to |
| 1956s | Knights he moves everything |
| 1959s | in did he buy spiritualism or did he get |
| 1963s | it he he did he he got the star R of the |
| 1965s | of that ruin and he got spiritualism |
| 1967s | with it to grow the forest |
| 1971s | to yeah get some better Market spots and |
| 1974s | also kushy later get another Giant in |
| 1976s | this capital and that giant as well |
| 1979s | yeah but now let's Embrace this turn |
| 1982s | from Wars so right now he's at 11 Stars |
| 1985s | 11 Stars per |
| 1987s | turn compared to Chris's 39 Stars per |
| 1992s | turn he sieged in two cities by |
| 1996s | Giants he has three catapults a knight |
| 2001s | two Giants and like some other trash |
| 2006s | units but Cru he sets up chain for his |
| 2012s | night and oh oh and there comes in he |
| 2017s | just chains through everything Chris |
| 2019s | resigns Midway through already 10 |
| 2024s | 11 make sure to get the UN Siege to 12 |
| 2028s | 12 units night |
| 2032s | Shain yeah and for good matter he also |
| 2035s | cleans up both sieges afterwards to show |
| 2038s | to show us that he obviously could have |
| 2040s | pulled that |
| 2042s | off that hurs to watch and we do see a |
| 2046s | resign coming though um I want to say |
| 2049s | though that at some point |
| 2052s | um you should never give up to |
| 2056s | play actually okay maybe at some point |
| 2058s | you can give up but like in this case I |
| 2060s | would even argue that Chris still can |
| 2063s | win this game even after this |
| 2065s | devastating night chain because he has |
| 2067s | this huge economy Advantage right like V |
| 2071s | has no worlds V has no markets Chris has |
| 2075s | a huge in the income disparity is 19 |
| 2078s | Stars a turn from Voss and 39 Stars a |
| 2082s | turn |
| 2083s | from Chris it's The Siege is still in |
| 2087s | there that's why it says 14 but it's 19 |
| 2089s | stars to turn from Voss so Chris B twice |
| 2092s | as many stars per turn the city count is |
| 2094s | the same um so even after setting blow |
| 2099s | there's still a lot of giant potential |
| 2100s | and there still a lot it's it's a rough |
| 2103s | setback for sure but um you know never |
| 2107s | give up you can still win these games it |
| 2109s | was a really nice nice night chain and a |
| 2111s | really nice game overall I it was really |
| 2113s | well played from both sides you got to |
| 2114s | be honest it is a live game you can't |
| 2117s | you can't forget that this is a live |
| 2119s | game so those players didn't have much |
| 2122s | time to think and play and whatnot they |
| 2124s | were playing at the go they were doing |
| 2126s | everything in matters a matter of |
| 2128s | minutes so even though under this time |
| 2132s | pressure they were able to do all these |
| 2134s | plays and um yeah it was an amazing |
| 2139s | game wow yeah I have to say it was like |
| 2143s | really cool game like in the beginning |
| 2145s | vs pulled ahead he |
| 2148s | secured uh the contested City and the |
| 2151s | contested ruin but when Chris bounced |
| 2154s | back like he also got some decent ruins |
| 2157s | right that popul ruin helped him out and |
| 2159s | he also didn't have to invest into |
| 2161s | climbing so |
| 2163s | early then he had this fascinating |
| 2165s | Market level eight market right |
| 2169s | away accelerated his economy a lot he |
| 2173s | also got to Knights first but then in |
| 2176s | the end he got a little bit impatient |
| 2178s | and got punished for |
| 2180s | it yeah my last words to this game uh |
| 2183s | that I would like to apologize to the |
| 2185s | city of Le way because I said earlier |
| 2188s | that this city is completely useless |
| 2190s | because it there nothing more than one |
| 2191s | fish on it but this catapult did a |
| 2194s | phenomenal job at unsing and preparing |
| 2196s | the night Shain to make it possible in |
| 2198s | the first place thank you guys so much |
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