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| 5s | hello everyone this is cloud glider here |
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| 7s | and this is meridon and today we'll be |
| 9s | walking you through the pum tournament |
| 14s | highlights diving right into it here we |
| 17s | have a match between Miku and Kon 7 with |
| 19s | regular hudrick being on the offense |
| 21s | Here regular hudrick sets up a Siege and |
| 23s | picks off all of dark Hud's units within |
| 25s | range to prevent him from unseeing we |
| 27s | actually see that dark hudrick now only |
| 29s | has one archer in r won't be able to |
| 31s | uneg his City and now dark hodri of |
| 34s | course is in trouble because he can |
| 35s | attack with one Archer but he won't be |
| 37s | able to attack with the second one right |
| 39s | here he finds a nice tactic he gets in |
| 41s | place this veteran archer in his capital |
| 43s | and then performs a nice giant push to |
| 46s | get this archer in range for it to un |
| 49s | Siege his Siege City and successfully |
| 51s | break it next we have a match with migu |
| 54s | against megas fabus and we can see that |
| 56s | regular hudrick here is in a difficult |
| 58s | spot they don't have math yet while they |
| 60s | opponent has already gotten math and |
| 62s | Border growth to set up for a giant |
| 64s | however we see that regular HRI here has |
| 66s | saved up a whole 28 Stars surely they'll |
| 69s | go for a giant here right well actually |
| 71s | they don't they research three texts |
| 73s | this turn including diplomacy and they |
| 75s | chop Forest aggressively to get a nice |
| 77s | cloak here in their Capital mind that |
| 79s | their opponent actually has no vision at |
| 82s | all on this capital and trains units and |
| 84s | progresses actively um trying to play |
| 87s | aggressive but here his units come in |
| 90s | and make free the way for the cloak it |
| 92s | hits the city spawns for daggers and |
| 94s | turns the tide on the game here we have |
| 96s | a match between PQ and meas fabulous |
| 99s | with dark hudrick having four cities |
| 101s | against regular hudrick 2 in this |
| 103s | situation dark hudrick will be able to |
| 105s | build up to a better Eco and train more |
| 107s | units every turn if only there was |
| 109s | something that could kill multiple units |
| 111s | at once oh wait there is Here regular |
| 114s | hudrick sees a perfect opportunity for a |
| 115s | night chain and takes it immediately |
| 118s | being able to break through to dark |
| 119s | fick's back line and turning the tide of |
| 121s | the |
| 124s | game we can see a similar thing with |
| 126s | knights in a match up between joyful |
| 128s | sage and Senior avano normal HRI can |
| 130s | actually see the Knight here so they try |
| 132s | to spread out their units while |
| 133s | attacking in order to make a night chain |
| 135s | impossible however they miss a possible |
| 138s | one which we can see later and light HRI |
| 141s | makes use of that and kills a lot of |
| 143s | units in the process and making use of |
| 145s | Roads he even gets this night back to a |
| 148s | major city after which normal HRI simply |
| 150s | resigns because there's just no way for |
| 152s | him to win this |
| 156s | game here we have an intense match |
| 158s | between two upper round players they're |
| 160s | currently keeping the game equal but |
| 162s | several key Villages among the front |
| 164s | lines haven't been touched so far here |
| 166s | green actually managed to sneak one of |
| 168s | his giants into the Central Village and |
| 170s | it looks like brown HRI is going to lose |
| 173s | to the fact green is taking such a |
| 174s | powerful spot with that giant here green |
| 176s | could go on to capture this city upgrade |
| 179s | it and get an explorer that reveals the |
| 181s | last hidden cities of brown which are |
| 183s | currently hidden for him potentially |
| 184s | winning the game like this so what does |
| 187s | brown do well he can't kill the giant |
| 189s | but he can make the village basically |
| 191s | worthless by stealing nearly all tiles |
| 194s | from it he invests most of his economy |
| 196s | that turn into upgrading this eastern |
| 198s | city here and picking border growth thus |
| 201s | the village only has a single tile |
| 203s | remaining and won't be upgraded so |
| 205s | easily green actually knows that and |
| 207s | doesn't capture the village it even |
| 209s | remains untouched up until the last |
| 211s | moments of the match but it's too late |
| 212s | for him to turn the tide and win and he |
| 214s | resigns three turns later in our next |
| 217s | match here we have regular hudrick |
| 218s | against Green hudrick and we see that |
| 221s | both sides are playing very carefully |
| 222s | here they both have Giants and catapults |
| 225s | but are spaced a little bit too far |
| 227s | apart to really be threatening each |
| 229s | other what both players are trying to do |
| 231s | here is to get Knights and tear through |
| 234s | their opponent's backline before moving |
| 235s | their units forward here we see that |
| 237s | regular HRI is trying to position his |
| 239s | units carefully y but misses just one |
| 242s | crucial night |
| 243s | chain green HRI here takes advantage of |
| 246s | that and absolutely tears through his |
| 248s | army although it doesn't end up being |
| 250s | enough to turn the tides of the game it |
| 252s | was a valiant effort from green hudrick |
| 254s | to try and fight back against his |
| 255s | opponents and prolong the game for a few |
| 257s | more turns we see an incredible tactical |
| 260s | play in this matchup between brown and |
| 261s | red red has invested a lot into archers |
| 264s | and catapults whereas Brown is going for |
| 266s | the classic rder Road strategy he |
| 268s | performs a masterful move here he first |
| 271s | proceeds to Siege two Edge cities of red |
| 274s | with minor units such as Knights and |
| 276s | warriors despite knowing these sieges |
| 278s | the one on the left is also arriving |
| 280s | right now definitely will be broken next |
| 283s | turn he then proceeds to move his other |
| 285s | units forward as well and this is a key |
| 288s | moment after having all moved all his |
| 291s | units he upgrades this city gets |
| 293s | resources and he trains Riders right |
| 297s | here did you see it here are Riders now |
| 300s | Now red of course as we can see does a |
| 302s | great job on siing even killing one of |
| 304s | Brown's Giants um however his attention |
| 308s | has been redirected to the sides and |
| 311s | brown now can come crushing through the |
| 313s | center and attack a lot of these |
| 314s | catapults he even builds more roads to |
| 316s | do this now Red's catapults are severely |
| 319s | severely damaged by the Riders and brown |
| 322s | goes on to win this |
| 324s | game next up we have a match between red |
| 326s | hudrick and regular hudrick that really |
| 329s | highlights the important an of training |
| 330s | Warriors alongside your archers here we |
| 333s | have red hudrick pushing his giant |
| 335s | forward aggressively only to have |
| 337s | regular hudrick absolutely shredded |
| 339s | apart with his archers now normally you |
| 342s | would move your giant back to keep it |
| 343s | alive right however red hudrick |
| 346s | continues moving forward and because |
| 348s | regular hudrick doesn't have Warriors to |
| 350s | protect his archers red hudrick can hide |
| 353s | behind his giant and slowly take them |
| 355s | out within a few turns we see that the |
| 358s | situation has completely turned turned |
| 360s | through a combination of riders Warriors |
| 362s | and archers paired with an aggressive |
| 364s | giant push red hudrick successfully |
| 366s | tears apart regular hudrick Archer line |
| 368s | and renders his cities |
| 375s | defenseless here we have a match |
| 377s | exhibiting the versatility of riters we |
| 379s | see white hudrick here trains a bunch of |
| 381s | Warriors and archers in order to defend |
| 384s | and also attack at the same time on the |
| 386s | other hand regular HRI here goes for |
| 388s | Riders and roads in order to be able ble |
| 390s | to play aggressively and expand at the |
| 392s | same time we see that regular hudrick |
| 394s | has an option to expand through this |
| 396s | Rider movement right here while also |
| 398s | playing aggressively and picking off |
| 400s | white hudrick units one at a time really |
| 402s | showing off the versatility of riders in |
| 404s | an early game setting lastly we have an |
| 407s | intense match that lasted well over 40 |
| 410s | turns between regular hudrick and red |
| 412s | hudrick here we see that both players |
| 414s | have trained up an absolute Battalion of |
| 417s | defenders in order to try to deter the |
| 419s | opponent from pushing forward however |
| 421s | regular hudrick here has a few catapults |
| 423s | lined up with knights ready to chain |
| 425s | through he goes ahead and takes this |
| 426s | opportunity to chain through a good |
| 428s | amount of Defenders at |
| 430s | once however red hudrick doesn't take |
| 433s | the blow line down and immediately |
| 435s | retaliates with two smaller chains of |
| 437s | his own there's chain |
| 440s | one and here's the second chain to take |
| 442s | care of one of the catapults however we |
| 444s | see that both players continue to |
| 446s | struggle to break through as the match |
| 448s | progresses the there just too many |
| 450s | Defenders clogging up too much movement |
| 452s | although sometimes they do get some |
| 454s | sieges in it's impossible for those |
| 456s | sieges to hold when the opponents has so |
| 458s | many Knights and catapults just in the |
| 459s | back line ready to un Siege or to attack |
| 462s | at any time what this match really shows |
| 464s | is the strength of defenders in blocking |
| 466s | Knights and keeping your unit safe |
| 469s | another risky play can be seen in the |
| 470s | monthly finale in this situation Brown |
| 473s | HRI researchers mathematics in turn |
| 475s | eight allowing him to make use of all |
| 476s | these nice bits of forest around his |
| 478s | cities however instead instead of going |
| 480s | for a quick giant making use of |
| 481s | population growth he actually decides to |
| 483s | increase his territory size because he |
| 485s | had calculated his Stars would be |
| 487s | exactly enough to get a giant like that |
| 489s | as well how does he do it well he has to |
| 491s | chop a lot of the forest surrounding his |
| 493s | Capital but he leaves the lumad spots |
| 495s | adjacent to this sill free in order to |
| 497s | get that nice multiplication bonus he |
| 499s | then proceeds to perform yet another |
| 501s | giant push one turn later in order to |
| 504s | secure a space advantage and reveal his |
| 507s | opponent's capital on which he will |
| 508s | later perform a crushing attack let's |
| 510s | see this nice giant push right there |
| 513s | there's the capital and here's your |
| 515s | space that's all for this month's polium |
| 517s | highlights thank you for watching and we |
| 519s | hope to see you again in next month's |
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