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The amount of disrespect I put on fire-badgers when they first dropped was disgusting. Now I know better. The two units I thought sucked the most (sabertooths and Badgers) ended up being my 2 of my favorite units up to this point

Great analysis dude, loving your production quality here - can tell you're putting a lot of work in, keep it up! The Crawlers at the very front into the Fire by Red on Round 4 is to bait more of the enemy army into the fire. It's not something you'll see every day but it can work really well, notice how two of the three middle Firebadgers end up in the fire too because of the pull. Loved the Round 7 play, was a great attempt to answer the Mustangs and late Chaff. It's a one-and-done play that'd never work twice but if you only need to win one round it's incredibly powerful! Really good reads Round 8 by Red, shielding the copy cat play into his own flank with those deep shields.

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Ty for showing off gaming play, but sadly the wait for a warcraft 3 or Starcraft competitor remains ongoing - with a proper single player epx and not a garbage multiplayer ladder only focus, lets not forget the ancient art of base building.....

This is clearly an old video, its not that easy now, the random drops are too random and most of the time force you to spend huge money on useless units. You can reclaim them but one at a time is too slow

Good stuff! Huge investment in those scorpions, slightly less now because Double Shot got cheaper. It's a unit I don't often know what to do with, because it needs to be in a forward position usually, but with good chaff clear by the opponent they tend to not live long enough to get the damage in, in my experience so far. I'm going to try to fold them into my strategy more I think. I'm a new/low MMR player, so plenty to learn/experiment with still. I'm frankly unreasonably hooked on this game :) What are your thoughts on the recent balance patch, by the way? I like the Double Shot cost reduction, but for the life of me I can't figure why they nerfed the Arclight and Marksman. It's pretty bad I feel.

The phoenix mobile beacon through the middle was genius

Great game! I think one error from your opponent early on was he started unlocking units without the funds to purchase it the same round. I understand you only get 1 unit per round, but he dumped 200 resources into unlocking fortress and never used it loosing his own tempo.

That is beautiful well done

That's really cool that you don't shy lost games. I think it's a good challenge for you and the viewers to try and figure out what were the mistakes and if it could have been won. If I'm not mistaken, there's even a tool to organize such challenge in the game. As for the game, I think, selling one WF and going for flank with 3 packs of shielded wasps or phoenexes could've done it. Elite spec is really strong in switching strategies, since you always start with lvl2 units.

The electromag missiles didn't help the opponent much. They'd have only been useful against the warfactory. And it even worked against them later in the rounds when most chaff units are gone. The melters would electromag the stormcallers, so they'd become good against the giants again.

Yeah sorry, gotta reneg my last comment; I got overexcited, and didn't realize I'd beaten S-III, not S-IV. I've played almost 4 dozen rounds of IV, and have gotten absolutely MERCED, using similar (and even slightly improved) strategies: Gotten to wave 16 twice and 18 once. I've never had a game of IV with less than 3 waves that were absolute objective hard-counters to my strat, and some where ~2/3rds of the waves were HARD hard-counters. There are VERY few "gimmie" waves on IV. You positive this video was on IV, and not III? Maybe the devs did a sneaky follow-on update.... that'd be pretty cruel if true.

I really wonder what Argoniur could have done better? Would Vulcans / Scorpions / Stormcallers for more chaff clear been an option? Did he struggle with his own chaff?

Thanks for posting this one. Looking forward to watching and learning from it.

I was playing war factory half my games and got to 1100, then people started playing this. Now I'll actually need to learn how to play flex lol. I'd love to pivot into air, but it feels like it would be too little too late.

Awesome replay

Nice

Like it when someone is willing to show their losses too. Makes it more educational.

(new player perspective, just rambling really) I think photon sabertooths at some point after acid was revealed would have made a huge difference. Overlord would as well, I only mention sabertooths since you already had them unlocked and costs can be an issue on elite. Your WF on the right was consistently dying in the first 30 seconds, so having 20 seconds of electro mag immunity + acid immunity I think would have gone a long way. Hopefully the EMag immunity would allow launcher overload/range to break through the chaffe in time to eliminate the scorpions or vulcans. That being said, I can't decide when the right round to squeeze those in would be. Maybe the round you dropped fangs? But forward chaffe was needed to distract to the scorpion. At the same time, all chaffe was melting so fast with those vulcans. The other thing that's hard to evaluate, especially as a newer player like me, is you missed a lot of deploys in the earlier rounds. I understand it's not that cut and dry, and that elite spec in particular makes it very difficult to balance out unlocks/upgrades/maxing deploys, but I feel like if they weren't missed then some of your later round fang/crawler drops could have been answers to his chaffe/acid/emp. And I'm not trying to downplay the importance of chaffe! Chaffe is super hard to evaluate in this one. Because on one hand, having the acid hit fangs is desirable. But on the other hand those vulcans were eating packs of fangs/crawlers in a matter of seconds, if that. What a rough match :x Regardless, I think the answer to "what would you do here" on round 10 is lose. Especially with that Lightning Storm in the wings :x EDIT: Maybe not on the photon. It might have helped on the left, but the right side WF actually went a full 20 seconds in round 9 before touching acid. But, again, these are insights from re-watching footage, so not decisions that could have been made mid-match.

I don't see the angle to win for the last round...

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Been watching loads of SaraTzch live games, hope I never match them

Quick observation of the final round: 1. gcu's hielded wasps were added to the left to delay AA marksmen from getting to the overlords, allowing them to get to the sledges sooner (notice the lack of forward chaff on the left side) 2. Sara's Balls weren't great vs ass-men when photoned (meaning they'll keep their ass-men tech). Notice how quickly the balls were falling from Sara's side 3. gcu's steelballs were able to clear out the high level arcs and head straight to the tower, which allowed him to have such a huge round

Good content but just wandering why you refer to SaraTzch as a "she"?

I had to rewatch the last round several times to understand. Such a weird and interesting game!

I would love deep dive into that final turn , I don't quite understand how gcu turned it around so drastically after being on the ropes and behind on tempo.

Nice upload. There is some white noise in the background that is a bit annoying (possible an AC unit?). Otherwise great work.

Congrats really well played

congrats . great insight into the decision and the possible counter moves , that made the video very enjoyable . keep it up

min 16, you menion the usefullness of launcher overload, but both wf were tech disabled.

Congrats Stoney! Beautifully played

Interesting you prefer to have less units and level them. I always thought it was better to have more units than level a unit.

Well done and as usual, clear and detailed explanations of your strategy and your opponent's gameplay.

Too easy. Nice job Stoney 🔥

Love the videos!

what is this "who do you think will win?" banner... please...

Good game. Was, that is. Too bad it's ruined now with the worms.