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Were you my opponent in that match? The WF in the front and adding scorps also worked, the WF in the front even better than sledges.

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Thanks, but I'm not entirely sure it's such a huge predict. When you sport this many packs of leveling Mustangs, Vulcans are simply the natural answer. And I didn't make any bigger calls than that afaik.

It seems that way, the "Darkstar One: Broken Alliance" if I'm not mistaken was just a game console adaption. Kinda sad because I did enjoy this game - even though I practically dragged the game out as far as I possibly could.

I have to split (15 minute upload duration limit). I assume it's recommended in YT, "M255b". And potentially part c and so on.

I think it's a great learning experience. Although sometimes also very laborious, if it gets into the tens of attempts.

Yes, I need to get into the habit of dropping a mid-to-early outside crawler when I play this wide.

So this is funny. I had to look the guy up (because I don't know people, even famous ones) and found out the guy was playing a lot of villains. And then on Mumbo's stream when we were playing 2v2 (videos of that exact moment coming up iirc) people called me and my voice "hydra commander". Do I really sound that evil? :)

More stuff already scheduled until mid next week

I'm not sure myself either. I do have another tarantula game coming up soon (with a bit of a surprise ending). I think I simply lack the knowledge of making it work consistently in standard right now. Do you go aggro or standard with spiders? I think they are generally better with aggro.

@@-NR-SirLimbo i usually make them stand and clear chaff with range. The damage isnt enough to effectively kill balls and sledges and such so they either need some dps support or more chaff. But i am not nearly as experienced as id like to be.

Ok, now I'm interested, how much damage did you do to him in the ende? Also, shielding was't a hard read I think. He's been missling my frontline a lot anyway so why wouldn't he do it again? And thanks a lot!

@@-NR-SirLimbo Fair. Players tend to repeat patterns. Also, I did about 450 damage to him IIRC, which is a bit lower than you

I don't get the reference, do they have mustangs and phoenixes in that game?

Yeah, in my experience scorps tend to do pretty well into these boards in the lategame, when there's objectively too many tanks. They could probably have farmed me hard.

Yeah, I think so too. You learn a lot when seeing what you could have gotten killed by.

In chat he was later on complaining about how Marksmen with doubleshot were unplayable. I think that's what he thought could counter the worms. But in my experience, even EMP is bad into worms, since they tend to burrow and move slowly until the EMP wears off. The best counter to way-too-fat worms imo is acid scorps.

It also costs you 400 so you may get a huge advantage in this round, but every round (and with round 4 being a thing, there's a good amount of rounds after) where you will lose repeatedly and get farmed upon. At least that's my view on things.

Also, in Standard vs Standard I don't flank unless my opponent flanks me first.

Same reason I like to take an early small EMP for 100. If it comes back around (and it often does) the opponent will have to invest into shields or eat it...

To be fair, the spider mines are much more singletarget damage than chaff clear... And a single set of them can delete like half of a saber's HP

Oh, Scheibenkleister! I forgot to change the name after copying the other data from a previous video. I fixed that now, here it is: ruclips.net/video/rQqAVbNrbvo/видео.html Thanks a lot for asking, I would not have found that otherwise I'm pretty sure!

It's because of Rule 3: If the opponent plays aggro against me, no more rules (ex/including this one, it's a bit of a paradox).

I don't want to give google my phone number, so they don't let me upload more than 15 minutes at a time.

Hm, I can't confirm. I've seen plenty of turnarounds, had some myself. What MMR are you at? I think it's really just that the major problems, fire on the ground and melters being too strong, haven't been fixed yet. So a lot of games follow a similar formula because the meta has not been shaken up enough. My own opinion is that fire on the ground needs to lose like 50% damage and melters need to lose 50% health at least, then you nerf fort and crawlers a bunch and the game should be in a better state, where lots of plays are possible.

Since I don't give google my phone number I have to split most matches in 2 parts (hence the "M206a", which should have at least a b-part, rarely a c-part). I hope the algorithm is smart enough to put that into the recommendations, if not check the playlist, it should be there.

I don't get the feeling that is true, outside of tournaments. On the ladder you get ranked based on MMR and will usually meet opponents somewhere in that range, though if not a lot of people are playing for that gamemode (there's 1v1, 2v2 and FFA) the matchmaking progressively searches in wider MMR ranges. I think in tournaments within a group, within the same Win/Loss score the highest ranking player based on combat power will be matched against the lowest ranking player, and if there's not an even number of players with the same Win/Loss score it takes from the worse Win/Loss score group (I hope this is possible to follow). What that means is that usually in tournaments if you are a low-combat-power player you get stronger opponents and vice-versa, but then again: This optional tournaments, the whole purpose is to bang heads with high-level players. Personally I think it's an opportunity for lower-ranking players to have some matches with far better players and learn some.

Already uploaded more episodes, cast 2 more games among them a double-digit round sledge-off. Hope you'll enjoy it and thanks for watching and listening!

Well, that certainly is an analysis... Thanks a lot, I did not really know what he was thinking here. My own feeling is kind of that he got himself into a bad spot when he committed into mass wasps and mass stell balls in standard. Also, he should most certainly tried to get that high-level rhino onto a tower as fast as possible, but maybe he always expected me to put something big in its was or something...

I guess you are correct, I was once more adding anti-giant when I should have added anti-chaff units. His Mustangs... I'm not really sure they were the problem. I think I failed to clean up the flanks in time so my mustangs were just shooting tanky units until the match was over. If I had sold something on my left and put another explosive rhino there, maybe mobile beaconed my mustangs to the front that could have done more. But realistically I don't think it would have changed enough. In retrospect I think the correct call would've been selling all units on that side and simply fortifying the tower, then focus on the main push on the right. EDIT: I forgot, he placed the firebadgers in the flank that last round, so no reacting to it unless I predict what he does. Though, given how often aggro players put firebadgers in the flank, I think it's actually preditable at that point. I was just expecting some fire badgers at the front, hence the oil. You'll see me use selling out of the left to dominate the right in M(atch)186. I go for some mad Vulcan Marksman. Though for now I will neither confirm nor deny winning that one, you'll have to see. But in M188 you will also once again see me struggle with aggro that also has a heavy focus on flanking, and I definitely know that I made a looot of mistakes in that match. In the end, I think it simply shows I need more experience.

Yeah, I do too, I gotta play more of that. Have you seen the firebadger variant (a few episodes up in the playlist)?

@@-NR-SirLimbo Of course! I usually watch them in bundles. You are one of my favorite mechabellum content creators, although watching the matches in 2 parts each time can be a little offputting. I do learn a lot with you!

​@@leozaboudi8005 Yeah, sorry about that. I'm giving Google my phone number for 2FA so I can only upload up to 15 minutes. With other games it's less of a problem but unfortunately in Mechabellum matches tend to be >15 mins unless it's a quick stomp. That said, thank you very much for watching and listening and glad I could help! I do wish though that higher-level players would make videos or streams where they explain in a lot more detail WHY they are doing EXACTLY THAT instead of X amount of other options so that us normal players can learn from them. I'm also a bit late on todays episodes, had some computer installing to do for a friend, but I got a bunch of good games locked and loaded being cut right about now.

Thanks for watching. [SPOILER FOR ANYONE WHO HASN'T WATCHED YET] I'm kind of sorry I wasn't able to win it, but at that point I felt like it was truly over. In the end I think my mistake was taking care of the AIs too quickly, or maybe giving the DZ too much time... Who knows. It was a long time ago. Hopefully in the future, if I decide to make another series, I will win it.

Oh, I probably did[n't] a lot of stuff there, af ter all that was like my 5th game or so that I played.

Yeah, I'm not 100% sure but I think the best way to play is probably to upgrade somewhat evenly engines and wings because turrets aren't that insane, but keeping a few turrets around in case you need to kite is actually pretty good. In the base game, if memory serves, you'd cap out at level 20 instead of 30 so you couldn't get all components to max level and had to pick really carefully.

I'm not 100% sure this is the best example, tbh a lot of things I did were quite a risk (for instance: The amp core shield phoenix flank would've done nothing if he had put a pack of fangs instead of a marksman there), but yes, the idea of being annoying in the flanks is to force your opponent to use deployments and supplies where it will hurt them more than it hurts you to invest into that flank.

Effective in what way? Supply efficiency probably is achieved simply by some very simple stock-standard tips: - Try to pick eco options when it makes sense, estimating the game's length by how the previous rounds went (if the game ends being close sniper-on-sniper wars there will likely be little damage and thus a longer game than if it's a giant war) - Try to sell off units that don't do anything and don't have a realistic perspective of doing anything in the future - Try to not invest into techs too early, or with too few of that unit type on the board (excluding situations where it is vital to do so and provides a potentially game-winning or loss-preventing advantage)

Yes. I think nothing short of melters, steel balls and/or acid/ignite can deal with that kind of stuff... Even ignite would have its issues with only 1.5% HP/s damage, effectively. I wonder, does acid increase ignite's damage?

Well, I am definitely thankful for this insight. I think I'm starting to get it a bit. There's 2 distinct types of hacker play to watch out for: Mass hacker and support hacker. I usually have my chaff trickle in so that there's always something small to shoot and the enemy is unable to just AoE all of it away at once, and while - I think - against normal boards and probably support hackers that works well, against mass hackers and especially once fire is out it might just be useless... So maybe next time I am facing mass hackers I need to simply put all sorts of chaff in the face of my opponent - but that costs a lot of lategame deployments. I have recently started to play with hackers at least a bit more, but have yet to be half-decently successful with it. I just can't pinpoint what I am doing wrong, in contrast to me facing hackers... I think all in all the reason is because hackers can't reliably be countered by one single unit, but rather one needs to have a board that hackers suck into (which leaves it open to other strategies). Mostly these seem to be fast and/or fragile high-DPS units, which all die to fire too quickly. But then again, maybe I should simply get into the policy of always having some hackers out if the board looks even halfway decent so at least they can't drop at lv6...

Yes, but... I struggle with chaff being burned by fire. What do you do to make it last more?

Gotta push the advantage of knowing German wherever I can, and when there's a name like that in all caps I can't resist :)