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Yo, what's going on guys welcome to the stream hello everybody and welcome to the final day
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starting right off with the first set in just a couple minutes but I do want to show you
guys the bracket before I get started here so let's go ahead and pull that up.
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What's going on guys? Thank you the couple subs in the morning here
And I want to start off with Knopf versus a good of me and here's the bracket guys
So can offer scrubby is the set we didn't do yesterday
Afterwards we're gonna have four sets the final sets of the tournament. This is the loser bracket quarter finals
Knopf versus grubby
It's a walk of three matchup and afterwards of course grubby versus you thermal will happen the loser bracket before that
I would actually play out the Captain Lance versus Pig.
So yeah, this plays out.
But yeah, I'm super down for a co-cast with Death Note here.
And I'm going to try to bring him in.
And we'll get right into it.
All right, so you can start.
We're going to hop right in today.
We're going to hop right in.
No wasting time.
And I'll hop into the casting booth and I'll share my screen.
All right.
All right, Death Note will be the guy casting all this for the first set. It makes a lot of sense. It's a work of three guy.
There's two work of three guys playing, Grubby versus Knoth.
It's funny, the memes about grubby and favoritism is, they've been really funny actually, I don't know who came up with the thinking about in the chat, but that's hilarious.
I just want to say as well, thank you all for the support so far, we are very close to our 9000 sub goal. Let me just show you the goals we do have.
We have a subathon this year confirmed, we have a merch giveaway at some point today, and then of course at 9K, we have the king's gauntlet number two, that's going to be completely set up.
So we're, the number in the chat is not entirely correct.
The number on the screen, 8162 is correct.
And we're gonna have death notes
joining us for the cast very soon.
I think they might have started actually.
Let's go ahead and take a look and see what they're up to.
And then we get their camera set up actually.
That's the number one thing to be doing right now.
All right.
So we can off.
Hello Mr. Dekno, what's going on man? Good morning? Are you sure?
Well for me it's morning. We know every transplant, what is her doing, what is her doing. He's
probably eating, eating, eating. Yeah, I was eating. It's not unusual.
But I said, no, he can't eat now because soon he can watch Grabby.
He mentioned eating and watching Grabby at the same time.
It's like two families eating at the same time.
That is true.
That is true. That is my favorite thing to do.
But in this case, I actually was eating beforehand.
And now you get to watch Grabby after eating.
It's not so bad, but the game one has started by the way
So we're gonna go ahead and hop right in and check it out guys
We have death note here the warcraft 3 human player a pro player of course casting his two fellow warcraft 3 pros
Knopf versus grubby
We've been on with the five gifted subs, so we're gonna be hopping right in here
Knopf looking locked in grubby looking calm as ever and
Let's go ahead hop right in
Let's do it.
So, Dethna, what do you make of this matchup here? Grubby vs Knoth.
Obviously Grubby is the favourite on paper, but in my opinion Knoth has been playing very, very well.
I think he's actually playing a lot more solid and sturdy than his elo suggests.
What do you make of this matchup as someone who's playing against Grubby yourself?
This is hard matchup for Knoth, but he can actually, you know, if you prepare, if you watch, actually, the games he's playing.
Yeah, game time there interesting because you know, I think big was funny key for grab it
He played like his own game and grab it was need to adapt for the peak
Yeah, like I think the course of the people except for at least be like amazing job. Yeah
Yeah, like each man
His father's very unusual and grab the looks was like unprepared
You need to check see if he didn't speak the
Yeah, and sometimes just having one strategy in there that's gonna throw your opponent off
You get a nice quick win and then also your opponent is always worried. What are you gonna do differently?
What are you gonna? You know what are you gonna throw my way?
So one anti meta strategy and then afterwards you could play more or less meta and you'll be completely fine
And your opponent is always gonna be confused as to what you're doing
But listen guys we have game one of grubby versus kinoff is a best of five
It's a loser bracket match. So it's loser is out of the tournament winner moves on to continue climbing the losers bracket
I'm here of course with death now when I learn fix the cameras real quick death now
Why don't you talk about the matchup here Dravidian versus Malay? We've seen both of them before. What do you feel about this matchup?
I don't really know much because I don't play this things myself never both so come really say much
Okay, well you gotta think of something to say because I'm fixing the cameras
Because I Malay, you know, I think
Hope I wouldn't think about this much
God you're hopeless and the cameras don't worry you're hopeless. Holy shit. That's no I even here bro
You're not even a caster you can't feel anything like you're so honest you can just say that
Even if you don't know, Malay is a civilization of which it starts with the letter M, and it ends with the letter Y, and the Malay with Grubby, Grubby's actually a great Warcraft 3 player, plays the Orc, and now he's playing the Malay.
Just talk, bro, just talk, you can talk, you know? You gotta teach these things.
Really? I can talk? Oh my god, thank you, bro.
Well, I just feel like you might need that advice, I don't know.
Okay, I'll talk about the Siv matchup then, we have Knoth playing as the Javidians, he's playing as the Siv before, or as the Siv before, excuse me, he's the only one playing as the Javidians, and he beat Loco with the Habadir plus Elephant Archer combo.
And it looks really solid in that matchup, the Malay can do a bunch of different things, I think Grubby played them more like an Elephant based Siv, like a Boomed Elephant.
We have seen the Ramm rush, the Rammus-Karambits.
Okay, let me get your thoughts on that, Dapnoe,
because we have seen the Ramm strategy a few times now.
What do you make of that strategy, the All-In-Ramm plus unique unit strategy?
Because of how he will play Vay and Crocs, my coach,
you see that he will never play against Flows in this map for sure.
He would be unprepared.
And when he saw, for example, I tried to buy him with like one, two, three buyers.
So he will answer no to buyers with how to counter them, but actually going to make, you know, go mass infantry.
And when he will see this mass infantry with like rams, he would be like actually shocked and start nervous because like how do I counter it?
He would maybe think about his own many times, but his own many times would be significantly
worse than my many times.
I don't think he knows it, but Slavs' hops can even beat his many times, like his champion,
because how good Ruth's infantry is.
So I never played this track before, never a single game, but we had a plan and I tried
try to make a plan, Burk.
Yeah, that's simply fine.
I thought you did well in that Slav matchup.
I was talking more about the infantry plus Rampush in the Castle Age.
I don't know if you saw Mr. Lamert do it.
We saw Laga Momlet do it a couple of times.
They mass the Ramps, they mass the infantry and they go in Castle Age.
I don't know if you've seen that strategy happen before.
Your approach in the Slav game was more like an imperial-age approach.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
Yeah, exactly.
No, no, I'm talking about IMP approach with 37-minute timing with 200 pop.
200 pop, 27-28 minutes, and you know, castle H rams are just like
uncomparable with IMP rams. These received rams, like when I spun them like 10,
like 10, 12, like 15 rams from like three, four workshops which are near your base,
I think it's completely different. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that's fair enough. I think the Rammerson-Caston strategy, we saw you thermal, kind of take that strategy out with a nice boom into like Siege Workshop Magnals yesterday, so that strategy might have snagged a couple wins, but it's a little bit kind of, let's say, outdated in this tournament now.
I don't expect to see it anymore, even though Malay can do it. I think Grubby's most likely just going to boom here.
Knoff with the Dravidians, they actually don't get Siege on, but they get something very similar. The armored elephant that can be upgraded to the Siege elephant.
We have a relic stuck in the corner. No, there's a way to get that one
I think it's very rare to get a relic stuck on this map
So I'd like to see potentially some Siege Elephant ramps
From Dravidians at some point this game. Just try to push on Grubby and make things uncomfortable for him
But if this plays out normally, I think we could see an elephant versus elephant archer matchup
Which for any elephant enjoyers in the chat could be a lot of fun
All right, it's gonna be the blue one.
I should be stronger in late game right?
That's a good question. Are Dravidians stronger in late game?
I think probably yes. Malay late game is just okay.
They don't have a great late game. They have some decent options which are nice
and maybe in no gold situation their 200 starsman could be really good.
They cost no gold to get that upgrade.
But I think overall Dravidians should have a better late game yes.
I got some matchup knowledge from my coach in chat.
That's good.
This one or for some other one?
For this one.
Nice.
The crocs feeding you some information.
What do you know about the Dravidians?
Let me ask this.
What do you know about the Dravidians?
We know about Dravidians.
They have better late game, but Malaykas better early game.
I'm a like an uh, grand beat around push, like uh, Japanese dot, you know, like, this uh,
taxi tower, taxi tower, yeah, with the siege tower, the taxi, yeah. I don't think we're gonna see that,
we're seeing just a few carambits coming out, but here we go, three town centers for Grubby,
this is the early uh, you know, Malay boom, they go up to the next age pretty quick, so getting the
three TC boom here, uh, is super, super solid, uh, just a couple carambits and some monks that go
go ahead and pick up the relics. Grubby loves to play for relics on this map. It's not mandatory,
but he does it very well. And this is something that you can talk to us about. The 4TC boom
from Knopf. Death Note, you were also one of the people that did this 4TC boom, and I think
you did it very well by the way. I actually think you did a very, very good job booming.
So talk to me about this 4TC boom. Why is it good and why did you go for it?
Because if I done my rush correctly, I'm like 27, 30 minute supply, I mean 27, 20 minute mark, 200 supply, he will die even before this relics can pay off.
Yes.
That was like my plan, because you can boom much faster and your eco would be much better if you don't take relics and you do fast, faster push.
But of course, at later game, if you push fail, you would be in disadvantage because
relics are paying off later.
Yeah, absolutely beautiful.
That's exactly it.
So the 14 CE as Knopf loses his scout in the corner, his first blood of the game going
to Grubby, just chases his scout and kills it.
It's pretty significant because now Grubby can just take the relics pretty easily.
Knopf is doing the e-thrombol.
Oh my god, that's terrible.
Five villagers e-thromboling across the map.
Oh my god.
6-1 as well, this is terrible. That's really gonna hurt his boom.
Oh man.
He needs to fix that fast, we'll keep it on that, but yeah, just exactly as you said, Death Note, the 4GC's,
you get to boom so fast, get a nice little Viliad over your opponent, and then push him before the relics pay off.
If you don't get that push though, and Grubby can just use the relics in late game,
what ends up happening is that Grubby can just use the gold to win, when you have no gold.
Talk to me, Death Note.
I think North DC now would be soon very much idol, idol, idol, idol, idol, because if it's
a minus for villagers, he would, I think, struggle with making his eco, and if he want
to make production in the corner, which he said this year.
I think his eco will be fine, like he's going to be able to make the litters, but he's
not, he's going to be slower to, and he's going to be like slower to everything, because
I mean, this is just terrible.
i mean this is absolutely terrible
uh...
it's like
it's like a village
i think he
was in poor yeah
it's right mister trilliport
it's a fully thermal this is a complete you thermal
he's more
he's more internal internal himself he's not only now fixed it is terrible
the best thing you can do is just a lumber camp here the best thing you can do
yeah
How do you think it means that? Oh my god.
Yeah, it's terrible. And like, you're already the underdog.
You already need to have like a perfect game to even have a chance here.
Looking at 1,000 resources behind, this is a disaster first game from Knopf.
He's no loom. Oh my god, he's no loom chasing a scout in the middle of the map to the Carambits.
Omega loom in the chat. This is terrible. This is terrible for Knopf.
Yeah.
Wow.
Knopf actually floating lumber so much for Poticybomb.
Like 300, 400 wood is unacceptable.
Every 60, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun.
Like 250, 60 farm should just farm farm.
Oh my god, spread the ores.
Death Note, a tear is dropping from my eye.
You, Death Note, telling someone to farm at 60 wood,
this is fantastic.
Death Note, I spent the last three weeks yelling at you
for floating wood.
Now you're telling Knopf to spend his wood, fantastic.
Bro, it's all my boom, you know.
I cannot boom everyone in this tournament, you know it.
And then you just forget to make army.
You try to make some elephants from one castle.
Unfortunate.
Yes.
The Ruby Swords are coming out now.
The Ruby Swords are very good.
They have a nice little charge attack,
so they're very good in melee combat.
I wonder if Grubby knows this.
He's got more Karambits though,
so he could potentially win this one.
Yeah, Grubby will lose these two Karambits
if Knopf turns around and just slaps them.
One monk coming in though for Mr. Grubby.
Oh, Kroff! Kroff!
Nice Kroff! Will snipe that monk?
That's a nice pickup for him.
Yeah, nice.
Knoff a bit of a head on villagers.
Yep.
And they both will have Han-Karth, yes.
I think Russian Han-Karth, when you have food like Knoff does now, it's very good.
Yeah.
Oh, I like what Kroff is doing.
I like what he's doing he's gonna send some villages forward drop a forward castle and play the fast and pure with
Carambits the 80 villagers we've seen this from the Cuban player we've seen this from Captain Lance actually plenty of times
This is a very good strategy from grubby. I like this look bro the timing of hunker like the balls reaching same time together
Yeah
All stream grabbing no please
I don't know the rate, snipe king probably the rate because only this one stable you can't really snipe king.
Yeah, yeah, but the dividends like they don't really have a good rating. So like maybe he's gonna make some elephants
But I don't know this time there so far. It's all grubby to be honest guys
Grubby's had a good early game and he's gonna pass it forward
Yeah for Alex motor sources. No should focus on booming instead like
Yeah, yeah, you don't like this bush at all right, it's just like focus on the boom and get to him to be the priority
Yeah, I feel it.
21 minutes, 20 minutes, 21 minutes, just 40 C, boom, like 150, 140 villagers, and...
It's much better.
Yeah.
For sure, very much agree with that.
Grubby's gonna get his castle up, he's gonna have imp.
I don't like these making skirmishers right away.
I think you can get a lot done with just Karambits and Trebs.
Let's see how Grubby executes this forward strategy.
Normally you want to rush the Trebs out.
out immediately.
He's gonna go for another forward castle.
The Crombereds get extra armor as they advance to the next age.
These guys are actually fully upgraded in terms of armor, of course they're missing
attack weights and elites.
And now they have a siege workshop.
So Crombered was 2 minutes to imp, but death note you said, if he needs to prioritise this
earlier, he's gonna go for like some rangers, would you like to see skirmishers or elephant
archers here?
I don't think skirmishers kinda like will help soon.
Yeah.
scrims too weak right? something more powerful?
yeah
well his ego is too behind
his ego behind is in behind
he need to raid probably but again
grab the full wolf
i'm gonna raid him
and i was trying with like some sneaky stable here with light cap but honestly
i don't i don't really like this i don't think it's the strategy that works for the best with
with Javidians. We have a raid from Leery. Leery, thank you so much for the raid and
welcome to Leery's viewers. It's the first set of the day. You've come at the perfect
time and I'm here casting with Death Note, a work of three professional player.
Try to stop this castle, but Death Note is in a lot of problems now. Four castles on
his face.
Yeah. This castle is gone away from Web of Gold and DC.
Yeah. It's nasty. It's a good castle from Grubby. He's also got the Hill and the Trebs.
We have some elephant archers, but dude you're so right that he's just late to getting the army out. He's late to the end
All right, so who's that town center? I mean, it's not the worst situation ever like not pass some elephant archers on the field
He's not missing. He's missing a fletching on them. He's got very little upgrades. It's okay
But he would love to have a little bit more time just to try to set up a defense
He's also missing a ton of upgrades so he needs to get those in as fast as possible
I see there's a unit that can often go for here that can really help to defend it's the
bomber cannons.
Have you made any Bombercans?
I think a lot of your Sivs don't have it
like Wade doesn't have it, etc.
Yeah, yeah, I am making it with Georgia.
Yeah, like Fireball in Terran, like Selaan.
But honestly, I don't know, my Siege I feel
often weaker than my opponents.
Opponents just better Siege?
Yeah, fair enough.
It's not like with the Siege, maybe
they just have more experience with Siege.
Yeah, yeah
They are hard to use to be fair, so
If you ever feel like you're getting pushed with some seeds and your siege on defense not doing the job
Be a little micro issue. I know but let's just you know, you can't chase these crampons around
When I make a soul my castle dying over all always so easy
No, when my bones make a castle to try to siege it it feels like so hard to kill
Hmm, I actually know what you're talking about
about. But it's okay because nobody told you to make siege. Death Note, right? The thing
I love about Death Note is that you'll do what you know how to do, you'll do very well.
But then the thing that you don't know to do, you just never do it and you'll be like,
yeah, nobody told me to make army after the boom, so I'm just 180 villagers. I thought
I thought you were playing a booming game, no?
Boom, boom.
You have like 20 minutes, 25 minutes, we just boom,
and then the answer in 25 minutes mark
cause more resources to win the game, huh?
How about this one?
Okay, in a boom game, do you think you'd be grubby?
Boom versus boom.
Yeah, 100%.
Of course.
You heard it in your first game.
Not 100, not 100, but most likely.
Okay, damn, that's crazy.
Crazy, that's good confidence.
The best boom in the game, Mr. Death Note.
Death Note, you versus me, boom game.
Who wins?
You.
Yeah.
All right, there's a limit to the delusion there.
At least that's good, it's good.
It's just confidence, you know?
Castle's getting trebbed here, back to our game.
I'm going for them.
I'm gonna shoot them, okay?
Yeah, exactly, exactly, fair enough.
I'm just checking, you know.
Are you delusional?
No, just confident, cool.
Grubby is teaching the castle,
getting siege engineers he's castling more of the map often as you can see the
score earlier was kind of close but now it's completely snowballed the
skirmishers was a perfect choice from grubby I question a little bit I thought
it was a little early but in the end I think it just worked out you got full
upgrades on the skirmish minus the armor but the other archers still missing
some upgrades chemistry now coming in armor is missing I think husbandry is
missing so I don't know not not the best unit right now into the skirmishers
We have Loco in the chat, Loco saying, why don't they mass knights and only knights?
Uh, Loco, I actually loved your approach with poles, I think it's such a good civilization.
I just wish you knew how to make more than one unit.
If you made even like a secondary unit, I think you would have a dangerous player on
this map, but maybe in the next tournament you'll find another unit to play.
Um, but Loco, I actually think the poles are very underrated here and, down this is a bit
one side of the guys, did you hear the chat? Not much to really commentate, you know, me
and DeathBall were talking, Knoff was a bit, you know, late in PureLage and then he just
got snowballed and you're spot on, Mr. DeathBall, if you're going to go for TTC, give up the
relics, you have to get the ability, you just have to be further ahead than your opponent.
Yes, yes, you should like very, I like to play for TTC and my plan, as I said, was against
I'm not that confident that I could take Relics and boom at the same time against Grabby because
Grabby's MMR is higher. Like, in his Elo, players contest in Relics more often than in my Elo,
so he, for sure, more experienced with Relic contest than me. So, I felt like this boom is much better than
try to contest Relix because I will kill him early if I can.
Yeah, I actually completely understand that and completely agree with that as well.
Like if you're the underdog trying to do like a different strategy, something that gives you a timing,
I feel like that's the best way to go about it.
And I think in your game, Death Note against Grave, I don't know if you remember it with the Slabs.
You actually had a really good timing. You didn't go for it really, but you did try and I can see like a win potential.
Here from Knop, I saw something similar, but the boom was really weak, especially with the e-thermoling of seven villagers.
That was definitely not the best situation.
Yeah, if you need to make lumber mill, they make some cardio, you know?
It's only when cardio is in my phone, you know?
It's like 21km on one side, 21km on the other side.
That's good.
Like, one cardio.
By the way, Knoff is taking us to Arena next, by the way.
So he is looking to really mix things up, bringing us to Arena instead of Arabia,
which makes a lot of sense. I think Arabia is going to be a hard match for Knoff.
Arena though, Grubby, is pretty good on it, so let's see what Knoff can do there.
And I heard that Grubby actually had vision on me when I go in my rush
crash just because he also sent his views across with miss click. If not this, actually
game could be. Game could be tricky but he likes making outpours in the middle of the
map though and that's something he picked up quite well so honestly I think Grobby would
have had vision somewhat either way. I don't know, it's tough to say though. It is tough
I'm so sad that I make like three by yards, but but by yards
Like was weaker than come off
Yeah, let's we gotta get the hops in I think you had the right strategy like few boyers and then like how seeds you just missed the
chance to go for it, I think
They're gonna set the next game, but I don't really have the code here
Alright, here we go, they're in the lobby now, it's going to be Irina.
Grubby is off in there, so Grubby is taking a little bit of a break.
It's going to be Irina next.
I think it's time to thank the people for coming in here guys.
Welcome everyone watching on Twitch and YouTube.
I hope you guys are all having a good time on the stream so far.
And I hope you guys are enjoying the final day of the Kings Gauntlet.
It's been such a banger event so far.
Of course, the highlights are going to be made as YouTube videos, so you guys can check some of those out later on
You know for many many months and years to come
But here we are with the final day and there's the first set can offers is grubby. Actually, this is an extra set today
This is not one of the main ones
The set was supposed to be played yesterday. So yeah, this is just a little appetizer for what's to come today with the final final day
And all the best four players of the events
That's not how do you enjoy this event by the way for yourself?
Do you have a good time with the ladder race? Do you have a good time with the main event?
Yeah, I really enjoyed it. Today I played Adrien Paris 2, you know, for like, after work.
If I play some work for 2, how about then I start to play Adrien Paris 2.
I make a title, you know, that brought to KMMR and that King's Lives Matters, you know.
you know, hashtag.
Shot was hilarious, man, if you saw this.
Hashtag and sorry, spam it.
It was some fun time, you know.
Hashtag Kings Lives Matters.
Dude, the clip of you sending your king to the center is,
legitimately, my favorite clip of Age of Empires 2 ever.
Like, I watch it every night.
Every night I watch on my phone, I'm just laughing.
It's so funny.
I just wish we had your perspective, like you were streaming it, I'm not sure if you were streaming it.
No, I didn't.
What a shame, what a shame.
It's on my YouTube, it's on my YouTube, it's a 6 minute video and it's really funny, trust me.
It's on my YouTube, it's one of the last videos about the king, you can't miss it.
Which of the aspects from Knopf I think it would be Turks, right?
I think it would be Poulx.
Give me one second.
Yeah, so for Knopf, I think probably Turks, yeah, you spot on with that, so I was just
doing some admin work on the side.
Yeah, I think Turks for Knopf could be good.
I think Rubby has the Burgundians that he likes a lot.
I don't think he wouldn't play the Burgundians, but he might have to actually play
Two civilizations on arena potentially if he doesn't win this next one
So I think you should start with what he's comfortable with with the Burgundians
I also think he might try the Gerjaris to counter pick the Turks. We talked about this last time
I was co-gassing with Grubby. I don't know if the chat remembers. I was co-gassing with Grubby
I was telling him about how the Gerjaris are hard-counting the Turks and that is a good matchup
played in pro play and Knoff is known for the Turks so maybe Grebi considers the
Gujarats I don't know if he's practiced them at all but it could be
something to go for his other sieve on arena could be something like the
Hindustani he also played a lot of Hindustani so that could be interesting
as well and let's see how that plays out
It's the finals of the semis, let me show the bracket real quick while we wait for them
to get started.
They're in the lobby but they're just kind of chilling about.
Take a look at the bracket guys, you have Knopf vs Grubby, again this is a matchup that
should have been played yesterday, it was delayed till today, no problem.
We'll play it today, and then we have the finals date, the top four, we're going to have
Uthermo versus the winner of Grubby and Knopf, and then we're going to have the Catmulans
and Pig matchup as well, and then the Loserbracke final, and then the Grand Final as well.
Actually, the next set, by the way, so it's going to be Grubby and Knopf now, the next
set is going to be Catmulans, Pig to be played.
So yeah, quite some interesting matchups to come today, and I'm actually really excited.
This is the top four, and it's the best set of the entire event, pretty much.
I think the best is actually can be Bengalis for Knopf to be the grabby. It's one of the
best castle drop with Bengalis can be stronger than this turks actually.
Oh you like the Bengalis? So what do you know about the Bengali castle drop? That's interesting.
We haven't seen it at all by the way. We haven't seen it at all.
I saw Viper teach a local with Bengalis castle drop. Oh yeah we did see that.
Yeah, his time was pretty good. I think the grabby could struggle against Bengali's castle drop with like very good timing.
Maybe Portuguese also.
I think with Portuguese and with Bindaliz Klovo have better chance than with Turks.
Do you think so?
I'm not sure about that actually. I think I think Turks are slightly better because I think Turks go to a better late game comp
I think Portuguese are not bad
But if you don't play Portuguese ordinance can be a bit tricky to use and I guess there are blessed bomber cannons
Okay, but I think Turks is actually more powerful. You have higher HP cannons
You have a heavy cab archer that you can play you have heavy camel
You have a lot of options that Portuguese don't get access to so I feel like if you're not comfortable with Portuguese
I think just going turks going your comfort pick is probably better
But I can see many since working. I mean, you don't know if Kroff has maybe prepared something as well something secret to shut a snag a win
I think we still seem to be AFK guys, so we're just going to sit and chill, no problem.
First match of the day, I don't mind taking our time, getting into it, commenting on the
I know now go donation from each rancid game I played.
They all count as, you know...
Wait, what happened?
Yeah, I got now some donal with about one each rank game ever played in H&P Store, you know, for this conference.
I don't understand. You're getting donations from the chat?
No, yeah. From each ranked game I played in this tournament.
Oh, okay.
Oh, fantastic.
I'm not in there for prepared, yeah.
Yeah, that's fantastic.
So I played a lot of games, actually.
Guys, we're not going to disqualify Grubby.
He's already here.
Is that the same situation?
Of course you're not going to deal with my Grubby, man.
Who would think about it?
I know if Grady, today would not appear as a trophy, you know, for 20 minutes, you would
move the match next day, you would move the next week, next year, you know, to let your
favorite player play whatever he wants.
A trophy for 20 minutes?
Teclus, Teclus, Teclus, and then every time when you see a Troclus, you get the Clus.
That is so not true.
I actually gave Hrock more than 20, I gave him like 20, 22 minutes.
21, 21 and 1 minute and a second more.
Hrock in the chat saying true by the way.
Guys, listen, Hrock, I wanted to show up, I gave him a lot of time.
It is what it is that happened.
It's all good.
But actually, Grubby's taking a lot of time right now, and by the way, when I took five minutes,
guys, let me tell you a story. When I took five minutes in Grubby's tournament in the finals,
literally, it was five minutes. I had to go get another snack or something, I don't even remember.
Grubby's like, oh, Harry's taking a lot of time. Grubby's been gone for like a thousand years right
now. He's been gone for like 10 minutes. So I just want to say, I just want to say Grubby is,
He's complaining when I do it, but he's doing it as well.
He's got a thousand meals, exactly.
His wife is sick, shout out to his wife, he should take care of her man, he should take
care of her.
The term is important, but the wife's more important.
Ethna, are you married?
You married to the game?
No, I'm not not married. Yeah
You know, it's a day guy for chat asked me for challenge. Okay to beat you or grubby for 10k bucks
In age of Empire stew. Yeah, it's between me or grubby
Yeah, I thought this is a bit, you know, kind of tricky. I said to to beat, you know, you I
I probably need like at least at least like two years of like practicing like almost every day
So I can
Let me just let me just answer this one for you. You need two lifetimes to be in a dream parts to you
You need I should yeah, 100% yes. Yes. Yes
How about you know a little test takes
It's not perfect, not for me.
It's not gonna help. It won't help.
Why, why it doesn't help? Why?
Because it's you playing.
Huh?
If it's you playing, it's a disaster.
You would just not make army.
Bro, you saw my progress for three weeks.
Can you measure my progress for two years?
You would be so scared, you don't even...
You wanna doge me, you know?
You don't even know what would even happen.
Maybe next 4K in my play, you know, 4K.
You see, like, you 3K, other players, you know,
2.7, and me 4K.
And everything for every tournament,
starting with the please, no, there's not in my bracket,
please.
How about that?
That's in my bracket, I just can't win.
Yes.
Where is your confidence now then bro?
So do it bro, do it. Go play.
Get the 4k.
The only 4k you might get too is 4,000 villagers judging by how you're booming.
4,000 villagers zero army.
2,000 villagers, imagine if I can make 4,000 villagers in 200 pop game.
Actually it's possible by the way.
How can you get to 4,000 villagers in a 200-pop game? There's two ways to do it.
Convert. Convert.
Convert, that's one. What's the other way?
I'll tell you because there's no way to guess. You use Bengalis.
So Bengalis have a thing where every time you age up to the next age, you get two villagers for free per TC.
So in theory, if you make 2000 town centers, you can get 4000 villagers when you go to the end.
Oh, thank you.
You just need 2000 town centers, bro. It's not too hard.
No. I think it sounds easy, but we need like some big map, you know.
Yeah, yeah. We need the map that you played on the first test.
Even in that map, 2K to TC would not fit. I think we need some map makers, you know.
Yeah, a giga map project to 2000 TC, boom. But guys, we're just about ready to get started here,
grab these back in this chair and you should be zoning in on this next game.
next game. It's going to be Knoff's home map, Knoff is of course down 1-0. He had a rough
first game to be honest. Obviously, we don't really expect Knoff to have a good matchup
into Grubby in terms of player Elos, but I feel like that first game, Knoff just didn't
really have a good approach to the game. I think the strategy was okay, but you're thermally
villagers, being a little slow to get the Elton archers, a little slow to the upgrades.
It was not really a recipe for a winning match against Grubby. So I think in this next game
what I want to see is I want to see Knopf tighten up on the basics, get a really good
start in and then just turbo out the military as fast as he possibly can. It's kind of what
I feel gives Knopf the best chances to win against Grubby.
Yeah. What do you think about my Georgia's St. Graham Patrol with Lancers? Did you enjoy
it?
I think it's very good actually. I think it's very good and I think if you had done the
same style boom but with a different siv instead of a church something like the
persians and you went for Sivar did the same thing I think you could have
actually been a very dangerous player I think you were held back by trying to
play churches which are a bit weaker of a siv despite the lancers being strong
I see by the way we're seeing a very very nice match up here it's gonna be the
Burgundians versus the Turks the two civilizations that these players main
they are not messing around they're just gonna go for their favorite
civilizations for this next game here until they both really need this win but
especially Knoth needs this win. Yeah let's go Mr Knoth. Let's go Knoth. Of course two
Warcraft 3 players here, Grubby versus Knoth. It's gonna be Burgundians for Grubby
and Turks for Knoth. Let's go ahead and fix the cameras here and Dethna, why don't you
talk about the SIVs, you talk about anything while I fix the cameras? Burgundians have way
better boom. Tourists have like way faster you know potential especially I think Knopf will
castle drop him and Grady knows that he will castle drop him Grady will probably try to
prevent castle drop he will make a scout like three four five scouts for med control so Knopf
must put his castle safe or make few spearmen to counter you know as I beat as
Sincsin did against me because I make five scouts to prevent his castle drop
into me yeah actually what I'd like to say here on that note I'd like to see
Knoth actually go for the forward castle because a lot of times Knoth in
this term has just went for a defensive castle with turks but I think there's
one of two strategies that could work the fast imp from turks which we haven't
seen at all yet by the way the fast imperial from turks is a very strong
strategy nobody's really gone for it so that's one approach that could be good
if you practice the offline otherwise maybe even just a forward castle from
the start forward castle bring a few spears like you said death note so you
don't die to the scout rush from grubby I think grubby's Burgundians is actually
very predictable Siv, which I think is the only reason I don't really like it that much
for him.
He's done great with it so far, but it has the weakness that it is very predictable,
and so I've counted strategy like a forward castle with some spears can be very very powerful
into it.
Alright, we'll talk about the Burgundians here, Grubby, going for an early Bid-X, and
It is a chicken map, so we could see them funnel some chickens or just go ahead and mill them.
Generally speaking, the brigandians want to play Light Cab and control the relics in the center.
That's the main strategy, whereas Turks are likely to play towards Gunpowder.
Turks with an on paper better late game.
Assuming they have the gold to fuel their very, very strong gold compositions.
Heavy cab archers, we've seen how strong they could be in Sing Sing's hands.
Knopf sends to play towards the elite Janissary, but he does that pretty well.
That's of course game two.
But it's late game, it's all about who takes relics, right?
Because again, if Gravi takes all relics and his farm will generate gold, his late game
would be actually much better, right?
He would have a lot of gold from relics and farms.
Yeah, relics are really important and definitely, especially with the Burgundian vineyards
getting extra relics from just farming as the Burgundians, those are very important.
Look how much gold and stone is in the center here.
Like, take a look at this.
One grubby stone, one grubby gold, there's one Knopf stone, one Knopf gold, two neutral
stones and a neutral gold, and actually two neutral golds.
So if Knopf takes the map, he gets a lot, right?
Yeah, I like how he actually spawns in all of the surfaces here in this map.
Yeah.
It's a lot of fighting in the center, basically.
I think whoever takes the center might be better off than the guy who gets the relics.
So that's kind of my take on it.
Of course, sometimes some player can get both,
they can get all the relics, and they can get also
the center control, in which case, all the golden stones
towards them.
But it's worth keeping in mind.
So rather than grabbing, go to Barrier's not for chickens.
Oh.
You said a fucking meat?
Yeah, I see it.
He's going to funnel the chickens.
It's a very weird mechanic.
It's not one that I like, but it's pretty interesting.
I thought Crooks was explaining to me this mechanics.
This gates actually, this mechanics.
Yeah, Greb is not making a gate actually, which is interesting.
I guess you might not need one.
But the main idea is you make a wall through the chickens,
and then you just hope that they go from one side to the other.
And then as they go from one side to the other,
through the town center and then you can just eat them without making a meal so
as you can see this one's getting funneled right in towards the town center and this guy's gonna
run straight through as well at some point. Yeah the chicken part is pretty interesting. Go ahead.
I honestly think meal would be much better for grand people. Like the thing is the meal costs 100
wood. These pallet size costs maybe like one wood each because you just delete them afterwards. It's
like 17 wood versus 100 wood. Actually I think the final is more efficient overall, despite it
looking a little strange. He already spent build like time and like that. But otherwise the builds
would walk there, that's also build time, and you go to the chickens. Oh second lumber camp
interesting. Second lumber camp is not normal. We can have a lot of wood for groovy here.
Why is it normal? In this map it's pretty good, no?
It's okay. It's not bad to go for a second lumber camp.
But I would say it's not normal because if you go 7 on wood, normally second lumber camp is not needed.
So if you wanted a second lumber camp, I would go like 5 on wood, maximum.
So just a little strange thing to have.
Just a lot of wood, a lot of actual wood handy, which is okay, but could end up costing him maybe.
Now Knopf is going to stone, he's doing what we expect him to do which is to go for the
genus areas but there's still a big question mark on whether he's going to make the castle
at home or forward.
Personally I said this before but I think you definitely want to make it forward if
you can help it.
Obviously there's a bit of a risk involved there but the Tv is queuing the loom.
If he's queuing the loom that could be a very strong indicator that he's going forward otherwise
it means that he's going to keep it at home.
And he's gonna just play a little safer, but sometimes safer is not very good, right?
If you play it too safe and suddenly grab you just far ahead
Yeah, two dogs can't castle drop
level 20 like five views 26
You know, no, no, it's not fast and fast but it has to be 29 minimum. Yeah, this is not fast
26
You know why when he teach local to play this like castle drop he
This is 21 build.
Yeah, but that's the all-in version.
Like the 21 build is all-in.
But this is also kind of, you know, anyway, this castle drop.
Not really.
So, okay, let me talk about what's the difference there.
So, if you go to 21 pop for the castle drop,
you're like not even going to be able to make villagers.
You will not get zero economy upgrades,
you will barely get relics,
you'll make the castle forward,
and you can barely make villagers.
Like everything is completely at zero your economy whereas this one here. She didn't make the castle
He can get the monastery for relics. You can get the economy upgrades. You can make villagers
You can add town centers. It's not an all-in build at all basically
That's the difference between the two cast drops or the two
Castle strategies by the way no loom. So it's gonna be castle at home for Knopf. He's doing what he what he likes to do
He's doing what's comfortable. He's not gonna take any risks here. I think that's a mistake into grubby to be honest
Yeah
Especially when you see Gruby in Raze, he is very strong in late game, but his early game is lacklustreal, so early game is a chance for Knove, and pressure is a chance for Knove.
Yeah, I should fully agree with that, I think.
Playing into Grubby's late game is going to be really hard, whereas in the early game, especially if you have a passive forward,
I feel like you have some real chances to win, but, you know, it is what it is. Knopf's trying what he is comfortable with.
It's also okay to just stick to your comfort zone sometimes.
Scott's still alive, he's looking for the relics maybe, and he's kind of going about this early game.
A nice little funnel there, so Grubby gets all of his chickens, and then he's going to go ahead and pass over to the next stage.
look for his relics. He is indeed playing the stable opening, so Grubby will be playing
Light Cab and Monks looking to take those Burgundian relics, which give food in addition
to gold. They're quite good here, and Castle Time drops a little faster, a little faster.
Yeah, and it's already a res collected difference actually when a grabby one field ahead.
Yeah.
Alright, both economy upgrades coming in.
Yeah.
Yeah, also, yeah, Grubby got the bidax faster, so him having a bit more res collected is actually normal.
Gold comes in a little faster for Turks, but that doesn't really matter too much because you only have two bills on gold for the early game
Knopf is gonna have his castle soon
I said a good build by the way, he's gonna have exactly 650 stone but I mean it's castlet
So a very strong build with Knopf and he'll make the castle right at home
Probably on the front here. Maybe he'll walk over here, but no he'll just make it right here
This is gonna be pretty solid for him using the free light cap to bully
grubby away from his gate grubby will be able to run away here and grubby from his
perspective does not see the castle wow grubby didn't see the castle there
that's crazy but but this car this castle is bad for his goals no he because
it will block his goal and a little but not too much should be fine if I think
yeah because you can take it on this side this side and this side so it's okay
Knopf gets loomed by the way, I don't think that's very much needed, but I fixed it up just in case, you know better safe than sorry I suppose.
Knopf could be playing on 1-2-C for a while, he's only got one on stone, so he'll go for the monastery, make a monkey, he's playing for the relics here.
He's gonna make some Janissaries, Blackadder unit.
For a grabby, relics only give 20 food, right?
20 food per minute.
Where they give 30 gold per minute, so a little bit less food than gold.
Yeah, it used to be stoker, right? Stoker, yeah.
Yeah, got a little nerf there. They got switched around through bonuses.
Grabby, it's pretty solid.
I should play against Grabby, Arena, not Aredia, my second pick.
That's what I thought should be honest. Yeah, my supplansers would
Pretty good against his nice
Sixth supplansers in like 30 minutes timing. Yeah. Yeah, I actually think that's what you should have done back then
But yeah, it's easy to stay in hindsight. So no worries. Don't feel too bad about it. You have another chance
I'm sure down the line
Uh, Gruby continues to move forward here with, uh, oh sorry, uh, Knoff continues to move forward here with some Janus areas.
Gruby keeps a close eye on him, but he's taking some hits here with the Lightcab.
He's gonna have to back off, he'll back off in good time. You can always heal your Lightcab, right?
So as long as you don't lose any units, you'll be fine to just heal them up.
Husband G coming in for extra speed.
Which is quite nice for him.
Ooh.
Dude, Knoff is cooking.
Oh, oh, forward villagers! Wait, he's gonna push?
It's a 1TC, it's a 1 base player. He is gonna push, I quite like this actually.
Mustnite will beat Junaid Serious like that.
Yeah.
Yeah, I agree.
Cavalier will be good, but the question is whether Grubby goes to that.
I'm showing you guys Grubby's vision, he's gonna see the Villager, he's gonna see the workshop, huge scouting from Grubby.
Seeing that workshop is very important. He now knows a push is coming. How does he react? He's gonna go with a range
I don't like this range. Like you said death. No cavalier. Yeah, yeah, yeah, should be the better option
yeah
And do you like actually know what no beat then before he could cut the drop like two three minutes earlier and game would be
Yeah, yeah, this is not really different like
Yeah, making the castle forward instead of making it at home. I think it would be better honestly just making the castle forward
Getting the genoceries out. I think that would be the better way to go about it, but you know fair enough
He just wasn't able to do that
Okay, this is still pretty good though. There's a good push from Choth
Burgundians equal
And gold in the back which are very important for Grubby. If his gold would be in front, empty zone in front of gold, it could be very good win condition, but here...
Alright, Ram on the wall. It's a good point from Death Note, by the way. Gold to the back. Very, very nice for Grubby. He's gonna be able to secure himself.
a lot of gold doesn't have to move the villagers either does have a safe stone as well to take
he's gonna go for a guard tower defense potentially make one watch tower near his um
near his town center try to defend himself he's trying to go to skirmishers which is decent
uh skirmishers is wards the knights here and i think kevillian would be better
I think Cavalier would be better, but I think the Skirms are okay.
I'd rather see the Skirms and see nothing in my opinion, so it's not that bad.
I see him go bot canary as well, but the tower should be able to defend a little bit.
But, he is losing a couple villagers, we do have Loom at least for Grubby.
And Knoth, go for the Talon Sinner, that's way too early, you can't do that.
Probably going for the houses and barracks, maybe the range, maybe this side is way better.
As far as the push goes, he's adding in some patards, Knoth.
Feels like he doesn't really know exactly what he wants to do, he just knows that he wants to play aggressive.
Two builds coming again. Dude, Knoth is sending everything he's got right now.
Ah, a grubby.
Got a patard.
Use a patard in front of the house.
It's pretty good. You see the wall, triple PC which protect almost everything.
Knoff is backing up from one monk by the way.
It's very sloppy, very sloppy. That's a terrible play from Knoff actually.
That was not good at all. Don't want to be too harsh because he's of course trying to make something happen here which could be a bit difficult.
But if you're going for a big push and you're backing away with 15 genisters versus one monk, letting your opponent rewalled us is just a terrible, terrible attacking play.
Now that the window he made with the petard is just not there anymore and the skirmishers are going to be picking up these genis there is a crazy
All right good healing though it's not for the monks forward and he did pick up one relic only again
I would like to see him pick up the other two
You could steal grubby's relics potentially good defense so far from grubby behind some walls
with some skirmishers and you have a manganelle here as well.
For Knopk, he can attack farms, which are pretty good.
Yeah, hitting the farms is not too bad. He's killing villages on the farms as well.
Kill some manganelle there. Very powerful Turkish push, by the way.
Yeah, he needs to attack the sea. If you attack the sea, you would hit Everest, I think.
Yeah
Oh, two Janissaries died, actually the third one died, so three Janissaries went down there, it's not good at all
Pocno can they be in condition before, not now, if he will drop Castle here, imagine if he push it now, if he Janissaries, he drop Castle
It's will zone away, grab so much from his main to see, from farm
But he looked mine in stone.
Yeah, that's the problem.
No stone.
No stone to go with that.
Castle follow-ups.
It's just Janissary.
Just Janissary and Maginol so far.
Good shots though.
Grobby's taking a few units.
In fact, they kind of both are leaking units back and forth.
One for one probably.
One for one.
Decent for both players, but usually Knoth with all this gunpowder wants a bit more momentum.
I like the ram on the right side.
Guys, Knobs was heating up with his push, dude. He could actually win this game.
I wish he had that castle though. Too much wood right now.
Uh, Mr. Death Note.
Yeah.
He had like 1.4k wood.
And the push is on 9.
I'm almost against Manganos. That doesn't work.
Yep.
So, Knobs killed 12 villagers there. It was not a bad push at all.
Um, we have a lot of skirmishers on the field now from Grubby.
Did Skirmikero Grubby splits? Oh my god, Grubby splitting like a champion! Holy
D! Nothing to say! Yeah!
One for one of the Magnos.
Scrum micro solid here. Good job from Knoff though, just comes forward.
Oh, it takes a big shot back though.
Now Grover's starting to lose some of these Scrums, but he's trading quite nicely into
the Janissaries. Remember, Scrumrisher's not even costing gold, so in the long term, trading
against Janissaries is great. One for one on the Maginoles, better for the defending player.
Grover's up 20 villagers, he's bringing in the Light Cab now. Finally, Light Cab can
be great to snipe the Maginoles. Scrum Light Cab would be amazing here as well. Can go
for the monk. I'd like to have on to the Magano Genesis, should I depend on this one? That's
not what you're seeing. I think that Knoth, who's failed, and he's playing now a game
triple PC, bro. Yeah. Triple PC is like 20 villages almost behind. Yeah. He's economic
upgrades behind. Yeah, look good for Knoth at some point. I think he kind of like, he
He had the tools for it, but I think he kind of disrespected Grubby too much, like I saw
some moments where he was just backing up, where he should have just been going forward.
Obviously credit to Grubby for making that defense happen, you know, he did go for the
right unit with the lead scrim.
We did talk about Cavalier potentially being better, but I don't mind the skirmishers in
the end, I think the scrims were decent.
Pick up these bullet heads.
Good castle job in front with much sharper castle, I think.
In Senius today, I mean, at least you think his castle timing was 14 minutes,
not castle timing in this game, like something like 15, 20, which are very slow,
if you want to actually castle drop, I think.
And to prevent a front castle, I like five scouts.
And since I was like the time patrolling, he's like walls with like three scouts,
Okay, and that's a broken the baby cause they can't
From castle is like five scouts and my scouts are stronger because they have lost twenty-five
Speed the normal scouts. Yeah
Yeah, I would like to see a forward cast of Knoth didn't happen
He went to the back castle and he's trying to kind of recover into a boom the pop
I'm doing this though. Yeah, he said you just can't recover you're down 30 villagers
And Grabby is going to push out this forward siege workshop, see redemption from Grabby by the way, so his monks will be able to convert siege, so keep that in mind because they're converting some siege, it's that tech redemption that made it happen.
Bro, when I saw the redemption, they redeemed my siege workshop, I was like, ah, what?
Were they converted to siege workshop?
Yeah, the guy played Fusfuru Rush with the Portuguese, with this like group, group, group.
When he stole my workshop and only my tool to, I guess he's like organ dance and Manganos.
Yeah, it's such a deadly push when you get those redemption monks in.
Oh my god! Wow. We just walked right into that, three Manganos?
Okay, it wasn't that bad actually. Knoff recovered beautifully.
That could have been a lot worse, but that ended up being a good fight for Knoff, actually he lost three Geniseries, but killed three Magnals.
He'll take that trade. The problem is though, Grubby takes the middle of the map and he's almost up to Imperial Age 40, builds up, and almost up to Imperial Age.
Knoff is kind of close to Imperial Age as well, and Turc-Faster Imp is nice. You get a lot of free upgrades in Imp, but here's the thing, Grubby's already clicked.
So it's not so, wow.
Yeah, you need to bomb the cannons as fast as you can and try to pull the castle, otherwise
you can't give grab the middle.
Because grab it already because it's like a big equal advantage.
Yeah, and you have a lot of villages as well.
We talked about how many minerals are in the center.
I think it was four stones, four golds.
There's so much extra res in the center.
All these minerals are so important to fuel your power units, fuel your castles,
you control the map and so the longer that grubby takes the middle the more
you're able to benefit from those minerals and the harder it's going to be for
Knopf to actually win this game so what Knopf needs here is a fast imp
turret push like an early imp turret push this imp timing isn't fast it's
actually slower than grubbies but still with free chemistry you can be actually
getting the first move on the map with bomber cannons.
look grab it have now hand car yeah because now so sort farm upgrade yeah
yeah that's insane crop rotation is already in third farm upgrade you might
see third wood upgrade coming soon he's also preparing paladin by the way
adding in the stable so it's gonna be really hard for Turks to actually survive
this one the beginning economy is just really strong sometimes and 40 villagers
huge deal by the way a huge huge deal it can't be stressed enough a grubby already
has 7000 more resources collected this number will continue to grow take a
look at the economy of grits come again stone chef mining gold chef mining and
two men saw this is like all the economy of grits in the game basically for
grubby which is insane how many one villager resources per minute like 50
one one villager in the early game is like 20 or 30 researches per minute in
late game no other games like 20 and late games like 30 researches per minute
The villager
By the way, it must be mentioned four relics for grubby in the end
So Knoth had the map control could have taken the relics didn't so now it's four relics for grubby another castle forward
He's got the skirmisher set up
He's got the cavalier set up behind that as well
And now we see the genis here is on the front for a Knoth. Maybe some bomb that's coming up
It's gonna be his SARS. This is a very weak army for Knoth though. Two staples are I'm not feeling it, you know
Geneseries, we'll kill the manganelle.
I like these getting the first move on the map though, it's decent, but the castle is
going to help out, kill some of these units, gotta be careful here, oh, you gotta be careful.
But at least it's for a grad day, it's huge, it's huge as well.
That's the most expensive, not expensive, that's the most important upgrade when playing
Ranged Units.
You have to remember to go for the Ballistics early to get you insane value.
Now we have chemistry coming out for the Bombards for Grubby of course, Turks with the free
chemistry so they don't have to even research it.
And now we have some Trebuchets coming out.
Grubby does not have to rush this game.
Actually fundamentally I think it's a mistake to go for a Trebuchet here.
funny because like it doesn't actually matter he's so far ahead but I think it's
not the right call to go for a trebuchet here what you're looking to do is get
such a massive army that you can just sweep your opponent when he tries to
push you you don't actually have to push yourself right now you can just wait
till 200 pop for sure wait for your paladin etc.
you know I always will think like that then I have 200 pop and I can't make
probably more because I'm a amongst
yeah you have 180 villagers death note you have a specific problem you make too
many villagers actually no you don't make your army fast enough that's the
issue yeah but in that case you can just delete some villas and make the traps
anyway you have so many of them it's always worth yeah then I need to cancel
my queue for like 50 army before set before getting your trims on the field
Yeah, I could get a little awkward.
Big snipe. Yeah, nice raids. Nice raids from Grubby.
Paladin here is a great choice alongside the skirmishers. It's very very good.
It's gonna easily beat the Hissar.
It'll beat the Janissary too, like Paladin just solo's all of Knoth's army at the moment. Paladin's a very good choice here.
I like this from Grubby, dude. This is so good.
The Presidents of Mine, they just send in a unit. Grubby's like the best player in the Sermat doing this.
This one unit goes in, you just rage your opponents, you know, cost and habit, looking
for another raid here, Paladin in 20 seconds, this is a really good timing, and meanwhile
you can use the Bombard to snipe the Bombards from Knoth, two Bombards already down, these
are expensive units, this is crazy from Grubby, third, third one was down, wow.
Look at that, splitting up to Paladin.
Dude, I'm sorry to say here guys, but Grubby is clearly outclassing Knoth.
Obviously we expected somewhat due to the elo difference and you know the skill level going into the matchup
But grubby is on form and I really all got a good conversion the Megan as well and he kills it
yak noff just
Bit of a mismatch here G G in the chat dude. This is crazy grubby's playing very well here
Of course you like
No, but you say that no, and I see the chat saying that as well like honestly, I'm not just glazing because it's grubby
I genuinely feel like in this matchup like Knopf had a good push at some point
But I should have Knopf like let's just fill up the gas
Grubby is just so strong at getting to like 180 pop and making use of that pop right away
Knopf makes one mistake leaves them all open and then the Paladin runs in and
Yeah, it's just it's just really hard to play
If I would play instead of Grubby, oh my god, like he has only like
five staples not like nine staples now mistake oh my god why mistake this
model should like move in one millimeter like in the left mistake mistake mistake
it's so not true I'll tell you why I thought you a big stretch first the
thing is death note is that you had like a hundred eighty bills and no military so
I don't know if you're actually good with your military not because you didn't
make any so it's not even my fault you didn't make military so you saying that I would talk
about your magnol being off by a millimeter you didn't even have a magnol you had 180
bills no loom that's the problem didn't be a Raven X by the way Knopf is going to go
to a Raven X wow I would have thought he'd do a renegade but I guess he didn't have another
said besides turks though yes all right
grubby had 27 villagers in queue while at 145 bills yeah but that's okay
because it's grubby it's not a mistake he knows he knows something you guys
don't no grubby that's correct for grubby that no did that be a mistake
though you guys have to get it straight you gotta get it straight man listen
I'm just saying.
Finally you honest, finally you honest.
Honestly at last.
But you've coached me in Warcraft Death Note, so you could be honest with me there as well,
like it's okay.
Yeah.
When is the next Warcraft 3 Agilent Pass to coaching?
Honestly, I can't do any Warcraft because I have a tournament after this myself.
I have to play a Brazil tournament, so I'll be completely gone for a while until like
mid-July, but maybe in mid-July we can we can run it back. Question in the chat,
are we getting a T90 co-cast? I tried the last three days. The last three days
we're trying to get a hold of T90 for a co-cast and he was kind of flaking every
single day. I don't know what happened even. Maybe he got busy, the schedule was
not right or something like that, but yeah T90 just didn't show. We had it
confirmed from like a couple weeks ago, but I think just the timings didn't line
up. It's a shame, but we tried to make it happen. But maybe next time, maybe next
No worries. He overslapped the... yeah, maybe.
Shadow of the day, Druck.
Alright, we're looking for the next match now. It's going to be Arabia, but in the lobby right now.
Is it possible to lower the camps a little bit?
Yeah, sure.
Actually, it's not working right now.
It's not working right now, so it's not possible.
Nevermind, not possible.
No worries.
Is he not any jealous of the King's gauntlets?
Why would he not promote it more?
I don't think he's jealous of the King's gauntlets.
It's not his tournament, right?
He doesn't have to promote it.
Promotions done on our channel.
I would like to have them for the casting, but it's okay, no problem.
No worries.
Death Note in the chat with the hashtag King's Lives Matters.
You have to watch out with your King, man.
I actually love the Renner side here.
I love how many King Snipes you've had.
We've had, like, Tofa with a King Snipe, Death Note with a King Suicide.
We had Stiffing Brit with a King Suicide.
We had who snapped the king with a treb was that eternal somebody snapped the king with a treb
That's so bad. Yeah with a treb. I don't know if you saw that one, but it was Mr. Lama
I'll play some ads. I'm gonna hop in sorry go ahead death note, please
My fortress the game against insane
When I was thinking about that I tried to go get my like mouse, you know
elephants. It was my dream. I just make hundreds of plants, just hundreds of elephants. I click
and drink tea in the same pan and see my elephants doing jobs. And the thing doesn't know what
to do even against this. Because you know, it's like, it almost would be unkillable for
him if he doesn't know the answer, right? Yeah, yeah. Because personally, elephants are just
You know something else. They're like they have own tier compared to other elephants
But in that game Savara would be actually been conditioned would win conditions for me
Yeah, because he just must see a
Yes, I've already been fantastic, but anyway back to this game here
We have grubby as the Ethiopians has tried and tested Ethiopians
He's played them once in this tournament and he's lost with them to pig yesterday pig
Of course had the Vietnamese which can be considered a counter pig
But here we have Knopf in red as the Franks and Grubby in blue as the Ethiopians
And in my opinion I feel like Grubby
With Ethiopians has a really strong
understanding of the SIV however
Often runs into a lot of skirmishers civilizations like he runs into the Vietnamese matchup a lot
But what do you make of the Ethiopians mr. Mr. Deathknoll or what do you make of the Franks for example from Knopf?
I think Frank's mistake for Knove, he should play like Mongols.
I think Mongols, it's one of the things which he means, and against Grabby, he prefer aggression.
And Mongols with many times, only many times, like 8 minutes, many times rush, would be perfect strat for against Grabby.
Perfect.
Yeah.
Yeah, I actually agree with that.
I think going, yeah, I think going to Frank's when he has like Mongols with like
much better approach against Grubby is a big mistake for him.
Yeah, I actually kind of agree with that. Like one thing I've not really liked from Knoff set up
here against Grubby is that he's trying to play too much of an honest game. I think when you're
up against such a big favorite, like you're down 300 points or a major underdog, you got to get
that dog in you going. You know, you got to go for the mongos, you got to go for the lame,
you got to go for some kind of meta arm rush, you got to put the pressure on Grubby.
And that's what we saw Pig do yesterday. Like I'm surprised that Knoff didn't try to get some
inspiration from that pig set pig went for minna arms and jay fast castle jan swordsman with the
woof a crazy strategy that caught gruby f guard you know yeah grady after that yeah he changed the
unit what is his unit uh he has like five minutes armor what uh like he never saw it be with before
we need to do something you know yeah special i think mongo's my thumbs if you do build correctly
especially on a gear map. It's like eight minutes more times, three, like, it's
will be very deadly, especially if Grabby has like some bad spawn. Yeah, this happens, you
often have bad spawn. Yeah, no, 100% agreed. In this case, of course, it's not going to be the
Mongols, it's going to be the Franks. Franks could do some early game aggression, usually with some
Scott Rush, maybe even men arms, but not the fastest. It's okay. It's not a batsive, but it's
It's a little bit generic, it's a little bit, you know, you know, decent, and it's not very, very powerful, and that's, of course, the kind of thing we're criticizing here.
Grubby with Ethiopians, they get some extra resources in the early games. It's a great civilization to go up against the Franks, and Ethiopians usually are playing through its archers.
So you have a classic archers' sieve versus a cavalry sieve, both of which can play with some early game infantry, but later in the game, we don't really expect to see too much infantry unless they're, you know, needed for a specific situation.
A loom for both players, it looks like it's gonna be a 19-pop click, and Grubby,
see one of the golds here, is headed to the gold, for interesting.
Yeah.
Alright.
For Grubby, actually, the deer in a better spot, it's way easier to push than for Knoth.
Yeah.
Because of this house.
I'm having a lot of trouble. It's the house that's also the wood line.
He's only brought in one deer. He's going to go assassinate this deer now.
No, not quite.
Bro. Oh my God.
I think Lofi's very frustrated with the deer.
He goes scout now?
He's going to go scout. So he only learned one deer.
Grubby learned all four deer that he had.
Yeah, but Q, please.
Yeah, I appreciate this.
And grabbing is if you re-offer and go with Minotaur's Rush. But his Minotaur's would be significantly slower than Mungles.
Yeah. Oh, oh good micro here from garbage. Oh, Japanese. Japanese Minotons would be also
very good approach for Knob, but I don't think he plays some Japanese. Oh, fast archery range.
Oh, interesting. There's a range opening. He's not on gold yet though. We're gonna play range,
just to counter the Minotons. Very interesting. But he will really wall a bit his gold.
But he need to wall like he would land, yes.
Alright, Doff is keeping good vision of this, he sees it coming, he's trying to wall as
much as he can.
He should be safe, I don't think Grubby is the kind of guy that will run through here.
Grubby will probably just hit a wall and I like this route, Doff is gonna go archers,
He'll be on gold, the archers could defend against the men of arms quite nicely, behind
this Grubby doesn't really have the best follow up, he'll make a range, but he's pretty slow
to the archers naturally, not because he's slow, but because in general, when you go
with the range after the men of arms, it's a little slower.
Because of gold.
Yes.
But Glove only has five views on wood.
Vils is just not enough. You got 6 on gold which are over.
Yeah, it's over gold and more gold.
Like, you can keep it running with 4 on gold.
It's like a bit much. 3 is also acceptable, but 6, even like 5 is too much.
Grover runs over the scout, looking for some information.
Might as well use the scout, though, because Knopf is right there with his Frankish scout with more HP.
Grover's trying to kite.
Nice try from Grover. He tries to get the kiting on the hill, but just can't make anything happen.
Good defense from Kroff. Honestly, considering everything, this is not bad at all.
This is really not bad at all.
Oh, Gravy can run into the fountain here.
Gotta be careful.
I will tire him, because when the guy pressures you in the town, sometimes you can struggle.
Alright, skirmishers and an archer come across the map here.
Grubby is actually going for the skirmishers despite being the Ethiopians with the stronger archers.
He's going for that weird wall around his berries.
A lot of times you can just give up your berries through the smaller wall and then later on he can just make farms with them.
I'm not a huge fan of it, but getting some walls down is nice.
Fletching is already in for Grubby.
That would be a huge advantage over Knoth.
Take a look at this forward gold that's exposed because he didn't wall in front of it.
We just walled to it and now we get punished.
Oh forcing the tower. It's not good for Knoth. That tower is not even that good. It's gonna
defend the gold a little bit. It's okay. And he need to block the ground otherwise he'll shoot from low.
Oh, yeah, that's true. Right now he's shooting from low ground and not looking, oh, that's
not looking good for Knoth. He's already lost two archers. The tower's up, but he's gonna
lose a spearman as well. Might even lose one more archer. Okay, the men are armed to get
cleared up, but Grubby in my opinion has a much better follow-up. He'll wall the top,
which is great. Grubby should just wall down here, but I don't think he sees it. He does
see it. That's a huge mistake, not to wall down here. Grubby's gonna try to wall down
here which is it's okay but yeah it's a little longer there that
villager but no fun equal is this out there he has too much on gold yeah yeah
one of the hardest things would be insanely different delay and yeah well
one of the hardest things is just like figuring out figuring out how many
bills you need on gold figure out what you want one food and of course at this
point that note you can see that you've kind of figured it out like you want
minimum on gold minimum on wood you want maximum on food early because that 800
food for the castage is really important and keep that in mind
granted doing our annoying stuff to idle villagers
Knoth need to go to the closest range to just one shoulder unit to unit because he has unit's advantage.
Wow, that men-arm got collapsed. Almost killed the villager though actually.
And yeah, that's definitely right. You're trying to close the gap, try to get in there and just take out the army.
This character transition from Knoth has been solid with the stable.
stable. He looked through this up from Grubby. Grubby should have taken the best trade possible.
And honestly, this is a good trade for Grubby in my opinion. He killed three archers. It's
pretty good, yeah.
Yeah, Grubby outclassed here.
Yeah, which should be expected, which is understandable here, but I wish a few things
for Knoppa a little differently in those first couple of games. I really felt like if he
had switched up his game plans a little bit and tried to play more aggressive, he would
have more chances to win. There's a hole between the middle base. He will always go
my town, you see. There's a hole. There's a hole between the middle, yeah.
Oh, here, yeah. Oh, he's gonna patch it up now though. Okay, that's pretty good. Yeah,
the holes have been a huge deal actually. In this tournament. There's actually a hole up
here, that little passage. Grubby is gonna fully wall it though now. 30-round
both players nothing too crazy. Grubby is looking for a sneak attack now with some archers.
Very good idea to do that. Knoff will somehow scout this. It's pretty random. I think he's
just running around and he'll just scout it. It's pretty good for him.
But Scals doesn't work any more against a lot of archers.
Yeah, it's more of a counter to skirmishers.
It's archers, it's not gonna be that good.
Oh, tower?
That's actually... interesting.
And it's if, which are double, Blacksmiths upgrades for armor?
No.
That would be really broken.
Double armor on the cap is really strong.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because on Milit of Romans.
Yeah.
Oh wow, good reaction from Grubby.
M'killa, second scout.
And Knoth keeps running into these crossbows or these archers, but he's not really found
a proper counter to them. They'll start making some skirmishers now, but with the second
range
He might be dead here. Oh, this is not looking good for Knoff. His arches are capped on low ground
He saw them grab me coming
Painful that's the painful to watch for you
I'm painful to watch
But when you play, you know, when we're watching it's easier to see other mistakes when we're playing itself.
It's always been like that.
Yeah, it's easier when you're watching. You can see all the mistakes when you're playing.
Everything's happening so fast.
And you don't feel any pressure, you know.
When you're playing, if you pressure, you're playing already both your game.
Wild Canary, not Ballistics, but Crossbow can be coming in soon.
Grubby is, yeah, we have Crossbow behind an archer. Grubby is also already on offense.
This is gonna be really hard for Knoff to hold. He's got 44 seconds and so Castich himself.
He does have the two-stable setup. He's considering a third stable, a third stable in the Blacksmith now,
so he's really adding in the buildings. I don't think he's the kind we can support with three stables though.
No, no, no, he's second only can't he has them on foot and he needs for triple seven record 20
minimum at least 20 22 pounds. Yeah, cross was coming in.
42 bills now from Grubby. He's got that fourth siege as well. Grubby's feeling very confident
to go for the fourth siege. Normally, it's not really his style. He does it sometimes.
But he's feeling really confident to disclose this game out.
Oh, there's some loystery bills. This crossbow can actually get a lot of kills behind this
woodland. That's gonna be really annoying for Knoth.
There's no way to cook and stop this.
Yeah, yeah. It does have three knights. Maybe you can do something to get armor, but Ethiopian
crossbows that are firing faster in Grubby's hands. It's gonna be a micro-masterpiece,
I think. I don't think Knoth is gonna even get a single crossbow by the looks of things.
might let's see who killed one at least kill one now grab the gold heels yeah dude
cross was a crazy good yeah I think it's one of the best units in the game
it early cast they just probably the best unit in the game and yeah good luck
with the rest. Wow guys, a pretty one-sided set here, 3-0 Grubby. We kind of expected this
going in as far as the ELOs go, but I kind of just wish Knopf did a little bit more to
counter Grubby's playstyle or to give him some chances to win. I feel like, you know,
me and Death Knight were talking, the Franks was not exciting. Like, you have like almost
0% chance to win with Franks. It's a very solid set, but it's not going to really help
you against someone that's much stronger than you. In the Turks game, we wanted a forward
castle and then of course in game one we had a few you thermally villagers so
ended up not being the cleanest game but death note thanks for being with me man
thanks for casting Grubby moves on what can you make of this match up thank you
for this is me too yeah take care have a go on yeah yeah peace peace peace all
right shadow death note for the co-cast pretty one sided there but that's
It's completely fine.
We have Grubby moving on against Uthermal.
That set was supposed to happen yesterday.
So that was just an appetizer for the main event today.
So welcome everyone.
Day three, or sorry, day three is completely done now.
Day four, the final day, which is today,
has officially begun, the top four in the tournament.
Uthermal, Grubby, Pig, and Captain Lance.
The funny thing is, these are the four captains.
So we were all, you know, all said and done.
We had Sing Sing pass the captains,
We had Wagga looking good, but now it's the headliner.
It's the top four.
It's the captain's showdown.
Let's figure out who is the best captain.
I need a short five minute break here,
so I'll take a quick break.
We'll bring Knoff in here.
He'll say a few words.
And yeah, then he'll talk to you guys
with the back in the background.
I'll be right back in a few minutes,
and we'll get started with the next set.
And stay tuned.
Oh, damn it.
Yeah.
Oh, man!
Grubster!
Doing work, or what?
smokes yo chat what the heck yo guys thank you everyone okay I didn't know I
was in here us chat or I mean in here a stream but guys if you see me I don't
know but hopefully you hear me I just want to give everyone like I'm so happy
happy to have been a part of this journey and it means a lot of me for all the support
I got like also all the new followers that have been coming to my channel it's super
super super good to see and it means a lot to me so you guys know that and I mean I'm
not a full time streamer but this journey has been maybe the start of something new
At least I will stream more regularly now, because I had a long break, and yeah, H1pires 2 is one of the most difficult games that I ever played.
And yeah, my head has been working day and night to be able to catch up with all the knowledge.
But yeah, without you guys that have been supporting and, you know, giving me advices after all my games,
I don't think I would be enjoying the game as much as I have been doing now, so yeah, I'm really really happy about that.
And I'm gonna continue to stream Agent Pirates too, so if you like what I've been showing so far,
make sure you give me a follow, because I'm gonna be streaming more regularly from now on.
So, yeah, I mean, it has been so much fun and also the games has been much higher quality and
yeah, I mean, I think the guys in the tournament are showing like really high level here
in the play. Like, I'm really surprised. I would not understand like,
I would not believe it would be this kind of level of the skill that everyone has been showing.
Hey, thank you for the follows and the thumbs, guys.
Holy shit.
Super happy.
Hey, Knopf.
How's it going?
Hey!
I don't know.
You tell me!
I'm out of the tournament!
Yes, but how are you feeling taking part of this huge event?
me. I was of the tournament. Yes, but how are you feeling taking part of this huge event?
Honestly, I just want to say before any of this, congratulations. You had a beautiful,
beautiful past up until now. I think top eight should be still a good result for you for
someone that hasn't been playing this game before and just started a couple of weeks. I've
been watching some of your streams and I had a lot of fun so congrats I hope you
enjoyed the tournament yeah it has been awesome like I would not expect it to be
this fun as it has been and yeah like the community nation fires too is
something else I mean a lot of work at free and the community there as well but
yeah this was something different and I'm really really happy to be a part of
this and yeah this is just the beginning so you guys know because I'm gonna stream more age vampires
I was actually answering um in the tournament discord to I think it was Wagat this morning
when I saw he he said the exact same thing that um he's going to continue play and probably even
stream a week for a while. You guys have no idea how nice that is to see. Not only that
you guys enjoyed the event, because it's kind of sad that now the event, today is the last
day, it's going to be great, I know that. But okay, the event is done afterwards. So
you guys being so eager to continue being part of the community, I think it's so, I don't
welcoming from everyone and for you guys to just stick around from our community
to just have new people joining, learning, having new people on the ladder.
It's great. Yeah, I agree and I mean I'm surprised how difficult this game is
with all the different civilizations and all the micro that is in there and
and also the decision-making, it's crazy.
But that's also what makes it so good
because every game is so different.
And that's what I feel is one really good part
about Age of Empires, that no game is gonna be the same.
So it's very big variation and yeah,
like it's a lot of different aspects in the game
that makes it so good and so freaking interesting
to watch as well.
Definitely, I was talking with a couple of new viewers as well.
I think what's nice about AOE is that it's so easy to just watch because it's so easy
to figure out what's happening.
I have this issue with watching other games.
I've never played video games in my life until a couple of years ago when I discovered my
inner passion for AOE.
I feel like when I'm trying to watch other games, it's so difficult.
I don't know, make up something or what's happening.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, well, I mean, it's probably, you know,
for me, Workout 3 is my home game,
so of course it's, like, it's really interesting
to learn something new,
but I would not understand if it would be so difficult.
Maybe I thought I would be, you know,
at least get a little bit better,
but it's hard because I don't have anything to relate to,
so I don't know if I'm like,
my progress has been good or bad you know it's hard to say but yeah we'll see
I'm enjoying it and I will continue to play so we'll see what's gonna be the
next goal. Yo Knox! What's up bro? GG's! Yo! What's up? Tough match today but to be fair
up against Grubby and I think you did pretty well overall for the tournament
I think you should be proud of yourself.
Yeah, thank you.
I'm very glad to hear that.
It has been one of the best times I have been doing
gaming-wise, so I just want to give you a big thanks,
and I'm super, super, super happy to be a part of this.
I have been enjoying every moment of it,
so yeah, I'm looking forward to the next games,
and yeah, again, Agent Empires 2 is great,
and I think you are for sure a really, really big part of it,
so I'm super happy that you invited me to this,
because it means a lot for me, so, you know.
I appreciate that, man.
Thank you for the kind words,
and I'm really happy to have you here.
We had a coaching session, you and I,
many, many fans that you've had
over your ranked ladder grind,
so you certainly made a good impression
in the AOT community,
and I think you had a great tournament, man.
We'll let you go now as you move to the next event.
Yeah.
Thank you so much.
Any last words for the chat before you leave?
Just again, I'm really happy about all the support.
It has been crazy, every stream
that I've been doing, everyone giving me advices
and like how I can improve.
So it has been also one reason for me to continue to play
because I enjoy it so much.
And I feel that the more I learn, the more fun it is.
So yeah, big thanks again.
And good luck with the rest, everyone,
and hope you enjoyed the show.
Thank you so much, Knopf.
Take it easy, bro.
Yeah, see you.
Bye.
See you.
Have a good one.
All right, before I talk with you,
the Nell, let's say 07 in the chat, guys, Knopf.
He had a good tournament. Honestly, even without the 8-trucks shenanigans, he gets top 8 after that round.
It's a top 6 finish. That's a really good result. Fork-noff. Super solid for him.
Like, it's really... He was one of the guys that performed the best for his elo especially.
So, really, really, really well done there.
Also, Waxi, he's got 20 gifted subs. We're making our way to that 9,000 sub goal.
We're at 8,200 guys. If we get to 9,000, it's a King's Gauntlet confirmed number 2 for the next year.
so we'll keep the show rolling with another edition.
And okay, Mrs. Danila, thank you for being here.
What's going on?
Thank you for inviting me.
Let's go.
How's it going?
Are you excited for today?
I'm super excited.
Today is officially starting the main event.
So that Gruby Knoff set was actually
the last set from yesterday.
It's not a real final set.
This is the top four of the event.
This is the final day.
We're gonna get started with Captain Lance
versus Pig, by the way.
Tampments versus Pig is the upper bracket final.
Winner of that is waiting in the grand final
without losing a set, which is crazy.
The loser will drop to the loser bracket final,
still a very prestigious place to be in.
So these guys are the two best players
determined so far as it stands,
but of course later on we have Grubbini Thermal
fighting the way from the loser bracket final.
We have a Dutch showdown.
So it could not be a more exciting finish.
It's the four captains, the four people
that were the best players going into the event
and the four players that are the best players
coming out of the event.
And let's see how it goes.
We're waiting for the cameras to get set up,
but overall, I'm super excited here, Danny.
I am too.
And you know, what makes this set so even more excited
is the fact that I believe these two
are in the upper bracket final after two big upsets.
Yeah, yeah, it's a fair point.
It's a fair point.
CapMalans are thermal, people had the thermal being the stronger player there, CapMalans
were the 3-2, and then Grubby versus Pig, people had Grubby as a slightly better player,
Pig kind of good strategies, but also solid gameplay and gets the upset there as well.
So yeah, double upset for the upper bracket here, and the cool part about this by the
way is that both Grubby and you thermal didn't play bad, like they actually had a good set,
it was a 3-2 banger, it just shows that CapMalans or Pig are here to play and they're bringing
the same level if not even a bit better than what we consider to be the two favorites going
into this event and going into the bracket playoffs. So really, really interesting top
four here. We're waiting for the cameras and we'll get started with Captain Lance versus
Pegg with the upper bracket final right now. Yeah, I mean, honestly, just like you said,
both semifinals going to five games, they were, in my opinion, the best set of yesterday. Guys,
make sure you go into hairouts, YouTube VODs, Twitch VODs, anything and just re-watch if
you haven't.
Okay, you know the result already.
I promise you the games are really worth watching back.
Okay, I have them saved already to even watch later, so whenever I just want to be entertained.
I also kind of want to watch after this entire event.
Some of the days from your perspective and from with your co-casters because all I'm
hearing is how good the event was, how hyped people were about the variety of
co-casters, the players from other games joining, and just everyone having a good
fun with the event. It's really fun to hear.
Yeah, unfortunately we don't really have, we can see Pit on the camera there, it's hilarious,
but he's doing some stretches, but Karate can count. Unfortunately we don't really have
pig's camera beside like without his game so let me see if I can actually fix
this one real quick it's gonna be tough though yeah I actually don't know if we
can have pig camera it's gonna show his gameplay so that's not good so we might
have to play without pig camera or maybe even without cameras at all this game
actually yeah I think it's gonna be a no cams game this one because yeah it might
We'll play no cams for this one, just because Picks' camera is not really working and having
just Captain Lance, it feels weird.
There might be a no cams game.
He knows about the problem.
I don't know if it's possible to fix.
Let's see.
Alright.
It's fine.
I think you're fine.
One cam is fine.
I mean.
Okay.
Yeah, sorry.
Go ahead.
One camera's fine.
Okay, sorry, go ahead.
Go ahead, you go ahead, you go ahead.
No, in the meantime, I was just going to talk a tiny bit more about the final.
Just like Hera said, this is the upper bracket final.
It's very important to win this set.
Also, first of all, you're going straight into the grand final.
So it's good for your nerves.
It gives you confidence, gives you like a boost.
a boost but also you know the the loser of the set is actually going to have to play
um another set which is the loser's bracket final and afterwards the grand final so
yeah like going to go straight into a grand final with a lot of games played today
um that's the advantage of the guy who doesn't lose right like the guy who doesn't lose yeah exactly
He just plays one, he can chill, wash the other two, he can relax, he can scout, he can even prepare strategies he wants to, and he's got a huge advantage going to the Grand Final.
No other advantage by the way besides this, there's no like 1-0 start for the Grand Final worth mentioning, but of course like you said Daniel, I think that just the rest thing is probably a pretty good advantage there.
We have picked camera, very good, we have picked camera, very nice.
I don't know what you have been saying that this and that, all I'm seeing is the flawless, yeah.
Alright, they got the thing that they can start. It's going to be Pig vs. Captain Lance. We talked a lot about their journeys here and what's at stake today.
This is the upper bracket final, the most prestigious part of the tournament and the best position to be in.
I actually haven't done this for any other round, but this is about to start.
Type the name of the person that you want to see winning here.
Pig or Lance, who are you supporting in the chat?
Let me see it, Twitch and YouTube.
We got over 10,000 people watching between the two platforms.
We got a little bit of that, 3,500 on YouTube, 8,500 plus on Twitch.
Got a ton of people here.
Pig or Lance, let's see it in the chat.
I see a lot more for Pig actually, but Lance also has some fans there.
So it seems to be a little, you know, maybe split down the center, slightly favoring Pig.
I see a few guys saying Viper, a couple of people saying Grubby, if I was typing, I'd
probably say Grubby in the chat as well.
You guys know this, but let's see how it goes.
And both of these guys with a nice little upset in the last round, Daniela, we had a
dream upper bracket semis, 3-2, 3-2.
I'm hoping this one goes to five games.
What is kind of your prediction going into this one between Captain Lance and Pig?
Obviously the surprising matchup in the upper bracket final as far as what we're thinking, but these guys showed a very very nice quality in the previous rounds
What do you feel in between these two players?
I'm definitely hoping for a 3-2 as well. I think that the balance
Inclined slightly in pig's favor, but honestly at this point here
I don't even know what to say anymore. Yesterday. I was so sure that you thermal is the heavy favorite
but even the chat was telling me then no way Captain Lance has this like he got
to 1600 only but he got to 1600 on a walking pad and I'm like what no way
yeah really interesting that he was like wearing a treadmill he's playing
random steps all the good stuff you know so yeah so like some of these players
are just wild cards you know I'm I'm just excited to see what has he been
preparing for today maybe maybe some hidden strategies for the finals who knows
yeah so one thing I want to talk about before we hop in here of course the
players are setting up I gave them the signal to start but as they're about to
launch the game captain Lance is both predictable and unpredictable at the
same time he's been he's predictable in the sense that he's usually not gonna
play a meta game he's always gonna try something different something aggressive
some kind of forward castle some kind of fast dip something to really throw the
game off. This is unpredictable because you don't know what he's going to do but
it's also predictable because you know he's going to do something. At least
that's kind of the mentality that Pig has going into this one. And I stayed up a
little late last night. I was watching Pig get coaching from survivalist. I'm
not going to spoil anything obviously but they are working on counters to the
Captain Land style. That's crazy. Having a coach with you and Pig having the time
and the presence of mind to the day before the event prepares some strategies
prepares some counters to what Capmullence is throwing that's a fantastic
position to be in. So just some context before we hop in and here we go game one
starting. Yeah we talked a little bit yesterday about how good it is to
you know just stick to a strat and improve it which I was surprised to not
see more players kind of thinking about a strat to counter Cumans, which Captain Lance
seems to have been favoriting on Fortress.
Yeah, it's not going to be the Cumans actually, which is a little surprising.
He's really changing this up.
Cap Lance showing that he can actually just play a bunch of different styles, but here
we go, guys.
Welcome in to game number one between Pig and Captain Lance.
It's going to be Red side Fortress, of course, as all game ones have been on the King's
Gauntlet so far.
Fantastic tournaments.
that has exceeded all expectations, at least the ones that I had for the event.
Here we go, random, sorry not random, but pig random, let's say pig.
Playing as the Portuguese, his trusted civilization for Redisiforchus, he has never changed this,
despite losing against Mr. Llama,
so some crazy ram rush, he's stuck with the Portuguese.
Captain Lance is trying something he hasn't shown before, the Britons,
which has been played by a couple other players, but not from Lance himself.
Daniel, we talked about the Cumans not being played for Captain Lance.
He's played that the last three times, he's played Reds of Fortress, but for the upper bracket final, he switched it up with the Britons.
What are we expecting here from the Britons from Mr. Lance?
Honestly, probably just something like a wag at it yesterday, a nice calm boom going to late game.
I feel like on close maps, that's where you want to get to with Britons.
maybe just a death ball of longbowman and warwolf trebs.
And I think the Britons will just have a smooth boom on close maps.
They do want to go to that late game.
And I don't know, I think Portuguese might want to try to stop that.
I would like to see maybe some sort of aggression or a push in
Castle age from him
Oh, so you'd like to see Portuguese go for the early push in Castle not let the Britons get that boom to late game
Makes a lot of sense. I'm just not sure if Pig has done anything in that regard like pig has only done one thing on rest of fortress
It's a 4 TC boom and Daniela. I I see him as a discipline discipline player
I don't see him moving from that so with this context of a 4 TC boom from pig
What would Portuguese, you know have against Britain's I mean that's a few options
I can talk a little bit here like Bomber Tens in late game, you know potentially
Maybe a ramp push, but I feel like besides that the Britain late game is kind of better with like a long bowman
Just killing everything that Portuguese tends to make I'm not sure
Yeah, exactly. So what I think I would like the most not a push in Catholic, but maybe a fast imp approach from
go for a go for a timing go for a castle forward just like you said they do have
access to to great bomber cannons of course they're unique tech a guy that
gives them better accuracy on the moving targets it's expensive maybe with a fast
stem you don't really go for that but just a trap and bomber cannons push and
just take Britain's by surprise because like you said in a leg game I feel like
Longbows? Tough to counter. Especially if you don't have E-Dram. Okay, they do have
Rams, but you don't have kept Rams. And yeah, C-Dram seems to be kind of like the death of
Britons. Yeah, that's a deciding factor. That's what makes Rams worth going for. If you have the C-Dram
upgrade, of course, Portuguese, they don't get access to that. In the Age of Empires 2, we have a
technology tree for every civilization. So you get some SIVs. You know, some SIVs get certain
attacks, others have donated Portuguese, probably have to lean towards some kind of
bomber cannon for their siege, maybe a couple of trebuchets.
Captain Lance is going up a standard opening here, Portuguese going a little
later and this is actually kind of standard for what he's trying to do.
Captain Lance will do a 3 TC boom initially and then work his way towards
a 4 TC boom as you can see he's already on the stone. He's taking 10 gold by the
way, he's going to sell a hundredth stone and that's going to be the way he gets up
to the next stage. So actually really cool from Captain Lance, they're trying out some
some spicy builds here instead of going for the mining cap on the gold that would be considered standard
But he's working the 3 TC boom into the fourth later and pig is just gonna go directly into the four TC's
Actually, don't know what's better. So I'm kind of be curious to see the Ville count myself for this game
But it looks like it's gonna be a standard approach from both players in the sense that it's gonna be a only economic approach
No fast nymph nothing crazy at least in the get-go
Oops, I think I muted my stick.
This is what we were saying yesterday about these players and their build orders.
Feels like, Captain Lance, okay, I don't have the insight, you know, like I don't know how
many times he practiced this build order, but it feels like, if this is, I don't know,
even top five times he practices this, okay, I understand, these are all super players
in other games, but I still find it very impressive.
He's pulling builders long distance, getting 10 gold, preparing for a 40C boom with a 22
plus 2 bitager count, it's really nice to see.
Really sharp builders.
This is not something you'll see from the average 1600-1700 elo player.
This is clearly someone that is a lethal in another game, coming in, potentially getting
some coaching, preparing a nice strategy, and honestly actually going to get
perfectly like virtually no idle time here for Captain Lance. This is different
than some of the earlier players that we've had on this tournament. Some of the
other guys have had a lot of idle PC in in Dark Age, but here in the upper bracket
final this is the best of the best that we've had in this tournament so far, so
we can expect very clean build leaders, and they are certainly delivering. King is
safe behind the walls now, so no crazy King snipe, at least for the time being.
Pegasus is going to be going up later. This is of course by design. He wants to
just jump straight into that three TC boom. That's why he's got a few extra on gold here
to buy that, that the third hundred stone that he needs for that fourth TC.
No one got inspired from Grubby's suggestion of feudal age rushing to stive their king.
Yeah, not quite anyone crazy enough to try that one. We have seen a king dying Dark Ages
the spiffing Brit, but that was more of like a suicide than it was really anything forced
from the opponent. Camelons, it's Kasselich, 3 TC, boom,
gonna get started, yeah, very nice.
You could have won the fourth, actually.
If you want to go for the fourth, you could.
But NTCs are cheaper in terms of wood.
Wow, 4 TC right away, but he's way faster than Pig.
This is crazy from lands.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
It's really, really good.
And it's all of that wood that he's saving, basically,
he made three extra TCs with the cost of one and a half,
of
more analytical folk in the chat might be interested to hear what I'm about to
say here it takes six farms to keep one town center running all right six farms
per one town center that's like the general rough estimates for age of
umpires to you boom so in general for four town centers you need six times four
so you need 24 farms of course Kaplanth is nowhere near 24 farms he has only nine
right now but that's where the bank of food that he has him earlier helps him
she's gonna be able to make villagers with that bank of food whilst he brushes
to 24 farms. That's why you don't see him anything on gold, nothing on stone, he doesn't
need those resources right now. His main concern is setting up those 24 farms so you can keep
making villagers from 4 town centers undisturbed and uninterrupted with no idle time. That's
his main game plan and we're seeing Peg do the exact same thing a little bit later because
he has like a slower sift to get going, but he does squeeze in the heavy plow. So while
he's later he at least gets that extra economy upgrade which I'm not sure if that's worth
or not guess we'll find out yeah I'm honestly surprised that pig was able to
afford the both the wood and the food upgrade anyway he's got them he has
plenty of food in the bank but I guess that's the advantage of going couple of
villagers later yeah I mean you're gonna have those extra those bills working
while you're going up to the next stage you're gonna have some extra resources
that will allow you to go, you know, the extra mile.
Yeah, I don't like this village on stone.
I know it's just one, but that's like going against the game plan here.
Three on gold, again, maybe we can get those pulled onto farms,
or maybe we can use the market, maybe the market can help us, you know, buy some food, buy some wood,
set up those farms, but nonetheless, both players are booming,
small village here early for Captain Lance,
but as you can see, two minutes and a half of idle TC time for him,
so he struggled to get to those 24 farms, but now look at him, 27 farms.
I expect to see no adult to see or at least very minimal adult to see from this point on was freelance up until this point
It's acceptable and from now on it's unacceptable and he should maintain that seven village lead
For pretty much the rest of the game at least until both players max out their will pop their will pop
Exactly whereas pig I do expect to start struggling soon. He doesn't have that extra wood
and
yeah
invested all of those extras in
more eco- upgrades, maybe that build difference is even going to increase further for capitalness.
Yeah, let's see. So far it's pretty reasonable. Both players are just booming up. We'll talk
about late game options in a second here, but I do want to talk about the fact that nobody's
going for the relics. This is something that would be considered a cardinal sin for someone
like Grubby. Grubby has always went for the relics. Some people went for a massive push.
instead of, you know, ignoring the relics, ignoring the boom. We saw that from Mr. Lama, we saw that a little bit from Wagamama.
But in this game, it's just boom, and no relics, no pushing. And of course, they have scouted most of the relics,
but no monastery yet. This is standard. If you go for the monastery too early, you can't make the farms.
So normally you want to make the farms first, and then you want to make the monastery.
So here, Captain Lance, he can easily squeeze in a monastery now, and now he's got the farm set up,
and play for those relics if you wanted to.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
And that's actually a very good point.
It's very curious that none of them are even thinking about it now.
Now, Wood is kind of starting to pile up and someone like Grubby was already with the monastery.
I'm kind of looking around, but yeah, it's a funny approach.
Ah, while I'm saying this, it is putting down a monastery.
It goes to the monastery.
And it is worth mentioning that both of these approaches are completely fine and playable like you can open boom first and relics later
You can open three CCs and get relics first both these approaches are playable even in pro play
We see a mix of these strategies
Actually, the relic contesting is usually a bit more meta and pro play just because if you if you slip on
Contesting the relics the other guy would just grab all five really quickly in this tournament the players are not quite pros
Despite being very strong players
So, you know while they have a really good boom and whatnot chances are they're not gonna be the most efficient and hit the perfect timing of
Snagging all the relics, but overall so far so good
Pickers doing a nice job walling here and so was Lance. I like this
Yeah, I like it too. And while we were talking a tiny bit earlier about the eco upgrades. I'm looking at their boom
I see 38 specifically 33 on on food for both of them. Yeah, that's exactly what I was going to talk about the wheelbarrow
When you're getting to this amount of farms, wheelbarrow is a very important upgrade for
your farms to grab because it doesn't just increase the speed of the villagers moving
on the farm.
You will notice that they tend to move a lot, so it affects them the most, but also the
carry capacity.
So all of the eco in terms of food is going to be entirely more efficient.
Yeah, yeah, Bluebarrow. It helps all your villagers, but it helps mostly for the farmers that move around a lot.
And here we go. Especially first kill of the game, Pig is looking to capitalize on the mistake from Captain Lan's first blood.
Pig heals that longbow and poor guy to sit in their bow out of his hand, dead on the ground, scout backs up.
That's pretty good. That's a free unit that he's picked up for basically no reasons. It's a free
Longbow dead, Camelance replaces him, makes a few more, Camelance does, though does have
more res in the bank and more res collected, so it might be the first in the faster player
towards imp.
I actually wondered by the way, so yesterday night, Pig, he was practicing an anti-cuban
strategy on this map, and I wondered if Captain Lance sniped at stream, saw that Pig was practicing
that and pick the Britons instead. Or maybe he just wanted to switch it up anyways, but
it is kind of cool that Pig was actually planning an anti-human strategy and now he's been completely
surprised by the Britons. I'm quite interested to see what Pig can do to adapt on the fly
here, but Catlabs up to Imperial is a little faster. Pig though has clicked himself, hand
care for both players, looking pretty even so far, Danila.
Yeah, I'm just waiting to see what pig's unit of choice is going to be because
What even open in his in his shoes right now, do you just go straight up for for scrims?
I see the armor upgrade on the cavalry, but not a big fan of that for now
Yeah, if you can cavalry opening
Village round here putting a scout. I actually think pig wins this. Yeah, pig wins this
Oh, who's that can kill?
Dude, bigger than Warlord man, he's coming, he's coming to play in this fine morning.
Uh, looks like it's gonna be in for both players with a cavalry based opening early for Portuguese.
I actually don't hate the cavalry, but I don't like that he's opening with it.
So, in general, if you have the choice between opening with a melee unit and opening with a ranged unit,
if your melee unit is not your hyper carry, and in this case, you don't get palleted with Portuguese,
you also don't get Hissar, so if it's not your hyper carry, I don't think you should open with it.
should open with it. I think it's always best to open with the ranged unit that can trade
a little bit, kind of poke and hit and run, and then bring out the cavalry later. If you
open with the cavalry, you can't really take a fight unless you can sweep the fight. And
sometimes you just don't have the numbers to sweep the fight. So I would much rather
see a Sturm opening from Pig rather than the cavalry, and maybe he's changed his mind
is making some rangers now now in the same time I'm not entirely sure how
captain lands how familiar he is with well pigs strategy or what he expects
from him or if he watched any of his previous games or anything because it
seemed that yesterday in his games captain lands was very prepared against
What was coming forward sing opened?
Wait was it sing no sing plate versus
Sink played waga
Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly was sing versus waga my bed, but waga was very prepared against the
Hussar line opening so he opens straight up like whereas Captain Lance right now
I don't even think he expects Calvary from Portuguese
Yeah, dude, Camp Lantz is playing a little bit weird by the way, like he's adding an
Arranges right now, he's also making Lombos, but I don't understand Arranges at all.
I think the cavalry and the Leica from Britain is maybe some expectation of skirmishes, for
Pave.
Yeah, I think that's just happening, so Camp Lantz is kind of doing a bunch of things
blind, which I don't really like, but let's try to tap into his mind a little bit.
He's going to open Longbow for his main unit.
He expects you to see skirmishers from Pig, which is actually a correct read.
That's typically what you do expect against Britons, so he's preparing just his own
Light Cab to start things off.
I don't understand the Rangers.
I don't think they do anything.
I will see what he decides to go for.
Maybe Elite Skirm could come up from him as well.
Again, I don't think you really need that, but fair enough.
But it looks like the Light Cab is just in preparation for the skirmishers that he knows
Pig is going for.
And he's right.
Pig is going for some skirm.
You know what, I really like the stone walls.
I feel like I expected to see more people.
Well, with Britons, you kind of want to keep your stone for castles as well, though.
But it's one less thing to worry about the rates.
You get so much space, you can farm there, you get a gold secure in those walls.
even probably if you had scouted, which she did could probably expand to the wood line
and then to georgia of the map to include the stone as well, but I like that.
Yeah, and honestly, even if you need to save the stone for the castles, this is a very small
investment.
This is like what, like it's five stone per wall, 44 walls or so, it's like 220 stone.
It's not that much stone to secure the entire map and prevent yourself from getting raided.
I think it's a good way to play it out.
Like you said if you secure the stone even better, but even so it's still fine
He's gonna get that center of the map as well. So long bow plus like have I was kind of right that the two ranges were kind of useless
But fair enough he's going for a great composition and one that's hard to deal with so pig is opening skirmishers
He's also opening bombards, but the unit I don't like from pig is
The like have I think it has to be I
Think it has to be Cavalier something a little stronger to be honest
Yeah, because like we we kind of judged the
Cav armor on the way up. I was thinking well if captain is just going to go a small group of longboes Cavaliers going to do
Fantastic, yes all of that, but no he opened like have and now that's not a small mass of Longo men the elite
They're 27 of them. They're fully upgraded while Peg is only getting now the elite skirmup grid and
Forging only which is only one attack in one range
extra from what they base health yeah fletchings they like we're missing
bodkin bracer you even have chemistry we do have chemistry the bomb is coming out
pig needs a lot of upgrades but Captain Lance has kind of given him the time
what I want to see from pig is just get all your upgrades don't fight before
those guys come in if you don't have your upgrades you're gonna have no chance
fighting into this army like they have the already on the skirmishers Captain
Lance feeling great about his choice to mix in that light cavalry and he's in a
force to hand of pig force him to show the massive light cab just to come out
here and save these skirmishers skirmishers of course very ineffective against light cavalry and Lance now sees this and
leaves the market to adapt his game plan big like a push though like a ram this could be deadly here for a pig
Yeah, I would like him to continue producing
Ram's though they soak a lot of damage especially from the longbowmen and well castles anything ranged
And you do have bomber cannons there kind of sneaking in getting some good shots on that castle that is denied by the way
And did deny it can't last actually the Kansas by castle with that 88%
So that's like only 12% of the stone going back to the stockpile a good good play from from pig. What are you seeing Danny?
Yeah, well that I was surprised, but I am understanding that that's some
muscle memory
Yeah, from them from another game. I think it was yesterday at the exact same situation with noff as well cancelling
Yeah, they think it's good to cancel right away
But you know chances are your opponent will not be able to kill the whole foundation sometimes leaving it is correct
Canceling it when it's so high in the percentage is usually not the right play
But you know regardless a great cleanup from Lance
He actually makes sure work at that army pig correctly identifies you need the stronger unit in the Portuguese and guys
This is what we were talking about the britain late game is just so much stronger than what portuguese can make
Or at least in this matchup like it's not overall stronger, but in this matchup britain late game
It's just so hard to deal with what you really want to do is just let the bombards cook from far
They have one extra range compared to the lombos at 13
Of course, thanks to siege engineers
But if bombards alone will die to the lombos as well lombos 12 range on these bad boys such a strong unit
Yeah, he got Yeoman as well.
Also Pig doesn't have the unique technology, Archibus which gives them more accuracy against
the moving targets and he lost the castle so...
Yeah, it's looking rough for Pig but what I like about Pig is that he's getting all
the upgrades actually.
It's the last upgrade for his cavalry.
So if he's ever going to find a winning composition, he can maybe counter play this.
He's got all the upgrades that he needs, but take a look at this, Cab Lance has 4000 gold
guys.
He can pull up in a Ferrari and he still has gold to spare.
He's got tons of food in the bank as well, maybe a little shore on stone.
He's got all the resources and all the control he can ever ask for.
Take a look as well, two castles in the middle.
Even if you run past them, you run into stone walls.
I'd actually like the fortify wall tech.
That would be great for him.
But overall, really good control of the map for Lance.
Beautiful play from him so far.
And now he is preparing all those barracks for which I love those barracks for so many
reasons.
First of all, he is seeing the Cavaliers and reacting properly.
They are all forward because infantry are slow, basically.
Yeah.
All of them, that's the issue with them.
So you want them as close as possible to the battlefield.
He's not building two barracks to do the switch.
building five of them and more. He can afford them and he's getting all the
upgrades. Yeah, fantastic. It's a transition done correctly for production.
Upgrades coming in, you know, start making the unit right away. Look at that.
Already halved in for him to counter the Cavalier and the Cavalier now it's not
the strongest unit. Again, it's generic fully upgraded Cavalier. This is decent
for early imp, but like for late imp, it's not really the strongest unit and this is
what I've purchased in this matchup. Just don't have the options and the tools to
really do much look at this two guitars I think we saw on the gates now oh no the
two pairs are still alive actually hold on wait the two that's and kill this
castle foundation that Lance is denied but the cavalry is ready at the top
there he broke through the stone wall how wait how did we break this wall the
pig the tar that's crazy he's gonna kill a lot of villagers wait that's a crazy
play the caster missed it I'm so sorry if I found the caster guys I'm gonna beat
him up for missing that play but pig is apparently broken through this wall
somehow got a really good raid that's some good counter play for him he's down 60
population though he's down 60 population yeah he lost that castle as well he is
going to even have to replace a lot of houses he's panicking he's bringing all
his military back ramps are however moving in the group with the cavalry so
cavalry lost all their mobility the group will move at the slowest unit's
space.
Yeah, pretty rough there and like, Pig has no castles in his face, he does have the stone,
like he can easily make a castle back here to defend but he just doesn't really have,
I guess the presence of mind right now, I just have to make one out here to grab some
space, it gets denied, still has that to go finish, there's a lot of things to do here
for Pig.
He is getting some raids but I mean fortified wall now, look at that beautiful fortified
wall for Lance.
Well, the entire set up.
That's a good texture as well for all the buildings.
Yeah, it's so nice. He's just walling up everything.
It's a good way to play to be fair for Lance
and he's got the lombos in the front.
That's that control style for the Britons.
The cab charge onto the lombos.
Honestly, am I crazy that the lombos just win this?
No, absolutely.
There's 30 elite lombos in there.
Yeah.
Just such a strong unit.
Britons, this game inspired me.
After watching a game like this, I was going to go in
I think it's on Redisette Fortress, by the way.
I, dude, I freaking love how strong Lombos are in late game.
We need a lot of skirmishes, we just have a chance at this.
Someone said yesterday in my chat after Wargoth came that this is only making me go on the
ladder and spam infantry.
Yep.
Just do what they're doing, get inspired, go in and lose a few games yourself using the
same strategies.
That's usually how it goes.
Yeah, exactly.
is trying to go out here and finish this castle by the looks of things or is
you're just going to the to the woodland you can't use this woodland pig pig
this woodlands occupied those guys are not gonna let them get some free unless
they're just targeting the lumber camp but that looks like they're just in the
lumber camp. Fair enough. One thing someone is mentioning also another time
Gambasun that research that is useless yeah I want to talk a bit about that
because I noticed a lot of the times people just researching gambasins gives
do an extra pierce armor but only on the militia line and fire lasers unfortunately won't affect
the halibut in any way. Lance? Lance walks into melee range with his longbowman.
That's not a good idea. He's gonna get cleared up. Dude those longbowlers got a lot of kills but
now they're just gonna die for free. That was extremely suspicious. The chat saying 3-2-2
has Lance just thrown, I mean it's just a small army, he's getting raided a little bit as well,
potentially just had a little bit of misstep, farming in the center of the map as well,
so this strange, dude Lance had a rough minute there, it was a rough minute for Lance.
The Tars are moving though, oh no, they missed the Castle Foundation, I thought they were going for it.
They're going to the battlefield, Bindiela, yeah they should have hit this Castle Foundation,
leaving us smashing against this wall, he's right-click this wall, the light
have a hit in the wall the potential going down dude it's a terrible one minute
for what happened to Lance I don't know I don't know but it's okay he's
stabilizing how's are coming forward but how's could be going down to scrims
actually cast on the corner we have a couple rams but they're walking in a
week on a wheelchair guys they have a 10 HP the ram is a coming in on a wheelchair
brother yeah I'll make short work of those rams they're not gonna do much can't
get excited about a round push like that.
Scrim Cavalier the combo for Pig, is that 155 Pop?
Honestly, Kudos to Pig, he's fighting on well.
That was a really suspicious minute for Lance though,
he needs to restabilize, he's still flooding in units and losing them.
This is so interesting though, because like,
General KD is very close, Pop is getting closer.
I still don't think...
Well, actually, I'm not sure, is it time to think about the post imp?
him because I don't know how much gold Lance has access to. I don't think he has access
to so much gold. He only has 1500 gold in the bank. He seems to be just trickling his
units into the battlefield and he's losing them. And Portuguese in the late stages of
the game, they have a Feituriash, a unique building that gives them a trickle of gold
and stone.
We'll talk about that as well in a second, so I'm just watching Lance into units for
the last three minutes.
He finally got a good mass of lombos, so you can kind of defend his units that are trickling
in and actually get some good DPS out onto what Pig has on the map.
We can talk about that a little bit.
Portuguese have a nice building, Feitoria, that could come through.
If it comes through, we'll talk about it a bit more, but basically just so the viewers
know that Pig has a building specifically for the Portuguese that could give him a nice
trickle of golden stone as well as the other resources could be very helpful for late game.
If he goes for it, we'll talk about it and run you guys through the numbers.
For now, it's all Captain Lance moving forward.
He kind of recuperated his position and now has a good massive long blow.
It's very good for him.
Yeah, massive long blow to his backup.
Two petards back in the queue, but he canceled them.
I guess he was just a misleak.
He wanted to throw these treves.
He canceled them.
Now, Pig going for some raids, trying to ram through this top wall.
Catmalanth does have the wall set up and, you know, keep him to re-wall if he spots it.
We'll keep it on that, see if there's any counter-attack potential for Pig.
Catmalanth is still missing some upgrades, by the way.
Armor and infantry attacks for both infantry and cavalry.
He could be coming in, missing those upgrades, of course, very, very crucial.
Potentially giving Pig a chance to come back, and by the way, Pig has done a great job of stabilizing.
Like, it hasn't been the greatest late game for him.
He's missing out on tons of gold and stone that would be very valuable for his game,
but he still has a castle. I can imagine a world where he gets a castle in the front,
re-kicks those minerals, and can potentially win against the Britons in the Hyperlate game here.
Yeah, also I gotta say, I do like the raids from Captain Lance. It feels like Pig is just panicking,
and not necessarily panicking. He's doing all the right reactions, but it just forces a lot of
Reaction from here now. There's a hole at the top all of that massive long boss is going to get behind pig space
And it's going to be a massacre here
That's hell is nasty that hill is really nasty 40 long bows all the wooden farm and eco is back here pig
Is gonna of course try to answer this with this cavalry, but being on a hill Katmas is a prime position
There's not a lot of meat shield though. I wish I had a bit more meat shield to the long boss
It's those 40 we're gonna march down hill though
So I feel like he could have just fought that. He's waiting for the Halberdiers potentially.
He's going to be cutting away the Cavalier. Let's see if this is a good fight for Lance.
I'm not sure. I do agree that the Halbs kind of missed their chance there running way too
late to the party. But yeah, those are going to be deadvils. I mean, Pig right now is floating
a considerable amount of wood, but in the long run,
he might get cornered.
He simply just not have map control.
Yeah.
I love that castle, that feel.
He's getting squeezed, right?
Like, Trebuchet down here,
step at a talent center,
stepping some lumber camps,
preventing the wood expansion.
150 pot for Pig.
He still has to deal with all these longbows
that are just refusing to die, it seems.
How many kills do these guys have?
47 kills and just a group of 15 longbowmen, it's insane.
But that castle is beautiful. I wish that castle was here earlier.
He had the hundred...he had the castles stone for like a year now.
Couldn't make that castle a while back, but it's good to make it now better late than never.
Does it clear up the lombos? Is it playable for Pig? I think it's okay.
Maybe it's still playable.
But it's looking rough. 140 pop is quite low.
Yeah. We talked about this before. Stone is never a resource that you should be...
you should be bank on castles usually if you're pushing map control is great but they're also
fantastic if you're producing unique unit just like capital has them you know scattered around
your economy stops a lot of the raids and you have them saved in the back for production
yeah there are four cavalier here by the way four cavalier in the back uh i just want to sell a
little storyline for the for the viewers here uh capital is walling up his base nicely but there's
But there's an opening at the back, if those four cavaliers somehow sneak around that opening
and find this tower without Captain Lance paying attention, they could kill the tower
and kill the king.
Now this story will probably not happen though because Captain Lance is bald, but keep it
in mind that Kingsnight could always come through at some point somehow, but not that
Kingsnight.
Captain Lance's furniture was just stuck on the outside and he was like whatever man,
She can just open a door for someone and just delete it so sad
Come on sad some some long bows at the back Cavalier not gonna do a whole lot for pig
We turn the pop for Lance a light cab how about the year a long bow against still missing upgrades
I want to keep pointing that out that this is not the best combo that can ever see from Lance
This army does get stronger
Pig has a lot of food wood at you go, but really lacking on that golden stone department
Of course, same can be said for Camp Lance. There's still a lot of gold on the field, all right?
It's just hard to take. Need the player feeling too confident to control this area.
First, Trebuchet being brought to the fight for Lance. He's got a couple more though.
He can bring those guys in. They're actually stuck behind walls. A lot of army for Lance, stuck behind walls.
No one's getting a war wolf.
I wonder if they don't think that's very strong because it only affects the Trebuchets.
maybe they think they're too expensive I at this point of the game I think it is
too expensive because Captain Lance only has a two on gold but he was floating a
considerable amount of gold earlier on so I just wonder why that may maybe maybe
they think it's not that strong because it only affects the the trebs but they're
good their their projectiles are going to act like tiny little onagers the
Warwolf's traps are very strong.
Yeah, that tech is not being used by our players.
I think it's a good tech, but it's maybe a little hard to use.
Maybe a little intuitive.
Canons getting too close to the lombards. You cannot get that close to the lombards.
He's trying to snipe the Travisheys, but one trep down, three cannons down.
That's a very, very costly trep snipe for Pig.
He does kill the cast on the bottom, which is nice.
And he does have 200 pop again.
So Pig, honestly, playing a very good game deserves a lot of respect.
even if you might lose it
i think you'll probably be happy with this performance
here you might have been right
he is thinking about... well i don't know if he's thinking just about
raiding the back of captain's base
or thinking about a potential king snipe like in a dose
Cavaliers almost got through a fortified gate now
if only he would be sending a random
they'll do maybe build a workshop maybe one or two rams
yeah
ramps guitars like is just something to break the walls it's obviously tough
but there's an opening at the back
uh... car tower now is in those so it's getting harder and harder to snap the
king
of course pick doesn't need to snap the king he could just win this as a straight
up game here in this uh... in this imperial war
uh... brins get a lot weaker by the way when there's no gold
uh... they're like that don't have bloodlines so portuguese like have in
Portuguese Cavalry in general are much stronger than what Britons have from their stable.
But CapMilantes is using his momentum, using that gold, first of all he's picking up those
upgrades and he's using that momentum to take the stone away from Pig.
When push comes to shove, I feel that CapMilantes' position is still miles ahead of Pig right
now.
Even though they both have a bit of a bank, so this could be a long game, this could go
to the time limits.
And 1h30, whoever has more score wins.
So keep that in mind as we head into the slight game.
Actually, the score is not even that far apart as I expected.
Also, a very important aspect that I completely missed.
Captain Lance just got the last armor on these halbs,
which kind of make them a lot weaker against all that massive scrims earlier on,
so that's why he was losing those masses of...
Yeah.
...so fast.
Yeah, have it here.
Fully upgraded now.
Blast Burn is the last tech coming in.
Cavalant, sorry, Pig keeps running his Cavalier and shaking through these walls.
That's not a good strategy typically.
Normally, you need to siege those fortified walls.
It's very hard to break, but he keeps thinking, you know, maybe if I just have enough Cavalier
here, I could eventually get through a few villagers you thermal to the center here potentially.
And this army, just stuck behind walls that's really hurting Captain Lance.
That's like, what is that, like 14-15 population?
step on walls including two trebuchets
gotta watch out
is the gate locked?
ah the gate is locked
the gate is locked, yeah
I think it's gonna go out of this gate
like they could be clicked out
definitely
one other thing
man, B is so many rats in front of his base that
well now Captain Lance is gonna get
yep
yeah I hate this, I hate this
the pig really needs to fight for those resources. Like, from pig's position, I just hate to see someone taking resources out of my walls.
It's like, I don't know. It's like, uh, two castes worth of stone, so far the catalyst is taken.
A lot of towers worth, maybe? Gold? That's a fresh gold mine?
I don't think pig can just let this go to the opponent. I think you need to mask up a huge army and try to get it clear up.
It's now or never. He's masking some rams, by the way.
Now, she's making something happen.
But his monastery is getting trapped. He's got two relics in there, so you always have to fight for this one.
Let's see what they can do in the next few minutes.
Yeah, like I mean, it's just so many resources on the map left still for Captain Manseye.
On top of the fact that he is flooring a lot of food and
and wood, food still at a very good price at the market.
And it gets out, gets some more gold. Big engagement here. Cavalry walking into the halberge.
You have to be a little careful. He's got skirmishes in the ramp.
That's actually not a good way to go about it. They don't make the Rams from faster only infantry is a very weak push for pig
I'm not gonna lie the Cavalier is getting cleared up by the halves and the Rams aren't gonna do a whole lot
Not the best push. I think pig needed a lot more than that. I needed to play way better
But the halberd is getting insane valuable those halves are insane
That was a really satisfied for pig he lost a lot
He's only a 31 military captain less has a death ball or of 84
Minute there that I just don't see pig pushing what I would also like to see here from captain us
I saw he made a guard tower upgrade just to put some random towers behind
The fortified wall is campaign
Like defense. I like it irrespective. Okay, that castle works. That's good. Yeah. Yeah
I would have also liked just towers. Yeoman also gives plus two attack on the towers on all the extra range on the foot archers
so
like just a
Massive guard towers here forward would have worked. You know what castle works, too
Yeah, and like as far as king slaps go. I don't think pig has even a single chance
But actually pigs king is rather vulnerable. So sitting in a watchtower at the back
There's no defense in the space this castle will control two relics of camp lands
He can actually steal those and he is stealing those, he's going to make a munk and steal
those two relics.
Catlanth is looking really, really good here to take this first game away from Pig.
Onagers coming in, that's not good versus Longbow.
We saw yesterday Pig, sorry not Pig, but Singsing had Siege Onagers with Mongols that moved
faster.
Even that couldn't stop Wagas Longbowmen.
So, Onagers don't work against Longbowmen from Britain, they work against most other
range units but long was outranked them by a lot by three so you gotta watch out there
hmm yeah now that i remember about that like that gamecraf went so much more different with
siege ram opening instead of siege ronager yeah but yeah definitely portuguese lacking a siege
around here it's sad it feels like pig had the right idea in that regard uh the king is being
threatened pig might try to hold but the king is being threatened the lombos are here one
or two comes out uh i think the king might die here the lombos can hit the tower and the king's
type will be easy lance is not going for it the tower is looking really suspicious pig is fighting
really well behind this it's not looking that bad for him but you gotta watch the king oh like
I can't be just dancing around the tower, all of those longboots, I don't even know if they're attacking the tower
Because Captain Lance wants them to or just by default
I was thinking it might even just be an equal auto target
I wonder if the king comes out while he shoots the king. It's about to come out. This is actually
The king is out!
The king is right there behind the stable!
I don't think the last season
Go! Go! Go DTC!
No one sees the king.
King?
How does this always happen?
Oh my god, how does this always happen?
She's completely forgettable.
He's fighting for his life right now.
Oh, oh, he doesn't know.
I think this is the other king is there.
Oh my god, this is so funny.
Captain Lester's in there.
Oh, he sees him, he sees him.
He sees him, he's there for the king to safety.
Holy.
That was so funny.
Bro.
Okay, the game continues. A lot of food for Captain Lanth though.
Oh, he moved them 30 seat and now the Trev is attacking.
Yeah, Trev on the TC right away. The King can't catch a break, bro.
The King can't catch a break. Light cap going in.
Skirm's a big massive skirmishers, by the way.
Actually, this is a great army for playing the late game.
Like, finally, left nine in the military.
This is what we wanted to see from Pig for so long.
And he still got tons of reds in the bank. Can we push this back?
I think it's a possibility.
Warwolf coming in though that's the technique I was talking about.
Giving Trebuchet splash damage for the Britons.
Where's the king? Where's the king?
The king is running.
Oh no, the king is running.
Were you running to homey?
There's nothing to run to though.
To the corner?
Oh!
There's like that.
Were you running king?
Go keep an eye but a big fight going off in the start and the center of the map.
King is trying to fight for his life,
fear for Trebuchet and push this all back.
The king, the king is running past the town center.
go go little homie oh like oh my god dude did he get standing on a farm
what i want to say is what i think captain lance is thinking right now okay i'm pushing like
i'm in his base wise he's not resigning well he's probably not resigning because he's pushing
He's he's preferring some sort of Hail Mary sneak attempt to
Kill my king so I did notice that he moved him from the guard tower to the castle. Yeah, so so smart
Keep him in the castle
Keep them safe
The opposite of what pigs doing just standing on a farm, but
Kings that were not I think this game is captain Lance's to the pop the base in the defense for pig has crumbled and
And there's nothing left to defend all of this farmland.
One king sitting on farms, he's kind of homeless as well, and when your king is homeless you
know that the rest of the population is struggling.
He's looking for a new home, he's going to garrison into this town center, but that's
exactly where Captain Lanth is going, so this king really can't catch a break.
All of the army's going in, surrender!
He tagged, he asked his town center, that's so rude!
No, no, no, he didn't actually got treason. He got treason. He paid for the treason deck which which exposes the king
So captain Lance page 4 and gold to expose the king. He's dead surrender. He's going for the town center
Everything's diving the trekkers on it as well. The king will die. The king is out. The king will die
GG
He's done arrows. Take his dog in the arrows. The king dies and
Cat relax takes the win a fun ending to that game man
I love what the king dies the treason deck was solid and guys give it up in the chat
GUL play for Captain Lance Daniela. That was a great game. I feel like both players played really well
But Captain Lance he didn't go for the Cuban strike
He brought something completely different and you played it really really well
Absolutely, I mean a captainless might be the new fortress
Specialists among these players. I wouldn't mind to see that name change. Just like you thermal does every other set
But I gotta I gotta say I think big played really solid
If I see this matchup against two fairly even players, if I see Britons versus Portuguese,
I don't think Portuguese can drag this to over one hour game, especially if it's just
like a pure boom into late game.
I feel like Britons are so much better than Portuguese and Pig took some really good fights
here.
Yeah, we talked about that at the start of the game, guys, we're not saying these things
for no reason.
talking about the Britain late game and how powerful it is.
Of course, Pig is not listening to our commentary,
so he doesn't necessarily know what we're talking about.
And he couldn't quite figure out
that Britain's would win the late game against Portuguese.
Maybe a game knowledge thing,
maybe for the next time he will think twice about it,
but I think Portuguese had to push that.
Like, Forty-C Boom is acceptable,
but at some point you gotta fight for the map early imp.
He tried to go for like some skirm like cap,
but I think if the initial push had been Cavalier skirm,
Spend that gold and really gain some respect on the map.
Maybe if you boom to like 10 bombards as well.
You get 10 bombards and suddenly the Lombos can't really fight into them as well.
I think that's going to be like the two win conditions that Pig can go for, but
he kind of fought early with some weak units,
and Captain Lance is able to kind of snowball him until an eventual Britain late game victory.
Well played though, that's good for his game.
Even though Pig lost, I think he's going to be happy with how he played overall,
and he's going to have his whole map picked for game two.
He can pick between Arabia and arena and it's really up to him.
So that's a decent way to kind of bounce back.
Yeah, absolutely.
Let's see what do you think he's going to go for?
What do you think is more comfortable on?
It's good points.
What do I think pink will go for?
So historically, pink has actually played a hybrid of Arabian arena.
If you think about the sets that he's played in the past, how his ladder grind has went.
He has played vietnamese very well on arabia. That's one of his comfort picks
He's played bohemians very very well on arena
And then he also has a couple other picks that he can surprise us with like we've seen him pull out the woo against grubby
He still has that woo strategy up his upper sleeves
The thing is though captain lance is not a guy that plays standard on arabia
So if you take captain lance to arabia, you could expect to get foster rush to get that fast castle unique unit rush
It's not unstoppable. We saw you thermal actually be captain lance twice on arabia
He kind of stuff that strategy quite nicely
But I don't know like Captain Lance is also an arena specialist with those like fast castle
You know potential forward castle fast in strategies. So if I'm big right now
I think I take him to Arabia for the first game if I had to say I
See I see I see okay. Well, um, it's Arabia confirmed. Sorry just to finish that thought it's a rabid confirmed
Okay, good. I didn't see them on the spectrum. So
So, okay.
Well, looking forward to that, I think,
I think I'm ready for this.
I wanna see Captain Lass going for something crazy.
I hope I'm going to see some Magyar shenanigans.
So, I expected to see Magyars more often,
given the fact that in the beginning,
felt like everyone was kind of playing them.
I was surprised to not see them on a rebate that much.
much. Yeah, it's like everyone is practicing Maggars and then as soon as the term has started,
the Maggar players kind of dropped out and then suddenly the Maggars players that remain just
moved away from that civilization. The thing about Maggars is that they're a bit one-dimensional.
It's a good sieve, but I would say it's like a mid-tier Arabia sieve. If you have a free pick,
even in pro play, you rarely would see Maggars, stuff like Vietnamese, Chinese,
Wei. Those civilizations are a lot stronger on paper. Mongols also for the lane potential.
We'll see what they have to go for.
Catmillan has been playing some like Bulgarians
and some random stuff as well,
but I'm sure the bracket guys
are doing the upper bracket final right now.
And it's Catmillan versus Pig.
It's going to be game number two about to start.
And it's a home map Pig, a home map for Pig,
which is Arabia.
I expect him to just go Vietnamese.
I think he might try the Wu thing again,
but I think if Vietnamese start here for him,
something comfortable,
could be just be a good way to go about this.
Yeah, I don't even mind.
I know that you're saying I do remember seeing some Bulgarian play on the ladder as well with some conics.
Yeah.
You can picture some of that.
Okay, say Arabian next please, okay.
Yeah, we'll take it over here.
I agree with you.
Just to thank Florik for the 10 gifted subs, and thank you all for watching.
Of course, this is the final day of the King's Gauntlet.
We have tons and tons of people in here.
Hope you guys are enjoying the event so far and let's have a great last day
I have a little bit of a surprise for tomorrow the Monday. It's actually be a little bit of a bonus event
I'm gonna announce this officially before the grand finals
But there's gonna be some extra content coming out of us, which is very very cool
So I've already teased this it's not really that much of a secret
But it's a little bit of surprise for those who have not maybe not heard any of the announcements. So
Sleezer says loving the event Hera. Thanks, man. Appreciate it. It's not gonna be extra grubby coaching. No
That would be fun. It's a great event as well, but it's not going to be that.
Well, we're waiting here a bit. We were even talking with Nof. I think you were a tiny bit away
about how much the streamers have been enjoying this event, how much the viewers. I want to ask you,
how are you feeling about the event? I know you have been excited for a while about it as well.
I know it has been a lot of casting a lot of work for you a lot of the you know
behind-the-scenes production to deal with so
Like how are you feeling today? And now that everything's coming together to an end honestly? I?
Have loved every minute of this event. I've gotten so many good laughs and memories already
I haven't even processed just how good this event has been I haven't even like really considered
You know what we've been watching and whatnot
But just living through it and just going through it for the first time
I've loved every minute of it and it's truly been one of the best events
I've ever been part of and
Exceeded all of my expectations in terms of viewer numbers in terms of like good moments in terms of King's types and all that jazz
So I couldn't be happy with the event and actually game two has just started
So with all that said let's go ahead and hop right in and see what pig has in store for us for his opponent camp Lance
Camp Lance is actually already bring us some shenanigans. I think
We'll just take a look at the civilization here.
He's rocking the Incas, but it is the trusty pig Vietnamese.
I have to say, not to brag or anything, but I'm pretty happy that I was able to call
the pig Arabia and the pig Vietnamese.
I feel like I kind of understand him as a player a little bit.
But Katmaiantz with the Incas, Daniel, talk to us about what the Incas can throw towards
pig, maybe a foster room, maybe some champions.
What do you feel in here with this Inca play?
Have you seen the players being Omega degenerates with the Champions?
Hasn't been that bad. No, Inca was played once from Captain Lantern, one from Sing Sing.
Sing Sing went for a standard Champion Rush, that went to degenerates,
and Camelans played them in Arena and went Camuqs with the forward fast Castle.
Yeah, I remember the Arena, but it could take players by surprise, I feel like.
It could be some wild card that, well, I don't know, let's see what Captain Lance is cooking,
but if I see, if you're telling me that he's going for, you know, like all of these phosphorous
rushes, if I see he force-picked Inka, maybe with that idea, I am thinking about actually
going on Stone and again going for Kamayuki.
his stone he has it close in the back with a wood line it's so it's such a easy to wall base I feel
like. Go for for some Kamayuk's hacks and rams like why not. Yeah honestly I don't mind that there's
some kind of like camiuk ram all in you have the stone nice and nice and close to the wood line and
for those who might not know the wood line is actually very important to have a research close
to it for the Incas because their drop-off sites are actually settlements so they don't have mining
camps they don't have lumber camps you make a settlement and you can drop off all resources
into that settlement kind of like it's a mini town center so it's going to be placed right here it's
a three by three building and he'll be able to take wood and stone from it you actually might
make it right here as well if he wants to can make it right up close to that yeah wood and stone it's
a beautiful beautiful settlement and that's going to open up some possibilities actually
for him to go for stone for free. You don't need to invest into like a second mining camp or anything like that.
Second settlement, you just take it with this initial settlement. So a great start for Captain Lancere.
And looks like Pig is just going to go ahead and lure in some deer. We did see the fact that you know
with Vietnamese you see the opponent's Dark Age, TZ, right away. So you couldn't go for a lane,
but he's deciding he just wants to lure some deer and play a pretty standard opening here.
I don't mind that. Maybe when you have a chicken opening, you can't push the chicken towards the T.C.
So you can send your skull forward, just get some information on your opponent's map, what is he up to,
maybe you can find a random hunt to bring back to your T.C.
But when you have, well, deer or in this case, e-must-push,
It feels like, I don't know, a big investment to send your skull forward.
You're not sure what you're going to find.
Maybe he has both of the boards in the back, or maybe he already took his first board and
you're not going to find his second.
You're not convinced that you're going to blame something and you're wasting all your
time not pushing deer.
Yeah, yeah.
I agree with that.
I think if the deer map, just pushing him to deer, it's so much more consistent, no point
trying to risk it early on, especially when you're playing your trusty Vietnamese, you
He's invested a lot of time into the civilization.
So Pig with the Vietnamese is likely to play a fast feudal rush.
So on Arabia, you have a bunch of strategies that could work, of course.
It's a balanced map.
It's pretty open.
So you can, you know, wall it up a little bit and play defensive, or you can just try
to play some early aggression yourself with some army and attack your opponents in the
early game.
And Pig has only showed us fast feudal age so far with the Vietnamese, something like
Scouts or Archers.
He gets house temporarily, but nothing too crazy, just a little bit of out of town center.
The Captain Lancet with the Incas has a lot more potential to do some weird stuff.
And we'll keep an eye if anything does come weird.
He could fast-feudal play a standard opening himself, or he could try to play towards a
fast castle.
Try to go for some kind of all-in.
We'll see what he goes for.
Incas are a bit flexible in that regard.
Yeah, we've been talking about Captain Lancet's options here, you know, just trying weird
stuff.
Champies, Gamma Yooks, etc.
My question now to you is, wouldn't Fire Lancers just be a good answer from Vietnamese, especially
with the extra HP that they're getting?
It's a good question, Fire Lancers.
Maybe against certain things, against champions, I feel like the Fire Lancers should own them.
Against Camuqs, I'm not sure if the Fire Lancers are beating Camuqs.
I think at most, it's like an even trade, but I feel like the Camuqs are the slightly
stronger infantry, especially when massed.
It is a good option for pick to keep in mind that he does have that fire lancer with extra HP. It's a very strong unit
It's an all-around good unit as well
And by the way, I've seen these walls they call them cuts. I think it's almost guaranteed to be a fast castle unique unit from Captain Lance
I'm not sure though. He is thinking to loom early
Maybe not, but I think you might find it hard to resist that loom. Sorry that stone at the back a little bit of fighting here
With the Villager coming in though, this is going to be a good trade for the blue player, red backs off and blue backs off as well.
Ok, fast feudal.
We have loom though, fast feudal or not. I'm happy to see that, especially on open maps.
Yeah, yeah, it's good to see the loom come in of course. It's been a huge topic in this tournament man.
Just the loom just doesn't come through and we lose a lot of extra villagers.
Scout was safe ended up running back into the town center. That's not entirely picks fault
He probably wanted to go around here
But because it was walled the scout path towards the town center and oh what is this tap lances going forward?
Are they are those just hunting emus or are they gonna go forward?
Okay, what if oh
He has one of stone is he tower rushing?
He might be tower rushing. Oh, it's champions and towers. It's champion and towers for captain lands
Okay, very fun strategies
of course Incas the champion warrior think of it like a hybrid between the Eagle warrior and
The militia line if you don't know what any of those units are no problem
Think of it like a decent fast infantry unit not too strong not too fast that a mix of you know both of those attributes
Pig is going to go for the slow but tanky Mino-Arms strategy here and he's gonna go
ahead and attack his opponent. Pig of course has no idea this forward is here. He lost
his scouts so these Mino-Arms will run into a viper. Gotta watch out. And he's gonna try
to make his way across the map here and pressure Captain Lance. Fast range transition behind
this. Mino-Arms into range, maybe into archers. Let's see what Captain Lance can do. He's
sneaking around with three villagers.
Oh my god, is that the right amount though?
It feels like, he has to be very careful where he places that tower because if Pig sees it,
he could just like counter tower with all of his wood line and then, yeah, I mean, his
tower is gonna go up faster, however, I don't think he's going to spot any of that.
But, this is the blind tower, he doesn't even know that Pig is on this wood line, he's
gonna confirm it right now.
He was ready to just tower any woodland. That's crazy talk
Kind of gets lucky that he towered the right woodland because pig could have been here for all that captain Lance knew
That was like
Bit of a bit of a gamble there from him, but it's gonna pay off and
Now by the way captain Lance losses initial champion warrior to the town center as well men arms in the back
Pig could actually snag a villager here
And he does pig with the first eco KD here, but one
Can you get out of the other side?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
I don't know where.
The champion is hitting a villager.
I think the tower might have helped out as well.
So villager died here for pig.
A second tower.
I think a tower with fletching
would have already hit the woodline.
Oh my god.
Pig is broken in.
The men are under in.
The men are under damage.
Catmulans is beating the villagers though.
pig's forced to run. A little detail here is that the Inca villagers get
affected by the blacksmith upgrade upgrades but in Castle Age not in feudal.
So maybe those villagers would have been a tiny bit tankier. Not any time now and
also there's no blacksmith upgrade to begin with. A villager goes down and
decent damage for pig but now he's got those nasty towers to deal with and also
a few champions on the field still. Like, honestly, Advantage pig in the early game?
He had a very strong man-arm rush, but it's nasty to play this position. Look at this.
Lumberkamp denied with the two towers. You do kill that champion warrior, but now you're
relying entirely on stragglers. He's trying to go offensively with these archers. He's
doing well with them, but at home, McCatlaser just slipped them through with these three
villagers. This is such a messy game now. This is crazy.
And this is turning into who's reacting better, who's taking less damage at the top of the game.
Because right now, Captain Lance was chasing that MetaM, MetaM, that RTC.
Those two villagers now are idle there. I don't know when he's going to even notice them.
Tower for Captain Lance, defensive tower from Pig. Good hold on that defensive tower Pig.
He could have done one here, but he decided to not go for it.
And only now brings out the fence and tower. These villagers are in trouble by the way.
A house here and Pig has trapped them. Without the house though, they could potentially just run past.
Pig missed on the opportunity to trap those villagers. Two archers on the field, so Pig could push this back.
We have some champions that continue to harass. A villager is low HP, the champion will kill it.
Captain Lance hesitates, then he goes back for it and Captain Lance loses the champion of the town center.
Such a messy game, Villagers was running everywhere, this is what Captain Lance thrives on though,
he likes to make it messy 3-2 in terms of eco KD so far.
Pegas killed one extra Villager compared to the blue player and
Villagers continues to run around, Infantry Armor coming in, it's in effect the Champions quite nicely,
but the Archers are still king of the map right now with the Fletching early,
for Pegas doing really well right now, wow.
Yeah, he's going to push all of this back. If those two archers, which in my opinion should continue to chase all of that, those could be three dead villagers from Captain Lens.
In the meantime, his base is kind of struggling. Now he has six villagers bringing in food, but a lot of those farms are new.
No food in the bank to even create villagers for so long, idle to see time is starting to pile up.
By the way, Captain Lance is trying to be sneaky there, he has to split one villager off to distract, but Pig is not going to fall for that, he's been playing RTS for too long.
There's a novice's mistake there, Pig is not going to fall for it, and three villagers all go down the champion as well, looking to see what happened, will die and lose his life.
Dude, Captain Lance is so far behind now, that was a terrible one minute for Captain Lance.
And now despite having a great map with all those resources to the back besides the berries
He's got no military on the field pick and counter attack pigs got a crazy village advantage
Six villagers killed for pig and only two killed for captain Lance despite these two towers being somewhat annoying
Pig has a great position on the map right now
The thing is pig stabilized quite nicely. He pushed all of this back
What I think he should be working on it right now would be walling his base because what interrupt his eco
which is, again, random champions that are gonna come forward with more villagers.
Look at the minimap. There's just like a trail of blue going straight for a big space.
You don't want any of that. You don't want more disruption. You wanna play your clean game.
This is insane. This is Captain Lance. Captain Lance just, I don't know,
he just can't sit back and play a regular game. He just has to do something crazy.
He's not playing regular Arabia. This villager is caught out though,
And that villager will die so pig kills another villager. He's pressuring the gold very nicely men arm
Yeah, just kind of kills himself to be fair
How's this towers looking though?
Champ is onto the woodland remember these guys have armor is hard to fight them now two towers for captain Lance couple archers
Don't for pig to defend looking okay for Lance somewhat I guess
You feel like those
Armored champions should come and deal with all of those archers and both of the towers could go up
He is pulling them back, which is great
You're saying that kind of killing himself. Well, I think he knows I think he's just trying to take pick down with him as well
Oh my god. Oh my god pig is not messing around the Australian villagers coming forward
15 of these holdings insane
They backs up he backs up. I think you get a weapon that no
Yeah, and a really really good quick was there from Captain Lance. Yeah, I was insane
Dude this game is wait. What is going on pig is just under Lance's town center
Lance did not pay attention some villagers going down here to the archers the tower goes up
Dude, it's a bloodbath, but right now ten villagers lead a four pigs
So the rent player here is in a in a commanding position. It's so messy though
I wouldn't really say he's winning entirely even though he does have the lead. He has to really close this out correctly
Exactly.
Yeah, I mean everything seems to be going in pig's favor.
He just needs to, you know, not overly panic here.
I mean, his base is looking nice, look at the resources in the bank, they're starting
to pile up, he's going to be able to click up the castle each soon.
If we're looking at the idle TC time, well, we'd better not, the captainess has more idle,
Oh, set any more champions forward. I mean, why not?
Hey, you just gotta continue reinforcing at this point and try to make something happen, Pig.
I want to seem just stabilizing to go to Castle Edge, because all these shenanigans could catch him
if you just get to Castle Edge. Suddenly you have Siege to kill the towers, you got Knights to
counterattack, you got Fire Lancers that just beat everything, you got Crossbows that are hard to deal
with, you have all these tools that completely shut down a Tower Rush and I think give very little
chance for a throw. So I want to see Pig just cancel these three bills, make his way through
the castleage, he's getting a market, he's expanding through that stone, considering
maybe a castle drop or maybe more towers for himself. Let's see, Katmance has a few more
minutes with Pig stuck in the feudal edge. Can you make it happen? Forging to begin another
tower, he's committed to the feudal pressure, the castleage is clicked two minutes and a
half, so that one hits four Mr Pig.
I mean, the timing of Catholic is going to be absolutely fantastic here for Pig, but
where's he going to take wood from right now?
That's a good question.
That's a really good question.
What if he doesn't take wood and just takes a lot of stone?
He could, but I think he's panicking right now.
Oh, he's just gonna stay with the back. He's got a panic. He's looking for a wood line. He knows about this one at least
Okay, well, I definitely a
Weird position for captain unless I don't know what his reaction is going to be at the site of Castle Age
Do you think he's just going to try to even flood more champions?
Do you think he recognizes that, well, this is kind of doomed, might as well just go to Arena next?
I mean, maybe, but, to be fair, he's kind of catching Pig a little bit.
Kill the villager, deny the stable, Pig immediately cancels that.
Pig is taking so much damage to something that really shouldn't be hurting him as much as it is.
More towers coming in.
I think it is still playable for Lance.
You can buy so much time with a tower rush against a player that's inexperienced in dealing with it,
and of course Pig, with his limited time playing Age of Empires, how many times has he been
championed Tower Rush before? Probably never, maybe like once. So I think this is very playable
for Cap Lanz despite Pig being in a theoretically way better position. Let's see what Pig can
do. His table got denied, he's got a lot of resources, no resign out of Lanz, he's going
to continue playing, continue grinding, and now he's a fighter. Pig is time choking, I
don't know.
You were right, I feel like in this tournament, just because a lot of them had only a limited time to learn the game and so many units and such, they focus on a couple of sieves each to know all about them.
But you can still be taken by surprise by the sieves that you haven't played yet against, that maybe other players might have prepared other units.
It's like this is different pigs. So like, you know, obviously not the cleanest defense, but just getting to castlage
Get into crossbow. That's exactly what we talked about earlier in through it. You could be rough. But once you get to castlage
You're tacking your army. It just becomes a lot stronger there. So Bob can arrow comes through across was just really good
He's in deny that tower cab lines is about 24 villagers. Like that's a terrible terrible economy
Love out of DC town and one crossbow comes through pig
That's gonna be annoying to deal with that's exactly what we want to see if you're supporting pig tower goes down
siege workshop at the back if he loves that back of the map by the way it's kind of funny yeah he
wants to put a stable bear was denied and now we're gonna see a siege workshop um yeah I mean
you're right he big lost a couple of villagers of his own but I mean at the end of the day killed
most of the military and it's always going to be so much easier for pig to replace that military
that he lost as well but I mean he's so much more ahead in terms of eco given with the kills
the captain lens pulled right now. I think it's just too far ahead economically.
Yeah, pig. Nice tower there as well. So I'm really not taking any risks with the woodline.
Has the crossbow tech as well. The one crossbow somehow dealt with in the back of that woodline.
Yeah, I think pig is in a good position. He's going to get a couple elephants out.
Maybe a ram. He's going to go for a manganelle. Actually, I think ram is really good versus
towers, but I think these players so far in this tournament have been valuing the
manganelle as far as the siege to take out towers. It's also decent, it's also
pretty good, but I think the ram is slightly better in certain cases. Either way,
that would be fine if there were those towers with some siege.
Yeah, definitely. Elephants though, elephants moving forward, that's scary for
someone in feudal age. It's just like getting some lemons, what are even those
just living on a farm. That's a scary elephant to see approaching you.
Yeah, we got sticks and stones, we got men's with clubs and there's an elephant charging
towards us who will toss and everything. He's just going to go for it, so we'll keep
an eye on that elephant, but back here a few raids again, it's only feudal age units,
not that scary anymore. Easily dealt with here. One or two villas go down, but overall
Champions go down here and that's all about the elephant now elephant at the back of the base. Oh, perfect
He said pockets of the berries. Oh, this is the vastest. How scary is this chat?
You're working there nine to five hundred elephant shows up and you mean business. This is crazy. Oh
My honey, they're running for their lives. I mean I get it
Who wouldn't I would do I think one last bite though
Yeah, but are you?
Are you running towards your full of space though?
Honestly, he just sent them forward. These guys are now tower rushing villagers. We're gonna tower some more. It's good
This is fantastic. Camelons is exactly where he wants to be right now
Not really though because he's on funny villagers and in a horrible position
Pig has defended everything here and and pig is looking to equalize
As a jokes aside, I feel like pig very happy with this gameplay here
It's as one a game with a trusted Vietnamese. I really don't see a way for Camelons to pull this back from this position
And I think he's very happy with how this game is going.
I don't think he's very happy with his wounding coming, he's here on the wood, all of his
lumberjacks are just fighting champions.
They're warriors.
They're not getting killed actually, yeah.
Elephants here though, thank god.
Let the elephant do the fighting and it will do the chopping and repair that tower.
That tower has held a lot though.
That tower has been very good.
It's got five kills in its own right by the way and there's just more towers for Captain
Lance.
That's all he knows how to do this game.
It's just towers and champions.
It worked okay, but...
...Magnon, I'll see you here now, this could be a double kill.
No, go, go Pig, don't be scared!
Pig is backing up with the Mangonel, this is a really true double kill.
But I mean, look at this, elephants and crossbows on the other side.
Pig is in such a position.
He was focusing there, he got a couple of kills from that wood line.
Lance is panicking, we were talking about Pig's wood line, but now Captain Lance, all of a sudden,
He's reinforcing that gold for his life, but he doesn't have a wincomber right now nor resources to build a new settlement.
Oh my god, that's true. He can only long distance take wood or reek them in the settlement, which is not possible.
It's a fantastic push. Like, Kavans is in a lot of pain. His villagers can only take gold right now.
He doesn't even have a market, so he's just gonna start floating gold, and gold that he can't spend, he can't make a market, he's got one wood in the stockpile, he's got like a tree branch in the stockpile, and no villagers on wood.
This is horrible for Captain Lance, and it's looking great for Pig, Pig's in a fantastic position, Elephants, Siege, Crossbows, all that castage tech, proving to be superior than this feudal-aged tower rush.
And he just, what is moments away from the screen, basically, at this point?
he's ready again with champions and 4 figs you cannot catch a break at that
woodline or at any woodline. It deals with this time but continues to fight back
to captain Lance's base he's taking the stragglers trying to find some pauses
for him but there's really nothing to talk about and he drops the GG pig is
taking game two guys GG in the chat we're gonna equalize the game pig doesn't
drop the surrender so he's not talking some smack like Captain Lance was in
game one. He's taken the high road it seems of course it's only friendly
banter but yeah GG is called. We have a series on our hands and Captain Lance
has lost the last three Arabian games he's played in this tournament. It's a
significant weakness that Captain Lance has. He's only made it through because
he's won the fortress and he's won the two arenas but he has not been winning
the Arabian games. So that just shows a clear difference between Captain Lance
and some of the other players. He's favoriting Arena and the others are
playing some Arabia. Good equalizer, 1-1. Good job from Pig.
Yeah, it feels like this is a similar situation with when, you know, two pros are facing each
other in a tournament, and you have a Siv draft and a map draft, and in the map draft,
each of those players have, you know, their home maps. Their home maps, they're very
confident on, they practice it a lot of times with certain Sivs that they managed to sneak
to receive draft so they are very confident. So it all comes down then in that situation if everyone
is just winning their home maps to who won the first map, the admin map basically, the one that
you start on. And if this is going to be the situation in this set, if at every loss pig is
going to just go for Arabia and capital ends for arena and they're each going to win the map that
they're most comfortable on, Captain Lance has an advantage in my opinion. Pig has to
has to be creative in one of those arenas. Yeah, that's true. He's got to win one arena at least
if we assume that Captain Lance will pick both arenas, which he has no reason not to, right?
See if I can confirm if the home map is indeed arena. We don't know yet, but it's very likely to
be arena. I'm just waiting for the next thing to start. But yeah, absolutely. Pig has to win an
arena game. She wants to win this best of five. I'll show you guys the bracket real quick because
you have a lot of guys just coming in for now. This is the upper bracket final between Cap Lanz
and Pig. It's all 1-1 equalized. After this, we're going to have the euthanermal grubby matchup
in the loser's bracket. Loser of that is out and winner of that will play the loser of this set.
So this is the final day in the last four sets of the tournaments. And so far, it's been delivering.
It's a really, really close set. So I'm excited to see what's to come for the day. But Pig and
Captain Lance so far at 1-1, pretty close, and we're waiting for Captain Lance's home map.
See, it is going to be Arena.
It's Arena. It's Arena.
Yeah, I think so. I think they won the dashboard. Probably just thinking about some seeds.
That's obvious, right? Like Captain Lance has to play Arena. He's clearly not as good on Arabia
as he is on some of the other maps. I actually feel like Captain Lance is his own worst enemy
on Arabia. He keeps trying to do weird stuff and none of it's working out. I wonder if
he just plays a regular game, just opens archers. I wonder how that plays out for him. Maybe
he's just not as bad of an Arabia player as he thinks he is, and he doesn't have to do
anything too weird to get that win. But maybe it's that lack of confidence in the meta game
that forces him into some weird stuff, but the weird stuff just hasn't really been working
too well. We'll see what happens with Captain Lance and his Arabian skills.
But for now, it's going to be his home map on Arena. Pig is not helpless on Arena. Pig has played a lot of
Bohemians on Arena, and he plays them in a style, in my opinion, that is quite good
into Captain Lance's forward castles that we saw against you
Thermal yesterday. Thermal was playing more like, okay I'm gonna boom, but then
Captain Lance pushes him, whereas Pig almost always makes some army before
going for the boom on Arena. And so I feel like Pig is in a better position to
defending his captain Lance than we think he is. Yeah, definitely. Maybe he just doesn't
like it, Hera. There are some people that he just don't like Arabia. They don't like
Arabia, but Daniela, I don't like a lot of maps and tournaments, but I stopped to play
them. Yeah, you still have to prepare for them. Yeah, I mean, you just got to play the winning
strategies. But like, I think it's just a lack of confidence on Captain Lance. I mean,
I don't mind it because I think his his off meta and his like, you know, quote unquote
cheese, whatever you want to call it, could work on Arabia.
It just hasn't been working yet in the tournament, at least not against the top players that he's
faced in the last couple of rounds.
Definitely.
Turks Bohemians, some of the sieves that we've seen the most in this tournament on Arena,
taking to the classics, no aces in the sleeves, no hidden strategies.
I absolutely love this, by the way.
This matchup is sick.
Ladies and gentlemen, we're in for a banger.
This is the double gunpowder matchup.
Turks vs Bohemians.
We'll talk about the civilizations.
We've talked about them plenty.
Pegas played a lot of Bohemians.
This is one of the best civilizations in late game.
The Hufnitsa, the upgrade on the bomber cannon in Imp, super, super strong.
They've got a fantastic economy.
They have a gunpowder unique unit to go for.
Overall, same description for Turks.
Turks have a fantastic late game.
Decent economy with extra gold coming in faster.
They get a lot of free upgrades and tempo pushes as they advance through the ages.
And then the big thing is they also have a gunpowder uniqueness.
If they can go gunpowder and castleage, which is not the usual, most of us don't have access
to that.
So Daniella, Turks were Bohemians.
Which civilization do you favor?
And how do you see this matchup playing out, just like the skeleton of it, let's say?
Personally, I think I like Bohemians more.
I know usually, especially for the newer player that are learning the way to play Arena and
everything, Turks are just more comfortable.
They're hitting some very nice power spikes, especially in early Imperial Age, with the
free bomber cannons, which is a fantastic unit.
But even more so, even before that in Castle Age, the castle already starts producing the
unique unit, which is a gunpowder.
The sieves that get Gunpowder in Castle Age are very strong, that particular unit, if
you get a mass of them, it's high attack, it's hard to stop.
Now Bohemians of course get hand cannoniers in Castle Age because they unlock chemistry
in Castle Age, that's from their suit bonus, but getting there, you need a mini-boom, it's
slow, it takes a while, it is strong, but it's not as easy to just open Gunpowder.
Like it is for Turks. Yeah, that's true. That's true. Like and that's not really what we've been seeing from pig
So what pig tends to go for here? He's done it kind of most of his games in arena
He'll just go with a castle drop a few his site wagons the unique unit from behemians and he'll try to play for the relics
That's what he likes to go for. I want to see one strategy from Captain Lance that we haven't seen from anybody
But I've been saying it's a really good strategy for this level of event
It's the Turk fast imp. Now if he goes for it, I'll talk more about it
But the only way he goes for it is if he goes for something like a 28th villager dark age
Okay, so keep in mind that if he goes for a really late dark age like really late futile edge click
It's probably a fast imp. If he doesn't do that. It's for sure not a fast imp. I think it's a really good strap
If I was in this tournament, I would do that
Almost guaranteed. I think it's so strong. I think it's very hard to stop
But no one's gone for it yet. Maybe captain Lance is my captain and I will say by the way
It's something that isn't talked about too much, but
But I love about both captain Lance and pig is that they're both really really nice people like super like soft-spoken gentle
But they're quite competitive as well. I think that makes for the best competition
Because it's like good banter, you know, it's it's you know, keeping it clean on both sides
But both clearly want to win and are doing what they can to get that win which is which is fantastic
I like that, you know, strong healthy competition to fuel these kinds of events.
Yeah, definitely. It's important to keep that high competitive spirit.
They both have it. That's why they are facing each other in the upper bracket in the final.
Winner goes straight into the grand final later on today.
Of course, the loser will still have a chance, but he's going to fight his way through it.
going to have to. Yeah, I think fast M4 turks is very hard to stop. Anything below pro level?
Yeah, legitimately. Like, even at pro level, I think there's a couple of tricks you can do to
still make it work. And if you mess up against it, you still die to it. But no, it's not going to be
the fastest. He's already queued. He's already queued through the lage. So no one's gone for it.
No one's going to do the third fast. I'm really sad. I think it's such a good strategy, but it seems like Captain Lanty agrees here
He's going to the gold and he's going for like kind of a solid usual opening no stone
23 population is a bit fast as well by the way
So I this actually makes me more confused
Yeah, exactly because I guess
23 23 plus 2 without stone
I
I don't know, he's just gonna be a pure boomer?
This is really strange. That second lumber camp does not make any sense.
I'm really confused with Captain Lance's opening.
Pig is doing something a lot more solid in my opinion. Just gonna go for a standard.
He's also 23 pop with the one lumber camp.
That tells me, okay, he's got two of his idols for some reason, but that tells me he just wants to go for a regular uptime.
And he'll probably play the boom or the castle drop.
One of those two approaches for him.
Captain Lance, I don't understand that second lumber cap, he won't be able to click up the
castle age, but he's going to have a fragile economy afterwards from what I'm seeing.
And he's also not going to have that castle, so I don't know.
Honestly, it's a tiny bit weird from Pay as well.
Okay, now he's sending what, five villagers on stone?
Yeah.
I, maybe it's not too late.
Okay, Bohemians get the stone mining and the gold mining upgrade for free once they reach
each fuel age. So I think even if you sell a hundred stone that you already have in the
bank along with a hundred wood, you're still fine for a good castleish timing. And then
who knows, maybe, where does the castle go though? Does it go at home? Does it go, oh
no, he didn't notice that.
I think so. That's a pretty good idea. It's for sure at home, by the way. Pig has never
went for a forward castle. He didn't do it in the last set against Grubby. I don't think
He's gonna do it against Captain Lance here and there's no loom so it's almost guaranteed to be a castle at home for pig
Market blacksmiths for Captain Lance and dude. He's just messed up his builder. Honestly. He's completely messed up his build
I told you guys he's he might get the castle edge. He's gonna get the loom now
He needs to use the market is a terrible build for Captain Lance
Generally generally generally a terrible build. He's got a lot of wood with the double lumber camp, but not a lot of farms
He went up too fast, and now he can't click up.
He's picking up Lume, which is not needed.
He's 100 feet still short of Castelage.
He's eiling his town center.
Oh my God, a disaster start and a disaster build from Captain Lance.
It's like you can only be greedy with so many things, right?
If you're greedy with two lumber camps, you had to make that extra little earlier on.
If you're going for one lumber camp, you can try to be greedy by going up faster.
It feels like he tried to do too much.
It's not the end of the world, but he is basically two villagers behind.
He got Lume, which sets him a villager behind, and he's got 36 seconds of autopsy, which
is like a villager and a half behind.
It's a pretty significant disadvantage due to nothing happening besides the bad build
from Captain Lance.
No mistakes were forced from his opponents, no bad, you know, Borla, just a mistake in
the build order, and Pig, in comparison, with a pretty clean build, he should be clean to
just going for the, to be going for the castle drop, and the Hussai wagons, exactly his main
game plan here.
Also, I will say the build from Captain Lance, it's not very common to be seen on Turks,
on Arena.
It feels like you either go for the aggressive approach where you move on stone and it's
going to be a castle, genoceries, either with the castle forward, pressure, either with
ramps, either map control, etc.
Or you go up a tiny bit later and you play stable like half of map control, play for
the relics, play for the long game.
Right now, he does have two villagers on gold, but he doesn't have a stable, so it's not
going to be like that is going to be a pure boom. It feels like he could struggle greatly
against any sort of pressure that comes from his opponent.
Yeah, so like at worst Captain Lance is giving up all five relics right now. At best he gives
up all map control and gets pressured. At best from Pig from Pig's position. So like
at worst Pig just gets the five relics and at best he gets the five relics and he gets
to push his opponent. It's kind of what I meant to say is just word it a little better
for ease of understanding.
Kaplan's well a 3 TC boom and a monastery, but he can't really get the relics, like how do you beat the Tairagans?
Yeah, like again, another step, another extra step of greed, like oh I'm just gonna try to see if I can get the relics.
Yeah, I mean if the opponent will open just like a blind 3, 4 TC boom, just keep the scout and make a monastery of his own.
known, yeah, maybe, maybe you can get one or two. If there's going to be Hussite wagons,
usually a unique unit you could convert with a monk Hussite wagons are considered Siege
and you need a technology from the monostay called Redemption that's extremely expensive.
Alright, 3TC boom. Yeah, Redemption Monks probably not really an option considering the gold income
for Captain Lance is just not there to afford it. The light calf, the free upgrade of light
cap for turks is nice so like the one scout you have gets additional value but
once the Hesite Wyreens hit the field and these guys are chunky they do quite a
bit of damage they hit like a truck they are a truck so it makes sense
that looks coming back in for pig I'd be surprised if Captain Lanz gets more than
one and getting one relics actually not even that bad but getting more than one
would be like super illegal okay big with a fervor fervor I don't know if we
touch those subjects probably not. Ferver does make your monks move faster
usually from the monastery. It's a technology from the monastery but with
Bohemians you have a Sif bonus where Ferver and Sanctity affect villagers as
well. So all of those villagers will move a tiny bit faster so there will be more
efficient that helps pigs equal quite a lot. As you guys are moving a little faster
now, I'm probably looking for a third account that is going to do a little bit
a little bit of a relic pressure, a little bit of boom and you know look to get a nice
balance approach to this to this arena game. I like the relics. Oh, good snap. Good snap.
Good snap from Captain Lance. Yeah, yeah. That was a very good awareness on the map.
From him, he might snipe on second one. Oh my god. If he gets another one, that's disaster for
Captain, for Pig. Captain Lance is going for it. He should get it. Oh, he dodged the shot. That was
crazy yes wow no we got to get an instant replay on that one see how he moves
though he's got to get the heels he's got to get the heels the monk where you
at mom kill me up wow he makes it away dude that was crazy quick instant replay
for for the for the chat here hold on let's go back and check it out he goes
in for the monk he's gonna take some punishment for the swag he takes one hit
moves to the left oh my dude that was crazy back to live though back to live
the scouts getting healed. Capmance is here to play guys, that's a good move.
That's a very very good value on that light cap. With healed back, full and it's HP still
managed to sneak away. And by the way he's still getting value scouting on the map. If he snaps
another monk I mean I have no words. By the way these two relic or monk snipes are kind of keeping
Capmance in the game because now he's getting a nice villager lead and the relics aren't coming in
so fast so we need to make more monks the relics don't come in quickly so we
don't get that gold trickle as fast so he's keeping pig kind of further behind
land for the nice eco collected lead quite nice yeah and on top of that I
wasn't really fully expecting the three DC boom behind the castle from pig I
feel like if you are going to play like that keeping a lot of bills on stone on
on the way up to Castle Age, kind of slowed you down to begin with,
and then he even kept four villagers on stone for a long way after he put those
three TCs down. I see that he recently moved them, so
I guess that's good, but that kind of explains
you know, Captain Lance's ten
villains right now. Yeah, by the way, Captain Lance did lose a villager
right behind this house that was completely avoidable
if you just listened to me and made the houses at the back. That's okay though, I'm
Making the Patreon videos for anyone that's listening, not Captain Lance, clearly, houses
at the back just keeps them away from your base, protects the villagers who want to make
the house in the front, you can get punished sometimes and you lose the... this is a villager,
it's a pretty bad thing to happen because it's very avoidable usually, but it's only
one villas, so it's not the end of the world.
Uh, Hera?
Wait, did he get another Monk?
No way.
Yep.
Oh my god.
He did, like I was dead three kills.
Oh my god, he got another Monk.
What was that?
He sniped him right here.
Oh my god.
He sniped another monk.
Dude, he's got three kills.
Pig, just kill him, bro.
Just kill him already.
Yeah.
Instead of just chasing that monk, you should be probably chasing the light cavalry.
It's 6 HP and actually a bit of a fun fact.
The scout is faster than the light cavalry.
The light cavalry gets health delivery.
Okay.
We're defending the monk right now.
a fair approach for pink but you gotta watch out no way oh my god this guy's
on follow one two hits oh my god entity
are you ahead of me I think you might be ahead of me actually yeah I think you
are oh he gets another one wow oh my god I just caught up I just thought yeah I
think you went back and then you probably didn't fully catch up oh my god
You got a fourth monk that's insane and he's still out. We have to kill him. We have to kill him
Dude, please
And I he's dead. He's dead. He's dead. Oh my god
So oh sevens in the chat like that scout goes down a freaking hero that like have killed four monks
And you have another one if this guy's of the same quality pig has no chance
Pig has no chance if this guy's of the same quality
Let's see. He's gonna take some punishment from the site wagon
He's going straight out. Great presence of mind from Lance by the way.
Did his weak sending out like have directly towards those relics and he can get another
snipe onto those monks.
He is going to. Like he's going to kill the scout. Go go go go go.
He's moving. He's going.
Oh wrong way wrong way. Oh pig that's so smart though. Pig switched it up.
Think about it chat. Pig switched it up.
Instead of going here he went there.
Okay, let's go food. So things got some smarts as well. That's good. That's good
The thing is for the viewers is hearing. Oh that like have killed four monks, whatever
It's for units. What is that a monk costs a hundred gold. So that's 400 gold down the drain
That's unlike have cost 80 food right like 80 food for 400 gold crazy exactly
And on top of that you force your opponent to make more monks the relics with the lead
The psychological factor there's so much at play here, but by the way pig somehow gets the faster in I don't know what happened to the
Lance economy, but we have a lot of idle TC like seven minutes out of TC. He's lost his villager lead
He's got a lot of resources. We need the imp click but he's missing the second building
Lance in my opinion
Despite getting good trades without like have might have might have actually screwed up his own boom trying to micro that so
Yeah, his imp is really delayed now
Well, that's a factor that we were talking about yesterday.
Look at the resources collected.
Capital Lens right now is ahead.
One could ask, then how is big ahead in terms of end timing?
Well, look at Capital Lens resources.
He almost has the exact same amount of resources to click up to the next stage one more time.
They're just slightly unbalanced.
The timing in terms of imperial age is extremely crucial.
What I would like from Pig to not forget right now is that, like we said at the beginning
of the match, he gets chemistry.
He never forgets.
There it is.
The universe is going up.
I think he's going to click it immediately.
He's going to have just...
There it is.
Yeah, that's pretty good.
A little late, but it's overall fine.
By the way, what we're talking about here is that Bohemians can make chemistry in cast
lich.
If you make that in cast lich, it's a very long upgrade.
And if you wait till imp like normal civs and you get it after imp you need to wait another
like 2 minutes to make gunpowder.
Getting it in castleage, preparing it for imp, means that as soon as he gets to imp,
boom gunpowder run away.
Definitely, that's what's so strong about the Turks fast imp that we were talking again
in the beginning of the matchup because when you're going for that you get chemistry for
free so you instantly unlock access to gunpowder.
only being able to keep up with that because of their timing because they're
able to research chemistry on the way up okay like you said it's a bit late 20
seconds behind still fine he's still gonna have bomber cannons out
Lume coming in? Slightly. Thank God. Lume coming in, very important. I'm just happy to see you man.
I'm just put the smile on my face what can I say like we just get the Lume and
off the way by nothing but here we go chemistry's in it's gonna be gunpowder
right away. Henkin in here is the gunpowder of choice for Mr. Pig, and he's also going to go
for the bombards in the back. Very expensive composition, but of course very powerful. He
also prepares some pikemen due to countering the Turk Hussar. You need some of those pikemen,
which are very, very good awareness there for Pig to just prepare both of those units one shot.
His opponent Kepmelans, what's the composition? It's going to be Cavarcher plus Hussar, so less
gunpowder for him, but he might also go for some bombards using the Turk free chemistry.
Now, here's the thing. What do you think about the Cabrature-Hassar combo into the Bohemians comp?
I feel like it's okay, since they're so tanky. But it comes down to the micro, I feel like.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know if I like the blind hand cannon opening here from Pig.
turks going to heavy CA plus stars in the late game paired up with artillery
bomber cannons that's probably their best composition we've seen sing being
very successful with it with the strats yeah bohemians have great helps I feel
like I wouldn't mind seeing them go into something like halved and scurms instead
or at least switching after seeing the CA because the CA are going to be a big issue right now.
Yeah, let's see what happens here. Lantha's two relics, by the way, which I consider to be kind
of illegal, I think maximum one, so Lantha had a great early game considering everything that
happened and considering how he was a bit behind for the relic confession, but he gets two in the
end so it's not too bad relics or not a huge factor. Wagonbrook tactics come in that's going
to make the gunpowder move faster for Pig. Pig also starts with the bomb words behind
the walls. Normally this castle is a bit too far forward by the way. Normally you want
to make it further back, so if your opponent wants to siege you he's got to leave his walls.
So actually a little bit of a misplay there with that castle positioning. Now Lance investing
a lot of repairs into that, but he's got his own bomb words. Got to watch out now. Pig,
you got to move.
Yeah, that's also his only castle, so that's the castle that's right now not tacking
in the description, not making traps because he needs to get the unique technology that
affects his CA.
We talked about that comp as being very powerful but it takes a while to upgrade and it's expensive
to upgrade.
He's still missing.
That was the last type.
Yeah.
He's still missing a lot of upgrades, yeah?
Exactly, yeah.
All the armors at the last attack.
No help, though, for Pig.
Neither player is ready to fight right now, by the way.
players ready to fight when the castle goes down, which makes it interesting, right? Like, will
one of them pull the trigger? Both of them are thinking, hold on, hold on, I gotta wait for my
upgrades, but since both are thinking that, it's like neither player really wants to engage, so
we're gonna see a disengage here. Both players just want to get their fully upgraded compositions
going. I see actually that Pig is mixing in some of his sight wagons, not skirmishers for the
backline. I don't mind it. I actually agree with you, Daniela, I think halberskirm is a fantastic
a combo when it comes to protecting your hoof knees that you get to save a lot of gold for
the bomber cannons but I don't mind the Hussay Wines I think they're a decent addition to
the army as well.
Nice little tank there, nice little front line you know.
Exactly, I would like to see them as a front line though especially because the units that
are behind them take less damage.
Yeah, that's a very good front line.
Asked a little tank and shield for your units, oh Hempkin near, you don't want to fight this
into the heavy cab archers heavy cab archers with a lot of mobility is a great pick up
for Lance.
He's going to punish Pig for going out too early and Pig was a little out of positions
army but Pig's got some firing back he's got some empty near the Habsburg force this
the cab archers back and not let them you know stand and trade with the guns overall
what I would say what I was extremely concerned there for a second was that Pig had was that
five bombard cannons all exposed away from his main military just a couple of
tiles away from that massive Khasar that Lance kind of forgot about them for a
second. Yeah artillery coming in by the way that's going to give Turk bombard
and bombard towers plus two range. So I really want to talk about a bunch of
things here but the main thing I have to understand here is that the
bombard from the Bohemians, once this upgrade comes into Huffanies, these guys
are way better than Turk bombard in every way possible except range. Turks
have one extra range once the artillery attack comes in, so keep that in mind, the Turk player
has to play at a range to snipe the bombards, and he has to play a hit and run comp, the
bohemian comp has more power, great attack round there with the cannons, if the skill
matchup lets see what happens.
Nice flank.
I don't really mind Pig's engagement so far, but all of a sudden, Captain Lance is just
ready to play. There's a massive CA with the bomber cannons behind all of that and I just
don't see, well, Hussar is taking engagements against the hells, they found their death,
but I just don't see big answering right now to that massive heavy CA.
Yeah, like the CA are scary, Hussar not so much, like you still need to make them because
they're kind of cheap, no gold cost, you can snipe some of those bombards,
But the how about here, especially with the behemoths that deal extra bonus damage against Cavalry,
those guys destroy Hussar, so CA is the main unit here, and really the only unit that can fight.
Yeah, I mean, they're going to get good value on the CA as well, if they kind of get to them.
However, Captain Lance is just hitting and running, going back to the castle. He is playing patient,
there's no reason to rush this but I fear that the production is kind of lacking right now a
tiny bit and big skirm switch might be just in time here. Yeah Halbs look at that frontline Halb
just patrol them in they're very cheap they don't cost gold they force the cabbages back
and if they do get you know if you do kind of close the gap they do massive damage to
cavalry, so those habidiers even kind of countering or soft countering let's say,
those heavy cab archers. If you need to have to be kept safe though, if one of them are exposed,
one of two of them will get sniped. So far it's a pretty close game, but I would say Pegas taking
the slightly better engagements, and I think he's got better management of his gold by the way,
despite Captain Lance having more gold in the bank currently.
That's a Russy Castle. That's a Russy Castle and the Firstville already started to build.
Are there any bomber cannons around? No.
Yeah, no sanctity on the villagers either, so they're regular, kind of squishy villagers, but they do move a little faster.
Oh man, I love this matchup. I was so excited to see this matchup, because you're just gonna see, you know, top two end competitions fighting back and forth.
Five whoofnits, say, though, from Pig, those guys are quite solid, very good bombers in the back line.
They do so much damage also, not really sure about just throwing the hentai near their
expensive units but oh my god they'll get shot off the CA.
That was insane, 5 CA just dropped, how many kills do these bombards have?
29 kills from just these 5 bombards in the backlight, I'm telling you they are so solid
but one of them does get sniped, remember Turkish bombards?
Bombard to have that extra range and that cast is being denied. Dude, this is such a messy game
Cap Lens is still playing well cast on the left side is trying to secure some stone a lot of resources in the center a lot of
Minerals to fight over this is such an intense game
Where are the scrims where the scrims I think?
Okay, they're forward
Hey, they showed up
I expected that fight to go heavily in Captain Lance's favor. He lost a lot of this CA.
He only has 14 on the field right now, 20 more in the queue.
But now suddenly, all of his production is being pushed back here.
Yeah, forward production is great when you're the one pushing, but when you're being pushed,
you're going to have to replace all of those buildings.
Castle that just finished, but now suddenly there's nine who've made sound the field
Those at this point those are just starting to wash out buildings and by the way
You know coming at it a little bit of a surprise, but I did one coaching session with pig
I know it was not grubby, but I did one coaching session with him
And we talked about what he means and we talked about keeping your cannon safe in the back line
and also just spamming the Halvis forward.
I'm very, very pleasantly surprised that in just a couple weeks he's made the adaptation.
He's very aggressive with the Halvis, which is exactly what you want to have.
Send the Halvis and flood them in, keep the cannons safe,
and let the cannons hit the castles.
He's playing a great game of Age of Empire 2 right now.
But, Captain Lance is firing back.
He's got the cannons himself.
He's taking out the Hussite wagons.
Goad micro gets out of the way there.
Beautiful stuff. This is what Captain Lance sees.
He's getting a little close to the castle, he one shot it, that's insane.
The remaining bomber cannons, the Hufnitsa, only 19 kills of them but they dealt over
12,000 damage already.
Oh man, that's a lot of damage.
Oh good shot stuff from both players, good shots from both players, the cannon.
By the way, there's cannon fights back and forth while there's army fighting.
pro AWG play and we're seeing it in this tournament. It's so good. Like this is such a high level match
to meta civilizations as well. Pig slightly better trade so I have to say he's losing
more halberd years. Like over time I really feel like Captain Lance. He's the guy that needs gold
more but good snipes though. He steps to three, who feeds and goes back with the Cavaliers.
What a punish from Captain Lance. The score is really close. This game is still anyone's to grab.
It's so close. That was really really good.
Will that castle be almost denied by a couple of random how-the-beers?
Perhaps?
On the left side?
No, I think I got it.
It goes up.
That's good.
I would like to see a couple more scrims.
You are right.
Here comes Big with another castle on Captain Lance's new rebuild production.
He's going to have to just replace once again.
Tassel goes down. That Tassel is kind of on the walls as well.
Pig could be closing in on the wind right now. Captain Lance needs more time.
No Pig has no Ballistics. Oh my god that's terrible. The scrims will not hit moving targets.
That's probably why these Cameragers are so hard to kill. By the way a lot of those Cameragers are weak.
Yeah, no Ballistics on Tassel either. It's true.
I like that he's just walking forward like zombies though with his units. Like his
house is in zombies running in. Captain Lance missing Attacker with an Esasaur,
But he's not even making many hasar right now. I mean, he's making it. He doesn't have many on the field.
Splitting them is not a great idea right now.
Splitting them and sending small groups of Kevarchists, I understand you probably just want to snipe a couple of Nica,
but they're just going to melt to a small group of skirms.
Yeah.
By the way, the more skirms you have in the field, the more we need hasars.
But we have to keep the hasars away from the halbs.
So in pro games, the Hussars will run in, bait the Habs forward, run back, let the Cabarches hit the Habs, and then go back in again.
It's a very hard movement to do, but if done correctly, it's very very powerful.
A couple of Bombers from Lance, putting on some decent backland shots,
but I have to say Pig has had great control of his Bombers for the most part of this game.
I feel like Captain Lance is struggling to push against all of that force and I feel like in
the pro games this is where you start seeing the Turks bomber towers like the extra two range
that comes from the artillery from their unique technology is very painful for all the units to
deal with yeah actually Turks bomber towers are better than castles look at this castle they just
completely got destroyed but Katmans looking to go in here oh my god oh my
god he's taking some huge hits he's with all of the Cavaliers who dare to be
greedy going for the bomber cannon snipes and he lost all of his Cavaliers
there he ran past the hubs past the shots no more Cavaliers they're all
cleared up damn pig has done it he's taking out Captain Lance on arena pig is
proven to be the best arena player with the Bohemians or maybe it's a bit of
rock-paper-scissors because Grubby didn't beat his Bohemians yesterday with the
So, dude, this tournament is really shaping up a big fantastic, fantastic push there, 180 pop to 140.
And now there's no more Cavaliers, there's no more gold, we're only on what, two relics?
Two relics is not enough to sustain a new army of Cavaliers, it'll take a long time at the very least.
Oh my god, I don't want to sound too biased here, but I'm definitely, I think after yesterday's set against Robbie,
against Grovi, he played fantastic and it's so good to see him bounce back in
this game as well where I thought that Turks will definitely have a better
power spike with their early composition but he was patient, he made the right
transition at the right time and I don't know how Captain Lance will plan on
pushing with 20 military units, 78 that pick has now the field 200 population
and definitely the entire map control right now.
Yeah, I can't believe we're missing ballistics.
Like, that's such a crucial upgrade for the skirmishers.
Like, we really need to pick up ballistics,
but even without it, we're still kind of cooking.
Dude, those halberds just have no counter.
Turks need gold to play.
They don't have elite skirmishers.
They don't even have pikemen.
So your own halbs, your own skirmes,
none of these are a possibility for the Turk player.
That's why Turks rely so heavily on gold.
That's why we criticized Lance not going for those relics.
he snagged you i would say kind of luckily or you know good play from him
but still you know fortune to grab to despite no commitment to them
but only to relax is not enough and now they're out of the monastery
gg is called ladies and gentlemen give it up for pig
who has taken down catmelance on arena
for think the first time in this event he's been undefeated
and pig
has uh... has just caught his number a little bit
well played well played big
it will be interesting to see here because
We were talking at the beginning of this matchup that if every one of them are just going to
win quote-unquote their home maps, if Captain Lance is going to win all the renas and Peggy is going to
win all the rabies, it's all going to come down to the first match, which Captain Lance had an
advantage being fortress. So Peggy had to win at least one arena. Maybe this was it?
Now, the situation's flipped.
Now, Captain Lance has to win at least one Arabia,
and he has to prove that he is better on Arena compared to Pig,
because right now he's lost at one and only Arena that he played.
So Captain Lance is in kind of a bad position right now.
It's his home map next.
You can decide Arena or if he's confident,
he can actually just take them back to Arabia.
We don't know.
He's won the Redis at Fortress.
He's lost both Arabia and Arena,
which could feel pretty bad for him.
Let's see what Captain Lance can cook up.
He's of course representing the Path of Exile community.
And guys, he's done you very proud,
regardless of who wins and loses this game.
Katmance has done the Path of Exile community,
very, very proud.
I think the meme you guys have is just a login.
I don't understand it, but everyone stamps it.
So let's get a login in the chat.
Path of Exile, I love the community.
I love what Katmance has brought to the table.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Well, definitely.
I mean, the winner is just going to have a clean path
to the grand finale.
but the loser still has a chance.
It's just going to be a tiny bit tougher.
Yeah, like showing the bracket here, again, it's 2-1 pig now.
Winner of this goes to Grand Finals, as Danela just said.
Loser drops to the loser bracket final,
and he's going to be facing the winner of Grubby Thermal.
The problem is, facing the winner of Grubby Thermal
is a really risky position to be in.
You'd like to delay that until at least the Grand Finals.
So whoever wins the set has a really, really nice advantage.
And yeah, we're seeing the top four.
We're seeing the four captains and the top four
of the events going at it here.
And Pig has certainly proved himself to be the best so far,
but Catalan is still in it.
It's one to two.
I don't want to call him out too early.
And it's going to be his home map next.
Let's see if he can bounce back.
Pleasure taking a little bit of a break.
I'll do take this time to shout out to the viewers.
Thank you so much for everyone watching at home.
5,000 plus on YouTube, 11,000,
I think even 12,000 plus on Twitch.
So huge, huge thank you to the viewers tuning in
to this fine Sunday watching some Age of Empires too.
Of course, the day has only just begun.
This is like the first real set of the final day of day four
and it's a pig and Mr. Lance going the distance so far.
You've been absolutely killing it
with the viewership for the event.
It's super nice to see it.
I'm happy to see it.
I'm happy for you.
You deserved it.
You put together this amazing event
And the community benefits on a larger scale
from all of these new eyes on AOE on the game,
on our scene, it just has been a really, really nice event.
I appreciate that, seriously.
I do appreciate that, Daniela.
And I hope that we can make this a regular thing.
Thank you, Mr. Pizza Face for the three months.
You see Pig just hydrating coming back.
Camelon's still taking some time.
Mean Anomaly, instead of Prime for 10 months.
We'll play some ads right now, of course.
You guys are begging for the ads rightfully so.
play the ads right now so that it don't appear during the game hopefully three
minutes of ads going out. People want to see a second edition of this next year.
We do have a sub goal that we're close to doing. What are we at right now? We're at
8 to 30 out of 9k. We're close. We need something like you know 770 for my math
is correct in terms of subs for the rest of the day. If we do hit that, it's a
guaranteed second edition. If not, I have to think about it. I'm not sure. I'd love to
think about it. I will try my best, of course. I stopped using Amazon Prime as free. Good
job, Kyle, bro. That's fantastic. That is absolutely fantastic. Oh my God. Oh my goodness,
Daniela! With the five gifts at the co-caster, I knew I brought you in for a reason. Daniela
with the five gifts.
Oh, wait a second. This was supposed to be after the after the get. Oh, I'm so sorry.
Oh, no, it's perfect. No, no, no, no. Don't apologize for giving subs. Hang on now. Dude,
Dude, you can give it to them whenever you want. There's no apologizing going on here unknown tactics instead of five gifted a few prime steps coming in as well
Thank you guys. I really really appreciate that. Thank you
Thank you for having me. I've been having a blast with this tournament and
Casting it just being a part of it. It's been really fun
Yeah, you're telling me you did a cast with Yamato as well like Yamato went to the LSD
They casted one game
It's so funny.
It was really, really funny.
Stormy, Mr. Stormy, Stormy should be instead of 5 gifted.
We got more primes than I can count.
Prime subs keep flying in, guys. Prime subs are fantastic.
We're taking money from Jeff Bezos' pocket,
preventing him from going to space,
and we're giving it to me, a humble streamer,
a hometown streamer. This is good. This is a good play.
This is with the 5 gifted as well.
Thank you, bro. Appreciate that.
Bidder, thank you for the tier one. Welcome.
The players are just waiting here, waiting for them to get started.
started. Sean on a we big man Sean with a 10 gifted. Thank you so much, brother.
Yeah, exactly. Like, guys, you saw the sub goal in order to make it happen. We
have to make it happen. So it has been such a great event. We definitely have
to have at least another edition. The King's Gauntlet number two. Do I
change the name? Or do I do I go number two on King's Gauntlet? Do we just
stick with it?
Yeah, stick with it. At this point. Yeah.
Yeah, it's the brands the Kings gauntlets. I think next time every game registered honestly. I use in the finals stepping King's left and right
That would be amazing
You know galleon thinks of five gifted the sandman thinks of five gifted you guys are legends all the tier ones and primes
Welcome everyone every sub counts appreciate that a lot guys
They had death note last place. He just can't keep his Kings safe
Please invite Tyler one for the next one. Tyler one was a bit busy for this one. If the next one lines up and the time works
We will get Tyler one in it's all on him. I would I would have loved to have him all the Landry
I think sort of five gifts that you've gifted a lot for this event. Thank you so much brother
I'm still waiting for them for the game to start. I don't think they've started yet
No, I think they're still thinking about civilizations, let me see if we have a home map here
No, I don't see anything. I don't see anything. Do you have any information on the lobby Daniela?
No, I'm just looking at the ladder. I don't see them there either and lobby codes. They haven't been communicated so
Yeah
Yeah, that's fair enough. No worries
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My goodness, that's a bomb. That's a freaking bomb
Sheesh, brother. Thank you so much. Holy. Look at that number fly up hundred gifted from K
With that K shit
Shit is good. I think
Did you get a crack I give that name a crack? I don't know. Is it just me?
I look like it
All right, she is good. They said a hundred gifted. I mean, that's a big mom butcher. Thank you
K-Shoot is good. Thank you. Thank you everyone. It's fantastic. The dream for 9k is looking better than ever here man
I'm blown away for the support. Thank you all so much
Guys get on the hype train level 19 and counting. Let's go
Now I don't want to stop the next game like it's fantastic. Just keep this going
The support for the event in the tournament has been has been great all across the streams
people have been enjoying, and I feel like that's the best feeling when you're looking back at your event that you put together, and you see just everyone, the participants, the viewers, the cast, everyone, which is like a nice feeling.
Yeah, I think Death Note earlier was trying to tell me something. I don't really understand him because Death Note's English is like, I need a translator, but I think he was telling me that he was getting a lot of donations when he was playing.
He was playing some age run-fights and he keeps getting a lot of donations from the viewers, which is actually fantastic to see because
The support from the community in a we too is so high and that allows the streamers to make these events happen
If I didn't get these subs and support, I'd be at my friend
I'd be at McDonald's while working flippin burgers. I used to work at a deli like I had nothing back in the day
You guys giving me give me a job. I get to you know invest in these tournaments and there's so many subs
I literally can't thank you all but thank you to everybody for these gifts itself seriously
I think we're gonna hit our goal and we're gonna hop into the match because the match has started Daniela
We're back on arena and oh my goodness pig has picked up the whisker. What the hell the whisker?
What no the what now? Oh
My god now wait a minute because people have been saying that survivalist has been coaching
Oh, no, no, survivalist cooking again.
Okay, wait, okay, tell me what the Muesca do
because Daniela, I'm fixing the camps
that even I don't know what to do.
So give me some, talk to me,
give me some inspiration here, the Muesca.
So the Muesca have been one of the new South American
civs, probably one of the newer civs.
They can put up some really nice tight build order here
because they're advancing to next stage,
cost only half the gold, cost minus 50% gold.
So you start with 100 gold in the bank on this map,
you can not touch the gold, not touch the stone,
not touch the market, anything,
and you can just go up straight up to
Castlage with this.
On top of that, in terms of unit,
they're a tiny bit weird, they're,
first of all, I now see Pig putting down a settlement,
which is great, he has the gold close by, the wood close by, that's great, they cost less
for Muizka as well, and they also heal nearby units, which maybe on close maps is not that
relevant since, well, you're not gonna have those half HP, or that, yeah, the village is
gonna be pretty chill, by the way, like, you named a few good bonuses, but one thing we
haven't talked about, I don't even know if it's relevant, but it's worth mentioning,
Moisuke is a Moncrush Sim at its core. They have all of the Monastery technologies for their Monks.
And they also get a special unit from their Monastery called the Temple Guard that can support the Moncrush.
And they also get, as you mentioned, a cheaper age-ups in terms of gold.
So, this is like the pro strategy here. You would go Moncrush with Moisuke into a fast imp.
That would be like the pro way to approach this. The thing is, I don't know if Pig has Moncrushed in his life.
So I don't know if he's going to go for that, and therefore I don't really know what unit
composition or strategy he's going to go for.
We can talk about the Burgundians up from Capmulans.
The Burgundians have been a pretty, you know, pretty tried and tested civilization.
Okay, I'm going to mention them again, but Grubby's been playing a lot of Burgundians
and having a lot of success with the Burgundians.
He's beaten Pig with the Burgundians as well.
Capmulans might have gotten some inspiration there.
In brigandians you could go for like a stable play, standard light cap, contest the relics,
like Danelo.
Last game, one light cap, four monks.
Imagine if Captain Lance just makes three light caps, he'll kill like a thousand monks.
So that could be like a good strategy to go for the relics here I feel.
Maybe, maybe, maybe Pig is prepared for that monk rush.
you are actually going to see monks and temple guards because that is a unit that kind of
started some rage across the community. I feel like especially in the latest tournaments
where we've seen that strat a couple of times and afterwards people have started to do it
on the rank ladder. So it's definitely super annoying to deal with. The temple guard is
a unit that you can make both from the Barracks and from the Monastery, so actually you don't
even have to think about the Barracks, but if you're going forward with Monks, you have
the option to just mix in a Temple Guard or two.
They have like a 100 HP or something and they're very powerful.
Yeah, so we'll talk more about the Temple Guard if we do see it.
Obviously we're basically speaking foreign language right now to someone who's like
new to Age of Empires, but keep in mind that the Moisuke do have this Temple Guard option
if they go for the Mungrush. We'll talk about it if this does come to be. Moisuke also have a
unique unit. It's kind of like a skirmisher that maybe Pig likes. Maybe that's a unit that he's,
you know, it's recently gotten buffed. It's got an extra 5 HP on a recent patch. So maybe Pig is
the eyeing that unique unit. Can I pause? I'm meant to check the tech. Oh, for his own Civ or for
opponents of oh my god because pig no no no daniela pig didn't ask this when he
was up against grubby so he's checking his own sieve i think pig is checking his own sieve
oh my god who said yesterday that i never played this so save but it sounded cool
a big miles fit into 25 seconds i don't think he died that was your thermal your thermal
picked minds for the first time. He forgot to click loom. It's so funny. Why are they
first time in Sims? Oh my God. That's just insane. The first time in Sims.
All right, all right. I mean, why not let the man check his directory? Maybe what if
we're going to see another champion, even though with Captain Lance, they went for
champion. Yeah, maybe a game.
The cat's telling me that this is the first time that Pegas used a
Mesoamericans. So this might be his first time that he's actually using or like an
American in the moiska.
Waiting for players 14 going in.
All right.
What is champion? This is a champion.
The champion right here, the champion scout, it's a light infantry, moves pretty fast and
does okay in combat, but it's not the strongest unit.
Captain Lanzin, see what he goes for with the Burgundians, he's already picked up his
double bid ex, so he clearly knows what he's doing.
Oh my god, he's going to stone, this is not what we're normally seeing with the Burgundians.
They normally play light cab, they normally play for the relics, he's going to go for
the castle.
We've seen Captain Lanz do this a lot, guys.
We've seen him do a lot of castle dropping,
and the Burgundians have a good unique in it,
the Cousinier.
It's not been played a lot, but it is very good.
We'll talk about it if it comes to be,
but this one on stone, it could be a castle drop.
It could just be a boom, though, honestly.
It could just be a boom, hold on.
A boom with stone?
Yeah, yeah.
Fortissimo?
Yeah, we saw it on the fortress, you know,
like they take a little of stone,
they take the 10 gold.
Is it the fortress build?
We haven't seen it on Arena though, I'm not sure.
They can more maybe Castle drop.
But no, it could be Boom, honestly.
Now that is interesting.
I do think he's going to take the Castle drop approach.
Now I just don't know if he's going to make a safe Castle, or if he's going to risk it forward.
Pigs, uptime, it's 23 plus 2.
This is telling me some sort of very aggressive build.
but something went terribly wrong because he had 600 wood in his bank.
No, no, it's an aggressive build. Pig is queuing Loom. You only get Loom and Arena if you're going
to go forward. I actually think he's monk rushing. I think he's monk rushing with the Mooska.
I can't believe it. I think so too. This game is going to be cinema chat. This game is going to be
cinema. If what we're seeing is accurate, this game is going to be cinema. Also, Daniela, there's
loom for Captain Lance. I think he also wants the forward castle. Oh my god.
Well, that's the thing because I was thinking, the aggressiveness that Captain Lance is showing,
I wouldn't expect that Castle to go up in his base just protecting the gold, protecting
his base. When I've seen him being aggressive, he went forward.
Okay, this Barracks is very confusing for Captain Alliance.
I think I know why he wants it, but it's a bad time to get it if I'm correct.
I think he wants that because he wants to play a few Flemish Militia to just secure
the castle forward, or he could just want to stable.
He's gonna make a monastery now, sorry, a market, excuse me, and I think he wants to
stable.
Make some mining camp deletes.
Stable?
There we go, stable.
So he's gonna go stable market, okay.
I think maybe stable for a few like to have just to take the map and go for the forward castle, maybe.
Kind of few stone in the bank, however, he can move all of the bills that are going to run out of food.
Big random is already one minute and 30 seconds away from the next stage.
I think he we can already start seeing two or three villagers moving forward.
Double monastery siege workshop.
Let's see if he goes for it.
He has looms.
Anyone?
Anyone's coming forward?
He has looms.
If he doesn't come forward, he's just got looms for no reason.
That doesn't make any sense.
No, he's coming forward.
He's coming forward.
He's getting a munk rush.
How is he getting a munk rush?
Or maybe it's not a munk rush.
Maybe it's a siege push?
I don't know.
Can't people get caught up though?
I think it's Mung Siege, but he's also trying to distract us, cut away and move us forward.
That's smart.
Yeah.
That's really smart.
That's 200 IQ.
He's going to sacrifice the champion on this side, and he's going to run the Vils out here.
If Captain Lance is really smart, he would know, wait, why did he run this way?
Let me go check this way.
Captain Lance might not be thinking about that, but he's also got a few Flemish Militia
on the field.
Like I talked about, Flemish Militia can control the map, it's pretty nice.
And he's going to also go forward with some villagers.
both on the map with army and villagers. This is crazy. This is literally crazy.
Oh my god. That workshop might have been discovered, if only.
If only. If you scouted this GG, Katmantz has not seen it. The bear is pretty annoying.
See Jorkshop forward for the Muiska. Oh my god, this is absolute cinema. The workshop is going to go
up. Captain Lance has no vision about any of that. I love that Nick actually walled in his
villagers. That's very important. Yeah, just in case. All right, it's gonna be monastery after
that. It's gonna be temple guard ram. It's gonna be temple guard ram. Okay, we have to talk about
the temple guard. Let's wait for the monastery though. First of all, let's see what Captain Lance
is gonna go for. He's gonna go for a monastery here and he's gonna try to pick up the relics
with the Burgundians and he also probably wants a forward castle. Is he gonna go for it? A defensive
castle would be amazing versus this, but Captain Lance does not know about this. Okay, let's talk
about the temple guard. The temple guard is a 100 HP unit from the monastery that attacks faster the
more it hits. It's very good against knights, it's very good against buildings, okay? It's quite
tanky as well. Castle in the center for Captain Lance. He goes middle of the map castle. That's
neither offensive, that's not defensive, that's the worst case scenario for Captain Lance and
And now the Ramp is on his walls.
Then Nela, what do you make of this?
I make that in exactly maybe 30 seconds at the first side of that unit.
Captain Lance is going to pause.
He's going to pause.
What the hell is that?
Check the tech tree real quick.
Let's see if you're right.
Will he pause?
There's a random ass unit at the temple guard.
Captain Lance might not have seen it.
He's played a lot of games of Age of Empires, but this is a new unit with a new DLC.
The Ramps are in.
The temple guard is here.
Pig is cooking. Oh my god second monastery is a double temple guard production two rams temple guards coming in
It's not a monk rush. It's a temple guard rush
Good wall. I love that. This strategy has been taking a by surprise
Pro players and ornaments. Yes
It's very hard I love you, but if you're listening to this
Shad on hearts!
In temple guard guys, 12 attack, 1-1 armor, 100 HP.
The more it hits, the faster it attacks.
So it's great against buildings, it just nuked that Flemish militia.
No chance.
You could convert them though, you could convert them nice and easy, but listen, stables down,
markets down.
Where's the castle?
Oh, the castle is in the middle of the map.
I was going to say, what if, what if Captain Lance would have went for that safe approach for once, you know?
Yeah, for once, just a castle at home, but it's not Captain Lance's style.
Captain Lance will die and live by the forward castle. That's how it is.
He's winning with the forward castle, he's dying with the forward castle, but maybe he can hold.
He's gonna try to convert, he has to hop into the ram, he has to hop into the ram.
Beautiful! He hops in.
Heh.
This is so dangerous! Look at them hopping over one side and the other one.
Guys, when you target a conversion and then you hide the unit that's targeted in the RAM,
the monk loses the charge.
Yeah, the charge of the conversion.
Yeah, exactly. You're gonna have to start recharging all over again.
So that's why the RAM micro is so important.
Oh my god.
Oh my, Flemish Militia is getting shit on.
Oh, we're in on the wood line, there's a hole in the wood.
We have a loom at least.
But dude, these guys are so, so strong.
One conversion comes out though.
We need these conversions, can we snipe the manganelle?
Not quite.
Pig is showing the best preparation out of anybody in this tournament.
Pig is going with a manganelle, a ram, and a few temple guards.
And there's nothing to defend.
Captain Lance is completely naked back home.
Phew, Flemish Militia.
He's going home. He's got four relics though. He's got four relics with brigandians. Maybe he can hold oh
My god, well, I
I don't want to speak too soon, but it's exactly like you said he's showing the most amount of preparation the most diverse strats
This is already a great series. This is a fantastic showcase of you know
Now, dedication from Pig to just learn and expand his horizon with new units, with new
strats, with new civs.
I love to see this.
You showed it yesterday with the Janss, or you showed it today with the Temple Guards.
But by the way, this game is not over.
Warburg and the Inrelix is a crazy advantage.
The fifth one he can grab later, he's defending with monks.
It looks really bad, but all he has to do is hold.
And Pig is only one base behind this.
can turn the tide honestly conversion oh my god oh my god no he doesn't get the
second though Lance has a score lead Lance is holding oh my god if Lance
holds that's the craziest hold of the tournaments I don't know Monastery is
about to to go down soon if those temple guards are hopping into it we have a
second one though we're not even waiting about that we got a second one we see
some Couste dier, a couple Couste dier, you gotta kill the ram with something. And Pig,
I feel like Pig keeps misplaying. He keeps going really far. Triple conversion! Oh my
god! Triple conversion from Lance! And the converted units are killing the remaining
units from Pig! Holy! What a hole from Lance, the monks! Get the job done! This is fantastic
for him!
Oh, but here come the Wies come on. They're wanting to get all of those conversions back.
and they regain faith way faster.
Yeah.
Moiska said bonus.
You regain faith 50% faster, but Captain Lance is getting atonement.
Atonement lets monks convert enemy monks.
Hig needs the same upgrade if this is going to go into a monk war.
Captain Lance might have a lot of more experience in this situation though.
Dude, this is the best game we could have ever asked for out of these two players.
Defensive Castle.
He's got the four relics.
He's got a ton of reds coming in from the Burgundian relics.
Defensive Castle is really good.
It's gonna hold the gold hold the stone the woodlands gone though. We need wood. We have enough for another lumber camp
Dude Lance is safe Lance is actually in a decent position converting the monks
This is so freakin good like we were talking how a good pig is for coming up with the new strat
But captain Lance was prepared. I didn't expect captain Lance to know right now. What the hell atonement is there's so many
viewers
that have been playing for ten years and they don't know what it is that they're prepared with a
Monastery tax, Pig is getting devotion which kind of increases the conversion
resistance on your units as well.
He's also getting Atonement. It's gonna be a monk war. It's gonna be monks vs monks guys.
You convert one, I convert it back, that's how it works. It's monk vs monks and
devotion coming in is really good for Pig. It's gonna make his monks harder to
convert. We need devotion from Captain Lance if this does evolve into a monk
war. But I have to say we have a ton of res. Coussivier here. The unique unit
would be great like everybody's not using the crusade in I'm starting to think
they're racist the French people honestly honestly it's such a good unit we
can use it and has a French name but it's still good redemption from Captain
Lance he's flexing he's he's going for all of them he wants that manganelle so
redemption let's him convert siege it's an expensive tactile 475 gold income the
It's Monk V1. Oh my god, it's just it's literally hands up and watch
To convert your life might be so good
We can bridge this for a red Lance is going for the manganelle though. Dude. This is really good for pig
It is got the manganelle
Definitely a lot of those
Lumberjacks are yesterday's news. Captain Lance has no wood access right now. Yeah
Yeah, he's got to have a lumber cab.
Oh by the way, Pig is trying to hug the manganelle so that Cat Lanz can't shoot him.
Dude, Pig's micro with the monks has been stellar.
It's literally so good and now there's more conversions.
But Captain Lanz's economy is a disaster behind this, but he's got almost enough friends for imp.
Bro, he can just get imp.
He could, but is that the correct call right now?
You go imp in a monk war?
It's really good in my opinion.
Maybe not the theoretical best call, but it's okay, you know?
I agree.
Because of the, of course, the block printing, which gives you a conversion from more range.
But right now it feels like Captain Lance couldn't get wood control.
Yeah, we have no wood.
We could just take the backwood that we're not actually that stressed in terms of resources.
But it's really just like the presence of mind to expand your economy when you're just fighting monks be monks.
The micro has been insane from both players, by the way.
I don't think you guys understand how good the level's been.
This does not feel like a 1600 yellow game. It feels more like a 2k yellow game. I'm not joking.
Absolutely. And it's just hilarious that right now,
Kathleen has actually more temple guards on the field than big.
Yeah, that's true. Actually, he's got what?
He's got five temple guards to two temple guards?
The conversion is crazy.
Just hit him back with his own units.
We can heal them up and just attack them.
More villagers for Pig, but Pig behind this is not really making villagers.
He's actually got 11 minutes of idle TC time, which is a lot of idle TC.
So Pig, maybe outside of his comfort zone,
Redemption's in, this Mangano is in trouble. Lance has great month micro.
Oh wow.
Conversing Mangano. Yes, yes a conversion, but among died in the process, eh? It's important to
state here that okay, there is redemption in but there's no sanctity. Sanctity gives
The monks extra 15 HP and they can actually survive a manganale shot. Yes with sanctity
And it's an important upgrade that hasn't come in for Lance Lance
I think the Lance is looking at Imperial Edge Lance and eyeing Imperial Edge
The hold has been stellar so far. Oh
But pig gets a couple conversions converts the temple guard converts a monkey still has a push that's live over here
Capital lines keeps trying to actually convert the monks back
We talked about it earlier, but Muisca, they get their monk juice back 50% faster, so they can convert pretty much double if they're microing correctly with the monks.
But so far, Pig with a ten-ville lead, Lance, trying to go for imp, but he decides... Oh, he decides to cue Coussidier instead.
He's gonna go petard in Coussidier. He's gonna break the wall and go for Coussidier. Pig is coming out though. Where are we going?
Who did you know was a castle?
Captain Lest is gonna start looking for a king to snipe.
He has two patards, the Kutsudes, the king type I've ever seen one, but Pig has no idea this castle's here.
He's gonna walk past it.
A castle in Captain Lest's face.
Oh, he wants a castle. He's got the stone. Pig has the stone for the castle.
dude this is anybody's game but why do we have guitars and we're gonna go for a
counterattack more villagers coming forward it's not the right time for
counterattack it's a great idea but right now we have to defend our base
captain Lance sees these villagers though he's got the Kusidei sees the
villagers oh pig is getting massacred though pig is getting massacred I think
I think captain Lance has been playing a fantastic game he's been under so much
pressure this entire time. I don't know how he has he had so many rest in the bank now he has
so much more military is 22 military units versus only three wow he has three temple guards.
Gigi wow I can't believe it it's a game five it's a cinema what a hold from captain Lance
what a push from pig what a hold from Lance what a nice try from pig to you know kind of come
come forward in the forward castle, but Captain Lance stuffs it, and we have a game five.
It's literal cinema.
Every set this tournament has went to game five out of the favorites of the tournament,
out of the four captains.
None of them has one over the other without a three-two.
Another game five between the captains.
The captains are so closely matched, it's ridiculous.
And now we have Captain Lance going in to game five after a stellar, stellar defense.
That triple conversion.
Dude, let me just go back and watch that triple conversion.
I mean, that triple conversion completely solved the game.
Right here, I think it was around here.
The game was looking messy.
What a fantastic series.
Oh my god.
Yeah, right here, right here.
Think of it like this.
Triple conversion.
He can miss three units and he instantly kills another two.
So it was six red units, now it's three blue units, one red unit.
That's insane.
And that right there was the hold that he needed to actually survive.
It was 23 Vils, he looked like he was dead, completely dead.
Damn, I'm so impressed man.
Both these players deserve a lot of respect honestly.
And I don't know how much the new viewers know about the game or for those of them that
are watching this for the first time, it's important for you guys to understand the level
of, I don't know, that these two players just play that game.
Yeah.
I'm super impressed, like knowing all the muntaks going for the strat,
Captain Lance probably didn't expect that push, maybe he did.
Just keeping his composure, you know, doing all the right things.
It was a great, great hold.
Yeah, really well played, man, really well played.
Just so impressed and we're gonna go into a game five now.
It's gonna be Pig's home map though, keep that in mind.
It's gonna be game five, Pig's home map
and I think he's likely to choose Arabia.
He's gone through his Bohemian Thunder Arena. He's put a lot of time to that. He doesn't have that anymore.
We've seen that Captain Lance maybe a little...
Maybe underprepared for Arabia. Some suspicious strategies that haven't really worked out for him.
So I feel like...
Yeah, I feel like Pig, just bringing this to Arabia for a Game 5 is a comfortable advantage for him,
but I wouldn't count out Captain Lance, because those weird strategies only have to work one time if it's a 2-2.
And actually, a minute to just be right back here.
Daniela, while they wait, entertain the chat for me, please, if you don't mind.
Oh boy, sure.
We're looking towards the last game of the series.
Again, stressing out that this is the upper bracket, the final.
The winner goes straight into the grand final, and the loser still has a chance to date,
but is going to be just a tiny bit tougher. Chad, I'm very happy to be here with you guys.
you're enjoying the series.
Bear with me.
I'm a tiny bit nervous.
I'm not used to this big audience,
but I've been having a fantastic time so far.
I don't know.
I'm happy Hera wanted to co-cast today as well.
I've always offered.
Brouette Daniela, do you understand the chat
like the courgette tell us who's Daniela?
I'm a caster in the scene.
But I'm a small caster.
I'm not as known as the top boys.
But I'm definitely trying to be more involved.
I'm casting a lot of the events on my channel.
So when Hera's not online, make sure you give that a check.
And yeah, I've been starting to cast a couple of years ago.
I'm full-time casting for like two years now, I think.
So, it's nice to see growing a channel and a community out of nowhere, basically.
I never was invested into video games, AWEs, the only thing that I watch and play until
recently.
Now I'm kind of starting to get more into other names.
Daniela has next, Red Bull or Riot.
One can only wish.
What's your twitch name?
Daniela Awee.
What do you like about the remaining contestants?
This, what we just saw, the fighting spirit, the arm, and I don't want to sound too biased,
but I think I'm just on team pig, rooting for him to win this event.
He just was so impressive with new strats, with new sieves.
Alright, I'm back and it looks like Pig is still AFK.
Got a red boat to refuel things of course.
Keep the energy high into this game 5.
And let's see what they can do man.
Pig's home map.
I don't know what he's going to go for.
Maybe Arabia probably, but in terms of civilizations he's already used his Vietnamese.
What did he play yesterday against Grubby on Arabia besides Vietnamese?
He played the Wu.
Maybe he pulls the Wu out again, honestly.
I don't know.
Oh, my God, Hera, I've been receiving so much love from your channel.
I don't know.
I just appreciate it.
I just want to say that really quick.
Thanks for all the follows and all the support and all the nice words.
You guys are absolutely fantastic.
Nice.
I I love all of you guys. I in the support has been absolutely amazing
Yeah, we got to take this turn at the starcraft next by the way
Like we have like a whole we have a whole group of like wholesome viewers and RTS fans
We know we've done a warcraft. We've done a with you
Someone get you thermal day nine loco some of these stock of guys hostess a stock of tournament
We'll all move there plays in Starcraft realize that game of shit come back place in a week you
I think it sounds good, honestly.
Sounds good, just take out this rotation and do whatever game, what could go wrong.
You guys have been having a blast.
My Warcraft 3, I now have Warcraft 3 as a recommended.
First of all, I have been watching and playing AOE for years.
Nothing else on Twitch, on YouTube.
Now I have Warcraft 3 games recommended.
Now I find myself stumbling upon a channel, oh look, I'm watching Warcraft 3 now.
Yeah, what do you even know about Warcraft 3, Daniela?
Listen to me here.
Undead is the weakest race, Night Elf is for psychopaths, Orc is for the aggro-royd ragers,
and Human is for the pupil that wants to win.
It's the best set in the game.
That is Warcraft, okay?
Summarized.
That's the whole game.
All right, and who's coiling, who's ass?
No, I'm coiling everybody's ass.
I'm the undead coiler.
But it's the weakest of the game.
I'm telling you, it's the weakest of.
All right, all right.
Fun-ass game though.
Love me some more crap.
Oh, we have a game.
We have a game.
We have Arabia.
Sorry.
It's Arabia.
Koreans, what?
Oh my god, I gotta get in here.
Sounds hype as hell.
I don't have the freaking dashboards failing me, it's a guy I got it though.
I don't know what happened right in, what happened right in.
Oh my god, get me in!
Let me in!
Oh, Korean Chinese!
Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, this is nice, this is nice.
Koreans Chinese.
Koreans, I don't think we've seen them yet on Arabia at least.
we've seen them on fortress yeah yeah we've seen them on fortress on Arabia
it's the first to welcome everyone to a game five between pig and captain Lance
it slipped my mind we're talking about pig said but yeah that's true he does
play the Chinese and this is considered to be the best civilization on Arabia in
terms of pro play but it's also good for him like he's played he plays it well
it's a great civilization he won his best of five yesterday with the Chinese
he kind of clutched it out he's doing it again your boy pig back on a game five
with Chinese, but this time up against Captain Lance's Koreans. What the hell is he cooking
with Koreans? They've got a bunch of good strategies that they can go for. He already
has Loom by the way. I don't know why Captain Lance has Loom. It's an early Loom.
Maybe he got a slightly house or something? Maybe?
I don't know.
Either the Loom is like a thousand years late, or it's like three minutes early, but I'd
Rather it would be early than late, all things considered.
If they get the loom early,
he's gonna be having a decent dark age here with the Koreans.
Their main strategy, I guess,
is just trying to spam out wood costing units.
They get wood, all wood units for the Koreans
are 50% cheaper, that's quite significant.
So we're thinking spearmen, skirmishers,
manganelles, scorpions, all kinds of siege.
Oh, did they get the bonus on siege?
Oh, Koreans?
No, no, no, only rain soldiers and infantry.
So sorry, we're gonna start the list in the top.
Spearman, skirmishers, fire Lancers, archers, cav archers.
No siege, but everything else gets a wood discount.
That's kind of like the main approach.
But you also get nice towers for Koreans.
You get a nice stone mining bonus.
And it's worth talking about.
You get a nice unique unit, the War Wagon.
So keep that in mind.
If you do see the War Wagon, it's a very powerful unit.
What do you make of this Korean spec here?
It's something that we haven't seen before, Danila.
I think this is going to be some sort of phosphor rush and with Koreans you can do a lot of them you can either
go for FC castle drop. Yeah. In your base I see that stone in the back of his base. I don't know if he's
cutted it. That could work. He has a very good map for a phosphor rule. Yeah, back gold. Yeah, back gold, back stone.
And speaking about gold, you could go for another fossil rush into Fire Lancers.
Yeah, true. You can go like Fast Castle and instead of going for the Castle Drop, which is like the more predictable Fast Castle, the more typical Fast Castle, you can just go to Barrick Fire Lancers.
This is a strategy that I put a lot of time into, like, when the finalists first came out,
oh, it's just fast, castle, Fire Lancer, every single game was so fun, and it's a really,
really powerful strategy. We're positive because Pig wants to check the Tech Tree.
Haven't played vs Korea in 150 games. Wow, first time vs Korea, that's crazy.
Oh, do you think that also has some sort of factor, you know, like, not knowing that you're
playing against not knowing that they can't throw it to I think so yeah like
not being familiar with the sieve it's so painful because like you can read the
bonuses but like reading the bonuses it's kind of like if you read the physics
formulas before your exam but you studied nothing like yeah you have the
formulas but you don't know how to use them and that's kind of what we see here
it's like I say you're gonna read what Koreans can do now what now you gotta
figure out how to play against the sieve from a guy who's captain Lance who's
He's really really intelligent with what he goes for and who's got such a deep arsenal
of strategies that he can bring to the table.
I feel like it's a big disadvantage for Pig but he does have the Chinese and he's very
familiar with those guys so at least he knows what he's doing which is good.
Yeah I think another thing that I was saying yesterday in Pig's matchup when I was casting
is that I also kind of admire the just straight up going for the Chinese Pig.
Chinese is one of the pro's favorite sieve.
I find it weird to play for people, especially for people that are just learning the game.
You start with six villagers, but with zero food in the bank, their start is weird, you
have to pay attention on how you use their bonuses, they get technology discounts.
I find them weird to get into.
I was impressed to see him play in Chinese yesterday.
Let's see how this matchup is going to go.
Yeah, I actually agree with you in principle, Danila.
Like I think weird starts, they also get like,
none of their bonuses are that insane.
Like Chinese is the kind of stuff that gets ahead a little bit.
It's like, it's the king of like,
I mean, you guys are RTS fans, you know,
like the RTS theory where it's like,
get ahead then keep getting slowly more and more ahead
until you build up like all these little advantages
into a big advantage in like 30 minutes.
That's what Chinese does.
That's why, for pro players, we love that.
It's like, oh, we're just building up small advantages.
We're so confident, we're so comfortable.
But in these kind of like mid-elo situations here,
and these players don't get me wrong, they're very good.
But there's nothing like that powerful about Chinese.
There's not that one bonus for a unit that's like unbeatable.
And that's why Pig has to play sharp
and he has to play well and consistent
to be able to get the best out of the sieve.
And right now, to be honest, he hasn't had the best start.
53 seconds of out of TC,
only 25 seconds is usually acceptable for Chinese.
anything more, it's kind of bad. So Pig would not the best start than Captain Lance up to
Feudal playing a regular game, Taniela. He's just walling and going range. It's crazy.
It's crazy that he's doing not anything crazy, basically.
Yeah, exactly. Pig, however, is working on walling his map. I don't really mind those
walls too much. He's going to open a range as well, not seeing him earlier on goal kind
bamboozle me a bit I thought he's going to be a scouts opening but no was that
an adaptation to seeing no I guess he just counted no no I think it's an
adaptation to the walls actually so pick probably wanted to open scouts and then
sees the walls and quickly goes for the archers which I think if that's the case
that's really smart it's a very good decision to just be on archers or maybe
even skirmishers if you see your point is fully walled scouts can't really break
walls and running in is okay but it kind of a high variance play sometimes it
works sometimes it doesn't not really reliable for a game five still with one
actually vote from the Chinese start so pretty decent opening for pig even though
it wasn't the best Chinese opening he's still ahead like the walls as you said
Daniela and looks like we're gonna see a pretty basic you know standard game
which I love I actually love this I don't know how relevant it is but when it
comes to the main gold I saw pig has already put a house oh my god I was just
I'm not a big fan of closing down the gap with the main gold because later on you will
have multiple veils pathing around that gold so they're just going to be less efficient
bumping into each other.
But also you kind of leave your opponent's archers to get super close to your villagers
to get three tiles away whereas right now how he moved that house a bit later on in
back in the front in this case and fixing all of those palisades right now. Captain Lance's archers
won't be able to to range all those gold miners which is good. It's still like a bit too close to
the gold in my opinion but at least it's not touching it so you got a little bit more space there
which is decent and I'd like to see Pig aware of these things you know just kind of play some
you know some proper Age of Empire is make sure that everything's looking solid. He's baiting
Taking a scout from Captain Lance back into his archers, which could be really good, Captain
Lance instantly recognizes.
I don't know about you guys, but from what I've seen from the Path of Exile guys, and
it's really only Captain Lance, but from what I've seen from him, is that if there's one
unit on the field, he's the best player in the world.
Probably better than me, probably better than Bip, or like, one unit and the Path of Exile
players are just like 1000 IQ.
They never lose it, it's perfect micro, he's dipping and dodging.
As soon as there's a secondary unit, it's like, oh, oh, he's just a regular player.
It's just an interesting observation that I've got from the Bath of Exile guys.
But anyway, Pig making his way towards the castle edge, just dropping some farms, a few
archers, walls, and it looks like both players would do the exact same thing.
Just a few ranged units, walls, into the castle edge, they're very far from each other, so
that's why we're seeing a very passive opening.
They both spawn in the corner, which is not always the case.
This one is more of a passive Arabia.
It's funny, right?
Because usually, when you spawn closer to each other, then you see people changing their
strategy and going for archer, or metatons into archer opening, because you want to
hit those timings and do a lot of damage with what you call slow units, and go scouts when
you're further away from each other, which is the case here.
We've seen a lot of Scouts opening and now we see Archer opening, which I think is a bit funny.
Yeah, it's really interesting.
To have an Archery-Archer War.
It doesn't have to stay Archery-Archer forever, by the way.
It could easily switch from the skirmishers to anyone besides that.
I can Captain Lance give a good micro to that Scout.
I'd actually rather the Chinese players switch off Archers, but I'm not entirely sure.
Because the theory is, if you just play archery, archer, up against the Koreans, they're gonna get cheaper archers, they'll also get the extra armor for free.
Whereas if you just play skirmishers, yes the Koreans get cheaper skirmishers, but it lets you switch to cab as the Chinese,
or switch into the Fire Lancer, which is better for you.
That's kind of what I feel anyway, but for now it's just gonna be pig, going back home and waiting for castleage.
I think this technically should go into a composition, sort of like Fire Lancer plus Skirmisher from Koreans.
They're cheap, but like you said, they get the armor for free, which is important for the skirmishers.
And then again, they're just cheap Fire Lancer.
We could easily just see a boom here, Danielle, as well, like marking at the back, another wall.
This wall is like very hard to penetrate.
Down here, there's not really a lot of space to push.
push, no crazy hills, I mean this one's kinda nice to push from, but Capulence is kinda far
from that.
But could you see a passive game where both players just wanna add Town Centers and boom
to Lake Inn?
If that happens, Koreans do have bombard advantage over Chinese, so Koreans have gunpowder, Chinese,
I think despite inventing gunpowder in real life, don't get access to any gunpowder units
in game, which is kind of interesting.
I was going to make a joke here, but I didn't want to throw Yamato under the buzzer.
He said the Norwegian invented it.
He said the Norwegian invented the gunpowder?
Oh my god.
Yeah.
Shout out Yamato.
But Yamato's like that.
He just says stuff.
He just throws things out there.
That's why we love him.
You might be right.
the amount of map they just walled in both big corners. First of all, if Pig goes for
that approach, for the Bumi approach, he has some awesome TC spots.
Pig, right? So you're thinking back here, maybe? Back here?
Yeah, exactly, with the stone wood.
That's pretty good.
Whereas, yeah, we talked about, I mean, Captain Lance having the backstone, but I don't know about the mainstone being so forward, extra gold.
If you can't really make a TC there, it can be siege pushed from the front. It's a bit awkward.
You gotta be careful. You gotta be careful here when you place those town centers.
Captain Lance, again, the one-unit scout, it's just like, perfect micro.
Seize the archers. Are you kidding me, Captain Lance? This is a fantastic place.
Seize the archers is kind of tracking them here as well.
Well, Pig is trying to move out. He wants to get that crossbow botkin spike
We've seen you thermal play this strategy a lot by the way
You thermals like the crossbow king out of all the players in this tournament and
Pig is moving out with the crossbows looking to find some advantage beautiful TCS from Captain Lance. I actually oh no
He but he buys a stone. Oh my god explain what happened to Nella. Please do the honors. Oh
So when you place down a foundation and you start building
the actual building, you lose some resources and like we talked even about the castles,
when you delete it, you lose basically the percentage that you had started to build.
So yeah, even if Captain has just tapped that foundation, it was considered that you
already started build that to see, which is 275 wood and 100 stone.
And when he deleted it, basically he lost one single stone.
Just it that's just enough for you to not be able to place a new disease. Yeah, so basically you have to buy a hundred stone for no reason
So he's down 170 gold
Which doesn't seem like a lot, but I mean, you know when you consider these already down 700 resources
That's not the kind of trading you want to be doing at the market
He needs to take investment advice from H rock
But unfortunately H rock was asleep and couldn't help out captain Lance so he makes a you know
I'm big blunder there at the market buys 100 stone for no reason
I'll post on the side. I like this one, Lance. Getting some vision out here.
This crossbow is just outside of vision though. Pig is kinda just keeping those there for later.
It's gonna be a 2TC play and a Siege workshop at home.
Looks like Pig wants to go for some rocket carts. Makes him move in, but Captain Lance spots it with the outpost. Good vision.
I have a question.
Tell me.
How much crab did you give the achre for being late?
No, actually, I was really nice to Hrock. I think Hrock's in the chat.
Dude, I would love to sit there and rip on him, but Hrock, shout out to you, bro.
You played like, obviously, you were late, but you were so nice about it.
You reached out to Knoff, you were cool about the situation, you came up with the cast,
you apologized multiple times.
Hrock, you're kind of a legend. I'm not gonna lie.
You played that one very, very nicely, and you didn't disrupt the tournament at all, so
I didn't give him any shits. I felt like he did the best he could, despite, you know,
anyone could sleep in late. Who cares, you know? It's not that big of a deal.
We call him sleepy afer from now on though, but take a look at this back to our game here pigs in a cleared up
Peg is getting you're not big time. That was that was a really really good surround
I also bet he didn't expect that you see to randomly be there
I like that captain as went for the elite skirmugrid
He didn't bother to invest into the crossbowman upgrade since he only has five archers like those can just be mixed in
with the skirmishers, just keep them cozy, but it's just not worth it for you to invest
into that when you already have the counter unit and now you can reinforce the potential
sneaky cavalry switch from the Chinese, you can just add in a couple of fighters or something.
Captain Lance has like ants in his ass, he just can't sit still, look at this, forward
villagers, it's like two minutes of moving, I gotta do something, he's gonna go forward,
The thing is, it's the perfect time, you just cleared up the army, you pick up Crossbow,
so Danila, I think he's getting them just in case, he wants to counter Fire Lancers
and Cavalry, and he wants to make sure that he's able to not get cleared up by any units.
So there's Crossbow on the fields for Pig, Pig also has two Rocket Cards, but I think
Captain Lance doesn't want a Castle, I think he wants Guard Towers, which Koreans get for
free.
So keep this in mind, the Captain Lance could employ the Guard Tower push, but Pig is here
with two rocketcarts you have to respect this.
Captain Lance is going home like he missed the bus, like this guy, he didn't even stick it around, like he just went back home and for good reason, for good reason Pig is cooking with these walking carts, it's fantastic.
Captain Lance has to run, all of these are weak and actually Pig is trying to cut him off right now, this is great from Pig.
Dude, the mic was crazy.
Oh, all the armies are gonna die, Lance is giving up on them.
Oh my god, Lance got cleared up completely.
Well, you were saying about those builds that went back like they missed the boss.
I think they didn't even want to be on that boss.
The heart wasn't there, honestly.
They walked forward, but I can see there was no courage in those villagers.
So they go back, tower on here.
It's good.
You can defend yourself, which is great, but it's not really the position that Cavillants
wants to be in.
I do like this tower though.
These two towers defends the stone.
I think that's okay.
He doesn't get to keep Upgrade and Imp, but keep in mind that Pig, on Stone, can go for
Forward Castle because he's got the full map control now.
Which is exactly the approach that he took in the final game versus Grubby yesterday.
Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
Go for the Forward Castle, and he had to fast and prepare with it as well.
Pig, Pig, there's a tower, okay?
You could dive it.
I mean, you know, it's not illegal, but it is somewhat risky, University being dropped
down for Captain Lance now looking to maybe attack into ballistics. Did Pig get any coaching
from Lewis? I think he did. I think he did. Or no, I think that might have been day nine
actually. No, I think it's mainly been survivalists for Pig. Oh, that's looking at the second
university. Oh, that's looking at the second university for Captain Lance. Yep. Drew, he
He has one at the top.
Yeah, that's crazy.
That's crazy.
That's a minus 200 wood basically.
Minus 200 wood and we have 15 wood in the bank.
We need those 200 wood.
And Captain Lance, he wants to make his way to Imperial Leads but he's missing the food
right now.
By the way, you know, Ecobeads are missing for Captain Lance.
He's getting them now.
Pig is further ahead, like significantly further ahead, but I have to say, by the way, I have
to say this, it's really hard to push Koreans.
But even if Pig has an advantage, even if he comes from the castle and what not, I feel
like he could actually throw into the Korean Towers and we could have a really good game
on our hands, a very back and forth game.
Right now it's 110 population each, Pig has the advantage, don't get me wrong, the capital
line's position is very much playable, but pick up the list for the towers and the range
units and he's going to go heavy on stone, looks like he wants to or maybe no, maybe
just would, okay fair enough.
It is the absolute same strategy just like yesterday.
He clicked imp, 16 on stone, he's going to be moving forward the castle.
Now the question is where does the castle go?
I really like that hill in front of Captain Lance's range.
Not too close to the tower.
It's a huge hill.
Your traps are going to be on the elevation, attacking all of those towers, all of the forward
production that Captain Lance has there and it's just going to push him off of
stone which you never want Koreans to be on just because of their pesky towers.
Villager's coming forward. Villager's coming forward for Pig. He's got him
pure late. She's got a fourth town center. He's adding in some barracks. He wants to
go Fire Lancers which is a great call. Fire Lancers for Chinese move 10% faster
I think in Imp. So it's a very fast moving very tanky unit. Missing
gambesons though means that the Korean Arbalest could deal with them but here we go it's the
forward cast so we saw this yesterday vs. Garby Daniela he nails the exact hill that you call
out pig is playing as perfectly as the casters right now with limited vision limited you know
understanding of where the hills are but looks like he's got the presence of mind to target
the perfect hill and does he get it though does he get it oh there's some military but
Three rocket cards now pig has to be paying attention to those rocket cars around the foundation of the castle
Oh, he can kill his own castle there
No, he'll be fine. He'll be fine
always scary though
Nice hits with the rocket carts the towers again towers are like offside
They're not really doing a whole lot right now that main hill there is what pig wanted to target
He's 30 seconds faster than him or not a minute faster than him back
And he needs just a couple trebuchets all Captain Lance does a defensive castle, but he's down hill
They the castle from Lance. That's not what you want to see. That's not what you want to see right now
He's getting mugged hard
Castle is going to kill a couple of villagers as well
Trebs should be instantly in the queue there. They are
No.
Contribution first.
No.
Contribution first.
He's a discipline player.
Please, Daniela.
He's not the kind of guy to watch a Trebuchet.
He's gonna get his Contribution first.
Trebuchet is later.
He's got that discipline.
That's lame for the longer one.
I respect it.
That's right.
Now I would let go for the Trebuchet first.
Secondary Hill though, for Pig.
So great control of these two hills.
Like that's really hard to fight.
But Lance has cheaper units.
I have everything's cheap for him.
We're gonna see Ypsong come out.
Ypsong gives extra range for the towers.
Bracer comes out.
The towers are not Keebs.
And I've always found that Korean Keebs look so cool, by the way.
Anyone in the chat agrees?
I think they look so cool.
And they're quite powerful as well.
Free upgrade, Bracer coming in.
Ypsong with the extra range.
It's gonna be Trebuchets for Captain Lance.
And remember, Captain Lance has bomb board access,
but he needs chemistry first.
It's a two-minute, 20-second upgrade.
So he's working towards that,
but bomb boards are really good in a Trebor.
That being said, so was the hill, Daniela.
Talked about the hill bonus, 25% more damage with these traps.
I feel like Pig's in a good position to start pushing.
But I've been paying attention to what you said.
20 minute mark, Captain Lutz.
Ooh, I don't have villagers forward.
Oh yeah, there it is.
There it is, the sneaky tower.
Captain Lutz needs something forward, but he gets caught out by Pig.
It's so funny, like Captain Lutz needs something forward.
He always goes for it.
And then the Cavaliers now, Korean Cavaliers are cheaper, not the strongest unit, missing
Bloodlands and whatnot, but still pretty good.
And he's gonna force a defensive Castle out of Pig.
Yeah, definitely not a huge fan of those Korean CA.
A couple of bills will die here, that Castle will still go up.
The issue for Castle Lance right now is that he has no way of defending his base right
now, like those trebs on the hill.
He's going to be...
of those. Sorry to cut you off, but that's a lot of those dying. I think you're undersold
on that. You said a couple of those go down and the castle still goes up. That's like
20 bills going down and the castle's not up then yellow. You undersold it. It's crazy
to land.
I expected to take to react, you know, to panic a tiny bit more. I was like, okay, he's
probably just going to go back to it to see wait for some scurms.
Oh my God. Why is Captain Lance diving? 3, 2, 2. We're diving with scurms. How did we
get here. How did we get here with the Skirms? 10 Skirms just died for no reason. It's madness
on both sides. Both players repairing the castle like it's their actual IRL house. But this
castle is going to die first. The hill bonus, really paying dividends there. Towers though,
still holding for Kamala's defensive castle. He just has to hold. He's got the two trebuchets.
Yeah, now Rocketcast can go forward even. Well, needs to clear up the towers first. Towers
are very annoying for Koreans just like you said keep for free already has a
bracer probably doesn't have oh he does have upsung as well picked it up you
picked it up you right away actually which is really good extra two range
like eight plus five thirteen range towers it's it's a really hard to play
against that caravan coming in for captain Lance that's gonna boost his
trade card it's gonna make his trade cards move faster only problem you can
only trade with your opponent in a 1v1 captain let's bite start trading with
those opponents who knows who knows this pig even though this market is behind a
palisade wall so he's going to have to take care of that if you want it is
forward though you get rid of the palisade is just there where's the market
market here it's possible caravan completed okay well pig can finish that
castle now he can he can take a breather
Cavaliers are out 29 minutes there from Captain Lance 30 from big but Captain
Lance doesn't really have you know a planet it's a 34 military 18 our
Cavaliers unit that I feel like you really don't want to be on it's it's not
bad it's cheap in terms of wood at least but it does kind of sap your gold and
it's not the strongest for Koreans but like I'd rather him have Cavaliers than
have nothing but I'm you talked about earlier Danny
Violancer is the perfect unit for Korean Zerat.
Violancers are scrimmaged. Boom, that's your combo. It's really good.
He does kill the castle though.
Captain Lance kills the castle. That's a massive huge win for their Path of Exile community here.
Captain Lance representing it beautifully.
He's in diving. He's in taking out the trebs.
He's in taking out the walking cart.
Captain Lance is pushing Pig back and reclaiming the monster hill outside his base.
What a play from Blue and what a pushback here.
I only talk about how much I dislike those Cavalters.
But if there's no counter to them, if the Skirms are all in front of his base, they're in the middle of the map, they're slow.
If they're not here to protect, what were those? Five traps? Four five traps, something like that?
A castle, the rocket cards, everything was lost?
Yeah, but, but, Fire Lancer, Elite Upgrade coming in for Pig, because he's got a lot of resources.
Okay, Catmulat's so smart, he rushes to that hill and puts a keep on it.
He just wants to secure that hill.
That's really good. That's really good.
Pigs lost a thousand villagers on this castle. Does it even finish it? Oh my god. That's crazy.
He also does have a nice little stone at the top as well.
The line of sight for Korean villagers is just so nice to get extra resources when your builds are scattered around the map.
because Lance is taking Pig to deep waters here.
And the problem is, Pig has probably not played too many late games
against Koreans where Captain Lance is towering everywhere.
I saw a game on the ladder.
Captain Lance played a 2 hour Korean game,
and he won it in 2 hours with trash spam and towers.
And he's doing the same thing.
Of course, the time limit is at an hour 30 in our tournament here,
here, but Captain Lance will drag this game to an hour 30 and he'll play the
family if he has to. Score right now is neck and neck, second cast that goes down,
Pig has 160 billeters. Hello? That's too many. Not according to Death Note though.
Yeah, true. There is a couple. Too many, however, at any point if he realizes he
could delete a couple of them. He has 51 lumberjacks right now. It's not that he
would be floating a lot of food but he has a 31 idol bills right now.
Yeah, you could just delete something standing around.
Captain Lance 150 pop so he's got less pop than pig but like pigs pop is just
this homeless villagers like unemployed castle comes down here finishing that
you know other cast would be nice is taking into light cab beautiful tech
switch into light cabs got tons of food I think light cab is exactly what he
needs right now however however if Koreans if they get on fire lenses that
are cheaper, the Fire Lancers from the Koreans will decimate the Chinese light
cap so it all comes down to whether Captain Lance can can go for that Fire
Lancer or not. I'm not sure if he really likes to play it that often though.
I gotta say I love big castles. Yeah. They're all so good. One at the top to protect the
raids at the top towards his eco. Just stop Captain Lance just pushing more and
more with towers in it. On that side, one in the middle of the map, he did have one in
the south that he lost. All on hills in great strategic positions. I really like that.
Yeah, I completely agree with you. Even the ones he lost, like you said, it's like, they're
on massive hills and yeah, he lost them, but he's not the right idea initially. And even
the three that he's got right now, fantastic defensive castles for Pig. Take a look at the
file on these guys. We're talking about Pig, like he's, you know, in the grave and we're
about to show up this funeral he's 200 pop people covered beautifully he's got the
fire lenses on the field fully packed he's making that like half transition
only missing the armor and dude the Chinese 200 pop they have all the
blacksmith upgrades available it's a good late game they mix all kinds of units
and it's hard to deal with Lance has the towers but those fire lenses are a huge
issue right now
absolutely absolutely it's only um you know it's on lens to realize that he has
to to switch on his own yeah you gotta go for it almost a year yeah they're not
necessarily better because the Chinese ones move faster but they're more
cost efficient they're cheaper it's easier to spam them he's going to SARS
which is like dude Korean has ours are some of the worst has ours in the game
like yeah you get the has our upgrade you're missing armor you're missing
I think you can see even a husbandry. It's like they're so weak like they're not a good unit here
And I feel like we don't have the food even to spam them out. So let's see what he can do
He's mixing units. Well, he's investing into his towers by the way architecture to boost them up
He got arrows that's to make them deal more damage
And so it's mainly a tower focused strategy towers plus trash units from Lance
I disagree think violences are way better, but he seems to stick to what he knows best
But take a look at these pig raids at the back of Lance's base Pegas cooking
He's got a 50 population lead
There come the raids that those are so with Captain Lance doesn't even notice them
No towers behind as well. No towers in the back to help you like no castle
It's just he needs to know he can do the thousand villagers to these like you have seriously
He finally realizes though good on him to recognize he's getting raided
We talked about pigs nice castle positions. He just got rid of that keep
The captain lens was holding on that hill if he comes forward the castle there
I would love that because he does have the resources for it. He has a thousand stone in the bank. Yeah, so
Yeah, I like that. Just push the advantage
Yeah, yeah, and also now I go sorry I completely lost my train of thought because I went back to his base
And I saw he still didn't finish the one and he lost a thousand workers on. Oh, yeah
Yeah, this gas is still hot up, of course
It would be funny if Pig wins this game without finishing that castle, but he didn't even need
it.
Pykeman now coming in with anything but Fire Lancer.
Like anything.
Captain Lance has invested into trade cards before Fire Lancer, ladies and gentlemen,
just to put this in perspective.
That's okay though, that's okay.
I'm not gonna get too mad about it.
Pykeman coming in just to help deal with some of those light cavalry.
And those towers are quite strong, but those three Trebs from Pig, they're really exposed
by the way.
Just defend ourselves here a little bit and snipe those trebuchets
Captains can buy some time bomb boards by the way. We talked about bomb boards
We haven't seen a single bombard on the field for lands. I think he needs bomber cannons to hit the field
She's gonna run to his towers
Then like every strong in the has our yeah, Korean has ours
I'm missing a lot of stuff hunt everything the last armor the last attack bloodlines
So at this point for raiding you would rather have Chinese like yeah, yeah, like cap from Chinese are actually better
Towers are good though. I will say like towers hold pretty well
Mm-hmm the lances trade well underneath the towers
But if you garrison the towers the lances will die
The problem is though lances doesn't have the time to get to where he needs to be and take his pig is really pushing him to his limit
Tower on the left taking down the towers. I'm sorry
Like a treble on the left picking down the towers, murder holes coming in, 4 pig, pick
up max 200 pops, spamming light cap and Lancers into your base, Lanc is getting out pressured
and out templed right now.
With the risk of sounding again very biased, but I just want to point out another thing
that Pig's doing fantastic, he is completing more production forward.
You have Fire Lancers, they're slow, he's coming with 4 Barats.
I was expecting maybe castles on those hills, I would love to see even more forward actually.
That's the way when you're pushing to just get more ground, get more terrain, forward
production.
Prevent your opponent from stalling as well.
If you don't go forward production, you can take too long to finish up your opponent,
you can hold stall and it can get messy.
Lance he looks like in a rough position I have seen him hold from similar
positions on the rank ladder race so while it looks good for pig I 100% agree
with you I want a forward castle Travis to move forward more production you
got 7000 wood you got some stone in the bank you just gotta he deleted the
castle he lost a thousand bills on he needed that 100 stone here come on he
got back like a hundred stone from that it was at like 80% oh my god oh my god
It's okay at least he has loom at least he has loom guys. It's okay. It's okay
Yeah, I mean
It's gonna be harder double the population for pick compared to
Captain Lance yeah, and it's been like that for a while as well by the way
It's been like that for a while the only hope for Captain Lance are these towers
But they're not really helping that much because the Travis are taking them down faster than they're coming up
So there's less and less towers the more time goes on
Pick is leaking a trap though maybe even leak another trap, so he's leaking some trebs
Wonder if that will play a role at some point in this game
Last armor upgrade for for the Halberdeers Halberdeers, however won't be able to
catch up with the
with a light cap rate and they're just going to melt first of all to the
financers to the scurms to everything that pig is just throwing on the field
he has 50 light cap in the queue 32 scurms 15 light financiers but how can you
produce them when also villagers are taking a whole lot of space castle on
top from pig not quite the forward castle we wanted but it does control two
wood lines and doesn't make it messy for Lance. Lance is getting push heart. Lance has done
a good job stabilizing on 110 pop. The problem is 110 pop is not that impressive and he keeps
getting pressured and he keeps losing some towers. And here it is, Daniela. Here it is.
Forward cast of one pig. Give it up for the Australian guys. Show some support for pig
because right now he is one step away from being the first person locked into the grand
finals. Nobody would have predicted pig. Maybe like 10% of folks were predicting pig to
be the guy in the grand finals without losing a single set and he's done it in spectacular fashion.
Lance is below 100 pop. I don't see a world where Lance can hold this. Gigi's called.
Pig makes it happen. Wow. Oh my god. What a fantastic series. Honestly, well, well, well deserved
to Pig. Probably one of the people that deserve the most seeing, you know, getting into all the
new saves, all the strats, everything. Captain Lance absolutely made him work for you though.
It wasn't an easy run, especially the series.
Damn, crazy, crazy performance for Pig. You said it best, Daniela. Pig brought out the new strategies.
He really tried out a few different things, but he stuck to some meta as well. I like that from
Pig. You make sense of meta, some Bohemians on Arena, best save in the game, some Chinese on
Arabia, best save in the game, some Vietnamese, a comfort pick, and then you have some spicy tech.
You got them we scone arena coming out. We had the wool yesterday on Arabia
It's a good mix of meta good mix of some spicy anti-meta
But pig behind that great fundamentals great micro and great control of the map
These are Viper castles. This is like every castle on a hill every castle in a good position
But it must be said guys captain Lance
great series really well played yet such a nice hold and
Honestly, this last game could have been anyone's game.
We had a little bit of Vils going forward, Vils going back, a few missed decisions,
but he showed his quality, he showed his class, and he's still in the tournament.
He just has to win against a winner of Grubby and you thermal now in the loser's bracket,
which is your next set.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's a banger after banger today.
It's the final four.
It's the four captains.
Daniel, any last words before we move on to the next sets here?
I think basically this series spoke for itself, it's great to know that Captain Lance still
has a chance today, he is going to have to work harder for it if he wants to have his
spot in the final.
We might see this matchup repeated today in the grand final, there still is a chance,
but for now Pig is just going to sit back, relax and just enjoy the game until it's
going to be his time to contest it again.
Hera, thank you so much for having me.
It was a blast casting this series with you.
And again, thank you Chad.
Thank you for all the love and all the support.
Thank you so much, Daniela.
You casted like a beast today and every single day we've had you once a day and it's been
great cast.
So thank you so much for joining us and really had a great time casting with you and good
luck at covering the rest of the event on your channel by the way.
Enjoy.
Thank you so much.
You too.
Have fun with the rest of the series.
Take care. Take care my friend
Bye-bye. Bye-bye. All right. There you have it guys. Daniela be sure to show short some love in the chat guys
Then yellow cast it every single day on the channel. She does a great job
Co-casting she has her own channel on twitch you can check her out Daniela a we check her on twitch give her a follow
Sure some love as well, but let's also take a moment to thank some of these huge sub gifts
Asher baddie pals with the five gifted in the north for the 200 gifted. Oh
Who's laughing my year? Oh?
We were talking and they pulled us out.
We were having a proper like heartfelt conversation.
I'm just here shilling some subs and thinking some d-boy.
I was here begging for more, you know.
Guys, guys, you should throw more money.
It's needed. Come on, throw in more subs. You can do it.
It's almost 10k subs.
Did you break 9,000?
We broke 9,000. We have King's Gauntlet number two conferred.
you can for a big solid to confirm KG to make some more than the chat and I got
my two good friends oh different Britain at rock are gonna be even the
tournament sixteen times the details sixteen times the players
crazy I so speed gonna play yes mr. Beast will play mr. Beast is gonna play
Age of Empires 2, it's going to be huge!
HROK is going to see through this round.
Give more subs.
Yeah, how it is.
Spiffing Brit, you have not won a game in the tournament.
HROK, you have not lost the game in the tournament.
You guys have a lot of comments.
Yeah, we actually do.
How well rested are you, Spiffing Brit?
How's your rest?
You don't want to talk, HROK?
I'm just asking.
I'm just wondering because that was my biggest advantage.
Well, no, what's your advantage? The fact that you haven't slept at all?
No, no, I slept too much. I'm like, I'm overly well rested. I just that's my
opponents can't match that. Yeah, I suppose that is a good advantage. Well, in the UK,
we currently have a heat wave. It's very difficult. We don't have AC, right? Yeah.
It's very humid. Everyone is permanently sticky. That's life. You just get used to it.
I would say it's been great, but I'm also not going to blame it for bombing out the tournament.
Of course. We know it's a blame for that one.
The Capon tea drinking for the temperature is 35 degrees.
So basically, if you're having tea beneath that, it helps you sweat so it lowers your core temperature.
tea is still good and hot weather, but after a certain point it's impossible.
Wow, okay. That's actually good to know. I actually don't understand what you just said.
You said it gets too hot to drink tea. Yes. Eventually you reach a point where drinking it
can cause like heat stroke rather than low local temperature. That's got to be horrible for the
UK and you guys can't make it through two days without tea. Yeah, the entire country
grows to a halt when that happens. I won't lie. Just society breaks down, no one works,
Everyone just goes to the pub.
I heard your prime minister is resigning in one day.
Is it the tea thing?
Is that the...
No, I'm telling you.
He's going to hold out for like seven more days or something, because in 2016 he resigned
on the 27th of June, and it'd be very funny if he retires on the exact same day 10 years
later.
I think that'd be very fun.
But who knows?
I think British politics is best entertained with a healthy dosage of satire and comedy.
Really?
Yes.
No, it's good.
actually keep the politics talking and keep the chat entertained.
I need a five minute break.
And also we had on the schedule at some point speaking, Brit, we had your exit
interview, by the way, or your exit word.
So you can start with that.
You can kind of go get your food here and go eat.
Go eat.
Go eat bro.
Go call grubby.
Give him some tips.
Go eats.
Go do what you gotta do.
Go reschedule the thing.
So I'm late.
Classy.
Uh, Brett, so I want to say, I was on your team and I want to tell you an honest
truth is that I was on my stream, we hadn't met yet.
And I was like, I don't think he's going to play a single game.
We're going to lose.
I just said that out loud because I just, you hadn't played a game for 90% of the
ladder matches.
And so I was like, I guess he's just not going to show up.
And then out of the blue over the hill, you rode it on a horse.
You went eight and oh, you eight and two or something like that.
Yeah.
You got 1200 in the fastest I've ever seen a new player get it.
And you catapulted us the first place.
it was so it was I was literally so impressed so surprised and what are you
gonna do with your share of the $400 a prize oh yeah I'm gonna try and make up
for all the videos I didn't upload grinding in my wife was like well you
know you want surprise buddy so I guess like we could celebrate or something I'm
like I wouldn't get your hopes up I spent two weeks grinding in I have this to
show for it yeah I got some math on stream I think I made sub minimum way I
I mean, one third of the California minimum wage based on the hours played at $400.
So that's okay. We can fix that right now.
Thanks to our sponsors.
Ray shadow.
Let's do it.
We should have sold spots on Harris event.
That would have been like only our streams have the sponsors.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We get all the money.
It's called a tourney brought to you by insert brand here only on my street.
Yeah. I was super impressed.
I mean, we're just, we're just bantering right now, but I,
you did a video recently where you had like 4 million ads on one video.
This video is only ads.
Yeah.
I thought that was so creative.
That was such an interesting way to, uh, put a loophole in YouTube system.
Did they end up banning that?
Did they stop that?
Did they, I mean, doesn't that like threat of life?
Well, from their perspective, okay.
They get a cast of the ad revenue as well.
So as, as long as the advertisers are paying to have an advert to put on a video,
They don't really care.
They get their 45%, I get my 55%.
Everyone's happy.
The main issue is that there were so many adverts
that it kind of breaks the like metadata of the video
is how I describe it.
So, okay, imagine you're watching a Twitch stream
and there's so much data being sent to the Twitch stream
that whilst you're watching.
Can I wait, that lose you?
Hello? Am I still here?
Did they censor it?
Holy, they got him, dude!
Oh, I don't want to say a bad word. YouTube, I'm sorry. YouTube, I would never do it.
YouTube, it's okay.
This is a safe stream. We're here on time.
If there's an era is going to upload the right amount of ads
Holy you got King sniped, bro
That is crazy
Well, I'm excited if he comes back to castle and how you guys doing chat. I am excited for this set. It should be the most
I mean, I honestly, I was gonna tell her this, but I thought it was gonna be the finals.
You thermal grubby is like, in my mind, that was the guaranteed finals.
It wasn't even a choice.
So having it now is crazy.
Captain Let's come back.
Yeah, he might.
I mean, Captain Let's could easily win from lower beats here, but I think pig's my favorite.
Easy to say now.
Yeah, I played a practice set with pig during the ladder race
We just made a custom games and played and I lost so badly that I thought well
If pigs only the sixth place on the ladder and I can't even come close to him. What's the point?
The pig might be damn champion bro. Hey, pig was just the goat. He's so good
Yeah, the pig graduated to the board
need Ludwig and Gauntlet 2.0. There's one thing that no viewer ever wants to see
and that is Ludwig in an RTS game. Please, you don't want to see it. You're begging
for something you don't want to see dude. Watching Ludwig try to seriously rage
in Empires, you'll scout, you'll gouge your eyes out. You play with Ludwig against
Hera. I know and I only have one eye left. I have to sleep extra every day to try
and get rid of the nightmares.
Wait, thermal quit?
Am I getting trolled by chat or?
No, no, no, no, no, no, wait.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
No way you thermal quit.
Adam?
I
Got one guy could I give me mod I'm gonna pan that guy
You thermals in jail check check jail find you thermal
He's a bit more time. Sure. Give me more time. Give him 20 minutes in 25 minutes
I'm easy give him 25 minutes no problem for me
He needs a short nap that wouldn't be a problem for me
Great what happened to your mic we lost you you were in the middle of telling us the secrets and you got a
My PC crash it was too warm it's all falling apart here. I know it's your back
I want you to know it's all falling apart. What happened? Why is speaking bit out of the call? It didn't do the I
Kicked him out. I was mad at him. No, you got his PC crash
This PC crash you thermals in jail
Why did you throw my jail that he said it built to the map again?
Authority's cracked down
Really tempting to don't know what's different but we'll get him back in here
It's good to be back. Apologies for dying mid-sentence. I understand it was perfectly timed, but
Yeah, it's warm weather here and also my my RAM is slowly dying so I have to buy some new RAM
$200,000. Yeah, and you ran this economy
Yep, it was a little under a grand for just a couple of sticks of computer chips
It's a good thing we made a hundred dollars resource place in our team
He's down money on this government.
He's lost money.
It's negative.
I'm going to be expensing it anyway to you, Harry.
You're going to need to throw in some more substrat.
I've always, Harry, can't afford the bill coming his way.
Yeah, yeah, I'll take charge of it.
I'll have to take a look at that bill.
We'll talk about it off-screen.
Yeah.
Actually, speaking of that, I'm happy you showed up today
because I thought we'd never hear from you
after you kind of bombed out of the tournament,
but you're back, back in a big way.
Yeah, yeah, no, it was good fun.
I mean, you might have seen from my conversation
in the Discord, I think there's some accusation
of smurfing being thrown around.
Just fundamentally, I think the person I was playing up
against, obviously on an alt account, way too skilled,
don't know how they made it through the screening process.
But yeah, also I'm just not very good at the game.
I'm good against people who are bad at the game
and not good against people who are good at the game.
And I think that's a rule that kind of exists for everyone.
Yeah, I think so as well.
It's like, if someone's bad, you're good.
If someone's good, you're terrible.
Tell what we saw, but what about the King's type
or King's suicide, I guess, from you?
You just rendered King into the castle.
We're not bothered by that at all.
Oh, oh, but you weren't aware of this.
Okay, so basically, Noth and I agreed in the chat
before the game.
Yeah.
Noth and I had a conversation.
I was like, we should meet with our Kings
in the middle of the map and have a little kiss.
And so that was the plan.
And so I sent my King out and Noth,
I think it was just so flustered he didn't send it out.
So I was like, oh, you know, I hear for the King, it's fine.
I just was like, fine, I'll send him off to go meet
Knopf's King.
And then I just forgot about it and he walks straight
into the castle and died and that was the game over.
So it was pretty messy.
I won't lie, I wasn't expecting that.
But then I was like, it's fine.
I'm in the loser's bracket.
So the personal face will also be a loser
and they'll suck at the game and it turns out they're even better than Knopf.
So that was the problem.
I got the legendary, the most dangerous wacker.
Oh yeah, that's crazy. It's a tough bracket.
And I could think I didn't get the chosen golden boy Grubby,
otherwise I really, really would have struggled.
Oh no, he's the old guy. I'm rocking with Tig now.
now. Yeah, actually, I think it's a really new grubby to be honest. Like he's a decent
guy, but I don't know. I think he's just yeah, he's not been my favorite. Pig is fantastic.
Let me tell you a little bit about Pig guys. He's from Australia. Great guy. Excellent
players in the final funny pants. He does push up. He's so funny. I love a lot of cool
things about pig. Team Pig is looking hot. Actually, there's been some upsets though.
So far it's been kind of nice to see but you thermal versus grubby guys
Let's get serious for a second. This is the matchup
I think a lot of people were expecting for even the grand finals
Bracket final that's we're way ahead of you. We already said this is gonna be the grand
We all those give me the finals
People we even bring we talk about this for for years and years and years and yes, it is you thermal V grubby
Essentially the soft grand finals based on elo who's it's the headliner as you might say it's the headliner
It is the headliner both in the same country
So it's a Dutch mirror match
But you thermals from starcraft grabby's from warcraft and we have a lot of warcraft and starcraft fans in the chat
True that's a big match by the way
The starcraft guys are insufferable when their guys are winning by the way and pigs already in the finals like if it's if it's pig
Must you throw them on the finals? I'm never here in the end of this thing
They already look down on all of us RTS players that are not Starcraft players
It's gonna be insufferable if it's a double Starcraft
I didn't do it. I'm all 17 of the starcraft fans in the chapter night. They're all here. Yeah, they're all here
That's amazing
Fantastic. Yeah, but two warcraft players besides me and a truck aren't here though
You might have they're still playing an orc mirror in the ladder probably yeah
90 minute game
Yeah, that is actually a angle. I didn't think about this is definitely a starcraft warcraft showdown the team
The two Titans of their game
Yeah, sorry go ahead. No, let me actually no, no, let me finish it. You know what? Let me fit it
Grubby the thing is the chat saying Grubby was a warcraft a starcraft 2 pro
No, no, no, he wasn't he was like a 16th place starcraft player Grubby is a warcraft Titan
He's gonna be represented the warcraft. We're gonna forget about the starcraft 2 career for the sake of this tournament
He's a warcraft world champion. He's a starcraft decent player. Okay, it's different
Better than he was a good starcraft player, but yeah, I get what you're saying. He's a yeah, he's a warcraft goat and a starcraft
bracket filler
We call it the brick baseline, okay, and you can climb above the brick baseline that's important
But you know what, because I think Grubby is the type of guy who is just stronger with
every loss.
I would say I would be super afraid of him in the losers bracket.
I think if he gets past you thermal, I think he makes it to the finals.
I think he's like on a run.
This is like the spot where he gets stopped.
I would be afraid for Captain Lance for Grubby round two.
I think it's still like I've got to go ahead.
Just just before you throw us into this game.
I've got a quick question.
So of course we have this game, another game after it and then the grand final.
Yeah.
Um, and then tomorrow is there also then more age of empires?
Yeah.
Uh, it's supposed to be a kind of a secret.
I'm going to ask it before the grand finals, but we're going to have a spicy something
tomorrow.
Okay.
Cool.
I have no idea what it is.
Woo!
Wow.
Well, you know exactly what it is, do you?
I know.
And who knows?
You don't know?
No, I don't know.
You haven't been reading my Discord messages, but I want you to be there, A-Truck.
Oh, yeah, I'll be there.
All right, cool.
Let's put it in there.
A-Truck, if you were, if you give it 100 subs in the live chat, you get to know the secret
information.
That sounds like it shouldn't be a requirement.
That would make me down 100 bucks on this whole thing.
Guys welcome in here. We have Gameboy from Grubby Uthermal. It's Vietnamese for Uthermal and it's Grubby trying to try and test it away.
He's playing this on Redis and Force of the Four. It's one of his main civilizations. Talk me through the matchup while I fix these camps.
Well I was going to ask you, we're not the experts on the way versus the Vietnamese.
So, if I remember correctly, Wei is a faction based in Chinese history, that's probably correct.
I'll tell you what I know about the Wei, is that Hera here, every time he makes a video
about balance, prized to say the ways that were powered without being mean about it to Microsoft,
so he subtly goes in the way, sure are strong with their tiger cab, I sure wish Microsoft
would move quicker on this but I love them and he tries to sneak it in.
Well you can tell he's seething, he's like so, so angry and his rage is clearly contained.
He's like, he's like, he's like, he's like, he's so angry and his rage is clearly contained.
So I think the way, I know they have a superhero unit which is Warcraft style, perfect for Grubby.
And I know that they have-
Sorry, they have hero units in Age of Empires.
Yeah, they do, just the way, yeah, they're not even kidding, yeah.
Really?
Yeah.
I didn't realize this game would become Overwatch. This is incredible.
Is this going to become a staple now?
Actually, it can create Tracer, so it's everything's level.
It was on track to become a new thing into the game, but then they just made it for one DLC.
So there's three civilizations that have heroes, one of them being The Way,
and then nothing else since then.
So it was looking like we're on track for every sip to have a hero, but no, it looks like it's just these three sips.
What is the chance we see come out in this game today?
I think it's like a 10% chance. It's good in late games that cost 1000 resources. It has an aura effect as well.
So when you get it out, it's like a massive aura for the army. I think it makes them move faster.
I think the way it makes them attack faster, all the units in the vicinity of the hero.
But it's expensive at 1000 resources, only available in Imp, so it might not come out. It's the Cao Cao.
Yeah, it's pretty tanky.
It's like you think you can snipe it, but it's hard to snipe.
Yeah.
Yeah, interesting.
It may happen.
I wonder if anyone's going to do a timing push of some sort.
I will say that the Vietnamese, pretty all around, super solid can answer anything type
SIV, right?
They're just good economy.
The Imperial Skirm is like a perfect late game unit.
Just answers everything ranged, tanky, strong.
Yeah, I assume that's why you know, I feel like you thermals the most
I
Don't want to go into this use your phrase deep waters type person
I wanted to be a normal standard game and then I beat you yeah
I'm gonna do everything I can to keep things bog standard. He tends to play mostly archery units
Like every step that he goes for is like an archer base strategy. It seems to be his bread and butter
Here Vietnamese of course get tank your archers so they could definitely lean into those a little bit more
Stephen Brett, you didn't touch a single archery unit, a single foot archer in your entire A-Wi-T career, I believe. Is that correct?
Yeah. That is entirely correct. I mean, when I used Flegio Vampires to a long, long time ago, I did used to really enjoy Longbow as the Britons.
But I haven't dabbled with it with this version of the game, and I don't think I will, because I won't lie.
When I look at the micro of it, and I saw you coaching people, you would be screaming at them being like,
well, first you shoot and then you immediately run at the enemy, and then you time the animation frames or something when they reload it.
It's like, okay, it's a bow and arrow. What are they going to do? It's a new magazine, and then, oh, then you attack again.
It's like, okay, do I want to up the amount of clicks I have to do whilst playing this game? Not really.
I feel like I'm doing enough. And yeah, that's probably the kind of mentality that lost me the game.
me the game but that's my perspective. It's crazy you say you're doing enough
when you're like at 10 clicks per minute and you're happy being there which is
fine honestly it's fine and the fact that you went to 1200 elo is a flex you
can talk about the end of time like this is fantastic. Exactly, exactly. I won't
touch the game again of where that elo is going down and look I'm a paradox map
gamer I'm not a I'm not an RTS player but I gave it a good shot. I think it was the
The fewest clicks to 1200 anyone has ever done.
Yeah, in history.
You're gonna get super pleasant to 1200.
Not even a pro player can beat that, potentially.
I'll do an open transport tycoon deluxe tournament.
I'll invite you, Herod, just so I can kick your ass in the video game.
I'm actually the best at.
So there we go.
That seems like it has less players than Starcraft.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
I...
Yeah, actually, maybe it does.
It could be the one game with less plays than StarCraft.
Really big at the bottom of the barrel.
Grab me up a little later to cast Lich here, by the way. It's not a huge deal, but it's worth noting that he will have more villagers due to Wei getting extra villagers from the Con map grades.
But because Vietnamese will get their talents in his faster, you'll throw him a little catch-up in that will count.
But overall nothing out of the ordinary no rushing and no all-ins. Looks to be a pretty standard, you know boom
Plus maybe some rally control. I know Grubby likes to do that a lot
Wait, I got a pro question to ask you that I've always wondered for a map like this
Yeah, sometimes people get feudal and they slow
They don't immediately rush to castle they get all the economic upgrades first
Yeah, and most times people rush to castle first and then get you know, bid-axe and everything else
Is there any re is there like a better version of the two? What why would you do one or the other?
I don't I guess I don't understand the only reason you'd ever go fast feudal on this map is if you have a specific bonus in feudal
Age that's really good
The only sims that come close is like humans with a 2TC boom and then maybe Malay that can go really fast if you
Don't get the economy upgrades and then turbo to fast imp afterwards
But besides those two I would say like the fast field on this map is not really the play and almost everybody's gonna go for the fast
Castle on arena. Maybe some other sims can do it, but not really
Timing the fast dip. So, Steven Britt, the fast dip is a strategy that we haven't seen this tournament despite I consider it to be one of the best strategies in this elo bracket.
Nobody's tried it. The timing on like something like arena, this map is a bit different because you start with extra bills.
Well, something like arena, a Turk fast dip will hit at 20 minutes. So, imagine your point is that 20 minutes is in him. That's crazy.
That is crazy. And that's kind of thing that, well, you could kind of pull that off reliably.
Yeah, it's super reliable. It's just one builder not to show the page on but I have it color-coded PDF plus video tutorial if anyone's interested
But it's one build very consistent
You get a gunpowder right away at 20 minutes, and then you all then push in imp with bomb art than hand cannon year. It's so strong
Nice
And the reason they all fast castle is because they nothing beats another town center for economy booming. Yeah, right?
That's exactly like like this guy here. You thermal three TC boom
He caught it kind of upgrades coming in come in cheaper for the Vietnamese
This is fantastic for him. Grubby also doing the same three counts in a boom and you know
They're both enjoying some nice extra villagers if anyone does anything other than this
You have to have some kind of all in or something that would counter the boom very difficult to do that though
So my coach told me built a single TC in my entire time playing
But I did explain the reason why you would want a second TC to my wife.
So I understand it.
That counts.
You understand the theory.
Yeah.
It doesn't mean I follow it.
How did that combo come up with your wife?
That's pretty interesting.
It's perfectly normal to be in the bedroom and sit down and talk Age of Empires theory.
I'm sure you do the same.
Age of Empires economic theory.
Those late night grubby talks we did dabble into some town centres, that's true, but...
Hot and spicy villager booms at 11pm.
I love how that's your late night at 11pm.
Come on, I'm not a full-time streamer like you guys. I can stream for like two hours other than I'm tired and I just want to go to bed.
Actually, to be fair, I don't think your streaming stamina is much better.
better. You can stream for 15 minutes then you need a snack break. We're all working.
We all have our deficiencies, that's for sure. Back to Arcane here real quick. We have
Grevy going out for the relics and he seems to be the one guy doing this consistently,
but the reason why I like his approach now is that he kind of knows that Uthermal is
not the kind of guy that likes to commit to the relics. He sees Uthermal booming on every
map. Grevy's going to snag the relics without making too many tire caps. It's a low investment
relic snag which a truck your economic or economic sir
you have a youtube channel about economy that's pretty good right
free gold is good that's right that's correct that the economy will tell you
that
i would say from economy p o v
since both these guys are kind of
boom players they both like
getting the late game i would have thought one of them would have pushed
four tcs to try and
to try and get the one up on the other knowing they're not going to get rushed
I would have thought he would have seen a 4th, yeah, I know it's coming, but I would have thought like a lot quicker than this earlier, yeah, I agree with you.
I think you either go for the monastery or you go for the 4th DC. The fact that your thermal's got none, I think he's just an inefficiency honestly.
He probably doesn't realize he's making that misplay in a pro level for sure the 4th DC is already there or the monastery.
It's like doing nothing, doing neither of those two things is just setting yourself far further behind.
But he does have one relic that is 100% free, no way Grubby gets to that.
And the other one is pretty damn close to him.
You could have casted it right there, you got to be careful.
Grubby spawns him with 15 months.
Or he's the first one on Steel's King.
He's on the way.
I didn't see it though.
He's so close to the vision.
Can we get a pause?
I think he's here unless he's crazy.
Yeah.
message crazy yeah quick pause give a quick call
small call for the number you're cool about
oh god
uh grab just want you to know there's a couple of relics you have picked up
he's got three so far he's got three so far I think he knows what the one up top
but he doesn't we really need this call to come through so yeah your thermal
might just stack two in the end here's the fourth you see we're talking about
not the best position this woodlands already kind of saturated eight is
saturation we got how much we got 20 on this woodlands terrible I think putting
all four TCs within the walls is a coward you gotta take at least some space you
gotta get out there the idea that all four TCs your base can't live in this
little wall forever but how do you wing thermal yeah you guys help for the
Vietnamese to be kind of like out and about cuz like they make money from
Lumberjacks, right? So you kind of want to be getting some map control on some
tree lines that aren't safe. Yeah, that's a late game thing, but it certainly is
something to think about. But even just like without even like the paper money
in mind, just grabbing these extra minerals is always good. And like the
problem with staying in your base like this, I mean actually it's a good point
from Brett here. If you run out of wood lines and if they expand to these, then you
get raided as you're just trying to chop your lumber, I guess an extra gold from it
with paper money, then you're just behind for no reason. You're just getting you
Getting harassed for no reason. So I like the balance approach of sending a TC outside
I think grabby might go for that because his base is already completely taken up
So if you want support DC, it's gonna have to be outside, but he seems to be happy on the three. I
Will say the way this map is generated is what I've noticed from playing and practicing it
Is that you have some gold in your walls?
Then you have this big chunk of gold right outside your walls like your bonus gold
Yeah, it's so nice when it spawns the way it spawn for you thermal
Which is like away from the enemy in the corner nice spot if it spawns at the front
It's like oh my god, there's gonna be a forward castle there. There's gonna be a fight there
I hope I get it lock down
I mean if you thermal doesn't like wall that off and like kind of annex that part of the map
Is that just a catastrophic misplay on his end? Oh, yeah for sure
I mean it's that catastrophic because it might not get punished and like if it does get punished
Then yes super super bad because of how easy it is to wall like just a few houses few pieces snow wall
And this is just super safe you get the relic you get the two golds you got a lot of space you get some wood lines
It's so safe back here, and we see that's a great doing that like this this extending the wall thing
That's a pro move
Captain Lance kind of started it and players are falling into place doing the same thing now
But take a look at this one from grubby. It's the vision game. He does this every single time. I think it's really
It's really good
It what's the counter to this what do you just build a couple horsemen or something go out and chop them all down like what it's so
It's so oppressive you have outposts around you at all times and just realize you're playing with these your opponent
That's map packs. Yeah, pretty much
So like the council is just to actually just clear them force your point to send another villager and most of that
What you'll see is that it's one round. It's one round outpost you clear them
Your point is not gonna have the presence of mind to send another villager
He's just gonna be down that vision some text coming in here, which is quite nice
It's different Brit. This outpost is pretty cheap at one million dollars if you can tell me the cost of it exactly go ahead
Okay, right if I remember correctly wooden wall is like free right so if I had to guess ten ten what?
Ten what ten wood it's made of wood right? Yeah, unfortunately you're wrong. You just lost a million dollars. That's terrible
Damn it. Well, hey, good news guys the price pool for the King's Gauntlet 2 is just massively increased
It's up by one million
It's up by one million. Thanks to the thumbs guys that got straight into the prize pool here
You threw him on the road for infantry, by the way, it's 25 wood 5 stone for anyone wondering,
so you're kind of far off there, unfortunately, but that's okay.
One stone.
Oh, 5 stone, 5 stone.
Oh, 5 stone, okay.
Also, Grubby stole the relic to the north of the map.
Oh, yeah, it's kind of huge.
Yeah, 4.
He's coming in, that's pretty huge.
That's 4 relics for him.
He's also, wait, he's making a play for that bottom one, he's going to see it now, oh no,
close.
No.
He's getting some harassment.
You have a loot though.
Yep.
So in terms of like unit compositions here, let's talk about what players are expected to go for.
He's been almost gonna open with some skirmishers, and he's also going for philancers, so skirm philancers is extremely good for the Vietnamese.
They get extra HP on both those units, and on top of that they get the imp skirm upgrade on their skirmishers, unique to them only.
So it's a really good comp and hard to deal with.
And for Grubby, he's got a few options, but he's opening with a zanbe raider.
Not the tiger cab, which is kind of interesting.
maybe he hasn't seen your rents about how you know perfectly balanced the
civilization is yeah maybe I should have watched more closely yeah wait can I
ask so if you get skirm fire you've talked about this a lot in castings
tournament is how strong skirm fire lancer is yeah and it's not something I
see normally on the ladder so is there a third unit that you that you mix into
that or is that just it that's the comp fire lancer attack move that's the
Comp, yeah, a third unit would be like a Bombard Cannon.
Of course, I'm like, this is very cheeky from Grabby.
You're trying to housewall the gold, my goodness.
This is why I'm riding with Pig.
Pig would never do this shot.
But to your point, H-rock, you don't need another unit here.
This is the perfect combo on its own for the most part.
And then you need like a Bombard Cannon in addition,
maybe some Trebuchets as far as like a long range siege
that really support that combo.
And then you can either push with it
or you can just camp your siege,
both of which are good play styles.
But here we go, we have a monk going to that fifth relic.
So, H.R.F., you might have to eat your words.
The greed play.
No, he won't get it.
He won't get it.
I bet $40 million he won't get it.
Deal.
This is the casters curse of the century.
Has he firmly even built a monastery though?
No, actually.
Not a single monastery.
We got sprayed and heavy here.
Grabby's kind of outmatching him right now.
No monastery.
So he's not even concerned.
And actually, Spiff and Brett, that wall that didn't come through, it's actually catastrophic.
You kind of called that.
Now he's got to defend this side when he could have just walled it and focused on top.
So this is completely avoidable, your thermal is going to be split for no reason.
It's so nice that this is walled right now and it would be so, so nice if this monk died.
So my dothel is $40 million.
That's crazy.
The price pool is about to go astronomically high.
It's going to be a big king's dollar too.
Cosmet might have actually played.
For $40 million he might still answer my T2C.
For $40 million he might actually show up.
Chemistry, Brace here coming in.
I mean, it's a good combo with the Fireline Discreamer.
It's not fully upgraded right now.
We're missing armor.
Crucial upgrades that need to come in for the powers.
The story of this tournament, man,
is people forgetting a couple of upgrades
and there's army being a lot weaker than it should be.
Yeah, and it makes it hard to cast.
Cause you're gassing up an army
and then it comes in with no upgrades
and the chat's like, wait, this army is not that good.
Um, actually, Harry, you don't know anything about this game.
Yeah.
And I'm just sitting there like, yeah, you're right.
So they hit 130 Vils,
which is about the time you're supposed to stop, right?
Am I correct?
You get around 130 and you start to, okay,
now it's army time.
So the boom phase is now over
and now the endless waves of slaughter begin.
This is the part where two good players
start sending wave after wave of men
to die in the trenches, to gain small amounts of ground.
Paper money is in by the way.
Better composition matters.
Paper money is in.
Everybody loves paper money.
I don't know, everyone talks about paper money
like it's the greatest.
The chat loves paper money.
Everything paper money is mentioned.
Paper money!
And then when you don't have paper money,
Yeah, paper money. Yo, he's missing paper money. It's like a big. It's like the talk of the town
They believe tiger calf coming out for grubby's and it goes double gold comp really making use of those relics
He keeps getting right on the bottom. You thermal is but that castle will help a little bit
Tiger calf plus jambi radar very powerful probably one of the best comps in the game
But it's full of gold comp. So if grubby runs out of gold even with relics
It's tough to sustain it. Take a look at this Brit. Have you ever seen one of these things?
Attraction trebuchet, so it's like a faster trebuchet, right?
It's a trebuchet that doesn't need to pack and unpack, kind of. That's the best way to describe it.
Okay, well, I don't feel like that's necessarily too much of an advantage from my brain's perspective.
But I'm sure maybe you think it's the greatest unit in the game.
No, actually, you know what, I'm kind of taking your opinion. It's okay.
had to pose in cons compared to regular trebuchet and yeah it's decent it has less range but
you know you can move it really it's not bad. I feel like that less range kind of for me
is a bit of a no. If you're playing the game to you know the mystery zone which I've never
been to where trebuchets can even be bought then I feel like you just want the extra range
on it. Chat by the way it's talking about the Imperial Age the mystery zone it's just
We haven't discovered it yet, but it's on the steers.
People talk about it, but obviously you're not going to get past Castle.
Here we go, a little bit of a push here from Grubby.
How does Grubby show?
Why does it feel like he has such an army event?
He's almost looping. That's why he's looping.
Whoa! Forward Castle!
Oh, a forecastle behind his forecastle is crazy.
That's Aura.
Yeah, it's kind of insane.
And this castle is all over the place.
You're not forecastling me, I'm forecastling you.
But we've got two defensive castles
trying to hold this now.
The maps have been cut in half,
but tirecaps really are on the field.
This unit is very, very strong.
It gets stronger the more units it kills, by the way.
No blinds. Fire lasers are decent against that, right?
Pretty solid?
Yeah. I mean, I assume.
Pretty solid.
They're going to make short work of those tirecaps
at the time being.
Fire Lancer or Anti Cavalry for the most part, but guys no vlog lines
We saw this in a grand final
Leery forgot blood lines on the way for like an hour and grubby. I don't forgot coaching
He did get coaching from Leery. Maybe that was one of the things they talked about also no hands
No handcart by the way is
My traction trebs yes
with the king is in that castle
I have a lot of traction trevus
King jr get kicked out
he gets kicked out, goes to the town center
it's fine
I thought he didn't notice
no splash damage to the traction trevus
they're really only like anti buildings
they're okay vs units but
not the craziest anti units
in the game
they're both maxed out
but for some reason it feels like grubby has
It is odd, you look at the army stats and the grubbys should be killed in twice as many.
Grubbys has 30 more vils and yet it's also more army somehow, I don't understand what
the army is.
And here it is, it's got some in the castle, but yeah, to your point guys, I feel like
you should have a lot more on the field.
No Blood Lent is a big deal in these fights, so keep in mind that Grubbys army is going
20 HP less per unit, so they perform.
Fire Lancers, this is really good, Fire Lancers is strong.
That cost was going to go though.
These traction trends are actually quite annoying for you, Thermal.
They're just taking in a lot of buildings and staying mobile so you can't really pin them down.
Oh, Bulldance comes in, that's huge.
up so that no huge disaster for Grubby there and you thermal and get to point
it rock there's another forward castle coming to the north yeah from Grubby
yet another forward course another one and he had that one placed down here he
kind of switched it up went to the top these targeting that stone a couple
trash and ships going down for free that's not good in any language okay
you thermal I mean building a huge amount of buildings outside his walls
Getting ready for like a significant take some take some that pressure
Need to need to be slowed down there just destroy your castle
There's only so much stone in the game
Yeah, you can't feed at all the grubby's traction traps you will run out and actually formal is out of stone
Yeah, it's got zero stone and no castles in this base besides like the one so all these forward castles
It's kind of hurting him more than anything like this is not helping him secure anything
I want these castles to be at the back defending your woodlands. He's got no defense and the castles in the front
It was dying. This is terrible news for you thermal. He also has violence up top not stopping the Ford castle
Action everywhere, okay, so you know my god pump of
Skirm, okay, there's there's a huge right coming. Yeah, the king is in the town center
By the way, the king is in the town center. Oh if he snipes the king you could you could imagine
No, he's gone past the he's playing this stand away. He wants to kill. Yeah, he might think it's a villager
He might think it's a villager in there, so not gonna commit there, but still a big raid coming in
Yeah, huge raid. I mean, yeah, he said there's no castles in here. So this is so hard to clear it up
It's it's the worst feeling when Europe comp is infantry and there's his cavalry
We have to run back over a million miles to try and clear all this up by the time you do that
They're already at your base with a castle another army. It's just it's such an exhausting. Oh, there's a nice raid
But it's good. Yeah, by the way behind this you throw was also counter playing. He's also raiding
He's got units everywhere grubby still has a kind of a messy economy
But it's big damage from grubby with these raids and that forward castle that bit mentioned here
It's up and running carry cap production from there as well targeting the very exposed woodlands traction traps
It seemingly just cannot be stopped it can easily kill this trebuchet
You can almost kind of a little bit of traffic jam there are you trapped himself?
Yeah, that's the thing it feels like a grubby fought you thermals army straight up you thermal can win
Well grubby is not doing that. He's attacking in different spots and his army is not fast enough. That's the thing about these oh
oh that open gate could be a problem this open yeah okay though yes it's pretty
fine but I think what you throw on these is some seeds like he can't seem to
break any building he's fighting all right but this army's not a building
breaker it's it's just it's cabin so he's he's not getting as much damage you
know you see it's very strong he's getting tired calf very effectively
there we kind of almost clear up all these armies it's gonna kind of turn into
a grubby pushing the hole defending big fire happening down to the south though
take a look at oh wait a hole now I'll say big hole in your fight
it's a dance party it looks like you're gonna break up the party though the
castle I feel like Grubby took first move with the tower and you throw them
but it's kind of mugged them just dropping that cast let me show you my
tower looks like this is your thermals final
Yeah
Forward castle. I'm sure five tractor jobs will be here in two seconds to blow it up, and then he's out
There's the traction trips. They're just waiting
Yeah, they're they can move but they're just
The castle cost more than the stone. It's taking years. Yeah, there's like 200 stone left
Yes, you're still in a time. It's not really that worth it
But there's that gold there you throw my duties if it was be like to what's corner the map
This is like a very important corner for him, really want that goal.
This is the most important pebble on the map, okay?
This is so important.
He must, the kingdom's most important thing.
There's another wave of villagers coming off the left of the screen.
Oh, should we get another castle drop?
Grubby really wanted to do it as well.
Coppitation coming in for some late game economy tax, but take a look at this, the
raids never really stop for Grubby.
Wait, so give me a comparison here on stats here.
Paper money versus relics. Yeah, how much money is he getting from these is trickle of wood gold?
So I think the number is like a 20 or 30 villagers shopping wood is like one relic
So like the 70 they were seeing here is about like two or three relics
So it's actually not better than the four relics that grubby has but decent
However decent it does rely on having wood on the map which doesn't last forever despite of course wood not the most scarce resource
But you know something to think about at least
Yeah, I'm just saying because we're at the phase of the game now where gold is almost out
This little thing at the bottom is basically the last
There's maybe one in the middle. Yeah, almost out of actual mineable gold. And that's where the relics become
Really, really valuable for grabby. He's already gotten 3000 gold more than you thermal. Yeah
This relics so far. So if paper money can't keep up
Then he's gonna he's gonna fall apart. Yeah, I want brit. Sorry for your spot
But what happens if this goes to an hour and 30 minutes? Can you explain the end time goals?
I can because I saw this happen several times when you played live and I almost missed my bus home
Basically the game goes so long
That they realized for the health and safety of everyone involved after an hour and 30 minutes of in-game time
It just goes to whoever has the highest score now score is determined by a few things
vision on the map
technologies your KD and
Your economy so
basically you want to get good value for killing more units than you lose so that
way your opponent doesn't gain as much score and you also want a big economy and
hit up all those texts so yeah we could be heading there especially as we get to
a resource starved map that was an insane explanation that was the best thing
you've done in age bumpers now that's a career highlight that's actually
Fantastic
Him splitting you thermals like the archer micro a chalk highlight sleeping it's different Brit the highlight is the explanation
Everyone's got a highlight. It's very fantastic
Everyone's got highlights, bro
I've also got quite a few lowlights, but we prefer not to talk about those
Yeah, we've seen them one but that was repeating them, you know
King I like that respect that you're not a big fan of the monarchy
Yeah, well no, I'm a fan. I'm a fan of the monarchy. It's just you know the one guy that one dude
My guy was an imposter. He had to die. That's why I see
No, you said one game only sausage fingers are favorite
I gotta say, the way he's going is pretty good for Grubby.
He's looking so solid in this late game battle all over the map situations.
But think of this, your thermal's got double the military count.
Even though maybe the military is stronger for Grubby, like if it's one universe, one
unit, but if it's like double the count for your thermal, and he's finally got some siege,
he could be kind of turning the script on its head right now.
We're missing siege engineers that attack for the Trevor Shavers to extra range and extra damage from buildings, but still,
Tata resin the bank for you thermal, he can easily take some good fights here with double the military.
Yeah, true. I mean, 152 builders for Grubby does live in with less army than you'd like.
I don't think this army from you thermal can be stopped head to head.
At the same time, it feels kind of like if he hasn't got his value out a bit.
Like he's always had almost like an extra 40 units over Grubby, but it doesn't feel
like he has control of the map or the resources, or he is exerting much pressure.
Yeah, it's a bit strange, I'm not even sure why that's the case, I feel like if you just
kind of use his army count and kind of lean with his army onto Grubby, I think you can
actually get some respect on the map and just push out.
I don't think you need to be like respecting these 10 Zambes back here.
I mean, just leave some reinforcements, the great army should just move out here, in my opinion.
Yeah, also worth noting that Uthermwise decided he will never pick up the relic in his base as long as he lives.
Even though at this point that would be at least 6,700 gold guaranteed that he has just decided he does not want, he doesn't need it, he will win without relics.
If this comes down to a game of score, he might regret it, but for the moment, we'll just let it slide.
nice moving out here but I mean deleting some walls could be nice our units
can move. Attraction traps could easily kill these traps so Grubby needs to take
a shot right now but if he's not doing that he's got a backup because the
finances are closing the distance. That's okay the treasure is targeting the stone
mine for some reason. Did you not get a bombard cannon? They do. They do. Like did you get
bombers and you thermals decided not to go for them but you thermal is taking a
really good fight right now. He's gonna kill this castle and there's a lot of
stone here they can take um this could finally be it the actual stone that the
one remaining stone on the map yeah for these I think it is I mean we saw what
they did to fight for this one I mean this one could be a bloodbath this could
be World War three right now so far it's like you thermals going out for but
grubby keeps fighting around the area so this is not gonna be like a oh you
could just have it this is gonna be hotly contested by the looks of things
Look at the cavalry trying to charge down those trebuchets, but that chip point is being
held so well.
You're not going to leave that wall.
Asia is thinking long term.
You're going to have to make a joke.
That's fantastic to play from your terrible.
And Grubby's being sent back.
Grubby's being sent back.
Grubby is low on gold.
He does have the relics.
I mean, relics guys, it's a slow passive income.
It's not something that gives you a bulk of world one shot.
Grubby, there's a world where he just can never fight this army and he's got to get
back to that raiding strategy.
That raiding strategy, maybe even the king snap strategy, where's the king?
Could look for something like that.
It's so funny at these level of games, it's obviously still very, very good.
But these level, it often seems like the raids just open up pop space
so the other guy gets more army.
True.
Like everywhere overbuilds villagers.
So when you get 20 loss in their raid, it's like, oh, that's actually awesome.
Now I can make my army that I've been holding back on.
Like a raid that killed 30 grubby builds would help him.
It would be so nice.
He's at 150.
Yeah.
He's got 88 Hussars in the queue, by the way.
88 hazards in the queue, he's playing hazards for the rest of his life, trying to use them to snipe some of those
pesky trebuchets, but not really quite fine in the kills.
By the way, this is gonna be probably another last charge of the cavalry unfortunately. I can't see them breaking through this.
Yeah.
I will say it's so nice when you're playing and you know that your comp is
good. I don't know what you're saying is right, but like when you know that Fire Lancer's
firm is good, kind of in all situations, you don't have to think as much and constantly
be switching around and changing upgrades and it gives you like a stability to be like
alright I can keep making this and I can fight whatever comes my way.
Yeah I agree.
Why is the game paused? What does this mean?
Okay, it's a pause. It could be air conditioned for grubby. It could be a number of reasons
but in this game it's like if you have a technical difficulty it's fine.
I see what they are playing in Europe. We do have a heatwave. It makes sense
These guys are currently melting
You thermal is actually experiencing what it is like to be in Vietnam
Right now just with the temperature
Come for the RP
4k gold from relics at some point
You have to think if you thermal maybe I should grab the one maybe I'm gonna grab two
That amount of gold is is a big difference in the army. You can oh grubby just deleted
Yeah, 10 30 bills. Oh, wow 30 people sent to die that grubby finally have a bigger army
That's actually what look at the cavalry coming in. Yes. I have to be chosen if you're one of the bills
Picked by grubby to die. Oh
I think it's a worthy sacrifice because now it gets a lot of a cablery on the field the rays are starting to get a little heavier
Um, I mean, you thermostars more army on the field, but I feel like Grubby now kind of matching his numbers
It gives him a more chances to get a good fight in. This is fantastic, though
Good rates on these woodlands and Britt's your point earlier. We talked about woodlands being a big deal
By not expanding like we've done all the wood at the back is completely, you know chopped
You've got these forward woodlands hotly contested the side woodlands even more exposed
So you can almost actually in kind of a bit of trouble hard to envision this being that big of a deal
So he's got 9000 wood in the bank, but maybe something super long term to think about here.
I think it's quite interesting how Grubby is kind of using his army to try and bait
in Euphemals, much slower moving army.
And I think that's kind of smart.
Try and draw him to one side of the map and then quickly pivot away to the other side
and see if you can harass it there.
Love that, yeah.
Just kind of using that mobility to gain a number's advantage on a certain point in
the map.
You thermals army running not fighting like when they fight they do so much those keep them running good trap snipe though
Grubby that's gonna be nice remember at this stage of the game sniping gold units way more pathful than hitting food units
Those are not that big of a deal that Trebs certainly is
Yeah
Yeah, it's kind of tough. I mean the the gold difference. It's starting to become the big story
Grubby's banking gold at this point deciding what he wants to make for an X wave of gold units
That's good. The pressure has never really left you thermal side this whole game.
He's been so good about keeping that pressure on.
He's had some small raids. You have that loopy castle as well.
But this massive Zambia is now like 50 Zambia.
This could never die as long as Grubby just doesn't fight with it.
Like you can just get good picks with it as soon as there's some scurms just run out of the way.
Box formation. Oh my goodness. Look at this. It's kind of scary.
Oh my God. He's going to surround him. He's going to trap him inside.
Uh, I gotta imagine though, Call of Reactors versus Imperial Skirmishers and Fire Lancers feels like the worst.
I guess it's just about avoiding the combat.
Yeah, it's like, they do okay versus the Fire Lancers. They just have to not fight Skirms.
And if Fire Lancers get close, I mean they can never get close because you'd always just run away.
So it's not that bad, but it does feel that it's going to counter by both units at times.
But yeah, I mean, take a look at this. They can make sure it works with the Fire Lancers most of the time.
Right.
Is there a world where we see Gruby go for a king snipe here?
I mean, surely he kind of has an idea of where that king is.
I think so. I'll tell you why I think so. I think this castle now is super exposed.
There's no woods, like no natural barrier.
You can easily see to the corner of the map.
Yeah, there is some vision, but like five traction ships go to the bottom
and then just target in the castle. You have a very mobile army.
You can make a king snipe happen. Will he go for it? I'm not sure.
Right now he's getting techs to try to boost the score.
So he's trying to play through with that score win, but there is that weird condition of a king snipe.
You thermal probably can't with the immobile army, but I think Rubby can so he can if he wants to basically
Going for the score when a half hour early is is confidence
Yeah, there's some fights still left to have I'm
I'm shocked. He's doing it this early, but he doesn't have such a gold lead
Maybe he just thinks no matter what comes my way. I can build the counter and stop it. So
He's got a couple of traction traps here looking for that castle down bottom and you know
Just hitting and running and every time there's a lot of army coming his way
He just kind of just avoid that but you throw my things kind of had enough of just chasing army and doing some cardio
I think he wants to get an actual push going so three trebuchets right now
But he's in an encounter a huge force from grubby here big fight taking place
Oh, no, where's this huge if grubby
He can go straight to those trebs. Yep. Oh, it's absolutely those trebs his whole pushes. Oh, this is like such a bad
I had a...
I don't think so, the traction trips.
Oh, but the traction trips!
Oh wait, not the traction trips!
Wait, actually pretty nice.
He's dodging the arrows with the front.
Impressive for me, Thermal.
Is that another forward castle on the map?
Yeah, it is.
Where did he get the stone for that?
H-Truck, no, we saw it. Remember that stone here.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right.
This castle, this castle.
It got him two castles, that's pretty huge.
map gives him a nice football to actually launch and a proper push against Grubby's base. So this is
really, really interesting. It could be anyone's game right now. Rates at the back. After all that
getting pushed in, Uther most finally saying I've had enough and getting out there.
Tenghis doesn't really have the bills. I think he lost the bills on the billers.
By the way, his economy right now is 38 guys on wood. Wait, his economy is totally dead.
He's got zero on food H rocks zero on food
Zero gold zero stone is economy's 38 military. Wait. He actually is lost wait. I'm right
This is terrible for him. I mean is totally gone. I just realized it's not even
Grumpy just won I didn't understand
What the rating was that good defensive castle raids were really heavy a hundred and fifty military
You thermal fight anything just keep fighting and losing your armies
You can make some villagers castle from grab you though really good position
Should I hold in the middle of the map the trebuchets? Oh, no
166 cabin cube for grubby. Oh my god. That's crazy
This is you throw most last army basic
I guess you can make one more way because you had a lot of food and wood, but he has zero economy
Yeah, wow
I got a continuous raiding by the way grubby recognizes that there's some kind of rain the last ten guys don't work
He's got more coming up though.
Now they're gonna end grubby.
Some villagers coming up in the castle. Actually half of you thermal economies coming out for this castle.
Wow, I've never seen Rage do that much. That's crazy.
Grobby takes the score lead by the way. Oh my god, it's back and forth. This game is so close.
Love it. So close.
Alright, thermal defenses, Trebuchet.
Turn your pop each.
There's only one trap so you could out repair this for a while by the way.
And no king snipe attempt, then we've got a lot of army back here for your thermal.
Again it's like 145 army, he's having trouble just controlling all of it.
You can only get 60 in a group in Age of Empires 2, so like he's got two full groups of 60
army and then still 25 left over.
It's a hard army to control.
Now take a look at the damage coming out of these skirmishers, that's why you can't fight
them.
Look at that 5, Zambé, what are those?
Oh wow, yeah.
It's deadly.
Can't lose those gold units this year. I'm so strong burst archer units. Yep. Him screams as well specifically
Here we go with a traction trebuchet traction trebuchet counters regular trebuchet by the way
See acts more like a bombard against it
So I've got the score that still though. He needs to keep that trouble alive or his push doesn't get anywhere
Yeah, there's no stone left for grubbies. We gotta keep alive
Yeah, that treb if it dies it just it burns out your whole push. Grubby buys the stone
That's expensive. He snipes it. He snipes the trap. He don't have a lot though.
Yeah, he's just like this.
That's just me.
Yes, another push.
Yep.
He's trying to raid, but this time the thermals got some army.
I mean, thank God his army's got no Vils.
At this point, like,
Ruby raiding is actually not even that good because there's no Vils left to raid,
and you're just running into army.
So it's getting into a weird situation where Grubby has to start fighting army
and start trading because your thermals got a zero on food.
You can't replace army forever. I want to see grubby make that call and just start fighting armies
Yeah, there's a period of this game where you firm over is a hundred deaths behind his kill rate and now he is
Rapidly pulling ahead of grubby in KD. Yeah, that's very interesting
You can always tell his scurns to drop their weapons and pick up an axe because everyone has to go on the home front and make some
Real resources. He's about to run out
He's long dude
Traction traps for Grubby, by the way, he's investing so much into these Shepardjays.
He does have a single Relic, remember that he's on paper money, gold and cum.
He's made two Shepardjays, they just died.
He's got one behind the castle, I'd be scared to even deploy here, and then cast on the
front with no stone in the bank.
If that castle goes down, it's not coming back up ever.
And Grubby's got two Traction Shaps on it right now, so Grubby I think has a more stable
position thanks to his Relics.
Big fight on the front though, oh, can't fight those.
Yeah, but he just has so much money, he's so much food, he doesn't really care.
Although I mean, when you run out of wood, which Grubby has done, doesn't that kill
your farm economy pretty quickly soon after?
Yeah, it's not a huge concern though.
In one hour thirty timer, no one will run out of wood into food.
Wood will stay on the map.
The only time you run out of wood is if you get pressured off woodlands.
So that could happen, but if you've got the map control, there's tons of wood to take,
so it's not worth even thinking about here.
Discworm Army should die by the way.
This scrim army is prime time.
Grabby's gotta go with the Cessar, there's no file answer.
You can take this all out.
Again, zero on food.
You thermal can't rebake army.
At least not forever, that's for sure.
Yeah, 20 minutes left before score win,
but I think, I think I'll be my break in before win.
It's tough to say.
Yeah.
I will say this game really didn't appreciate
how powerful Traction Trebs are
because it's just annoying.
They just, with Trebs, you can snipe them a lot in here.
You can stop the push, you can see what's going on,
but trying to jump to just back up.
Yeah, and it's like...
This game really made me appreciate not playing the game,
because this is a much more comfortable position to be in.
If I was a knight with their shoes,
I'd just be sweating profusely,
not just because of the temperature.
This would be a nightmare to actually play.
Like honestly...
You've actually got a click to do right now.
Yeah, imagine each of you playing this game,
and then get that heart rate low because I know it's right up there at like 200 bpm, it's okay, we're not playing it, we're just watching it, we're safe.
It's a reminder of how much clicking is going on here, it's like massive, massive fights, but right now it's 200 armies from Grubby or 200 Pop Army for Grubby and 110 for you Thermal.
Yeah, Grubby is overtaking Thermal's army for the first time ever.
Yep, that's actually I saw you thermal raises hands. I think it's about a GG from him. It look he's about to
Give it in dude. That's a frustrating game one loss by the way
You've you've had an hour and a half minutes. You've sweated profusely
Even you're back and forth you had some winning chances, but grubby outlasted with the relics kept complaint too much
You didn't have a relic you didn't take so I mean, I mean so much
And that's your principles. You don't want relics. You don't want relics. Yes. Oh the kings that are attack
Actually, there's no murder also.
He might survive that one.
Eventually, that Hussar will get him.
It's four damaging headguides in a thousand years.
The king will die here.
Just stay tuned.
Yeah, 6,500 gold from Relics is just a big number.
GG.
Oh, Blake.
Blake Gingby Grubby.
True clinic on like attacking across the map, winning armies, taking down Castle.
It was just really good.
Yeah.
At the bottom.
Five games of that, guys. Make sure to book out the rest of your week because this could be going forever.
It's because of the distance.
Yeah, no matter what happens, we're finishing the show today, but it could be a 16 hour day.
Actually, I say that no matter what happens.
I picked him from Australia, might have been at like his 5am for the finals, but didn't go a full distance.
Not a single game has went through the timer yet.
An hour and 13 minutes on the clock, and the youth thermal is broken by Grubby.
The thing is here, I have to say, you can't even play a bad game.
I actually think he did fine, but Grubby did a great job of using his mobility to perfection.
The raids were heavy, but not just the raids.
It was the presence of mind of attacking in one area, then walking back, going to the other side,
trying to just keep your thermal's army marching across the map and not marching towards him.
Which I think was a fantastic play from Grubby, and I have to say, as someone, maybe a shock to some people,
I've coached him a lot, and I've seen that I think his biggest strength is his late game, and
And consistently he has a great late game and he shows it off in the tournament now against a heavy heavy rival
You coached grubby that's that is a shot. I no one would believe that yeah helping him out
We did it not much, you know, but here and there
Let them behind you know, I will say this you thermal known hater of registered fortress. Maybe yeah, he's happy
It's out of the way. He's not every best at fortress by the way every single one. He's a great player, but it's not his map
He's excited for it to be done with and maybe he can just refocus and see how he does on Arabia
Which is almost certainly the next choice. Yeah, he's actually one of one red-a-side fortress
Sorry to correct myself. It was the A.C.U. H.R. But besides that he has one single red-a-side fortress
And it's probably gonna take us back to our baby. I was sleeping for that game. Give me some time to wake up
I like question
Yeah, you're tired can't expect you to show up and play it's all gonna expect me to play
I'm not a little sleep.
Yeah, but you know, on some level too, for age of empires players,
which I now count myself as one of, there's an honor to winning
on Arabia more than anything else.
Like if I, if you played at best of seven and you won three
Arabian games, but lost four other games in your heart, you're like,
I won that series.
I'm the better player.
Like I won the Arabian games.
And so you thermal, if he wins the next game is going to feel like
he's, he's still got this.
I think Arabia is where the real heart shines.
Yeah, trust us.
It's interesting you mention that because in my final game, well, my final map, because
of course I lost the Regicide game, it was like, okay, your choice is fifth, what map
do you want to play?
And instead, I just said, okay, Wagga, what map do you prefer playing and what do you
think your best game is?
And he was just like, it's Arabia.
I'm like, okay, let's play Arabia then, hit me with your best.
And he did.
It was really fun.
Did you actually do that?
Yeah, I did you can see in the lobby chat. Oh my god
It's a turn of the fifth
Yeah, but I already had my story arc. I wanted to see other people thrive. Oh my god
So see what they were about. They were good. I've made it 200,000 dollar bet. You're gonna win the tournaments. You really cost me a lot
It's not even like expensive tea, yeah.
Guys, instead of betting is immoral,
but it's the only way he's making money out of this term,
but so you can't blame him.
It's the only way. It's the only way.
I explained a lot of your moves,
then King Under the Castle all of a sudden.
The King's got it.
It's a lot more sense knowing that better.
That's crazy.
You have no idea how many channel points
I now have for her.
That's wild.
All right, Gears View is hosted.
It's looking like it's in indeed be Arabia.
They're sitting in the lobby there.
You see them all as the host.
By the way, it gives a rating right now.
It's 1788, you thermal, 1782 grubby, so this is like super evenly matched, you thermal is pretty heavily like not one-dimensional
But he's heavily
Statted out on the Arabian games double-side like he lost to Kat last he lost both arenas and the fortress lost 3-2
Against grubby is now down the fortress and grubby has some arena strategies in mind
So like you thermal is kind of hard-pressed to win his two Arabian games
And there's a world where grubby just takes them to two arena games even if you thermal manages that so your thermal will only win
If he wins one of Grubby's home map, which could be a double arena,
do you want to keep that in mind so players and viewers know what that's
take?
What kind of sciffs do you reckon getting pulled out for this next map?
Archer said for your thermal Portuguese, probably Portuguese actually.
Yeah, maybe Malian.
Portuguese or Malian?
It's been his two trusted civilizations so far, I would say.
Yeah, what's Grubby?
A pair like Ethiopians probably for Arabia.
Yeah, it's got Ethiopians.
He's got, he's got way, but he used them.
Regendaries could be played in Arabia as well.
But I would say, I'd probably say that's her.
We know.
So I think Ethiopians, what else does he have?
Actually, maybe Vietnamese.
I don't know.
Well, you can do is on Vietnamese.
He's on Vietnamese.
Okay.
I could do is on.
I don't see what he's on.
I'm not sure you could.
Yeah, yeah, it could be.
Vietnamese definitely been a popular, same among the top players of this
tournament.
It just seems like it's got every, everything you want.
Yeah.
It's just all it's of and I think making use of the fire lancers. Obviously, they didn't lose that last game
Yeah, paper money all the money. That's why I take it. Yep
Yeah, even like sing sing, I know he dropped out, but he was also playing a lot of Vietnamese
But what's interesting though is like I wonder if either of these players would just pick up the Romans
The Romans have been a very effective strategy that men are armed fast armor. They're not used to it, but it's not
These aren't ever true Chad's error. These guys don't have what me and waga have
That was quite an ancient re-experience.
That was good.
Yes, Pip, you kind of faced that head-on.
The long-sword stamp on Waga didn't last long into it,
but you did feel the brute force of that one.
Oh, don't worry. It felt like an eternity on my end.
Yeah, no, it's one of those things where when someone is able to kind of hit you
when you're unprepared from attack, it's so effective.
And you the like difference between a player of my skill and someone of say like above my skill is the ability to adapt to that on the fly and
She'd be like right. It's okay. It's actually fine. I just quick wall here
I boxed them in they can't get to me said have to run through my TC. We're fine
We've rolled with it and that level of like skill amazing
You know and love to see it. I like how you appreciate the skill set from other players
I think that's a really good quality to have not good in the game, but it's good as a human being, you know
It's it's a very well appreciated character. You're yellow points for that because you're top tier
You live for vibe and appreciation
I got give you a start at it's indeed an Arabian game and we have the main
Civilizations from both players if you opens versus Portuguese. Let's get excited for this one
It's a kind of a must win for your thermal in my opinion because again
He still has two of Grubby's home maps and I don't think he's gonna be able to beat two arena games away from Grubby
So he's kind of have to win these Arabi games
Shout out equalize the score of Grubby in blue as the Ethiopians and your thermal in red as the Portuguese talk with the
Symmetra at rock and maybe maybe Britain it what do you know about the Symmetra Brit?
I'll give you the give you the floor first
So I know that the Portuguese of course Britain's oldest ally
Shout out to all of the Portuguese. It's great to see you guys
Thanks for putting up with Brits when we're on holiday.
You think you guys are great.
We'll always be there for you little guys.
And it's great, but most importantly with the Portuguese,
because of course I know this off the top of my head,
they have the organ, the lovely organ gun,
that's a siege weapon, pretty similar to a scorpion,
and on this map it's going to be really important
when they whip out the caravell.
I think that's going to be a real game changer.
Yes, yes.
It could make all the difference.
Absolutely, this is a caravell map for sure.
Any pawns? Dude, caravall control on the side. That would be insane.
Absolutely.
We have corners locked down filled with caravalls.
They weren't expected.
Yeah, absolutely. You thermal with the Portuguese here. You know, it's been a stride intensive
on Arabia. He likes to play towards archers. Of course, maybe the caravall tech in late
game, but archer opening seems to be his comfort zone. Thumb is playing archers into
Ethiopians that get archers that fire faster. That could be a little bit of a risky gambit.
Grubby though his Ethiopians he plays with archers, but he plays a bunch of wacky
Stadios. He's done forward ranges in his last set against Pig. He lost the game
But he did try it out. He can play men at arms. He's got a flexible opening or wide range of opening his strategies with Ethiopians
He's very experienced with them
Yeah
I think the most important part of this matchup is that if you took both these players and pick the thing they most played
It's Arabia and these sims. Yeah, this is the most practiced thing for both players
So it's kind of like seeing them at their best, which is a pretty cool
Showdown. Yeah, and talking about what we talked about earlier as well like
Whoever wins this game is gonna feel like they're the better player because of you know what we talked about there
That's a huge confidence boost like if grubby wins this he's gonna be feeling great going to that like match points
If you thermal wins this he'll be like listen, I lost, you know, the the pussy ass four to five, you know
cheese as walls up stone walls you're grubby on a real man's map can't mash me
he'll be feeling good at that one one so gotta keep that mental in check grubby's
board is safe at the back but it's not so safe in you you thermal scout here let's
see has he lame does anyone successfully lame the board in this tournament
sing sing he lame that from up from I use it I think it would be sing sing
I think so
Aqua he named aqua ridiculous
A landslide blogger to have you named a man. Oh, that's a legend. What are you doing?
But the boards the boards caught he's got it. He's got it in he's got it in
Who would lose a village to a boar?
Disaster.
Never seen that in one of your games, that's for sure.
A little bit of Rot-Maxing going on for Gravy, but no bills that at least, which is decent.
You can almost take a look at his that town center looking a little bit better actually
So a small advantage to your thermal in the early game a grubby with one second of idle PC
I said to keep him up at night. Yep. Yes, sir. He's already behind
Yeah, I mean you thermal that basically the perfect build so far perfect start everything clean and then look any bad rot
It's a nice early loom
We've got an early loom coming up from grubby
No, regular time actually regular time enough of these players regular time for these players
It was about 50 minutes, but yeah, I was going to say that doesn't feel like a regular time for this tournament
Yeah
Never
After your voters are dead you get a little free time GG. It's pretty standard
Yeah, so it looks like you thermals up a few seconds faster itch rock. Why is that the case?
Why are you guys you put him up a little faster on same pop not a lot of out of TC time?
Is it maybe because the forages generate wood in addition to food?
No.
It's good.
That is a Portuguese bonus.
We'll give you two points for that one, but it's actually because the Portuguese research
texts faster.
So when they researched lume, it comes in a couple seconds faster.
Interesting, I had no idea. You were you were prompting me for a tech answer and I was like I think you just played better
It's a sneaky bonus it gives you like a five second advantage to feudal itch
Which doesn't matter in most scenarios, but it does sometimes let you get first move with the scout
So it's kind of interesting. Is he gonna lose this bill? It's so annoying when you're going out to build
Oh, he doesn't care. It's fine. It's not feel it stay on that maybe. Yes, not feudal. Okay, I think against lowered level players
You'll stay grubby. They probably experienced enough. Yeah, you'll be fine
Garby's actually going for the Minot Arms. He's gonna walk his map a little bit behind this.
He's actually got a kind of a great map to wall off. Easy wall in the corner, easy wall here, here, and then maybe
it's a bit, you know, a bit much of a distance, but he'll manage that. Minot Arms for the first punch.
And I think it's stable for you there. Well, he likes to do the stable into range style of Portuguese. See if it works out for him.
His map's a little more open. Barry's a little exposed.
definitely Men at Arms can get some play here but he is walling everything up ahead of time, seems like he knows what's coming.
He knows that my arm's got spotted by the scout calf, I think.
He knows about them somehow.
Yeah, because he's preparing for them.
Like, he wouldn't make these walls if he didn't know the Men at Arms are coming.
So I think, was the scout calf that scouted that one out?
Actually, I would like the scout calf to go back.
What we're gonna set up some arches behind this right now the big storyline is whether or not these a minute arms
Can get some value after you thermal space basically only the berries that can do something
It's these two builders in the front of the berries are the weak point. Yeah, you can just nice them
It's nice. Yeah, you could just walk them away. It's open
Is that open yes, yeah, that's open. Oh, oh no the door walk outside the bill the wall. It's okay
She gets away. Yeah, it's okay close, but it's okay. It's good, but he didn't chase you off the berries
So it's something I mean, it's not like it was a crazy investment from grubby. Yep
Yeah, he's looking to just trade off against the scouts now you throw more a lot of players
Especially the pros like to just avoid them in arm fight
They're just gonna go for the counterattack and I think you throw was thinking the same thing this oh spear coming as well
It could be a little bit of an interception. We'll see if he gets a hit. Oh
She's good for both. Oh, he's fighting it
Good micro too.
Uh, Grubby's happy with that, they'll get a lot of damage on the scouts.
Yeah.
And the minute I'm just hitting this table, probably gonna do a loop.
The gold is in his nose.
No one out for Grubby to just go, well, try and do a loop and then Euphoma's gonna go
on the offense with the scout cap.
Yeah, this is standard.
Uh, it's a standard he'll force some spears from Grubby to keep him honest and prevent
like a super fast cast behind this.
Maybe he'll slap a couple of bills but if he finds nothing he can always send the scouts
back to defend remember the mobility here from scouts is the big idea you can
attack and defend whereas the Minotaur arms are kind of locked in only attack
yeah I mean it's interesting if he did want to well he could loop the Minotaur
around once more and get to the goal which is totally open but he's choosing
not to do that he's staying on this side of the wall he thermal village is an
a strange villager the scout no he gets it out so some more no damage yes it's
minimal damage idle DC though from your thermal at 40 seconds potentially oh I
think he lost some scouts of spear in the middle did kill the spear but he's
lost two scouts to that so looks like grubby is feeling confident to just move
out yeah fletching a horse collar coming in so grubby is staying on track with all
this tax and honestly if there was being forced into skirmishers not where you
want to be with Portuguese they got a discount on gold units and oh my god
villagers just left for no reason oh no you thermal classic yeah a villager just
dying move them out it could sometimes click all those but it'll go down that's
a bill that first bill kill of the game goes to grubby who's running into some
scrims those could be nasty oh yeah losing these arches would help by you
thermal stabilize
Uh, dang, it's actually pretty good pressure from Grubby in that, like, he's not spending
too much money, he's just doing a minimal amount of stuff to put pressure on and make
yours a bit uncomfortable.
Yeah, excellent micro, Grubby.
Excellent micro.
Yeah, he's just like doing more.
Yeah, he's also pressuring the arms.
The arms kill the scout, this is fantastic.
You might even kill an archer, he's getting so much value from units that should be past
their prime.
A bit of an opening here in the woodline that this villager could be in trouble.
It's even archers do fire faster. He's gonna kill that villager
It's the second kill of the game terms of villagers another couple of you thermal villagers
It's been the problem for him all the time
Yeah, and you combine that with the iltc now grubby's got a three or four villager lead
Yeah
Which is just a great feudal to be among two equal players three or four villager leaders like almost all you can ask for
That's other things going crazy
Archers on the field soon more grubby going to castle pretty soon
Yeah, it's always in the back of the mind, so Grubby has almost like kind of full walls, not quite.
I think you really should close that off just to play it safe, but full walls, you can always decide to cut production, mark it and up.
You have these, you know, windows where you can just squeeze Castle Age instead of committing more to feudal age.
But if you're not walled and you do it, it could be risky, but, you know, Grubby smartly walls up here.
That's very, very smart. I like that.
by the way thank you to pig for the raid pig is sitting pretty in the grand
finals I don't know if pig is gonna go to sleep now or what but pig congrats on
a great tournament so far shout out to pig in the chat he is the finals he's
the best player the tournament so far but he's got to get one more set done to
take take the whole thing home and right now we're just fighting amongst the
losers to figure out who's worthy enough to step up the pig again but pig is the
the only guy undefeated in tournament so far.
Did you decide there's an advantage?
If Pig is able to rest up, then his opponent
kind of has to basically play a best of five
straight into another best of five, right?
Yes, exactly that.
So HROK is talking about advantage as well,
and Spiffing Brit has called it.
It's the advantage of the rested.
So Pig gets to rest, he gets to watch his opponents,
he gets to practice and builds.
He can do whatever he wants in the next few hours.
There's no actual advantage though
to answer your question, HROK.
There's no like map win, there's no like draft advantage.
Honestly, I don't really like those too much.
I would have maybe done a small advantage,
but I like just the resting being enough.
And then that's fine.
That's the best of five for it all, it makes sense.
It'll be so good at this, by the way.
It's one of his scariest attributes.
He takes small amounts of archers
and he puts them all around your base
and he makes you lose the bills,
get uncomfortable, panic your economy.
It's just, he's so good at doing multiple attacks at once
with little armies he doesn't care about.
He doesn't mind if he loses these, but they do damage.
Yeah.
And he's often good at keeping them alive.
Like you wouldn't throw them away, like a lot of times people get caught up in like
okay I'll put forward four archers here, they just leave them, they die, they get no time,
they don't really buy much, they might kill a villager but then you lose them so fast.
But Grubby's gonna run them back, kind of bother you Thermal, he might even loop them
around and go for another raid.
But speaking of these raids, you Thermal actually hit a nice raid behind Grubby's Woodland,
forced a lot of villagers to reposition.
And by the way, it's kind of an even game.
Grubby's got Fyokshir Villager, sure, up to Castleage a little bit faster, okay, but
Thermal is also to Castle Age and they're both just timing range units and skirmishes from your Thermal technically counter archers
He's in a decent position somehow. Yeah, I'm surprised by this
He's really kind of pulled it back the fact there's so few seconds between their Castle Age despite the idle TC time despite the
Village of Difference despite the harassing pretty good plays
Yeah, it's almost like a question mark as to why that's the case like grubby
I don't think he's been solid rest collected. It's a bit ahead, but somehow we just have less in the tank
I'm gonna go for the second range right now and maybe maybe we've lost a few extra units
Yeah, one thing that's strange is that grubius not yet got bid ex 21 minutes is okay of a wild upgrade to miss
Yeah, I think he's forgotten about that because you never get horse collar over bid ex. That's like a Cardinal sin
It looks like he's forgotten about but bid ex that could be one of the reasons why
He's you know gotten a even castle time despite the village advantage second range for him though is nice
You can catch up in these archer and skirmish numbers, but you can almost closing in on these range units
And I think you thermals actually doing quite well. You might even be considered to be winning right now somehow
Would you say that really and we still down five bills? That's pretty big for this time of game. I value like in the archer
The archer I've valued the momentum because here's the thing like five villagers doesn't really matter
If you've got five villagers just sitting idle at a woodland or five leaders running back and forth
And it's just when the siege comes in the siege can be such an asymmetrical swing
If you just get a nice shot with some manganose kill a bunch of units
So those five villages are just spending your resources on build on units that are dying to manganose and whatnot
So momentum for me in an archer war super super important for siege using that momentum beautifully you thermal is I like this bush
I think it's solid
Yeah, there's the forward siege
Yeah, I think this budget you get rocket carts, or is it there are also manganose. It's double manganose
What's the kind of vibe around the rocket car? You're a fan of it or kind of we're it seems
Super strong to me, but I don't play him so I don't know if they're weak
It just seems like a better manganal, but maybe I'm dead wrong
I want to know more about my opponents use them. They're too strong when I use them there too weak
That's exactly what I'm thinking. I actually agree with that by the way. I 100% agree with that
That's exactly my opinion. I'm not joking
Opponents rock a cart the unkillable my rock card does zero damage. It's ridiculous. So yeah, that's kind of my vibes
Please fix I usually just like to have a manganal. I'm kind of a purist. I want a manganal
I want a knight. I don't want an elephant. I don't want a rocket park. Yeah, it was a classic, you know.
Everything from 2001, yes.
Yes, that's what I want, bro.
How I grew up with the game is how I want to play it right now, but these UDLCs are killing me.
Alright, well, two archer players going head-to-head in an archer war in the height of Castle Age.
Where's that village we're gonna go up front? Is that gonna be a forward tower?
Just got a lot of confidence.
It's gonna be a thermal villager just like going to die.
It's impossible that it's not building anything at all.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Maybe repairs.
Maybe repairs in the manganole, maybe you thermal, maybe stuck in the control group.
I think usually what you do is you make houses.
Yeah, there we go.
And then you come in for the repair when needed.
Mangalore v.
Mangalore?
Very important guys.
The manganole has 295 resources.
Killing the opponent's manganole and keeping yours alive is super important.
Here we go.
Get some value.
That villager is dead.
You thermal classic.
Oh, we're just going to split.
Oh.
I think we're going to get it yet.
The Manganon micro, so hard to do, I have not learned it at all, and it's so important
because if the Manganon start winning versus each other, it's snowballed so quickly.
Yeah, and by the way, so far a major advantage you thermo is kill a couple units and snipe
the Manganon due to superior archer micro.
Grubby is on the back foot with skirmishers and I talked about this being his weakest
position.
I don't like when he gives it to map control, but at least this time he's not trying to
boom of that extra town center at least he's trying to fight it back with with
ballistics with magnetals so grubby's doing what he needs to do which is great
but he is getting outplaced outpace and outplayed so far huge for grubby yeah
so big if that gets dodged this snowball is a lot harder
no ballistics no ballistics for your thermal whereas ballistics is coming in
that's attack that lets you shoot to move in targets with all range units but
It's getting a lot here grubby loses the mega now. That's terrible. You got to go back
Trying to snipe it with scurms
She's doing a pretty good job and I do my from here, but what the same time loses his own
Losing our man. Oh, yes. Oh my god
Grubby's lost everything grubby has lost everything
It's going crazy. He's all
on the right push
I placed a bet on you, Firmal. I knew it.
I knew it.
This is huge, fitting with the leading most paid, you know?
He's made so much money, though.
The Kings go lit sports betting analysis section.
This range is going to go down. The Magnos, you can't really clear them without your own Magnos.
So Grubby, despite it not working, he's just locked in to doing more of the same.
And it's unfortunate to be on the back foot here.
You thermal is just so solid with his siege archer micro
Yeah, I mean if these manganelles get on grubby siege workshop and take it down. That's you're out of options
Yeah, once that hits that I
Do like this from the money like three ranges are wrestling there from you formal
The two the two crossbows
For that, but he's doing the same thing actually doing the he's doing the almost even better
That's oh
Okay, I will say guys, Valkyrie is actually even, more or less, right?
If Grubby can actually stabilize, he's got some ballistics, you can move out, pick up these
stray units, push back across the map, you just need a little bit of momentum and some good plays
with your Magnos. This game is still even, more or less, in terms of economy, so keep that in mind
as we see these next few fights unfold, keep in mind though as well at the same time,
we have three Magnos to one, so the advantage is in your thermal side.
Yeah, but in the in the background grubby got the second wood upgrade and horsecaller both of which you thermal doesn't have
Yep, though with the same number of bills grubby's actually getting a lot more resources
Man them though a big thing and you can almost getting first move on to this wood line some skirmishers to defend with full upgrades
Scrumper's just kind of hold the line a little bit here. It's not too bad. You can also try to pin through these guys
Look at this though. This is beautiful
Yeah, those those two crossbows are so annoying. You have to run 15 villains with the gold. Oh
That's such a frustrating experience getting an archer across the map
I hope this guy can deal with it for grubby steak, but if you throw a mic
Yeah, Firm was also split up his micro
He knows his opponent only as one so he's kind of trying to pressure multiple sides of the map at the same time
Yeah, super smart. I mean
Grubby is doing the thing that is the worst feeling in the world where you have this mass migration of bills all over your base
You walk all the way across and then you're being harassed there you walk all the way across again. Yeah, everybody's idle. It just feels terrible
Yeah, there's poor villagers. You gotta get back to work
They want to work active with your defense though. Like you can't defend behind your woodlands
You got to break the wall and get out here because if you just stay behind here like you thermal can choose to fight or not and
Grubby never actually dealing with any problem. He's just kind of delaying it
Which is not great on defense loses the manganal. Oh
Narrow when used for grobby. That's crazy
You throw was a little as though you screamed at me during a lot of practice games
You said if this situation delete your wall get your scurns outside of it and try to push them away
Yeah, because if you're stuck on the inside you'll get you get torn apart
It's you are getting coaching from the best a2 player is not a bad thing stop acting like the victim because I'm screaming at you
You deserved every single yell that I did in the coach. No, it's didn't coach me. I didn't he wasn't available
I didn't get any help from Lewis. You I got the second best a2 player to help me out
He was pretty good, and he streamed to me a lot.
But unfortunately, I kept asking and I just couldn't get...
That's good!
Hey Chuck, when you're awake, when you're awake, you have some good bathroom, alright?
It's good to see, you just have to wake up more.
You got some good bathroom, that's good.
I can't wait for Kings Gauntlet 2 to be at 6am!
That way I can...
There's a monk, by the way. This monk is just...
That's a monk!
Dude, brother loves relics, but it doesn't matter what he's...
He's always gonna go for it.
Yeah.
There's a lot of villagers. Yeah, it's just pain and your thermal bounces back
Dominic game very impressive game just to be honest. That was a really good
You know bestive versus bestive Arabia. Definitely a statement game from your thermal funny thing is I don't think the channel point scrub heads
Cash it on the background just forming the grub heads
Getting generational channel point wealth
Grubby actually did a pretty good game here. Like, remember, he was up 4 or 5 bills from that feudal age.
He had a good position on his best sieve, and he kind of just got outpaced and outplayed by Euthanomal's Mango Micro.
It snowballed beautifully for Euthanomal. Grubby did the right thing to come back, which is nice to see.
It's nice to see Euthanomal at least got that game knowledge.
However, it's tough. It's always hard to do it against someone as talented as Euthanomal with that Archer Crossbow,
or like that Crossbow Siege Micro. They're so good at.
The one thing Grubby was missing though is that active defense. Break the walls, defend out here.
If not, you're going to get just completely abused over those walls and
great play from your thermal. It's a nice classic 1-DT economy behind it. Not great, but again,
keep the push, keep the push alive and he's up the road with that.
So do you think after this game, do you think that Grubby has been successfully bullied off of
Arabia? Do you think he's all in now on picking Arena or Fortress?
That's a great point. You can't pick Fortress. It's only Arabia Arena.
Okay. Oh, it's Arabia. I didn't know that. Interesting.
You're probably sleeping last time, yeah
It was all set in a very non confusing settings video by the way, you've seen it
No, yeah, I'm sorry. I missed the second hour of that
Explanation video, I'm so sorry
I took a nap
You're not confusing at all settings video. You can only pick Arabia or arena. So grubby, but it's okay
It's your point you made a good point actually a truck is grubby
Confident enough to bounce back on Arabia or did you just take you thermal to arena where you thermal hates arena and grubby's not bad on
I mean, I think you've asked grubby, which you prefer he probably prefers Arabia, but your thermal hates arena
So maybe you just take them there and see what's good. I think that's the correct way
I think arena would be correct choice, honestly
Okay, and if we were to go to Arena, what kind of civs were we seeing from Grubby?
Because evidently, you know, he's kind of then back in the driver's seat, you can wipe
away that loss.
What kind of like pocket civs are you going to pull out?
He's played pretty much only the Burgundians.
He's been a little bit of Hindustani on the Arena, but I think he's main civ by far as
Burgundians.
Now, it's a bit predictable if you pick it, but Burgundians is kind of an all-rounder.
It's just good at everything on Arena.
So you're not really that scared about picking it up, even if it's a bit predictable.
You thermal is the wild card.
I don't know what he's going to go for.
He's also played a bit of Burgundians.
In a wild world, we could see a Burgundian mirror, which could be kind of fun because
you haven't seen a single mirror in this tournament despite it being possible every game, which
is kind of fun.
Yeah, Burgundians have done rather poorly so far in this tournament, despite being picked
a lot on like the wall maps.
Yeah, I think it would be nice to be able to showcase there.
He means have been doing better like the castle drops have been doing better than the Burgundians
But we're going to actually just snag the win in the last in the last match for Lance
Grubby won against pig with Burgundians on his last match
So didn't snag it some more wins recently, but I do agree that overall win rate hasn't been that great
And who can forget the fact that you know, they have those vineyards those lovely lovely vineyards
Look at that view count. Geez
Solid that's pretty good. You've been streamer. I know
I know I just needed 20 other streamers to make it happen, but hey
We're here. It's easy. I make sure to find your twitch prime subs to to the wonderful host
Love it, bro. You got him
Empty the bag put the twitch primes in the back the primes in the bag
No guys, thank you so much for being here
I think we're peaking like 25k on just our channel load and we're not even in the grand finals
Which is fantastic
So I do really appreciate you guys hanging out with us and also thank you you guys hrock
Smith and Brett showing up after the tournament has been over for you guys, but showed up and giving a good cast here
I think the viewers really appreciate it as well
Okay, you pay us the big bucks
It's really
You know what I'm saying, that amount of money is so life-changing I have to be here
I mean, there'll be a time here where both atruck and I will summon you for some similar nonsense and you are like
contractually obliged to be there and commentate whatever we're doing I'll show
up for anything I've had a work after that and everything I gave my life I'll
play league I'll play with I'll play board games I'll play anything just some
of me I'll be there so I hit man I'll be a truck are you are you married I am
married yeah okay I was gonna say we could bring him out for a wedding that
would be good fun I'm sorry so if I wasn't married you were gonna volunteer
me to marry Hera? No, I was going to volunteer that we get him to officiate your wedding, but also
that's better. I just would make him the pastor. Guys, guys, talking about wedding when Grubby's
playing. Come on now. I got to stay faithful here. Come on now. Yes.
Poor Roxy. Roxy, we feel for you. We all feel for you.
Roxy badgers in his mouth. No big deal. But listen, guys, Burgundians versus Bohemians,
meta matchup, a pro matchup, talk to me about the SIVs or anything while I set up the camps,
nevermind it's completely done, I'll take it from here guys. For Gumbians, for Grubby, he likes to
play with the live cap and play for the Relic Control, and he thinks, well thanks for picking
Arena, I'm a specialist actually. Well, he jokes about being a bad arena player, but he's picked
up the Bohemians here, and Bohemians are one of the best SIVs, if not the best SIVs, the best SIV
on Arena due to their strong late game gunpowder, a really good economy, great monks, and a great
balance composition over what grubby did i love doing that when someone on ladder tries to banter
with you and you hit him with a glhf it's like shut the fuck up it's really good it's like the
nicest way to say like i don't want to talk i'm here yeah it's on like a work out ladder all
the time it was like hey oh i saw you in the tour and i'm like glhf and i'm not gonna respond to
you again that's all i'm being polite but i don't want to talk i just want to play
No, it's a moment where Hruck was not streaming. We're doing some off-stream practice games in H1P2.
Then he gets messaged against a guy who says, he pauses and he's like,
I gotta close the stream. Like, brother, Hruck's not streaming. What stream are you closing?
Absolutely hilarious. Hruck came with a good luck out front immediately.
Yeah, that's all I say.
I don't want to get screen-shotted yelling at him or something.
I just say, I'm mute, bro. I move on.
Uh, so it's good fun, but okay, we got this matchup. I do. I mean, you know, you thermal is, uh, I think it's weakness on arena is not that he's a bad place. He's amazing player, but that he picked bohemians and you know his plan. All he wants to do is have nothing happen. Get to the late game, get the hoof knees and the upgraded, the how many years and then a move into your base with
And it's a great plan, it's a strong plan, but you know what it is.
And so people have, you know, Captain Lance famously, but you can, you can exploit that
a bit.
You can attack on weird timings.
You can try to get around it and would you expect Grubby to do that?
Would you really think?
Not really?
No, you're right.
I think Grubby's going to play as standard as possible and just beat him straight up.
Yeah.
Which is playing at least, but by the way, it's going to be tough exploiting your opponent's
weaknesses or habits.
There's been a record low of exploiting Grubby's slow, Burgundian start, like seriously, like
In the finals, if Grubby makes it past this,
a captain Lance might actually expose his Burgundians pick
with some kind of forward castle,
because Burgundians famously have to go up one or two pop later
because they're gonna play the light cab.
And also, you're trying to pick up the eco upgrades.
It's a greedy approach.
It's very good, but it can be hard punished
with like a forward castle or something.
So, I just feel like you thermal with the Bohemians,
it's a bit predictable, H-Rock,
because we know his style is to play through its late game,
but he can easily just mix it up,
go for that forward castle himself,
and just start on a site wagon all in
haunted grubby's but that's what I'm saying it's not you can't do that you
thermal basically cannot change on that front he I would bet dollars the
donuts bro he's gonna do his plan yeah yeah it's gotta be on it's gotta be
unlikely because especially when you're in a map you're slightly more
uncomfortable with right you know grubby's confident with it I mean sure
there is the classic thing of you go all in you try something different and
see how it rolls but as Hera has been saying for most of this tournament
Stick with what you know and what you practice. Don't try and deviate too much
Yeah, that's kind of a good point and I think overall I still kind of believe in that
Still wish you know with a bit of preparation. We could see something a little spicy, but you know fair enough
I'm okay with this obviously grab his home up. I'm okay with you thermal playing what's comfortable
And if he's comfortable just boom in which it looks like he is nothing too spicy happening so far
Then we'll see exactly that maybe a late game. Nice a nice late game battle
Yeah, I mean it's really powerful late game battle
Unlike the other map Regicide Fortress where there's so much space and you can kind of run around in the way
Grevy did you kind of have to fight on this map. It's a it's a straight shot to the pump space
It's flat land no hills and you could just get a forward castle and push push push. Yeah, so I think it's better for you thermals
Solid comp solid style. Yeah, so if you were to if you put a twitch points prediction, you'd actually put it into you formal
I would never bet against you. Every game has been rigged in your favor.
I prefer to bet against Grubby.
A favorite Grubby, I'll tell you why. Grubby with the Burgundians has beaten Bohemians from Pig yesterday in his last set.
And also Pig is a practiced Bohemian player on Arena. He's played a bunch of games with Bohemians and he knows what he's doing.
your thermal, nothing he doesn't know what he's doing,
just saying he's maybe not as practiced as Pig.
And so Grubby must be feeling at least very confident.
It's the safe bet, he's the favorite.
But maybe, you know, maybe your thermal's micro
is the difference maker in this matchup
compared to what Pig brought.
The path of a righteous grub.
Get the coffee past him.
Let's just hope that Euphemal remembers
that relics exist on the map.
Unlikely.
Did he had a relic in his back pocket and refused
to pick it up?
an hour 20 game and said no but we know that was that was or farming because he
just hates Regicide maybe takes this one seriously and maybe this game he
switches up maybe triple modern theory all in on the relics
he's got the nice scout lead though he's just kind of peppering up the scout
from you thermal thermal continues to run and and no reason to turn around and
fight you can just run until you run to your base and you're happy with that
faster feudal age for your thermal this is a part of the course of course
Burgundians tend to just wait a little bit more, a couple more villagers, and he'll be up in no time as well.
Do Burgundians have any, like, special late game advantage?
Any... what's their, like, um... God tier comp?
They get money from farms. Which is useful.
Is that it? Is that their thing?
That's ironically what they're leaning on. So they have decent gunpowder with extra damage, but their army is always weaker than Bohemians.
They're relying on Relic Gold, maybe a little bit of Tempo, and they're relying on the Vinnards.
So, Spiff is actually spot on there.
In terms of like Relic placement, is it favoring Grubby slightly?
I mean, it's...
Okay, that's kind of even.
Yeah, I would say it's kind of even.
The problem is, it's like...
Yeah, I think it's closer to Grubby.
Like, these three are closer to Grubby.
If you have three closer to you, you can maybe start targeting the ones that are further,
Keeping these guys, you know for later. You can do a lot of cool plays like that and maybe end up with even all five in some cases
But I feel like if all five relics were in front of you thermals gate, it would pay for grubby
I'm gonna grab these dude. It's all I'm gonna he learned from the last game. No, but his build is like a boom build
It's gonna be a market blast. We don't have a stable. You're not on stones
No castle drop so unless you go so like a triple monastery, which I was joking about earlier
Uh, he's not gonna death in the relics. I think he's just gonna boom give up the relics go for the economy
How many big booms do you give it?
And you'll probably play a three or four TCA. I guess
Five probably right
I think you can you can fit in the five big booms. No problem. Did I miss something?
That's okay. The big booms. No
Even I as an uncultured
I'm still lost, I'm not gonna lie, we'll just talk back about the game, uh, faster cast
that's free thermal, give some generic comment series so I can move on, not understanding
what's going on.
Yeah, that's fine, that's fine.
I understand.
Scrambling.
Yeah, that's grappling.
Looking for something to latch on to your horse collar, that's horse collar coming
for you thermal.
Horse collar!
I've never made it, horse collar!
Nobody's ever done that, what the fuck!
Horskuller!
I'M A MANY HORSKULLER!
Nobody's ever done that!
Fuck the fuck!
Wait, he's making the Cardinal's scene!
Did he not get bit at?
He got Horskuller first?
Actually, Horskuller first is actually decent here.
It's an exception.
Then why'd you say it was a Cardinal's scene
ten minutes ago?
Because I'm a cast member, I'm gonna say it's right.
You're just talking, bro.
You're just talking.
This guy doesn't know what you're imparting, it's a fake dude, he's faking it, he's faking it until he makes it.
The thing is, literally an hour ago you were gonna excommunicate a player because of that and not who you are being like now that it actually makes sense.
Trust me, when Mercury's in retrograde it's actually the smart pick.
I mean, I've been called out in a few casting comments and I'm just, I have to say, like I've been cast at 12 hours a day, you can probably get a compilation of me just saying some garbage.
I've been put in the hours.
I've been amazed by your stamina.
How do you even have the energies?
Is it just all from the food?
Well, never in this opportunity to mention the food.
I'm drinking a couple of Red Bulls, not sponsored by the way, but they do send me them for free,
so hey, there's that.
I guess I just love it, honestly, I just love it.
It's really fun.
the work of shim, they're just playing for hours a day, I just like gaming.
Your stamina is incredible, especially considering the sun.
You've got to entertain people, you've got to analyze stuff, and of course, yeah, as
H-Rock is saying, you are a machine that turns one into what exactly?
Turns Uber Eats into HMMPyrus commentary.
It's an incredibly efficient machine, you just feed it in Max and Food and out comes
yapping about HMMPyrus.
If I let the movie eat sponsorship, I might become a billionaire or may go broke as I'm just the best customer
Oh, you thermal villagers make money on you. They would sponsor you and make money
Yeah, for sure. But by the way thermal villager comes out. Did he you thermal vill again?
At this point, I'm actually kind of mad. He's not doing it. Yeah, it's crazy. What was the point of it?
He just miss miss rallies. He threw it again. He's coming out again. There's no loom
Oh my god. He almost opened the gate that was so close to just losing the game.
So anyway, it's fine. Just one lost.
Four boom. Four TC boom, by the way.
So it's just all that boom.
Grubber's on three TC plus the bonus theory.
Four TC. Okay, smart.
Yeah, you like this.
There's a monkey going out.
The first monkey is hitting the building.
Oh my god.
He almost opened the gate.
That was so close to just losing the game.
So anyway, it's fine.
Just one lost.
Four boom.
Four TC boom, by the way.
The first monkey is hitting the building.
Yeah, I like it a lot because this is unlike the Registrate game.
He's saying, Hey, if I'm not going to fight for the relics, I'm going to get four TCs, boom, and then hit faster.
Yeah, hit my 130 bills faster.
I'm going to hit my late game ball faster and I'm going to be before the relics matter.
Yeah, which is like the confidence like all of these gates of arrest.
He knows that he can go for like the furthest relics safely pick it up.
He's got no, like no contest happening here.
Yeah, yeah, this is great.
That's actually a good read from Grubby. Just going for the furthest relic first.
Just in case your thermal has something coming out later, you can just take the furthest one first
and then take the close ones later, which are easier to pick up and grab there.
So Grubby will land on five relics. Let me remind the chat here that Burgundian relics give food
in addition to gold as a bonus that they have. It's super nice. Wow. I gotta say, I don't know
know what the meta is, but you can't fight for no relics on a, oh my goodness, right?
Isn't it crazy that you thermal just doesn't care?
I feel like that is such an advantage you're giving away.
Like, take a look at the res collected in a standard game, if this was not brigundians,
I think you thermal should pull ahead because it's brigundians with like faster eco upgrades
and relics coming in.
I think Grubby will stay ahead in economy despite the boom.
I think it's a lazy trap in me thermal, it's a comfort trap, but like, it's just not good
gameplay into brigundians.
So, never see a pro game that just gives up the relics for free to brigundians, but to
others say okay, to brigundians probably never.
Yeah, and it's just, I don't know, the word is not right, but I'm thinking arrogant.
It's almost like I think that I can win with my timing boom push.
I don't care what you do, I'm gonna stay on my walls, and I just feel like I get someone
as good as Grubby that's punishable.
Yeah, yeah, it's super risky to go through that.
When would this timing push come in though?
Like is it gonna be...
Okay, but when will it impede at like 30?
No, a bit earlier. I think like 27 or 28 minutes, we have to start thinking about moving out,
but maybe like by the time the push hits it's like 30 minutes, yeah, around there.
So you've got like 10 more minutes of setup, plus booming,
and then we'll be at like 120 bullets at that point, and you have a legitimate boom,
like a legitimate, sorry, push after that.
The thing is Grubby's gonna have a similar power level,
and Grubby doesn't have to win the fight, he just has to meet him in the middle
or meet him behind the walls and just kind of chill,
let the relics cook and just play from there,
trading gold in his back and forth
until your thermal runs out of gold.
That's kind of like the general game plan for Grubby.
And we've already seen him do it once
in the Redisly Fortress game.
He can play a late game.
He can play a grindy late game, no problem.
Yeah, that was a hell of a late game.
One of the most fun games I think I've seen.
Also, the fact that you had to cast that game
off of the back of yet another legendary game
seems kind of crazy.
Yeah, yeah, it's a lot of fun.
Yeah.
What a nice trope.
Thank you.
Burgundians here, down to the Tenvils,
but again, still at the rest collected.
Oh, is this a e-thermal?
A grubby e-thermal in a villager?
No, no, he's gonna go from Fort Castle.
Oh, wow, okay.
That's a Fort Castle, yeah.
Fort Castle.
He just wants to get that,
start boxing him in already.
Yeah, I don't mind this.
Also, we haven't seen the patented Grubby Relics yet, by the way.
Sorry, not Grubby Relics. We've seen those.
Grubby Outpost. Here we go.
Yeah, we've seen the Outpost now.
He just can't help himself. He needs to go for some Outposts and some vision.
He's about to click up the Imperial Age, though,
and he's gonna have the University at the back just in time.
Get that, get that ImClick.
Can't be late on that ImClick. There it is.
One of my last sessions with Grubby.
He sent me, actually, the day before the tournament started at my 2AM.
He sent me three replays on Arena.
I reviewed just one of them, but I told them the most important thing, the most important takeaway is that
you gotta get your end time, you know, down
because if you're late to end when you're playing gunpowder, it's disastrous.
And Grubby, trying to go for the middle of the map castle, changes it to the top, why the minerals?
He wants to control these three stone and kill them all.
That gold, that stone.
Beautiful.
Again, when this happens,
you thermal can't even just trade evenly because he will run out of the gold in his base so quickly.
And then you're just done.
You don't have the relics. You don't have the gold outside your base.
You have to you have to win the push and get out on the map with your first big imperial push.
Yeah. And then Grubby's just beating him to imp, right?
Like, Real Brothers only not coming again.
We haven't even clicked imp. We do have our buildings, which is nice.
So if you throw them all, is it a decent spot for what he's trying to do?
But Grubby is picking up the map.
Like, he picked the castle position.
There's no, you know, no competition to the map.
There's no one's contesting anything.
So you just pick a castle spot.
Okay, I'm gonna push from here to get down to vision. It's so much more comfortable. Take a look at you
Firm on what he's used. He's got no vision. He does not know anything that's happening on this map
He's got no idea all of the gold is getting vacuumed up. Yeah by Henry Hoover just outside of his walls
He also doesn't have any
He didn't know a space for production facilities because you're trapped in your base
You have to somehow fit all the barracks and orchard range and seeds work up to the one
but also all the farms and also the 4TC so you're you're really cramped and by the way all the
production on the front is directly in grubby's vision so grubby's sitting here like okay it's
each work trouble in front okay well it's might be the range soon uh because of course there's no
space really at the back i mean fit a few buildings but generally speaking production will come down
on the front grubby's gonna see that and know exactly what's coming all the eco upgrades coming
in for grubby he's setting up a link in now he's walling his gate yep it's it's really cute actually
wall in the gate. He's walling his gate. That's so wild. He's gonna force you to
delete a wall before moving out. And if you delete a wall, suddenly Grubby
can just attack you, right? So yeah, that's wild. I mean, yeah, your thermals got,
you know, 20 the lead, certainly an advantage. And certainly his first push
will be strong, but it has to be strong. It has to be so good. You have to get this
castle down. You have to reclaim your gold. You have to start blowing up Grubby's
forward archery ranges you got to get the outpost out from all your vision you
have to it's what you have to deal with this first push and grubby's not gonna
let you do that easily
loom come in I don't know man. That's good. Oh loom yeah that's an early loom.
27 minutes. Not the standard timing there you think we'll maybe show
go to something different. Okay, it's going to be light calf or grubby, and he's going
to take strength on his SAR by the way, so it's looking like it's going to be hand-kinned
in his SAR, a good combo, and then the siege is likely to be bombarded. Remember, all the
Burgundian gunpowder does, I think, 20% more damage, maybe 25% or something like that. It's
pretty solid.
How do you feel about the castle positioning down to the south? Because it's not near the
minerals, it's kind of more just mirrored away.
I think it's nice because it's outside the gate of you thermal and it's also far enough to the point where you
So much to step out to fight it
Which I think is good and considering we've all done these gates you thermal is actually a hard press to bring army
I don't feel that he wants to move out. You could kill the houses obviously. It's not the biggest deal, but like I mean, this is nasty
I mean
Workshop in a second
Okay
Man, I just think grubby's been a little more active here
I don't know how it's gonna play out, but you're you're
You're kind of on the back foot already. You know, there's the wall. Yeah, there's the wall. He's gonna move out
I waited you thermal got chemistry and castlage and already started making the hand can near this is a unique thing that the bohemians can do
You don't have to wait till in for chemistry. So he's already making the gunpowder
Bobber can already coming out. So he's got yes on the back foot
We've got a lot of his power units coming out and he's looking to you know, it's a prison break right now
It's a big break out. Maybe a castle job or something. Here we go
Yeah, I think he was gonna try and push out for it, but then he's realized suddenly the enemy is actually much closer than he expected
Yeah, I think so as well
It's exactly happening back up and just we're gonna take a little bit more time
Does have the pike snow how big upgrade but it's decent enough to push out cannons in the back gonna step those bombards
Okay, you really want the bombars to kill a tread here?
And just slow down this destruction of your production facilities
It's going to be a real bombard war, huh?
It's going to be like bombard v bombard, just dodging and...
Bohemian Bombard is way better in the late game once all the attack comes in.
I'll let you guys know what the attack does once it does come through, but just keep in
mind that Bohemian Bombards in the end are way better.
In early game though, Bohemian Bombards are slightly stronger.
It has your near movements.
They both get that siege tech you talked about engineers engineers engineers
No, that's one of the techs that for humans have as an advantage
They can get extra range of the bombards that's huge the bombard Morgan that plus one range
It's not getting it and siege engineers that is pretty good
It's and another tech their unique tech makes them move faster. So it's a triple tech on their cannons. That's insane
So their like game is just significantly better right if it just comes down to a full
I guess there's money on the other side. There's free food, free gold. Yeah, okay. I see.
It's interesting. Better units, less of them, and more time like press. You got to fight and
fight fast. Whereas, Grubby's just happy trading here. Anyone for one trade is good for Grubby.
And so far, it's got some good micro here. I see. Interesting. It's an interesting matchup,
because I do think that, yeah, Uthermo's getting his dream comp already. It's super solid. And these
bombards are gonna push out but if they he starts losing them can't get the
gold back easily again it's worth noting that this is true his nearest gold is
right above him under grubby's castle and that is gonna be important so soon
bomb that's coming out right now I was gonna say yeah like your fobal is
basically almost out of gold in his base he had like 27 villagers on it and
and then he is now down to two.
He has one pile and his villagers are doing the conger inside of his base and that's fine.
He has this little four square pile and that's it.
You better figure it out by then. You better be out and have taken this castle.
By the way, you don't have to conquer the world.
You just take out this castle and take this gold and then from this gold take the stone
and from the stone you can start pushing out.
With no relics you have to keep you know kind of leapfrogging from mineral to mineral
Otherwise you're gonna be hard pressed with no gold units, and that's basically gg but humans can't play without gold
Is there a world where grubby kind of greeds this and goes for the gold just above you for most place yep
I think you can I think it's worth I think it's actually worth doing he's not gonna think about it unfortunate
I think it's even the stone like any anything here just take it because much as you kind of it
Even to get pushed back, you know your thermal can't make use of it, which is fantastic. Yeah, just vacuum it up
Yep, it's also worth knowing that you know you thermals doing his big push and spending his resources to get this castle down
But this guy doesn't really control anything
It's nice to clear up, but man it feels like you should be pushing the top
Yep, because you need it. You need to be getting those resources that that is your number one goal right now is to get your next goal
Your next meal
Don't worry about you don't worry about retirement accounts right now find out I'm find a place to stay for tonight
Oh double double bomber snipe from grubby. Oh, so nice
And he says that one more he picks it up. Wow. That's a triple bomber loss free thermal
We can't afford that ladies and gentlemen that is a bad trade free thermal
He's got a lot of population, but those bombards and look at that. No bombers
This army is just sitting duck like they can't actually attack with no siege
And Grubby's forward castles are so smart. Right at the exact right time to give him the momentum, the advantage, whatever. They were playing from the forward foot.
Yeah, I would think at least a wall. These castles aren't going down. It's not going to happen. The villagers can defend it. Grubby's got all the stone in the world. Your family is just trapped.
Yeah, he's not pushing out fast enough, that's for sure.
He's bringing like one or two traps to the table, but the way you actually do this in a pro game,
you need like ten bombards, by the way.
He's getting the Hupnit to upgrade. This is the unique tech for Bohemians.
They're gonna give them an upgrade on their cannons. It's a very strong upgrade.
Think of like Paladin equivalent for the cannons.
Make some stronger, faster tank here, all the good stuff.
More splash damage, etc. Nice tower for Grubby.
So watch tower and imp, but he wants to take that stone, so it's worth it.
And yeah, you need like ten cannons free thermal like two or three not gonna cut it
Especially when you lose a couple to grubby's trades
Yeah, ten keep them alive at all costs and push the top. Yeah
Top is what matters
I see he's doing he's doing all the stone. Yeah, grubby grubby strategically is winning this game
Just really really smartly. He's doing everything
He's got a plan. Yeah, and just what the challenge is like a horde of locusts
Yeah, pretty much.
Yeah, they're just warming in for the stone.
Dude, he's sucking that up as well.
He's kind of going through that quick.
And just for the chat, even if you lose all these villagers, it doesn't matter.
We got 142 Villas, the free chief in late game.
It's not the same as losing Villas in early games.
Keep that in mind.
Big big shots onto the back line from Grubby's cannons.
Grubby's just playing the control game and he's doing it so smart.
He's never over committing into Thermal's base.
He might poke at his castle, but he's never diving.
That's exactly what he needs to do.
He's got all the gold in the world, all the map in the world.
have to wait and outlast them and those relics add up actually so quickly yeah
it seems like a small amount but an extra of 3,000 gold is just so nice so it
is so clean that's basically all of them can afford to lose a couple bombards you
can lose a couple handcans you don't feel bad about it but if he loses them if
you thermal use the bombard it feels terrible you thermal no bank grubby
2600 the bank relic gold 2700 it's the entire bank of grubby sponsored by the
relics, he thermal no luxuries, he's got a 38 gold, he's got a couple bombers, going
out for a cast on the left, he's fighting for the wrong side of the mouth though, this
is like a sight that's not a matter.
And he's going to have a great protection of that useless wood lung.
Yes, he's fighting for the wood, but he's got one here so.
That's not the best situation, it's diving deep into the habit gear, starting to get
a little desperate, you can't see it in the tone of the army but.
Yeah, I really need to get out here. Yeah, these two who need to I
Mean these are so important to keep alive because this is it you're not rebuilding these so easily
Fourth castle look at that
Beautiful just on that stone. That's done vineyards coming in as well. Shout out to stiff
That's your favorite sack. I think the chat loves it as well extra gold from the farms. We love wine
Yeah
And we got murals as well for the castles
Architecture to keep them tank here as well
It's like all these techs hoardings all these techs to make the castles tank here and grab
We're just gonna hold the fork keep profiting off these passive income tools and yeah
It's gonna win the long run you thermals kind of desperate zero and gold is using the market market prices will take the villagers
Look at all the we're coming out for a holiday
Just to watch the castle they build burn down
It's not a good holiday.
Imagine you and your family dedicate your lives to building a castle and you finish it and it finishes on fire and crumbling.
That's pretty depressing. That's your throne right now.
Is it ever a thing to...
Uh, cause you know when you sell winter food, it makes the prices worse.
Yeah.
Is everything to know that's gonna be a problem and just mass sell early so you get the best
trades?
Hundred percent.
Yeah.
It's like a regular thing in pro games for sure.
Selling first is huge.
Uh, by the way, uh, decent momentum in the thermo, he's got the grubby castle on the
top.
Not the one that matters.
Grubby already got the gold.
He's sucking it up.
He's already got it.
He got the gold too!
Oh my god, he drinks your milkshake!
He's already siphoned up all your resources, bro!
By the time you get out of your base, it's all barren!
Yeah, and Grubby's got a huge bank. You can trade all day. It's gunpowder vs gunpowder.
Grubby's got a few cannons, but I want to say, like, this is actually a masterpiece from Grubby.
He's understood his win condition perfectly. He's playing towards it in a beautiful way.
He's also trading very nicely. This fight's a bit suspicious though.
I think you're almost getting the slightly better trades. You've got to be a bit careful.
Not to get snowballed, but all of a sudden you can go to SARS behind this.
You can go for some skirmishers.
You can just start countering this army.
This army is the last bit of gold that your thermal has.
Once it goes down, it's not being remade.
Yeah, this is crazy.
Handcans to tower or to castle, so...
In terms of this run, when this game finishes, does the winner go straight into another game?
Yep, no break.
Maybe like five to ten to break?
And then if...
Not much more.
Okay, but then if they win that game, they're then straight into the finals as well.
Yes, yes, yes, okay, so in order for sake Grubby or you formal to win this tournament
That is like, you know part of their entire spiritual soul and essence being
Sacrificed on the ultra-vage of empires. Yep. That's a loser bracket run. It's their fault. It's their fault. They lost
They lost one. This is good. Yeah, this is what Grubby gets for being the teacher's pet. It's fine
Well, I hope he makes the run happen
but
she's got to keep his job
yeah i mean twelve-hour straight major empires like your standard daily stream
so it's not
i think they're a pro
there are eighty dead villagers on your thermal side
yeah the raid doesn't have you
oh my god he's reacting actually
over over he lost literally eighty people yeah
yeah that was a
that was a master classroom probably honestly start to finish
he played that beautifully
i don't think he was ever even behind that was
that was crazy
beautiful game
well-played grubby gg the checkers that's uh...
that's a game a lot of work and learn from by the way just never pushing into
your thermos base
not a single season at wednesday's almost a few couple trebs but not much more
uh... most of us is poking the outside taking the gold taking the stone
five relics and it was thirty seven hundred and fifty gold from relics
where the vineyards behind it we had the thermos gold and stone
we still have one two three castles alive
about four castles still left that we can make
why we didn't take his gold
because you thermal first makes more sense that's actually so smart
that's a stone back here well
bro beautiful game from grabby honestly
and it was good
yeah if you watch that replays your thermal it's like okay my way of playing
has been checked i cannot do that again
he's got to figure it out i must be more aggressive in some way
or i will get box into the corner and destroy like grovey
has solved it
yeah
to be used as a whole map it was guaranteed going back to a rabid now
It's completely over but again it must be said you thermal has to win a grubby home map
Which could just be another arena even if you thermal wins this next game now fun fact actually we take a look at the bracket
There hasn't been a single match between captains that has not been a 3-2
So if you're betting man's good, you know listen up here
Yeah, yeah, yeah you thermal is likely to win this next game because that's how the trajectory of these captain matches have went
It's always been a 3-2, a 3-2, a 3-2, and so far it's a 2-1 Grubby.
So if Grubby wins this next one, it's unprecedented ground for our tournament here in the King's Scotland.
Well, there you go.
The captains were well picked.
If you're listening, make sure to use CodeHera in the Twitch predictions to get 10% off of your match bet.
It's going to be great.
All in on Euphoma for the next one.
He's got it.
It doesn't matter that he just spent 40 minutes sweating over a game that he'd never had a chance of winning.
He's got it. It's fine. Yeah, it did. It's like a hair up on Uber eats and you get 10% off your food. It sends it directly to him.
You get a little few fries. He gets some of yours. It's part of this. We call it the hair attacks.
Oh, God, the king's gauntlet is actually the real gauntlet. It's just the traffic jam outside of Harris House.
The board let the scooters bump into each other.
The Uber eat scooters. They have to fight to get to the door. I hope they get a tip.
Guys, sometimes, sometimes my wife orders a meal and I order another one because we want different things, and they both are at the same time, and I have to explain to them that both are for me and it's always awkward.
I'm explaining in Spanish that both orders are for me.
Well, they already know. Everybody that delivers in that whole city knows you. They all nod when they see each other. I'll go on a heroin.
Wait, one time.
I would never order from the king. Okay, that's fine.
One time one time one time it was 2 a.m. At night. I ordered some late-night snack and the guy the uber eats guy
Recognizes me. He's like are you care for my fires and bro. I was shocked. I was like no freaking way my reputation has caught up to me
Well, he knows you better than your own wife. He sees you every day
Your closest friends he knows what kind of meals you like don't pretend like he's the first time recognizing you
He's tired of talking to you
There's one right guys ordering like 20 chicken nuggets and a milkshake at 2 a.m.
They pre-buy the milkshake in the Nuggets because they know he's gonna order this way by his door
save the time
The one that delivers so fast close until the hair order comes in
Oh, that's too good
It's you guys
Overdone, but I feel like it's always one more around the corner just begun. Yeah, I always snack on one more
I want you to know, by the way, Harrow, because of this kind of tournament, a few of my friends
have been watching. Especially some friends that I took with me to the London events,
they saw me play live. They basically know, hey, you're the best player in the world,
you're really good, you've got a great game for it. But then also the fact that you are
funny is kind of unfair. You've got it all. You've got the looks, you're married, you're
good at games, you got the gift of the gab, you can yapp with the best of them, it's just
not fair. It's just, it's completely unfair chat. You don't understand it. He's too good.
It's all the plays.
I appreciate that, man.
Keep up Worldcraft 3 right now, bro.
I'll beat you dumbass at Worldcraft 3.
You can have spit on your team. I'll 1v2 you guys.
Give me spit, we'll crush you, bro.
I appreciate that. I appreciate that, spit. Honestly, that means a lot.
Hey, if you've got like 48 hours, 1v1 with Crusader Kings, we got this, no problem.
Crusader Kings always talking about games. I've never played it. How about this? How about the stronger Crusader speaking of Crusader?
Do you know that?
Okay, I've got exploits for that game. We can play. I don't have any exploits
But I kind of know what I'm doing. I can keep my my people happy in that game
Like you know something to get unhappy I can keep them happy. Yeah, that's about it. That's what I want though
No, I'm like all in on the classic the suffering and pressure just like that evilness you put those ghibli cages up
That's it. They are terrified and they will work better. Yeah, they fight better. I think oh, no, they fight worse. How is it I?
Don't know the stats. So I think they fight worse. However, the production economy behind it is better
Yeah, that makes sense. It makes sense. It's a great game. Hey, there's a terrible some new stronghold game coming out
I'm sure they'll they'll send you a marketing request or something. You never know
I'd be done. We'll run it back. I actually love that game. I played with my brothers back in the day
Super casual game.
Super casual.
If one of the two people who work at Firefly Studios is watching this then you've got your
guys.
It's just husband and wife projects for the last 20 years, you know?
With the rate they put out games?
Probably, yeah.
That's going to be a raid bit by the way.
Ethan was hosting this one up.
They're just waiting.
I got to use the washing machine.
So be quick beer back.
Chat beer back.
Sure. Sure. Sure. Okay. Okay. You're still not down over there, Brit.
Yeah, I won't lie. My office is actually sweltering and I can't run an AC because it's the UK.
We don't have inbuilt AC. I've like a little wheelie boy, but of course I can't run it
if I'm doing audio, which basically means in my regular day to day when I'm recording
in the summer, it's like, I just swelter until I reach a point of heat stroke and then I
I leave my office and I just have an AC run for like 30 minutes and I just hop back in
I just try and do a bit more and then provided I survive it's a successful day at the office
we did it.
Now I understand look I work from home I do a job yeah I could probably get AC fitted
I understand that guys but you don't understand the British summer lasts like 16 days and
I just can't justify it okay.
min max in the economy out here, um, with rushing for castle age and my neighbors
are going to be shocked when sure I don't have the AC.
I don't have the tech upgrades, but bam, fast castle around their lawn.
They don't expect it.
We mag your rush to their back garden, kill their, kill their dog or something.
I don't know.
That's it.
That's my strat.
That's what I'm saving.
I'm sorry.
He's described that you're going to murder your neighbor's dog with the money
you saved on AC.
I'm just trying to make.
It's necessary.
Yeah.
I wouldn't, by the way, that dog is lovely.
But also, in a 1v1, my Korgie could easily kick that dog's ass, that's just how it is.
No, everyone knows that.
Yeah, you've got them cooked.
They know that too.
They wouldn't challenge you.
Are you the dominant dog in the neighborhood?
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, I heard that a lot of British buildings are like built to retain heat, because
there's not, like the sun is so short, and so it gets trapped in there.
We also have ridiculously efficient windows and things like that. So the houses are good. They're really sturdy
It's just they get hot and that's fine in the winter. It's super cozy and that's nice
But yeah, it's just how it is. I must say like one of the side effects of global warming
So yeah, sure it sucks that my house is smeltering in the summer
But I can sleep easy at night knowing that the French wine economy is slowly collapsing year on year
And the British wine economy gets better and better best place to go champagne no longer champagne region
It's the south coast of England take that Frenchies. We basically 100 years war. It was all the long game
It's the thousand years war bro. We are winning the beverage war
British spirit you will take any amount of pain as long as the French have it worse
You have no idea how much spite we've got it
Is it mutual? Do the French guys, do they send it back to you? I don't know how that works actually.
Okay, right. Look, the European thing, and this is the wonderful thing about being a European, is that you all hate each other, but also you are united by your hatred of everyone.
So for example, you know, Brits hate the French, Germans hate the French, but also Brits hate the Germans, French hate the Germans, and we're united by that.
It's amazing. You watch like, I think football is probably the best way to experience it, where depending on who's playing, right?
Right, okay if Scotland are playing against America all of the English people are cheering for Scotland if England's playing against like France
You know, okay, the scots are actually probably cheering for the French. I would like the scots are never gonna cheer for the English
That was a bad analogy
There's no there's no patching that one
So much interview for I feel like in Canada just like
Yeah, I don't really follow soccer. It's not like the response you get but you know if you if they do
They're just kind of doing for Canada. That's not no one really cares. I don't hate anyone. It's good fun
Well, look, it's it's not really hatred because the reality is everyone goes to each other's countries on holiday and they love it
Yeah, and also just the sharing of cuisine and art is a wonderful thing humanity's amazing. There you go
That's my wishy-washy opinion. Okay. I love humanity. They're great
But also I hate the French
That's the greatest British cornerball time I'll have humanity and I hate the French.
I can say they make up like 0.2% of audience demographics.
It's fine.
Yeah, there's no money.
You're not going to make any fronks.
Exactly.
They left seven years ago.
We're all so fine.
I was just waiting for this game to start now.
I think the thermal is taking a big break here, which is, maybe they're in, actually.
They look serious but they always look serious. I'm actually not sure.
Yeah, they do look so serious. They both walked in at this phase of the tournament. There's no more
joking around. Yeah, it started. Okay, let me... Okay, my figure's not working but I got the tool.
Get in here. Did it make it happen?
All right. Two minutes late? Well, I'm sorry. I'll hop in here.
Anything that happened we got a Vietnam pick as well. They're back Vietnam
Grubby Vietnamese that paper money back on the menu. Oh, love to see it. Yeah, this time it's in grubby's hands
Of course, remember it's hidden pick nor pee. It's not like a fearless draft
So if you haven't played the city you can always still play it and here we go two minutes late
It's on me, but we're into the game Vietnamese for a grubby and the Malian's free thermal malice has been like his trusted
Siv on Arabia. I think he's had like Portuguese and Malians and then after that he's got nothing that he's like prepared
But he's locked into the millions and he tends to play them similar to the Portuguese
We've placed a lot of archers last siege. Of course, you think was one of the last Arabian game
Let's see if you can kind of do it again get the second win on Arabia
Grubby though with the Vietnamese potentially with a nice counter pick if you thermals play archers
You just have some of the best terms in the game
Could be a nice matchup. And so is Grubby already got the ball? Oh, he's ready. Go his first one
I think that's correct. Yeah, the second one on the way soon. We were a couple bit of slates. So we're catching up now
Yeah, yeah, I mean last two games you thermal looked great game plan super solid on Arabia and then grabby looked amazing on arena
So it's kind of do or die here. You thermals got a show. We can do it again
I will say though the Arabia matchup looks a lot closer than the arena one did like you thermal look a lot more lost than arena
Whereas the last Arabian match, Gruby was actually leading for the majority of it.
Obviously, Thermal don't want to take anything away from him.
He had a great pushback and a great finishing blow, but I feel like Gruby is not one to
be underestimated in this Arabian match.
Yeah, Gruby was very much in the driver's seat for a good portion of that Arabian game
and then kind of let it slip, but very good at applying the pressure.
Yeah, well, I will see if he goes for like the men-armors again.
The Vietnamese don't have to play aggressive.
They have such a good scaling style.
Then you can just sit back relax play some range units trade back and forth and be completely okay with it
We'll see what he decides to go
It could be like a lot of the strategies in this game is just personal preference what players like to do their comfort zone
Not so much about like pro meta and matchup knowledge, which is fair enough
So if you were to place your bet what who you going for then
Actually, I want both your opinions
Okay, judging from the maps, I'll give you like a strategic prediction here.
I'm not a betting man, but if I were, look at this map from Thermal,
and the fact that he won the last Arabian game,
I feel like he's in a prime position to win this one as well.
However, one thing to consider, if Grubby also has a good map,
and Grubby's Siv is kind of a counter pick.
So actually, I'm going to change my prediction.
I would say that Grubby probably wins, so work with that as well.
He talked through your own prediction.
Yeah.
Uh, I'll pick you, Thermal, both because he did great in the last Arabian,
and also because I would really love to see you game five. It'd be awesome.
It looks like they both have really good maps, honestly, just for, like, getting a nice clean wall, no holes, and not getting poked off too easily by archers.
Yeah, well, when you have good maps like this, we'll just fill in the conversation as great places this bet on the channel.
When you have good maps like this, you can easily just wall up and play minimal army.
However, the good maps have really not been exploited that much from the players in this competition.
Competition players are usually coming into the game plan and they're gonna play that game plan no matter what their map looks like
This is actually kind of normal because most these players are stark of players and a work of players correctly from wrong
But in those maps the maps are usually set
Whereas in age of empires to there's that random element so while the map is Arabia
Sometimes they were gold spawn to the back sometimes it's more open sometimes. It's you know more closed
Etc. And so that's kind of a unique factor for age of empires
You just have to adapt to your map and the players aren't really doing that that well to be fair
And so here like grubby's gonna go for men arm rush with a map like this
I feel like most pros would not do men arms to just wall up and play straight into the ranges because they can
If in terms of the RNG the map if you have your goal to the back does your opponent also they go to the back
No completely irrelevant
The only thing that's the same is the woodland count.
So the amount of woodland you have in the distance to your TC, that's the same.
The rest is completely random.
Barrier position, gold position, et cetera.
It's random.
Devs, what is this?
What is this nonsense?
How are the pros meant to manage with this?
It's too random.
It's actually good, but it's the reason why we have best of nines.
The last time where you almost missed your bus, you know, sitting down the Royal Albert Hall,
wondering why there's the best of nine and not just the best of five.
It's because you're trying to weed out the randomness from these random elements.
I think it's both a blessing and a curse for AV2, there's been some cases of unfair maps,
but I think overall, the better player usually wins, I would say.
Yeah, I mean, I always thought it was just because you were tilted for those first two games.
Yeah, maybe. That's also a fact to do, to be fair. The tilt is real sometimes.
Also, as someone who comes from like a StarCraft or WarCraft background, mostly StarCraft,
I like it about Asian Fights. It's really cool. Not knowing exactly where everything
exactly is in the map at all times and having a build perfectly designed to that map.
makes it more adaptable and fun.
Like you can be a player who recognizes the map early
and makes a different adjustment
and get an advantage from that.
It's cool.
I know there's some bad lucks down there,
but it doesn't seem like horrible usually.
Yeah, it makes scouting more about like,
I mean, there is, you have to scout what your opponent's doing,
but you also have to scout where your opponent's resources are
and what he could do based on that.
So as you can see here, the forward varies.
I doubt grabby scout on this,
I said I want to go for Miner Arm Rush,
but Miner Arms interforward varies is actually fantastic.
And so now you throw him smartly,
He has to if the bears at the back. You probably wouldn't have to
So it kind of just changes the dynamic for this game, but we're seeing the same thing from game one
We're gonna ignore this if we're a thermal and I go attack with the scouts and to be considered a counter-attacks
You can take the battle to grubby's base grubby not a single spearman. Maybe cut off guard by this
Yeah, no spears totally open berries totally open gold if there was three scouts here
It would be like a guaranteed a bunch. He's gonna get at least
Doesn't and we have a loom. Yeah, we do have loom the early loom from gravity
of course very wise very wise and then I'm gonna see a little bit more damage from those three
scouts given how open it is yeah I agree I think you can commit it to that bill by the way you'll
lose you know some scout HP but I think you could have killed that villager you thermal backs off
for a better you know better engagement oh find that it's a question they're running through he's
gonna dive this is intentional he's diving and he delete the water the leader I don't know if you
can get around though. There's a scout here. It's beautiful.
Beautiful.
Wow. Wow.
Done from you, thermal.
Wow, that was really well done.
And the house goes around, scouts are back.
We talked about that in the first game.
You can attack and then get back on defense as well.
Are you thermal villagers, though?
Taking matters into his own hands.
Look at this guy.
You have to kill at least one.
You have to kill a villager. Please.
Thank me.
Yeah, really nice defense, honestly.
You could still lose one bill maybe.
The archers...
Cal, so clear this up nicely and...
A garrison here would be nice.
Garrison's not!
Don't get how he can micro his villagers that well.
And then also wander them off to the middle of the map to die.
Yes!
Distracted penguins.
It's literally like...
Yin Yang.
Like, it just depends on the day you thermalize that.
Killing his villagers or saving all of them.
Fair enough, we'll keep an eye on the thermaling of more villagers or not.
But Grabby's coming forward with some archers.
And remember Vietnamese archers they have more HP that's kind of offset by the fact that millions they collect gold faster
And they also have a nice wood saving bonus their buildings are all 15% cheaper
So now let's are getting some savings and some discounts and Vietnamese getting the raw power to straight into the archers
Here we go then engagements big big engage
Fun facts about Molly that's that's your that's your angle spiff tell us history, okay, so
So Marley's most famous person of all is of course Mansa Musa, a man so wealthy he basically
caused economic crashes wherever he visited.
His level of wealth is pretty much unparalleled.
It is just absurd.
Maybe at his peak Julius Caesar could have rivaled it, but the man was so minted he could
have destroyed the world if he just kept alive for a long period of time.
One of the icons of history.
What do you make of the people saying it's a myth because someone's chat said that but
I've heard that before.
Is that like historically documented or is it like a bit?
Yeah, there are definitely some historians who would basically say that maybe it's not
as big or impactful as some narratives would say.
However, definitely the actual impact is known.
So definitely a chap who existed definitely caused a lot of chaos and I think most historians,
consensus is yet hundred percent this guy was a mental historical figure six
orders coming in here from your thermal and it's gonna be coming at a perfect
time so half HP grubby though oh my god get this will perfect reaction from
grubby if he's reacted a second that he was it both players have not lost the
villagers so far grubby will all the top he's gotta get a little quicker there
perfect and I can just defend at the bottom your thermal though in a prime
selling the stone with the market that's a pro move that hasn't been used at all
this tournament you thermal brings it out and potentially his last game of the
tournament he's got to win this one to stay alive selling the stones in a
faster castle time that is beautiful day nine oh you're standing on top of the
hill a truck used to sorry a truck used it it's good probably learned it from a
truck yeah he's probably gonna credit me at the end of his speech that's crazy
If you were on a hill, you can't predict it, you can't predict it guys, just because you said you'd bet on Grubby.
If you fumble now loses this, people can say it's match fixing, so you go to be careful.
Yeah, that's true.
We'll see how it goes.
Grubby, are you thinking about this as a scout there?
Sorry, we cut you off very rude of us, but you had a question about the hill, right?
I have a question.
So if you have an archer on a hill, do they have greater range or is it just greater damage greater damage and they take less damage
So maybe like greater damage and greater resistance
nice makes sense
to rain just for grubby and
He's in a good spot. He's delayed the castlage which usually means you have to fight right now
Because if you thermal gets upgrades right outside your base, that's really bad
So grubby delay this you got to fight him and kind of kick him back, but grubby's kind of just going forward
Ignore the classic. I've got my archers on your woodline strat. Yeah, it's been a very popular place you players
Grubby just click castle. It's gonna be a two-minute advantage
With faster xbox faster bodkin
That's gonna be really tough to withstand. He still has his tower though
The tower still in there like you don't know what can't make a towers if Grubby gets onto this goal
That could be kind of annoying
But maybe just a tower to defend here for Grubby could be nice
Yeah, there's crossbow. There's boxing coming in two minutes of pressure beautiful be really tough that yeah smart tower
You're right smart smart tower and the wall
Good play from grubby
Counterattack, yeah, honestly really really well played for being behind a castle
Well, we're looking for free you thermal right now is a university getting ballistics is super good in archer war
But it's first have to deal with this. It could be a dead villager. You gotta notice it. He's gotta notice it
He does loses one build. That's pretty good for grubby. You thermal is going for the poor with siege by the way
Could dive this tower. Oh
My god, we're gonna go for a dive in a way
Yeah, you don't want to lose these
Just to that tower is getting a lot of value that tower is obviously mandatory
So good call from grabby to go for it. You thermal wisely backs off this had the siege push here
And he's just dealing with some annoying archers behind his base. He's moving woodlands across. It's not the best lumber camp
I feel like you thermal had to make a lumber camp and a mining camp his economy is very fragile
You can't really afford these kind of the
Dude after you get just locked off wood line and you have to make to 100 wood worth of the
Yeah, hopefully you can clean this up before those archers upgrade from grubby because then it's a real harassment problem
Yeah, great looping from grubby by the way just hits the gold loops to the wood looks to the other gold
Stay on the hill
Talk to about what that does
Or you don't want to lose any more bills here
but you are losing more bills here down five
I wonder how how's uh you throw harassment going okay this is great wait this is game ending almost
this is big no these scurms for grubby not at least scurms no botkin yet
oh my god you thermal could win the game right here he's got great micro as well
getting out micro actually oh yeah
Hey, Grubby's kind of crazy. Holy.
He's being pushed over him.
That was really insane, Grubby.
Grubby, Grubby, that's so well done.
That was like freakin' pixel-perfect micros, ridiculous.
He was dodging with individual, unupgraded scurms.
Wow, to force away much stronger army.
Yeah, still need elite scurms, though.
Townsend is really, really risky here
in the face of a siege bush.
Grubby almost also build theirs to the manganoles.
Tell us the defend.
We need defensive siege that counts there, I think.
He probably couldn't really afford that.
The tower will continue to defend him for now, but it's looking rough for Rubby without missing...
Or sorry, with missing these grusher attacks.
Warshup's good.
So there's two manganelles versus zero.
He has to get something done with it.
If you're a Eiffel, well, do you just not push in with your two manganelles and try and press the advantage?
Or you just get what your opponent might have?
So, because he sold the stone, he can't add in another town center.
So his advantage, like to press it, he kind of has to fight something.
You don't have to go like, you know, a Maginaw happy and just start diving, but you can just
sit on the outskirts and just start like nuking these buildings, but he's got to do something,
I would say.
So far, it's okay, but killing houses is not as good as killing production buildings, so.
Okay, your thermal's got to kind of put his foot on the gas a little bit.
Sneaky Villager from Grubby.
I wonder if he thermal'd it, or maybe this is intentional as well.
get that gold we'll see what he does with that one house warehouse for now so the
first man goes gonna come out from from grubby and it's so important if it's a
big hit this game could be over and that would be the ultimate defense yeah
same situation as the first game though oh god this is gonna be such an important
shot oh he blocked himself oh look himself you thermal wow try some attack
But does lose a magnet I was forced around this could be kind of a blessing though
He's trying to push him through here on the tower was so not gonna work like
Go right out going around here is the way to go
So pressuring these buildings kill the houses kill the ranges open up
Maybe some hill bonus so you can take advantage of here and yet grubby actually you thermal did so he's gonna
Just go back home with the with the villager
Just saying hi a nice house. He lives there. Don't shame him
Yeah, I mean you could kill the ranges, right? Yeah, you said like that would be a nice
Um, oh man, you have to watch your manganelles. I mean, I'm guilty this all the time. You just
I've learned that if you let one manganelle destroy your push
All your energy is gone. All your momentum
In the manganelle micro we did see you fern will come out pretty comfortably on top. Yeah, it's true
And he was also good at the cross from like he's not so many crosses. There's 22 cross was here
Something like a dozen skirmishers at best
Two manganelles
economy doesn't seem too different either like it does seem like you find
we're still keeping in the game I mean of course it's gonna blur proportions
with the difference in TC's yeah yeah for the time being it's actually
completely even for sure and that what what grubby has an extra villagers it's
like all the inefficiencies of moving around and the long distance gathering
due to the pressure kind of evens out grubby just has to hold those got that
extra TC, fighting up hill is hard though.
W is going to be a bit wood starved too, like he's going to have to rebuild his archery
ranges, he's going to have to rebuild some houses.
We've seen this story before.
Oh, the classic.
And then the harassment.
I mean, definitely a press of pressure for him, but do you think he should get a second
TC behind this?
Is this really going to get him in push?
That's one mango.
talked about this is two scrims in a mango just kind of donated for grubby doesn't
need to get another town center he could if he wants to but honestly the push is
so hot that he probably doesn't need to one for one head up top wow when you have
this many mangos a truck you don't really need another town center because
you can actually kill so much if the push gets stopped then you start thinking
about maybe another town center so okay that's not how confident he is that
she makes me happen with these mangoes
They shot here?
No, but they're attacking their Manganos. Are they targeting the actual enemy, or are
they just attacking the ground in a prediction?
Both can work. So sometimes you get attacked around and predict where your opponent's moving.
Sometimes you can just right click. Both can work. That was a right click, and he dodges it.
That's a right click on both sides, but he right-clicked the archer.
So you can do a mix of both, but so far, Ethan was actually taking better trades.
We have 10 villagers. He is moving to the middle of the map. No ballistics though, so it's hard to actually lock down these crossbows with just scrims.
And that counter that skirmishers just kind of uses so far
Does uh, there's you thermal obelisks and no blitzx for either side. Oh
Oh, oh grab against a one for zero. He's looking for the other one
You know what smartly dodges you think the cross was shed out like for this one. He loves to do that
You would love to kill that. Oh, look at that really important
There's a lot of pressure on these Manganos to get some damage here. If you're down at TC, you do have to do something eventually.
Grubby having that second TC, it doesn't really make a difference because he's got six minutes of idle time.
Yeah, that's a really good point. He's building ahead in Vils, but it's 10 Vils, but look how inefficient they are.
A lot of idle time in the Pound Centers, a lot of villagers idle. I would say it's actually neck and neck in terms of economy right now.
right now it's just that grubby's got more potential in terms of economy if the pressure subsides
oh one for one oh he's stuck oh got that hit off last second though trying to micro with some
skirmishers both players have shown exceptional micro in this tournament wow he's just walking
forward yeah oh wow i think he killed himself kind of your thermal hurt his own magnet also
the skirmishers finished it off that was a really bad play for your thermal with the magnet maybe
What's going on with these manganelles?
Oh, watch out!
Good splits.
So intense.
But this next hit could be the worst!
Oh, he lands it! That's huge!
Repairs for Grubby.
He's got the skirmishers.
There's no manganelle.
The Gigi's called!
Wow!
Grubby takes the win.
Wow.
Gigi in the chat.
That was insane.
What a response from Grubby.
He got beat out with the manganelle microphone.
And the first Arabia responds beautifully there.
And you thermal just couldn't hang within this game.
What a game.
What's that?
well played by Grubby.
The pressure was intense and he was stood it super well
with the second TC, which is hard to get up
while you're being pressured.
It's kind of a huge risk.
He did it and still held.
So impressive, man.
So impressive.
That was a hell of a game.
We have to say it though, guys.
While Grubby will win in spectacular fashion
and move on to face Lance, actually,
Captain Lance in the next round,
that's gonna be the Loser's finals, basically.
We'll show you guys the bracket here.
But I do want to say, before we even look at the bracket,
really well played by Thinermall.
A great tournament from him.
he had the toughest bracket run out of all the players you can argue
and he honestly showed really good heart
you can make the argument that he loses out mostly
just used to knowledge uh... you know knowledge gaps on arena and red set
fortress that really heard him
in those late rounds against the captains but guys before he goes out
away
uh... oh sevens in the chat free thermal eyes fantastic from him
i love what he brought to the table really cool guy
uh... awesome starcraft representation from him and uh...
i think he's a great player i really do you
But in some ways, that places him fourth in the tournament, right?
Yeah, he gets a fourth place result.
It's not bad. This money there.
Not as much a spiffing Brit with the good predictions there.
But a decent amount of money for him to walk away happy with that.
Yeah, what a great, great play by him.
Really, really awesome player.
And obviously he's probably cheering on Pig for the last StarCraft 2
chance for this tournament.
Yeah, yeah, gotta stick to their or or you cheer against Pig
because you want to be like seen as like, oh,
The StarCraft guys were good, but you know,
you throw one pig with the same level.
Depends on the ego, really.
It's the point I'm making.
That's right, tell me something about Sing Sing.
I'm like, hey, well, me and Sing Sing
said level in the bracket.
And we don't know your two potentials.
Can you overstep them?
And we don't know where I could have gone.
I could have won this tournament.
You can't win a whole tournament.
Yeah.
You can win a whole tournament.
Who knows what happens.
But guys, take a look at the bracket here.
So Grubby will beat out you thermal.
Cap Lanz is up next in the loser bracket final.
The winner of that face is Pig, loser gets third place.
It's been a fantastic event so far.
Let's take a look at the updates.
Maybe they've got it.
There it is, Grubby Captain Lance.
This has to be like 15, 20 minutes.
So we're gonna just buy some time,
but got Aatrox with me, Britt.
Probably let you guys go now.
Thanks so much for casting with me.
Really appreciate you guys hopping in.
Any last words for the chat?
Also, I'll say, Britt, it was great meeting you.
Really, really fun being on your team.
This was an awesome event.
Here, thanks for the invite.
Had a really good time.
I'm super honestly impressed of all these players by pig.
He's just like really out of inspiring me how good he is.
I'm really excited to see how he does in the finals,
but excited for the rest of it.
Thanks for the invite.
Looking forward to the next one.
And looking forward to seeing you, Hera,
at the Garrison 2 in November,
where I'll be casting, you will be playing.
Tickets are still available for that.
I think it's gonna be really, really fun,
really, really cool.
And definitely worth checking out.
If you wanna see some actual pro level Age of Empires
to go with this streamer tournament,
you've gotten interested in the game. Where's that going to be? It can be in
Hamburg. Let me put it up on the screen actually for the people to know. My
favorite German city. If you want to get there, I can probably make that happen
from the comment. HR is going to be there. I'm going to be there. The top 10 in the
world will be there. 25th to 29th of November. And that's going to be a
major S2 Chairman. The cool part is it's a major 1v1 S2 Chairman. They're
selling tickets. You go to this website, Being Esports. My team is involved.
Vitality is involved as well. It's a 1,000 person event in a premium movie
theater they're selling tickets right now if you want to pick them up and the cool part about it is
that it's a 1v1 pro tournament but also there's going to be a 3v3 grand finals between the two
best 3v3 teams in the world i'm hoping to play in that with Vitality so it's going to be a really
nice event in that regard. I heard you only expected because it's in Hamburg you thought it was
hamburger and said i would 100% agree and that was really smart of them to pick that city to get
get you to go. Okay, you know what's funny? You know what's funny? There's a ticket there.
It's a very freeman ticket. It's a $1,000 ticket. And it's very expensive. You get like
full access to everything. And on top of that, you get a state dinner at one of the most
prestigious restaurants in Hamburg. A very, very nice restaurant with me and the other
Vitality guys, a couple other people. Some guy posted this on my Discord. I would not
want to eat with Hera or should I say against Hera? He's not going to eat much for me. No
I'm paying one game for that adversarial it's a head-to-head match when you eat
their hair you have to be on your guard it's like freezing food you have to
over your tray he has to pay a thousand dollars just restate competition
against the goat legs not gonna happen bro it's not gonna happen I think those
tickets are sold out actually we got some poor kid us there they're not gonna
me and he stayed after sure.
He might have surprised, but no stay.
Um, it should be a blast.
It seems like a really, really fun time.
Yeah.
I look forward to that.
Yeah.
My, my final part in words, I guess, are, um, thanks for, thanks to the invite.
This was really fun.
And I genuinely hope that I run into all of you guys again.
Um, if you see me around at the event, say hi, it'll be really cool.
We'll do.
Thank you so much.
Peace.
Bye guys.
Bye.
All right, guys.
Give it up in the chat for a truck and stiffen.
Seriously, some of the best guys I've met in the streaming world, awesome people, and they really showed up today.
I didn't expect to have either of them, and they both were down to come in and cast.
So they really, really helped out the streaming today and the tournament final day.
0-7s for them, of course, but we have someone here.
Arguably more important than Hrock and Brit for the event, Uthermo, the fourth place finisher Uthermo.
Talk to me about that set, man. Gigi's well played, first of all. How are you feeling, bro?
Good question. I'm very relieved. It's over.
You're relieved that it's over, okay. You had a good run, but talk to me. You had some ups and downs.
Obviously, Arena is not your favorite. You had the name changes and whatnot. I mean,
you're a fantastic character. I love your kind of humor style and whatnot, but do you enjoy the
events overall? I really enjoyed the first couple weeks. I didn't enjoy playing the
tournament itself, but that's because I literally just get too much anxiety for tournaments.
Oh, wow. Interesting. Yeah, that's why I quit being a pro in SE2. I'm not kidding. For the last week,
I haven't been able to sleep or eat properly. It just sucks. It really just sucks.
Is any part of it just a streamer tournament? The stakes are not that high. Obviously,
there's money on the line and whatnot, but is your brain able to process if it's not a pro
tournament or is it just like I'll blend the same?
Well, it just depends on if I care about winning, I guess, like I think that that's my assessment
obviously for few to disagree, but I think I probably should have won this tournament
and that makes it so hard because like every potential loss feels like crap, you know, so
yeah, it's, well, like, I think you're the best the rape a player, and I think you have
the best micro macro out of anyone, and I think they buy a decent gap. But honestly,
I don't know if I'd agree with you winning the tournament, just because you looked kind
of flimsy on Arena and Registrate of Fortress. Obviously, I don't want to have an argument
over this after you've lost a set. It's not a big deal.
No, no, no, it's fine. I completely agree with you.
Yeah, it's a...
At least you're the favorite.
I missed a little bit of time. Yeah, that's the thing. Like, I mean, for my POV, if I...
Okay, last game, I honestly... Oh, it could be almost both games against Grubby were the
the best on Arabia, but I kind of thought I could probably 2-0 pretty much everyone
in Arabia then surely I would win another map once, right?
Not so far.
Listen, you did really well and like at some points on the ladder and I still feel this
way, I feel like you can easily get to like 2,000 elo, you have so much skill and with
just a little bit more game knowledge, a little bit like better positioning and certain matchups
Like just understanding how to exploit certain positions a bit more you're just spiked to 2k you showed that you're a great gamer and a great
RTS player, so there's a lot to be proud of seriously. You've done fantastic
Thank you. Thank you. I'm actually really sad to hear you dealing with some anxiety behind it
Because I feel like that's a it's a big part of a termic competition that the viewers don't see and sometimes the viewers
Yeah, such high expectations on their favorite players that they forget that there's that human element behind it all
That's like well
they're just trying their best in a day and there's a lot of nerves, a lot of psychological
elements behind the scene. So a lot to love to you, man. And seriously, well done. You have a
lot to be proud of. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. And just I just want to say the event is fantastic.
Like my mental health suffering is on your fault. I freaking love the ladder race and the team
part. Like I had so much fun. I'm a bit sad that I was that my event collided with it because
I honestly really didn't get to spend that much time practicing, only got one coaching session.
I would have loved to be a bit more part of it, but I still really liked it. Chaining into
Waga and Day9Stream. I don't know if you saw a hamburger's or admin, he posted the amount of
messages per chat and hours at like four times. The amount of messages is all the other chats
combined. It was really good vibes. They each had a Discord team chat and team thermal. I think it's
still popping off like day nine yesterday got a cheer for my squad baby never leave in the channel like team
Thurbaugh was just the closest knit team ever and
Absolutely love that. I think it's really cool. Happy enjoyed the latter elements
But I will say despite you having by the way had a very successful Starcraft events
So congrats on that. Yeah, I did keep up with you. Thank you
I did tune in as well a little bit
But it's hard for me because I was also running this event
But you know congrats on that events and I think you still did well with the time you had for the Kings Gauntlet
Yeah, honestly, top 4 is not awful, I can live with it somewhat.
So tough on yourself.
Yeah, it's tough.
No, you know what, the loss against Captain Lance was way worse for me than against Grubby.
Because it's like, honestly, there was like a gargantuan skill difference on Arabia, but
then I also just got both on all the other maps, so it's just like, felt dumb as hell.
You felt like you're the better player.
You're very likely are the better player,
but you just can't piece it together on arena.
You just couldn't find a single win there
as he's like Castle rushing you.
But he played that one like Anti-Ethermal.
Castle dropped forward.
No economy, fast at both times,
and you just have to react with no prep on that.
So you definitely have that Anti-Ethermal strat.
That's kind of how it is though with competition.
Yeah, I regret that one a little bit because like I said,
I didn't have too much time,
but I'm seeing the score line
and how the wind is like, if I had one actual build on Arena,
that's honestly all I needed, you know?
Question, actually, why didn't you Turc Fast Dimp?
That's such a powerful strategy.
It fits your micro perfectly.
Why don't you just try it?
Like, who cares?
Forget booming and just like playing a late game.
Just Turc Fast Dimp and Rush.
Well, I don't know.
I just, I kind of came into it with an idea
that the attacks on Arena wouldn't be as good
as just chilling for the most part.
So first I was playing basically with grubbies,
playing like scouts and relics.
Yeah.
And then I played a bunch of times and I, uh, going up against other people,
it felt like pure boom was better than that.
I mean, I, I still never got that good at it, but from my PV, that was probably
the best way to go about it.
Yeah.
I, uh, there's a bunch of strategies that I, I would like to try if I had some more
time, I think I would have prepared those.
I did have a bill for the second arena.
Cause, uh, I was talking to it with T90 before and we were both like, okay,
Arena so desperate that if it goes wrong again, just do this in the final game
Can you tell me what it is? Can you delete that? It was the it was it was the lag at the ram samurai or the
Yeah, I think the one is the one you hide in your base. I think that one is very solid
Yeah, like hiding your base Japanese. Yeah, I could have been good Ramurai. Let's say
Yeah, it would be nice if you pull it out
Hey, I see some T90 slander in the chat, but I just want to say I had one
One coaching session with T90, literally one, and that pretty much may be the best Arabian player in the tournament, one session, so...
That's pretty good.
Respect to T90's name, guys.
He taught me the perfect stuff, too, by the way, the X-Mode mango stuff that is very comfortable for me.
In comparison, I had a hundred coaching sessions with Grubby, and he's not even half the Arabian player as you, so...
Hey, you shouldn't do something right there, T90.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's good, so that's good.
Obviously, it's mostly a speed thing, I think, speed and micro, because yeah, if someone has a good counter to me, to X-Bow Mango stuff, I don't know what it would be, but I haven't found it yet, but if they find it, then I'd probably struggle, so.
I do have one last question here before we let you go. I want to talk about the thermaling of villagers to the center. It was the main thing that you told me before the ladder race, Hera.
I love the game, but I can't stand my villagers went to the center. Can you just like
Is anyway a fix in that ever is that just like a permanent part of age one price to you for you?
actually
You one of your mods me. Oh, yeah, I think he was helping me with a fix. He sent me like a a
Script or something that would like ignore one click or something that I don't remember exactly what it was
But I was just like like I mentioned for I was completely stressed out of my mind
So I didn't want to change anything, you know
That's that's maybe that would work. It would make my experience in a we to like 30% better
Cuz like it's so annoying like especially in the in the long games like what's it called the fortress?
Clicking 40 villages back on top of doing everything. It's such a mess
Horrible. Yeah, it's a disaster. It happened literally every game except the last game
I wanted to be but like every other game. I think we had like a thermal villager noble doom. We're just
headed to the middle of the map.
This game was just better. I tried to play slower actually, and it worked.
And the last game, yeah.
But maybe through your actual game plan though, so it's like, it worked.
You had the last game, I rallied 7 X-Bows instead, so that's...
I'm not sure if it was a good idea for me to work on it.
Alright, and then last question, like second last question.
We had a walk of 3 Invitational.
We had an A with 2 Invitational, and I already promised an A with 2 Invitational next year.
Shout out to the subs the sub go again. Oh, you got like a
Starcraft that's you bro. Any stock of tournaments coming up?
Oof, I mean I just finished one
That's like Seattle and stuff
Like what about one of like Hera and like my big grubby used to get like hair. I ate free art, you know spiffing Brits
There we have almost it. I'm pretty sick. We've got to just talk about that. I think you're a guy
Sounds pretty good. Sounds pretty good. I'll think about it. I'll think about it. I don't need a vacation first though
Oh my god. Yeah, you've worked hard. You've earned it if your term at this event
Oh, by the way, thank you for crunching and playing this event
But I was gonna say yeah, and there's anyone pulling the starcraft term off. It's you you got the YouTube used to back it up
That's all I'm saying. Yeah
Yeah, the only thing is that I don't have the twitch for you. Yeah, that's kind of what it's those the only thing
That's lacking a little bit now. You'll get those look at me, bro
I'm a 15,000 bro. I haven't hit these numbers ever you'll get to be you'll get the
Yeah, put in the work. Yeah
Yeah, no, it's fantastic, but I love that so many viewers came out to watch.
I know it is like the hosting event and you might be worried that your viewership is just normal or whatever,
but this is probably like X5 roughly, if you normally have.
Yeah, possibly more just because of how consistent it's been,
but I expected just to be honest with the chat, I wanted 10,000 on Twitch.
That would be a record of my channel. I broke that within like three hours.
I was like, holy shit, I think we broke it down like 17,000 on Twitch only.
have the YouTube just a flash that is well like seven six seven actually six
six seven hundred wait six seven six nine there's a legendary refresh look at that shit
six seven six nine oh my that's legendary bro that's sick actually yeah that's like
these are good numbers yeah shout to the viewers shout to the viewers there that's a
legendary pull but yeah no it's been great it's been awesome and yeah your
thermal thanks for being here man any last words for the chat once again
Congrats in the fourth place. It's a solid result.
Yeah, no, I just, I've really enjoyed interacting with the AO2 community.
There's been so many back-seaters, mostly good ones, some rotten ones,
but that's to be expected.
Thank you so much for watching my stream.
I didn't get to do too much, unfortunately, but I'll probably stream some in the future,
actually, might do like a little road to 2K thing or something.
I think that'd be cool as well.
It'd be hype as hell, yeah.
Yeah, no, just yeah, thank you all so much. Thank you for the invite
Hey, your tournament did sadly remind me of why I quit playing tournaments, but that's
It's not your fault. Yeah. Okay. Actually, I had a sick idea by the way
Tell me or it could be a terrible idea, but I just I thought of it randomly in between one of my games
You could involve the captains next time and have them just be a part of the ladder race. Ah
Ah, interesting, interesting, because you guys are too good for the main event, but like you guys can push the ladder race and prize pool there.
Okay, I like that.
Just a random idea. It could be terrible, it could be cool, but I just thought of it.
It depends. Let me tell you some of my preliminary ideas for the next one.
So obviously, King's Gauntlet No. 2 confirmed for 2027, god willing, of course.
But the main plan is I need to get more prize pool from Microsoft so that I can pay out people an actual livable wage.
because right now I'm like, H.O.X. got $400.
It's like 1,000 hours of ranked grind,
which is like terrible, right?
I want to pay livable wages out to these players,
but I couldn't do that right now
because I had 10,000 on workloads.
So hopefully next time with like some better investment
from Microsoft, like we've proven the concept works,
we've proven the people have showed up to watch
and everything's good.
A lot of new viewers, a lot of new eyes on ABA too.
I can have some actual good price pool.
So it's worth your time to actually put in the work
and grind and with that,
I think that would be a fantastic idea actually.
Have you thought about crowdfunding actually?
I did some crowdfunding for this one, but it was not for the price, it was for the production,
like the website, we raised 3500 for the website and the coaches, website, editors, admin coaches.
Nice, nice.
Yeah, huge up to the chat, we actually filled a donation goal, my donation goal was 2500,
we filled 3500, which is fantastic, so I'll be paying that out after the event as well.
Awesome.
Okay, I think I don't want to delay the players. I could keep yapping, but I don't want to delay the next match
It's actually I need a 10 minute break if you want to yap I can bring Lewis in here
You guys can yap away. I actually didn't want to delay you because like I just want but if you want to yap
I need like 10 minute break anyways, so it's not over your break
All right, you have my break Lewis can come in as well. Enjoy it and yeah, you don't take it away, bro
Yeah, hello Lewis. I
See he's muted, but he's here. Trust me guys
I'm talking to the ghost.
Yo.
Yo, what's up, man?
How you doing?
Nice to meet you, Luz.
Nice to meet you, Thermal.
Well played.
Thank you.
I wouldn't necessarily agree.
What did you think the problem was for you in this set?
Well, first of all, I'm just really bad on the close maps.
So I don't know if you saw the previous one against Captain Lance, but I owned some
Arabia and then I lost all the other ones.
And it's kind of, it kind of feels like crap to have the pressure on me because I
need to win Arabia, like 1000% and then pray that I win another one, you know?
So it was tough.
I got really close in game number as well.
I was going to say, I'm surprised you didn't think about the Saracens because
the Saracens would fit your game plan like perfectly for what you'd like to do.
Yeah, T90 recommended it to me, but honestly, I was just too stressed out to try new things, like, I was like, I, yeah, I've picked Portuguese and Malian's every single series in the exact same order besides the ones I think and I was like, okay, these guys know what I'm going to do, but it works 90% of the time anyway, so I don't really want to change anything.
Yeah, that kind of makes sense.
And also I watched the Prohemian game.
That was kind of rough.
Like I was watching it and I was saying to myself,
if you just mess up like five who needs,
six who needs, and then push out onto the map,
I think that's kind of the win coin.
Cause you kind of want to like mess up one big death ball.
Cause I think the way you're playing it to kind of just
throwing a little bit, then a little bit more,
then a little bit more.
You kind of want to just go like, you know,
six of them together, six, seven, eight,
and then just push out all together.
Okay, yeah, I only
Like T90 helped me a little bit, but he only gave me theory like we didn't have time for an actual session
So I just kind of piece it together from what he told me in chat, you know
Yeah, yeah, I was initially playing like this on fortress
Which works a bit better because you're kind of maxed out by the time things happen anyway
From the read maybe I should have been more patient. I don't know
Yeah, for just interesting. I think the
It was unfortunate, it's never luck.
I was going to open up the website.
I watched a king snipe, I casted it with her, it was amazing.
I can't remember who it was.
There are a couple of hers.
Oh, there was like one that was like amazingly put together.
Wait, I'm lucky.
Can't find it.
Oh, and by the way, Leery's joint, Leery hello.
Oh, he's muted.
Hello?
Yo.
Oh, what's up?
Hey, Leery.
What's up?
Not so hair, but you're my actual goat, by the way.
It's good.
We're in private here, you know, not like that.
Pretty good people can hear us all good.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Do you not realize Leery had 20 attempts to beat Harrod and Astia?
You realize and you failed every single attempt.
Louis is just mad because he was the one who ended her streak
and then he gifted it right next to me in the next round.
Yeah, you're you've been a bit unlucky against her sometimes I've even before I was playing I watched a little bit
I'm always interested in who's winning the RTS tournaments. Yeah, like yeah
I just want to say for example for a week for for like three years
I never watched a single game, but I still knew who won the tournament
No, I see I see I see always
It's out there
Interesting, you know, yeah, you have a very similar playstyle to me or like I see myself
when I was starting the game, playing like you, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
I think the much micro-oriented expo-manganade just brute-force your way.
It's funny, because you said you didn't have most practice, so you just practiced more
or less the expo-manganade playstyle.
People know it's coming, but they can't stop it.
That's pretty much my way as well.
Yeah, that's what I noticed.
I feel like if you don't play against like Herod, the people just die every time I watch
basically yeah that's how i used to be in stark as well back when i was still good
just kind of nice nice nice i like playing like the the bing bang boom playstyle you know like
you harass a little bit here you harass a little there macro perfect behind it and you kill them
with a time yeah it's smooth it's smooth it's very smooth it's a very good style of playing
especially because the game is kind of at least at the top level in most tournaments very defensive
oriented. So, you know, the player who usually goes aggressive has to do lots of
damage. Yeah, so most players will just end up playing a bit more defensive
because there's more advantages to it, at least at the top level. So it's always
very entertaining to see that kind of play styles. Yeah, I see some action, you
always see some fights like back and forth, you know. That's why usually the
sets between Hera and me cannot deliver because it's like aggressive against
defense. Yeah, that's sick. And in Starcraft 2 you have something similar. I don't know if you know the names Clemens Harrell, but they're like the best there in the best
arc. Yeah, and it's like sterile just kind of like hair. Well, maybe even he's very robotic, like he does the same stuff and he's just too good with it. And then Clemens is like
attacking him 24 seven, you know, it's just non stuff. Yeah, that's good. I mean, it would have been cool to coach you actually, especially at that
I wasn't really around for too much, up until this week and a little bit before, but...
It was actually the first thing I wrote in the coaching chat, I think.
If you go back, you might see the first thing I said was,
I bet Larry could make me 2K in like a day or something like that.
Yeah, because I didn't have much time myself,
because I was running my own event at the same time, so it's kind of like...
I see, I see, I see.
Yeah, I wasn't really too active in the chat the first couple of weeks, to be honest,
for the first couple of days.
You know what I figured?
I figured I'm so bad that like even for every five games I improve so much that
getting coaching might not even be that good early on like I should at least
know how to you know move move the keyboard and in the mouse.
Get some hands first.
Yeah yeah right because it's I mean it kind of worked because I do think my
hands work better than the other competitors but my brain didn't so
that's just kind of lacking I mean you know you can still have lots of long
much and still not have hands like look at Lewis for example.
He does see the fans of this day.
I have no.
I honestly, I think groovy probably better micro.
I'm not even trolling.
Like it's disaster.
You actually have no micro.
No micro.
I'm actually like 50.
So micro is not that bad, but he some of the moves he makes are so bad
that they're actually good.
That's the issue.
It goes like circled, you know, like in the time.
Yeah.
Is that how you know my game plan is?
Yeah, my game plan every game that's just, yeah, just honestly greet as much as possible,
drop the DCs as fast as possible and pick up the relics.
And hopefully in 45 minutes you'll win.
That's kind of my playstyle.
Yeah, I think there's probably a bit more to it than that I have to guess.
You know, just saying, as top players, it's really easy to underestimate yourself, by
But you can think my micro so garbage is 1700 I could probably do okay
But even your worst micro is gonna be like, you know, you'll dunk in a tiny sea hundred or whatever like it's just
Yeah, I mean the game is mostly about knowledge and experience as so many units so many strats so many maps so many nuances
That's kind of the beauty of it, but it takes lots of time
But yeah, it's a pleasure to learn it once you see the puzzles coming together. It's a great
Also, I think the most important thing is your mindset as well, because if you're playing
bad and you start telling yourself you're playing bad, everything just goes bad, right?
But that's kind of what I realized versus Leery.
Whenever I'm playing versus him, just getting out of my throat constantly, I'm just calling
myself horrible the entire time.
It's just so hard to come back from that time.
Yeah, it's annoying as hell, yeah.
It's hard to play against really, really good players, like in this case, top two players
in the world because you start getting out microbe and then it already starts feeling hopeless
somehow, you know, because you respect them too much. But if you get would get out micro by a
shit player, it's just kind of just kind of funny, you know, you just move on. Yeah, it's like,
happens, what can you do next? Yeah, yeah. It's like, well, your opponent, the goats, who knows?
Well, suddenly there are 17 goats.
You guys watch my games just now by the way, like close to it.
Yes, I did.
I was curious about the last game because so that map was kind of flat.
At least I didn't feel like I have a nice hill to attack from.
In that case, would you not do it?
Or would you just like it?
Let's say the best hill is at the back of his base or something.
Would you still go there?
You can do.
You know what the worst mistake you made that entire game was?
That I think, like, you're the back, you don't wall to the edge of the map.
So his arches kept wrapping around your base and like idling your resources
whilst you're pushing.
And then he's resting your rest whilst you're pushing.
It's like you can't pay attention in both spots and your push is weaker.
So I actually think not walling to the edge of the map was like the huge reason
why you lost that one from my point of view.
Okay.
But yeah, also like remembered again.
Yeah, the question when the tower was with the crossbow mango is also quite rough. Yeah, it's that one.
Yeah, okay.
I mean, it was pretty not my prettiest game, like I made some beauty errors on the micro and stuff as well.
One time I tried to click my mango on his, but I didn't even know what it did.
It started walking down the ramp instead of shooting like, and I write like eight archers into his army, like it was pretty bad, honestly, but strategically, I'm curious.
That happens to me every single time, I'm on like super zoomed out, I'm always mis-clicking
my, instead of like right-clicking my opponent's mango, I mis-click and I walk towards them,
it's horrible.
Yeah.
The mango dance is crazy, like you one-shot each other and you feel like one shot can
make the difference.
It's pretty intense.
Yeah, it's snowballs very quick as well, because if it's like two or three manganos against
two, three manganos, if you win one trade suddenly you're up three against one and then
you can predict the multiple areas, right?
So you can't dodge, it's impossible in some ways.
Then it's like a snowball.
And they're obviously impossible
and they deal tons of damage.
So...
If you're three against one,
would you like a one for one trade?
Probably, I guess.
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, if you have three, the enemy has one.
Usually what you can do is,
in order for both of you to shoot,
you have to be in range, right?
So if you have to free,
You move with all 2 or 3 depending on how many units you can move to the side, so you can dodge the shot and then you can predict on 3 different areas.
And obviously, Mangelo is very slow, so you're guaranteed to kill his Mangelo. Well, he's not guaranteed to kill yours.
Very specific, but...
Noted.
You guys already gave me more coaching than Hera, by the way, just saying.
Hera will be the one defending with the Mangelo.
I'm not attacking. Lewis is well defending.
I was a fan, but the other thing was is the hill, right?
It's like, if you land your shot and he lands his shot also,
but you have the hill, his die is yours as well.
So having the hills, whenever you're pushing is also another,
but I think you should have definitely moved around
to the left side instead of pushing straight to the tower.
Cause it's like, if you push through the tower,
you can garrison it, repair it, the tower is shooting you
and your mangy else is totally dying and then he shoots.
And also another thing is the vision, right?
He sees everything and you're like pushing it for darkness.
So it's like really easy to defend from this position.
So I think wrapping around to the left side
probably was the best play, but.
Yeah, that area was so crap.
I attacked into it and I was like,
I didn't see any manganese or whatever.
I was like, I'm kind of on a timer.
I'll just go, but there was just nothing to do.
I could shoot farms, but that was it, you know, or walls.
So honestly, I think the way you thought about
like you're on a timer is sometimes the wrong way to think
because like in like 1800 level,
You're never really on a timer, like the timer is like extended, right?
You have way more time to damage than you think.
Because play is not playing perfect.
Like if I'm playing versus Herra Leery, okay, sure.
I have to do damage instantly, but like, I think, I don't, I think you underestimated
your position a little bit.
You weren't in a bad spot.
Hmm.
Okay.
Yeah, I thought I was completely dead.
I was kind of just trying to get in there as fast as I could.
Yeah, I think like moving to the left, you know about the target fire with the manganelles, right?
How you can take two buildings out at the same time.
Oh, like attacking ground in between?
Yeah, yeah.
So if you just like move to the left a little bit, attack ground between two buildings.
That's also not good to do it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, I know I made a lot of mistakes that game, but it's still fun to think about
it.
It was just like small situational mistakes.
Like you weren't playing bad, it was just like one or two tiny things, like waltzing to the map
and move to the left of your manganelles and the game is just completely different.
Yeah, yeah.
Also, where did Herigo by the way? He kind of just dragged me in and just peaced out.
Yeah, he took a break, he's probably eating.
Actually no, small column to battle with Grubby, let's be honest.
It's kind of funny because I'm rooting for Captain Lance and Pig, you know, because
because Liri's been coaching Groovy.
Yeah, yeah, Liri's been coaching Groovy.
And everyone Liri coached is like balled out, right?
So I'm kind of rooting against Liri.
Okay.
I was rooting for you as well.
Thank you, thank you.
So what was your first game you played?
Oh, the Fortress game.
That went on for such a long time.
You know?
Yeah, I should have won that one, I think,
but I just got lost somewhere.
Should have made Pikes, actually, that game.
No, no, no, like, finance is going to be your, like, ultimate composition.
But I think you're going to be pushing a little bit faster because, because
way versus Vietnamese is a very unique matchup.
Whenever you're playing like versus way as the Vietnamese way want to be on the
Jambay rider, plus some type of cab, right?
Like Hossa, the Knights of the unique units.
So I think you should have maybe gone like three TC, a little bit faster imp.
And then just like push them really quickly.
And then just play finance is going.
But I think like the full boom where like he has like, you know,
carved the relics kind of just like went into a style of it.
Yeah, I was I'm actually wondering because I feel like on my
ELO, Cav is kind of OP in the late game stuff, because like the
yeah, they're so mobile. And it's like, I feel like it's so hard
for me to be everywhere. And the Cav just kind of runs around.
So like the Cav late game always kind of wins when the players
are still not that good. I don't know if it's the same at high
level, but that's what it felt like for me.
Yeah, that was like really easy to play right you can just like send them in and just forget about them
Yeah, if you throw in 30 hussars all 30 hussars die. It's fine. There's food right you have like 90 bills on food
But I think like also you could wall the back your base up a little bit
Like if you fight in one spot your arm is better if you're fighting multiple spots his arm is better
So I think like cutting off your base walling the sides is
Kind of the way to go
I actually struggle against the mobile trebs.
Yeah.
I struggle a bit against the mobile trebs, even though Chatl always says they suck, but
they were kind of annoying.
They're OP.
They're pretty good.
Because it's like they could kill my trebs and my castles and they can get out when I
go in with my slow ass Lancers.
It was tough, actually.
It's a bomb-bomb pattern you don't need chemistry for with more range.
If you're pushing up a hill, then it's really hard to kill a castle, right?
Because they do low damage to buildings, but on a flat map, and if you're fighting against
like flat hill castles and other siege, it's so, the good versus like onages as well, scorpions,
it seems to be.
So you're trying to get in for you or bomber cannons, your own long range units where you
could fight back and move around as well, because with the old traps they just get sniped, right?
You can't move them.
and shoot like you can with those traction traps. But if you made your own recovery cannons you could
move around five or six like in the arena game and then you can slide them as well.
Yeah okay okay. Also just shooting your opponent's units with the bombard cannons as well like
instead of just like having them idle. If they're always shooting something they don't always have
to be shooting a building or siege they can just be shooting you know hand cannon ears right?
Yeah, that's what I was trying in Arena, but Arena just it felt doomed so fast to me because you'd like I
Literally didn't even have gold left. I didn't have any map position for gold was outside there
You know which he castled and then took eventually for himself. Yeah, it's messed up. I also yet five relics
So eventually if you didn't close out the game in like 40 minutes, you were out of gold and bohemians without gold is just cooked
Yeah, and that's another case of like not pushing fast enough rights like a woman not not pushing fast enough
But I'm not taking the map right like if he takes the like half goes like five relics
He invested on those like half, which means your boom in theory should be better
But then again, it's five brilliant relics, right? So he gets like double. What is the brilliant bonus?
It's like food and gold, right? So yeah, each one of you picks up. It's like two three bills. It's
It's super hard to play against
Yeah.
All games are like really close and...
Yeah, you know, it's really hard to play if you're like, if you don't know that much
about the game, because a lot of games they just feel hopeless.
You know, because like on Arena, I try to move out of my base and use three castles
there, and like, I don't know, I just mess up and get like six of those Omega Bomber
cannons and I move out, you know?
I'm just like...
Yeah.
I'm just cooked, you know?
Like I'm stuck in my base.
Yeah.
like stuff that's the refilling if you lose it's like everything is hopeless
it's the worst game ever if you win if you feel like you're Alexander the
great you're like the core there's no in-between doesn't matter how you win or
how you lose honestly that's I've learned that's just RTS like yeah
I didn't even go there honestly, but I played.
Maybe I only care about RTS games, that's why.
Maybe.
Or I guess the games you play competitively, you play to win and to improve, I guess that's the way.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I played some Warcraft 3 as well.
Yeah, welcome back.
Thank you, good to see you guys.
How was your small call?
It was kind of a medium call this time actually.
I was not on call with Grubby.
I was not on call with Grubby, I promise.
I want to eat. The other thing I like to do.
The second thing, which one would you say is your favorite?
You have to choose.
Eating while watching Grubby. Number one thing.
So good.
Yeah, let's check out my coaching Grubby.
Let's go, Captain Lance.
Speaking of coaching here, I just got like a hundred times more coaching from these
two guys and I got from you in the last three weeks.
You tell me what's up with that?
Fun fact, Hera did not make one comment to me about my gameplay in this entire tournament,
not one.
He didn't tell me the objective, you know.
Your far placement sucks or...
This is not one comment, not one.
I actually think you might be right, which is depressing.
That's so sad.
I'm sure you didn't make one comment to me.
You farewell just got ghosted by Hera.
Yeah, I think I wasn't ghosted. I was pocket watching his YouTube like I don't know what she makes per video
I know like, you know what sims he likes to play but not you know help it and pick the right says
Ah, you're watching his downfall. Yeah, literally
All right, we guys we gotta get going by the way because I think like a thousand years to go eat
So you throw more we're dropping you out, bro
Thank you for being here and congrats on the fourth once again
You can expose you one more time before I go I said a lot say whatever you want. You can say what you want
I accept the invite to this tournament, right? In my head, this is only Arabia. That's my
bad, right? And then Hera announces that it's Arena as well. And I'm like, bro, get
it out, but I understand it, right? And then this freaking guy puts Arena Plus on the first
map and then lets them lose their pick Arena, just despite me, zero coaching. Every time
I asked for it, he was eating or something, it's just crazy. Anyway, fantastic tournament,
nice to meet you Liri and Luis. Might hit you guys at one time for coaching or something
if you guys could be down for another meal.
We could do some in the next couple days, weeks.
Not me of course, I'm busy, don't message me, message done, not me.
Don't message Hera, he will just ghost you indeed.
All right guys, enjoy the rest of the show, thanks for having me, have a good one man.
Alright guys, W, you thermal in the chat, legendary guy, I actually love him so much, he's since the humor is on point, but guys we gotta go in here because Grubby is a busy man and he's about to play Captain Lance, so yo, you thermal is out, Leary, Lewis, Double L's, what's going on guys?
Good to have you guys joining me in the cast.
Hello.
Good to be here.
Hello.
Alright, let me get, let me get them started.
14 at Grubby and Captain Lanz.
All right, so, I mean.
Grubby can make the hero run.
He can play four sets in one day
and win them all and win the whole tournament.
That's crazy, right?
Like Pig played two sets,
but had a massive break in between.
Grubby played four back-to-back, basically.
He had a little bit of a break after the first one,
but after that, three back-to-back.
It's a crazy run of the loser bracket,
but that's kind of what makes it so exciting in my opinion.
Didn't Pig wake up at five AM, though,
for one of his sets?
I think he did.
By the way, I think they've started, so we don't have to hop right in, but feel free to talk over me a little bit while I get the cam set up and everything.
We're gonna hop into the first game right now.
Oh, they did start.
Hop it right in. Cam Lance is...
Funnily enough, since Tara was eating, I had to give Gravis some advice against Lance.
Have you watched all of Lance's games?
Every single one. On tournament, every single one.
How many games has he played before?
He knows more threats than me.
Oh, no, he's played a lot of games.
He's played a lot of games.
I'll fix the cameras, but he used to play
like thousands of team games, but very casually.
So he's actually still like, he's a worse player
than Grubby in terms of micro and macro overall.
Don't get me wrong, he's a great micro player,
but he's got that game knowledge.
It's his biggest strength.
Let me just introduce the players real quick guys.
This is the loser bracket final.
Winner of this goes to the grand final.
The loser gets third place.
So there's a lot on the line here.
Grubby playing as the Vietnamese in blue
and CaptainLands playing in red as the Cumans.
Go ahead and break down this matchup.
I finally have two pros with me.
So Lewis, Liri, break down the matchup
or just fix the cameras real quick.
Go on, Liri.
Ladies first.
I'll go.
Well, we have Vietnamese and Cumans.
Cumans are not really that great on fortress,
as you don't pull ahead by that many vills,
as the uptime is pretty fast.
And I much prefer the Vietnamese here.
What do you think, Liri?
Yeah.
Listen, I have played Cubans maybe 10 times in my life before.
On Arena probably not a single time.
I played against them though, so I know how to beat them.
But yeah, I prefer Vietnamese as well.
I think Cubans is like such a cheeser-sif.
But I feel like Grubby knows what to expect.
I kind of prepared him a little for this matchup.
He knows what to do.
Is there a reason for Grubby?
So the thing is about this matchup as well,
is that Captain Lance has played it twice before.
On Fortress, he's won both times.
Sincsin also took the Cumans on this map, and he's also one with it.
Oh no, I think Catalan's played it three times, actually, with Cumans.
He's won all three, and the strategy, the main strategy that he's employed, he's played it twice, though.
He's played it twice, and he's played it another strategy another time.
It's the fast imp after the 2TC boom into the Kip trucks with the forward castle.
It's like, you get a little bit of a 70-bill economy, then you go for the forward castle, fast imp.
So a little cheesy, to your point, Liri, it is kind of a cheesy sieve.
And to try to get you with that fast imp timing, it's very hard to stop if you don't know what's coming, but if you know what's coming,
sometimes you can just match them with a 3 TC boom and then just prepare a solid defense.
So the Vietnamese here, I feel like is a little bit more solid.
However, Captain Lance also showed that he can just go for a mega boom, not go for the fast imp, and just go into something like Paladin and late game with the humans as well.
So it seems pretty flexible for him, but he's had a lot of success with it so far.
Also, another thing is, actually look at next to Grubby's base, next to his castle, there's a huge hill where Captain Lance can make a castle on, so if he does take the map, that could be a really good spot to push from.
Yeah, even from flat ground it could be dangerous, but if you have a hill it just makes it all the deadlier.
Grubby knows that Lance has played Cummins before, he has also seen both of the strats, the 2TC fast aim forward push and the 2TC into 5TC boom.
I think either way, you just play 3TC into Boom as Vietnamese, the only thing you can do, and then just adapt, depending on what you see.
And so you said you did a little coaching for Grubby, a little bit before the set, right?
What was the adaptation you told him to counter the Fasten?
Because if Flans just booms this game, Grubby can adapt and just play a late game, but what about the Fasten?
What was the game plan there against that? What can we look forward to Grubby doing here?
I actually did that like I think four or five days ago. No three days ago or something when Grubby told me
What his bracket looks like and he still has no clue how to beat Lance that was like before he was still an upper bracket
Yeah, so he just asked me how to beat human to TC fast in because it was it looked very strong
so I just made him practice
Free TC faster in
In case he will go for the strat again, basically just match his economy up to AACP after Castle Age, making two TC's, so you're still catching up to the resources. Lance will have more than that.
And then just skirmisher and push him back. That's the best way to put it, because there's not really much else you can do, and then eventually fire lance, skirmisher, you have an unbeatable comp.
Yeah, like Vietnamese should have the better late game there, so that's that's what we're looking for chat
Just don't get too stuck with like the 4TC stuck in cast late for too long
You need to get your bombboards out fast enough
You need to be able to push back those early trebs from the Cumans remember no gunpowder for the Cumans
So no bombboards no hand cannon near and so a lot of times the Cumans kind of get stuck in the treb war
If you just go skirmish or sometimes the Vietnamese M skirm
A few bombards push it all back and then you're just playing a stronger late game
Especially with the fire lancer the addition of the fire lancer
I feel like makes this matchup very very comfortable for the Vietnamese now
We did see Vietnamese lose out on this map in the last set
Grubby versus you thermal you thermal played a great Vietnamese game
finances skirm kind of lost in a grindy late game. I want to get your thoughts
Lewis I guess for the relics obviously theory can probably give us some good thoughts here, but Lewis
Grubbies went for the relics consistently and if they've shared him well
But what do you make of just giving up the relics in favor of a bigger boom now? What's your take on that?
I think the relic is always better, right? Because if you add a TC, that's 375 res, and you always have to produce builds from it.
If you make a monastery, every relic you pick up is like, what, two builds?
And that two builds are alive, working on gold, you know, for the entire game. So I think going for the relic is always the correct approach.
I also want to say that Leery just leaked all of Groovy's strats, it picks watching for the finals, so...
Oh, true.
Thank you, Leery.
I think it's not playing Q-Mans on non-fortress, like what are we talking about here?
I have to go to school maybe?
Sure, my friends.
It was an interesting angle to make Leery be like the villain in the whole story, but the gambit has failed unfortunately.
This is why Leery, I avoided coaching the players except Grubby.
I just didn't want to get into any situation where I was the dean of the villain from my hard work in coaching.
I have to be objective.
Yeah, that's why I just support Grubby and no one else. I don't want to sped up my knowledge too thin.
with. Grubby is now up to Castle Age. He's going to go for a 3 TC boom. I had a question
in the chat earlier. How risky is it for the Kings to be out on the map? Not risky at all.
Kings on the map is completely fine in Dark Age. I mean somewhat risky if you run into
the castle, but barring, spiffing, Brit, we haven't seen that from anyone in this tournament.
But now the Kings are back, you know, safe behind the castle. But remember guys, right
aside from the game 1, you lose your King, you lose the game. Here we go Grubby. Keeping
his King safe, 3 TC boom to match the 2 TC from Catlin Lance. Catlin Lance still in feudal
is those who can't add more than the 2TC.
Isn't there also a place here where Grobius starts making his unique unit, you know, push
Captain Lance back and I like the forward position?
I was thinking that.
What do you think about that approach as well?
You just boomed 2TC, but instead of just rushing the end, if you rat the archers, don't let
the forward bills come across the map.
Yeah, it can work, but the way Lance has been playing, he's been playing very, very smart,
So naturally he will just play with Keptrex and then sneak the castle around somewhere.
Yeah.
I think in that one arena game he just sneaked the castle on, who was it?
I think it was...
You think it was Thermal maybe then?
Yeah, I thought it was Thermal.
And he just sneaked around.
Your Thermal has no idea.
He might do it as well because Keptrex is obviously a mobile unit so he can play around with vision a bit more than Rafa archers.
Yeah.
It's a bit risky here because if you make units and you commit to them you also have to upgrade them.
You have to make like 5, 6, 7 of them and if you then don't stop the castle then you're just behind.
Yeah, absolutely. I do like what we're seeing here from Captain Lance, he always does this.
He goes like market, houses, whatever building he's making, he makes them outside and tries to secure one side of the map at least.
I think it's a really good way to play, especially to Grubby who likes to take the relic, so you just cut off one relic here,
cut off a big push in the map, not many wood lines back here, but just great farmland,
which could really help if he decides to go for that bigger boom approach.
Castle is coming in now for Captain Lance, a nice villager lead, a nice economic advantage in terms of rest collected as well.
However, we're going to have this boomerang effect where Captain Lance is going to be ahead early,
but then Grubby's going to slowly catch up and actually overcake him with a 3TC boom.
So we're going to see the Monastery, as you mentioned, Lewis from Grubby.
He always does this 3TC, then the Monastery. He deems it better than the 4TC, quite clearly.
Yeah, also the thing is Captain Lance, by the time he gets to Castle, he just scouts his cell alive and he gets kip checks.
He can also deny the relics, right?
And also he's walling one of them in for late.
And there is two on the right side, which are fairly close to him.
And also it kind of shows the experience from Captain Lance, right?
Like these guys are similar ranking, but like Captain Lance is so much more
experienced at this level, even though Groovy is, you know, technically the
sharper player, some would say.
Yeah.
It's an interesting matchup.
Yeah, I completely agree with that.
I think like Captain Lance, uh, I feel like we don't want to lean too much into
He's saying he's only known for his knowledge also showed a really good micro macro make that clear to the chat
It's also a great player, but grubby
She's slightly stronger on paper in terms of you know the raw mechanics great play though from Lance not just the wall
But also walling fast grubby try to be a little greedy go for that corner. Well, it's all walled off
You can't get that really that's crazy
That's very smash from grubby go for the furthest one first
Here we go
Oh, the conversion!
He switched the conversion to the villager, that was crazy!
Well played to Grubby there, and he's got two scouts, Kamala's got nothing!
And barring some Kipchaks, Kamala has no military on the field.
Grubby has the defs on call.
Yeah, that was a quick conversion, eh? That was a quick conversion.
He did switch it from the villager though, so it was not like that lucky, it was actually kind of well played from him.
Oh, that's why I missed it.
That was me, I just missed the scout to move the monk forward and just cancel the conversion.
And the monk dies.
Monk dies, then your scout gets chased by the Cuban faster scout and it all goes downhill, but
Fair enough King being moved to the back here. Grabby wants to misposition. He doesn't want to misposition the King forward
So send him to a safe power to back and he's gonna make some rat and archers here
So he kind of fancies a little bit of map control. This is probably just to help, you know, play for those relics
I think this is definitely a good idea. He's done this in previous games as well. But here we go catlots already up to him
He's going for the fast imp, beautiful.
I feel like probably we'll stop this.
I have a good feeling we'll stop this.
That's exactly what we prepared against.
Well, to build at least.
We'll click up the next two, three minutes.
Even if Lance gets the forward castle on that hill, which is a nasty hill.
He might lose the castle, but then he will just fall back to skirmisher, open skirmish and bomber cannons
and then eventually just get to Fire Lance or Perico and then just push him back.
Yeah, and we talked about opening some Wrathen Archers here for the Relics.
Wrathen Archers are really nice anti-archer archers, so take a look.
This guy's taking like no damage to the Kipchaks.
Of course, the Kipchaks have the mobility.
You can always run away and they shoot multiple arrows.
They're doing okay damage, but overall the Wrathen Archer will win the head-on-head fights.
And take a look at the Ville Count now.
Grubby has surpassed the Ville Count from Captain Lance,
because that two TC kind of fallen off and the three TC is starting to pull ahead.
Yeah, look at Lance Stone, Stone Count, Lebanon Stone.
He's looking at the castle.
He's doing the same strategy he's done a couple times before.
He's sending the villagers forward, and this seems like the perfect time to ask the chat,
type the name of the person you're cheering for, Grubby or Lance.
Type the name of the chat right now, YouTube and Twitch.
Let's get some energy going behind these guys.
It's the loser bracket final.
It's a really, really important match.
Winner of this will face Pig in the grand final.
And look at this, Grubby will scout the villagers immediately.
This is huge for the blue player.
Unless you just pass his by, oh my god, oh my god.
He didn't see that, that's crazy.
Wow.
I think Lance is heading straight for the hill as well.
He's going straight for the hill?
That's very smart.
Grubby missing that is ridiculous, by the way.
That's so unfortunate.
Grubby's playing, he's got no idea.
If he knew he'd just go and clear this all up,
his unit is actually stronger right now,
so Captain Lance, a bit of fortune there for him.
He's in a castle up the hill, beautiful hill.
We talked about it from the start of the map.
And now what's the play?
Grubby's up the hill, though.
Up to him. Looking decent.
Yeah, and even this is like worst case scenario as well, right? Like best case scenario, he explores it,
he sees it, and then he doesn't even let him get the castle, and he has to drop the defensive here at home.
Yeah, that's true. So worst case scenario, the guys got a massive hill, we missed the castle,
we invested some ratanarches, you talked about this theory, bit of a double-edged sword, these eight ratanarchs
could have delayed him for a couple minutes.
Let's see what Grobby can do here against this catalanth bush.
Grobby's been so active with his units as well, scouting around.
Captain Lance is based looking for this, you know, forward castle, but he just missed it
Okay, if you look at all his unit position, he literally sees everything in a straight line
Yeah, I don't think he knows about the castle as well
He doesn't know anything. He's gonna be kicking himself or confused if you just sees it like already there
He'd like when did he ever walk out?
Keep an eye on the camera of grubby. Maybe he'll make a face of like what the hell's going on
How did he get there but Captain Lance?
You know a secret is as it may be a grubby. It's no secret
It's got a castle and a few stables now one thing. I don't really like that
I think he goes for like have wouldn't you agree that Cavaliers the better choice here dairy
Yeah, especially because like have is more like a late game choice since it only cost food
But right now he only has 15 of food. That's the issue. He can't really afford any upgrades
Village reproduction and let alone the stable units with only 15 of food
Yeah, that's true like very little farms so like going like have here feels a bit counterintuitive
He didn't last set though and it worked out for him so he's probably not gonna switch it up
We have a loom for grubby at least so no no, you know, no missing loom disasters
40 seconds to end. I think it's the right call to not repair this castle because the hill is just too nasty there, honestly
Can't buy some time I guess but as soon as he gets two traps, it's there's no point
Yeah, you better make the castle somewhere else the second one
Yeah, he's gonna go for the repairs though. Maybe just thinking about buying some time
He you thermals a villager forward unfortunately
Where's that guy?
But also grubby can see the like half. He knows what's coming
And he sees the way she lands hit that option true true
That's a good point to hide the like have showed only the kip check
Which you've been making in broad daylight hide the like have and surprise grubby now the cat's out of the bag
Transition is wide open
He doesn't have castles though.
Yeah, that's the problem.
Ratharanch is great.
He's got one castle.
He's about to lose it.
He can maybe afford one more.
But one castle of Ratharanch doesn't really excite me.
I actually much prefer the imp skirm tech.
I think this is fantastic from Grubby.
It's what Liri and him talked about.
Liri, that's the correct choice.
If he stops you thermally villagers though,
you can have a really good chance to push this back.
We're getting vision.
Don't worry.
It's all part of the plan.
It is vision. How is this girl not dying? It's crazy.
Let me try to go.
This is crazy.
Light cap coming in.
Plus 4 armor is coming through as well.
Light cap goes straight through the gate here. Scrumers just have to kite back.
A few Rattans will make short work of those light caps.
So actually really nice to have those mixed in.
Blitz is now in.
That doesn't have to equal yet to properly produce Leicav non-stop and upgrade them to a star.
Yeah, it's certainly not that Leicav's one on the right side.
Yeah, certainly.
Yeah, it's because it's slowly creeping with the houses.
Yeah, this is similar to what Catmilan set up here.
Look at that, so solid how this wall looks.
But yeah, Grubby's doing the same down here.
Very, very effective against the Leicav, potentially has star raids down the line.
Grubby's trying to get a little greedy trying to snipe that Trebuchet,
But I think better friend just work on getting some as you know some
Firelands is on the field to counter the light cap. Yeah, it's way better for him
Yeah, that's the next next step. You could have already gone for it
I guess he didn't really check the like an upgrades yet. I was you would have known okay
Lance is not committed to keep checks, but rather like yeah, we should come in and if I already make it
Oh great defense from grubby though. Just garrisons all the DCs always clear up the kept tracks
Oh, it's Disaster Plants!
It's the Lantz Tricks as well.
Oh my goodness, the Imskirm, Lantz, his AFK!
He lost all the Kip Tricks, the Light Cavalry went down!
It's all Grubby right now, this is disastrous for the red player!
Wow, that was not what you want to see if you're a Lantz fan!
Now the Trimps are going back, it doesn't have that hill though, to kind of defend it by time.
But holy Grubby with a good defense there.
And look at Grubby's production.
What's in the queue?
Free Fire Lances.
Love it.
Sturmhold, set up that backline, Fire Lancer frontline, we've seen how strong that combo is with the Thermal in the last set.
It can fight pretty much any composition from the Cumans, and it's also quite cheap for the Vietnamese to field these units as well.
Elite Fire Lancer, this is exactly what Grubby needs to do, beautiful preparation here.
Shout out to Coach Liri of course, fantastic.
Look at those Impscum's man, they even beat Leicaap, it's crazy what Vietnamese have to offer, such a...
OPSIF at this point.
Yeah, Fire Lancers kind of make them a little overpowered at times.
The Impskrim is just such a powerful tool on its own.
Income, the Light Cab, the Bombereds are kind of out there exposed.
Lance? We're not going for the Bombereds?
What's the whole cleanup?
They want the cleanup.
I don't know if you're going to find it though.
This is so hard on humans, that's a fact.
Yeah, now it's like borderline impossible.
Very hard.
Yes, the Hill is still.
He still has the Hill.
That Hill is nice.
He does go for the ball but now
Lewis if you were in the humans position here you talked about how hard it is to play from this position
Would you just go for a king snipe or is there a little bit more gameplay to be had before that?
Design all kings night. I think you kind of have to go for the king snipe at this point
You know the game's over you have a weaker late game save you have one relic
To his four or three. Yeah, I think you have to go for the king snipe. I think that is the win-con
I think you might be right, I think for the king step to work you kind of have to go
for it early as well while grubby is still focusing on the micro macro if you just wait
till you're completely defeated then your opponent will only just watch out for his
king and it doesn't work so you want to go for that king step as early as possible usually
when you feel like the game is lost right now it might still seem a little playable
he's got a few light cap on the field but the fire lance is hard counter to the light
have the Instagram is a good backline here for the Vietnamese and also
grubby took down patrol like time patrols huge here whenever you're winning
just pick it up 300 feet 100 goal just it's like an anti-throw measure yeah
I should do that good vision particularly grubby's vision by the way like
outpost with down patrol he sees the whole map at least on his side of it
fantastic stuff for him and he's gonna finish wall off that way side beautiful
yeah I kind of agree with you there all grubby needs now is the siege to push him
Once he gets the castle out of the way, he can just make his own castle there and then push forward.
Yeah, excellent point Leery, that castle, that hill, goes from a disastrous situation on defense to a very advantageous defensive position if you get the castle up of your own if you're grubby.
Some raids coming through, this gold's a bit exposed. Maybe a tower or castle here could help, even the town center, but so far it's pretty readable.
Also, it feels like Grubby is missing a lot of upgrades in his finances though.
Like 32 minutes into the game, he's had the finances though for a very long time and only
getting the second ammo upgrade.
I feel like he should be a little bit faster with that.
Like the second you start floating through, just start clicking everything.
Every second you can see, you just click at this point.
Yeah.
I feel like that's one of the hardest things for newer players, to get all the upgrades
and take transitions.
Because there's so much stuff.
You have to micro all your units.
You have to keep your economy running.
You have to make sure you don't lose a fight, you don't have to make sure you don't miss micro a fight.
And then suddenly you also have to tech switch with units you don't really play a lot and techs you never really did before.
That's kind of the hard part.
Yeah, I completely agree. There's so many players that coach and it's just like, they're floating like thousands and thousands of res.
They're always like, oh, what do I click? At least you just click everything at this point, you know?
Yeah, just pick up all the res. I mean, the big part of this team is just getting the right combo,
But also getting all the upgrades and consistently players are missing key upgrades that make their combo a lot weaker than it should be
But here we go. That should come in at both sides. The philance has seemed pretty strong
But we're still missing armor for grubby so they even get stronger than they are right now
Captain is doing okay to hold. 140 popped almost 200 though
So grubby clear advantage would love to see a castle on this hill really would love that
Yeah
Grubby's comp is a bit harder to play because he has no mobile units
Well, Lance not only has horses, but his horses also move faster, it's human bonus, so he has the ultimate mobility.
He should choose every single fight on the map right now.
Yeah, let's get ready to put it. No ballistics though, for Lance, so actually he's getting such little DPS out of the Skipjack backline.
That hurts, especially if you don't realize it.
Yeah, in Texan we're in, Grubby's actually done a great job of picking up the Convade
upgrades.
He like never misses out on an E Grubgrade, he always grabs them as soon as possible.
It's probably his best quality as an AWP player.
He's found himself with a nice healthy 2000 score lead, he's making a short work of Captain
Lance for this first game, if this keeps up Grubby could find himself in the Grand Finals.
Of course Grubby vs Lance is a matchup we haven't seen in the tournament so far.
It's not so strong from Gruby, it goes philand to have so much health, HP, it's disgusting.
Like what do you even take into it?
You can't take into Paladin, your kit check just feel underwhelming.
You know one thing Lance could do, which is a bit risky, but at this point you have to
go for risky options.
Yeah.
Oronators.
Yeah, you'd never see that in a pro game because of the bombards from Vietnamese, but if there's
no pro game in here, you never know when Gruby slips up.
could be interesting I like that it's a good call-out it's like the only thing
that beats this comp because they're both very slow yeah both not really mobile
units and it requires good micro to get rid of them bomber cannons which we
don't have any on the field right now so yeah that's true do you have heavy scorpion with
humans? I don't think we have it no no heavy scorpion so honorger the only
siege that can really help you do get siege honorger of course no siege
engineers so it's a decent option it's an expensive one we'll see if he does go
for it but so far land seems to be committed to just more stables and whatnot. I mean is that a
good job? Is that 160 pop? This game is far from over to be honest despite Grubby having a nice position.
Nope. He's gonna snipe the castle villagers. What?
Well, they're kicking in. That's the advantage of humans.
Yeah, look at that. Good mobility. Good positioning here.
Lance with some solid micro on those kipchicks as well. He's dodging the skirm's fame perfect
actually. He's got ballistics in now. Killed a lot of villagers there. Grubby lost a bombard as
Well, probably actually might be kind of throwing with this forward castle. It's gonna get denied the trepidation on it guys
What are we seeing? They're still fighting
There's like probably version of just a little bit and also his like his skirmish is a fighting the house
I his hip checks are fighting the finances, which is perfect. Yeah, also what you think about God's hour now for groovy
To secure the king. Is that too much of a?
No, he will think of that. No way. He will think of that. I actually like it
But yeah, I also don't think it's gonna come to be but Gartham is always interesting. I don't think he did leave that castle
That's a minus 650 for grubby by the way lost six weeks to still in the castle
We didn't see the delete come through starting to fight a little bit better here now
Full armor upgrades full upgrades in general on this comp from grubby Lance also has full upgrades except some armor on kipcheck
That could come through and of course missing that elite upgrade now missing elite. It's very expensive though
Doesn't do much either to be honest. What five HP in the dream
Yeah, I think it makes him shoot an extra arrow, maybe some extra damage, but guys, the chat's favorite tech, PaperMoney is coming in, giving Grubby a little bit more gold as he chops the trees.
Very nice to see that come through.
That gold's gonna tickle up like nothing else. Free relics, and PaperMoney is 60 on wood. That's like 6 relics right now.
It's actually going up very fast by the way. That's kind of insane.
He's going to be able to stamp out some gold and it's like crazy right now.
Oh my god, a bit of a mispath there. Dude, there's a lot of kip tricks that went down.
What's grubbing on the top? He has some buildings there.
He has a tower. Guard tower incoming? Guard tower could come through.
I'm just going to quickly change this to this lance. There we go.
Nice little overlay stitch. Oh, you just lost the captain.
and you lost captain
There's a very good reason for that change, but it's just Lance now. It's not the captain Lance. It's just like been downgraded
Well, it's not losing this game. I was like, yeah, he deserves to get punished here
It's not against grubby at the end of the day. Give captain to grubby. That's it
In true hair fashion. That's what deserves to happen. Oh keep the gate open. I almost
Grubby though Grubber's got a fantastic position here. I think he's made a great game. Yeah
Yeah, look at those resources.
Yes, rest for days.
You also see something on the bottom now from Lance.
There's like a few buildings.
Is that a siege book?
King's Night Potential?
Honestly, if you must have like 40 assas and send them all to the south
and just run into Grubby's base and just look for something,
that's your wincon, right?
And that's how we'll go down very fast.
Yeah, I think you never resigned this map without trying your King's Night.
That's just a horrible horrible like competitive play. You always try the kingship even if it's looking rough
Great play from Grubby though. Just the counter raid makes the game messy for Lance Lance is obviously struggling in terms of population right now
He's stuck in this base and Grubby's actually going for forward cast on the left the tower was just the appetizer the main course is coming
Forward castles looking solid there and remember no human stone walls
So these houses are the best defensive structures we can hope for it for Lance
I think Lance's best shot is C-Drams, like 7 C-Drams in the south, 30 of Sarum just run
into his base.
I'm going to afford that before dying though, that's the question.
I think you can.
It's like the food for C-Drams.
I think you can.
I think you underestimate how long it takes for players to finish the game at this level.
That's probably the thing that takes the longest for them.
Pushing an advantage in a pro game is usually very fast, whereas these guys are very good,
They usually take a little longer to finish off the game.
Lance?
Lance? Just walks past all of the army. Oh my god, he just lost half of his army!
Just walking past the battlefield, trying to deny this castle!
But the castle's up! Wow, that was a huge blunder!
He just passed through the entire battlefield!
Oh my god!
Is that in the pathing, maybe?
No, no, that was intentional! That was intentional!
Unfortunately for his men, of course.
Tower, watch tower, lose the gold with the predictions.
Where's my Gatt Tower? I've been calling for this for like ages.
I'd like to see Bomber Tower. Bomber Tower would be great.
Oh, but take a look at this. Defensive castle for Grubby.
Near his king. Yeah, to defend the king.
I mean, he could have moved the, I guess.
He could have moved the king. He could have moved the king to the castle, but that works too.
Oh, look at the petards, the petards. Where we at? Where we at?
Oh, petards. In the cube. I slid them in the cube, but I don't know where they are.
Oh, he's not see a king's knife.
The last one is trying to king's knife.
This is fantastic.
He's got a massive bunch of patards.
No ramps on the bottom though.
We have how much?
You have six patards.
That's a lot of patards.
That's the issue.
He's surrounded.
Yeah, you'll see it.
You might not pay attention to that.
Yeah.
It's a grubby, slimy, slimy.
Grumpy.
He does see it.
It's actually looking at it.
But do you just react to it?
Does he actually see it?
Yeah.
There's no reason to have the patards here
and not in a castle or something.
Lance hides them, amazing.
Lance hides them, beautiful.
He's massing up some kipchak shots.
I've got 10 petards.
Robbie has vision everywhere.
He has towers, outposts, buildings, town patrol.
This is what Robbie sees himself.
He sees everything.
He's basically a thing of spy.
Okay, petards going in.
This is the last play, of course.
Another castle from Robbie up here.
Lance is completely cooked.
This is the last niche effort.
Ungeschond voluntarily to move to the castle the part are moving. Oh, he only sense the part as well. He wants to blow the king up
He knows you can stop it, but it's not gonna panic. Yeah. Yeah, he's on the wrong side
Where the king is
The thing is it's the wrong side, but grubby's pushing the top so if captain's attacks from the bottom
It didn't be like harder for Grubby to react to this army. He's maybe kind of stuck at home with just what he's got
Grubby's pushing very very fast. We're gonna watch out for this batard push. We have one cat ramp to open up the wall first. Oh
That's reason reason reasons. He sees the king. I see that he sees it. He knows it's only the wrong map
What does he do? He has to break through the bottom Grubby can move the king
Does Grubby know that he researched it though? He should you you get a little thing?
Yeah, but does Groggy know what that means though, is the question.
Ah, he should.
Maybe it's correct.
We talked about it in one of our Coachings.
I'm joking by the way, we didn't, but he should know.
Oh, Groggy researched it as well.
Groggy researched it as well.
It's a race for the King's Snipe.
The King's running, the King's running!
Groggy's going for the King!
It's a double King's Snipe!
Lance is going to get the Tempered Tards!
Where's he going though?
Is he going the wrong way?
He's going...
Brother, down this way, down south.
But he's defending, he's defending, he's gonna try to set the siege.
He's diving the siege, he just wants to keep his castle alive.
So you can delay as much as you can and go for the kink snipe.
Grubby is all over him right now, it's one Captain Lance kink snipe.
That's all he's got.
The game is completely lost, it's 200p up to 80.
But he's Captain's castle alive, Captain Lance.
It's the Captain Lance and nothing else.
10 petards.
Body blocking?
A fire lancer. These guys are modding the fire lancer right now, holy.
Dude, dude, he's getting body blocked.
I'm gonna blow the phalanxer up and just leave.
One puttard down.
Dude.
Sweet.
Dude, Grubby is not reacting to this at all, by the way.
Oh my god, oh my god.
Grubby's trying to go for his own king snipe.
No, he's adding another castle.
But the king is, the king is super, he hasn't moved the king.
Dude.
And there's no Vils, the garrison, the tc's as well.
There's no Vils, the garrison, the tc's.
He moved them all the way.
Oh my god.
Shoot the wall.
Oh my goodness. Why is he shooting a wall?
No, but look at the guards!
Look at the guards! We're going the wrong way!
That was so underwhelming.
That was EXTREELY underwhelming.
The kids were just like, what the hell is going back in too late?
Dude, that was one of the kinkstifes of all time.
Anyway, Cat's Life is King.
Cat's Life is King is running!
He's got, yeah dude, Grabby's using this by the way.
Oh, look at Lance pulling a death note?
Oh my god, the King of Strikes is in the middle of the map.
Grabby's got vision.
Oh god.
He's got one last bandit of units.
Wait, what's Gribby doing in his face?
What's all this like, blue dots?
What is this Gribby?
what is this from grubby he's just building walls everywhere
okay it's one way to save the king anything but guard tower
oh that's too funny that's too what the hell is grubby doing
I mean if you confuse yourself something no right no no I thought it could be like a letter
on the map yeah I thought he was writing something as well
Yeah, yeah, he's just hey just building walls
Maybe he's just realized the only way he loses is if he loses his king and since he has no stone
He just walls of politics, but like these walls are so uncoordinated like oh, bro
It's okay. Where's my eyes to do this crazy if anything it makes it more likely to lose the king because you can't move it anywhere
I agree. I actually grew that you just making confusion and your king's gonna die. Oh
Oh
He sees the king!
He's- the king's gonna run!
That makes me!
Oh my god! Oh my god!
Body block, body block!
Oh, we're on air!
Body block!
He's trying to block!
Oh my god, he's still fast!
There's a lot of fanny!
Look at him go!
He actually got away, he actually got away!
The impscripts are- the impscripts are coming!
The impscripts are coming!
There's no place for the king to run!
The impscripts are here!
Ladies and gentlemen, Grubby has taken game one!
Wow! Cinema!
very, very nice ending there. That was so much fun. Lance almost had it with a kinksnipe.
If you can just walk his batards away from the castle. But because he couldn't do that,
very underwhelming kinksnipe from Lance, but overall, a great game and a great game won
for Grubby. He stopped the Cuban Lance strategy that was undefeated in this tournament. Three
times a win for Lance, one time winning for Singsing, but finally met its math in the
loser bracket final. And Grubby with a great Vietnamese strategy to counter it and of course
leery with some credit there as well with uh... a good at coaching a good w
coaching from leery
uh... not just a grubby uh... gameplay but of course having that nice time
behind the help for sure
uh... i don't think it for the war
which actually i think it's
They wouldn't even surprise me. They get everything.
From CAF counter to the best ranged scrims in the game, to Bomber cannons,
to Ratnarcher, another ranged counter, to Firelands.
Yeah, the Vietnamese skills are very, very overpowered at the moment.
They have no weakness, right?
You have some saves like Frank's, good CAF save, but they have no weaknesses.
Where Vietnamese is just... What did they even die to?
Yeah, Vietnamese are just a well-rounded team right now.
very overly well-rounded, potentially broken,
depends on who you ask.
But of course, both players can play the civs.
So if Vietnamese is deemed overpowered
in these settings, Captain Luntz can just pick it up
for himself.
So far, guys, the 1-0 Grubby.
Let me remind everyone of the brackets.
Winner of this match, Captain Luntz versus Grubby,
will face Pig in the grand finals of the Kings Gauntlet.
So far, we have a fantastic match
between Captain Luntz and Grubby.
1-0 Grubby, Captain Luntz home map,
and he's gonna choose Arena.
Next map, he's going to take Grubby to Arena, but Grubby has won us the Arena games in the tournament so far, at least most of them, so I think he's going to be okay with the situation.
Grubby has watched some of the Arena games from Lance. He knows that there's probably some cheesing coming, some Castle Rush, some Fast Aim, something between those lines.
So let's see how he will react and what he will do against it.
Well, who was it? He did the Moiske rush with those temple guards. Was that Captain Lance?
Or was that someone else?
It was Pig. It was Pig again. Captain Lance. But Captain Lance won the defense there.
So it seems like whether he's on offense or defense of the weird stuff, he seems to be in a comfort zone on arena.
Question from the chat. Will the finals be played today? Yes, the finals will be played today right after the loser bracket finals.
Grubby were to win this event Grubby were to play four competitive matches today
If you will if you would be the guy who wins this event not just play the four matches
He's gonna have to win the four matches
This is a crazy loser bracket run from Grubby right now except he's captain Lance
It's the second set of the day. He dropped from the upper bracket for a final earlier today as well. So
Both these guys, you know kind of deep in it
And Grubby's already playing quite late right now
So he's gonna have to really stay up and and get that get that midnight oil burning. That's all we can say
Yeah, that's what happens when you have to make the loser bracket run like I think double animation is so high though
Like one guy makes it right to the final. It's just it's so nice to watch
And also I like how there's no
Advantage for the winner like the upper bracket guy like okay. He's rested
But there's no like I saw you in some other games like one zero leads. I don't like that
I like how they go into the last set on like equal footing. I actually agree with that
I think the advantage of being rested maybe like being like the host of the draft or something like that could be good
I hate starting with 1-0. I hate the bracket reset. We're not gonna see anything like that
It's gonna be a high pass grand final the two best present term at going at it
I
Don't know if they've started by the way. I think I'm still waiting for the ID
I'm not sure if they're gonna go. Let's see. No, they have these news
Harry, you know you can press streamers, right? You're on dashboard right now. Press streamers.
If you go to Groovy, you can just click where fortress is, you see?
Oh, that's fantastic, yeah.
You didn't know that?
No, we didn't know that. Thank you for telling me.
Pharma number one player in the world, guys.
What do you mean pharma number one? You're the new number one now?
No, Leery's number one. He won the tournament.
Oh, that's true. But he didn't knock me out. You guys are both frauds.
I literally won, but Lewis locked me out, that's like...
Yeah, there you had 20 attempts, 22 many.
I just saw my dog, Lewis.
He sent me and said half the APN, half the game, Moloch, half the brain.
Half the brain cells.
It was good enough though.
You can't get the back of a Warcraft tournament.
If anything, Grubby's the real champion there, but...
Let's see.
Some paid actors.
Sounds like some cope.
They're hosting the lobby right now. I don't know if they have it up, but I'll assume I'm going to have that soon.
Arena in the next map, Captain Lance's home map, and let's talk a little bit about some civilizations and some strategies that he's done, so he's done a bunch of different strats, or like a bunch of different civilizations, but overall, Captain Lance is pretty much always played around castle drops.
It seems to be his favorite thing on arena. Just get that castle down
Play with a lot of army break the walls and just make your point uncomfortable. Don't just go for the boom
It seems to be captain lancest, you know kind of play style or general game plan on arena
Grubby is almost always done the brigundians on arena first
So I imagine we're gonna see a brigundians pick up for grubby
We'll see see in a second
I kind of like the Bohemians versus Braggondians. I think the only issue was, I think in Groobies last set versus Uthermal, I think Uthermal kind of just waited too long and gave Groobie 5 relics and just gave him the entire map control.
I think if Groobies playing the, you know, the relic control, you have to go for the faster ramp with the Bombard cannons and how did he approach.
Yeah, I agree with that. I certainly agree with that.
I think Bohemians in general are great, great sifts to pick up for Arena, but they haven't
had the most amount of success against Grubby's Burgundians. Grubby has beaten Bohemians twice,
once from Ethermal, granted some, you know, Ethermal misplays and inexperienced on Arena,
but again Pig, Grubby pigs Bohemians in the set where they played, so despite Grubby losing
that set, Grubby was favoriting, or sorry, was the favorite on that Arena match at least.
So Garby's played a fair share of Bohemians, or against the fair share of Bohemians, and
he's beat them most of the time.
I find it interesting how no Bohemian players actually mess up like 7 whoof needs and just
pushing a straight line.
It's always like a couple here, a couple there, you know, you build a castle in the middle
too fast and it just gets stripped down instantly and we haven't seen the death ball of Bohemians
yet, which is why they're so powerful.
It's only been discovered really in the last couple of months or like 1-2 years I feel
Like even in competitive though because before I remember back in the days
There wasn't like really four or five trap pushes any like ten bomber cannon pushes people just used to like spam rams and
One at a time as well. Yeah, I think so as well like we've kind of accepted that
Behemence can just get to like 15 and whoopies 15 cannons at the same time and that's completely unbeatable
You know, yeah
Captain Lance versus Grubby getting set up
going to be an arena, the home map of Catman Lance, and the game will start in any second
now, so, there it goes.
Grubby feels like he will get Castle Rush, probably.
You've seen Lance Castle rushing most of his opponents.
Let's see how he reacts to it.
Actually, Grubby has yet to be Castle Rush at all.
I'm talking about that Yamato Castle Rush, like that forward Castle first.
Yeah, it's just like forward castle first everything forward. Don't give him time to set up the light cab
No, everyone's just respecting grubby's light cab on arena
He hasn't been tested and I feel like the second he gets tested he'll make some mistakes on defense. Let's start panicking a little
It's not gonna be that clean 3dc boom with the belly control
So if anyone's gonna do it's gonna be captain Lance of course shout out your motto
He'll be joining us for the finals cast so the motto is coming up, but he won't be playing
He's lost round one, unfortunately, but I think that style of forward castle will actually punish Grubby's defensive kind of light cab opening
And a very heavy eco focused opening with the Burgundians
Also, I think one of Grubby's weaknesses actually I'm pushed like every single time I watch him die
He's always getting attacked. I feel like whenever he's being left to, you know, do his thing is playing very very good
But yeah, let's see what captain last come so I completely agree with that
It's been his problem in the ladder race as well. I remember when I did one of my many coaching sessions with grubby, of course
The one big thing is that like if he's on defense, he's not playing grubby age of Empires
So he's playing some kind of like weird thing where he's panicking. He's leaking a lot of damage
She's not horrible on defense, but it's not crisp clean
He's not able to play his game and I feel like cat and lance is gonna expose that defense and at least test it
You know, maybe exposes a bit harsh will give grubby the benefit of the doubt
Maybe he's got some new defensive skills, but it certainly needs testing before this term is over
Hair on T90 have beef going on. That's why he didn't cast this tournament. That's a lie
Just flat out lying on the internet crazy. I asked United to cast every single day of the tournament
unfortunately, I think our schedules didn't align he initially confirmed a couple weeks ago and
The schedules just didn't work out for him
So we couldn't get it in on the cast one make that perfectly clear the sphere of the king's gala was to include as many people
We had like Dave dashboard as many people as possible come up for the cast
I wanted t90 come in but it just didn't work out. All right
a truck springs with fake news as well
just want to clear that up because the
You know the internet and she can run with that license thumbs
What is this politically correct error we're dealing with these days?
Maybe I should just lean into it. Yeah screw that guy t90. Of course
He's got HROKT. T90 may be awake, but he's not worth waiting around.
I'll wait a thousand hours for HROKT, but I won't wait for T90.
That's for sure.
They're still in the lobby, by the way. There's some crazy pre-game...
What are they? Drinking protein shakes or something? Some pre-workouts coming in?
I don't know what's going on.
Grubby's in his first competitive set for today.
Hope he has some creatinine, some pre-workout.
Grubby's got a frickin...
I don't know, he hit the gym, he's got a lock in.
Or maybe some more food.
Like for me, just more food is good enough, you know.
Ah, Groovy stands up and leaves, sits down,
and Captain Lance stands up the second Groovy gets back.
My goodness.
It's fantastic, actually.
A little bit of Captain Lance pause, and actually,
the wife just came home with some cookies right now.
So if I, another time today, if I have a cookie later,
or two, don't blame me, Jack.
It's been a long day, just letting you guys know
I might eat a cookie on stream in the next few hours.
It's been a long day. I think I've earned it.
The memes will go crazy.
They haven't given me a break, Liri.
They haven't given me a break.
Cookies are taking all the breaks.
Yeah, they haven't given me the breaks,
so I'm taking my own to eat, exactly.
You have to hide in the bathroom to eat your cake.
Why did this eating stuff even start?
It started with the Worldcraft tournament.
So like in the Warcraft tournament, I was like getting coaching with Grubby and like I've been doing long hours
Obviously, I'm a hard-working streamer one of the hardest jobs on the planet
And I'd be working the long hours in a 12-hour shifts grinding away
You're playing a lot of Warcraft and then Grubby's like dude. Are you always eating? I'm like no grubby
It's just I play for four hours and like we have a coaching session. I'm grabbing a bite while talking
I thought I was fine and all of a sudden it's like every time Grubby showed up
I'm boom I'm eating and he called me like a few times and all of a sudden the chest that's getting on it
And now now they call me fat H now they call me fat H and I'm the eater
That's my reputation no longer like the best a rich player. It's just down the drain. I'm fat H now. That's how it is
How does you know fat error? Thanks, Lewis
You're not here fat. Oh God should I know what's coming?
I'm sure you honestly looking at you look very just normal like there's nothing out
You know, you're fine. You're good
That doesn't begin to cover us as a truck. Yeah, dude, the Uber eats guys know me by by my first name. So
It was first name basis. They don't even we don't even use the app Uber eats
Did this know what's happening you like they have my number my actual numbers contact info
Yeah, and by the way all that you happen aside guys, let's hop in to the second game between grubby and captain Lance
Let's get some energy in the chat for grubby or Lance depending on who you support
Of course grubby with the first win here. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness
It's a Burgundian mirror! We've never had a mirror, all tournament!
It was possible to have a mirror every single game.
We didn't have a single mirror and finally, in the loser bracket final, we have a Burgundian mirror.
This is literal cinema. I'm so happy this is happening.
Grubby is the Burgundian's king. He's been winning every set with Burgundians on Arena,
but Lance won his last game with Burgundians on Arena.
He won his last game against the last matchup. Who did he play against? Pig.
And now he's tested the Burgundians up against Grubby's tried and tested Burgundians and it's a mirror match
Talk me through the matchup guys. Well, I fixed the cams
Honestly, yeah, true. I know I think this is like really good for Lance because he's confident. He can beat Grubby at his own game
So the specific matchup I think
I'm not sure. I think this is like a hand-canon-ear-bombard kind of matchup since both are the same.
I don't think Cav is actually good in the Burgundian mirror.
I did find that out before, but I don't remember when, so I think it's going to be a hand-canon-ear-bombard kind of maybe halberd-ear type of game.
Last played standard in his last game of Burgundians?
No, not really. He went for like a castle drop. He went for a castle drop, then he made it in the center, then he played for the Rolex.
He actually played very weird, but the thing is his opponent Pig was like pushing him with temple guards,
it became a very messy game and then it turned into a monk war and Lance found the better of him.
So it was not a standard Burgundians game from Lance, it could actually just be a forward cast of this game by the way.
You know what Lance is going to do? Or he could do?
Tommy.
It might be the Flemish ram push. I'm not sure if anybody's ever told me about this, but the Flemish Militia plus rams,
like leery found out about that last tournament it is completely broken it is like like the unit is
so cheap it's it's insane that's really interesting so let's just explain that to the chat it's on
luis's youtube he adds uh every luis win is on his youtube but never any losses uh makes you think
but um anyway three win three videos on there as well yeah he posted video once a month about
but guys that aside i just want to get this you know out there to the chat here brigandians
have a unit, the Flemish Militia, they used to only get this unit with the Flemish Revolution
Tekken Imp, where you turn all your villagers into Flemish Militia, so they can all in play.
But they've changed it, now you can make the Flemish Militia from the Barracks, it's very cheap
and spammable, and so the strategy is, you make a few Flemish Militia at home, you walk forward,
forward siege, maybe even two workshops, and you go Ramm's Flemish Militia, similar to some other
infantry strategies that we've seen, and you just ram through the whole base, you just ram his ass,
And you go for the win and that could be a strategy that Lance can employ here. Very very cool one. Oh
He's doing the chicken push this is disgusting so much chicken fun
Amazing, they're all chicken falling. They're all really good at it. By the way, what better than me? I know I
Have to teach me I need to I need to I need them as a coach
Yeah
Basically you have to put a diagonal wall through the chickens and the chicken tries a path to the other sides
And then if you you know draw a wall it goes to the TC. I think Lance did it wrong actually not Lance's chickens
They're standing their ground
What I'm going oh poor guy. Oh, he's following. Oh, no
And so guys so it begins this rabbit wants to go to the other side
But guess who's the middle man is captain Lance and boy does he look hungry?
He's gonna eat those chickens or rabbits in this case and he's kind of tricked them
Yeah, this this guy's got fooled as well. What a shame if see right to the doorstep. It's like Hera. Yeah, this is a dream
Here here he comes he's being kind of hurted by Lance scouts and
In comes the hair. I'm saying grab. He's doing the same. Maybe you should shoot those though
I don't think you should shoot those two
I think you should let them go around because now he's just like four animals rotting right now
Yeah, he's rot maxing. He's rot maxing really hard. You gotta be careful with that
Completely romaxing. Oh grubby's missed clicks either. He's killed a hair and broad daylight. Oh
And he built it on the diagonal like he killed the hair on the diagonal
Which means he cannot place the two tiles there and oh when he's actually you see how they're not like wrapping around properly
Yeah, but I think they share works. They still show
I know it was pretty sure
And they come
And they come this needs to remove this is just this is just garbage like I don't know
I think the rabbits should just like jump over the wall or something like a it shouldn't be walking to the TC
It's just too exploity like it. It looks like they they should be smarter than that
Yeah, they know this like this was in some tournaments like a while ago, and then they nerfed this right and
They removed it or what?
They removed it so they move like way slower, but they still go to the TC just half the speed like yeah because slow it is
It's like we introduced chickens so you can't push them to the TC what ends up happening
We make some walls to push them to the TC like concept is the ring
Yeah, pro players will always find a way to get food under the town center
Like one like the devs put these things in to make sure you can't push it to the town
So you have to mill it the next day. Why is that doing this?
This guy is kind of shot barfing around the tree
So I could go by strategy now Grub is doing his the standard build I believe
Now he's just gonna go for it doing a barrack. Yeah, but this is standard friends
He's gonna go for the stable barracks. Maybe a little early, but he's gonna click up make a stable standard light cab approach
Captain Lance step a little faster. I wonder what he's doing. He's on stone. He's on stone again. He might slow
Yeah, it's a castle drop. That's a castle drop
This is a really good build from grobby as well like 25 bills with
Burgundians going like I was like, yeah, that's pro level right you don't get much better than that
I think Lance needs to make some Flemish though if he's gonna move out for the forward castle
Yeah, I just got naked after he probably played like up every single game
I was not to say he knows Luma or not, but he does up. Yeah, so he's got a little cute up
He knows Grub is gonna go like a castle like Grub is going like every single game of Pagani since no secrets
But Lance I like the four castle, but oh wait, he's not no
He's not on gold
He's gonna sell a stone for the gold and maybe just boom since he has bills on stone
He's done this last time he's gonna go to the castle, but last time he went middle of the map castle just for like the relics
It was really strange. I didn't like it actually. I'd rather see the forward castle, but it's likely to be a castle
I don't know why he's doing such a strange build, but I don't know. I mean patterns in coastal. Yeah
Sounds pretty scary if they get inside their economy, but the monk should counter it, but you know, this is a surprise factor
Yeah, it's a decent surprise factor here. Well, I'm market blacksmith
also look at the right position if Lance actually gets the forward castle like all
the relics will be behind the castle which is like really awkward for Grubby to pick up
like normally you can pick up like one or two side relics really easily but no side relics
spawned this time for Grubby so yeah that's also a factor yeah pretty bad relics spawned
for Grubby in general most of them close to the lance it's how it is sometimes though
Cynical for the barracks. He might actually do the plummage militia that he talked about here. It's actually pretty cool
Six on stone it's gonna be a floor castle. I just hope he doesn't go middle of the map
I think it should be all the way forward just outside grubby's walls
I think grubby needs to be tested
It's a crime if grubby goes this entire tournament without getting tested with the forward castle
Which I consider that to be the counter to the brigandians. I think that's kind of crazy to me
Yeah, cause I feel like the middle of the map castle, it doesn't really achieve anything.
Like yeah, sure you get the map control, but I feel like the castle's on the walls, you
shoot the walls, you run in with one or two units, it's just so much more pressure.
Yeah, and then you still get the map control behind it.
It's like, you're point, it can't have really the presence of mind of like playing out the
side, bringing back relics, going around your castle, like just, it's too hard to do.
So just the forward castle wins you the entire map, basically.
It has some risk, you know, with a couple of flourish, but let's say you can just make
that risk kind of negligible look at grubby's goals like he's got the main
gold forward like one of the goals on the outside is also pretty close to the
you know the potentials castle spots and then he's going to go his small gold in
the back this is for tile genius thank you for grubby
that was grubby did ask me in our coaching session how to react to a
castle forward since he fought Lance will do that
He's very detailed. He's very precise, which I like actually.
Because all those small details which we pros think about, he thinks about as well.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But he's a former World Champion for many, many years.
He's an S-tier caliber gamer, and I think he carries, obviously now, a little past his prime,
but he still carries a lot of that expertise and knowledge.
And I agree, I love his analytical approach to a game.
Um, and I think he'd really tries to understand what he's doing, not just what's good and just do that.
He wants to understand why it's good.
And here we go, Lance going around the side.
Lur the scout around, this is perfect.
This is what Grubby sees. Grubby's got no idea.
He doesn't know. He doesn't know.
He chose the wrong side. He chose the wrong side. He's exploring the right side.
This is the same as the first game. Like Grubby has all the vision.
This will be. Oh, Grubby's in the scout. Check the stone. Check the stone.
He knows! He knows! He knows!
You have to scout the entire map.
You have to scout the entire map now, Grubby.
You have to scout the map.
He will find out in a second when the castle drops.
That's true. The vills are here, but Grubby should know.
Castle will drop on his face.
Dude, is that just as that vision?
He knows.
Lance knows.
Dude, is Captain Lance a kind of freak genius?
Do you mean the castle just as that vision?
Did he explore the gate?
Grubby's sending ghosts for it.
Are you pulling me, you thermal?
This is insane. This is one tile away from vision from all sides. It's ridiculous.
Wait, this is the thermal. Grubby has you thermal the villager. I second you thermal. Oh my god.
He's sending them back at least. He almost you thermaled two villagers.
Why does that keep happening to so many players? I'm actually really curious. I remember
Harrod, you know, the pro player always has these problems.
Yeah, it's an APM thing. So they play it. It's like they're on an ironically too fast in certain
commands and that really messed up the TC gather point.
The castle is gone!
Dude, Grubby is in a really bad position because the castle is on his nose.
Great castle by the way from Lance.
Great castle.
Grubby wants the relics.
It's hard to just move out and take relics when there's a castle on your face.
But nobody has made Custodia yet.
Like Lance made a few but really late.
I want him to just go directly into Custodia production.
It's a very good unit into Monks because of that charge attack.
Actually, yeah, that's a great...
Isn't just like a siege workshop now with like Flemish in the rum? Maybe... better at this point?
You could do that too!
You could do that too! I'd be okay with either, but I think just getting the castle by itself and doing nothing else is not the play.
Like, you've got to flip the relics now. They still like have on the field.
Who's the dude? Beautiful.
Babel for husbandry I'm okay with.
I see.
This is fine.
And look at Grubby. Grubby's wall, he expected this. He expected the castle to look like his wall behind.
Yeah, it's fantastic. This is a good habit he's picked up from the very start by the way.
This is something I teach a lot as well on Arena. You always gotta make your buildings in a second layer to play against this forward castle.
Christina comes in he could be trapped actually grab a kid who committed to that. Yeah, I think he should have
Yeah, I could see it is out
Kevlin's in a
In a gnarly position there
Look at this, don't come for that. Second forward castle
Second forward castle incoming. That's his thing that actually is staying he loves to go for it
That comes to Christina, I'm gonna try to convert this
I'm not sure if you will be able to stop the second forward castle.
Oh, one conversion?
Well, Lance is gonna get it back. Lance also brings a scout to deal with the monk.
Lance will get all the relics here and this is what I was talking about.
He's testing Grubby with the forward castle. Grubby does have a nice 15-village lead though.
Crazy good triangle positioning on the 3TCs as it looks very solid.
But Lance is gonna come with another forward castle and that's hard to stop.
A good pick-off though with that like a steps a lance monk delaying that relic from coming in very good
Yeah, and grobby's gold position is really bad like look at the extra gold in the outside of his base
Unless you the closest one is the one beneath the castle and then the one in the center of the map
Yeah, like if this castle blocks the gold and grobby
Except a little level in the finest position
He doesn't really have any
Important dress on the front like sure he will lose the buildings. I think the castle had to go deeper. Yeah, I hate this
I would ask them more for like why couldn't you just make it right here?
You're missing like two tiles and it's not centralized into the base. That's a weird castle for the last guys
Second castle has to kill something because you're the mine over one case stone
You send villages forward. That's so much commitment. Like grubby is up to K res. Yeah
Yep, not impressed by the second castle.
Grubby smartly just converts two villagers and backs off.
It's completely fine.
Grubby knows he's got the economic advantage.
He can see the score as well.
Now Lance will get the relics.
He's bringing some back, but they haven't come in yet.
So as far as resources collected, Grubby's pulling very far ahead.
I feel like as long as Grubby doesn't blunder, he's in a great position here, ladies and
gents.
Yeah, he has to focus on getting to him now.
with the castle so you can make traps immediately if you can't get to the traps then instant
chemistry bomber cannon should do it as well.
Yeah he's got the same speed.
He's got the same speed.
But you just cut production.
Yeah he's not making those you're saying.
Yeah.
Stop making those go up.
Yeah.
Yeah just get some build production.
I'm thinking of that though because it's unnatural.
Yeah.
I don't like how Lance like went about this like the idea was really good but I feel like
he didn't really do anything with it right like he just made a forward castle and then
just sat there 1TC and just you know looked at it right.
fast it that's yeah yeah no work so I'll go all in with it yeah the workshop
kusty lia mongs for them anything right just yeah find a way to push but he
likes to work on the last round takes out the front seven houses barracks table
and the monastery as well but the thing is like Lanth likes to go for the fast
imp like that's a strategy he goes to the fast imp with the relics and he likes
to use that relic advantage to propel his economy fast imp into some kind of
like month-tread siege push it's kind of interesting it's not terrible but I
agree because I'm more is in a bio bunch of food now selling his soul in his
family on the morning maybe what a bit too much food there but yeah just sell it
again you know it's interesting because it's gonna be two castle trep production
versus one yeah there's actually a really big chance for lunch to win here
because probably have to wait three minutes for chemistry when he it's imp
And then for the Bombard can actually come out and you know
We've got double the book
Yeah, exactly. Thank you and yours come out
Thank you for mine on arena. You can have a hundred villagers
But if you're just stuck in this corner
We talked about the bad goal like this is only one gold only one stone for gravity
You're just eating like what you're eating some farms
You have some wood and a little bit of space but really not much else in the corner of the map
So a lot of times the player with the map control despite having a significant village of disadvantage
which can just win on just squeezing you out of resources and minerals.
And here we go, both players up to Grubby a little faster, but no castles.
There's two castles in line, so if this is a TREB war, he's got double the TREB production,
and he's got the Vrelix, which is taller for Braggundians.
The correct play from Grubby here would actually be via second castles, but it's something
that's really hard to realize.
Really?
Out of set just go straight into the university and then make the castle right in the back?
obviously too but he already has stolen for one castle he knows there's two castles from lands
he probably knows lands is up as well because that's what he has done so far so he knows it's
gonna be a treb war so if you get two castles against two castles you're good but one against two
can still be very risky okay what he's doing he's not doing that but that's okay because he's gonna
do bomber cannons he's gonna go double double siege workshop castle here safe he'll fight a bit
with the trebs most likely but overall he's gonna wait for the bombers he's gonna wait for the
the bomber cannons but of course he needs to wait for chemistry guys chemistry
two minutes 20 second upgrade it takes forever to research chemistry so that's
gonna be a good two-minute window for Lance to use his double trap production
try to take out the castle under some TCs and some important buildings from Grubby
very close game to be honest with you despite the massive village advantage
for Grubby it's still a really close game
Yeah, I think that's great.
Lance ending a second monster. He's gonna try to go up some monks as well.
Two Castle Trebuchet production for sure.
Chemistry immediately clicked from Rubby.
He knows exactly what he has to do.
This is some really high level play. I'm super impressed that both of these players have a clear cut plan.
Two Trebuchets, yep. Two Castle Trebs, four Lance, Grubby.
We're for one trebuchet chemistry guilds a little early, but it is showing that you know, he's worried about his gold. Honestly, he's worried about his gold.
Yeah, it's really good. It's really good. It's super high level. Yeah.
Yeah, we never thought about that. I think it's so like what is that?
What is that groovy D versus monks though? Like if if lands gets a block printing redemption just starts converting the bomb by
I guess it lets him convert those two.
No redemption.
He's getting a tonement which lets him convert monks, we're waiting for redemption.
Block printing gives the monks extra 3 range, a tonement lets him convert enemy monks, redemption
lets him convert enemy siege.
So these monks are being very tapped into, all of these techs cost a lot of gold.
And conscription will help him kind of make more units.
It doesn't really have much production, so the conscription is not that needed, but fair
enough.
The scrubby have Hank in ears in production. Oh, yeah, he's already out of gold
Gold yeah, or maybe or Lee like
Looking rough
You don't think the squirms though. He's in a goal. I'm gonna hear he's selling. He got built to sell
He's selling everything for some gold. You got 800, but of course selling is a short-term play
Masonry to help keep the castle up. I don't think you will keep it up three treacherous
He's already from Lance to trebs from grubby Lance's turn to repair
But the two traps from Grubby should be enough to out push the five repair villagers very very intense game right now
I don't think
Lance has redemption you proceed. I don't think so and the cannons are out
Yeah, hey, not too late. We lose traps. It's a huge blunder all redemption coming in now
We needed that earlier last of the blunder pretty hits the kid. He hits the bomber to the treads. Oh, oh my god
He hit one? He hit a monk now?
It's not the end of the world. Grubby is still holding. Grubby with a massive hold here.
Great gameplay from Grubby. He's holding.
Master Castle, but it's fine.
He might have misclicked the no-choters.
Yeah, at home and for redemption. Because I think they were right next to each other as well.
Possibly, but...
No, they're not. I don't think they are.
They're not.
I think the redemption is like...
No, Redemption's bottom left.
Redemption's bottom left.
No, it's top middle.
Either way.
Either way, it's all good.
He gets both techs and he's got the Redemption.
But it's a bit late.
He's lost a few trebuchets.
I think this is looking good for Grubby.
Yeah.
I mean, there's some conversions.
If you get the Bomber Canons,
you can turn the fight.
Oh my god, he's gonna get a second as well.
Oh wow he's got two cannons!
And those cannons...
Dude, Grubby does not have the gold to push into these monks right now.
He's lost two cannons, he's lost three cannons!
The cannon that he got converted is used against the Trebuchet!
Dude, one more hit! Oh he lost a cannon!
Grubby only has one Treb, he's got so many more villagers, but he has no gold!
It's so intense! Dude, the score does not matter!
The score does not matter. Lance has the relics, he's got the position.
The only thing that matters is whether Grubby can push back and leave his base.
If he can't, he will lose in a war of attrition.
Orc in handcunny is in the queue though.
Four trees, how many ranges does he have?
Five ranges.
Good amount of handcunny is on the field.
Monks from Lance, not many monasteries though.
I think it's still looking good for Grubby, but Lance is making a game out of this.
And the more units are on the field, the harder it gets to micromunks.
Lance is also floating a lot of resources.
And also you can't really sell that for gold, right? Because Grubby's already capped the market like crazy.
Yeah, that's true. That's a good point.
Lance is trying to sell some stone.
I feel like Lance is losing his momentum though, and he can't lose his position.
He's trying to make some production, but we lost a pair of villagers.
No, this is looking good for Grubby, guys.
Grubby's about to push out. He's on the main gold. Look at him!
Starving child! He found some gold!
This is great. This is great for Grubby. Grubby's about to be up 2-0. The Burgundian
King. He doesn't lose Burgundians at Arena. Great play from Lance.
He got tested on the Castle Drop. Yeah, he got tested on the Castle Drop and he actually
beat it as well. Captain Lance with a great strategy overall. Maybe some execution. Could
have been a little bit better. The Castle goes down. The five relics are there. Actually
Only four, we never got the fifth, which is interesting.
Grubby's pushing out, oh great, great from Grubby.
Just going straight for the stone, but it's not needed.
Two, zero.
GG, well played, Grubby with a great defense there.
Just holds in the back, beautiful stuff, ranges.
The two works are fed away, instant chemistry click.
He knew exactly what to do.
He held beautifully, he traded the castles,
but he got onto the gold,
and now he's got double the bill count.
If you get the gold in there, he is more than fine.
Fantastic play from Grubby.
He knew exactly what to do to win.
really well played
think landslide really well is just missing a few
little bits of aggression here in the and also like if you started dropping
these ranges a little bit earlier
we had the monk still alive
maybe the silver chance with like elite skirmishers
yes monks
yeah i like the way lancet playing i think he's playing good i think he's
just
missing a little bit of urgency
little bit of like killer instinct
i agree like a few skirmishers in front of the monks because like if you just have
It's very simple for Grubby to outplay, like you just have monks, he goes back, he picks the fight, it's okay.
But when you have monks and you have like 20 screams in front, all of a sudden, like you're hankin' or near,
you can't just step up so much, your villagers can't easily just walk out, your trebs might get targeted,
it becomes a lot more complicated, but Lance, I think it's a good strat, but he made it a little too simple for Grubby
to figure out the pieces of the puzzle and break out of that little maze that he was throwing his way.
Yeah, of course, I'm start to finish.
He realized the castle.
Yeah.
He rushed him.
I got chemistry.
Even did guilt to sell resources to gain more gold.
Yeah, that's cool.
That's really cool.
Grubbid is not much of this economy.
And I will say, I think Captain Luntz, he did well.
Of course, he's down to zero.
He's now won just a single game away from losing the entire tournament.
So he's got to lock in.
He's got to get the reverse sweep in this set, just to even have a chance at the finals.
I'll show you guys the bracket here, thank you all for tuning in, I think we have 15,000
plus on Twitch and 7,000 plus on YouTube, actually 8,000 there, which is very, very nice.
Let me show you guys the bracket here of course, we have Pig waiting in the grand finals, Grubby
now up 2-0 on Captain Lance, it's Captain Lance's home map, he might think he's back
to Arena and Grubby can't replay the Burgundians, so he did get a win with them but he can't
we played them, so another arena could be a bit more tricky for him.
Pig, of course, in the grand final waiting for the winner, this will be played today.
So the loser bracket final will be played, and then the grand final afterwards.
What a great tournament it's been so far.
Let's see if he can close out with a banger here.
Yeah, the champ saying that Pig did beat Grubby before, so I think he has this, fair
enough.
Grubby with a lot of momentum from the loser bracket. It was a 3-2 between Grubby and Pig,
not like it was a domination from Pig or anything like that. Grubby showed that he can hang with
him. Of course, not to take away from Pig. Pig is a fantastic player, made a great run, undefeated,
the only undefeated of the tournament, but I reckon we have a very competitive finals if Grubby
gets back in there. And also the same could be said for Captain Lance. He also went 3-2 with Pig,
so really no matter what happens here, should be a very competitive series. Anonymous thinks
to the five gifted subs I think you've all the follows as well all the new people following
all the prime subs that came in thank you all for making this chairman as successful as it's been so far
I think pig is sleeping by the way
Hello hello
Lewis
I said uh-oh because pig is sleeping
Oh yeah it's not H.R.O.C. he probably said it's a long time
Don't worry don't worry he'll be up in time he hasn't let us down
I hope not. Honestly, I hope not.
No, it'd be very disastrous.
Like, do that.
Not going to lie chat.
If it's grubby waiting and pigs asleep,
it pick has like a minute and 20 seconds to show up.
Otherwise, grubby wins.
That's the rule. All right.
That's the rule. I'm letting you guys know in advance.
Pig better be ready.
I'm kind of losing for the pick.
Pick a captain lens.
One of those suit on the dogs.
Anyone but grubby.
Honestly, I just want Grubby to lose because Leery coached him like if Grubby wins like Leery's path
I just his coaching students went out
But all my all my coaches died in the first round
But even in the bracket like the
If you scroll up the preliminary round they're all dead there
Coach you give the nine right yeah, you give the nine yeah
Well, you know, you know the story with day nine by the way. Yeah, like I was in his chats
I was like typing a couple things. It was like you're lowest you're gonna play a game. I was like sure it was like
Quarter past midnight school past 12. I was like, okay. I got 45 minutes
It turned into five hours like I forced to rush him like five six seven eight nine times
And then like he plays in the tournament and just dies like a dog
I've stayed up for five hours with this guy like practicing it and he just dies
Funny, but he did beat the
No, but he did beat the foster rush like he beat your motto to zero
But you'd fair who hasn't beat your motto. That's your motto even the healing forters beat your motto everything's beating your motto
Like the ball around he did beat your motto and your motto is foster rushing
So it wasn't five hours wasted for you, Louis. It wasn't wasted, but it wasn't great either. It wasn't great
I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it
It's very interesting coaching Danon because he was he's actually quite a fast player like he's quick
Like super fast and but I feel like sometimes you can be too fast for your own good
Because like a lot of time he was like zipping around and it's like he's clicking his scout a thousand times
Whilst the ball was just feasting on his villages. It's crazy
Like apart from that he's you know, it's pretty good
Yeah, I think he had like I think he needed like a few more weeks to really just nail down his APM to make it effective
Like yeah, a few bad habits that ended up biting him in the ass, unfortunately
But that's the way it goes limit of time and you know these are not the best shape streamers you've ever seen like they had a couple weeks to play
That's what makes it fun at the end of the day
They're not pros
They're just good players that try to get the best amount of knowledge and best amount of gameplay in just a couple weeks
And then they show up and have to play against others in the same boat kind of makes it really interesting
They know
That's the experience he knows what he's doing
But it's just that the timing is rough like he's getting to feud late like 30 seconds late with the vill idle and then the stable's going up too late
But like apart from that
You know, you know what he's doing. Yeah, here. Can you please make a new YouTube stream for the finals?
No guys and don't bother me about that. I'm not gonna restart the stream. I'm not able to do that
I literally can't do that. I don't know how so please don't bother me about that
I'm gonna make these finals into a video on YouTube. So it will hit YouTube eventually as a video, okay?
I want to get ahead of that. I know at 12 hours the bot cuts, but if you see people talk about that, just tell them that I know about it.
We had a whole drama about that in the other day, but there's nothing I can do about it.
Which sift they will pick? I've seen Lance play Malay, which would be the perfect sift for a strategist tried.
Did he do the Ram and Karambit play or was that somebody else?
He went fast imp as well.
Yeah. Lance played it a few Karambits, but he went for the fast imp, Trebuchets.
He's also done that with Incas, and went for the Cammukes as well, both of which actually worked phenomenally.
He's got a few picks. They're back on Arena, by the way. Capmunt's another home map on Arena.
So even though he lost, he's sticking to his guns. He did beat Grubby's Burgundians.
So I mean, you might as well try it. Might as well go for it.
with the five gifted. Thank you,
Dizzle. Appreciate that, brother.
Thank you and welcome.
By the way, have you had a little
announcement before the grand grand finals?
Just remind me to do a chat. It's
nothing too new. A lot of you guys
know what it is, but it's a little bit
of a surprise, maybe. It's kind of fun
to just remind me for looking at
uh... it's kind of fun to remind me for looking at us that's a prize before
the grand finals
i do hope that we can get this game started though because we're kind of
tight on time already like
getting late late today right now
uh... thank you nc for the three months primal come welcome
and by the way i can't believe that grubbies brigandians have been
undefended alternative insane like that's a good prepared
said that i was very much worth
his time investment
uh... i think that europe i know how on the fitness
and i was a it's gonna be tested against pig though
and we tested once more against pig if he does make it but he's still
he's not good loose to captain lance
you think pig is sleeping right now he's watching and preparing
no i think he's watching and preparing it got worse than adamanty he's resting
and prepping so he's not actually sleeping it's just kind of good
that's very good
Yeah, and here we go, we're starting off another arena game, Grubby vs. Kavanaugh, and here we go, Ross, wave vs. Persians, two civilizations, we haven't really seen much on arena, I think Grubby might have played it once or twice before, Grubby probably paused and read up what the Persians do.
Captain Lance, bring it out. Kind of a weird to see if you're on Arena.
Persons are great on Arabia. Deasons on Arena though.
They're not a bad Arena to see, but they kind of played more like a boom style,
not like push style. It feels a bit weird from him, I feel.
Don't know what's incoming. Elephants, maybe.
This could be a really good matchup for Persons, actually. You play like,
Sivar and Halp. You have like the full Halp upgrades, that's way of missing,
and then you play Sivar. That should be pretty good, actually.
You think Lance will play standard? He hasn't played standard so far in his arena games.
But what else can he do with Persians?
It could, unironically, be elephants. Elephants are really good at killing buildings.
And Persian TC works pretty well behind it. If you play one TC Persian style, it does work faster, which is okay.
That seems a bit far out there. The elephants are easily counterable by monks.
buy munk so I'm not sure if that's you know what we're gonna see but that's the
perfect tip for booming I can't really think of any obvious cheese of Persians
yeah what do you think Louis what do you make of this
I was gonna say it actually because this one is coming up soon
there's a pro tournament you want to save the strategy that Lance might go
No, because I have so many ideas, but it's my only way of staying at the top level.
So if I start leaking on my struts, then I lose my job, you know.
Ah, okay, okay.
It becomes homeless.
Don't want to send me back home with Donalds, bro, don't worry.
Keep your job as a pro YouTube player.
Keep cooking, Lewis, keep cooking.
Someone has to cook your burgers.
Oh, there's a few references there, isn't it?
Cocking McDonalds, like fucking hell.
Not going to leak the strategy, so we have to do a little speculation here with the Persians, but I mean, even if you just see a boom at Alliance, I feel like that's going to give them a decent chance to win.
The problem with just booming though is they feel like waves are very strong arenas of you get extra villagers as they get eco upgrades. Grubby can play them in a very similar style compared to the Burgundians.
Burgundians you got to go for like a light cab approach pick up the relics
Go for some nice economy behind it and then play a good late game
It'll look a little different in late game compared to Burgundians
You don't really play like the halve style you play most of like tiger cab Zanbury Raiders a lot of cavalry. That's very solid
Grubby's just having a little trouble with this deer. It seems
And I really perfect it into the center. Oh
He wants to wait until the sheep runs out. Yeah, I think so. I think he's trying to time it correctly
It's really good efficiency.
Not Rothmax as some of the other players have been doing.
Get's it there.
No, no, it's okay.
He'll finish the cow first and then he's going to go to the deer.
So it's actually still pretty decent from him.
Good early game setup.
Oh, that's a bad house spot for Lance.
Kind of griefing his lumbicamp.
He still has some tiles.
It's okay.
Oh wait, nevermind.
I thought it was a bit closer.
Yeah, it's okay.
How's that passage?
horse into this so yeah the relic positions are I guess kind of even I don't think there's anything
pretty well actually
well we don't even know this is going to fight for the relics like so far the leading strategies
here are the persians are going to just go for a pure boom give up the relics or we might see
some kind of castle drop and there's some elephants I think the relic positions are you
You know, somewhat okay for either player, not either player too happy or unhappy.
Grubby's up 2-0, remember that guys, so one win here takes him to the grand finals.
We haven't seen a single sweep amongst captains, by the way.
I don't think we've seen a single sweep in the best of five stages, so if this is a sweep, Grubby's made tournament history, something worth mentioning, of course.
Grubby's got a little bit of idle TC time, four seconds, but overall it's been a pretty smooth darkish from both players.
I don't know why but Grubby did 3-0 Knobs. Sorry, we haven't seen a single 3-0 in the
best of fives in any set that doesn't include Lance.
Lance?
No, that does include Lance. Sorry. Anyway, I don't know what I'm saying, but we could
see a 3-0 basically is if Grubby wins this is the point I'm making.
It's been a long day.
Yeah, more identity is seen now from Grubby and Persians just slowly pulling ahead with
the faster TC work rates.
Yeah, actual villagers coming out.
Always demoralizing growing up against Persians.
You just like playing the game normally and then suddenly Persians are up like 10 villagers
on you because the town centers work faster.
Always can be tricky to go against that.
But wait, also getting some extra villagers from their economy upgrades, if fair enough.
You think it's about weight.
You're automatically losing.
it's like the moralizing yeah yeah yeah yeah you have to pay for those bills so
they have like a moments of time with a little bit week since you're having to
pay it we're like wait just get them for free you do you go upgrades and just get
free bills yeah it's kind of true by the way the nation on YouTube we said I started
OG AWE in 97 glad you brought me back to AWE to you welcome back mr. soil
bacteria on YouTube. I love
this. Tower rushing.
Tower rush.
He's tower rushing.
Tower rushing.
Wait. No, he's not.
He could be like a really fast
cast. That's a really fast castle.
That would be castle.
He's got look at his few
counts. Would he be in fast castle?
Might be a bit optimistic.
This is a tower for sure.
Well he did loom and also the one thing I don't like he hit loom before he clicked up
It should be after you click up right you get there then you get loom in
Well, there are now it's like
Yes
He's not going out though. Oh my god. He's really going to handbills and villager
Wow, oh, but you both can't watch this couch
He could be a talent center drop, he's hiding his bills, but you don't need to be scared,
Grubby will lose his scouts.
Bro that would be iconic, but he first has to get in and then drop the PC on Grubby's
PC.
That's so interesting, yeah maybe he's doing that, maybe he's actually doing the doosh,
so I've seen it work before, you tower us to break in and then once you're in you drop
the talent center onto Grubby, that's crazy, if he does that, that's legendary, Captain
Lads could be cooking up the strategy of the tournament right now.
Dude it has to be that, that's the reason for the purge.
It has to be.
Oh my god.
How are it to do?
We have to get inside first.
He's hit a ton.
It looks like the wall back.
Dude, I don't know.
We'll never have played against it before.
Look at the gates.
Such a tool.
Oh my god.
Dirty chicks from Lance.
One gate on a diagonal piece.
You can't wall behind.
Grubby is just forced to defend.
Let's see how he adapts.
He's made the barracks.
He's made the house.
This is insane.
about to see the strategy of the tournament from Lance, if indeed it is that, dude, the
way the cows are positioned near the berries tells me this town center, it has to be, it
has to be, it's going to be deleted.
Let me explain this to the chat.
People here have never seen this strategy before with Persians, your town center is
double HP.
Now, you can make another town center forward, but only if you delete the one at home.
So deleting your town center, which is never advised, but to make one forward with Persians,
You can take out your phone at town center and that is what Lance is trying to do, but
first he's got to get into the Grubby's base, talk to me Lewis, what are you feeling here?
He's going to say I was really curious why I had so many Vils on Woods, because I was
like wait, did you mess up the build?
Because normally you have Vils on the TSC to maintain Ville production, but I don't
think Lance wants any more Vils.
Yeah.
I was with a Stonewall, which is very interesting, I'm not sure why he made that Stonewall
left though.
He's just worried about Grubby attacking him, Grubby's on a Stonewall behind.
Black is to find a way in though, he's not getting in right now, this is just a tower
I don't have space to make a base when you were...
No loom! No loom for Grubby!
He gets it now though, okay okay, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine, it's coming in, one
build down though.
Why does he place a town center?
I think it has to be on the right side, right?
Right side.
There's only houses on the left.
Yeah, right here.
But Grubby goes for the stone walls.
It has to be on Grubby's choosy as well, otherwise there's no point.
Yeah, exactly.
Sometimes like a year.
I was looking for this Fidica.
I
Got enough for castlage, but grubby grubby's going stable into this which is okay, but like he's not gonna really have the food
Oh, oh, oh, we're going in
Life
Lance I'm so happy Lanson bleep it easy. Yeah
Make it again in a second. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. He lost it. He built it with one for you
No, he's making a house. Oh my god. He's in quick bald. No freaking way
What are the choke of the finals? How can you lose it? He's gonna go for it again though, but hold on whoa whoa whoa whoa
He's the wall he gets the wall
He's gonna go up dude. Oh
My god, that was insane instant replay real quick instant replay when take a look what exactly what happened before he went in
He tried to squeeze it in there with one villager take a look at this instant replay
He makes it and loses it instantly because only one bill built it and grab you had the garrison back to life though back to live
Here we go counts that is going up. Oh
My god Lance
That's what a crazy strategy. What a freaking madman. He deserves a respect about what happens
But flexing is coming in. This is grubby's worst worst nightmare by the way grubby's worst nightmare is this right here
wait look at grubby's lumber camp like grubby's gonna lose his foot access soon
oh a matze rush oh my god you run out of wood you run out of wood this could get
towered by the way. Grubby will be in castleage but he won't have any food or any
rest to do anything yeah I can't believe that despite Lance losing his town
center and deleting the one at home he still has a chance to win if you can
target the wood from Grubby. Grubby is forced to repair because he's up to
Castle Age. He's forced to repair, but he's so low on economy and Grubby's not
experienced against this. I can state for a fact this has never happened to
Grubby on Arena and Grubby's actually misplaying. He's trying to fight it with
10 villagers in the Town Center. You're not supposed to do this. You're supposed
to do this against everything that's not a Persian Town Center. Grubby is
misplaying. Ladies and gentlemen, Grubby could lose this game despite everything.
I think Rubby's dead. Like look at his resources. You get to castage, you can't make a siege workshop because you're not so preparing your TC.
Your woodlands get entourished.
Ten of those, I don't know for no reason.
And again, Lance only has four of those on wood. Rubby has seven, so he has way more wood income, so he can repair longer I guess.
But Lance has a lot of those on stone, he can just move them over, so he's gonna have a total of eleven if any of you thinks about that.
I think Rubby is in trouble.
I said make another lumber camp at least so would not be that big of an issue
Grab a shot of fight this one, but well actually
No, it's hard to win against Persians how it works is you you repair twice as fast with Persians, right?
Because you have the double HP so you can never win versus Persian counselor even trying is usually suicide the grab
You should abandon this
Is it cheap it's repair as well?
Well, you get double the value of the same price. So yeah, it is cheaper. Yeah
Yeah, her HP is pretty much good.
That's the small thing, is when Lance takes out Grubby's TC, Grubby makes a new one, Lance can also do that one again, so it's...
We're getting haunted by those TCs.
I can't believe you pulled us out in a freaking finals of a tournament.
What a char, bro.
He's down 0-2. The Path of Esau community is well represented in Lance. This guy is a freaking animal, in the best way possible. What an absolute beast.
I think when she goes to the finals honestly, like, scrub the rest of the sets.
No, no, no, that's dangerous.
Oh, it's Grubby, it's Grubby we're talking about here, hold on.
It is Grubby we're talking about. Better watch your mouth, eh?
But he still has a chance.
Still has a chance, still has a chance.
Can't be too nice to Grubby.
He's trying to break through that house.
Grubby has to get some military out.
Yeah, he wants to make a workshop, but he doesn't have a blacksmith.
Oh
The one time you make a you make a stable in the market
The one time you don't go for the blacksmith you need it for the workshop guys grubby's got no wood
He can't make anything. He's got 69 food. He's a hundred seventy three gold
It's a terrible situation. It's quick-rolling brother. There's nothing to quick-roll to Lance's more than half
That's the 10th villager lead last at the school. I can't believe this is working for Lance
I can't believe he tried this. I can't believe it's working and grubby's in such
This is grubby's worst nightmare. This will send grubby spiraling mentally by the way
This is the worst case scenario for grubby being O2 up and losing to this would be disastrous for his mentals
See workshop, but no one would find so much fun. He still has the market, which is very valuable here. Yeah
Lancet
Dude, you can't fight this. It's a tower. You can't fight this.
Last is more than half here. Dude, there's Grubby's in trouble.
Grubby's about to die to a huge honorina.
I can't believe this is happening.
After Captain Lance lost his townsitter,
this is by far more ridiculous than any other strategy we've seen in this tournament.
The king's got the continues to deliver,
but Grubby's kind of winning here somehow.
He got more Vils.
This is good for Lance. Lance has 30 Vils. Grubby has 15.
And Grubby has no DC, so all these fights are good for Lance.
Anyville that dies is permanent losses until we get a counselor. I can't believe that last is actually winning the strategy
I'm looking at grubby's res. I don't think I second TC's going this game. Wow
The last four years 12 bills
This group get defeated with bills. What do you guys think? I think
Will not call the GG. He's gonna play to the bitter end. Honestly
It's so sad for Grubby.
I have no words to describe what we're seeing right now.
Grubby is buying 100 wood from the last gold he's got.
He's saying, if one last scorpion for Grubby, it's so sad.
And the GG's called.
Grubby taps out and Lance takes the win.
GG in the chat.
Cinema spam because Lance has just tried a strategy that should never work.
even lost his first Townsender after deleting the one at home. We thought he was dead in the waters.
I was preparing Lance's funeral. I was singing praises of Grubby and how defending this has been
the easiest thing of his life, but somehow Lance squeezes in the Townsender and Grubby incorrectly
tries to fight the Persian Townsender douche. You never want to fight it. You can fight any other
Siv, maybe barring two Tins, Byzantines, but certainly not the Persians. And Lance takes the
win keeps himself alive in this loser's finals if grubby is not tilted he's
untiltable but something tells me he's a bit rattled mentally that's a hard
strategy to lose to right now looks so happy and groovy looks so mad right now
looking at the webcams look at Lance he's so happy he deserves it bro he's
just jumping around which is like yeah and also this is after losing his town
center but he lost the first town center he plays and it's not like destroyed
That's crazy, HROX has unbelievable game.
Dude, I have no words for what Lance just pulled off.
I want to watch it again, honestly.
I want to watch it again. It's so fun.
But of course, we're going to move on to Grubby's home map.
Dude, man, it's just so insane.
Just hop in the wall, go for the tower rush.
We even lost our first Townsender.
We lost our initial Townsender right here, a bit earlier.
Townsender goes down.
dude like screen shot here screen shot here he even lost the TC yeah it's like
red wins how does red win this he just lost it's got nothing bro he's got
literally nothing I I have no words honestly but Lance bro Lance freaking
captain Lance bro what an absolute savage well you change his name from
captain Lance Lance yeah he's just Lance but still he's earned the captain I
should put it back. I'll use the washroom ladies and gents beer back and feel free to entertain a
little bit here. Lewis and Leery while we wait for the next game. Timby Grubb is home map probably
Arabia but you never know beer back. Go on Leery, you got some. What are we expecting from Lance?
What are we expecting there's no way you'll play there's no way you will play standard on Arabia
Um
So the douche option is gone
Tower rush, maybe cuteness
Maybe grubby goes back to arena. Who knows?
Yeah, right
He just got traumatized for life on arena
I haven't watched captain lance play much in arabia. I'm guessing he's like more of a clownish type of uh
I think he has some phosphorous strats up his sleeves
I mean like he's playing very well. I think honestly I think the best thing Lance can do is play aggressive
Like I think whenever Grubby is getting attacked. He's always having issues
But whenever Grubby's attacking he's looking really really solid. So I think Lance needs to do something aggressive
Maybe like a magia scout rush, V is forward, scout is forward, something super simple, but like I could catch him off guard
Yeah
I'm thinking of Cisred now. I feel like Grubby will go Ethiopians.
Yeah, maybe.
That's one of his best tips, and it's more or less easy to punish as well.
Whatever Lance will do, I feel like Lance might go for some Phosphor or something.
You're team Grubby, right, Liri?
I am team Grubby.
Okay, I'll be team Lance.
What's your predictions?
I'm a coach with him.
I'm predicting a comeback. I didn't coach him, but I'm so predicting Lance wins.
Well, thank god you didn't coach him, otherwise he would have bombed out round one.
Bro, like...
Okay, so I think Lance seems to do something very, very aggressive. What do you think about that?
I agree.
I'm back. What do you mean?
This game was very aggressive.
He sent his boys to fight.
He sent his whole town.
He sent the children as well.
He sent everyone, like there were no kids or women left behind.
crazy yeah so we were discussing that personally I think Lance needs to play
aggressive like a simple Mike yeah scouts be as forward maybe like a man at
hand those are Japanese that's not happening something impressive he does
exactly what he's gonna do he's gonna he's gonna fossil rush he does not play
standard on Arabia he never has and I don't think it's gonna start now I mean
he might maybe you'll surprise everybody knows that I'm pretty sure Grubby knows
that yeah Grubby knows that try some mad arm archer pressure potentially I
I wouldn't be surprised as well if Grubby tries to pressure it, but I think Captain Lance will stick to his guns.
He's played Bulgarians, Krepos, Rush, he has played, what else has he played yet?
It's been his main one, he's played, um, I'm blanking out now.
He tried a bit of Romans, I guess, but he looked too hot on the men of arms with Romans.
Bohemians? They play Bohemians?
He tried to Scyllians-Dush, okay?
Scyllians.
Yeah, but it didn't, most of the Bulgarians.
Is that anything special with Dush?
He played standard Koreans as well, since they didn't usually build it faster and they repair it easier
But he's
Not too bad
Also, thank you to Briar Jones for the 20 gifted memberships on YouTube earlier
Thank you to all the primes and tier ones on Twitch. Thank you all for the support. I
Don't think we'll see a douche now. I think we'll see maybe Koreans maybe Bulgarians
But I think Volgarian's first, honestly, is what we'll see out of Captain Lance if I had a guess.
I doubt he'll play like a standard Scout Rush though, there's no way.
I mean, there's also the Roman player where you go like mana times with the plus two armor and feud legions.
That's the most standard.
I mean, yeah, but...
That's been the most popular strategy of this event, the Roman Miner Arms in two longswords.
It has a very high win rate.
I remember like five times.
Yeah, it has a very high win rate in this tournament.
but you thermal kind of showed out of counter it's with like a lot of archers I
don't know if that's in a really catch grubby off-guard and also captain Lance
really it's been a look that hot on Romans I will say some of the chest and
go jabbo brother jabbo jabbo was being out of the tournament in fact jabbo was
never really in the actual tournament but I like to support it's a good first
time chat from wrecking to the redeemed I like the support for jabbo he deserves
they's a cool guy honest I love jabbo all the love in the world for jabbo but
So right now you gotta support Captain Lance, or maybe Pig, maybe Grubby, you got 3 options.
Otherwise you're just supporting ghosts.
The people in the graves, fallen warriors.
I wanted to get Viper and Doubt for a cast at some point for the tournament, I wasn't
really able to lock it down though.
Are you not happy with your current co-castes?
No, no, I love my current co-casts.
I got something to say here.
No, no, no, no, no.
Don't get me wrong.
Nice meeting you all soon, right?
Like, yeah, have a nice day.
Dude, that would be so BM if it was like,
oh, I'm stuck with Lewis and Leery.
I really wanted Viper.
Kind of like when I talk about it.
I'd like to get Viper, T90, couldn't make it.
Now we have two Ls here.
Yeah, the double Ls.
I have gave you something.
Oh, thank you.
It's from the US from Roxy.
They said it's 26 months gift that's up from Lewis.
Thank you, man.
I've never sucked a channel once by the way. It's always rocks just giving me subs like it's crazy. Yeah
same I think
You guys don't support me you guys just co-cast me. That's why I'm waiting for vibrant out. They would gift
Waiting I think to be an eraser now. They didn't come
Grubby is home mapping the Arabia makes a lot of sense. You wouldn't take Captain Lance back to arena
Especially after what we just saw there
Imagine it picks arena
No, no, no, no.
That's my game.
Grubby sat on Arabia.
It's almost guaranteed.
I will say, how's Viper, not Viper, I got a guy in my head, but how's Grubby's mental
after this game?
Is he feeling okay?
I hope he's composed, because I think the worst thing that can happen is you go tilt
into the next game.
There's very little guy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just, just talk it up.
This is something really random that happened.
It is what it is.
You lost some BS.
It's fine.
Yeah.
Grubby just has to get back into his comfort zone, into his groove.
You've all been there.
Play that shit on Arabia. He knows he's got Ethiopians. He's got you know, I think the enemies was used
You got Ethiopians
He's got a bunch of civilizations you can pull out here lattice things that attend gifted subs by the way
Really appreciate that bro
Very nice support call him Hera the guys that the host cannot call grubby. It's like a half
They're both gone quick break. Yeah quick break
It's like those Hera breaks, right?
What do you mean those Hera breaks? Like I make...
Whenever you play this, it's hair in its ornament, it's like a 10 minute break.
He loses a game, he's gone for 10 minutes. I don't know what he's gone through.
Like, he's just off for 10 minutes. It's insane.
And I don't blame you, like I think it's a smart thing to do, but...
It's so not true. Sometimes I gotta go to the washroom, sometimes I gotta, you know, answer a call from Grubby.
Sometimes I gotta eat something, that's usually what I have to do.
to do, but dude, nothing's got things to do, man.
Rod, instead of five, get it, by the way.
Thank you, Rod, for the big support during the events.
Yeah, just got a small couple of texts from Grubby.
I'm just gonna answer these real quick.
I've actually got a question,
like a serious question, Hera.
Yeah?
Like, when you walk away from the PC, like, what do you do?
Can you actually walk us through,
like, what do you actually do?
All right, so when I walk into the PC.
Loose needs to copy a routine.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's interesting.
So, when I walk away from the PC, normally I have my phone.
So I'll open up the picture, maybe some Uber Eats,
and maybe I have the food.
So I'll walk away from my PC, I'll walk to the fridge,
open the fridge, take some food out,
a little leftovers, close the fridge,
take a little drink, bring the food to the microwave,
put it in the microwave usually around two minutes,
walk around while it loads, while it microwaves
so I can burn some calories,
and then I just take the food out of the microwave
and eat it.
Let's use your idea.
How many steps a day you do?
How many steps a day?
I did like a thousand steps minimum, I would say.
Just kind of walking from the refrigerator to the computer.
That's not too bad.
It's pretty good, yeah.
A lot of, you know, obviously.
A lot of food breaks, a lot of walking as well.
But I went out for a walk today.
Like, it's not bad.
I actually went out for a walk today.
I mean, honestly, more than what most people do.
Especially as gamers, so, you know.
Yeah, it's not bad.
Oh, shit.
Don't argue in the chat.
underrated. He said, did I lose my VIP? Yes, guys, I got caught right now. Don already is a former VIP. I have
unvip you because I needed slots to VIP the players of the tournament. Super caught. Sorry, Don already,
you're cool guy, but you're not VIP anymore, and you're never going to get it back. Sorry, man. You're
cool guy though. Anyway, we'll hop in right in. The next game has started. And it's match point
grubby, but Captain Lance is starting a special kind of comeback right now. And it's gonna be the
Ethiopians for Grubby and the Incas for Captain Lance. Ladies and gentlemen, let's hop right in
and let's break down exactly what we're seeing. I can't lie, I feel like the Ethiopians
have been kind of hit or miss for Grubby. I feel like he's lost a lot of the games he's tried
to win with Ethiopians. I think he's lost like two of his last two games. Maybe they've worked
earlier, but they're not working versus the top of the table. The top way through this matchup is
I fixed the cameras real quick. Oh, never mind, they're fine. So, okay, top way through the matchups anyways.
I was wondering, maybe you want to lame or something? I thought there was a village already
coming or like maybe a douche earlier than usual.
I think this is interesting, I feel like in Spain.
Yeah, Inca's not having access to any horses in any way or sort of form, so naturally you
see only infantry or ranged units. Most likely in Lance's case, Champies, if I had to guess,
and some towers maybe. Tower Rush, very popular.
You tried that earlier versus Pig, you tried the Champy Tower Rush, but it didn't work.
It actually was quite bad, and not like it was a terrible strategy, but it didn't work,
like it didn't work out well at all. He got completely destroyed by Pig, and Grubby, if anything,
maybe even a slightly stronger like Minotaur Marcher player than Pig, and that's exactly what
pick it done so I'm not sure if you're going to try that again the other strategy you can go for is
maybe some kind of phosphor rush you can try to go for something like you know a few uh few
villagers on stone try to fastcast so get into like the you know the ink of camiukes plus ram
something like that could be interesting um we kind of know what to expect from Grubby though
he's been doing men arms into archers quite a lot with Ethiopians oh look at that settlement spot
juicy and also like with the settlement you get 10 population right so ideally
you don't even make those two houses just make one house at the start that's
all you need it's interesting yeah one house make the settlement it's got a
cool adaptation of the increase
yeah that's so much interesting it's gonna be good for the berries it's gonna be
good for the wooden come and actually it counts as like two buildings to go up
the next stage so like Lance can already go up due to the settlements so he'll
take a little bit of Barry here with one bill, see me nice for his food and come.
Probably will most likely open mad arms hold in the best way to punish like
stuff you don't know or stuff you don't know what's coming it's kind of like
playing aggressive because you kind of ruin the guys build if it's false through
you're already on in his base putting pressure if it's something else you're
still doing good damage with my arm so I can't really go wrong with that.
Yeah, yeah.
So that's always going to get some value.
That's a map.
Yeah, it's always good against stuff where you don't know what's happening.
Also, can I just say like respect to Lance for playing against Gropy, Hera, and Leery.
Like this is, I swear you've walked in through the game plan of every single game he's played
so far.
And like Lance is playing versus three right now, so.
I'm pretty sure Lance is more against the me than we did.
Yeah, Lance is playing a lot.
He's got his own fair share of advantages, to be fair.
By the way, Grubby did fail a Dealer.
Now they're both just trying to pull these guys in.
Very important to pull in as many Deers as you can
and as fast a Time Window as you can
to also allow you to scout your opponent.
Fast Loom for Lance, it's gonna be a Tower Rush.
He is gonna go for the Inca Tower Rush most likely.
Loom for Grubby as well.
19 Pop-Man alarms most likely.
I don't see the barracks from Grubby though,
So maybe it won't be.
That's the wood now.
He's got the wood, he's going to go for it.
Oh, there's the military, yeah.
Now, barracks on the front.
Pass, beautiful lands.
This is a bit of a cut off for Krobi.
Now, he put four walls on wood.
That's why he was lacking a little bit, but seems fine.
All right.
Also, Ethiopians have a very nice amount of time
built with extra 100 food, 100 gold.
Yeah.
Stenjizes nicely.
I think it's one of the better sips
to punish any shenanigans in the early game,
Just cause you're up 200 res, like food in wood as well.
Oh, sorry, food in gold.
Very relevant early game res,
especially when you want to be like mid-arms to archers
and like that.
And so Lance, he's on stone.
He's gonna send five or six villages forward,
or actually eight villages forward, holy.
Eight!
Seven!
Eight!
No, eight.
I think that's amazing.
And then the day if you send four,
they get caught off, you can die, right?
If you just send eight, you're fighting anything back.
So, I think this is really good.
It's gonna be seven though in the end.
Not eight, not six, but seven.
And we're gonna have some militia coming out.
Yeah, he's kind of...
They sent the back.
Moving them around.
Lance is looking for something here.
24-bill, 24-second-stuff feudal age.
We're only gonna target the back
and kind of like the wood area of Grubby's base.
If he goes to the front,
he's gonna run to the barracks,
don't wanna do that.
Grubby's gonna go for some men-arms.
I wonder if he's gonna attack with them
or kind of keep them on defense once he scouts this.
Grubby's got no idea so far.
He could imagine that something weird is coming this way.
Grubby will explore it though
Is that scouted now with the scouts?
Potentially
Oh my god Grubby is going to miss it
Grubby missed it
Oh my god Grubby has barely missed it
This cannot get any
Unluckier for Grubby this set
He's missed all the groove and information
He doesn't know where Lance is
He's going to go out in the dark
He goes a little greedy luring in some deer
Lance is super sneaky with 7 villagers
A tower behind the wood line
This is quite, quite rough for Grubby, he's going to go for the range, committing to that range when you're about to lose the wood line
is something that's quite difficult to work around.
Tower at home from Lance, and at Black Snuts, he's going to stay relatively safe.
There's nothing hit, maybe the berries, maybe these two vills and the berries you can hit.
Tower on the wood, Grubby's got a react, very cheesy approach from Lance, it's going to feel terrible for Grubby to lose this.
If it does happen, it can be some major tips for the last game.
He also fails the critical.
He's walling himself out.
God, delete that.
It's not the way.
House, House of Top, and you're dead, right?
That power doesn't do that much.
Infantry armor.
Infantry armor?
Uh, uh...
Does he know Eric?
Does he know it doesn't affect villagers, Vincas?
He might not know.
He might think it does.
Oh, it used to.
It used to.
Now it only affects them in castage onwards.
Oh, there's two villagers.
From Lance, he's completely forgotten to pull them back.
Oh my god, this is huge for Grubby.
He's gonna kill two food villagers.
Disaster for Lance.
He had all the time in the world to pull those back,
but he just forgot about them.
Oh my goodness.
A bit of good fortune for Grubby in the end.
Two villagers is huge at the stage of the game.
And on food as well,
Lance is already struggling to make villagers.
There's a hole!
Terrible situation.
That was just a fact through.
Oh god, he scared me, Leery.
If there's a hole, it's GG.
There might be a hole.
Okay, well...
No.
Oh, it's the champion, maybe I don't know.
It's kind of the issue with Tower Rush.
You can just get counter-attacked and don't really have any units to punish.
You have villagers, but the opponent has more villagers at home,
so in the worst case you can always send them to fight, but then it's 50-50.
Yeah, absolutely. Especially you get a couple archers on the field.
Remember, these are Ethiopian archers, they attack a little bit faster as well.
Forward Tower from Lance. It didn't work against Pig.
He doesn't know!
He thinks villagers are affected by Blacksmith upgrades guys.
Lance is playing the 2019 meta.
It's been literally like 5 years since they made that change.
Legitimately 5 years.
Nobody ever told him.
Look at that ticket chat.
Plus 1 plus 1.
I don't remember.
He's dead.
Oh the villagers are dying.
He thinks they're tanky.
He thinks they're strong.
What a blundered Lance.
He's playing old meta.
He's playing all night
Dude
And he didn't figure out he did this earlier he is pig and he lost with it. Nobody told him and
Oh my god, Grubby might also break in here dude. Captain Land thinks his villagers are good
They're generic villagers and he's invested 250 food into upgrades that do nothing and oh my god
Grubby's broken up to the settlement under the wood
This is as bad of a situation as it gets for Captain Lance
Ladies and gentlemen, Grubby is literally moments away from winning this game, beating Lance to
the lead on the settlement. It's terrible. What a great punish from Grubby.
This would have been a really good strat if the village was still good affected by the
upgrades. Yeah. Five years ago. Grubby does lose the meta arms though. Man, that's crazy that he
he just didn't know 17 those guys there's no talking points here Lance is dead honestly
there's nothing to be done Grubby has a great defense archers are really good against tower
rushes because they they just prevent you from moving forward with your towers yeah
like this tower is just like you're just baby stepping another tower it's it's pretty
costly to make a tower you don't have much stone and Grubby can just even let him make
that one and then it doesn't do anything he needs to make one more afterwards Lance is
at least cleared up the men arms at least but I mean it's 12 bills up for
Grabby as long as Grabby doesn't like delete his towns in about accident he's
completely winning this it's like 99.99% chance. Even if he did this towns better set up
armory on the field it's looking rough. Yeah dude four lines.
So he did this before and nobody told him about the upgrades. Yeah he didn't
figured out nobody told them villager goes down because the thing is I didn't
even think to tell him either because he was first of all his name is not grubby
and second of all he was grubby the next round so it makes sense yeah exactly
it was up against grubby I couldn't tell him you know no but he was making
champions so it actually makes sense like a games pig he's the champion so I was
like okay cool he's getting infantry armor for his infantry for the champions
but in the end I think he just didn't know he just thinks the Incas are clean
like that but ah dude rough stuff he's walking forward with the villagers looking
for more but grubby catches them out cheap easy open outposts with extra
vision grubby knows to sit inside out then he's gonna catch all of these
villagers oh my god grubby's all over him grubby is all over him
double the population painful that lumber came from grubby middle of the
Yeah, so far away from anything. I actually like it. Just don't want any BS like just get some wood, you know
I'm not gonna get a little extra wood. Yeah
What's even to say at this point it's just so painful to watch
Kind of feel bad because like if you knew it like maybe he's getting fleshing for the towers or maybe he's yeah
Maybe he's getting a perfect or even a range, you know, because he also invested once 150 for blacksmith
and then 200 food for useless upgrades. 250.
But like even if it was 5 years ago how strong are those upgrades for the builds?
Really good. They would tank through.
It was quite solid. Oh my god, Captain Lance is not watching here.
Grubby is under the tower. Great micro from Grubby. He's got to kill 4 villagers under the tower.
Captain Lance is not paying attention. Oh my god. Oh my god, he's got the 16 villagers.
He's microing somewhere.
so painful because Grubby's always so microing on the front.
The Warcraft 3 Pro Genes, look at it.
Damn.
Well, that kinda...
Castle Age, wow.
That's a nail in confidence I've ever seen it.
Guys, this game is lasting at most two minutes and 30 more seconds.
It's almost entirely over.
There's only Castle Age to be done.
Lance can play a little in Shoot-A-Lace,
but once Grubby hits Castle Age,
It's all said and done, we're going to see a Grubby vs. Pega rematch, a disappointing
final game here, of course Lance playing an outdated strategy which is kind of hilarious
but kind of unfortunate at the same time.
He showed good heart and I love that he made the douche on Arena work, that's an all-timer
for sure, very, very cinema strat, but Grubby is on the way to the grand finals and I don't
I think Lance's got what it takes to stop him.
I don't think anybody can win from Lance's position right now.
Not even the top pros.
Yeah, you put a pro in here.
Even if Lewis the Goat takes over here, he's still cooked.
There's nothing to be done.
builds like maybe if you have like similar vill counts and Gruby's castleage maybe but yeah it's just
yeah I mean Gruby's race is a bit you know 500 wood but I guess it's a very messy game for him
because he gets more rest upon reaching castleage than Lance has in his in his bag
oh god he's he's tower rushing all of the extra res and like he's doing really well but
Dude, Grubby's about to get 200 resources. Lance does not have 200 resources altogether.
This is terrible news for Lance.
Caslid is in. If we don't see GGO played, Lance is griefing. I'm not gonna lie.
He's trying one more thing. He's trying one more thing.
Wait, you're thermal's having the hate watch. Hold on, you're thermal's having the hate watch of his life.
He said this is the best hate watch of my life. You're thermal's just hate watching Lance.
We're free.
I
Got too funny
He lost it but I was hate watching grubby no no no
He lost he lost it both but last the lance lost hurt hurt him more keep watching them both
No, no, no, he hates Lance more because Lance was like teasing him grubby beat him fair and square. He doesn't mind that one
Yeah, he's mad at their arena clowns
Realistically, he's hate watching her it's you there. He doesn't really like me there after I've denied all his coaching sessions
What's that on the book?
Yeah, Lance.
Bro, Lance.
Uh, somebody tell me about these Path of Exile players.
Uh, are they comeback players?
Can they come back from the depths of Hades?
Uh, I'm not really sure, man.
Path of Exile.
Path of Exile is a game.
Hades always playing as well.
Yeah.
You just run around and do stuff.
You have like one shit-ass, bald-ass character and you just run around and you kill stuff.
That's what I've seen.
I'm not gonna lie, that's what I've seen from Path of Exile so far.
fast so far i have seen it's just random explosions on my map which is awesome eye cancer for me
it's just one guy that's running around really fast explosions everywhere
animals and shit is dying and like the guy who's controlling the characters having a great time
though apparently it's really fun um it's 10 bills it's 10 bills last bro give it up bro
like it's a feat of
Now let him play my land play G you all played give it up in the chat for Bobby
He is your second grand finalist with a beautiful performance over lands
Gg well played grabby played a great set and honestly the map he lost he kind of fumbled it
It was a great strategy Lance, but Lance super entertaining player. He deserves a lot of respect
I love what he brought to the table. He represented the path of X out community like a champion. He gets third place
Fantastic performance for Lance as well. It cannot be understated, but today
Grubby's the champion. He makes the legendary loser bracket run. The dream
run goes through three matches, wins them all, and he's facing the grand finalist
Pig, who's undefeated in this event and who has beaten Grubby before, albeit a
3-2. They had a banger. It's a rematch. It's another best of five, and it's the
last best of five of the Kings Gauntlet. It couldn't be a better scenario for a
Grand Finals right now the rematch from yesterday
what a hell of a show Lance put on though yeah she on arena I've never seen
that before yeah absolute legend just douchey on arena I've seen it before but
I didn't know he knew about it and like he executed it pretty well despite you
know the disastrous lost towns that are there you have a guy's bracket on the
screen grab your respect is the grand final we're gonna bring Lance in here
for an interview real quick but first I'm gonna just say goodbye to Leary and
Lewis thank you guys for being here you guys are legends and I really appreciate
your cast this is a lot of fun yeah thank you for having us for me
Louis can talk for himself.
Thanks for having me.
Of course. Any last words for the chats?
I hate watching Pig for the final goal, Grubby!
Hey, watch Pig for no reason. Just gonna catch Grubby.
Alright, love it guys. Thanks for being here.
Have a good one. We'll see you chat around.
Yeah, see you. Peace, peace, peace.
Guys, check out Leery and Louis on Twitch.
They both stream it from time to time Lewis's YouTube channel twist channel guys and check them out if you like their vibe
They're both of course pro players
Leery is a teammate of mine on vitality. So definitely a top tier guy and
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a dream final, but I will say before we bring in Lance
I don't know if he's gonna join. I hope he does join for a little bit of a talk
Let's just do like this guys. Oh sevens in the chat for Lance the last fallen warrior before the grand finals
Huge shout out to Lance again. I love what he brought to the table super entertaining
He had such an insane run he beat Wagamama. He beat Knoth bit of a sweet back-to-back
He took out his thermal and then he actually just barely lost the pig
So it's a he's just been in banger after banger
Possibly his worst performance was against grubby, but he still managed to take one game, which is actually not too bad
We I will play to Captain Lance. He had a great result and oh actually speaking of the speed in which Captain Lance you're in here, bro
I'm here. He'd you all played good to see you man
You know what I just found out
Tell me man, I kind of have an idea though.
Apparently, uh, you know, five years ago Inca's, the Blacksmith upgrades worked in Feudal, okay?
And uh, apparently there's this in Castle Age line that I did, I used that in two games too, I thought it worked.
Yeah, let's take a look at the uh, at the texture here. So um, uh,
Villager is affected by infantry Blacksmith upgrades. Sounds amazing. Starting in Castle Age!
That starting in Castle Edge costed the game, basically.
I was thinking, man, don't feel very tanky. I should be taking like one damage a shot from these archers.
Yeah, yeah. And he's like getting picked apart, Ethiopian archers on you.
But, oh, bro, you're a freaking legend. Forget about the loss.
Look at that freaking douche on arena. Despite you losing the counselor, how did...
Dude, I don't know how that succeeded after he pre-fired the placement.
That was insane. I don't know how either, honestly.
A miracle. That's that's how straight straight up miracle. Dude. I had a lot of fun with this tournament
This is this has been it's been a blast. Love to hear it man. You enjoyed the ladder race enjoyed the main events everything good
Yeah, yeah, no, it's friggin sick event
I'm looking forward to either watching or participating in number two if you host it if you host again
I think you hit the goal. Yeah, we hit the goal. My eyes don't deceive me
King's Gauntlet number two is confirmed for next year guys and it's thanks to the chat
We hit the 9,000 sub goal
It was an ambitious goal to be honest and we hit it so King's Gauntlet number two is confirmed
It's a lot of work to set it up
But I'm more than happy to set up the work with the amount of people who had around here
It's gonna be fantastic
So and honestly, I think there should be a king every game in the second edition because the king was just like the highlight honestly
For me that that game against death though was definitely I
I, I don't know what I was witnessing.
It also makes it a little bit of an element where if you're losing,
you can at least try for King's night, which is like, I knew I was desperately
losing the, uh, the game against the grubby, the first match.
And I still was like, I'm going to try to get some guitars and see if I can
go snipe the King.
Yeah.
Just send it in, whatever you can.
Uh, I actually liked that he tried and you actually were kind of close.
Like your, your 10 guitars were going in close, but then you just walked
past the castle.
Unfortunately, I said thinking like the slightly longer path you had a castle
I didn't eject the king though or was the king still there? No, bro
Grubby refused to move it. I don't know why it was so like sketchy. That's crazy
It's always very close to get it. Yes for no reason
For no reason
Yeah, it was a good set man, it was a good set you had a great run honestly
I think you should be proud of performance. You took out your thermal. He's a bit salty about that still but
achievement there. Got farmed salts from you thermal to no end.
Bro, out of the fierce days, yeah, quite a few there.
They taste good, man. They taste good.
On one side, I had you thermal. I was like consoling you thermal,
and now I'm in the other core. I'm like, bro, you can't kill those ass.
And he said, who sent them salt? Yeah, I love arena. Oh, you can almost just a positive guy.
That's why he changed his name to arena enjoyer.
10-3 guys off. You've played well. You've played well. It's been actually a cinema tournament.
Let me give you thoughts on the finals though, Capmala. You played against both Pig and Grubby,
and not to mention it, but you lost to both. Sad to mention, of course.
Yeah, you had to mention it. Honestly, from playing them now, I was doing a lot more
a lot more Mimi strats against Grubby to be like, if that wasn't obvious, I'm, I'm thinking
from my experience, playing both, I think Grubby's got it. I think he's, I think he's
taking it all the way.
Wow. Okay. Rocking with the Grubster. What do you make of that first loss to Pig though?
Um, I think Grubby had an off day. I don't know. I feel like he left some openings.
has been like playing extremely well but I don't know I think I think Grubby today has been pretty
pretty like locked in yeah I think I think he's gonna I think he's gonna full sweep from the
reverse from the loser bracket would be quite the storyline four sets in a row yeah as I say
would be quite the storyline play four sets in one day and win them all of course Grubby's playing
very late at night as well.
Pig has the advantage here of being well rested
for the Grand Finals.
He only had play one set, it was a while ago.
So a lot of rest, there's no other advantages though
for Pig by the way.
So no like extra home map, no one zero,
no bracket resets, all right?
I want everyone to understand this.
I know it might seem like it's a bit unfair,
but honestly I prefer it this way.
I'd rather for the hype of the last match,
I'd rather have a one clean best of five
between the two best players, and having that rest
is sometimes enough of an advantage to make it worthwhile
coming in from the undefeated winners bracket.
So that's the situation.
Some people might disagree, of course,
but that's what we went for,
and we're not gonna change that one, of course.
It's too late to make any adjustments there.
The end, that'll be a nice final.
It's gonna be a good match.
All right, Captain Lance,
do you wanna stick around for the cast?
I have Yamato coming in here.
I don't want to put you on the spot or anything.
I'm not going to chill.
OK, we can stick around to the cast.
Don't expect me to talk too much.
It's been a long day.
I'm going to be a little bit more relaxed.
No worries.
I'll get the cast.
Yamato's going to be talking about some Lupin and here.
Yeah, buddy.
There he is.
You were talking about some Lupin.
Katmash, there's a couple of comments here and there if you want.
No worries, no stress.
It's all good.
Right on, right on.
Yamato, the loop daddy.
What's going on, brother?
Yo, first I gotta say capital is well fought, well fought, man.
I respect the tower rush.
Well fought.
I was trying to give the content.
Yeah, yeah.
I was entertained.
The work man respect.
Well done, man.
I have drank like two liters of apple juice, bro.
I am so ready.
Oh, it's good.
Get that energy in.
Eighth truck is not here guys.
Uh, he was supposed to be for the cast, but unfortunately he overslept and
DPA is missing the cast of the finals, totally joking of course, Hrock, he told me he couldn't make it, he's out for something, so
No, Hrock, why don't you join us? We have Mr. Yamato, and we have a somewhat chilled-out Captain Lance
We'll give a couple comments here and there
And that's gonna be the good roster for the caster, for the caster squad
Pig and Grubby, the two best players of the event, and I actually have a nice little special not announced it because people know about this already
but
maybe so we don't so let me tell a little story and I'm gonna explain what's
gonna happen tomorrow so of course right now we're waiting for pig and grubby to
get started for the grand finals we're giving them a good 10 minute break
especially grubby to just you know relax after that last match and then they'll
play it out especially grubby of course no it's not especially grubby it's it's
It's out of control.
Oh yeah, so Grubby gets 10 minutes.
You've been casting long today for this one, one o'clock.
You're tired.
You're coming at me fresh right now.
Yo, you matter.
I'm not tired.
Don't think you're going to take advantage of me with this little banter.
I'm fresh, bro.
I got it.
I'm going to bounce back.
Bro, you didn't even catch this one, but that was a straight jab.
It was coming at you.
No, I swear.
I swear.
Go ahead. Go ahead. You talk about your
announcement for tomorrow.
The announcement is there's no final.
Grubby wins and that's it. I don't want to hear it.
That's the announcement. Okay, listen.
I have an announcement. It has nothing to do with Grubby,
but Grubby will be involved, obviously. Here's the announcement.
So,
people were asking before this
event, can we see some team games
between the players? And I
really wanted to have team games,
but I was limited on budget from Microsoft.
Microsoft gave me 10,000
And a little bit extra for like production costs, but really not much, which is good. A good amount of money from Microsoft. That's good. It's going to go for the price pool.
You know, players got some money from the latter race players got some money from the placement, the top eight in the tournament.
And so it's not bad. However, we have gotten an anonymous sponsor who came forward and pledged $7,000 on his own to host two team game matches between the players tomorrow, the day after the event.
And so I can finally happily and proudly announce that we're going to have team games with a voice chat with streams
Between all the players who show up, which is most of them already confirmed tomorrow during the day
All thanks to this one anonymous donated. I am beyond grateful for the anonymous person
I am so stoked to host them and it's gonna be an extra day to the event
So of course the winner of this wins the Kings gollets over
It's the King's Gauntlet after party. It'll be two team game matches played tomorrow
We're gonna start the show at 16 GMT with the first match
I might come a little earlier so 16 GMT first national starts then the second match right after voice chat on both sides
We might even have a draft so whoever shows up
We're gonna do a draft they'll take turns picking captains like high school football and then we'll play it out voice chats on both sides
I'll be casting it of course and we'll have a great time little after party for the King's Gauntlet
There's also prize money on it. You know everyone who shows up gets paid and should be a great time
Yamato, it sounds good. Did you say seven thousand dollars seven thousand bro?
That's uh, that's infinite more than what you got for the event because you got zero, but
It's a lot of money, bro
Pretty good. It's not rigged
It's not rigged, but Yamato your team is ampi uh day nine iukeson and yourself that's your team
I'm sorry, not Day 9, Jabbo. It's Jabbo, I'm...
Give him straight killers over there.
Yeah, that's kind of an overpowered team. That's true.
Nice losing DarkHeads team.
No, that's the...
Lose the boar.
Bro, Ieaksen has a nasty tower rush, you're like a nasty looper.
Ampy will forget to get armor, but he will be meant to arm rushing with Romans.
And Jabbo will be there. He will be there, which is good.
She's good.
But you sit as a draft, yeah?
So I will be like, I'll be like seventh pick.
So I'll be on the good team.
Yeah, it's one way to think about it, yeah.
Unless they first pick you,
like they see the potential, you know?
They need a microscope to see the potential, bro.
Yamato, man, it's good to have you in for the cast.
You're a fan favorite in the casting booth.
And it's all coming down to one final match in the King's Call.
It's been a literal cinema tournament so far.
I know you've enjoyed it.
You can do a casting.
And if Pig or Scrobby, the two best players,
Pig still undefeated.
What do you make of this finals matchup though?
I feel like Grubby's run is, it's so Hera-pilled, you know?
Like doing the lower bracket run.
He lost to the level six metamorphosis, you know?
Yeah, I don't know I looked at the games today and I feel like grubby has like ascended bro
He is he is is if you played RTS still to this day, bro. He has ascended
is he's locked in I
have
Strong belief as well in this idea that a player like keep in mind
the
You have such high amount of experience, right?
So I don't think fatigue is going to kick in the same way.
I think now Grubby is like warm, you know?
Because Grubby has played like WCG days.
He's played some tournaments that were longer than this even.
So this is like, all that DNA is kicking in, you know?
He's Dutch as well, you know, when he meditates,
he just hears like Tiesto Tecno in his head, you know?
Like he is in the zone.
So Pig, I don't know, time zone wise,
I don't know how cookie is because that's also something to keep in mind.
You know, it might be sleep hours for, for, for, for, for these guys.
Maybe, maybe pig is just imperfect at times on hours now.
Like what time is it in Australia right now?
Uh, it should be morning.
Yeah.
Oh, right.
So he's been awake all night.
Now, surely he slept after the set with me.
Maybe, I don't know.
He's on a cook, sleep schedule at this point.
I would imagine the time in Sydney.
He lives in Sydney.
I remember he said Australia, Sydney time.
9 a.m. Oh Jesus he might be right depends if he went to bed right after the
sudden then set the alarm or if you stayed up the whole time I don't know I
think he's not a little I'm not really sure how he's doing though he's not
then woke up again cook time zone versus fourth best of five in a row yeah
Yeah
Sick Grubbers played case three three three so nine ten eleven so eleven games today Grubbers play eleven competitive games
Pig only played five and he got some rest. So it's like
Both players not coming in at their best
But then the day you just have to be better than the opponent. You don't actually have to be at your you know, absolute best
Um
Thanks, you're looking at it wrong bro. They brought the
These are two guys molded and steel bro. This is the this is the eye of the tiger
We're gonna get the best level out of them because it's gonna come from the soul, you know
I hope so carries you when your body and mind is just a little bit too weak, you know your soul
All that fatigue will come out tomorrow, you know. Yeah
You're that demon run tournaments, what's the longest tournament you've run
Well, the Warcraft one actually from Grubby was the most I've had to play in one day like that. That's hero run
Does it in Grubby's tournaments?
Hey, that's actually a bit of a connecting storyline. So Grubby hosted a Warcraft tournament
I dropped to like I got kind of upset by simply
Although it was a 2-0 in the upper bracket. I dropped I come back. I beat simply
again in the lower bracket and
Then I have to make a hero run through the lower bracket and I actually managed to reverse sweep your motto as well
sorry man to bring it up but in the finals it was a hero run pretty scripted you can say grubby's
following the same script grubby's literally following the same script some people could even
say this is lazy writing on our end but let's see how it goes like if pigs up to zero i wouldn't
count out grubby i feel like the script is just getting started you know that that that the reverse
sweet mansion never hurts me because of what death note told me after what do you say don't don't be
said you make RTS pro you out micro like little beach don't be said the one
that no conflict comes in
I look to you hang out like you hang on to that one like that that one mattered
a lot of course that's good bro I also hear the minus point you know like
Yeah, but I hear it everywhere, you know
Sometimes I go take a piss, you know in the morning my eyes are still foggy, you know
I get like one little drop on the side, you know suddenly I hear minus point. I wake up like that, bro
Everywhere everywhere I go minus point. That's crazy
This is how you live your life now, but you're seeing your life from a different dimensions like now
Everything can be optimized and everything that's inefficient is a minus one. So you got to be careful
It's a good little life, you know, it's a good little life
Red force was too nice to me man. Yeah, that was your problem. That was your problem
When are we starting starting soon so we see grubby in the camera right there, he's getting locked in
Background as well got thrall another throw this Rex are backing him up with me shut the bear. Do you know the floor?
No, bro. I know early. You're a work of legend. How do you know this?
Yeah, these are some badass motherfuckers from the Warcraft 3 lore, but his bear is afraid
of camels.
Okay.
It's kind of like AoE, right?
It's kind of like AoE where your horse is afraid of camels.
Is that actual one?
No, I just made that up.
Okay.
It's just an ongoing thing that frustrated me because I was playing and then camels just
mugged my, who snarls, and my chat, you know, always your chat, you know, you're playing
the game for the first time you're two days in and they they talk to you like you're dumb you
know it's like didn't you know that camels scare horses horses are afraid of camels Yamato how did
you not know this it's like yeah like I missed this day in school like I was supposed to know that
yeah it isn't counterintuitive but the natural predator of the horse yeah camels hunt horses
I can't imagine that. I can't imagine like riding camels into war like they contain them that well. That's kind of crazy
Apparently you can elephants to
Elephants be a little harder. I
By the way, just got pigs cams. I think it is in here
Let me just go ahead and set him up real quick
Pig will be set up so they're gonna have both cams on the screen
Let's go ahead and get you guys to just talk for a couple minutes as I'll be right back
And I'll tell the players that they can start in just a few moments
So the grandfathers is about to begin guys and you matter Captain Lance with me as co-casters give me a couple minutes
I need to small call Grubby of course and you guys to entertain the viewers before we start
Oh my goodness, the private coach
Sorry, yeah, I can give you some more elephant facts apparently
Accounted to elephants was dressing up as elephants because they don't want to hurt their own
So armies that fought elephants figured out like we just need to dress as elephants and we care we have three wins
How crazy is that you're making that up again right like no I'm not making that up
is that actually again yeah that's a historical fact I'm trying to remember
which general actually did this let me try to let me try to Google that way
army dressed as elephants to counter elephants. Let's see.
Some ancient Indian cavalry used clever disguises to stop their horse from panicking.
Riders would attach fake trunks to their steed so the animals looked like
elephant calves exploiting the maternal instincts of female war elephants.
How crazy is that?
That is crazy.
Put some next level strats right there.
Free win.
Bro, imagine though, imagine being a general of old, you know, all these age of empires
is there based on this, and you're sitting there theory crafting with human lives, you
know, like imagine someone had a dumb ass idea that didn't get recorded in history, you know,
some good ass idea.
It's
Out of box right there imagine it just doesn't work and you lose
And then it's like oh shit guys honestly, let's queue up again another war a couple couple guys died for today was good test
Those absolutely crazy
I don't know because there's so many civilizations like almost any sim that I googled to find history facts
There was always some kind of clash. It is crazy to consider how many wars were in the past
Is how how accurate is age of empires really did people just fight over gold and stone and
And relics
Yeah, I think so too
Conquest true true true
Which which which which said did you like the most in terms of the voice lines?
Was there any voice lines that spoke to you?
Did you learn a new language playing H-of-M-Py's?
No, I didn't learn a new language.
I'll repeat what they say, but...
Hey, give me some.
I have no idea what they're reading when they say things.
I like Japanese, I think, a decent amount.
There's a few ones, though.
Watashi, nani, it goes crazy.
I like playing Japanese.
You and I be only in the Japanese place.
Fossil right on Marina, right?
Yeah, yeah, the Ramorize.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I was too scared.
I thought, I thought might be the Ramorize.
You went into a loss because he told you to jump over the wall.
Screw you.
That's not true at all.
I told you to jump over the wall in a different scenario.
I also told you to finish the castle.
I gave him some good advice, man, honestly.
Well, yeah, how to defeat the William Wallace campaign.
Never forgetting that, by the way, like...
I don't know...
I'm like, man, Harold's like, alright.
Yamada has 64 IQ. Let's walk him through the tutorial of the game.
You picture through the baby training wheels?
Yeah.
The thing is, like, you actually benefited a lot from that.
Like, I feel like that was good. If I had to do it again, I feel like I'd just do it again.
I was teaching him how to walk and fight. It's good.
By the way, that's cool.
It's going down again. It's okay.
No, no, you're not just learning. You learn very fast though, Yamato, for you, for your standards.
Bro, I have new strats for tomorrow, by the way. New strats. You're gonna be amazed by my new strats.
I actually can't believe you're playing tomorrow in the show, Matt. That's fantastic.
It'll be team games, though. You have new strategies for team games.
Yeah, yeah. I'm busting out the Pakistanis, bro.
But let's focus on the finals, bro. We got a big finals. I'll talk about my strats some other day.
What are you coming so I've got it back
All right, let's do what you can do, but yeah, oh it's what you can do with the Pakistanis tomorrow
But for now we have grubby versus pig. They're getting started the game one on Fortress
Now just to explain what happened to the chat who might have missed it. We'll show you guys the bracket
Grubby versus pig played a banger set yesterday in the upper bracket semifinals
Pig actually just barely won out 3-2. He had a couple sneaky strategies and he caught Grubby off-guard.
He also showed some really good form and some great overall preparation.
Grubby played well, but just couldn't beat out Pig. He ended up falling 2-3.
Pig, since then, has been undefeated. Took out Captain Lance as well, 3-2 in the upper bracket final.
Great set as well. Of course, you have Captain Lance with us on the casting booth.
So Pig finds himself the undefeated in the grand final, grab you with a hero, second life, and a loser bracket run for, you know, that should be remembered for years to come.
I think he's really done well. There are four sets in a day. He's won three. He's got to win one more to claim the throne of the king's gauntlets, and both players are getting ready here.
You can see them on camera. They're in the lobby, and they're waiting for the first map on Fortress.
I don't know that's that's grab his weak point of anything but he has played so he like he's played more
register is no more than any other play he might just know the the strike you guys look me on what
he did on the previous register sides he's done a few is he Russian or is he booming he's played
He's played Vietnamese, played a few different civilizations, I think he's even played Burgundians, but every single time he's went for a pretty big boom, but he's also taken the relics, and that's like a very interesting approach that Grubby's taken.
Some of the other players have not taken this approach, like for example Pig, I know he just goes to the four TC's right away, he doesn't really play for those relics, so yeah, we'll see what Grubby does, I think he'll just stick to his guns.
I don't know what CIV will play, but I highly doubt he'll deviate from the game plan.
Captain Lance, not Captain Lance, as soon as he pig, always goes for Portuguese
on the first map, on Rediset Fortress.
It's his favorite save, he's played it every single time.
He's a Portuguese player, he goes for TCs.
Maybe he'll change it up now, I don't know.
But if he doesn't change it up, he'll be playing the Portuguese here.
Can you remind me of the Portuguese bonus to get lumber from berries?
Yeah, from gathering. Yeah, and the organ guns whoo. I want to see the organ guns. Yeah organs are pretty clean
We haven't seen too much of them so far though
It's been played like mostly are blessed and halved here like mostly generic units, but the organ ones could be a nice adaptation
I think the unique unique units is the lifeblood of the game. Yeah, usually master no matter what blindly
and then loop around the enemy DC.
Yeah, just get your unique units, loop around, do your thing. Pretty cool.
It's a good way to play for sure, but it's not always that we see, like, it's not every day we see unique units.
Most of the time we actually don't see them, except in your games you might not usually always go for them,
but most of the time we're going to be playing something like, you know, generic unit lines,
units with just like situationally good. I don't expect we're going to see that organ
guns to be honest with you, but maybe I don't want to take your dreams down too early.
Do organ guns do they count as gunpowder units? Yeah, they are. The gunpowder seed units,
the count is both. So the archibos, like the upgrade works. All right. Yeah. Oh my, look at you,
Yamato. You're literally paying attention. That's crazy. Of course, I'm learning so much. You're
You're gonna see it tomorrow when I game, bro. That's fantastic. I think you might have lost to earlier
I think a lot of hidden potential there
100% yeah
It's very hidden
It's like finding Waldo bro. Oh
It started
Got a new pick oh
My god pig is spicing it up. That's crazy pig is spicing it on John it is don John's no
It could be it could be let me just break down the matchup first here grubby versus pig
The finals the grand finals of the Kings Gauntlet welcome everyone and thank you so much for tuning in live
Of course, if you watch this on YouTube later, thank you so much for viewing the videos and enjoying the content
Hope you've hope you had a good tournament bit of a pause here grubby likes to take one minute to read the opponent civilization
This is of course allowed and we have a best of five now to decide the whole thing pig
Undefeated so far Grubby made a nice hero lower bracket run and this is game one on Redis at fortress
If you lose the king you lose that's the rules here and with me Yamato and captain Lance Yamato
What do you make of the situation here Vietnamese for grubby's played this before but Sicilians
We haven't seen the Sicilians at all from pig on this mountain. It's coming. It's coming the donjons
It's a Papa John tower delivery straight to the door
15 minutes in they're gonna show up and they're gonna start producing this use it
unit that can barely fight, barely build and he's going to lose slowly and
regret his choice. The donjons are coming, bro. The donjons are coming.
He's dying. He's going all salami, bro.
Foul boom. Foul boom, halb cavalier from Captain Lance. That's your prediction there for the
Sicilians? Yeah, I think that's a that's a good matchup. I don't think Veebnamese, I mean they
have to go like elephants or elephants or something. I feel like that crushes the archers
and the pointy boy is decently yes I mean a few options for both players of
course I'll analyze them a little bit but I do I have to fix these cameras and
fill boxes so we got these around production W has to stay for the
grand finals of course there you go it's as good as it's getting
A bit of an extended pause here, but grubby.
With the Vietnamese, he's played this hit before, and he likes to play with some economy,
you know, 3TC, monastery, a few Wrathen archers from the castle.
Those guys are pretty solid overall, well-rounded archers, but they have a lot of pure summer,
so they're quite good into other ranged units.
And he'll like to control the map, of course.
Control the map is nice.
You get to play for the relics, of course.
You get to fight for the hills.
There's some extra gold and stones that are sprinkled around that you can take advantage of.
The Sicilians on the other hand, a few options that you can go for it.
So Papa John mentioned, of course, from Yamato, you can go for the Donjons.
Those are like towers, not the ones you see here, these are just generic towers.
So they can go for Donjons, similar, but they're bit beefier towers.
And they can also make the unique unit from those towers, the Sargeants.
A tanky infantry, unique units.
Pretty good all-round tanky, medium damage infantry.
pretty strong in open combat, slightly weak to archers, but not too weak either, it's
quite tanky as I mentioned.
And the Sicilians, I think the main part that they have here on this map, is that they build
their town centers faster, and they also get a double benefit from their farm upgrades.
For example, Horskuller, the first farm upgrade, gives an extra 75 wood to your farms.
This is doubled to the Sicilians, so think of them as a great farming long term economy
civilization.
And here we are, a stack, please, from Grubby, but we're getting kicked off here for the Grand Finals. Very nice.
How much faster do they build the TCs? What kind of numbers are we talking about here?
100% faster. So twice as fast to build the Townsend as yet, which means you get more villagers out quicker for the boom, which is nice.
Less build time there, obviously, very efficient.
I need to see some rush strategies though bro you told me like the Sicilian units are tank
here right?
Yeah.
Infantry units are tank here?
Yeah.
Like all of them.
It's not only the sergeants right?
No, no it's just the sergeants.
So the sergeants are tanky infantry units.
They have some tanky properties in their other units like for example all of their units
are resisting bonus damage so that's pretty good.
They resist a portion of the bonus damage.
For example, Scurvy Scurm and the Scurm War Sicilians will be slightly favored for that bonus, but no, it's a Sergeant. It's quite tanky
It could be used in a rush strategy, by the way
We could see rams and sergeants
But I think you're better off booming because you have really good boom bonuses and economy bonuses for Sicilians that you have to take advantage of I think
Okay, okay, and the Don Jones, do they spawn the same unit as the castle?
Yeah, exactly the unique unit the sergeant stay out of the castle same out of the tower
That's okay. Then unless he's rushing I feel like it's kind of a
Kind of bad then to play Sicilians
Because the castle's kind of pointless
Well, he's got a rush
Yeah, I mean that's actually a decent point from your motto here
So like Sicilians the unique unit is not good early in that's actually a really good point
That's gonna give grubby a really good claim over the relic
So like grubby is looking at this right now and grubby is feeling confident because he can just play his game with the Vietnamese
He can make a few ratten archers. He can pick up those relics and he's gonna have a nice solid
You know start to his game
But the problem is if he just takes the relics and plays a standard game makes a few ratten archers and he's you know
Okay, booming to imp the Sicilian economy can't be so good
that there's a timing window where they can pressure onto the Vietnamese and just break them before the Vietnamese can get going
Citizens also get seedram very strong siege. You also get good cavalry. You get good. How about the air?
So you have a lot of good options for them in the late game
Okay, I also noticed that the city inside with 300 stone. Yep. That's a dungeon stone right there
Don John money, bro
I don't want to see no TCS
Yeah
Captain Lance
You're vibing, you know, maybe you're a little less hungry a little bit more rational you're vibing with the TC idea
What do you make of the 300 so and what are we gonna see from Peggy's done it every game on register fortune so far?
I
Think he loves the 4 TC boom on this map. Yeah. Yeah, sorry to disappoint you mr.
Yamato, I know you want to see some early dungeons
Maybe a pizza to you, but I think it's him in 4 TC. He's done it every single game
Of course, he's done it mainly with Portuguese, but here with the Sicilians
You guys are the pros, you know, like, if he says so, alright
Sorry, I don't want to disappoint you, you know, I never want to, but I think it's going to be the 40Cs
And I think that 300 stones is going to help him out in the early game, which is very nice
So it's actually a triple eco bonus if you think about it
You get the stone right away, you build them faster, and then you have the longer-lasting farms
Like, that's kind of crazy for a nice boom from the Sicilians
I have to say though, something I didn't like about Regicide Fortress is that you slay the
boars rather quickly and you can't control group your animals to like include the animal
sound in your rotation as your APM maxing.
So you just don't have an animal.
So like you're telling me if you had like a cow, you'd like keep the cow control group
so every now and then you can click the cow.
I just you just move a little bit while you're moving your scalp. That's how you bring yourself back to the base
You know keeps you going
This is what Red Force taught me about anchoring sounds. He's got the anchor sounds you know
He's just cure villager instantly no matter what you know, and then when you hear that move you just
You feel a boost. What kind of coaching sessions are you having? It's crazy
I gotta be honest. I don't think you got the lesson correct there
Yeah, I feel like that means you're about to get housed you gotta build a house
No, that's the villager sound kept lance. I think you're not paying attention
That's the villager sound. No, no, it makes that sound when you're like three pop away from being housed
That specific sound. Oh interesting a little bit different. Okay, damn
There's layers of this coaching. This is crazy
I got coached by Phosphor too and I'll tell you, that's what it is, he's given me the same lesson.
This past my knowledge is something I added, that's like anchormaxing.
That's the amount of special. Both players have to cast Lich in just a bit, grab you a little bit faster with the Vietnamese.
As you can see, despite having the king be so important, they'll use the king to scout in the early game.
early game has very long line of sight that also moves pretty fast so of course
it is a very precious unit but in early game it's not really threatened by much
so you can scout with it pretty freely. Grubby will keep his king safe in his
castle now as the castle is coming in for him. Pretty standard approach nothing
out of the ordinary for Grubby so far and pig a little bit later up but that's
part of the course because that's exactly what he wants to go for if he
wants to include his four towns in a boom. We go horse collar coming in now
and both eco upgrades it looks like a standard boom on both sides no all in
push nothing out of the usual. Watching that wood will we have the triple TC drop
instantly with that exo stone? I think so. Will he reach enough wood with ten
workers on it with this timing? I think he will and if he's missing a little he
can always buy it since he has some villagers on gold so that like those gold
villagers are really useful because you get to buy a little bit of like wood
Food whatever you're missing. He actually takes two off, but it's pulling you. Yeah, that's fine
You'll keep to be able to buy a hundred food or a hundred wood whatever he needs to keep that boom going
He for sure will go for the 40s. He's done
Something you've mentioned repeatedly is like that you should like throw in some castle units when you reach castle age
Have you been seeing this more for place that people actually listen to you?
Rubby tried it a little bit. We saw it earlier from Otofu actually. Obviously he dropped out a little earlier.
He had a good run. Shout out to Otofu. He played some Castle units, some Genoceries with Turks.
Ethermal's done a little bit of it. Captain Lance, you mixed in a few Castle units depending on your strategy.
It's been done.
This King's Gauntlet tournament has actually brought the best out of these players.
They're starting to play closer and closer to Pro meta as the tournament went on.
This is fantastic though. Three TCs, monastery right away. There we go. One Rathenarcher. Just to
control the relic, protect that monk. Give you that nice consistent claim to those relics.
Pig is three seconds away. Here we go. He's got the wood.
And four TCs right away. Beautiful. That's a greedy one on the outside though with the
sergeants. I don't know if he can defend unless he gets... Can you get the silver crown instantly?
You could get it instantly well you could get in castle you get five units right out of every TC you buy it
Yeah, it's not juicy it is but if you get it instantly you stop all your resources, then you can't really play the game so oh
Gravity lost the scouts. It's not the king, but a scout going down is pretty bad for his rather control strategy
You found out the hardware that the castle is there
Damn
bullet to the head end up dead
okay do we see maximum I'm just looking at once they did just queuing builds
holy moly we are doing builds a crucial farm upgrade here though I really want
pig to pick up the heavy plow he might be skipping it on purpose depending on
his preparation like maybe it's good to skip it because Sicilians with horse
collar it's enough but if like you get heavy plow your farms never run out
It's usually so much wood in the long term.
Yeah, I agree with you, Captain Lance.
But you think he's just forgotten it? I don't know.
I think he's forgotten about the dungeons.
If he remembered, it would just be able to look different.
And no, but he can do them later, though.
Like I stand.
Yeah, I agree with you that the dungeons are very good, Yamato.
But I don't kind of.
I'm not going to lie. I just like them.
I have a cool name.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Grubby has you thermal the couple villagers to the center of the map,
and he's only now sending them back.
A couple of Loomless villagers.
He doesn't lose them, but that's very inefficient.
He's you thermal them to the middle.
Very, very bad thing to do.
Never you thermal your villagers.
And here we go.
A relic in hand.
Wait.
Well, he's microing it back.
Yeah, because Grubby sees that.
To the Rattatouille archer.
Yeah, that's good.
Rattatouille coming in.
I think he queued his monk to go to the next relic.
I don't know if he notices it.
So don't tell me Vietnamese monks are like Jack
that can carry like three relics at the same time?
No, no, just one relic at a time.
Oh, he's just being a little sneaky, that's probably what it is.
Yeah, he's crazy about this monk.
He uses a walking stick usually when he walks
and then he can walk with a relic like this.
It looks heavy, bro.
This relic gives power, man.
Like, heals his bones.
Yeah, it's so important.
He's going crazy with that one, so it looks like Yamato here, that's how I know Yamato.
Grubby has cleared the scout, so it's one scout dead on each side.
Very very good for Grubby by the way, because now he can in peace pick up those relics.
50c from Pig, this tells me something really specific.
He will go for the unique tech.
Yamato, that unique tech, as you said earlier, you'll get five sergeants from every town
center and you haven't mentioned a lot about the donjins.
It's time to talk about those guys.
The donjons are actually really good in late game by the way.
They're better than a generic tower and because you can build them with the sergeants, it's
a very real strategy to go, you know, sergeants mount early and then you start dongeoning
all over your opponent's base.
It's a very, very good strategy and I feel like Grubby might not be able to deal with
that.
But 5TC boom is definitely a dongeon play, 100% from Pig.
It's still missing that eco upgrade.
So what about the cost of the donjon?
Is it the same as a regular watch tower or is it higher?
because he's not harvesting any stone yet.
Yeah, it's a little higher.
It's at 175 stone per.
So it's quite expensive actually.
And you don't need the stone right now.
You only need the stone once you start getting the unit.
So we can take stone in like five minutes
and we're still fine.
But look at this, he's got two towns and it's on stone.
So he will for sure take stone at some point
and he's starting right now.
I believe he also got the stone mining upgrade.
So it's gonna be starting some contracts.
Look at the map, look at the map.
It's blue everywhere.
What is happening?
Yes, something in every corner of the map broke grubby with the blue villages of playing hide and seek with each other
Well, they're hiding in every corner of the map
Yeah, the vision on these monsters crazy broke their eyesight is mental. Yeah, nine nine range in all directions
Very very strong for vision control. It's freaking a vision grub. He's actually getting some outpost out in the field
Grubby's done that in every single Reds at Fortress game and it's been so good for him winning these game once
It's been so so good for him and I feel like pig
He's trying to go for something a little sneaky he's adding in some rams
I wonder if he's gonna do some castle to play or maybe some cap rams in the late game
But what we see in a spot everything with these outposts
Can consurgence enter
Yes, yeah, cuz then if it pops in five rams, he's gonna have a massive push. Yeah, I think so as well
We're seeing a lot of God would be with the production. Oh
We're seeing it now, so it's not an imp push, it's a castlage push, but the rams are getting a little bit harassed, a little bit denied.
Sees Workshop gets denied, he's gotta go for another one up top.
So this is gonna be a late castlage. Rams and Sargent's push, I thought it would be an imp, they seem to go in castlage.
Is Grubby gonna be able to prepare for that? I'm not sure, he's adding a range, probably for thumb ring.
He's adding a few retin archers. This is very interesting, I don't know what to make of this, honestly.
They can enter the ramps right? They can flint stone the ramps no problem.
They can flint stone the ramps exactly as you can do with like the Japanese it's very
very solid of course you can fell as first hand how good that is Mr. Yamato.
Eleven on stone as well here is actually harvesting a lot of stone oh look at that pop woohoohoo.
Twenty five units straight onto the field score lead for pig he's gonna flint the ramps.
Oh, I'm lovin' this.
Holy moly.
Dude Grubby may be somewhat panicked.
He's in for the mid-arms.
He's trying to get some long shirts out.
It's not a bad response.
It's pretty good timing on it as well.
Let's see if he clicks up the imp, or if he just plays a cast-alage defense.
Well, he clicked imp, but he's gonna stay in cast-alage.
So pretty cool from Grubby to recognize a cast-alage push.
But Pig does have infillage behind him if he wants to.
Rams are going in.
Yamato, talk to me.
What do you make of this?
I'm like I don't like the fact that the Rams are in the same control group the two Rams in the back of slowing them down
Okay, they're collecting them they're picking up. Yeah, they're gonna flint stone them. He's flint stone making to the wall
Oh, this one only has one. This one's flowing down. I need I
Need pig to sell that food
You okay 1000 food just disappeared. He just queued 82 villages
No, he's cute sergeants and he's cute sergeants. No, okay, okay
Oh, the Bunger is in the front.
Yeah, he's carrying a bunch of Sardines.
So he's carrying a lot of Sardines.
So it's all in Castlage.
All in Castlage, but we're missing upgrades.
Plus two armors coming in now, but take a look.
Grubby is ready for this.
He scouts it with the outpost.
He knows exactly what's coming.
Brilliant play from Grubby as well to control the vision.
Thumb ring.
Ballistic's coming in.
It's going to be probably what?
Like long swordsmen and archers?
It's going to be crossbow long swords.
No see.
But where is the workshop?
But there is a workshop upstairs.
The mangos.
No mangos though, no not a single mango lassie on the field for grubby. It's terrible. He's making one now
The rams are coming in this is a scary push your motto, but we have the stone walls
It's all about the dungeons
You talked about the donors are coming up, bro. Oh, yeah, I'm just
It's looking solid for pig. He's getting the forging upgrade second castle though for grubby
He's trying to hold the manganese gonna help a lot from behind the walls
Pig is really going for this one, but he's having trouble breaking through.
There's a lot of archer fire.
This is micro, the ram, just click him.
Click the walls, enter breach.
He's going for him, Otto.
He's going for it.
Oh, he's hitting walls in the back.
He's having trouble breaking in.
One ram in the front has died.
There's a lot of archer fire coming in.
I don't know if this is going to work.
He's having trouble going in.
40 alley traffic but it's too much traffic
His RAM micro is not good. No, I think pig made me choke this one. Oh my god. Oh my god
It's horrible. Gov takes a squirrel leave the manganese here. He can't enter the base
The monks are doing work too. Yeah conversions
They're back from their power walks the dungeons aren't that good because you don't have fleshing even on those dungeons
We might break in here though, but even if we break in, there's a lot of armies getting arson
It's a good tribe. I think grubby might be victorious in this first game just due to solid defense
It's gonna go in wait, I gotta say decide any units. All right, they're coming in
Okay, grubby has ballistic so two castles with a lot to die two castles when I spread out
There's a lot of units going in here pig is really committing. There's two castles a couple manganals
I'm not attacking anything he's clicking them kind of weird no error. He's just walking in. He's trying to attack anything
All right, the manglebite the manglebite but nothing else. It's a disaster for Jake. It's a disaster for pig
Donjins died to the manganout. No, no, this is terrible. Good for Grubby though. I can't believe I thought it don't guns, bro
That's such a silly threat
That's hard to watch man, there's a lot of power. I mean listen great defense though for Grubby
You have good vision. He walled up. I think pig tried to force too hard through there
He's gonna looped around you matter gonna look around to this side. You're gonna look to that side
Didn't have to force through the castle. You don't have to do that
Yeah, well, that's the brother. That's the first place you you defend, you know even in your house
You know you lock your front door. Yeah, that's that's that's we're gonna most likely to attack from so you gotta get creative
You know, yeah
something. Well, I 100% agree here. Grubby, up in Purellage, Castle outside. I like that Grubby's
continued to just play houses everywhere. Beautiful, this adaptation here from Grubby, great defense,
double castle. I think he kind of panned into a little with the men of arms and then thought better
of it. So like, he's like, nah, screw men of arms, they'll just stick to my trial and test of
Wrathen archers, made a few crossbowmen as well, just to boost the production. Tons of rangers
for the Vietnamese. It's a beautiful place to be in. Grubby very disciplined, picking up his
economy upgrades after clearing up the push exactly what you have to do and the
dungeons here going back to Papa John's they need to get their job back it's
tough minimum wage yeah they're done now yeah I don't see I don't see the way
back for Sicilians now they spent a lot of gold a lot of money for the upgrades
I don't know what these guys are doing they're done bro they don't want to
work no more man yeah okay let's talk about follow-up maybe Imperial Age could
come in for pig and remember he could snipe the king game out of he could always
snipe the king it is right aside so pig is likely to try a little bit more he's
going gambesons this actually does not affect the sardons at all so not sure
why he's picking that up you do a little bit of a waist attack but he could try
another rampush in in inf actually you never know the rather to we are to
Maybe we'll try to make scum
You could go scum since then to have okay skirmishers not great. You're missing the last armor
So since then scrimmages are just decent capitalized. What do you make of the situation for Sicilians?
What could he possibly go for here that solves the situation grubby clearly with the massive
He's going for Hobart to have a leader
Yeah, he's he's he's queuing up stables right now in the middle of the base
It's pretty smart. If you get that tech, they're now still making sergeants.
I mean, you could make them a lead if you want to, once M hits.
One minute, 45 till M. Grubby in M, a little faster here.
Let's see what he goes for. Bracer chemistry. Elite Fire Lancer right away.
Wow, he loves that unit. Bracer. Okay, interesting.
That's so tough, though, because to pivot to horses now, his upgrade spread is just in the wrong direction.
Actually it's forging but yeah
He's not gonna take advantage of his spend money. Yeah all of infantry armor useless all of the bodkin arrow like stop
I mean not useless because it still helps for the dungeons, but not really useful for the cap switch
What are we having here grubby could get walled in?
Let's do some juicy looping, bro. Oh
Oh
There's one path. There's one path through the forest. We're gonna find it. Wow gets out dude
but this is a big raffle
this is the most gangster loop I've ever seen bro
he just looped, went behind the workshop
found a little pocket
that is...
yo
that's the type of pocket in the woods I'm not walking through
in the middle of the night, you know
you just know you're gonna get kidnapped by a werewolf
in this case
grubby is fearless though, he just goes for it
and this is escape route
from the little trap that pig had on him
like the house walls here
Securing a lot of space to just add in some farms.
Criminal, by the way, that we don't have heavy plow at this point as Sicilians.
Absolutely criminal.
And it's gonna be the Cavalier here.
Let me talk a little bit about Sicilian Cavalier when the Unique Tech comes in.
There's a Golden Crown, a Unique Tech for the Sicilians.
Alright?
And once that comes in, they will get plus 2 Pierce Armor on their Cavalry,
as well as an extra melee armor.
So it makes the Cavalier really tanky.
It's extremely strong, hard to deal with.
Grubby does have the relics, though he's got four relics.
I think there's a fifth one on the map.
Oh my god, that extra stone is like, got Pig's name on it.
That's going to be nice for him in the late game.
Grubby has looped behind Pig's base.
We can have a quick one here.
Grubby is just playing like a pro hero.
Yeah.
Like, this is the most pro-esque.
Like, his units are always moving.
He's so busy.
He's stealing proxy gold all over the map.
Vision everywhere.
Oh.
Prevents the trap.
Tried to go for the trap.
Didn't get it though good looping though good looping from grubby now all of this farmland has to run
Oh, a lot of values. Yep
Honour just coming in I don't see cat brown. I think seed jam is really good honor to not so much seed
Jam's very good though. It's gonna be heavy scorpion them. He's going for a lot of siege a
Seeds and maybe sardine siege could be a nice one
I piggy you gotta sell your stone you gotta get your upgrades quicker. Yeah sell that stone, baby
Yeah, I actually don't mind that cell stone option because you know before a lot of seeds that cost a lot of gold
Paper money is in paper money in the chat boys
Grubby's gonna get paid nice honor to shots though on those wrapped in archers wrapped the two we down
Blasphermen is not coming in it's gonna be sergeant siege and we're going for all kinds of siege units
Dude grubby's playing a very good money. Tell me about paper money
I have a paper money any day of the week your model paper money when the Vietnamese they chop some wood
They get a little bit of gold from dropping that wood so it's not just the gold from the minerals
It's also the gold from the trees now you matter. How do you feel about that?
No, that's that's juicy, but I gotta say captain. I agree with you, bro. Grubby is playing crazy, bro
I feel like he's just gotten better. No, he's got so much better
Yeah, it looks like it to be honest like grubby
Sometimes you need that loss to really just kick you into that next year to learn a lot from the mistakes
He made it in the first set. We have a rematch now. Grubby, of course, did lose the Pig last set
But he did win the Redset Fortress in that set as well. So let's see if you know
Maybe it was a little bit of a repeat here Grubby taking that first win again
It could be the case although I think it's still a lot closer than we think it is
Have you plowed now coming in for Sicilians?
The only issue though for Mr. Pig is the fact that he's got no relics. There's four for Grubby
I'm still looking for the fifth one. I haven't found it by the way
There's a fifth relic somewhere and I just can't find it for the life of me
So if somebody sees that fifth relic just let me know where it is because I can't see it at all
Isn't it next to the castle up top?
One of my those little gold I'm lying. No, it's okay bro. It's hard grubby's monk has it
He's deposited it five relics for grubby five relics for grubby
dude pig has to win with all of his gold now he's gonna have a big deathball
those a lot of siege bro there's a lot of siege on the field oh maybe hit here
can they hit oh so close close grabby correctly backs off grabby's got that
middle hill and grabby's trying to go for this bottom hill but you know it's
already kind of occupied by pig elite sergeants coming in you matter what do
you make of this second kind of breath bush with the Rams I feel like this is
kind of your thing, but you see it in a pure lit now.
It's copium.
This is like when someone shows you the flip phone
and you're already on your own iPhone 8, you know,
like this is outdated, man.
I'm liking the split.
I'm just looking at that cavalry cow.
I need more horses to show up on the cavalry cow.
I need it to be queued up.
I need it to spend, spend, spend.
I need to see, like, I want a burst of like 20 horses
just coming in like it's that final scene
when the Baratheon dude comes in with the horses
and to win the war.
I got you, bro.
I guess the bastards.
Yeah, I know what you're talking about.
Yeah, I actually know what you're talking about.
You know what I see?
I finally got a matter of reference.
Yes, bro.
Jon Snow standing in the center, and then he comes up.
That is the matter of the day.
Yeah, I remember that.
I think that would be good.
I think more Cavalry Leader would be fantastic.
I also want to see Capram.
Like, if we're going to commit to the ramps,
I want to see Capram and Seedram go all in on the siege.
Grubby's trying to kill this castle, in fact he probably will be successful.
Ram's coming over though.
The castle will probably fall for Grubby.
Grubby hits it, and he's trying to run.
Bro, we need one more hit.
Oh my god, he's gonna run away before the castle goes down.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, prepare!
Meanwhile though, pushing the front, pushing the front.
Fire Lance is coming in!
Grubby's looking to take out the siege, and I don't think Pig is watching.
Pig's got no front line.
They're all in the Ram's.
Where's the horse production?
Where's the horse production guy?
All the units are in the Ram.
He was still in the ramps, but he didn't have time to do that.
Gee.
Grabbing loses his castle there.
Dude, the score is really close.
I don't think this is as over as we've been kind of thinking for a game.
We've charged and kind of just cooked those Harlan through like easily.
Yeah, they have six plus three melee armor.
Are you serious?
They have nine melee armor.
Oh, that's kind of crazy.
Dude, Fire Luster does 12 attacks.
To silence or hit these guys for 3 damage, they take it like no damage or so tanky.
That's kind of insane.
Oh, really?
Vita raids, but nothing crazy.
I feel like the only problem that Pig has is the fact that he's out of gold now.
All of his units are costing gold, so he's like kind of all in.
And he's using that time being all in to just clear up random towers?
I think that's terrible.
I think you gotta launch a push, try to make something happen aggressively.
Oh no, the trebs.
Oh, the pain of losing your trebs like this.
But the honorger's there.
Yeah, that one honorger's gonna clutch.
Yeah, last one's coming out, you gotta leave.
And I think Grubby smartly backs out there.
You don't want to take any risky fights.
You already got control of the map.
I'm really surprised.
See, the honorger coming in for Pig!
That is one of the most expensive upgrades in the game.
Think Paladin, but for Siege Onager, it's even more expensive than Paladin.
It's an upgrade to the Onagers yet again into one of the best units in the game, a unit
that can swing any fight if you land the correct shot.
Ladies and gentlemen, it counters every unit that Grubby currently has on the field, barring
the Bombard Cannon.
Siege Onager kills everything else by far.
And I don't know how good Grubby's Bombard Micro is, but we're about to find it.
We're about to find out.
It's gonna get tested right now, but it's two minutes to the upgrade. This is huge play from pig. Wow
All right, pig don't lose these mangoes in the front you need them for the upgrade to pop yep, but I was low repair that one
He's got to prepare you gotta just not risk like not risk the fight beforehand tap around dude
So much siege for pig right now shout out wagamama wagamama a guy who played on the roster as well
Well, didn't make it as far as Pig, but played a lot of infantry and a lot of siege.
And here we've seen some representation for that army class.
The bomb birds are picking this army apart, it's moving so slow.
You matter, oh my god, you matter, you don't like this, eh?
He's lashing all the units together, oof, oof, it's pain.
It's painful, you need to step right there.
But they're just shooting hoops.
They're just shooting hoops in the backyard, bros, crazy.
That's just three points for a step carry, bro.
Haha, you're going for some like tab now.
Trying to adapt into what he's seeing.
Mass Siege to your honor and attack is in, but we have no honorgers on the field.
We got one honorger.
Like Pig has a legitimate chance to win.
Siege Ram, few honorgers, Mass Siege, wipe the base, one shot.
Very legit chance to win, but you just have to get organized.
You just have to get organized.
Few sergeants raid not a bad preliminary fight
I like that but these guys in a loop pro like
Here's a lasso target of the whole army just walking around so slowly yeah
And you gotta be careful it's in yes a fight because the gold is gonna be a problem
Yeah, he's not gonna he's not gonna be able to produce
So a huge problem. He sold a lot of his resources for just a little bit of gold like that 1500 food sold with 200 gold
He's picking up seed ram. He needs one less tech each engineers to give himself one extra range on the onators
If he doesn't get this tech his army is significantly nerfed if he does get it
They're fully upgraded. So let's see if he picks it up with an expensive tech from the university
He does have a university to back though. Let's see if he picks it up
Hey, you have to remember this one any coach that ever doesn't to play siege with them to pick up pick up that tech
Grubby's got a lot of traps here though.
Oh my days.
Undefended trebuchets.
Oh my god.
That's pretty money.
This is a Yamada cannon flashback to when I played against the Tothonic Fortress.
I just gifted trebs like this.
We gotta kill them though.
The gift needs to be unwrapped.
Alright.
There it is.
It is down.
Ah, the chat saying 3-2-2.
It's a lot of gold lost for Grubby to be honest.
And the honorors can be so deadly right now.
No, friendly fire!
Friendly fire, it's a real thing though, you gotta watch out!
No!
You got a lot of traps to roll, Pig has such a good army, but he has to just bring it
all together.
We have all the army in the same spot, the rams are going up from the side, he's looping
over two rams.
Okay, okay.
That's pretty strange.
Oh big shots the big shots didn't see John and you're
Any more sergeants on the fields
What are these straight trebuchets do it they're just killing them and
Okay, they're to bait the scouts into the castle fire nice tasty nice tasty bait I like that I like that captain
A lot of like you see captain. Tell me your vision, man
I'm seeing big hella out of golds when I'm still here.
He's drained for golds.
Nice little push here with the C-Dram.
Sartan's coming out, very hard to deal with,
but look he's already switching to Pykeman.
That's a really bad sign.
Having to play Pykeman?
I don't think that's really that good into Fire Lancers.
I think Grubby will win just due to having the gold.
The relics, such a big factor here.
I really like how Grubby's using the life-cabinery.
It's just so expendable with how much food he has.
Yep.
Just randomly have 30 of them raiding, attacking all the...
But?
C units.
Grubby's having trouble. Oh my god. Grubby is down to 150 pop.
He's having trouble. He can't clear up the sergeants.
He's got no unit that kind of counters these directly. The Arbalas soft counter them.
C Jumps are also kind of hard to deal with. He's getting raided all over the place.
And yeah, he's sending in the light cap, but they're kind of just dying to the sergeants.
The sergeants have no answer.
130 pop for Grubby. Dude, the score is closer than ever.
I think I'm a bad about disrespecting Sarge's going into this, I thought they kinda saw it.
You weren't for the lead upgrade, turn them into chads!
They're on kill'em!
I almost wish that pig waited for the lead upgrade by the way, that pushing castleage, it didn't work out,
and I feel like it has sapped so much of his gold, you matter.
I don't like that a lot, I like that Pure Blade is a lot better, 120 pot for Grubby, dude, this guy!
guy he's struggling he's at 98 bills now
I like how many production buildings the grubby has though it gives him options
you just need to use his resources he has to use a well but with all these racks
you know that this is a panic pivot into the pikeman because they are so
cheap yep see the engineers is then though that's the last tech for the
seeds and they give on a just plus one range it gives all the siege plus one
range and extra damage to buildings. It's a very good upgrade. Pig has remembered to
get it. He's got a huge army in the field. He's 200 pop. Grubby is bringing his army
in, but they're all walking in pretty slow. What a game one. What a game one between these
two players, by the way. Holy moly. Honestly, I thought it was completely over for Pig,
but he's somehow, somehow he's cooking. Dude, the elite sergeants completely caught
It's all of guard even I and he found gold. Yes gold. He found gold. He's got some gold
He had golden on the left. He's taking that one. It's the last bit of gold
But that little bit of gold can kind of surmount or launch a push that could overtake grubby
You never know but grubby so far is holding a little bit of a raid coming through castle on defense
We could pass the raid. We could even kink snap one day. Maybe but that's obviously a far-fetched dream
A lot of fighting on the front here
Probably has no gold production. It's only the relics
What are you doing probably the army is not that strong it's okay, but most of it this is skirmishers
And I feel like I need to ask her up. Please. Sorry, brother
Is this common to have 64 on lumber instead of making farms with Vietnamese because of the paper money?
Yes, and no, it's okay because you do get a little bit extra gold
But I think you could use some more farms because he's having a lot of like have that take the food
I think you would like to have at least like 60 farms right now. It's a good question. You're matter though. It's a good question
Okay, sir
Bombards on the castle. Oh, you will kill the castle
Huge fight huge fights. Pig is going for it
Hygman
Sergeant's on the front like half diving the bombards. It's gonna get the bombards the castles down pigs
I think the score lead pig is gonna take the score lead. I can't believe it
Rubby's overextended and Pig is punishing him. Oh my god.
That's crazy. No way.
No way. Dude, Pig is so funny. Are the Scourges?
The Scourges are useless though. He has no range units.
Kind of. They are in Skirm, so in theory they should be quite decent for the Vietnamese, but
Pig is not playing into them. The Army's coming forward. We have a siege orager on the field.
It's gonna make sure all the scrims boom they shot the skirt triple
This is under his trees
Genius lowering the lumber supply on the map
If he's going to own the lower the lumber slot it's a pile on his side of the map though
But no, it's the counterplay paper money guys you outplay paper money by taking out the trees
Smart think about it
Well, I can't read the field for grubby and like that from Sicilian are stronger. They're gonna be patrolling victims and raids grubbies
Open on the back by the way the raids can come heavy king, of course safe at the back for the time being
Honor your shots honestly grubbies doing great job dodging the honor shots. I will say
Grubbies playing a fantastic game against the honorors has not played into them at all
And save the stage workshop needs to be rallied better like these these guys are driving to the death like oh
Cliffs where they rallied mate. Yeah, it's terrible
This is the nation's now that you turning
Yeah, I don't know who got in that but that's not looking too hot for him
Rates around the Rams
So raise going to the back
There's not much that's like, you know worth going for here with the like half
But I mean I do like they have some raids
You told me that the the light cab of Cecilians is stronger and the food production is way stronger
Yeah, that's the unit that is being traded back and forth right now. Oh my god. You're seeing it together
Yeah, and cheap territory is all pikemen and horses. Yeah, we got no gold. We got no money
Yeah, and the light cab from Cecilians are actually much stronger because they resist a lot of the bonus damage coming in from the fire line
to do that Sicilian bonus so they can't only fight like have if you need some sergeants mixed in
which is tough because you have no gold now we actually lost the last little bit of gold
but you know pig has some hope and pigs play in a fantastic game despite being pretty far behind
earlier on that's a big sell from piggy yeah pig selling big sell that thousand wood thousand
food 170 gold each it's like these gold units every time you lose the gold unit it's a little
bit cringe if he gets nothing in exchange for it you know if we get something from it it's okay if
you lose it for free it's terrible so far though scores neck and neck guys our mark our mark if this
goes to an hour thirty whoever has the more score how much would it cost how much he cost his lands
50 gold a piece it's expendable at all no no this is terrible this is Jesus he's dropping rolling
in the grass. Yeah, exactly. Gold units going down 150 pop. You know,
Gregory has the relics, he's got paper money, but he's still selling. Both
players desperate for gold. Gold is the biggest deal here. They both rely heavily
on gold units. A lot of violence is on the field now. Gregory could substitute
those into Halves. A little bit of a pause. This game is fantastic. Make some
noise in the chat for a crazy game one. I feel like this can go either way from
here, honestly.
What's the strat, captain?
Can you guys see the core of the green monasteries?
Oh my god.
You dropped a bunch of monasteries.
Is that like the most point efficient building or something?
Like it gives the most score?
Like what is he doing?
So yeah, okay.
Monastery gives the most score for the price
that you pay for it.
However, it's early for that.
That's in 30 minutes.
You have to start worrying about score.
I hope he doesn't have wood problems.
Yeah, I feel like if he drops those monasteries
and then needs wood later, that's just gonna look really silly, you know?
It's just very religious.
This is his last prayer.
Yeah, maybe he's just super devoted.
He's been 17 monesties.
I knew I should have went to church last Sunday and just get 17 more going, you know?
Feeling that regret, but...
Two into pop or pig.
I don't know, like, probably...
I feel like with the relics, you shouldn't have all the answers.
He's got 6,000 relics gold, extra over pig.
But so far it's just been the pig with all kinds of Sicilian bonuses behind this.
Somehow...
Can you check how many are building these monasteries? How many workers?
Did he pull like a crazy amount?
I just do.
He has so many idle workers, no?
Yeah, a lot of them.
No, no, you're so right, you might as always, to be honest.
You've been kind of spitting, but a lot of these wood is actually running out here.
He's getting harassed all over the place. He's losing his stables.
This is not looking that good for Grubby.
He's got five relics. I'd expect it to have a free win, but it's not the case at all
Pickaxe has more pop and you know barring any like monastery play
I feel like people in a pretty good position. So a lot of gold units
Do Vietnamese not have furnace?
No, they don't have furnace. Last furnace is in.
Oh, Vietnamese. Oh, no, they don't have furnace. Yeah, they don't have furnace.
Yeah, let's get a call out. Light cap going in.
even better for the horses. Yeah exactly so like Vietnamese horse is missing two
attack and you know you don't have that insane farm economy behind it. So
Sicilians kind of a better late game in some ways at least how it's played out in
this specific matchup. It looks like it's a very prepared matchup for Sicilians
though for Pig. He really wanted to play this matchup potentially. The Sardines
have been fantastic so far. Make some scorpion fire you have three scorpions
they lined up for you baby this is perfect pig wins this fight i believe i think the sergeants
are actually really tanky you got that scorpion backline i'll watch out for the bombers though
but the car in the front are really good kobi oh it's just so many violences though for grubby
maybe it's good enough to win this one i'm just baffled because pig had a lot of 13 sergeants
Right close to that battle and he just sent him away.
Did he? Where'd he go with those?
Oh, I guess he was trying to take care of the raid, but Barrow Lynch is down south.
Yeah, okay, that's true. But yeah, he could have used them in the fight up top.
Got a little split maybe.
It's still just up to each though. I feel like Piggy's map was really underrated this tournament.
He's played a great late game every single time he's been there.
He has 30 horses on the map. I need to see them.
I grouped up.
Got some here. A couple of seed drums at the back, talking to the Fire Lancers.
He won this fight.
Yeah, he won it.
He won this fight. All the Lancers are gone.
Yeah, and remember those Lancers are gold units. Like, less and less Lancers on the field.
Actually, Grubby's switching to Pykeman.
Pykeman are, for all intents and purposes, useless versus Sardons.
They would deal one damage against the Sicilian Sardons. Those Pykemen are so bad.
But Grubby needs to go for them. He's got nothing else.
and they're decent against the uh you know like have especially if you get the halberd actually
halberd technologies it's not terrible well please tell me these rams are not going to the desk
like i'm just so scared all right they turn around early go less yeah we need those rams
can't afford to waste gold units uh you know grab is looking for a raid here maybe the gate
will be opened but so far this castle will hold the fort
Just an intense game. I still don't know who's in a win. It could come down to score
You haven't had a single game go to the score limit in the King's Gauntlet by the way
Not a single game has went to the score limit. So see maybe this is gonna be the first one very intense back and forth battle
20 minutes to go here
What are these battle rams guys? I don't understand them. Oh, yeah, Maddox. Why are these rams riding to battle all the time?
You man, I need you to take the real thing. You seem like a good driver. You got to get in there pull them back. Oh
They're cooked the bombers killed the old like a by the way. It's kind of interesting
They're grubby stabilizing I'm looking at the score guys. I'm looking at the score those monasteries might just clutch everything
These two were these two workers. They are saints by the way
They are no awesome Noah's arc shit what they're building in the back there, bro
Dude, Gravy's gonna take the score lead. We're seeing more buildings dropped for Pig
I don't know if he wants more production if he wants more score, but either way he score maxing a little bit there a
Couple like have coming in they're gonna clean up the seed ram. It's a neck-and-neck game. It's hard to call
I want to see more sergeants though
I know the gold is a bit about you know tough features to come by but I feel like the sergeants are the best way to
Spend your gold if you are pig few sergeants waiting at the back here
Maybe targets the king could be a far-fetched idea
Let's see if that's gonna be a possibility sergeant's on the front though still prints behind. This is great for mr. Pig
Boy I
Swear a pig just jumped into all those rams he built with five dudes and just clicked enemy TC and just looped around a little bit
I
Think we'll just break it with a ram and five dudes instantly
Upgraded Rams. They don't take any bullet fire from damage from Maros. Yeah
Yeah, yeah, I kind of agree with you, but Rams are hard to come by right now.
Rebi's got a massive army, he's got something like, Elite Rappin' Archery, he's got a full
head and score.
I feel like Pig might have to stop fighting for a bit, to stop fighting.
I think a big pushback, one shot, is how Pig wins fights.
The constant fighting always helps the ranged backline.
If you're a melee, you need big fights, huge swarm.
That's how you win fights, you overwhelm.
Couple likey have a die to this tower.
Oh, random is back on the score.
Figgy.
Oh, the racks are actually helping.
Yep.
All buildings help the score.
Score is decided by economy collected,
units killed, buildings placed,
technologies researched.
Those are ways to get score for those wondering at home.
It could come down to the score lead.
It's gonna be a score win.
Our 30 is the panel that we put.
Otherwise, we could just have these games go all day.
So, 17 minutes of play left.
dude it's neck and neck you literally can't call this one
oh wait Grubby's gonna lose a lot of villagers here that's
kind of a big raid oh they're hiding in there that's crazy
okay I like have having some good raids here
obviously Grubby's village account is starting to become very low
yep 93 90
Thank you for coming in.
The next score is still about $200, but that gives you a lot of score on that upgrade.
Yeah, but it's all gold.
It's $175 gold.
It does give some score, but it's a very expensive upgrade to get for score.
There's a lot of better ones to get, but nonetheless, a huge cleanup.
This is what I'm talking about.
Pig will swarm these fights, and Greg was not watching.
That's a backline full of gold units.
The Baton Archers are going to go down.
There's a huge swarm with the real units, a couple of backline scorpions.
This is fantastic for Pig. Meanwhile, Grubby has a little raid on the left, a little raid down the center.
But Pig is winning this fight. He's got the score now. Nice movement. He moved away the cavalry to fight the pikemen.
Yep. Berber as well. He's getting these upgrades for score, but they're very gold heavy. They're very gold expensive upgrades.
But the sergeants are cooking, bro. Those are just 10 sergeants killing like 50 pikemen.
Sergeant's the best you know the field run out from both sides the sergeant's the best you know the field some raids coming in for pig
Grubby's at 150 pop. I really feel like he might lose this one to score
The funny thing is he's got the five relics if this game has no score
You could make the argument that Grubby will for sure win in late game with those five relics
But that score victory is definitely part of this tournament. You have to factor that into your game plan
Of course and pig
14 minutes to go. He's got more population. Oh
But this Yamato
Oh, what's it doing there? Why did you park brother man? It's terrible
Look at the horses in the back though. They found the monasteries. Okay
They're dying to pikemen
These horses looks for a touchdown, but the linebackers that are the pikemen found them both
That was a hide though
It was the dangerous place to raid a lot of halbs back here though and the halbs are back there
They're not in the front. Yo, this is a scary army pig by the way 80 army in the field tons of really
Like a one scorpion is slowing them down completely
You know one scorpion is making them walk like slow motion like it's some it's like the
Last scene of the third Hobbit movie, you know before the fight when they just line up, you know
I need that we're working on the clock here. There's 30 minutes left brother
We all work on the clock that scorpion is really not helping out right now
I want a scorpion bro, please
Oh my god, grab your kills with the old light cab
If grab your loses by like 10 score, it's right here
It's that light cab that lost in the game
Just keep that in mind, okay?
Killing buildings though, Yamato
Killing buildings is very good for your score
It's so close to score
Oh
Not a single game went to score limit
In the first game of the grand finals, going to the score limit
That's crazy
Holy, this is Age of Empires.
Yep.
Such a beautiful A-game.
Dude, both players are playing so well.
This looks like a 2000-year-old game minimum, by the way.
They're playing so freaking well.
Scorpion value.
They're lining up like cocaine in a club.
Look at that.
Gotta be careful, though.
The Bomber's killing them, but still it's a good fight for Pig.
He's got a lot more infantry, and the Bombers are all set because they're expensive Bombers
Pig has a 2,000 school lead!
Oh my god!
Oh my god, Grubby's getting hard rated, 76 villagers!
Pig is actually out macroing Grubby in the late game.
We've talked day and night about Grubby's late game.
It was so reliable.
What the scope is out of the control group?
Why are we moving so slow?
This is fantastic!
Look at this armor.
Look how it's bumping on each other, Yamato.
It's a bit of a traffic jam.
They're still playing so freaking well.
It's really impressive today.
Oh, they want a meatball.
The Sicilian meatball.
Get in there!
Turn around, turn around, you win!
Yeah, he could fight, but Grubby...
Sorry, Yamato, he's worried about Grubby's counter-attack here.
Grubby's counter-attack...
Halbscrub, it's not that scary, actually.
Sardons would destroy that.
They didn't have many Sardons.
He's got 31, though.
Wait, he's got 31 Sardons?
Chat, how much does a Sardon cost?
My understanding is that 25 gold per Sardon,
so it's not that expensive, but still...
What's your say now 24 if you didn't get Monk, Monk-Tax?
Yeah, he could have a few more without the Monk-Tax, but the Monk-Tax were necessary for the Squirt teams.
Apparently it's 20 gold per sergeant.
Oh no, it's 55-25.
55-25.
So it's 25 gold.
There's so much money.
What is he, and his lumber disappeared.
Did he queue like 50 million buildings?
No, no, no.
Oh, he found stone.
He found stone but it's late.
It's late for stone.
You know, you know what grubby did though grubby says no bills
She got 93 buildings only taking bad trades in his army. She's actually low on the score
He's got 8.5 thousand relic gold and it's just not enough here. It's insane. It's insane what pig is doing
I think I honestly have loom. Yeah, yeah, villagers have loom. Thank God
Villages have loom on both sides. I will say I think grubby needs to go for a king snipe
I can't believe I'm saying this. I don't think he's winning on the score guys
and he's 2500 score behind.
He does not, he's got eight minutes.
The door is closing.
Oh my days.
A king step could happen though.
No resources either.
I think he just maxed out farms with way too late.
Yeah.
Remember it's the monasteries honestly.
The monasteries just didn't help.
They didn't really give us anything.
We're now left low on wood.
I feel like that's just a bait most of the time.
Like the monasteries are not that good for your score.
They can just sacrifice the game and play for them.
It's my opinion at least.
I think just make a run for the king.
I can't believe Pig is actually winning this game.
If you watch this start to finish, this game was on a silver platter for Grubby at some point.
I don't even know how Sicilians bought this back.
I don't know how Pig was able to bring this back.
To think back to those lazy trochus.
Where he would sacrifice 50 Sargents and 10 Rams.
Yep, think back to this early play.
Imagine if he had not done this play, by the way. How strong the Sicilian pick could be.
I think if he went to imp with that army, Cedram, he would have destroyed.
I agree. Oh, but here we go. Here we go.
Wait, a lot of villagers. Oh, Gwemmy has a castle. He's going all in.
Gwemmy's going all in. He knows he's dead. He knows he's dead on the clock.
He's got five minutes. Gwemmy's going all in.
All the Fire Lancers, he's spending all of his gold.
He's got enough stone for one castle. He's bringing the bombards.
It's one last ride.
One last fight, we got a lot of Sicilian sergeants and heavy scorpions.
Pig is not going to make this easy, we just need to step the king!
This castle is weak, castle in the front for Grubby!
Does he have it up? Does he have what it takes to just kill the castle,
step the king, it's one last ride!
He's getting decimated, oh my god!
What the hell, though?
Yeah, so cheap, so strong.
He kills the castle though, no matter how he kills the castle,
All he has to do now, it's an easy task, but it's the hardest task in the game, snipe the king, there's no more castles to defend.
The sardons have wiped up everything, the scorpion from the back line, 24 kills on 7 scorpions, they've been kicking ass from the back line, but Yamato, it's just one king, that Gwebe has to kill, he's got 4 minutes, he's got light cav!
Okay, just one king, but I don't know buddy, he needs to get the information, and then he needs to get the scorpion line, it's so strong, but...
trying to fight into it oh no it's a freaking meat grinder but like ever all
dead yo this is such a hype game but I feel like it's last moments for grubby
he's got three minutes grubby supply 150 is cooked one last right worker so
late into the game I think it's one last ride for the king I'm telling you it's
it's so possible it's been such a messy game he's gonna go for it go into the
He clicked in he found the pocket just go into the base. It's open. There's no castles riders on the storm
If this is a nice, I didn't he actually didn't lasso lasso grouped them as well
Yeah, have going in violence in the back. He's going here for the king
He's fine finds the king. This is what we see he finds the king the king is in this tower shit
Oh my god, he's on his other king. He's on the king tower. He doesn't have the he doesn't have the military though
More like I've come in he's got two minutes
oh shit it's so close the towers already on fire the affairs are coming
through pig it takes the king you don't know what a psycho holy pig
saves his king and I can't believe it but pig is actually gonna win this game
one it's insane
wow dude one last ride one last ride bro dude what holy shit
why is the king outside why is the king outside oh my god
Krabby doesn't see it.
I'm gonna have a heart attack, Yamato.
If I die, I take over.
That is such an un-
I'm not so treason!
You're treason!
You got treason! Krabby knows it's running!
Krabby knows it's running!
Just get in the town center!
Oh my god.
Why is he doing this?
15 seconds.
It is 15 seconds.
Game's about to end.
And it's all over.
Higgy in the red trunks is winning the first game.
Holy moly, what a game.
Wow, what a game.
What a game what a game what a game it might be a few more seconds by the way
But I think it's around an hour and a half the game should be over
There it is GG in the chat the time has run out and grubby has lost on score
Pig after a freaking banger game one has taken the victory with the Sicilians
I cannot believe how good of a game this was literal cinema
The dream start to a grand finals both these guys seem so evenly matched
And I can't believe that pig after that disastrous rush
Just going straight through that front door that we talked about not being able to do anything with that rush has come back
And won this game. I am so blown away by that insane
Her a please you need to give us a synopsis. What did grubby do wrong to throw away the lead that he had?
Talk to me Captain Lance. What do you think? I don't know dude. I think it was the farms. I think the farms won the game
This is the same farms
Let's take a look at these farms he just had so much like
He could his ego and like food to wood balance
He didn't need that much lumber to like maintain the farms
And then he could just outspan them with like have that are 40% resistant to the
To the house. Yeah, I'll answer this as well. I'm thinking so these farms. I'm trying to find one that has a thousand food in it
Um, it's hard to find though, but a lot of them. Yeah, look at this 894 food 895 food
That's crazy. Yeah, it's just so much food for farm
I could rather have to grab you average farms like a hundred food this one like 490
These farmers just never run out. I get such efficient trades with that
You know with that wood with that food good trades of the like have as well fantastic fantastic game one and
The energy in the chat could not be better here as Thater gifts 50 subscribers to the Twitch stream
Oh my goodness guys W Thater. We got Jabba in the chat. Jabba says that's my captain. No freaking way. Jabba still watching
He's still cooking everybody's watching Thater thinks that 50 gifted bro. Salutes to you my friend
Thank you so much for support in the channel support in the tournament
Ladies and gents 1-0 for pig pig beat grubby last time despite losing game one this time
He's actually one game one
Is he gonna double up on the grubby victory?
We'll see grubby of course gets the home epic next match our next round next game
Yamato talk to me, bro. Is grubby gonna take us to Arabia or arena? I
Honestly feel like grubby's
Diversity really shines on in Arabia the fact that he pulled off the cleanest
red foster we saw
To have that in the back pocket where we have range of play and you can basically like
like, float a strat, and the enemy doesn't read you completely off of your sieve, I think
it's a massive strength, and I think you can only really utilize that in Arabia, because
the game is too streamlined on arena, and I think it just doesn't use Grubby's biggest
strength, and I think for all sense and purposes, the Regicide Fortress game was also an arena
game.
Yeah, kind of.
The Kings weren't really relevant until we almost shared our pants.
You got a massive gift to sub, bro.
You gotta celebrate somehow, bro.
100 gifted.
I wanna celebrate.
I want to celebrate, me and you, you're out on the garrison.
Are you coming to the garrison or not?
Bro, I'd love to come to the garrison.
Am I coming to the garrison?
I'll let you know, I contacted the guy,
I'll let you know, I'll come back to you.
Anonymous, thank you so much.
100 gifted guys, keep the Ws flowing.
If you got a gifted sub, make sure you say thank you.
These guys are so generous, making these events possible.
It's a lot of work on our end,
but these gifts that I was making, more than worth it.
Thank you so much guys, I can't thank you guys enough.
Seriously, it's very, very generous.
By the way, we have a stream crash from Grubby.
I don't know if he's gonna be back.
I'm getting away from the production actually.
Very unfortunate.
I don't know if he's gonna be back.
No, no, Grubby is dropping out.
Jabbo's in, baby.
Jabbo, get ready.
Jabbo will take over for Grubby.
It's one zero pig.
Jabbo could reverse sweep this one though.
Jabbo, get ready, you're in.
He's subbed in.
Yep.
Come on now.
It could be a 2v1.
can bring the spiffing Brit to be one. That's a good replacement.
When I get ready, how about how about we put thermal in for
one cheeky, rabid game? Um, no, listen, we're working on on
getting grubby back.
Who's gonna be captain tomorrow?
Because internet died.
I hope it's two PCs. He has one PC that he plays on and then
he streams on a second one. I think his second PC, the stream
PC is the one that died.
That eaten by Hera.
Oh, man.
You know what, Hera, I got to say, sometimes you accidentally call Grubby your motto,
and I just, you know what, that means that there's so much hidden message.
Yeah.
It means you love me a little bit more than you love Grubby.
Oh, I know.
Yeah, it's a little bit of a, there's a hidden meaning there.
I'm glad you caught it.
It's like the highest compliment. It's like death-not-level compliment
But by the way, apparently Grubby is not on discord like he's not responding
I actually don't know what to do if he actually crashes right now. This is worst-case scenario for finals
I
Hope it can come back if it's late for him. He's crashed before and come back though. It's possible
He should be back soon. Hopefully
Anyone inside information cameras back cameras back cameras back look at him. Let's go
Oh, he's back.
Lock in, Grubby, come on now.
It's down one, but it's a close game.
Dude, I just, I can't help but smile, man.
This event has been so fun.
It's literally the perfect event.
I'm actually really sad it's coming to an end.
Dude, we gotta get the next one started
like next week, bro, honestly.
Just reset the ladder.
You broke 9K?
We broke 9K, bro.
How many subs we break?
Let me see the sub count.
Hold on, let's take a look.
Uh, they actually smashed 9k, 9,431, we're closing it on 10k even if anything. It's been fantastic. So next event, I say something crazy, bro.
All right. If, if Hera reaches 12k, he shaves his head on stream after the finals.
No, no, no, I haven't turned it to you. You model my hairline. If I shave my head, it's not coming back.
Well, look at this hairline. It's like, it's like my ears. I can't, I can't shave.
Yeah, I'm shaved. I'm shaved my head. I've shaved my head and it came back.
Oh for barely bro barely bro bro is bro it bro like my head is like a Sicilian farm, bro
Boy is this one thousand food
Don't worry about it, bro
I find top top key so that I shave my head fucking subs and your mother shaved my head in Germany in Hamburg for the
Do that fine fucking some style after anyways, we'll do it
So, go get the fix.
It's a good start.
Joe, thank you, Joe.
You matter how good are your shaving skills, bro.
You're like half-barber.
I shaved K-doll on stream already.
I did it really good.
That was good. That was not good.
What do you mean?
It was great, you matter. Well done.
No, I shaved his head really well.
How he looks like in it.
That's not up to me, bro.
Yeah, yeah, you know the xD
City was gorgeous
The XD emotes was kind of K. Joe when he was bald off like no no flame actually love K. Joe's a great guy
but
Some crazy resemblance is there a little bit if you squint a bit
They got a lot of gift to come in oh my goodness. Yeah, but what have you done 50 gifted from dark mass tons of gifted here job
We'll get to 10 job. Well, you made zero dollars. How can you even afford the gift subs?
Jabba, you literally got $0, bro.
He's negative on the tournament.
Exactly. We win tomorrow.
We're going to win the team tournament.
Oh, my God.
Jabba, since he was never in it for the money,
he was in it for the vibes.
That's very good, bro.
That's very good.
Professional game is in five.
Mr. Depot, instead of five as well.
Jabba, I appreciate it, man.
You're awesome.
Hey, Joe, thanks for the 50 gifts
of your legend.
Dark Master of Legends as well.
Thanks for the 50 gifts that...
Oh, man.
Dude, I'm so sad. It's gonna be over seriously, but
Hopin I'm hoping to get a stuff back together here. Let's see if we can get them started soon
Looks like the cams are back. They're chatting a little bit. I'm not sure I'm not getting any of these messages
So if they're talking to someone, they're not talking to me
Yeah, imagine my face
Someone and it's not me
You feel left out. I do you feel a little left out. I'm not gonna lie
I keep checking my phone, you know, maybe, maybe he's got my number. I don't know.
It's not gonna happen. Constantin Lily says I'm so hyped. Good to have you here, Constantin Lily.
And also thank you, Butter Toast for the five gifts of the Nando with the five gifts that
as well shout out Nando. All the tier ones and primes coming in. Thank you guys. You guys are
legends as well. All right, we're just waiting here. All right, seems are ready to go.
Roxy has stopped gifting bozos. He's not shaving after I forbid it Roxy you might forbid it
But your mother here's got the razor ready. He's got some experience. He shaved casual
Got that experience
Take my own head on stream lost bets. I
Think that there was like fake your winning or some shit. I think it's fake or winning. No, I think was door door and winning the word championship
Hmm
It's Doran's a bit of a goofball, bro
Like he's a good player, but the mistakes he makes he ends like randomly like once again
Yes, yeah goofy. It's like his mistakes are so goofy. You know, what do you mean a cast dictionary?
You see the Disney character and you see Doran like next to each other
So we call them dough rat in the chat
You know, what do you bring me to cast the LCS? By the way, I got I got leaks good. I got League knowledge, bro
I got you bro. Well, you want to cancel yes, yes, not really bro, but I you know, let me tell you
I haven't had I've co-streamed every region every damn
Like international tournaments, I've got the rights to it
But I've been blocked out of LEC for some reason what LEC just locked me out. But why next play it finally changes
Oh, you're back. Why it's crazy. I'm back. I'm back and then I can get you in book. That's crazy
Yeah, I'll cast them LAC.
Actually, you know, Roxy actually went to an LAC live.
We were in Berlin for an AOT event.
The LAC was happening.
She went with a friend of hers.
You might know her, but I won't say the name just in case.
They went into an LAC match during the AOT tournament.
It was kind of cool.
What games?
I don't even remember.
It was a while ago, like two years ago.
Well, you weren't there.
She was there.
That's what I'm telling you.
She was there.
I wasn't there.
I was playing A.W.E.
Hey, can't your wife tell you which games were happening?
Roxy, which games were playing?
Which teams?
I stopped reading books, Roxy.
Roxy was there for the vibes, bro.
She didn't know who was playing.
She was there to chill.
Reckless was playing.
You know, Reckless, of course you know, Reckless.
Reckless was playing two years ago?
Yeah, somewhere two years ago.
Fanatic?
Two years ago.
He didn't play in the LEC two years ago.
Maybe three years ago.
The time that doesn't matter.
maybe three, maybe four years ago.
Yeah, it's three years ago, four years ago.
Okay, okay.
Sorry, my, my, my, my,
it's 2023.
My 2023, fanatic.
Fanatic, fanatic, yeah.
Fanatic.
There you go, we figured that out.
Hey, I think you guys are just trying to impress me.
This is a story full of lies.
No, no, it's very true.
I know it sounded very lie, like,
Nothing was accurate at all, but like it's actually a true story.
When it comes to like no lies, you believe that captain?
No, I don't believe it at all.
Captain is a nice alright captain.
Your bullshit is on on on on on on fleek bro.
40 gifted by the way on YouTube.
Thank you box studio for the 40 gifted on YouTube.
You're a freaking legend bro.
Thank you so much.
They're gearing up for the next match by the way.
We're just kind of waiting.
Little bit of a hiccup there.
But we are almost back in.
Grubby is in the lobby and by the way, I see arena in there. I see arena in there
So it might be about arena for Grubby
What Grubby? No
Can be grubby. He hasn't lost with Burgundians yet. Can you blame him honestly?
Like it he could save the Burgundians when for when the arena comes, you know
Which will inevitably come because piggy will pick him
Guys at 10k subs I make hair go on a diet. Everybody stop gifting. This is not a joke
This is not reverse psychology. Everybody stop gifting. We cannot get to 10k. I can't go on a diet, bro
I got brownie waiting for me in the fridge. Seriously, please. I'm not joking
And technically era your current diet is a diet. That's all true gift away boys. So maybe I
Get that brownie diet is just what you eat. So whatever diet you have is a diet. I like it, bro
No, you're doing like 10k calorie challenges every day, though, that's
You know, I actually don't eat that much. Actually, I lost some weights. I've been stable and my current weights
But I haven't been losing or gaining stable like you're eating like a horse
That's not stable. It's got the feed
The rest of us are taking the meals, we need to keep coming.
Oh my god, Nevada, bro.
Two jokes, bro, two jokes.
Ah.
All right, let's start the damn game.
What are we doing?
We're waiting, right?
Grabbing Crash is back.
He's in a little arena.
All right.
But Crash like the Rens.
Yeah, exactly.
How did Pig win that previous game, by the way?
That's ridiculous.
Like, winning that previous game?
I've never seen Battle Rands, bro.
Battle Rands?
That's one of the worst RAM control I've ever seen, bro.
It's like, you know what it is?
It's like he's watched you do it once,
or like somebody's told him about the strap,
but he never actually tried it himself.
He didn't do any looping.
He just kind of forced it way down the center.
Guys, I don't know why I got to type in 14.
It's, we're waiting on Grubby and Pig.
It's nothing I can do.
I'm literally staring at him.
They haven't started.
Typing 14 does nothing here. Typing 14 does literally nothing.
At all.
But $9 in harrow.
14 will increase the chance of the game starting soon.
Agreed.
Keep going.
Uh, Yavato, for a million dollars.
What's the 14 font in game? What does it mean 14? Exactly.
It's uh, ready.
You just lost a million dollars. I'm sorry.
You mean then it start the game already
Yeah, it's ready. No way. I was just being polite. Huh?
Okay, you get the million chat. I need a million dollars donor right now. I gotta pay this out
Data Shad, this is a 14 gifted we're hopping right in the 14 spam might have worked because they're starting the game
It's gonna be Malay versus Muisca. No way pig is repeating the Muisca strats
He lost against Captain Lats earlier with this and he's trying it out again in the Grand Finals
Talk to me Capillans. Capillans, talking about the strategy. He did stop it with the Burgundians, but how scary was it?
I don't know if I'd call it a stop. That was sketchy. It wasn't but sketchy.
I think the problem with it is Grubby knows it. Yeah, like he got me way by surprise
But if Grubby's expecting an attack at his base
You should be able to stop it or like, you know, kind of set up some kind of give me a round up boys
Oh, what are these two? What did they do? Give me a little rundown. I gotta talk about a few things
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Grubby going for the Malay. I do want to mention something not picking up a gun against Grubby will for sure play another arena set
100% he will play one more arena game if he's going with the Malay here
I'm almost 100% confident because he's been undefeated on Burgundians arena
And there's no way he's playing the grand finals without playing that one. So by playing Malay
He's actually forced his hand into another arena game
This is an obvious read in my opinion for pig to make although it's not really relevant for now
But it could be relevant for the next map that grubby will pick
But for now, let's talk about Malay Muisca Muisca
We've seen earlier from pig. You haven't watched that set was fantastic
Pagress is tapping Lance in the upper bracket finals
Moisica was used to employ a temple guard and
Ram push temple guard is the unit that comes out of the monastery
It's a very strong and tanky infantry unit with Rams. You get a little bit of like some Yamato Ram
Ramurai so like the samurai Ram strategy something similar could come out from the Moisica except you don't need a castle
Malay can do a whole bunch of things
But that is what's to expect from pig unless he's got something different plan for us now Yamato
What do you make of the strategy as the guy who's done it yourself with something a little different, but more or less the same idea
But that's the thing like I'm asking what is what is the what is the like?
Do they get like some secret bonus so they get like something armor for free give me give me the give me the juice
Like what is what is the bonus of Malay and?
Musica what are they called? Yeah, so the risk you get
Temple guards for this rush. Okay, first of all they can upgrade to the next age with 50% gold discount
So, Feudal Age, they get another set, but Castle Age, they can save 100 gold for it.
Okay, so right off the bat, you know, Fast Imp is possible to get, they save 100 gold
up to Castle Age, pretty good. They also get cheaper settlements, I think 25% cheaper settlements,
so pretty good early game start. You can collect Stone too, huh? Yeah, you can collect Stone,
you can collect Wood, all from the same settlements, so fantastic, you've seen the vision here.
And then on top of that, you get the Temple Guard from the Monastery, so it's a unique
units to the Muska and it has 100 HP, 1-1 armors and it fights very well. It has 12 attack
and the more it hits the faster it attacks. It's very good. All right. Oh, this is like Jax.
It's like Jax from League of Legends. Exactly. It's very racialized. Good. Mealy unit.
When did it come out of the monastery? Like resist conversion? Because my conversions were
taken forever on those things. It doesn't resist conversion as far as I know. I think you can
can convert them like any other unit. I was just imagining that. Yeah. Well, he kept hopping
in and out of the ramps. That's the reason conversion is fake. conversion is fake. You
just need to bring right at bring a little siege tower and just jump into the siege tower
when you hear because it's two seconds and then pop in and then out. Yeah. That's actually
first of all, beautiful willow low sound. Very, very deep voice for it. It's like it
hit home but also a very good commentary from your matter here is each tower or
even a ram if you garrison you can break the convert that's really good and
actually Tamlan's pig was doing that to you he bought a ram he got into the ram
yeah yeah I'm gonna convert him it's a very good counter to the monks which is
the obvious counter to the temple guards but of course guys what is that human
with a hammer? Sector of scouts? Sector of scouts. Does he run as quick as a
horse no a little bit slower but still he runs pretty fast yeah all right he's got better vision
to you though thank you oh really yeah heard of the games got better vision he's kind of like
uh kind of like the Eagle Warrior yeah it's kind of weird that the guy on a scout a guy on a horse
has less vision than the guy just running bit strange there but the scouts have helmets you know
these fucking poorly designed helmets poorly designed helmets it's like the helmets of Ali
express like they were cheap but they're not very good. We ska here with the
champions go going to be feeling pretty good. Well grubby study push from
Osaka and then grubby. Grubby with the ballet. What are their bonuses? So many
options. Like do to get do to get like some infantry armor, some free business.
They get infantry armor for free as the age up. You've been mentioned that a lot.
I guess you want me to mention it. They do get infantry armor for free, which is good
You can also play towards the carambits
So grab you could go for like stone might a lot of stone drop a cast or go carambits
We throw things relaxes with the pyramid war is the cheap infantry
That are very spammable right cheap very spammable
It's one option something like Captain Lance might employ. I think we've seen it from him earlier in the tournament
But I think you can play a whole bunch of strategies with melee
So it's very flexible depending on what grabby does. I'll kind of break it down for you guys
Okay
Class go in again, we're just hearing villages punch things. Yeah, it's pretty sad
He likes the cheap elephants from Malay
That's true. Actually. Yeah, that's been his main his main unit. So just boom to cheap elephants
You reckon some pretty good the approach from him. I
Mean, I don't know if it's a good approach. I think it's what he's gonna do though
I think that's from far from that. If we're talking about temple guards coming in, well,
actually, the elephants could be okay against temple guards, maybe. I've actually never seen
that matchup happen, so it could be an interesting counter unit.
Do they have any bonus damage? They like the shory scouts, but I don't know if that's just
because they're just a chunky unit or what? They get the bonus damage versus cavalry,
but it was on the new patch. I think they get plus six, but I could be wrong. I think temple
The guards do get actual bonus damage against Cavalry, and they also attack really fast.
I would say they should destroy elephants.
They should destroy buildings as well.
It's a very, very good unit.
I think you have to play monks against it.
You have to play some kind of archery against it.
Chat is saying plus 8, I think maybe plus 6 against Cavalry, but either way it's pretty
good.
Plus 3 or plus 5 against elephants.
Okay, plus 3 against Cap, plus 5 against elephants.
I think they changed it to plus 6, so.
Stable.
I really like the resources from Grubby, lining up perfectly for the up.
You get those with Malay here.
But Malay spills a bit fast from Malay. I think normally you want to go up a little later.
He's going to have trouble affording his different units because Malay can up so fast to the next stage,
which is good because you get there faster, but it's bad because you get there so fast
fast you don't really have the time to collect resources to make units so
normally what pros would do with malaise is make a few extra villagers early on so
that by the time they get the castlage it would be like a regular time but you
have more resources to work with by the way Grubby has entered into the bay.
Oh my word he's downstrapped. You can't scout the forward. Yeah you can't scout the forward and look at this pig
sneaks out this is both good and bad for Grubby it's terrible if he runs into the town center though.
He's gonna scout the base from pigs he gets a lot of information he's marked
blacksmith he's gonna see that maybe there's no towns and is coming up later
but the same time it's bad because you can't scout the four villagers we do
have a loom in for pig this run to a cheetah he'll beat that guy to death
what would jaguar bro oh it's a jaguar my phone my phone cheetahs are tiny
bro no respect no respect no respect no respect
dude we're walking in the dark though brother we're walking in the dark where's
the chompy to give us vision bo and he's chasing the scout he's chasing it
he's chasing a goose around I don't know no food for scalp production yeah this
is exactly like I said like no food scalp production it's actually very low
resources in general he's making a town center up he's getting a town center up
he's the only file in food so he's economy is really fragile and if you
gets pushed at the same time this is disastrous for grubby i think grubby is
in a really bad position strategically right now what kind of elephant can he
make is it cavalry by elephant what kind of elephant is it it's a battle elephant
and it's quite cheap to get a big this shoot the punch attack fight melee okay
bro took you some took your time to get there bro
I don't mind it did sound maybe a little a little rash how I said it but no
Anything for your mind. I got I got questions. You got questions. I got answers. I got you, bro
Okay, I just want to know what type of elephant we're talking about here
I'm just thinking like if it's a melee elephant, then it's solid against the the workshop units that are coming up
Yeah, fantastic. It's not gonna be an elephant coming up though. I don't think I'm stuck in the
This ram have ever seen boo. I don't think I'm stuck in the stable
It's just gonna be a scout and a spear Ram comes out early. That's a hot dog bun right there, bro
That's a bun and a hot dog right there that ram. Do you see it?
He's got to un-cue the smoke and get a temple guard out like A$AP.
Yeah, temple guard coming out. He does do that.
The ram might die though. The ram might die as a jaguar out in the field.
Repair, repair, repair!
No repairs?
Oh my god, no repairs.
It's kind of terrible, no?
Oh, Grubby kills a villager too. Wow!
Grubby kills a villager. That's a big buying of time from Grubby.
And despite him being in the kind of a bad position earlier, I feel like now it's a fantastic position
He's stole down the push a lot. Simple guts coming out now
But I'm liking this Musaka strat, bro like this feels at home. Yeah
Yeah, it is Jax. We have the fucking lamp. It's Jax. It's literally Jax from League of Legends
And he hits like a truck, by the way, he hits really really hard
Two Rams, Monk defense, but of course we talked about how you can counter play the Monks by hopping in and out of the Ram
So many frickin Jaguars and Cheetahs. Tim, we get these guys out of the field. Thank you
Just mutual agreement. Mutual agreement. Just kill the wildlife then we can fight. Got a team up against these Jags
I like your settlement, right? That's a settlement, right? It's a monastery. Oh, a monastery, a second one.
Deccan Monastery is going to go to Mass Tempokhards. What's crazy about these Jaxes?
Tempokhards cost, I think, 80 food, 20 gold.
Well, they're quite expensive actually, or maybe even 55 golds in my bag.
Can he sustain that then? It's kind of optimistic that 2-1 is there isn't it?
He can't sustain it too long, but it's an all-in push, so he just needs a little bit
of extra production right now. He's not really worried about the later.
He's gonna lose another villager though. So, Grabby's done a fantastic job of buying
some time here. Two rems are coming in. This push has to hit right now, and it has to hit
hard. Grabby, no workshop though. Grabby's got no defense.
She should've wall off. Grabby has done a fantastic job of buying time, but he's got
No defense! He's undercommitting! The Monks alone are not gonna be enough!
The two rams are coming in! We need the manganelles!
What the elephant voice?
Oh my god! Oh my god!
This scout's got melted! Pig is about to destroy Grubby's base!
Oh he knows! He knows!
He knows, Yamato!
Gets in! Doggy's with conversion! He's gonna be in with two rams!
Oh my god! Grubby is gonna get destroyed by this, by the way!
Gotta get inside the rams!
Oh, he checks the other side. He checks the other side
Legends, but grubbies out grubbies out grubbies got a conversion
I'm just coming out villagers to fight villagers to fight
No, we'll just repair grubbies that kill one round though great play from grubby though great play from grubbies does have a loom
He's gonna get a conversion now to conversions for grubby grubbies in a hole two conversions
They'll just come out the ramps are down what a hole from grubby. Oh my god
Holy moly Grubby this is some Brazilian jujitsu.
Fantastic hold.
Crazy defense.
One Magina still in the field.
Grubby's villages are all over the place though.
You gotta watch out.
Nice mango shot there on the villager.
Pig had a great rush.
But I don't know what happened.
The Rams just got completely melted.
The temple guard not great into these town centers that seems to have no upgrades on
them so the raw stats are decent but if you don't upgrade them I mean they're
gonna die to the town centers. I gotta ask about the double monastery by once
again because that lumber would have been nice like the steady production of
rams would have been so important but these buildings are just idle. Yeah
honestly Yamato you might be right just extra ram instead of the second
monastery and just keep pumping out of one because you can't even afford one
now let alone two you might be right on that Yamato that could have cost them the
game because just one extra ram could have been the difference between killing
and killing the TC and breaking the base and not doing so.
So I commit a bit more to this micro.
But good monk defense.
Good monk micro from Grubby.
He converts and he moves out of the way.
An elephant comes out now.
Perfect timing to talk day and night about this battle of elephants.
He's going in the amount of what kind of elephants is this?
Holy, it shoots.
No, bro, it hits.
And it hits.
It hits.
That's whatever you wanted to do, bro. It's a goddamn elephant, but it has little shoes too. Look at those. It's got some shoes
It's got the ankle bracelet, it's not allowed to leave the house, you know
That guy's dangerous I got done some shit
I liked how the ram was attacking the elephant, knee-capping him just crazy.
Yeah, I think Krabi's in a good position though, he's in a wall, he's up 20 builds.
He's converting a worker?
That's actually huge, we can use a few more workers on our side.
The undarred soon to get a tuple guard past the house.
Yeah, on the other side you can do that actually, it's a little bit of an exploit, shout out
of the spitting Brit. Barracks goes down. Dude, is it just me or is this push live again?
The push is so live. We have three Rams. Yeah, so many Rams. Grubby defended it once, but
can you do it again? And this time with like a third Ram, he's like a tower. Towers aren't
that good. I'd like to see Fletching. If we're going to go for tower defense, Fletching's
going to be very, very important. Three Rams, we're kind of housing Grubby. Grubby's going
to have a housing crisis right now. Can't make more units. We're going to go for it.
The push onto the Townsend is three rams this time.
We have a lot of Pimple Guards coming out.
Monks to converts.
Grubby knows what he has to do, he's gotta convert.
Then a hop out with the villagers to target one ram, converts.
No units so far, but he's gonna kill one ram,
hops in and out, hops out.
Great play with the Townsender there.
He needs to get some repairs.
Hop out, the other side.
Beautiful play from Grubby, he's gonna kill all three rams.
And he's got the Monk in the tower.
Oh my God, another Holt from Grubby.
Really, really well played.
Holy grubby. Dude, he's so good.
This is the first time I see Musaka, and I gotta say, the Ramorize is way better.
You get a little dash, they attack faster, they do more damage.
Because these temple warriors don't seem to have any piercing armor.
They're basically walking in their nude, they're getting one tapped.
They have one pierce armor, but did you feel a bit squishy?
I feel like they should be tankier, honestly.
Samurai have less stats with the tank here. They got like more bravery stat or something.
You know, the Samurai got something else though.
Also, the Samurai's benefit from popping in and out because of the
Inheritability, but you told me these guys need to hit, right? They need to punch for a while.
Yeah, yeah, that's true. The synergy is not the same.
Um, outpost in the map maybe.
Pig is still trying. Credit to Pig. The rush has been solid.
He's still trying to run around to the couple temple guards.
He's gonna add a town center. He could just try to play the late game.
And remember, last game, like the first game here, the game one,
he had a disaster swash, he boomed, still won the late game.
That's true.
Can happen again.
I don't call those town centers. I call those cope centers.
We're gonna try to catch up on the double TC.
But maybe it works.
Maybe it works.
You're right, he pulled it off the last game.
He pulled it off the last game.
I'm never gonna doubt Piggy again.
Snipes a free Magnano.
gets out no conversions no conversions
Grubby's walking face first Grubby has to delete this guy
holy oh oh Grubby has atonement
Grubby has atonement converted the monk
atonement just happened he converted the monk he had to attack to let him
convert the monk he's converting a second monk right now
he's converting one of the temple guards Grubby's healing he's got to convert the
temple guard he's healing the monk
One conversion onto the Temple Guard, Village is getting involved with the Ram.
Holy, I didn't even know you could do that.
Yeah, this is beyond your capacity though Yamato. We didn't even leave to the Imperial Age in our games with you my friend, but...
Maybe if it's a war I could pull out some of these.
You're talking smack, but they are fighting to the death on Castle. What's happening on your screen right now?
That's true. This is this is prime time your motto gameplay. That's that's for sure. It's Rams got infantry
This is all you bro. It's my Pokemon. This is we need a Japanese in here. Don't know the moussaka's
The funny thing is the funny thing is you know, I used to work at a Greek restaurant
I used to serve moussaka's every time you say that I laugh because I know exactly what you're talking about
Of course, it is the Mouska, but Moussaka sounds a lot better
But I kind of agree the amount of I feel like the Mouska is okay for this rush
but I think the Samurais were better.
They just straight up better. They had better synergy.
You know the cool thing about the Samurais ability goes down while they're in the ram?
Yep.
Broken.
Yeah, good synergy.
Here we're hitting faster though. The more we hit, the faster we hit with these guys.
Elephant's getting involved here.
Grubby just re-walls. Grubby's gonna pick up the relics.
Grubby's up a thousand score.
But Piggy has no reason to resign.
Inefficiency there on the on the Mangolasi you can attack both buildings no well
there's a space between the Monastery there's a canyon it's also a space
There's a space. Come on now. Unfortunately there's a space man. I like the energy amount of I think you try
you shoot in the middle and you hit you'd hit neither and that'd be good
I think Grubby's looking at the imp. He's gonna castle forward.
He's gonna go for the forward castle. I like the PC2TC play from Malay. Just pick up some relics.
He's got the map back in his favor.
He's picking up all the relics as well. It's fantastic. He's gonna feel the buildings. Once you clear the buildings, you can just go forward castle.
Uncontested, unscouted.
Imp is in. Wow. Faster imp from Malay as well. Forward castle could be insane for Grubby here.
He's gonna finish off big you're not gonna give pig the time. He's big getting all these late game
Technologies and a little bit of a pause here pig needs a second. No problem my friend
Then only grab your pausing you know pick your positive every now and then no problem
Take up my contact lens that we are back. No worries. It's 4 a.m. Like my eyes
I'm awake, but my eyes are dried out, you know, like yeah
Yeah, two raisins.
I don't know how I feel.
I do not miss using Contacts.
As always, Helga set up some new ones, hopefully.
But Kevillans, talk to me about this Mooska.
It failed earlier. Failed again.
Don't you feel like Pig might have been...
Maybe a little ambitious trying it again after it failed earlier
and Grubby knew about it?
I feel like that might have been a bad call in the Grand Finals.
I mean, I kind of think, yeah, reusing it.
I like the idea if he if he used the same sieve, but then like did a fake out and did a different strat with yeah
I agree. Um, I
Feel like it could have really worked though
I didn't I didn't really like grubby's defense initially, but I think I don't know what a forever reason pig was a lot slower
I'm getting a temple card. Yeah, like a lot of idle resources initially
And that gave grubby a lot of time to get like monastery and yeah, he's workshop down
Yeah, I agree. I think I especially like those jaguars as well. Everything was just kind of slowing down the push but
Yeah, Grubby says pig is in deep water is a quote from Hera
Yeah, I think pig is actually need to take the check the tech tree doesn't know what to do past that temple guard rush
It was a cheese prepared
There's got nothing else after the cheese and grubby going for a forward castle. This is completely over
We are currently in deep waters, but only grubby knows that a swim pig is gonna drown very soon
Forward castle fast temp ladies and gentlemen. This is complete wraps pig has a
0.1% chance to win from this position legitimately
Yeah, he's also going champion warriors, which are gonna just get smashed by elephants true and converted by monks
Happiest do nothing here
forward castle, this stuff by grubby, imp is in, pig isn't resigned, you can fight on as
long as you want, and yeah keep in mind last game looked bad for pig as well, so I definitely
recommend he continues to play as long as he feels like there's still a chance to come
back but this is going to be tough, grubby needs to shoot the wall now with the castle,
There we go. We could shoot the gate if you want, but shooting a wall is usually more advisable.
Jabba says, winnable, pick W.
You never know, bros. Maybe the Master of Comebacks had a 3TC setup.
He's got Arbor and Squires going up.
He's not in, but he's going to go for a lot of Champion spam and Castle edge.
Me and Captain Lance not really too vibing with this idea.
A lot of Monks here from Grubby prioritizing Town Patrol.
Most pro players don't prioritize this upgrade, but
it seems like the players in this tournament, especially Grubby, really values that vision.
Damn, like that vision is really important.
I love it. I come back to Proxy Castle.
Yep.
This is living.
This is HMM butters.
Granvids coming out. Yamato.
We talked with the Cranbot Warriors.
They're very cheap. They actually only take half a population.
Oh, that's crazy.
You can really spam them out.
And then the Elephant in the front line.
A couple conversions on the back.
Oh, that's so fast.
Yep.
Damn.
So cheap, scammable, fast, quick unit.
You just swarmed the opponent like ants basically as if the game plan there
Hmm. I like that. It's like a Zergling. Yeah for the Starcraft fellas some zergling is going in
He's going straight for the most moral part of the game. Look at the loop
looping around elephant to distract commandments to loop a
Lot of villagers running away amongst to convert some workers as well
Somehow piggas found his way up to Imperial Age
And he's going up from that back to you see it would be crazy presence of mind if grabby just takes a trebuchet and goes to that back
Town center knowing his opponent might be up to end forward castle with the converted villagers. Oh my god and
Gribby wall dude. It's cooking. He is cooking
Jesus need a wall need a wall grabby misses it. He's got monks convert. He's got extra workers coming in though. He'll be fine
There they are
The whole gang is here
Cass is going up
Thanks that umpies there. They're punching some villages down
They're doing okay. They're doing okay, but it's like
They're doing okay, but they're not expected to win this game from this position
They're gonna call these villagers though
It's actually like more than we can ask for when these few few units dude. This is a doubt castle if I've ever seen one
85% all the villagers are dead is probably throwing this game
Townsend is still up. There's no way he's throwing right, but like then again
He said that last game pig might be like the comeback genius
The CC though they're just coming in you see he's gonna go down it's a miracle
It's still up got their pairs down, but he said we'll go down to the next shop for sure
Gambits continue to flood in really just coming in 30 seconds
What can big do guys what can big do for me?
Pigs that pick and resign and go win the next the next few games
That's what they can do in my opinion. I think this games. There's no playing it. It's unplayable
Okay, it's not a windmill coming up
Settlement yeah
I think it's imp which is commendable that even got there by the way, but
You know his whole base is broken. He's got 69 bills
78 pop
Champions they're kind of doing work to be honest. They're actually over performing what we can expect from them
The castle of rugby is not hitting anything. I really like their attack in a major looks like they're spanking their opponents
Look at how they swing
They like bend their legs a little bit
I think it's good to make your opponent work for these wins if you let your opponent win
too easily they're gonna get too much confidence I feel like make them work for it maybe grab
Oh shit, thank god I won and then he you know, he doesn't feel like he's that much better and
Going to the next game. He's got some doubts maybe before running into the eco
So I feel like making a point of work for it's kind of good
It's just for my mental aspect
I'm not saying a little too close cast is about to finish though
So you can always garrison if you want to losing these monks. Yep shouldn't happen
At least Karambit is in and pigs days are numbered ladies and gentlemen
We're gonna have the one-on-one or a hands a dream final so far
would it be BM if suddenly now pig just does everything he can to fatigue grubby
and start sending villages to corners and start building and just spending time
wasting his time and energy it would be very BM yeah keep him keep him locked
in this game so it's a judgment call if you still have army and you still have
a chance to win technically then playing on is completely fine so right now it's
completely fine but like in 10 minutes if pig is running villagers around the
map that's gonna actually get you disqualified from tournaments it is
actually a rule that prevents that it's the sportsmanship rule yeah we don't
have it no we're not following that handball technically anything goes
people might hate him it might be kind of controversial but like judging from
how pig is it's called pig maybe it starts to get dirty
You have to roll in the mud?
Maybe.
You have to roll in the mud for the bacon, you know? It's all about the bacon.
And so far it's all grubby, excuse me, another slip of the tongue there.
It's all grubby so far in this arena match.
All the buildings going down and
Karambit's now with the final attack of the coming through.
Tiggs trying his best, again great resilience, but now two traps, two castles is locked into his base and grubby faction is
Securing the Golden Stone, but here we go. GG well played, Pig has tried his best, but ladies and gentlemen
We have an equalized game, an equalized grand finals, Grubby 1-1 on the score. Captain Lance, what do you make of this?
That was
Honestly a really good hold on his part. Yeah getting the monks out, getting each workshop out and actually
you know, Garrison and the monks in and out, keeping them out of death and then protecting his TC, killing the Rams, prioritizing getting those out and
and excellent defense.
Honestly, he did better than I did when I defended it.
My defense was a lot more scuffed, I feel like.
You have it.
Both of you ended up winning the Moisica strategies,
O2 per pig.
If he ends up losing the grand final,
you have to think back to like,
maybe not using the strategy,
maybe it has been a payoff.
He shouldn't have any doubts right now though.
It's all about him moving on to the next match.
It's all good for pig.
He's just to lock in and get to the next match.
Ladies and gentlemen, I need a little break.
So Yamato and Kampelans,
please fill into the comments area
before the next game starts.
Yeah, we got you. We got you. You know, you know, from, from basically these variants of pushes, right, very similar to Red Force, like the difference between your research, like resource distribution, I'm still thinking back about that one monastery that he built, where you cannot sustain production at all.
I think the prioritization in terms of how you spend your resources, you can't create
villies until you hit an equilibrium where you keep producing what you've got to produce.
I think at least from doing the samurai pushes, you can sustain on like 32 villages, no problem.
And then you can slowly build villages and keep producing from Castle and the siege workshop.
But here he didn't hit any equilibrium and he just had two little units when he finally
pushed because rams are just so much better in numbers. This is the only skill that I have.
I don't know if you knew about this way with the ram push, but I kind of was hoping he would just
keep working his way, killing the wall Gurbie had of houses in the monastery until he had more like
four or five rams to go for the T-Steel one because I feel like he was kind of trickle raminin.
Yep, yep. And I have to say the monk defense just seems too perfect against the temple warriors
if they have to like attack and stack to actually ramp their DPS. I think you gotta pop in and
now and you don't get to stack your thing. It's kind of just counterdutive stuff.
Did you feel like you were having many issues with Monks or not because the Samurai are
a bit faster?
It's annoying against the Civs that can garrison the Monks.
Definitely annoying because you kind of lose DPS, but it did feel okay because you get
the dash of the Samurai when they pop out, so you can always reach units and it didn't
feel as punishing exiting them and like going in and out of the Rams and then I
think I think the siege tower just adds so much mobility because it's such a
faster building and then something that is very helpful I didn't know what the
Red Force taught me this that build like units have height and yeah units like
like units have height and they block arrows and you don't need to be inside
things to block arrows. It was the same I needed to learn how to micro monks and
what are those bosses that the pohemians make?
Oh, the Saiwagans!
You need to perfectly fit the monks in like the square pocket. It was very hard to micro.
As you made the misstep one time it's instantly your your monk is shot in the eyeball. Yeah, that's tough
Rough
They're saying of the next match by the way game three is about to start between grubby and pig
Of course grubby is never to believe in this grand final
Pig is of course having the whole map next. He's got the choice between Arabia and arena
Find out what his choice is soon
Oh, I want to see more Arabia.
It's like I think it's chosen for every single home map choice he's had.
Yeah, tournament.
I like that.
Yeah, I think so as well.
That's why I think Grubby's going to do double arena
and he's going to save his brigandians for it.
I think Grubby's kind of showed his hand a little bit for good or for bad.
I don't know.
They shown his hands.
OK.
I want to see a red force from from Robbie.
You got to mix it up. It could happen.
It's such a it's such a gut punch.
Would you risk it, though?
Like you have so you can just pick your trusty like Vietnamese.
Oh, he already used them, but you can pick your trusty Ethiopians, your way,
your Mongols.
I hope it does a little patty rush.
A little one moment.
But like, isn't it?
the two forward ranges are like 17 pop all the archers yeah it's not that good
though in my opinion for this kind of a tournament because it's hard to end the
game with it but it maybe he'll go for it we'll see it's gonna be a rabie by the
way you matter sorry you're saying something I'll cut you off how rude of
me no I just I think the moment you don't see like if you're if you're going
into the game let's say you you go for you know you drop a little mug yards you
know yeah and the moment you see the enemy has an infantry sieve all right
you can pivot you can play a scaling game yeah your cab watchers are really
good and if there is no infantry sieve I have not seen anyone do like a crazy
archer harass push on anyone's gold lines or anything and I feel like that's the
only thing that can break a red force effectively so you don't like land
cleanly over obviously you have options you can like overload stone you can do
black changes to figure out, no for sure. But honestly, I'm just yapping because I want to see a red force in the final.
But actually what you're saying is really cool. Like, Pig has not been known to go for the infantry counter.
If he's not going infantry, like you said, there's no crazy hyper aggressive strategy that can counter the red fostero.
So Grubby's basically guaranteed to just be able to get up to the castle edge, throw down a castle and go for his unique unit.
I think you have a lot of sense there. That makes a lot of sense. Will he agree with you or will he play it safe?
From my perspective, Grober's the kind of guy who likes to play it safe, but I'm not sure.
It's a possibility, what's with the Maggers, you don't know.
He's got it in the back pocket.
I can say, my biggest mistake against you, right, when we played the World Cup 3 Finals,
was to not give it.
I played what I was the most comfortable in, but you adapted better.
And I think, like, when you're on the back foot and you just won and there's an expectation,
spend your whole time leading into the game, mentally preparing and also strategically preparing,
because I imagine like you coming into game three, I imagine the adjustments you were thinking about
was just how you break the base. You probably like saw how bad like I put my towers up and you
recognize you can attack the main because you made changes in that strength. By the way,
you know, at the two zero, sorry real quick, at the two zero, I was debating playing anti meta
with Beatles or I was debating playing the meta and I chose to play the meta because I felt like
I almost broke you in game two. I made a lot of mistakes but it was close so if I did that again
I can win and it worked but yeah I was making some adaptations for sure. Yeah yeah yeah because I
noticed like in game three you attacked my main a lot heavier because I just didn't put enough towers
there and you broke my main right I think it was like Echo Isles and that shifted the momentum a
bit but I can imagine like there if I just pivoted the strat maybe yeah maybe it throws off the prep
you know one one pile of rifle and I'm back to the I'm back to age of umpire's brother I was I was
cooked one pile of rifle for me even poorly done back then I had no clue that was like my strongest
strat and I didn't get to play the single time in the whole tournament I just fast exposed
at the pivot at the mix it up but the point is you want to see you grow you
kind of pivot a little mix it up you know it's like what he does is really
good and maybe it's enough honestly because the defense the defensive play
into boom into into tactical play as long as he finds like the right unit
composition I expect him to win because he definitely didn't find it against
the Sicilians but I think it's such a gut punch because it's a B05 you know
I do think throwing a gut punch and just like, you know, it's just really like a
Boom, just a leg kick, you know
If you're gonna go for something like that you want to do that one one usually because if it fails you still a chance
But if you do that to one you're gonna be in the situation
You should be nervous AF or like at one two you're gonna be like very nervous of oh my god
Like maybe maybe I shouldn't do this
You're gonna be kind of playing
Maybe a bit shaky maybe poorly but at one one you're gonna have that buffer zone where if you lose it's still fine
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My god, Robbie's going Koreans
It might be Red Foss or it might be a standard play. I don't know. I don't know talk to me talk to me about these sims
I don't know nothing about these things. I know our Vietnamese. Yeah, I've got the paper money all that jazz
All right, how about the Koreans? We've seen the Vietnamese captain Lance you you employed the Koreans early today
Talk to us about the Koreans while I fix these 50s cameras
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Alright, we'll do, alright.
Just kidding, the cameras are great, the cameras are great, the cameras are great, the cameras are great.
Okay, go ahead sir.
Okay, I pulled up the wiki, pulled up the wiki, I'm just reading some Korean, Korean booths.
Well, they have a lot of things concentrated in their ships, bro. There's no water.
There is no water.
Oh, the rocket carts. Koreans have the rocket carts.
Yeah, we don't know about the rocket carts.
that they don't belong in Age of Empires though, like what are we talking about?
facts, what are we talking about?
uh, bro, like
come on now
Well, the thing is what the Koreans here is that like their main bonus is that they get most of their uh soldiers
So their uh, rain soldiers infantry soldiers are 50% discounted in terms of wood. So it's like a spamming. So it's like a skirmish or spam
So they have a lot of decent options, but it's mostly about spamming units
But they also have a couple really strong units. They have the rocket car, very strong siege unit.
We talked about it. It's like a manganelle, but maybe a little stronger depending on who you ask.
You have the war wagon, the unique unit, which could be a really good
phosphorush by the way, which is why I'm quite excited about the Koreans.
If you want to see the phosphorush, it actually could happen with the Koreans and Grubby's map is so good.
Easy walls, stolen, a little suspicious, but you could wall in front of it. So we'll see if he goes for it. Oh my god!
Oh my god, he's ran through the town center. Four goats have died. We're gonna get an instant replay here
Oh my god, I think look what happened. He goes in he steals the goats. He's gonna walk up. No way
No way
Pig garrisons to try to kill the scouts all the sheep are dead all the sheep are dead
He was a nice little lame there. That's so good for him
That's real bro now. I understand where my coffee bars went the other day
that's real right then learn this in the William Wallace campaign that's crazy
oh you know who invented this? Who did? Red Fawc? No bro it is more than Red Fawc in the game by the way
I invented it I'm not proud of it because it's kind of degenerate I kind of invented it at least I
popularized it I didn't invent it but I gotta say though it was kind of weird that the goats have such
height like why did they tank the arrows bro yeah like the like the Hagocha stick
bro they're pretty good what's with the height I had the whole height
conversation our goats goats are tall bro like for some reason those arrows if
you check the instant replay bro those arrows were going wide bro like yeah
That's kind of true. Lot of Rot-Maxing games.
He's trying to harvest them. He realizes he can.
Yeah. Whatever he can from them, obviously they're all rotting away, so this is a pretty bad situation.
He's making the best out of it, but Grubby's been playing super aggressive here.
He's going to find a villager downhill, but this villager has Loom, so I think Pig should be fine.
Behind this Grubby, is he going for the Foss rush? I'm not sure. He's got a lot of food.
I don't think so, it's not on Barry's too much, he's getting Loom, it's gonna be a standard play from the Koreans for Grubby, standard Korean gameplay here.
Okay, did he already kill both Bors?
Yeah, he's already in both Bors, he just hasn't taken his chickens.
Is this common to double dip in the Goat Department and just saturate too, rather than picking up berries or starting to hunt the bunnies on the outside?
Cause they stay friends, you know, like, in the rush?
Yeah, I think it's okay, but you don't want to overdo that.
If you start like double eating and rot-maxing, as we've been calling it,
you're gonna come run into a situation where you just run out of goats and then it's a disaster.
So, I think, Robbie,
doing okay so far, but giving up the chickens is a conscious choice.
It's only six of them.
I mean, I see chickens, but they're actually bunnies, they're hairs, so...
Give up the rabbits,
and just gonna go for a barracks in the front, and probably just a range.
Just open up some archers, maybe.
We might see men arms, I'm not sure, maybe,
but uh it's not really the korean strength the men arms okay you did tell me they're cheaper right
in the in the in the lumber department in the lumber department in the archers and the infantry yeah
okay gold chopping is starting very late because you can't afford you can't even afford the mining
camp yeah so you have the hairs now and no men arms so no no militia coming out right now so it
looks like it might just be like rain soldiers from him which is it's a pretty good situation for the
the Koreans will you block the wall kid if he wants to will he block the wall
by the way very late uptime for for pigs like you can try to block the wall but
the scout is only a dark it's got so that grubby just gets it down it should
be completely fine for him okay
grubby gets few delays four more workers before the up yep which means late
feudal age, but it also means he has more resources collected by the time he gets to the feudal age so
it could be kind of beneficial for him as well.
When do you go for the lure the bunny to your TC strat?
You can do it, you can do any game, but if you do that on Arabia and your opponent comes to the scout
and he breaks one of the palisade walls it breaks the the whole funnel so it's only really good on arena I would say.
Okay, but it is possible on any map in theory.
Nice walls from Pig, by the way. Just goes through some nice quick walls, walls in the front, he's taking the bunnies on the left side.
He's got a nice barracks come up.
And looks like Grubby's gonna wall up and play some archers. So pretty solid Grubby gameplay here.
He likes to play some archers, likes to play ranged units for the most part.
It's not a tried and tested Ethiopans, but the cranes are quite solid as well.
Okay.
Grubby only has one on gold. Is that common if you do this? Alright, he's switching over. Three on gold now.
Yeah
Okay, they just think making sure to maintain production here for watches. Yeah
The thermal classic yeah almost you thermal the villager
But I would like to see like a house here just fully wall that that front
You can also wall the top like you can just fully wall your map and just be so safe for grubby
I'm like the one thing is not really doing ever is just fully walling first and then attacking afterwards of everything
It's a very good strategy, but Grubby seems to never go for that approach
Archer coming across the field, but he's gonna get caught out by the scout
Grubby has to keep this archer near the scouting. This is so perfectly picked. Just kind of passes by it
Archer's following across the map here. This is some early pressure
Dude, Pig does not even have a range. Pig is kind of flustered here. Pig is not in a good position. Oh
Damn, okay
I've got to do some looping now grubby find the pockets look at that lumber lumber line
He needs to start building. He needs to make a cut ASAP
Yeah, how are you very full? Oh?
Pretty bad passing there
These units have armor by the way arches with free armor for the Koreans grubby could doctor this villager first villager kill of the game
goes in favor of grubby the scout has to go back now pig does not have a range he
is just completely caught out here he hasn't had time he's making the cuts
now Yamato he's making some walls towel will help protect the school what's
your time yeah I guess the range I like the default back with the bills even
though you lost one I like the read there recognizing that the enemy doesn't
have a big enough army to reach critical mass yeah well guys
Archers will come.
Meet his meat, why can't you harvest the horse?
Maybe in the next edition, maybe in the next sieve we'll be able to harvest any of your
horses.
We've got some cannibals, harvest the pikemen.
Meet his meat, harrow rules.
A couple of archers running around here, the spear is actually crucial in defending those
guys.
Oh my god, good play from Grubby!
He sent a kite and teased the two archers alive and Pig is being kind of forced in a
weird area here.
This is terrible for him.
He's going to lose another villager most likely.
Very low in the lilly.
He could.
She could surround.
Yeah, she could surround.
Hit him twice.
If she's going to die anyway, you might as well kill him, but Pig didn't think about
that and Pig is kind of getting pressured really hard.
They're at the range now with the skirmishers, but overall I feel like Grubby, oh my god,
already up the castle.
It's really fast castle.
He sold the stone!
What is this? I've never seen this from Grubby before.
He sells the stone!
This is prestige and gameplay from Grubby.
Wow, very fast uptime.
This must be the Orleans, right?
And just playing off of cross-flow upgrades?
I think so.
Are we gonna see another archer range?
Second range?
No, it's a blacksmith.
Blacksmith is great.
Blacksmith for fletching.
Would you like to see a forward seed, Shimado,
from your perspective?
Your forward seed would be nice.
I think that I would, honestly,
Considering you already get the upgrade, and it's cheaper in the armor department, I'll move a couple of more workers from wood to gold, and I'll just slam another proxy little archery range.
I would just commit fully. Especially with how this wood line is looking, the berry line, and the design of the base, I think the archer is going to win the game.
Yeah, honestly, you have a good point here. Fletcher coming in, a lot of harass, but Pig with some active defense here, looping around with the skirmishers.
This could be about the Archers, Grubby, great job from Grubby, just runs out at the perfect time, stays out of the Skirmish range.
Latching is in now as well.
Oh no, the Jaguar.
Wait, wait, Grubby is not going to go Archers actually, he's going to go for armor on infantry, he's going to go Fire Lancers to counter the Skirmishers.
He has baited Pig into going Skirmish, that's kind of smart.
He went three Archers, Pig is going to make a lot of Skirmishers now, he's going to Sea Castleage.
Grubby has smartly hid the archers to not show how many he has.
If he just shows the three again with no upgrades, Pig is like, oh, he's not making them.
But if he hides now, Pig is like, oh my god, I need to make more skirmishers.
I guarantee you'll make another skirm here, unless you'll save the castle.
He's got two options.
Grubby shows the archers though, I really wouldn't do that.
Now Grubby kind of shows his hand, but it's going to be a forward teach workshop,
Fire Lancer Siege.
Okay.
Very strong combo here.
Well, you already have access to the fire lance, it's just like that, that's crazy.
Yep.
Castle Age only requirements.
A sense of blacksmith here, Pig is looking to try to get to the next age, he has cut
the skirmish of production as she should, well played to him there.
I thought there could be more at stake or more at play with the mind games, but looks
like Pig is kind of razor focused on the Castle Age.
But it's just like in kind of scary a model, it's plus two armor, fire lance is very good,
have you seen the fire lance, have you seen them earlier?
The rams can be kind of nice.
They start looping.
Rocket carts are coming out.
Not rams.
What is their... are the fire lances similar to pikemen?
They're basically just improved pikemen.
So they're stronger?
Or what is their damage type?
They're way stronger than pikemen, but they operate in a similar way.
So they're kind of in between a pikeman and a swordsman.
They're a pretty good all-around unit, but they have a specialty against cavalry.
And they also shoot a gunshot every like minute or so, so they can all have a special gunshot
ability every minute. It's quite a strong unit. We have a second Monastery for Grubby. I don't know
why we're not even making Monk from the first one, but okay. Thank you Monastery.
Right, I like that the rocket cut.
I would attack the woodline right away. Yep. I guess this is good entry point too, I know.
Just go into the Lancers, go straight into the woodline. Grubby, great job with the archers.
This continues to harass and pull back.
He's so annoying with those two archers behind your wood line.
Pig is not even flicked up to the next age,
and there's guns and rocketcarts coming into base.
This is terrible for the futile-aged pig.
Oh my God.
I have to say this, this rocketcard is very deep though.
It is deep.
Nothing can kill it though right now.
Like maybe some villagers actually, hold on.
Ooh, good attack round from Grubby.
Firelands is coming back in.
Damage is crazy as well on the bottom.
The violence is kind of destroying everything right now, there's no counter, the villager
comes with their pair, the villager comes with their pair, oh my god, he's gonna keep
it alive, takes a huge shot, kills another villager, and grubby is cooking.
Now he's a super prepared, but that villager isn't even close, but that's just the longest
hammer on earth, at a distance, jesus.
This villager is there from grubby, that's pretty sick.
Now he's just kind of cooking, there's one rocket car, six kills so far, the firelensers,
11 kills between the four of them. This is such a good play from Grubby. I absolutely love this
This is just look how far away the castle ages
Yeah, one minute 30. Dude, Pegas completely lost. I'm so happy he didn't go for my plan with the devil
Doubling down the crossbows. I would have lost on the spot to all the skirmishes. Yep
What a pivot Grubby pivoted to those fire Lancers the two rocket cars as well was a fantastic addition
He also has the monks behind me. No, he's made two modicaries not a single monk. He's just wasted the one
He's thanks for score, baby, I like the vision you're not only keeping up here
Well, it's just coming in but dude pigs just taking so much damage. I don't see a way back for him right now
And we'll kill the rocket car. It's a small one for pig
Well, he will kill the one bottom hold on maybe maybe with that he can hold a bit
But 26 villagers dude. He's lost half of his economy
He's got half the economy towards grubby right now 17 villagers have been killed grub. He's in such a good and commanding position
You could add in some economy behind us or you could just continue to push got a couple options here
Pig hits castlet. Can he stabilize at all or is it just too late?
They make his own fire Lancers. Okay, Vietnamese fire Lancers are more expensive than the Koreans
They have a regular price for them, but they have more HP so more hit points quite. Thank you
Okay, cool, cool.
I like these archers are just chilling in the woods, you know, they're just there, they're
like what job is done, you know, we're enjoying retirement.
Yeah, the other couple kills on them, it's done so much damage, there's a few archers,
like unupgraded just random archers, Gambit's coming in extra armor for the fire lancers.
I have to say, Grubby's loops in terms of like getting base information and finding
all the villagers, he's done this better than anybody in the tournament.
Yeah, I agree.
Just finding that wood line and just spreading his units around, overloading the enemy really.
Finally some monks coming out.
One monastery will be in charge of picking up the relics and one monastery in charge
of healing.
Killing up your army and then fighting with it again and again is a really good strategy.
Especially against a guy that's really hurt bad like Pig.
A couple of rocket cars coming out.
You're trying to take out the front buildings here nice and easy
Violences could be for pig you could look for some kind of counterattack. It's not a bad idea
Grubby's kind of walled me down a hole in the front. I mean, they're slow
But they'll get there read it perfectly don't monks just counter these violences so hard. Can he be reached?
Yeah, I mean violence is okay versus monks, but they do die to them as well
but Grubby's locked in on that relic so he's not gonna convert with that monk, but
He's breaking down
this house and bear a combo
You can get there a pair of me for the release. Yeah, he's gonna go for now, but as he walks towards it goes back
It's good plan both sides
Holy grubby is good. Oh careful big counterattack big counterattack. That's decent. It's giving us something to get excited about at least
You call that wall over here. Yep at a wall little pocket
But yeah, I think I just realized is all that sacrifice to do liberal. Yeah. Oh
Couple finances going in we have the rocket cards couple monks as well could get some conversions
Monk will die finances are waiting in the meantime. Remember these are cheap Korean fire lancers
So grab is in a great position. I honestly just don't see a way back for pig
He's trying his best gotta give him credit for that, but it's looking grim right now. Oh
It's so tough
The RTS multitasking is kicking in.
Yeah, like these these level situations are so Warcraft 3 coded
And the situation we saw on Registrar Fortress was so Starcraft coded.
Yeah
A lot of army versus like little units good for Warcraft, a lot of units good for Starcraft
more or less, you know and
Siege Workshop here
Kind of idle. I would like to see more
I feel like just walking us are so good here. He got all the buildings. You can hit the fire lances. You can hit the villagers
Definitely got the gopher. Yeah, and the wood
We also has relics behind this he's got 5,000 more reaches collected any any hope for pig here
Not at all
I can only the only hope is if Grubby doesn't reorient his workers because he sent them all to wood because of the harass
He just needs to put them back on gold. Yeah, true
Everything is chopping wood and when he does that he will realize any moment now and I think it's gonna be in the clear
The production will resume
Origin coming in rock card is working away the market pick a shot a hole this tower looks good
But rock cards, you know gonna move in onto that tower. Fire lances will kill the market
I feel like grubby has just played this one so perfectly good call in the fire lances transition
What's funny is that I was talking about the fire lancer being broken in all coaching sessions to everybody by the way
Not just grubby. I'm not even meeting here to everybody. I was telling him sing sing. I said in the fire
You matter you're especially
Tell me you did tell me about the Turkish arena strat. Yeah the fast imp
Yeah, which we haven't seen yet. Maybe we'll see in the finals, but no no fast but here
We are seeing the fire Lancers. They're very strong and both players going for them both first kind of finally figuring out their power
Market will go down, towers going to go down, Pig with one last desperate counter attack
but Grubby already has a Town Center there, he's farming up, making sure his economy is
solid behind this.
This could be a nice counter attack, Pig is getting some value there, but no it's not
enough.
Pig calls the GG, Grubby goes up, 2-1, Grubby takes the lead for the first time in the Grand
Finals and he's now one game away from winning the entire Kingsgala GG in the chat, Grubby
has played a fantastic game and he's been the Vietnamese of pig which have been so reliable pig now
has the chinese on arabia and like nothing else that he's really leaned on this is like his last
really good sieve in my opinion the chinese coming up you know what's uh you know the stakes of
this tournament is is far greater than than than just the the what what is on the surface you know
in terms of what we've seen in terms of time investment and competing against one another
and the price pool and the honor and the reputation. It goes beyond in the sense that
when I played against you, right, it's like you and your prime, right? You and your prime,
you're smurfing in age of empires. I'm past my prime in terms of play, you know?
Fair enough, yeah.
But what it meant for me in that moment is that there's many moments in your life
Well, you think to yourself, if I wanted to, I could, you know, and being able to take the
opportunity when you get challenged on that idea, if I wanted to, I could, and go all the way and
win a damn tournament, this means more than anything. Yeah, yeah. Because if Grubby walks
away from this tournament, you can always say, if I wanted to, I could. You want me to be the
best Walker 3 player again? If I wanted to, I could. You want me to be the best at anything? If I
wanted to, I could. And let me tell you, for anyone that has been competitive, even for you,
Hera, there will come a time where maybe you're past your prime, you know, age of Empire tournaments,
maybe in five, six, seven years, maybe something, you know, maybe it's going to be tough to win,
Maybe some youngster is gonna start sprinting the game and gonna run the game maybe in that moment when you play less
You know, maybe your family man. You have a couple of children
You know, you you you know, you're teaching them the ropes are to play each of Empires
You're teaching the heart to Red Force and all that jazz in that moment
You're gonna be like yo if I wanted to I could I could smoke all these people and
That ego that voice that competitive voice is always going to scream at you
So all the OGs coming back together to compete in Age of Empires, it's all about leaning into that ego, that voice.
And I can imagine for Grubby, you know, winning this tournament, everyone put pressure on the guy.
You know, everyone assume he's gonna win.
Bro, suddenly everyone's climbing Elo, left to right.
We have people reaching 1800.
Suddenly this Wagamama climbs 400.
Suddenly we have an upset win.
You know, it wasn't easy.
It wasn't easy.
not easy at all and now we're facing match point it is all about the glory of
the tournament but it's also to satisfy that voice if I wanted to I could I'm not
gonna lie that was actually really really well said like that that was a lot of
real thoughts there probably rushing through where we's mind right now I
think it would mean a lot for him to win and at the same time I feel like it
would mean a lot for pick to win as well like being able to take a worker
through World Champion, someone that was considered the favorite tournament beforehand, someone
that got the highest elo, a pig for him to go undefeated would be insane.
There's a huge storyline there for him as well, but I totally agree with you.
The grubby just being able to do that like way past his prime, I think it shows how good he was
at his prime. It would be a lot for him for sure, especially knowing the kind of person he is.
He put in a lot of work for this event as well, so it really would mean a lot for him to win.
What's that in my mind?
I got to say as well from Pigside, he has the purest place to pull confidence from,
which is of course the simple idea that he has won this match before.
He has won this match before.
There's no reason why things need to be so different.
In the chess game, you know, of recognizing what has actually worked is like pulling.
I think based off of that first game, pulling, of course, grubby into deep waters.
It seems that grubby is the most uncomfortable when he's playing against something he hasn't
seen before.
Yes, I'm wondering if Pig has some strategies that we haven't seen because he didn't play
the Sicilian before.
Right.
Yeah, it's the first time.
The Sicilian game.
First time.
Maybe he has something cooking. Maybe he has something cooking.
I think that's why you attack Grubby in the Knowledge Department.
That's an interesting way because I always talked about Age of Empires was frustrating.
But also the beauty of the game is that there's so many knowledge checks.
You have to know about the Musaka, you need to know about the Sicilians,
you need to know about the Don Jones, you need to know about the Castle units.
You need to know about the bonuses and you need to know which units to do in there.
pocket because it's very very vast and wide and I think that's where where pig
came find an advantage because in terms of you know if you lean into grab his
comfort but he's easy easy easy this like real-time Brazilian jiu-jitsu you
know it's like oh he tried to sweep his leg then he sweeps your leg and then he
has you in an armbar and then suddenly you're trying to break out of the armbar
too late he is already biting your ear for some reason because there's no rules
My Tyson?
All about winning.
My Tyson, baby.
That's crazy.
I mean, there's one thing to talk about here.
So there's one more Arabian game guaranteed for Pig.
And I really believe after that, Grubby
will take a Serena if he loses this Arabian game for Pig.
So Pig has one choice.
Does he go for the Chinese, his best civilization,
or does he go for that Wu?
The Wu with the meta-armored to Jan Stordsman
that he surprised Grubby with and was able to take that win
against them.
Very very strong strategy. He could go for it again against grubby snag a quick win on arabia or he could play the chinese
He's tried and tested, you know one of the bestives in the game. Just go for that one. He's got that choice to make
It's a very difficult choice to make. It's they're gonna make it right now. They're in the lobby
Because I believe that pig wins this next game grubby will take game five to arena because he's got brigandians left
And I don't think that grubby will let the grand finals go without playing brigandians on arena
It's been his best civilization, he has a 100% win rate with it in this tournament.
He hasn't lost a single arena with Burgundians.
I feel like that's what's coming for a game five, even if Pig wins this game four.
So it's going to be very, very interesting to see what Pig this has to go for
and whether Grubby can actually win this game
and whether he's going to take us back to arena afterwards.
It's super interesting the last couple of games, or even the last one game,
depending on how it goes ahead of us for the grand finals.
Thank you all for tuning in, by the way.
I know it's really late and it's my first time organizing this event and any event this size.
So I know the days were long. I will definitely certainly learn from this for the next edition,
of course, add in some more days and whatnot. I know it's been a long day.
Like how many hours have you streamed the last four days, brother?
So it was 15 and a half.
Yeah, just the last four days, 15 and a half hours, 12 hours, 12 hours,
and now 13 hours 15 minutes and counting it's literally
one of the hardest things I've done by the way for sure on stream
and I'm happy to do the camera work and all that jazz doing the commentary yeah accommodating all
the homies that are coming by as well it's this it's hard work it's hard work for sure yeah well
put some ads right now so there's no ads in game sorry go ahead Yamato
I don't know, bro, just max them out, bro, go into the ad section and just all the way
to drag that slider.
I actually minimized the ad, I'm losing a lot of money off it, I can just screw them
over 20 minutes of ads every hour, but I'm only on 3 minutes which is the lowest, so
kind of keeping it as nice as possible for the viewers.
Put some ads now, no ads in the game, should be good.
in the lobby here.
You built a monastery next to your house.
It pious.
How are they?
All right, you said Wu, right?
So it's the pop smoke sieve.
Yeah.
What are the Chinese, right?
Like Chinese are also really good.
Okay.
Do they also have fireworks?
The Wu, yeah, Chinese have the rocket carts.
The woo, I think have manganese, I think, I'm not 100% sure.
Lovely.
It's already, I don't know if I see the wave,
I see the tip of the sun.
Oh, the sun's coming out, that's crazy.
You've been playing it all night, Yamato.
Thanks for staying here.
Are you tired at all?
Yeah.
I'm like, physically fatigued.
In the brain, I feel very awake.
It's just my eyes, I have a lot of eye issues
and the giga driver who's told you before that raises.
So I'm just like blink maxing, you know?
Like.
I feel like you have a lot of resilience as a person though.
Like, I feel like if you have to work 16 hour days,
it's like a week straight, I feel like you do it.
Like, we saw it kind of like the workouts.
You kind of play these long days.
You know, during the work of three,
the work of three months, right?
Yeah.
I think I streamed like 380 hours.
It's ridiculous.
That's really ridiculous.
Which is kind of sick, like.
Yeah.
I feel like you create a nice bond
with your viewers at that point.
Like, I tell my viewers all the time,
it's like, when we're doing like a four hour stream,
it feels like it's a business.
I'm coming on I got a four-hour show. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna leave there's that barrier
But like a 12-hour stream it's just like you get that bond going like at that point
It's just like a bunch of homeless children
But with all that said guys let's hop into this next game the app session is over
They started the game we're hopping right in and we have the Chinese from pigs
So he's went with his strongest sieve and not anything that's gonna surprise Grubby
But it's something that he's tried and tested it's worked really well for him and Grubby is going for his Ethiopians
One of his best civilizations historically on Arabia and one that he feels confident to win the entire tournament with ladies and gentlemen
It's match point for grubby in the grand finals of the Kings Garland
Thank you all so much for watching so far pig is using his tried and tested Chinese as I mentioned and
It's one of the bestives on Arabia and he's done really well with it
In fact, he beat out grubby in their earlier matchup in the bracket using the Chinese in that game five
Of course, it is a game for not the same stakes
But it's still do or die. By the way, I need to sheet back in. Oh, this could be kind of a bad start
We should be fine. You might have talked to me about the Chinese here in the Ethiopians. What do you vibe and now?
What do you feel in vibe based on these civilizations?
Honestly, I don't know shit about these tips, but I gotta say, you know in terms of
Where the fatigue is that both players they are facing very unique challenges, you know
It's also the pressure, you know, you can feel it a little bit the pressure definitely
It's like, your match point, psychology can definitely play a big part, but obviously both of these guys in different ways have so much tournament experience and they are very well aware of the pressures that people are under.
But being under the gun, playing a different game than what you used to.
I wonder if we're going to see any differences or maybe some unforced errors that maybe these guys aren't going to make, or if there's going to completely clutch up and show us like a new evolution.
kind of like we did, you know, we're kind of doing like, I felt like our finals, the one that we played to me,
that was the best games I've made in tournament by far, you know, close in the early parts.
I was kind of, I felt like I was kind of choking or something else.
It's in team, you know, not finishing the game.
After you kind of locked into the finals, let's see what comes of it.
I always say that competition might have been as 50% mental and 50% skill, preparation, all that stuff.
But the mental aspect is super, super underrated, 100% concentrated power of will.
There you go. I actually get that reference, which is rare for a model one, but I got you. That's a classic though
That's an easy one a second board coming in for a grubby
Nice and early borrowers here for him not looking to take any risks
He's got four on wood needs a house though can't forget the house. Those are the unforced areas you're talking about
Goes for it though. Wait, is this is this red false?
Red false can at the open can at the open is red false
Because I'm just seeing four on wood and very early pickle
And now he's going to Berries. He's pulling two Berries. He's pulling two Berries on 100 wood.
This is full-on Red Force. Can you do it with the Europeans?
You can, you can.
Uniqueness is a Hotel Warrior. It's a very strong infantry.
It's actually very, very powerful if you can pull it off correctly.
And I wouldn't be surprised if, you know, potentially Grubby has prepared this.
He's played a lot of standard Ethiopian games, a lot of archers, a lot of standard builds,
Standard builds, men of arms, all the good stuff.
If he had prepared a red frost build,
that would be crazy, it's brilliant.
He's keeping the scout in the base.
Early pig, he pulled the pig on six,
and then he pulled the second one instantly,
keeping the safe res, and then insert to bury on 100 wood.
Four on one very well.
Oh my God, it's actually a red frost build.
Just so right now.
Saturation.
It's saturation, so how many do you need?
If it's not eight, seven?
The thing is, I think that you should send eight,
because you should long, like these chickens are very safe.
I think you can two men kill the chickens
and you should send eight to berries
based on position of everything.
Wait, so you want to saturate the berries the whole time?
So eight to saturation is good?
I will send eight in this particular state.
Kind of strange to kill instantly the goats
because that's your safe resources.
I don't think he's going for it though, no matter.
I think he's playing a regular build.
Depends if he's sending the next village to stone.
No, no, no, it's not Red Fawcett.
It's not Red Fawcett, it was looking kind of close though.
I saw the vision to be fair from what you were talking about.
But it's going to be a men-at-arms build, most likely,
for the Ethiopians here.
He's playing with it, he's playing what it's like to play
so far in the tournament.
Pig getting a little close there,
but no Garrison from Grubby.
500 food though, exactly for the ClickUp.
It's going to be men-at-arms, most likely, from Ethiopians.
Fair enough, it's a good strategy up against the Chinese here.
Chinese is pulling in some chickens, very nice.
He'll be obviously taking some of those.
Barracks on the front.
Looks like a fast feudal for the Chinese.
They can play archers, they can play skirm spear.
They can play into pretty much whatever their heart desires.
You can also just go for scout opening.
We've got so many options with the Chinese,
which is why it's such a good civilization.
He's up two villages from the start, by the way.
That's the Chinese start kind of kicking in.
More rest collected.
It's why there's such a strong civilization.
Grubby has a competitive feudal each time though,
and he will pull in some gold
We would afford that third militia and he'll get men of arms because Ethiopians get that hundred extra gold as the age up to the feudal age.
So it's in the men of arms after all, which is a decent start for the Ethiopians.
And as far as I know, Ethiopians, they have the bonuses for the archers.
Is that what we're gunning for? We're going to see archer heavy builds.
So, archers are a good part of the Ethiopian strategy. The archers attack, you know, 18% faster, I think, which is a nice bonus, having faster-firing archers.
However, they can play like a number of things. They've got camel options. You can play a pikeman. They get pikemen up for free.
You can go for some siege. You can go for some infantry. But mainly archers, and Grubby has shown to actually really like the Ethiopian archers.
Wolf on the front is a bit unlucky there for him, and Pig is just walling up. So it's going to be a men of arms problem into archers. Pig!
Straight onto the archers.
Scout strap now, yeah, that's true.
Kill the villagers though.
Grabbing so good I'd be annoying.
There's a pocket there in the northern wood, okay.
Wolf will get cleared up.
Half of Malisha is just kind of dead because of that wolf.
It's a little unlucky for Grubby.
Yamato, this pocket up top could be
actually something that Pig doesn't know about.
He kind of knows, but he's not walling it right now.
That's a freaky woodline.
Like, what was that hole in the wood, bro?
wood bro that is like that wood line is balding bro like that is that's male pattern ball
that's I've ever seen it it's not looking good for that wood line all right three men arms
on the field scout that go down to grubby not off to like a historic start with these
men arms and dude honestly pig with these walls and the archer range I think this is fantastic
for the Chinese just defend your base nice and early with some archers I feel like that's
really, really good for him.
Really like the base design. Very nice base layout.
Two cuts.
Yeah, it's coped to to punch palisades.
So you don't have to endlessly, you can even build another one.
Like, this is not progress progress.
Oh, pig, it's that archer, but Grubby's there with the spear.
Good spearman there.
With that spear, the archer could actually be in trouble to that scout.
That archer's gonna force a lot of potential movement here, though.
Grubby's got that one Archie's gonna try to micro his broken through the palace. It's not as cope as you think it is
We matter. That's a bill dead
Good stuff from Grubby kills the villagers. It's not that cope with teams
We need to see a couple of skirmishes. I think the production of the
Archery range could have been a little bit quicker
Yep, I agree
He cracked the gold
Doesn't he have a safer gold in the back? Why is he harvesting this one?
I could take it. I actually agree with you taking this gold, especially when the chickens ran out, you could just go straight to that gold.
Could have been really nice. Taking that forward gold, especially when the rest of your base is so safe, was kind of a misplay.
But maybe, again, we talked about that fatigue. Pig is actually playing quite late for him.
He might not be thinking about all these little details. Of course, both players are certainly fatigued.
Grubby's on his fourth set of the day and Pig's playing at odd hours here in Australia, so fatigue is certainly part of it.
You know me walling off at least
It's either a wall or it's a zero-mobile. Are you a thermal?
It's gonna be a wall
We've got a weak man arms just chilling in the corner. I like that. He pulls them back
He doesn't let the he doesn't want to let the kill go to pigs
It's just gonna conserve that guy for later a little bit of vision
Maybe more just coming up from grubby and a blacksmith behind this one is he's used to eat the opens
You know kind of perfectly so far
very happy with how he's been playing them but we have scrims on the other side
Chinese skirmishers are solid good farming for pig as well likely these
beans at the table could use a blacksmith now blacksmith now would be
fantastic for pig
big walls for grubby and this is something that I like because grubby
always keeps himself exposed getting the walls down playing safe I like
to see that for Grubby. I think that's a good choice honestly.
Tries to find some some some holes in the defense too. Keeping his units busy. Always
be moving.
There's some little looping going on.
One rule to make about military. Always be moving.
Yeah.
Because you can always get a vision, right?
If you're not moving, it's better be to protect some siege unit, bro.
Yeah, yeah. I actually agree with that for sure.
A little bit of a loop here for Grubby to try to hit this brief piece of pellicide.
It's not going to do much though because Pig is already going back to defend, but just
forcing Pig to defend is kind of okay.
While you set up your walls, I think Grubby's more than happy to get those walls set up.
Square walls, that's usually like a cardinal sin, diagonal walls, that's usually better.
You want a wall, the hypotenuse guys.
Grade 8 math.
Grubby's got to go back, take a lesson.
A couple of minute arms go under the TC, but overall I feel like those straight walls
were cheaper are straight wall cheaper nope the angle would be way better
because you make less walls yeah oh someone told me they're cheaper straight
walls I think you got some wrong information to be honest
oh there's a hole there's a hole in the back remember that ball but that ball
thing woodline there's a passage yeah this woodline needs to give it up bro
It's gonna go bro
But no the skirmishers gonna close the gap on the archers
Grubber trying to get the best shape possible. He's got the middle arm in there
He's actually doing really good work. He's gonna kill a couple of scrims overall. Yeah, but well played by Pig
He clears up the army
Garrison's beautiful run away with that low HP skirmisher clears up the archer
I think he's really happy about that pig gonna survive for now, but Grubby look at that already up to the next age
So good one step ahead
head.
Pack up full wall off as well for any counter damage.
I don't know.
The punches are just landing, and then he's ready for the counter
always ready for the counter.
And then as pig without information,
because that's the thing as well, when you're harassing,
you have full information.
He doesn't know what's cooking on the other side.
He doesn't even know if there's a second army coming.
He doesn't know if there's a tech already.
He doesn't even know if the wall's up.
Yeah, Piggy's trying to scout, by the way, fairness to him,
but you're so right that when you're not attacking,
you have barely any vision.
Like, look at the second ranges behind the walls.
Grubby's preparing that castlage,
and Piggy's no idea of any timings
that's being hit from the other side.
Piggy's about to clear up the castlage himself.
Mark gets up, he can go up the castlage now.
40 seconds away from Grubby's castle,
but Piggy's at least attacking,
so he might buy some time with those skirmishers.
No fire lance or switch,
It's gonna be just crossbow play from Grubby right now.
I don't know how you feel,
but I feel like if skirmishers are not hitting archers,
I feel like they don't do anything.
I feel like they are doing,
they are doing some acupuncture,
to even villages, you know, they got loom.
It's like, it's comfort for, look at that village.
They didn't give a fuck, they didn't even stop mining,
bro, he just kept going.
You're actually so right.
Like skirmishers, they're a great candidate for archers.
But without hitting archers you're not doing much and actually Pigg just goes back
He sees the passage. He's maybe might be scared of some knights
Of course we talked about that lack of vision that lack of vision, but there could be like 10 stables back here
He's got no clue so he just goes back to play it safe
Which is actually kind of smart from his end and pig will finish his walls to play extra safe at home
Grabbing movies out with only six archers. It's not great
But they are crossbows with bodkin and maybe a forward siege now yet the forward seed
He's loved that strategy, so has Uthermo by the way,
the two potentially best Arabian players of the tournament,
although Pig certainly a cup to Arabian player
in his own right, could easily be considered up there as well.
So look at the scum, so now,
kind of out of position for a little Lupera.
Yeah.
The lack of mobility on some of the infantry units
is not infantry, but like the human beings that are walking.
Yeah.
Position is so key.
Oh, a label.
Oh, a couple villagers going down.
Pig's got a react.
He lost only one.
Lost only one.
It's not terrible.
By the way, he doesn't see the workshop.
Oh, wait, what?
Oh, he sees it now.
I actually understand why.
I think now see it.
Because the crossbows, when they attack you, give vision.
They're shooting.
Yeah.
And they walk back, so they actually
give vision of the siege workshop.
Very cool mechanic in Age of Empires.
And so information goes to Pig.
He now knows who he's up against.
He's trying to go for some Fire Lancers.
Fire Lancers Scrimmage is really good to counter this,
but you need a lot of upgrades for that combo.
I don't know if he's got time to get those upgrades.
The Magano is already coming out for Grubby.
Ballistics coming in.
Well, Magano, yeah, there it is, it's coming out now.
Archer, Magano, Ballistics, this is a very big push.
Grubby's investing into a lot of tech.
No extra talent center for him.
Pig is going for the extra talent center.
All he has to do is hold.
You just have to hold here,
but holding is so difficult
because Grubby's got a great army.
Are those upgraded scurms already?
Yeah, elite scurms.
It's already in.
Oh, nice.
He even has armor.
He's missing bot can arrow,
but the armor is the most important stat
for the skirmisher when you're up against the archer.
You want to take less damage on a tank
and be able to walk forward.
I like this from Grubby.
A nice little cheap Ethiopian outpost.
They don't cost any stone.
They have extra vision.
You want to make them.
Good scouting, by the way, from Pig.
Both players playing phenomenal.
Seriously, really high level match.
How do the Fire Lancers, how well do the Ferragans siege units?
Are they capable of taking them down?
Yes, sure.
If a Fire Lancer closes the gap on a Manganol, they destroy the Manganol.
However, if the Manganol is protected with some crossbows, suddenly it's not so easy, you know?
So, Fire Lancer needs to hit the Manganol, he needs to avoid the crossbow.
If a pesky militia that really sapped the resources away from Pig,
will not really achieve a whole lot, that unit's pretty bad right now.
The chat is saying, one militia to send a message, maybe, maybe, a little bit of psychological
pressure there, two houses will go down, Grubby's push is alive.
I would sit on the hill and just take out the barracks, honestly here.
I wouldn't want to push past this.
It has a flag on it, it's pretty scary.
Two of Grubby decides, going to go for the range.
He's looking to, you know, kind of zone in on this army.
A couple of attack grounds, always getting some good hits.
Pig is looking to fight.
The eject onto the barracks.
is the big clear up for pig can you go for it fire lancers look at a close the gap onto the manganals
with the mangos
the mangos are slow
yep
well that's big
that's huge
piggy holds
got a back off right
are you continuing
ooh i don't like how the lancers are walking in
a lot of lancers went down
oh manganal oh my god
he whiffs
air ball
to set things off
grab your gashy fight
we gotta defend
the mango
good hiding from us
are not as expandable. I don't remember the double TC though is doing a lot of work. The
village account is popping off here for Pig and he's harvesting a lot of gold. Is that
another TC and base or what is that building? Is that a siege workshop in university?
It's a monastery and I have a range coming up so a lot of buildings being invested into
from Pig, maybe even too many. I don't know if he's going to be able to afford everything
from these buildings that he's committing to.
Research collected exactly the same, but 14.1 thousand.
Grubby's gonna add a second town center back home,
not to continue committing to the 1 DC.
We'll make a monastery for Relics as well.
Counterattack with the skirmishers
could be a bit nasty actually to deal with.
We'll take a look back at that, but for now,
it looks like Grubby would just take out the barracks.
Now I'll say I hate these skirmishers
walking out to counter harass.
You don't like that, Ed?
I get it, because once again,
like they, I don't care if they're elite,
I don't care if they're the president of skirmishes.
They don't do any damage to buildings,
they don't do damage to villages.
Like this, you gotta be fighting these crossbowmen.
Go back to the home, brother.
I agree with you, but pick up reinforcements is not bad.
Yeah, I think we're even happy with that.
This is solid, this is solid.
Yeah, this is good.
We can get on board with that.
Grubby running past with a few crossbows.
This is possible while there's no ballistics
for these skirmishes, but ballistics coming in 45 seconds.
Once you get that, you can hit movie targets
with ease. Crossbow, Magna on the front here for Grubby, he's doing very very well for
himself. I like how the manganelles are hiding in the debris bro, they're just blending in.
Kind of true. Keep a nice attack ground here. I don't think he saw them, they're in the
debris, debris is cleared now though. A couple Lancers going down pretty quickly, Botkina
coming in, a lot of tech coming in for Pig for these skirmishers. Not that many Crossbows
here, honestly, I think Grubby might have to just go back. Crossbows have to hit the
Lancers, Megan else will hit the skirmishers. That's the plan for grubby
The kiting all good kiting from grubby, but pig is doing really well
He's gonna kill both back now
Now you know from the back back the lances this time he learned. Oh my god, buddy. It's like the last one
That's insane. The magnet all has no counter right now, but pig pushes this back. It's such a close game honestly
I complain about those skirmishers, but they they did an amazing amount of work
Yeah, like just can you just check how many they killed ten?
Ten of the reinforcements they flanked to yeah, you're full actually. Yeah, really good play. I like that
That's why I was eliminated in the first one
Don't say that bro. You're good. You're good. That wasn't the reason anyway
But it's good. They could have been a mistake, you know
You got the skirmishers, but they came out really clutching the end cutting off some of those reinforcements
Manganaw coming out and getting chased away by the fire lancer honestly. It's a vantage pig
I can't believe we're saying this this advantage pig. We might be heading into a game five for this grand finals
What the monks are starting to get produced
Two monks only for pig random
You know what I'd love to see if he just upgrades the monks to steal the manganelles. Oh, you like that, huh?
Problem is steal the buildings instead of breaking this building. It is
wall all over on the building I'm so sorry to tell you this but neither
civilization has that attack you don't have redemption on either side yeah yeah
huge that's not what you want to hear I really need a game five I need a game
five injected into my damn veins I need a game five I think we're headed there
honestly like pig is the hell beautifully and I feel like grubby he's not
bad position like he's got good eco he's actually it's everything still
playable but against the Chinese it's really hard to win when they get map
control skirmishers need to get buffed on damage on the on workers bro you know
skirmishers are really broken and pro play by the way we do not need buffs
and skirmishers they got nerf recently and they're still strong give them just a
a little bit more damage than Billy, come on now.
Plus one damage to Billy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, it's enough.
Delete Loom from the game.
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Delete Loom?
Actually, it's only used in pro level anyway.
Yeah, delete Loom and nothing changes in this tournament,
to be honest.
The people just have an extra 50 gold at the time.
That's all it changes.
Honestly, I played two games, I got Loom twice,
and I lost.
use with causation. That's 50 Gs imagine I have another samurai.
All right, that's an aggressive TC place. Look at that TC.
TC coming out of the big. I love the status.
I mean, he landed. I'm scared for this. You scared? All right.
It's good and bad, right? Control the hill. Yeah.
Massive on the center. You have to control that. If this goes to Grubby, all of a sudden this is
terrible so I like it because it secures the gold but I hate it because it's
downhill. Of course the amount of your scared for that TC's life but by the way
Grubby just constantly attacks is fantastic he gets a window to move out
he's gonna take that window he's gonna go back to the siege workshop Pig is
about to click up to Imperial Age he's gonna need a secondary building that
he's got to you can click up Grubby's about to be up as well this is still a
really close game both players up to Imperial Age but Grubby clicks first Pig
you gotta click brother we're missing 30 gold we have it now we gotta click we
gotta click we're missing crucial crucial timings right now if we don't
click 10 come on forward castle oh my god oh my god grubby can go for a
forward castle he's got 700 stolen this hill that we talked about your motto
this town that it could be the end of pig to be honest grubby's aggression
might win this game bro he's not looking what is happening
Unforced error, we talked about this.
But, but, Grubby's gonna lose a lot of army here.
Yeah, Grubby might dive too deep, honestly.
And I hate that, because this is the window for the forward castle. Losing the army right now, we're getting a full map control.
Pig has found his Imperialist button. He's one minute behind, Unforced, by the way.
If he ends up losing, Juju and Imperialist push, he'll be kicking himself.
I don't think Grubby knows about it. I think there's a captureage bug that they show the
farms around the DZ. I actually don't think that Grubby knows about this. He's going to
go for a forward outpost. He can make a townside in the front, sure. Not recognizing this castle
position is really, really crucial. It's kind of keeping Pig in the game. Pig has a lot of army.
He could use that army offensively right now. He could even consider his own forward castle,
by the way. And Grubby is looking for something here. He's going for the hill.
He's got a nice boom behind the sport you see now. The sportsman's coming up in the front.
They run into that town center.
Okay.
Grubby's mispositioned again.
Oh my God.
Oh, oh.
Grubby.
Whoa.
Grubby.
Grubby, one of the four castles.
You can't get this.
This castle is illegal.
Grubby, you can't get this castle.
I think Grubby is throwing this game.
Honestly, he's completely throwing it right now.
I have to say, it's just they're fighting the fatigue right now.
Yeah.
That's what it has to be.
We're clicking units everywhere. He pivoted through a defensive castle.
Decent, decent.
But yo, wait.
I don't know. I think that's the rocket.
God's gonna bomb.
Not that one.
The call from Peter.
He's a stone.
He takes the forward hill.
He's a deeper, son.
No, no, it's perfect. Don't go deeper.
Don't go too deep.
If you go too deep, you can't pull out.
The amount of staying on the hill is not...
Sarah, don't listen to me. Don't listen to me.
He sees 2,000 meters higher than me.
It's just fantastic. Castle on the hill is beautiful.
Castle on the hill.
Trebuchet's coming out. This is a perfect position.
You don't need to go any deeper. This is completely fine.
Alright, I feel like he could though, alright Fire Lancers it's time to get busy, what
are you doing in the back conversing with the monks, get in there.
Yeah Fire Lancers come on, come on Fire Lancers, we need the men in the front line, they're
hiding in the back with the priests right now, Conscription coming out then Trebuchet
production from Pig, Conscription is going to boost all the production speed of his buildings.
Nothing scrubs, bro. They are just massaging these workers, bro. They did not see the worker die.
That's just bullshit, man.
It's an anti-archete, it's not an all-rounder.
Uh, let's give it a go on the left side, doing okay there, but...
Dude, hey.
It's coming from the left side, when attacking a villager for 48 minutes, bro.
Look at that HP. He's been attacking that one villager for 20 minutes.
I don't think he's gonna ever kill him.
Oh.
Oh my god. Oh
He got distracted you got distracted. Where the hell did he throw? Wait on some of this. There's one wasn't gonna stab in the bed
Yeah, I think I think grab is not even watching this
I think the only people watching this is me and you here motto and the 10,000 plus people we got watching
That's it grabby ain't looking grabby's focused on bigger and better
He's gonna get the two men saw upgrades to extra wood coming in in late game, but look at this guys
It's two castle production of shrapash. Oh, that's Treb first trip is already down pigs in a fantastic position
skirmisher philancer the perfect composition right now for the Chinese
two castles and yet the hill extra damage oh my god turning into a
stock of game it's turning into a stock of game bro no no no no no no grab
we send a forward castle grab a sense of sneak I think it's worth it's there
he's gonna spot everything no no no he's running he's running he's running
he's running you can kill a guy too oh but the skirmisher movement already oh
Oh my god. This could be terrible, actually.
Only.
These workers can just build the castle in front of these villagers, bro. They are done on the village, shit.
You can just build the castle in the Scaraburtson. Scaraburtson is not a threat. You didn't kill a villager.
Fair enough.
That's fake, bro. That's CGI, bro. That's AI, bro.
Here we go.
Let's see if skirmishers are trying to hit these villagers, nothing a whole lot so far.
Oh, they're making it rain.
The fire lancer behind this, we'll check back in with these skirmishers, gonna quickly flash the left side.
Some fire lancer raids about to be elite on the left, Pig is playing a great macro game.
Castle goes down, he's got complete control of the center, Pig is in such a good position, the castle does go up.
So, Yama, you're onto something here with these skirmishers. They're not the best unit at killing villagers.
Let me tell you that much.
Okay, we're looking at a leaking garrison up here.
That's a defensive castle,
but it also means that Gruby's gonna secure
this very important gold.
Yeah.
It's got the hill there,
you can start preparing as well.
Got the fiery lance, it's coming.
But the thing is, the thing is,
Pig has a lot more army on the field.
He's got skirmishers, he's got lancers,
he's got 120 villagers, but even on the hill count,
he's got that middle hill, four trebuchets,
raining down onto Gruby's trebs.
I feel like we might be headed into a Game 5, a Cinema Finals by the way.
A Cinema Tournament.
Look at the hits on the trebs.
Look at the trebs.
Will they fall?
One more hit.
Oh my god.
That's RNG in Pig's favor.
That's crazy RNG in Pig's favor.
Hey, we're trebbin' the chat.
We have an emote for that.
No stone.
He's got a bi-stone to repair.
No matter what's the vibes here, man, what are we looking at here?
We're looking at a Game 5?
I'm just looking at the Wilco.
I see a steady production from the Grubster in the village department.
I'm looking at the resources that are being floated and I wonder if Grubby with the stone that he has,
if he can slam a well-placed castle, maybe.
But I think this Trebuchet counter is just too high, no?
How do we deal with this?
The pair's coming through last minute.
Oh, isn't it enough?
Is it enough Trebuchet?
Oh, he's gonna hold it.
That's crazy.
And the Trebuchet's gonna go down.
Look how big that Trebuchet is.
Can you just hit it?
It's easy.
I can throw that spear.
And it goes down. Oh my god. Oh my god. Grubby's dead. It's a game five Grubby's dead. It's a game five
I can't believe it. He's trying. He's got some good harassment on the left side Grubby is so far behind right now though
The Chinese are so unstoppable once they get going skirm fire lancer is such a good composition
Well, the scrims in the front here. I bless cannot approach them should tell it's coming out
But they're very squishy even into skirmishers. Shreveges on the right side for pig. He's doing so much work right now
He's pushing on the front the hill was massive Grubby had a chance to castle it
but he missed that opportunity and now it's all Pig!
It's fully repaired.
I think now if he just spreads and finds these, uh,
these exposed workers, like, look at the exposure there on the workers there on the south,
even on the west as well.
He just needs to, a couple of filers to clean up.
That's good damage, it's good damage.
Good damage, good raids, nice try.
Grubbershine, of course, stay in the game,
but Pig has been playing so freaking well,
especially since he clicked that Imperial aid button.
was a little late that ever since that moment he's had his foot on the gas
he's missing chemistry but got all the other important upgrades here
Gravy's not holding though it's honestly still close I might have called it too early
Gravy's kind of holding Pig lost a lot of Molensum
No Treb
No Bombards by the way for Chinese no Bombards there's one advantage for the Ethiopians it's
the Bombard it's the hand cannon near me it's not hand cannon it's the gunpowder
through the Bombard cannon like this castle goes down here
Even full traps to kill that castle is very nice.
Yep.
Oh.
There's not a single castle standing for Grubby.
I know castles for Grubby.
He can't create any infantry, so the army design for Piggy's is perfect still, no?
Yeah.
The mass comes.
True.
It gets so much value.
And actually, Skirm Fire Launcher dies to Chateau, the unique unit from the Ethiopians.
So in theory, Grubby can play towards that, but if missing castles, he's getting one at
home right now.
He can afford a second one.
I'd like the second one back here, maybe even here, try to control some of these stones.
Good ratings so far from Grubby, but Pig, getting chemistry, he's kind of walking in right now.
Forward Lancer, taking out this Bombard Cannon. Good job in the Lancer, it's a value Lancer right there.
Let's name this guy Yamato, bro. This guy's a freaking legend, honestly.
Bro, that's Captain Fire Lancer.
Yeah, I like that, I like that.
We made it to the finals, bro.
Shout out to Captain Lancer, he's still here.
Uh, four of them coming in, now four grubbies trying to get Eshotel Transition started.
He's got some gold.
Yo, these trebs, these are donations, bro.
Yeah.
This is target practice for the crossbows.
Yeah.
See the engineers coming in here.
Alright, Phylons is walking straight into this crossbow line.
You gotta reorient yourself.
The skirmishers need to go first.
Yep.
Phylons are so good.
I just gotta walk this down.
Just gotta walk this down.
Bombard has to run. Bombard never runs. Oh my god, we just run from there.
Oh, really? Bombard clout.
You know the donation there? The bombard goes down and...
Dude, Grubby's dropping the pop. 120 population.
They look for a second he could hold.
There's like 50 bilis.
But...
Dropping wood right there, bro. He's finding them.
Yeah, this is terrible. Terrible news for the blue pair.
Dude, Pig has been so impressive, though, in this Imperial Age
And in the entire tournament so far like pig remember is the only guy undefeated
Continues to fly through grubby's defenses grubby's in the back line now. Oh my god. Oh my god
Game five sick the perfect finale the perfect tournament like to have running in here plus two armor
Horses coming look at everything's exposed pig. I said a target this pig with the raids 170 pot for pig
Canon still is not being the trap. Okay, we're trying to hold as best as we can. I can't believe it
Chips is still coming through
Kind of want to see the the infantry units, but I think I think it's just on like like
He doesn't have the resources. Yeah grubby's gold. Yeah, no gold. Yeah, the first time pig actually collected relics
Yeah, only three relics for big two relics for grubby
And normally it's grubby with all of them so grubby kind of being forced to play with some limited gold access in the late game
Zero on gold zero on stone take a look at that 16 on gold for pig nine on stone
He's still got tons of minerals coming in for the Chinese player here
Like have could use that last armor, but overall a great transition into the light cab
I would like to see some chukinu. Maybe actually it's a decent transition here
Yeah, you have the cool upgrades the braces. Yeah, you got the you got all the tech from university as well
some chukunus bro yeah it would be it would be kind of insane armors coming in now like
kept diving deep a lot of castles set up like three castles still up for pig that's gonna
be really good to control the the map in the mid and late game here he's got two more castles
castle here would be fantastic for the red player bombarts coming in i'll ask her coming up tell me
Oh, I'm waiting. It's all net.
The devil shares. Wait, he's leading the damage.
One down. One down.
He's just mercy.
I hope you're going to go down. Alpha's going down, but no big deal.
Talk to me about it. I had a question for me, brother.
There's just these two horses that are just bothering me. What is the purpose of these two horses?
these two horses which one on the right side they just move camera right these two dudes
they do nothing what are they doing they tell you where your opponent is not in the early game
it's kind of like a nice detail but they're kind of just showing wild horses yeah
okay they don't give food nothing no nothing bro meat meat is meat but not this meat you know
no gold you can't recruit them to get like cheaper scouts or something
You can't recruit a wild horse, you can't just talk to it, no.
You can convince it to fight for you maybe, but not in this game.
Oh guys, it's 90 pot for Grubby.
Actually Pig is all over him right now, four castles coming through, two defensive castles
on one side for Grubby, but I don't think it's enough, I think Pig has done it.
Pig got the last armor on the light cab.
Yep, no growth for Grubby.
Look how rich Pig is, he's basically taunting him.
We're gonna go into a game five.
I can't believe it.
Wow, Gigi in the chat.
Hey, he's bro.
Hey, he closes.
It's two, two.
And we're going through Grubby's home map.
It's literally the best case scenario for finals.
These are the two best players to determine here.
Pig is undefeated so far.
He won the last match of three, two.
Grubby might be playing some PTSD right now,
but Grubby's got the home map advantage.
Grubby's improved a lot.
He still has the Burgundians on arena.
I think we're gonna see Burgundians
Bohemians on Arena for a Cinema Game 5. It's going to be so absolutely so epic because that's
their both most played Civ on Arena and that's a meta matchup. That's exactly what we see in Pro
Play. Such a good game 5 for this tournament. We've seen the Cam figures getting massaged.
That's the way. You know these two gentlemen like you know I'm on a freak schedule. I've been
been awake since 9am. I played my tournament, you know, my little bit of
riff-bond. I was chilling for me like it's 5am. My eyes are glue, but that's okay
because I'm not competing. Yeah. You know, right now we have our boy Pig who had to
wake up at like 11pm to play his first round and then wake, then somehow play
and then stay awake and play two BO5s into start again at what like 9 a.m.
they've got Grubby who is now on his what 16th H of Empire's match yeah starting
at the 1 p.m. going through the lower bracket which is of course the advantage
you know the advantage you get is who prefers to be warm or who prefers to be
a little bit more rested with a little bit more information.
It's also a common thing in league.
It's like the teams that do the lower bracket runs,
they gain like momentum,
but sometimes the research and the prep
just becomes a lot easier when you, of course,
go through the upper bracket.
Many, many dynamics at play.
So many things are gonna kick in.
And I wonder if both of these fine gentlemen
I got to pop caffeine or something.
Got to do some push-ups to get the blood going.
Maybe they just sit calmly in their chair
as they're preparing for the next strategy.
Yeah, I haven't left chat.
I'm just getting some stretches in actually.
My thighs have, I've been sitting on my ass
for the last like, I don't know,
1,000 hours over the last few days.
So I'm just getting some stretches in.
I want to be high energy for this last game.
And dude, I'm just, my muscles are giving way here.
Holy, this is the dream, brother.
This is the dream.
I'm so excited.
Bro, as we are approaching the final game,
Hera, it's safe to say what a damn success
the Stonem has been, bro.
What a damn success.
Everyone jokingly says rigged for Grubby and here we are.
Grubby about to fighting his nemesis
that he already lost against once, you know,
and fighting so many different odds,
working his ass off to play against Pig.
Yeah.
For now, gets, of course, the choice, right?
He gets to choose where we're going.
Grabby gets to choose.
A rabie arena, because you lost the last game, right?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I forgot, I forgot, yeah, yeah.
Let's take a quick moment here.
Okay, okay.
Just to thank Rod for the five gifted
and Ekiris for the five gifted as well.
I'm going to quickly use the washroom Yamato and attend the audience here.
Thank you so much for tuning in guys and for watching.
It's the last game of the tournament to game five.
I'll be right back and we'll get started with the cast very soon.
You know, everybody, the reason we love competition, the reason we love competition
is that we are in positions to measure ourselves on even ground, on even ground.
And especially in this moment as we head into the headliner, the fifth game, so far we cannot
No. Because speaking of even ground, it is simply as even as it can be.
Hera predicting the Burgundians, the Burger folk, and then he's predicting, of course,
the Bohemian Rhapsody, for peak.
Strategies clash
as both players
playing strategies
they've taken wins with
throughout the entire tournament.
This will truly determine
who is the best
of all, all of the guys who are in this tournament. Because the key detail here is, the grandeur
of this victory comes from dragging the soul and the blood and the tears of all of the
the people that you defeated before you.
They had Singh Singh who grinded his ass off.
We had Wagamama with his infantry.
We had Day 9 with his cavalry play and his late game scaling.
We had your thermal and his missing villages.
We had Death Note's king who was lost on the map.
Mr. Llama will snipe the king with a treble shake.
All of those moments, all of those things, me griefing two games and losing them.
All the soul and the spirit and the effort is with behind these players in this moment.
It's the only reason and the only reason this file is so damn hype
because everyone else who failed to reach that climb,
and it's not because people didn't try.
Boy, did everybody try.
Everybody was grinding.
And now there's only two.
Only a simple B1 to decide at all.
5 a.m., 9 a.m., wherever you are, you better be awake.
Because it's time for the final game, baby.
And I'm thinking Hera's right with the prediction.
He's been watching all these games.
as a mad man he's been streaming 60 hours what a mad man it's Burgundians versus
versus Bohemians on arena and if it's not I don't know what to say maybe I have
to give some subs maybe it's like 50 gifted if it's not put a put an eyebrow
on it what an eyebrow what a eyebrow
what a eyebrow
50 subs on your model channel. 50 subs on your channel.
I'm blessed, I'm blessed, but you don't need to do that. I'd rather have an eyebrow.
Bro, you can't shave my head so you can't take an eyebrow from me.
Okay, let's see.
An eyebrow for an eyebrow makes the whole world ugly.
That is the exact saying Mr. Yamato.
It's on zooship bro.
It's on zooship man.
Alright fine. 25 gifted to each pig and grubby if it's not Burgundians and the Behemians.
25 gifted to each of them.
I'm pretty certain it's gonna be that.
I'm like 99% sure.
So Andy Amato 25 and Andy models at 75 bro scammed butter 75
So Ted Bundy versus Bohemia Rhapsody. Yeah
We got it
I'm pretty sure it's Burgundian Bohemians on arena. I'll see if I'm right. I
Don't put my reputation on the line. You matter. That's that's I
Don't know my reputation just be there for no reason. No, I think I understand the game
I understand competition I understand how these players are thinking I put that in the line
I can't just be like, oh, yeah, see this is first that I called it gotta call it first
You know gotta go for glory dare to be there to be great. That's what they say. It's a great prediction
Well, you're such a you're such a vibe play, you know, I always ask, you know
I was asked what does this if do and I always need to like pull up the wiki bro. You don't give me any info, bro
Yeah
It's used to play over vibes. It's all vibes. I don't remember as a single number
It's just like I feel like this is how it should be boom. That's how it is all vibes all vibes no builds
Garby wants to win on Arabia, I don't think so. I don't think so
Hey called grubby picking arena such a cheesy move. It's not cheesy. How is it cheesy?
How is it cheesy to pick arena now, but it wasn't cheesy to pick arena earlier?
Guys, just because it's the last game doesn't mean that there's anything
different about picking arena now versus earlier. Grubby should pick the exact
map that he wants to play. That's it. That's all it is. And I called arena
Burgundians for Grubby when he picked Malay in the last arena, by the way.
I think he showed his hand. I actually think it's very obvious that he will go
Burgundians now. Very obvious. And a player of Grubby's caliber, he will never
change his game plan away from
Burgundians here. In my opinion, he will never. If he does that, he's going against
a prime principle in being the favorite for a set unless he considers himself
the underdog. But I don't think so. I think knowing Grubber, he considers himself
the favorite and he will go with the Burgundians because it's a tried and
tested. You don't do anything weird when you're the favorite. You do what you like
to play. You play a comfort zone and you play with exactly what got you to the
finals in the first place. Pig. I also don't think he really considers himself
much of an underdog so I think he will go for his tried and tested bohemians and this is why I
come to the conclusion that it'll be arena for gunvians for grubby and bohemians for pig and let's
see if I'm right. The reason the game is delayed is because all streamers collectively agreed
where just spam running ads before he starts. Actually let me get some ads actually that's a
good point. The ads out of the way. Well the game starts it's a game five cinema I don't want the
the ads coming in it's it's it started it started see from right i hope i'm right because i want to
see that matchup regarding his bohemians honorina i called it from the start i'm so happy to see
this matchup it's their best civilizations ladies and gentlemen we're hopping in to a game five and
what has been the best tournament that i could have possibly asked for the king's gauntlet the
final game get some energy in the chat here this is the matchup that i anticipated it's the matchup
that is the best civilization for each of these players. Grubby is undefeated with the
Burgundians. Pig has played a lot of Bohemians and it's been a very handy civilization for
him. He's got a decent win rate in the tournament with the Bohemians on Arena, but he lost out
to Grubby's Burgundians in the last time they faced. So this is a repeat matchup for the
game five. Can Grubby win it again or will Pig change the storyline and win the grand
finals with Bohemians? Yamato, talk to me about the situation, what this moment means
for both of these players?
Honestly, like the blood, sweat, and tears, man.
It's like how many hours of age of members
have these guys played, you know?
I say tons.
You got to enjoy this moment because the feeling of emptiness
afterwards, regardless of the result, is strange, you know?
Like, they have formed a bond with this game
that is going to be pulling at them.
Because you and me, we can talk from experience,
but one of three poolers are still this day, you know?
like it pulls us because we associate all of those strong emotions.
Because it's not necessarily only good emotions.
All the good and the bad just makes the experience so damn powerful.
It's all about just living in the moment.
You know, as cliche as it sounds, there's a lot of truth to it too.
Yeah.
So I hope mentally they slow down time and really enjoy this because these are
memories for a lifetime, even for us viewers, bro, even for you and me, bro.
I'm not gonna forget this moment, but we're watching a game fucking 5 at 5 a.m. Well
Fantastic, I couldn't have said it better myself
Such a big moment with both these players and remember for the winner
This will mean that all that work they put in all those hours comes to the ultimate prize of being the champion
Proving to the world that he could pick up a game like age of Empire stew and you know
Obviously grubby and big both have played it in the past
But to re-pick it up and to push yourself over the last three weeks get the heights and healers
you've never been in and to win a tournament against fellow streamers of which many have
tried and many have failed and these are the final two in the last game to win this tournament
would mean a lot for the winner but also because of how sour it could be to get that you know
so close that gets so far be so many people to get here and then lose in the last game
that bitter feeling that it could leave in your mouth is why the feeling of winning feels
so good because winning and losing is decided by only one game now all of the other games
don't really matter. It's all about this one and their difference is monumental.
But honestly, regardless of what happened, as cheesy as it sounds, both these players
are absolute champions. Grubby and Pig have went above and beyond all
expectations, despite having a lot of expectations, especially on Grubby
himself, but both Pig and Grubby came in as captains. And in my opinion, they've
surpassed all expectations. They're both without a doubt champions and fantastic
competitors in this event. But of course, there could be only one winner of the
King's gauntlets and it's gonna be decided by this epic matchup on arena.
Grubby's home map has got a little momentum going into this one. He's
playing his undefeated Burgundians. Is this the time for Grubby to show us why
the Burgundians are undefeated? Or does Pig have something special to count to
the Burgundians one time and the only time that it matters? There's no way Pig
is going to castle drop right and sending the buses. That's not happening.
there is a way so it could but it's unlikely it's very unlikely right so so what do what
do the beginnings of the just try to get a fast imperial to abuse the the hoof nice or whatever
the cold yeah so the upgraded bomb by the bomb at the cannons this is where you'll be nice line of
like perfectly synchronized rabbits we're giving all these speeches and then this is what we're
seeing in the game it's just the funniest thing you've ever seen just like a lot of give them a
Give them a beat, give them a beat.
No, that's you, bro.
Oons, oons, oons, oons, oons.
I can't, oons when they're dying, bro.
You're a fan, bro.
It's a disaster.
Again, eight under the town center right now.
Terrible situation for the rabbits,
but a great situation for Pig
as he's gonna be feasting very nicely
on all of those rabbits.
Of course, we're gonna see Grubby kind of
try to set up the same little bit of a rabbit funnel.
A cage.
Yeah, a little bit of a cage.
Just a little too.
No funnel.
straight into the town center.
But yeah, you know, talking about Bohemians
and what they can, you know, what they can expect here,
what they can go for, what we've seen Pig go for
and what we've seen him kind of lean on heavily
is the Castor Drop at home.
Castor Drop at home, wagons to control the map,
pick up some relics using those wagons
and a couple of monks, play defensive, boom after that
and then go for that late game.
The Huffies, the Halberdier and the Henkin and Nier,
that's the best combo he can get to
and he loves to play towards that.
Grubby, we've seen him play tons and tons of scouts, you know, light cap, relic control.
He loves to go for those relics, and I don't think he's gonna deviate from that game plan
right now, so let's see if Grubby can make this happen.
I think he needs to make a couple more villagers, though.
I think he's going a little too early.
He's messed up the funnel, I think.
Or has he?
I'm not sure, actually.
He's making another villager, this is good.
Don't want to go up too early
Rabbit's coming in here the good funnel from Ravi
So so
Remind me Burgundians have the upgrades of getting gold from the farms. Yeah
What else they got do they have going on for them?
Well, okay, the Flemish military is a real yeah, I'm just real not really in this matchup though
What we're really looking at here for the brigundians is the fact that they get cheaper economy upgrades
Okay, that's a big deal cheaper kind of upgrades
The other bonus that's very relevant is the fact that they can get the relics in and get the regular gold
But then they also get 20 food per minute per relic just for context a regular relic gives you 30 gold per minute
So getting a little bit of extra food per relic is a really good bonus
So we're going to get four or five relics. They're in a great position to control the game to get a lot of extra res
Um, I see big with the market blacksmith. He's gonna go for a very fast
Wait, she's gonna go on stone the stone. Hey, he's doing it forward castle
But this is his bill to go defensive castle. You think it's a forward already. No, it's defensive. He's not getting loom
Yeah
I got baited in a pass set. I thought it was also gonna castle rush, but I think he's gonna play his game
He's gonna play defensive. I kind of like that. No cheese. It's a clean game. You know, it's gonna sell 200 stone
He's going to sell another 100 stone by the food and he'll be up.
It's a clean game from both sides.
No loo means he's not castle rushing.
Oh, actually this is bad for Gaby.
Gaby's going to lose his scouts.
Yamato, Gaby's going to lose his scouts if there's ever a time to forward castle now.
Oh my god.
Whoa.
He can forward castle now.
If you make that adaptation.
Do you remember the castle timer that he had?
Because this is an insanely early castle time.
This is standard for Pig, but I think it's way faster than Begunians.
Like he's more and still darker, and he knows this.
He knows this.
I think he can go for a forward cast if he wants to.
I just don't think he wants to take that risk.
He's not that kind of player.
He wants to play his style.
He'll live, he'll live by the sword and die by the sword.
He's gonna play his strategy to the end.
I don't think he's gonna pivot and try something cheesy here.
He'll play honorable, I believe.
Does he have a loom?
No loom.
So going forward is really risky.
He's gonna stay at home, he's playing it from home.
Yeah, this is a homey one, yeah, for sure.
It's usually the time to get loom on arena,
is just while you're building the marketplace and stables,
you can squeeze one village at a time and loom.
That's perfectly timed.
Absolutely. It's very safe.
We're gonna see the Gundins here going up to the stable,
a little bit of idle TC time.
That's because we only built the stable with one villager.
Grabby recognizes his mistake,
but yeah, a little bit of idle time there for Grabby,
And he lost a scout, so honestly not a good start for Grubby by any means here.
I feel like, advantage Pig in this early game.
Pig's start hasn't been the cleanest, but it hasn't been bad.
He's kept the scout alive and dude Grubby's got no vision and we know how much Grubby
loves his vision.
The thing is he kind of knows what Pig likes to go for here, he likes to go for the defensive
castle, so Grubby kind of is maybe internalizing this already, he doesn't have to worry too
much about it.
It's going to be a defensive castle probably inside the walls here, nothing too crazy from
Pig.
I have to say though, I think PIG's base design is quite strange.
Usually you see a lot of the buildings in the front, I've seen cases where you hide
the marketplace in the stables if you just want to hide how fast you go castles, you
don't put it close.
But there is some exposure here that could maybe be a problem in the future because usually
you create like a line, like a second wall line right where all your buildings, especially
these sturdier buildings, but this is just, you know, open fields.
Yeah, the reason why he's not walling is that he's the guy with the castle, right?
If you don't have the castle, you have to do that building wall because like,
Yamato, sorry, Grubby, excuse me, can be a bit scared of like some pressure
coming in without that defensive castle.
He needs that layer of walls.
But big, even if you come into his base, he's got a castle, he's fine.
So that's why he doesn't really need those walls.
And he's fine.
Just grabbing that castle and being safe on defense.
Maybe it's only relevant to how I like to play the game, but this castle doesn't defend
shit.
We're on viewing, you know?
This is in the corner, I see that upper side, completely.
Yeah, I mean, you have a point, actually.
I think making it a little further back gives you actually better defense, but this kind
of gives you better offense.
Like, Castle doesn't like Robbie kind of make outposts here, denying outpost vision, could
be interesting.
the sides all of a sudden you can cut him off kind of gives you better offense
we're talking a bit more high-level play there a little scout trade off by the
way pig dives in kills a scout he'll be happy with that because this couch maybe
not the most useful he's got the set wagons on the field anyways three TC's
for grubby he's playing the standard light cap three TC set up with the
monasteries and to go out for the monks and the relics and pig is staying on the
one base for now the one TC play for him looking to get those wagons out and
defend his monks. The Grubby is lurking, he's got the Light Cav.
Got the bosses.
Yeah, Ferver's nice, it helps the monks move faster, it also helps the villagers move faster
for the Behemons only. So really nice little bonus there. Both players playing the Civilizations
beautifully so far. They're playing through their shranks and it'll be normal for Grubby
to pull ahead now in the Village Account and Economic, you know, Rests collected and whatnot.
But the Behemons have the better late game. So even if we're going to pull a little bit
head he'll be fine good snipe from grubby though it gets in snipe some monk can he get out he gets
out that's a free monk grubby is kind of cooking right now he can heal up as like if he wants to
or he can just prioritize picking up relics if we're going to get two relics here he's happy
if you can get three he's very happy if he gets four or five he's elated he is super duper happy
let's see what happens for grubby he picks up one right now it's fantastic for him
Of course Pig doing okay as well. Pick up a roll. Is he an idle longer from the Relic or did he click it early?
I picked it up.
Oh, that's a unit on the top. No, on the right.
Oh, Militia.
We've got a couple of sight wagons on the field here. We'll secure the one monk and bring him back that Relic.
Now it's all about the fight for these two middle ones. This one up here, I think Grubby just takes it.
So Grubby's gonna get minimum two. He's always gonna be happy in this game.
Gotta be careful though, just like you have a kind of week.
Grubby's got a nice build here. Husband is coming in. 3TC boom is fantastic, but keep
in mind that Pig is also going for the 3TC boom a little later, a little bit worse for
where in terms of his economy upgrades as well, but he's still in a great position to get
up his economy.
I need to ask her. I think if you put so many buildings on stone to build a castle and then
not to cause any form of damage and have even map control. I feel like you're so far behind.
It's a good point. That's why I really don't like the defensive castle. I think a defensive castle,
if you know the enemy already is pushing knights and you have information, okay, then you can place
another offensive castle, but I feel like you need to do damage. Yeah. Now you have these buses
driving around, you know, just moving people from bus stop to bus stop. Okay, he's getting some kills.
It's not too bad. We'll talk about what you're talking about here in a second Yamato, but I want to see if Pig can stop this Relic.
I don't think he knows about it. He might chase. We'll see if the bus can catch the stop in time.
I think the monk might just be making a way with that Relic, but to your point Yamato, I think you're kind of spot on.
I think if we get to commit to that castle, it's not only that-
We have to do damage, no?
We have to do damage, or we have to do something. We have to take all the Relics, but to make the castle, and to get only two Relics,
relics versus the guy who's just making a stable in a few lightcaps, I feel like that's very bad for pig in the early game.
So now he's he's behind like eight bills for kind of nothing, you know, and the rest collected is flying ahead for grubby.
So I kind of agree with you.
I would like to see a forward castle play from the Behemence forward castle even without an all in like forward castle. Take the relics.
It's not a bad strategy. Here we go with the light cap. You're not out.
We've got fully healed like half from grubby. They're going pretty well. He's the optimism my neighbor and against the buses. Oh
He's dodging with the monks, dude
He's gonna heal
Dude, this is pristine micro from grubby. So so good two buses down for free. It's all grubby in this early game
And this this just seems so comfortable for grubby, I was talking about it earlier
were leaning into a situation, Grubby is comfortable, I think is not the way, but
Grubby also made a very smart choice, a very bold choice of keeping the
Burgundians up until of course he would lose another one and had to choose
arena again. Yeah, again it's Grubby's home map, like Pig, I think the only
adaptation he could have made, he had to play the Behemence, he knows the sit-in
set-out, the only adaptation he could have made is that forward castle. He
chose not to. It's a conscious choice to be like, listen, I know Grubby BB last time
during the strategy, but I think that I can play better this time and potentially get
that win. But look at Grubby's resources. He's flying with the boom. Real girl coming
in. He just needs a university and he can go up to Imperial Edge very soon. Dude, he's
flying ahead in terms of economy right now.
Alright, I forgot. I always think that you need to build a castle to go in burial.
You can also get two buildings. You might go for a castle here though, but I would like to see the university anyways.
Like, university is needed for chemistry.
By the way, don't get me wrong, Grubby is ahead. This game is far from over.
Remember that the Bohemians have the better late game. It's widely recognized that they have a better late game than the Burgundians.
So if Push comes to shove and Pig can get some pure ledge, get to his late game, he can easily still win this game.
But Grubby's got the timing advantage and Grubby gets first to move onto the map.
University being rushed down. I think he wants that university and
Yeah, I'm here. It's not coming in for grubby handcraft would be nice to see
Now the grubbies with a demon with these where he like masks his tech with a offensive push. Yes
Really really like what he does those
Yeah, but the castle information. She's controlling all the resources. Yeah, this is reach that gold
Yes, it reaches both golds. It doesn't reach the stone this castle
But the trebuchets will be able to reach the stone and trebuchets were going to kill pigs castle
That's why I don't really like pigs castle here by the way pigs castle here is a very easy
Trebleable option. I feel like making the castle a little bit further back if you're gonna make it defensive
It should be a better option pig. Look at this update village not much later chemistry in castle age
That's the advantage of bohemians. They get to gunpowder faster
So even though grubby gets first move the bohemians are actually the first ones to gunpowder. It's a really really strong save
I feel like it's still anyone's game. Listen. I'm not gonna lie to you advantage grubby
He's got a lot of eco techs coming in. He's got a slightly better economy overall
But with that third relic, you know all that begun in value. He's up a lot of rest collected now
Loom coming in. All right, so no no like missing loom shenanigans guys
It's the last game loom on both sides
We can put the omega loom to rest you can spend it one final time, but loom is out of this tournament
Thank God no loom issues will not be taking place in the finals
And pure list of both players one minute to go
It's gonna be gunpowder each and remember Bohemian stronger late game and they usually get first move to gunpowder
So if grubby can't really make anything happen
He might not be able to push you might have to just play that game where he tries to hold and control the goals that we saw earlier
Yamato
There's also, you know the trend in this series so far is that the games pig one was when there was a
Pretty clean extension to an Imperial game true
And this is a very inactive game
Like the the big wins for grubby was when he did get those pushers that gave him
The better tech and that he kept her ass on and kind of got pig flustered, but this is a very very calm game. Yeah
And the handkerchief is coming out
and caneers member chemistry it's a long upgrade grubby has to click it and
wait for it but he means they can get that in castlage beautiful play from
from pig picks it up in the castlage as he should he nicked you can now make
bombards right away can I make him get in here right away and remember in
age of empires if you get the massive units faster you can just be the
stronger player on the map with that late game comp so grubby even though he's
in fast he's got a shred can't really use it what you can hit the castle sure
but the bombers are coming from pig and we see the hasar tech from agrabi not bad hasar will be solid
Help you snipe some of those handkinner near it's gonna force the halberd here out of pig pig is not going halbs by the way, so
He's all in on the handkerchief bomb attendance. I think it's a little strange. Yeah
There are cavalry sit, you know the enemy already invested into stables. Yeah, I thought I thought the compositions
Sounded so nice with the with the with the with the halberd ears and the guys who pushed of course the
the thing, the calvates, the bombardiers.
Yeah, the bombardiers, of course.
Also, Grabby's showing his tech, the Hissari, shows it by just attacking this wall.
So now Pig, if he wants Calvateer, he can just go ahead and pick it up.
But he doesn't have to go for it.
Wagonbrew Tactics comes in, that's a unique tech for the Bohemians.
One of the reasons why they have a better late game comp than the Burgundians.
This gives all gunpowder units faster movement speed.
Wagonbrew Tactics is a very, very nice upgrade.
So these bombers will move faster, the Henkin and Nier will move faster, two Shreber Shades,
targeting a caster to do it quite well, but the bomber is there.
Oh, one.
Can we get a two?
We got a two.
Can we get a three?
We're going to get a three.
Can we get a go?
That's the goal.
Oh, my days is the goal.
They never miss, by the way.
It's not RNG.
Oh, they never miss.
They never miss.
I want to waste to the end to tell you that.
They got a freeze through straight in the head.
Yep.
the bomber cannon. Grubby is still alive. Grubby is looking to push his advantage on
the map. Siege engineers coming in. That's plus one range to the bombards for Bohemians.
Oh my god. Grubby is to be careful. Grubby with the Burgundians does not get access
to siege engineers, but he does have some stronger gunpowder on the fields. He's having
two bombards looking for more, but gets punished. He goes a bit too close. I want to see Pig
move out. I think Pig has some momentum here.
so high look so good just push out I think he's gonna go for it he's not
the ball board every bomber killed matters by the way
pushing out the charge hit in the field both players absolute warriors
playing so much age vampires today this cannon micro some of the most important
things that they've done today. Remember every cannon guys is 450 resources so
losing cannons is some of the worst thing you can do. Snipping your opponent's
cannons is like the best thing you can do and here we go one cannon sniped for
one hand to the other. It's a very worth the game. What's the appropriate
formation for these gunmen to get the most value? You can play in staggered
formation, split them up a little bit just so you don't take big shots from the
From the bomb bar, it's about Big who's our flank.
But we stayed up to the side and we start flanking in.
Canons, getting some big shots and can't get any of them moving in.
Pig, we wanted him to move out but he doesn't have the halberds.
He's late to the halbs and Grubby's looking to land the big shots.
Canons moving forward.
He's targeting the castle.
There's two trebs on it.
The castle's gonna go down.
Grubby's coach is looking live.
Wow, castle's down.
Dude.
Castle placement gap.
Oh my god, the gate's open.
You can keep it open?
No, he goes back.
He goes back.
Doesn't want to risk it, you don't have to push.
You're gonna control the map here, Grubb, you're gonna control the map, this is beautiful.
It's got a lot of gold in the bay.
Honestly, even getting the monastery could be very annoying.
Yep.
You know already that with the flag up, the only thing they can hide in there is...
Relics, right? You can't put anything else there.
At Monks from the monastery, but mostly it's just relics, of course.
Okay.
Very late on the Halvedere upgrades.
Yep.
We're getting them in now. It's better late than never. At least we give ourselves a chance to win against this Hussar.
Without Halb's, the Hussar does tank too much against the Han-Kinirs. You need the Halbedere in there.
We saw the first fight, Halb played out.
A lot of cannons now though for Grubby.
No-Hoof needs to upgrade for Pig. We just have siege engineers with the extra range. His cannons are quite strong.
Halb and your tech coming in right now. The Hussar are diving into their death. This is not a good fight for Grubby.
I don't like this. I don't like this.
No, no, no. The cannons are moving in. Oh my God. Oh my God.
You're too close to the cannons. Grubby is losing a lot of cannons.
Pig is bouncing back. He's killed all the Han-Kinirs.
Grubby is selling! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! That's a terrible fight for Grubby and now the pushback from Pig!
Can he get that trip?
Do I can is do enough damage? No, but the bombers are good. One trip down. Second trip. It's going down.
Oh Jude Grubby lost a lot. The score is about to equalize. Grubby lost a lot.
He's looking for the shots. These workers are thermal workers. They're just repairing.
going to get the job done is a good chance for the behemoth is crazy complex that pig
always does it's insane he does have the better leg game said though we do expect this I told
you it's not over chat we do expect this from the behemoth they have a better leg game comp
it's actually up to grubby's got a lot of golds 3000 gold it's up to here 26 pikemen
that we haven't even seen yet where are they right here right here 14 is another stack
26 on the screen right now so few up here few back here holy moly push out a lot of castles here
Grabby can just hold the fourth cannon shots
You cannot take a bad shot. Oh
You have to go in down
What's the well how can we get the hoof nice upgrade it's all it's in a hoof nice is in
Oh
My god two cannons shot good shot from grubby
Q-Cannon is going down. Dude, this is such a close matchup. 170 pop for Grubby. He's at 20 pop.
He's recovered from his back play earlier. He mispositioned. He got punished by Pig.
It's a back play from Grubby with a great play from Pig to recognize that punish.
Good little snipe there from Pig. Well played to him.
He's got a push out of his base. Hoopley's coming in in a minute and a half.
Game is so close. Advantage is still in Grubby's hands.
He's got all that map control. Gotta watch those bombards though.
Pig's doing a great job. He's keeping those bombards at bay.
They keep Grubby moving, Grubby's mixing in his thighs, he's mixing in some skirmishers.
What a good match!
Ballboards!
Oh, my goodness!
He's walking into these shots.
One minute's the hoof and he's saying, Matta, what are you feeling right now?
I'm just looking at Grubby's resources, he has a lot of gold.
The map controls are going to really, really pay off, but I'm thinking, as you mentioned
so many times, the behaving composition should just be stronger.
I'm thinking, I need to ask you, are there any pivots that Grubby can do with the gold
advantage that he has?
Oh, my God.
Okay, he gets a he gets a bomber. He's gonna step another with a hasar. He could pivot to paladin paladin for an epic gold play with cavalry
Could be interesting it plays into the halberd here
So it's really it's really risky my opinion. He should use his gold for more bombards
Just keep bombard trading bombard keep trading bombers one for one trades are good
You have all the gold in the map pig is out of gold
Ladies and gentlemen pig is out of gold. He needs to push right now or he loses the game
He's got two to three minutes to win this game or else. It's extremely hard
who he's in though nice upgrade yep oh the range is nutty but what on earth is
that range 13 range it's one extra in the back grubby has i think the pig has
made a mistake in terms of how many has on wood he needs more on food
that's kind of a bad split he's trying to sneak stone
sneak a what stone and broad daylight but it's it's really good
Get a little bit of stone, maybe even sell it for gold.
He's desperate for gold, he's selling a lot of wood at a very suspicious price.
Oh, attack ground, this type of bombard!
It's only 400 point difference, Pig is pushing out,
but he's on a timer, Grubby's got more pop, more gold, more map control, three castles,
the three castles of death right now.
It's hard to approach, upgrade's coming in for Grubby,
it's one last push for Pig, he's marching forward, he's got the bombards behind.
There's the hoof nice up here. What does it do? Does it do more damage? More damage.
Long range. Tankier. It's more damage. Tankier. More splash. Harder hitting. It's an all-around
upgrade. Snaps a bombart. Grabby's trying to play into this but it's hard. He's got
three cannons. I want to see more cannons. They have a couple more hoofies in the queue.
Actually, a lot of Hoopies in the queue.
This game is not over.
Pig is still in a decent position to continue pushing,
but he's on a timer.
I would say another two, three minutes.
He's got a little bit of gold
by taking that stone in the front.
He can also make a castle if he wants,
a castle, and flipping the game for this gold mine is needed.
You've got to clear this castle,
take this gold, and then take it from there.
That's the game plan here.
For Pig, castle in the front could be really good.
Will he think about it?
I'm not sure.
He'll kill that Trebuchet,
but the Hissara coming out,
Grubby is looking to answer this one.
Crazy idea here, should Grubby sell wood to make sure that Pig can't sell wood at a high price?
Actually, great idea, starve him out of gold, you're already playing the map, selling your wood if you're Grubby, remember it's a global market, would be fantastic.
Excellent call out there, Yamato, playing that economic game.
Five cannons, six cannons, it's a dangerous army, but he's not landing the shots.
the shots and dude grubby keeps picking up part grubby keeps picking up a part
from the side grubby micro grubby's micro is insane with the cannons he's
hitting and not getting hit dude double shot only three insane that's crazy
good micro with the cannons
My days.
Grubby selling food for gold.
Oh no, oh no.
Pig is standing still.
Oh my god.
These are gold units.
We can't be standing still.
It's maybe that fatigue.
It's a good shot though to answer this one.
Vineyard's coming in.
Extra gold for Grubby.
Grubby's got the map control.
Grubby is a moment away from winning the king's gullet.
He's got so much gold.
He's getting all kinds of tech.
He continues to push onto Pig.
Pig's only got these five cannons.
No more gold in the bank.
Enough stone for one castle, good attack round by he whiffs.
There's a decent attempt there, five cannons, staying safe.
Does get a nice snipe there, pig, good job!
With that attack round.
He's keeping the cannons alive now.
Oh my god, it's so intense.
Grub's looking for a snipe.
Bomber Mike are so crucial!
Huge hit from Grubby, he kills one of the five cannons, only four to go!
There's no more cannons coming.
If these are the last four cannons, if they go down, the game is over.
If they go down, the game is over, the horse is charged in.
I command you, jumps!
If I can come in, oh, some raids.
Grabbing is really good with that. Rating to distract is really good.
Oh, great job from Pig. He snaps the cannon. He's keeping his bombers alive.
Dude, Pig is doing such a good job keeping these bombers alive.
But in comes Grubby.
He's got more bombers.
One bomber snatched up top as well, so Nassar raids in the back.
We gotta deal with those at the same time.
130 pot for Pig. He's living his last moments here.
We need something big for Pig, or he's completely out of this game.
The minerals are looking worse than ever.
No gold!
There's a little bit of stone in the bank.
The wood is selling for nothing right now.
I need to say, I think also reorienting the economy is happening very late,
because he's pulling people off lumber on food.
Oh!
I think the same thing for Grubby.
My god, three cannons went down.
Three cannons went down.
It's only one cannon.
Grubby might have just won the game.
That was such a nice cannon hit.
Grubby is moments away.
Seriously, 200 pop.
He's about to be crowned the King's Gauntlet number one winner.
Hissar on the field staying a little bit further back.
Iron Casting coming in. Good stack of pick.
He got one.
Got one.
You need a lot more from him though. The arm come.
He's got a little more of these but you can see.
He can adapt into the game. He knows he's got to move.
He's got to move. Hissar waits coming in though.
Halbs in the back will deal with this.
I do think that the pick really needs to sell a stone.
He's holding onto that stone but I don't think that cast is coming down.
He needs more kind of like Bombadils.
Yep.
He doesn't have it.
Yeah.
Selling the stone would be good.
Just getting a little bit of gold.
I completely agree with you.
Like earlier we could have went with the castle.
Maybe we just risk it like that.
But now we just need a little bit of gold.
Grubbysburg onions have been his ace the entire term.
He's undefeated in a tournament with the civilization on this map.
140 pop for Pig.
The raids are heavy to be honest.
The raids are really heavy right here.
We have some halbs but they're not really doing a great job.
Cavalier coming in.
prepping the paladin the finishing blow that paladin would be insane bracer
coming in guilds this late game from the brigundians is looking fantastic
repairs of the oppo is a little funny there it will go down though some side
waiting last cannon it's the last cannon it's the last cannon you're not oh
it's the last go the last cannon we're almost down to the last village it's
man. Rades have been heavy. Because in deep trouble the raids did a lot of damage. 73 villages.
He's still, the raid is still ongoing by the way. It never stopped. The pikemen just gave up.
Yeah. The pikemen just lost. I don't even know where they are. They gave up. They abandoned their posts.
Grubby with another castle down bottom looking to squeeze Pig out of this game looking to take
more and more space in the map. More and more minerals. Grubby's in a great position. He's
taking more gold. He's got 9000 wood in the bank. A perfect economy. He's got the vineyards
For extra gold flow, Nisar is running in.
Gotta be careful, those halves are still good though.
But the guns are falling, and the guns are what matter, 100 pot for Pig.
Ladies and gentlemen, he's tried so hard, he's played a great tournament,
but Pig is about to get the theater taste of a second place after a well-hard fought finals.
But honestly, he goes down a winner.
None of these players will go down a loser today.
They both played a fantastic tournament.
Super pat of both.
But right now, it's all grubby, man.
with Pegas in such a bad position.
He's played such a good finals, such a good,
even this last game, he played it so well.
He had his moments.
Paladin in, handkinner near on the field.
That's as good as possible.
Just not feeling for Pegas.
And I'm getting short by a miracle.
Yeah, 100 pop.
Steel five relics, get a relic victory,
build a wander in the back.
Titanic fortress in the back, something.
I need to do something for Pegas right now.
forward cast. GG well played. Grubby is your team Gauntlet Champion. He went for a miracle
run in the losers bracket and he climbed all the way back to the winners finals to the grand
finals excuse me and he's winning the rematch against Pig. The final few moments a little
pause very anticlimactic but the win is there Grubby with a 3-2 victory give it up in the
chat for Grubby the Kings Gauntlet Champion. Well played man proper endurance GG's classy
is always from pig Yamato this has been the dream tournament and a dream final
congrats to grubby really really well played from pig and all the respect in
the world to pig Yamato thank you for casting man what a fantastic event what
a pleasure it's been an honor to participate and even bigger on to
to cast to be here with you for the finals has been amazing like the sun
is up it's 5 30 in the morning which is absolutely crazy but even crazy to even
consider the feat of strength that Grubby went through to, of course, win out.
What was he played?
What? Eight, twenty, twenty games.
How many games? I think it was eight, eight games played or maybe sixteen
something like that. I think maybe maybe sixteen.
Yeah. Sixteen games in total. Four sets, all competitive, all do or die.
And what a feat that is to come back and win.
It's a hero run honestly really really well played from grubby so proud of them as well for for keeping his composure
You know being down that loser bracket. You never know all those thoughts racing, but congratulations to grubby is the champion of the events and
Damn, what a fantastic event that's been seriously
I'll take this moment before we end off the the game before we leave the game here
Just to thank everybody who's watched both on live stream twitch YouTube
This will of course be made as a video on YouTube. So thank you to walk for those watching as the video leave a comment
of your favorite moment in the Kings Gauntlet.
We hit our sub goals and the viewer numbers
have been absolutely out of this world on all platforms.
And so I can finally announce with confidence
and with a lot of honor and pride, honestly,
I'm very, very grateful for this opportunity
to announce a Kings Gauntlet number two next year,
pretty much confirmed here.
And hopefully we can make a bigger and better event happen.
So if you've enjoyed this event, another one's coming.
But of course, here on the stream,
we're gonna bring in a grubby for the interview
and you might want to stick around and ask him some questions
uh... he is uh... it's late for him but if you can bring him in it'll be fantastic
let's see if
i don't have an answer around but
let's ask if gregi wants to jump in for an interview
small call after all small call after all chat
i want to get my small call
uh... man just will play the pig though seriously like you can see the cams pig
You know, hands up, he's given us all, he's given us all and
they both honestly deserve a lot of respects.
What a freaking final, these guys are legends, honest that.
Maybe we can get Pig in here as well.
Yeah, Pig is ready to join.
Before we get into the interview, Zera, just make sure that you tell your
chat that the goal to shave your head, that continues tomorrow too.
That's a part of technically a part of the Kings gauntlet. So
We can reach 12k tomorrow guys. We have time. Yeah, definitely have time to make her a bolt. I
Think with the bracket in the background, I think we have pig joining us now pig dude
You're a freaking legend man first and foremost huge congratulations. Listen. It's not a loss today
It's the second place and a fantastic second place at that
You were undefeated into the Grand Finals and you played a great Grand Finals. How are you feeling man?
You've played. Get to hear from you. Oh man, it's been an emotional journey, dude
I don't think I've ever played even Starcraft this much in three weeks like the amount I've played Age of Empires the amount of things
I've learned. Oh my god, and
Yeah, I found out even even in the finals. I'm learning things like apparently if your TC shoots your sheep
You can still you can still eat them. Yeah, I should have known
I got so tilted. It was so bad. But no, dude, Grubby played really good. You put so much pressure on me. We're both so tired and like you can see we're kind of making so many mistakes. But yeah, it was just like at the end of the day, it was who can weather the storm of sloppiness a bit better. And Grubby was just a little bit better than me. So it was really fun though, man.
Yeah, no, fantastic, fantastic finals. The dream finals from a viewer perspective. And I'm trying to comment here, pig. You kind of did well through the early rounds. You know, 2-0, 2-1 is looking pretty good.
And then you got into the final rounds and up against the captains. You went for a 3-2-3-2 and a 2-3. So you went to five games in all the final matches, let's say, all the semifinals onwards in the upper bracket.
It just goes to show how close the level was between the captains
How did you feel going up against the captains compared to some of the earlier rounds?
Do you really feel that it was that close of a level?
I'm honestly proud of you all for raising the level of you know yourselves in the two three weeks
But how do you feel about the level of their fellow competitors as well in the last stages?
You know I was really worried because you you did bribe me to be the hype man and purposely just keep throwing matches to make them as
Close as possible, but I wasn't sure I was gonna be good enough play. I was so inconsiderate. Can I throw at the right time?
That was good man, like it's always good when you lose a game, you win a game, you lose a game, I was struggling on arena and fortress.
I think for me, I think me and you thermal are like such starker up to try hards.
We both went through the same emotional journey of like being like, I don't like fortress and arena, these maps silly, but I tried hard to overcome it.
I didn't have the best success on them. I don't think I really got to the point where I won many games against the top players on them.
But I tried some new things and I think that the real fun of this tournament was the best of fives
Forced me to go beyond my preparation like I was just like oh, no
I don't have four fifthsives that I'm confident on I don't really have like a great second fortress or arena build order
So there was a lot of trying builds based off of descriptions from friends and people in my twitch chat
You know the the the Jan swordsman the the the Musica Musica
What is it? Temple Guard ran, which I guess is like a
Phosphor build apparently, but like I only got to practice any
games with these civs like one or two games versus AI before the
series. So as many mistakes as I've made, I was pretty happy
with the fact that I was actually able to win games of
builds that were like barely practiced at all. But the power
of Twitch chat, the power of the community, or giving advice,
it's been three weeks of like so many pro players, you're
self dropping in constantly, telling me stop losing your
needs to stop moving your woodchoppers around and letting all your bombards die like you told me
this like 20 times in the last two weeks I still I still go into just a woodline and lose them in
every game but you know it's uh it's been a real journey man it's so much fun I will say for what
it's worth your bomber micro uh was phenomenal like actually you've improved so much in that so
kudos to you for the improvement and that my words are certainly not falling on deaf ears but
I just want to say if there's one game that really really kind of leaves the market that that fortress game you played against grubby
You play the Sicilians you have that kind of field round push early
But you freaking you've ridded your way through to a winning late game somehow within an unorthodox pick in the Sicilians
It was super impressive if anything speaks to your diversity and your versatility as a player with your strategies and whatnot
I think it was that one. I think you bought a good mix of anti-meta plus some good meta options
Some good fundamentals. You're a phenomenal pleasure watching. Seriously is a pleasure to cast your games
Thanks, he's man. I I appreciate it's been so much fun. I don't know how I made some of those comebacks
Both series against grubby. It was the Vietnamese in the first series where he double archer proxy me
Yeah, I was dead the whole game
I don't know how I brought that one back and same with game one in this series
So there's a few games where I'm like, oh you dumb dumb you threw the advantage away here and there
But then there's those ones are like, how the hell did I even win those games?
So apparently, Sargeants are better than we realized.
And, um, yeah, I think it helped that I've played so much Vietnamese.
And I was like, how am I going to counter skirm Fire Lancer?
And of course, my number one coach survivalist, I messaged him earlier and he was
like, yeah, just, just keep mixing in.
Cause I was planning to not build any Sargeants after the first crusade Ram
push and he's like, no, no, no, no, like keep mixing them in, use them in Rams,
use them to deal with like the Lancers, chuck them in Rams to jump in, in on
top of the arches. And yeah, they traded crazy good. Apparently someone told me it was like
9000 Relic Gold he had or something. Yes, 9000 Relic Gold. You should have been dead in the
waters with so many metrics. And in the end, of course, the timer did force him to make
some crazy moves, you know, five relics. If there's no timer usually going to be favored.
But all metrics showed Grubby winning that game. And you just took some good trade after
good trade kept fighting, kept raiding, kept making it messy. And in the end, your army
The amount of mixes you had in there was just beautiful to watch. It was a fantastic comeback, honestly
Thanks, man. I just one thing
Trader onages need to I've I hadn't used onages at all in the last few weeks
I was like, these are really good. Dude. I think they killed more of my units than his
Dude, oh my lord the number of times I look back. I'm like, what killed all of those and I just see an onager standing there
He's like, wasn't me, you know, you did it again
So I saw him to the scorpions I realized that's a much more new friendly unit for me. I can aim
Yeah, it just does its job. Yeah. Yeah, we saw the adaptation there to the scorpion
Scripps was a much more consistent and reliable backline. You know a lot of times the odd orders are just walking and dying
But you'll pick I want to get your opinion on the Schumer Terms in general. Listen, we have a Kings Gauntlet number two confirmed
Obviously enough to make a decision now, but you're keen on joining for a Kings Gauntlet number two next year potentially. Oh
Oh, 100% man. Dude, this has been such a blast. It's so fun to learn something new,
try hard it and kind of, yeah, develop so much. You know, I've been a casual fan on
the sidelines watching you guys and the other pros play for a while and getting to hop in
and have you guys share some of your knowledge with us. It's also been a real pleasure, I
think, to learn. There's something about 30 year old strategy games that have so many
little quirks and little weird behaviors and things like it feels like every day you're
just learning all these little details like oh when the manganelle shoots the town center
it gets extra range or a farm and you know if you delete a unit like this this happens
there's just like a thousand cool little details so it's been really fun just learning all
that and I'd absolutely love to join any future events.
Love it bro and just the chat is asking as well you know we did Warcraft we did Age of
Empires 2 right now how about we finish the Trinity with Starcraft any plans to make
host your own streamer showdown. I'll come play some Starcraft. What are your thoughts
there? Yeah, I mean, I heard you didn't take down
Cerro, but I think maybe we can give you a slightly more even playing field and teach
you some Starcraft. If we get one going, are you in?
I'm like most likely, if it lines up for me nicely, I'm so in. I think I had such a blast
at the Warcraft. I'm still playing Warcraft from the side, by the way. I'm not very good,
but I'm trying to get better, trying to maybe hit 2K one day there, but I'll definitely
play some Starcraft. I think you, you Thermal, maybe some, maybe Loco, just cook something
up for Starcraft 2. Day 9, maybe Rude War, sorry, Mr. Llama, maybe some Rude War, but
I think Starcraft 2 would be a good place to run it back, honestly.
Thank you, man. These sort of events are just so fun for bringing different communities
together. Everyone's been super cool. It's been friggin' fun playing with some of the
other guys, getting some custom games in, just going and hanging out on each other's
channels and I think it's really cool just shout out to you guys once again the
admins whoever the hell built your website being able to open it up see
the rankings track the points you've got the the team aspect was really smart as
well I thought that was really fun kind of pushed everyone to like chat with the
other streamers and interact a little bit more as we were kind of encouraging
people to play games and get there they're rating up and then being able to
also just get all look I can go to the website and I can see who's live at any
moment and go around and just tune in and see what's happening you know is
there gonna be a teutonic fortress again is someone gonna be torturing Yamato
And he's one more game honey. I'll be there, you know, like there's a lot of fun journeys
The I think it was death note played like a two-hour and a half hour game with tofu is well one day
You know a lot of funness. Yeah, absolutely and I echo everything you said
It's been a great event and I heard grubby's keyboard there finally a small call
Grubby denied me enough with that crazy loser back around but congratulations man
The king's gauntlet winner and a crazy loser back around how do you feel man good to see you?
Thank you very much. I feel kind of sad. I haven't seen you all day.
It's been tough, man. It's been tough.
But it was worth it. You won the tournament in the end, so congratulations.
How do you feel actually winning this tournament with such an epic run and obviously, you know,
a very, very legendary foe and a good rival for the event, a good storyline there?
Grebia, what are your feelings after winning the event?
I mean, I feel really amazing. Like, it's just like...
I had a lot of achievements, but in Starcraft 2, I was just okay.
Like I was in the top of Europe, but I didn't win any tournament.
And in AE4, I was top 20 ladder, but I didn't play any tournament.
So this is actually the first really important tournament I won outside of Warcraft 3 in an RTS.
And I kind of can't believe it.
So I'm actually extremely happy with it, more than you would think,
because like, you know, stream is more important than esports now, or so you would think.
we think that it's only all the old feelings come back and you start
tryharding and everything. And then when you see everyone else practicing,
you see how good everyone is. Oh man, I got so stressed, pig, so smart,
so good preparation, insane macro, insane multitasking, same counter
attacks. I never underestimated him. I said it on my stream too. For the
first match, I couldn't even explain to my wife why I was preparing so hard
for the match against Pig.
Because I'm number one Elo, which she knew,
but she doesn't know the nuances of the game.
So I'm 150 Elo higher.
She's like, yeah, you're gonna win, right?
And like, I was not so sure at all.
I was extremely stressful
and I was really sad after I lost him yesterday
and I still can't believe even that I won today
because his prep is so good.
His symbiosis with survivalists,
very impressive, very impressive preparation
and very daring as well with the sifts that he picked.
Like he's daring to pick these sifts that he doesn't have much experience in.
I guess I followed his inspiration by playing Koreans that have like five games in lifetime,
which kind of worked. And did it work? I don't even remember.
It didn't work, yeah. It's phenomenal.
I can't believe that I beat Pig. I can't believe that I beat Lance,
because Lance has like 7000 games experience.
Like it was obviously at way more game knowledge and different builds and everything.
So I, you know, I, I got a bit, I got mad watching him sometimes because he had so much more experience and stress than us and everything.
But I also had a little talk with you thermal, you thermal and I are good friends, of course, and he already lost to Lance.
And so we talked a bit and he's like, I think like this, like that.
And then, you know, a lot of people rooting for me and it helped a lot.
And yeah, overall, thank you so much for the tourney.
Thank you and Roxy and all hamburgers, by the way.
Yeah.
And you need to get, you need to get the work spread across more different
Applian's not poor hamburgers, but he did some great. He's so nice. Yeah, we had one website guy
We had one admin and it was me and Roxy. It was a freaking homegrown production. There was four people basically working on this
That's crazy. You started day one by leaking video ninja link and I was like look at that guy
But then I thought wait I had a guy helping like the whole weekend. Yeah, I was doing the cameras the whole time
I was switching the cams. I was the cam guy the caster
I was it was crazy one of the hardest things I've ever done. I'm actually by the way beyond
Blessed with the outcome from the viewership, but also beyond happy with the outcome of the tournament like so many banger sets
No, no one really dropped like okay
We had a sleepy a meme but that can happen pestily with the with the mix up
It was not even his fault in the end
There's just a mix up with the admin and you know a ton of you know miscommunication
But no one flat out dropped everybody took it seriously everybody showed up everybody enjoyed it
It was literally a fantastic event. I could not ask for a better King's Gauntlet 1.
We have King's Gauntlet 2 confirmed as well for next year, so I'll work on that and try to do something better.
I don't know how this can be top, but I'll work on it and I just want to say
I have a lot of things to say, but I'll just say a few things
to keep it short, of course. It was Dreamcom Shooter Hostess.
I feel like we connected so many communities together and I feel like it's really
following suits nicely with what you hosted with Warcraft 3, Grubby, and I hope it leads to something even better in the future.
So it means a lot to be able to kind of fall into your footsteps and I hope it leads to, you know,
just a continuation of RTS communities working together, gaming communities coming together,
streamers working together to provide a bigger and better show for the audience that is so supportive
and so engaging and so, you know, appreciative of the work we're doing and, you know, kind of
showing us the love and we're sending it back to you guys, hopefully.
You did a great thing, you guys can agree more.
Hey Yamato!
Hey!
I was just sitting quietly, bro.
I'm 6am deep just as you, bro, like my eyes are gluing.
You're used to this, you know.
You're younger, you're like super young, 35 years old.
It's a failure difference, bro.
You do this every day.
I have never done a stream this long.
I just, I just, I just wanted to squeeze in a couple of words too.
You know, Hera, you're a fantastic job on everything, honestly, casting for these amount
of hours.
The crazy schedule was heavy on some, like for example, Grubby today, and we had different
time zones, everyone came together and figured it out, but you were streaming nonstop, and
you were casting nonstop, and somehow you maintained, you know, like just good damn
energy throughout made every moment very memorable. I wasn't saying as well, you know, coming
into the tournament, I was like, yo, grubby is going to be the favorite. But I think people
always misunderstand why grubby is the favorite because looking at it throughout competition
was heating up. Like you invited some fucking God gamers, people were climbing suddenly 400
elo up 500 elo up, people were climbing like crazy. It got very scary, super fast. You know,
I had an ego there for a week. I was like, ah, I can maybe do well. And then suddenly my ego just disappeared the shattered insolent gone completely, completely gone.
And the main thing is, you know, when people say Grubby was a favorite to win it, oh, I think the reason I say people misunderstood that you showcase why you were in the favor, right?
You showcase in the sense of how hard you worked. I was every time I tuned into Grubby stream, he was reviewing.
He was looking at, you know, every single damn detail you engage in the game in such a deep way.
It just seemed like all of the neurons, I was mentioning it earlier, Grobby, maybe you can confirm.
But the idea, I don't know if it is the same for you, but as a competitor.
And then sometimes, you know, you pass your prime, I was telling her, I was like, you're in your prime, you're not going to understand this, in ten years you're going to understand.
There's this voice in your head that always tells you, if I wanted to, I could.
This voice is always there and then you get an opportunity to compete like this and then that voice
You have to answer that calling because that voice has been feeding your ego your entire life
So after you compete in your prime you pass your prime and you get an opportunity to to engage in something the way you did
I could recognize what I went through in work of three the same way you and
Everybody else also approached the age of empires thing because that voice that egos
Because if I wanted to, I could.
And you wanted to, and you damn could.
You smoked the competition, and you did it in a way where, fuck it, what, you played
20 games today?
Absolutely incredible.
And that is the truth as to why you were the favorite.
The damn hard work and the passion behind it.
Because I don't know if you had memories from WCG days or any days of your past tournaments
where you had to play, fuck it, 20 hours almost of games, probably there was some goofy
We asked East Post Thomas that you had to do it and you pulled through.
I'm sure the DNA really, really kicked in today.
And somehow both of you at Freaky hours managed to perform at a deep high level.
So I respect both of your respect to both.
Like pig, you were playing, didn't you even sleep?
Like you're, you're playing it like you're, you played at like your 11 p.m.
to wake up and then you stayed all night to wait for the groovy match.
Is that true?
Yeah.
You know, I've been training my whole life for this.
A big congrats by the way, groovy mad, mad flame.
I was really fun. But yeah, I've been I've been training for this my whole life, you know, being in
Australia, I'm used to flying like 30 hours to go commentate events. So weird sleep schedule
adjustment is something I'm good at during like, you know, COVID or the remote commentary. It's
like always European time zone for RTS. So I'm like, Oh, my shift starts at 1am. All right, let's
let's go. I'm going through a week straight, flip my sleep schedule. And then I'm going to flip it
back when that week of casting is over. So I mean, it's not, it's you're never in peak
condition, but there's a lot of little tricks, you know, you got to like yesterday, I like
finished, I did all my replay review, we did some coaching, I thought about the ideas
I wanted to do. And then I was like, okay, I have to like, I have to go jog and like
exhaust myself exercising, because I need to try and sleep at 6pm so I can wake up at
midnight.
That's crazy.
I actually managed to get some like not terrible sleep. And then I was up all night after that.
So it was, it was a good journey.
I was struggling a few times.
I was going out, getting a bit of sunshine,
doing a bit of a stretch in between the games,
trying to stay alert, a bit of coffee helped.
But yeah, there was a few moments there in the finals
where I thought I was just getting super tilted.
I was like, why am I making mistakes?
And I'm like, we're both making mistakes.
It's like five AM for Grubby as well.
Let's freaking like lock in, stop tilting yourself, man.
And I was happy that I ended up kind of pushing Grubby
towards the end because I felt a little bit like
I was tripping over my own feet.
And then I'm glad it made the last few games
like a bit more back and forth.
We got to fight a bit.
Cause I wanted it to be a brawl towards the end, you know?
Whichever one of us won,
I didn't want it to be one guy messes up,
just gets housed for the whole game,
runs his villages into a mango or does something stupid.
I felt like we got to actually fight a bit
and that was really, really cool.
So well earned.
Well done, Gravi, GG man.
Thank you so much, Pig.
So it was a very well phrased.
Well, why couldn't you just make it easy?
Do it, why did this?
I could I could see your hands and your brain in every individual
Bombered cannon. Yeah, you were controlling them like a fucking tentacle octopus
Yeah, but I have boxy I've got hoof needs and I was just like oh my god
Can you just I just I just like realized at some point if I can't have like having your in your worker lines or something
There's just you're just never gonna get hit. I'm like damn it grab me stop get distracted
And you're like you were just locked in on the front surrounding me with castles. I was like, no, I just can't catch any mistakes from you, man
I like that trench warfare
I legitimately think if we play two more arabia games unless I get like an insanely good start like where you accidentally murdered five of your
Own chickens like I still think you're the upper dog
Fortress was filthy apparently I made the wrong name
Yeah, actually can we both because I don't know how I won that game either other than sergeants do good against violences
What should grubby have built? Should he have built more like abs or something? What should he have done?
Can I answer?
Yeah, go ahead please grubby
I should have made war elephants and a ratan, a ratan for DPS and an elephant for tanking
What do you think, Hera?
Yeah, with the five relics that's very solid but the real unit you need is full ratan archer
It's a very underrated unit, but you guys pissed me the hell off by going Arbalest
But you have amazing unique units that shoots arrows like everybody did it
It's a game Chukunu never used Ratan Archer never used Genoese Crossman never used everybody's going Arbalest all the time
It's funny, but I've never used that thing. I just throw away tissue
Like I don't know how they micro like they have like this wind up in attack. I used like 10 of them
I was like, nah, this unit sucks.
Yeah, yeah.
It's weird until you stay away from it.
I totally understand.
Is it just better?
Is it just better than Arvelous?
It has one extra attack, and it's also tankier.
So that really helps in a lot of those late game fights.
I think it's not straight up.
It's a paper.
Pius Alm is crazy, right?
Yeah, Pius Alm is really high, which
is great against skirmish, it's great against scorpions.
It's great at running through towers,
castles, towers, et cetera.
And it's also a little bit faster than Arb,
So, like, better against the Jhonorator is just a better unit overall.
Free coaching again.
Yeah, another grubby coaching session.
Look at us go.
But guys, we have to wrap this up a 15 hour stream so we can talk for hours
and I'd love to, but guys, first I call it here.
Last we're not going to replay replay coaching here, but he played coaching one more hour.
Question first, question first, question first.
I haven't told my wife yet that there's team games tomorrow today, because it's
six a.m. Yeah, yeah.
I don't know if she's gonna be okay with it. I don't know if I'm gonna be okay with it, but
When is it?
16 GMT for the first match the second match is after it's gonna come to the second match only everyone only plays one match
It's a voluntary you don't have to come there's money if you come of course, but it's a voluntary if you can come if you want
If it's too much, it's completely understandable a 16 GMT first match second match
Maybe it's probably two hours after it realistically. It's purely for fun. It's not anything to determine purely for fun
I might even like one view one exist. Yeah, it's always competition for you your tryhard
I know I can relate a little bit, but I might jump in I might play a couple of you guys
It's purely for fun, but there is money on the team game. So
It's a good show for the viewers. It'll be fun
Okay, yeah, hope you guys enjoy the five hour glaze session in the cast of you both. Yeah
You guys listen back to that. It's just five hours of glazing you guys the improvement
Like the evolution from both of you. It was crazy this tournament by the way the improvement was not people
Yes, it's insane how much you guys improved throughout the tournament
Crazy to watch crazy
Because I heard you so much. You said you thermals gonna win your motto
I'll just make a shit up bro like I was that was completely bad base
Dude, I thought it too
No, I was just, I, I, I, you know, it's like, I don't, I'm not that good at the game.
So when I saw things that I liked and the things that I like are not good.
I saw your thermal, like sending villages out and he was just like proxy mining all the stone and the gold.
I was like, he's getting away with it.
So good.
He did that again, sing, sing.
And I was like, okay, he's the most aggressive dude.
So that's going to work.
But then everyone just kind of evolves.
It's like your scouting was insane.
And then the meta game became more and more pro.
You know, we just gave more and more pro, which was just
It's not a big difference between pig and me and the pros anymore. I feel like
Dude at the end I was gonna say like at the end you're playing pro matchups
You're playing them. How are you supposed to you're playing pretty damn well?
You guys are just missing a few timings, but this is way higher level than 1700
It's something like 2000 elos or even a little higher in some things like the knowledge there super top tier
Like seriously, genuinely playing very, very good Age of Empires 2.
It's like semi-pro level. I'm not even joking. I'm not exaggerating.
Thank you.
We appreciate it. I think you're glazing a little bit, but I appreciate it.
Honestly, I feel like we've absorbed more knowledge in the last few weeks than in the rest of our lives, you know?
My brain is overloaded with Age of Empires, so I don't know, man.
I'm looking forward to the team games tomorrow.
I haven't played a team game of M5s in like six years, but it should be really fun.
Yeah, it would be a lot of fun.
Thank you guys.
If you guys are saying any last words, you can take some time to say that, but otherwise
we'll just call it here and it's been a great tournament, perfect way to end it.
I've said it all, you guys.
GGs, we'll start with fun.
Take care, Robert.
GGs, GGs, GGs, GGs, GGs, GGs, GGs, GGs, GGs, GGs, GGs, GGs, GGs, GGs, GGs,
GGs, GGs, GGs, GGs, GGs, GGs, GGs, GGs, GGs, GGs, GGs, GGs, GGs, GGs,
Take care guys. I'm gonna hop out of here. Take care everyone. Have a good night and thank you all for a wonderful event. Peace
W. It's a W. It's not let's W. It's not let's wait for a second. Peace
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Guys, what a fantastic fantastic fantastic event. I am so beyond
Happy proud of the work not just done by me, but done from the people helping me
Such a good event. I'm actually really sad. It's over
Just looking at the bracket here one last time. Thank you all a sincere a sincere
Thank you to all of you guys for all the support from the people gifts and subs
Donating people just watching sharing with your friends
Everyone in the chat you helping the streamers, you know support on the streamers helping them learn strategies
Everybody who participated in this event was a huge factor as to why it was such a success. I'm really sad it's over
I gave it my all.
I'm not the best caster.
I'm mostly a player, of course,
but I tried to bring the utmost energy
that I could to the cast.
I tried to include as many people as possible.
We had such a diverse casting lineup.
I think that added a lot of fun to it.
I think I got better with the casting as I went on.
And there's a lot of uncertainties
around like different things in the event,
like managing cameras, I had no idea how to do it.
You know, managing players,
I obviously had a lot of help from my admin.
There's a lot of things that is just such an uncertain
Going into this event that we figured out last minute and it worked so well.
It worked at the production quality.
It was kind of a meme at first.
That in the end, it was like kind of decent.
It's not like good production.
It looked like decent production.
And I'm kind of proud of that.
But all of us to say is that next time, like, by the way, we did this, we did
this event last minute.
Microsoft told me a month before the event, a month, they told me we have a
slot here, some other term had dropped $10,000.
Do you want, do you want the spot?
Cause I told them it was supposed to be for December.
It was supposed to be for December of 2026.
I told them screw it.
I'll take it.
I knew nothing of how to organize the tournament.
I've never done anything like this.
I took the spot, took whatever money they gave and made the best out of it.
And the show was absolutely abysmal.
Uh, abysmal.
I'm tired.
The show is absolutely out of this world.
It was the opposite of abysmal.
So amazing.
It was amazing.
It was the best thing I could have ever asked for.
It was so much fun.
Uh, everything was in the ladder grind.
To the tournament someone said for you and slip up. I promise
This is the worst show ever terrible finals probably starting that good
You matters a terrible cast and you didn't make me laugh once
No, that's so funny then. That's so funny
But did everything from the memes to the games to the chat is all out of this freaking world
I'm so beyond blessed for all of you guys and your support.
Seriously, I'm actually really sad it's over.
We got team give us some more to look forward to.
But all I want to say is that we've learned so much
of this event, I can promise you guys,
we'll do my absolute best to be guys
a better King's Gauntlet for next year.
God willing, we hit the sub goal you guys delivered
and it's my turn to deliver.
So I hope you guys enjoyed the events.
We can let Roxy with some last words come in
and then I'll wrap up the show.
Thank you all once again, Roxy with some words
And we'll go from there, please.
You can have a chair.
Oh, hello there, chat.
I just want to say two things, well, a couple, but two important things.
When you guys thank the admin or the admin work, it's actually not me.
I did nothing.
It's all the Virgil with the, with the website and hamburgers.
He did absolutely everything.
I did nothing.
I just complained that Hamza was building another family with another man.
That's all I did.
Alright, so you have to thank-
That other man is a champion.
Uh-huh, anyways.
So it's not me, I don't want your thank yous.
Go to Hamburgers and go to the Virgil.
Big shout out to all the players.
You guys don't have access to a lot of the channels that were in the Discord
because they were for like the players,
but they were so wholesome.
It felt like a family, like they were talking each other out.
They were like, go your thermi, go grabby, go this, go that.
it was like so cute you know it's like oh that's so cute and last thing thank you
guys for supporting the event of course without you this would not be possible
and I see Hamza super happy and seeing him happy makes me think that he's
thinking about Grubby but it also makes me happy you know yeah yeah also oh I
don't want to break your heart live on stream but someone posted a screenshot
that Grubby said if I didn't have a wife and I was gay so the dot Yamato
So you will not be his first choice?
Oh my god!
Oh my goodness!
Anyways, sorry, sorry.
I didn't want to bring it to you, but it's on the square.
Like it's public information.
Dude, second place is the amount of no shame.
Making that even second though,
we don't really know that.
It makes me feel a little bit bad, I'm not going to lie.
Sorry, sorry. I feel like we're anti-bent on the branch.
No, but it's okay.
Thank you for the casters and co-casters as well.
I want to give a huge shout out to Liri.
I want to give a huge shout out to Liri actually because he coached a lot of the players and he
stayed up all night talking, you know when you were getting jealous about Grubby? He was on
Liri and Liri was helping him through the games. That bastard Liri. Yeah, he took your hobby. I know.
Grubby the hubby is gone though. I sent Grubby a DM and he didn't reply to me by the way.
Yeah, he was busy. Bro, you're not in his priority. I sent him a nice DM. You know I sent him this.
Told grubby I said where's grubby a lot of DMs today
So I said I also dropped in your journey lock-in champ
You got this with a flex emote and a fire emote. I was cheering him up
Yeah, and you know what else was cheering him up leery bro leery and that's what matters to him
All right, and maybe I'm out of two so get in line
I know what it feels like to be in line in the freaking line
Anyways, thank you very much to everyone. I hope you guys enjoyed the event and hopefully
I can have my roomie back. Bye!
Honestly, fantastic last words and kind of a big one away at how good she speaks. I couldn't
said I better myself though but guys gonna wrap it up fantastic events and yeah
just once again huge thank you guys W tournament one last time bye W
tournament fantastic events I can't I can't say it enough but we'll talk
tomorrow tomorrow 16 GMT we're gonna start with the team games it's a for fun
team games with a lot of money in the line the $7,000 donated from an
anonymous sponsor for tomorrow's team games so there's a lot of money but it's
a profound thing if the player show up will play if they don't show up I'm gonna
be 1v7ing whoever shows up. I'm just going to go crazy. And yeah, last gift from Dabrija, 10th from Dabrija, and 5th from MothP for the 5th gift. Thank you so much. And thank you to everybody once again. Great events. We'll remember forever. We'll have a second one next year. And see you guys tomorrow for some team games. It's going to be a lot of fun. So take care, everyone. Have a good night. And I don't know if there's any more streaming, but I might just end it here because I can't look for a raid. I'll raid survivalists. Let me put in a little bit of extra effort and raid survival. I see Pegas still on the hold on. I'm just going to go crazy. And yeah, last gift from Dabrija, 10th from Dabrija, and 5th from MothP for the 5th gift. Thank you so much. And thank you to everybody once again. Great events
on. Pig is talking. I'll pass the guys on a pig, but check out survivalists if you haven't
already. Ray Tyler one night, he didn't play the, he didn't play the night down. Pass the
guys on a pig, show him some love guys. Second place is not a loss. He's a winner today and
he's a champion in his own right. Take care everyone. See you tomorrow. Have a good night.
Bye bye. Much love seriously. Heart for you guys. Peace.