hey guys Spirit of the lse here so I don't do commentaries all that often but I watch this
game and I just have to show this to you guys this is look I don't want to Hype it up and say
this is the greatest game of the year but I mean it's pretty crazy I think it was my favorite game
I've watched this year so already you can see we got some weird Shenanigans going on we got two
villagers going forward for some reason what so here in the red we've got the Spanish this is a
player Rose is 2060 rated and in the blue we've got lady who is uh playing as the good jars now
the whole reason I watch this is because gurjaras have such a massive Advantage here
I just kind of want to see the complete steam roll and what we gotten said is an incredible gain so
here Red's moving forward you might say well okay it's way too early for Tower rushes so what would
you possibly be doing with two Spanish villagers forward here and you could think he's going after
the Sheep I mean that's that's possible because you know that does hurt the guitars a little bit
but instead he's just gonna go in Lane now that on its own wouldn't make this an incredible game
in fact here I'm kind of secretly cheering for blue as uh this is kind of a jerk move
so he goes and he kills the deer and stuff and kind of walls himself in so he can shoot
the elephant the elephant can't attack him I mean it's pretty annoying but you're also
head down two villagers right so blue is at least keeping his villagers working this whole
time and blue also has extra forage bushes so this isn't necessarily the end of the world
Blue's just gonna go grab the other elephant use this little trick here we shoot it a couple times
he's gonna be fine and res is still being annoying he's gonna start Walling in the
gold again like I say this isn't that crazy so we're just gonna speed up a little bit here
so the reason if we're thinking about why as Spanish would you run forward and you have
to do all these Shenanigans besides just kind of being a jerk is Spanish with a huge disadvantage
here so if you think about what Spanish want to do they want to make Knights they want to
make conquistadors they want to get through feudal age as quickly as possible where's your jars their
specialty is more in camels and the shrivamsha rider and of course their camels do 40 more bonus
damage against Knights so you don't really want to make Knights of Spanish here but at the same
time camels and the shrivamsha rider are also both great against conquistadors and you might
think conquistadors could hit and run but they're actually slower than camels and trivancha Riders
this is just not a good matchup for Spanish and is in fact technically their worst matchup so
you can see it's just being annoying he's running around with the Villagers he's gonna try to attack
this Mill here which has but we've got all eight sheep in there you can see blue is responding to
this and then says you know what don't worry about it I'll just go back he's a little short on food
although he does have the extra berries and this is where we get okay now this isn't just laming
we now have extra villagers coming forward we have three more villagers coming forward for the
Spanish player uh I'm not sure if here if he just forgot that he needs to research Supremacy first
and maybe thought he gets in the Dark Age I don't actually think that's the case but this is kind
of past your old run-of-the-mill laming strategy with five villagers now this kind of seems like
he's actually going for villager fights and the only bonus Happening Here for Spanish is faster
built build buildings so it's not like he's got a villager Advantage here he's not poles or anything
like that where his villagers heal and other than that though I mean he's kind of doing a regular
build at home what has he got seven on food he's gonna grab some berries I mean totally normal
if this is all that was going on I wouldn't say this is such an amazing game so we're just gonna
speed it up I mean don't get me wrong this is more exciting than the typical Dark Age
so basically here red has got what four I think he's sending one of his villagers back oh that's
smart he brings back the guy that has 4 HP okay and instead he's gonna send four more villagers
so right now this isn't necessarily like red doesn't have much value
out of this has he killed any units I guess he's killed one
yeah is that right am I reading that right okay so he's killed one villager I guess not a big deal
these manager lame some things so we've got now this is a lot did I say four so
he's got eight villagers forward trying to put down some Farms some very early Farms I
guess not that early but should be clicking up soon and neither one has clicked up yet
and just messy villager fights again what are we doing here guys
but you can think about it I mean this is why Spanish wants to do this he wants to disrupt
him because if this played out like a normal game the jars probably win it two times out of three
and he's gonna run back with another villager he's just gonna have a ton of villagers at home
they'll all have two or four HP although this time he's gonna get intercepted by the camel Scout so
he's gonna lose that villager and is that gonna change the three oh no so he's actually killed
two of Blues villagers sorry and that's his first villager that red lost he's still gonna
try to hammer down this Mill I have though blue is actually built a second though and I think
he's gone and grabbed uh summer red sheep as well so he's got a couple extra I guess goats not cheap
and this is not a good value proposition we've got four villagers hammering away on this Mill
you don't even need two repairs just one repair should actually be enough although he's gonna
try to get it out of the the fire zone there oh look more villagers for red coming forward
we've got three more it's a party now does red even have any villagers at home I guess he does
like what is going on here although red has a huge villager Advantage but that's
because Blue's going up to the next stage so red actually has at this point seven more villagers
uh although four are kind of sitting here not doing too much and another three that I
mean how much time has been spent walking across the map look at the idle economy
yeah I mean that's actually pretty similar so it's gonna just do more laming okay again
all right he hasn't even clicked up yet he's actually not even particularly close although
he's got so many on farms right now so it shouldn't take him too long to get the 500 food
again I just love always got four villagers and this one's offsetting it and the one's actually
repairing it uh uh it's actually pretty much equal the one repair will offset these four
villagers I mean that's some good value for blue I imagine intercept these it does make
some militia it's interesting although he's futile now so we could think about archers or something
I know you have to think I mean look at this massive score Advantage this hasn't
necessarily worked out as well for red so far he's just been kind of annoying and it's just
building more random walls okay I mean these are very good players by the way this is not this is
all calculated still Theory speed up a little bit like what are we gonna do here if you're blue you
have to feel like you've got sort of an advantage if for no other reason like how much idle time we
have here because this isn't counted this idle time this fighting but this is absolutely red
idle time blue is gonna get access to this gold here though and he's gonna make an archery range
that's gonna be nice because then he can actually shoot these villagers okay so if you're red you're
in trouble and you're thinking about going up to the next stage and he is going up to the next
stage now and where's the farmers are we sending three Farmers nope he has zero Farmers here guys
he's just on gold he's just on wood he's going up to feudal age he sent a bunch of laming he's done
some villager fights so what would you possibly do in feudal age with just gold and wood uh I mean
there's not too much there's only one unit that only costs wood and gold
it's the one unit that Spanish should not be making it's archers so why would
you not make archers as Spanish well you don't have crossbow so they're not going
to go anywhere but here's the thing red doesn't care so he's gonna make a barracks
and the only unit he can make here right now with these is going to start pointing down at
blacksmith is archers and he is not going to go to Castle that is not his intention he is not farming
he made 600 wood worth of farms and most of them staying with 146 out of 175 food left on them some
of them he actually did manage to to farm a little bit but he's dropping some archery ranges here
and we'll go forward here a little bit he's not dropping one archery inch he's not dropping two
archery range he's going to come in with a third archery range here in a moment and that's going to
be his plan who would expect the Spanish archers it's just who does that here's the third archery
range so now at this point he's saying I don't care about villagers I've got all the villagers I
need I've got 99 gold he's got 14 on wood although he's going to split his camps here that's probably
kind of smart has a defensive Tower that's actually pretty smart because one thing that
the blue is going to try to do in this situation and say all right so he did a bunch of laming
and stuff but I feel like I'm probably ahead of you certainly score you know 400 points ahead
so he's gonna try to come up here and do a little bit of reading
and now if you're red you're just pumping out I don't know if he's keeping them all you guys
keep them pretty much going he's gonna go full archers at this point so it's gonna get him off
gold first of all usually when people say all in archers they don't mean this all it the funny
thing is there's probably 15 civilizations that would do this better than Spanish too
blue meanwhile is coming around he's being like okay wait where are your resources you
have all of these very bushes left nobody's on the farms I'm not sure he knows about that but
actually I wouldn't mind can I even see I don't know this program super well how do I switch to
I don't know I don't know what the hotkey is I don't know how to switch to Blue's
perspective here but I'm pretty sure he doesn't know about these archery ranges
meanwhile I think it's given up shooting the mill uh this would be nice for blue to find
he could at least pick off some of these what's your villager numbers blue has a 10 villager lead
wow guys again a little bit of a raid here although that Tower does have Fletching on
it so it's got a little bit more reach Ah that's kind of an annoying little raid meanwhile I think
about this from Red's perspective so yeah he's Spanish he's making nothing but archers literally
no food literally no new villagers coming in and you don't have to pay attention to your Eco at a
certain point he just moves to villagers under the tower and now he can focus fully on these archers
MDC the skirmisher this is the right response although the only thing is you have to get a
decent number of skirmishers to take this and I don't think he knows I don't think blue has any
idea there's three archery ranges there I mean who does that who goes triple archery range and
he's not even doing it from the side that he's coming from he's coming at this sort of alternate
angle and you have to imagine blue has no idea where these are coming from okay so we're going
he's basically just walking around looking for villager picks just keeping a couple Farmers off
their Farms here that's probably not gonna do too much goes around looking for gold
okay he's gonna get a couple of villager picks the tower here isn't bad but it's
not really protecting that much wood and it is going to run out soon so you think maybe
you should move on to Stone or something like that and Red's actually getting quite
a few villager kills here this is pretty good for him look at the eco-kill to death
I think this means that red has killed 12 villagers and blue has killed nine
it's not looking that unequal the main difference is the military Advantage 19 to 8 military units
and this is good we got some uh some skirmishes here and arches should probably run unless you
got some good micro skills here I mean these are 2000 rated players so we got some good micro
though it looks like Red's taking a bit of an advantage here I think skirmisher's
minimum range is hurting quite a bit so he can't really get that many shots off
and as long as the archers stay close the skirmishers just keep
running and they won't actually attack this is a really good fight for red wow
so pushing glue off all of this wood at least I've got to go over here we still have three
archery ranges again nothing is happening with the Farms it's just completely automated this militia
I guess guarding the berry bushes completely automated we're just going all in triple archery
range and actually the scores I've caught out now blue does have 12 more villagers though
in fact we take has a 50 bigger economy although it's under constant threat here
and blue does not have enough for another Tower this would be such a good spot for a tower I
think that would probably shut this off if we have another wave of just 11 archers meanwhile
these are still pumping out continuous archers and so much of his economy is idled like you're not
used to this like I don't care for 2000 rated you're not used to this to just have somebody
who's 100 only focusing on their military and this is smart he's trying to make a sneaky wall
and notice right here he is fighting the villagers but now he tries to stop himself
from getting blocked in he starts attacking these villagers manages to sneak through and
reconnect these that was a nice little play but it's had a couple of nice little plays here that
could have gone the other way but this with a little bit of micro he saved it that's a lot
of archers 15. yeah that's the thing with these skirmishers is if you even had I don't know six
skirmishers there maybe you could start taking it but three against fifteen you're just gonna lose
them especially when Red's microwing this well and again this is really juicy Target for red who's
gonna start attacking some of these villagers here at the same time as fighting off the skirmishers
just disrupting this wood here really sends ripples through Blue's economy this it's
harder to make skirmishers extra buildings even Farms so it starts influencing his food income
of course at the same time backing all this up constant archers coming out well we've got 10
more archers and finally Blue's like okay you know what I need a second I need a second range
here I need more skirmishers and I do think that might have helped stabilize a little bit earlier
maybe getting a little bit of stone for some towers and also just getting more skirmishers
I don't think he knew there were three Arch ranges in his face though that's what's so funny also who
doesn't Farm it just says I don't need any more villagers he hasn't made a villager in 15 minutes
and I think he made it yeah so Red's got a market here so we can buy the food that he
needs for you know blacksmith upgrades and that's pretty much it I don't think he's researching
anything at this point and it's actually a lot of villager kills he's gonna get he's killed
31 villagers and lost nine and those nine are the ones he sent forward to fight so ridiculous
though he has lost some of his Archer numbers he's down to just 13 over here
these three archery ranges still working constantly though
so again just to emphasize nobody ever makes archers as Spanish because you can't upgrade
them to crossbow this is this only makes sense because he is never going to go to Castle age he
is just going to keep making archers I don't even know if he ever would get food I think
he would just keep doing this until blue resigns basically and just surround His base with archers
put him on stand ground maybe then he would go anywhere to start farming again I don't know
and three more archery ranges he's got 400 wood 200 gold got a couple archers queued up he's like
no we're gonna go even more archery ranges what else do you need a Spanish besides archery ranges
and just more archers but he's got 17 military units blue cannot get the skirmisher numbers he
needs does he even have the arm upgrade yeah he's got all the upgrades and blue calls GG so I guess
because his Wood Village is there under attack again he just gave up so again when I went into
this I was expecting garage to completely stomp Spanish and I was thinking you know if you told
me the game ended in 30 minutes and 13 seconds I'd say wow the Spanish player actually held up pretty
well how do you deal with all the the camels and shrivamsha Riders instead we got nothing
but Spanish archers for 30 minutes I don't even know when the last time he made a villager was
he wasn't even buying food to make villagers it's just so ridiculous okay how do I look at the stats
oh man I want all the kills and everything okay military
49 loss is actually for red he did actually lose quite a few units
see that was really the story is that
he put his economy so much towards that one unit that he could just non-stop spam that
unit and as long as he wasn't losing him he was taking some advantageous fights here
it's crazy stuff at 2 000 food wow and also tonight that was actually another
big key is that he denied blue any gold which means blue can really use a market
so I don't know I thought that was a crazy game hopefully you guys enjoyed that I've
never seen anything quite like that to be honest I don't know if I call it game of the year but
that definitely my job was on the floor that entire game watching that I've yeah
never say anything like it I'll do it for this one though and hopefully you guys
enjoyed that kind of wacky game thanks for watching and I'll see you next time