Final round finished. It was really tight but won because of the mistake menace made because he was in a hurry.
Here is the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mny588yk_zYAs a "small" description of the game (not sure if anybody will read it
):
- in the begining of the game, I believe Menace had a cluster of 5 close factories
- I tried to get one of them to have production advantage and Menace send his force to get one of my factories.
- At the end of this initial conflict, we were both left with the factories that we got in the begining, so 5 to 5, with Menace's factories being closer, (so he had a better response time)
- in regards to the specialists, Menace got a Smuggler which he used to transport troups for initial attack. I on the other hand got a hypnotist (which I planned to only upgrade it to a king if needed)
- for the second round of specialists hire, I got a smuggler and Menace got a hypnotist
- so after the initial attack and the 2 hires were were almost dead-even. In my opinion, Menace had the advantage at this point because I lost some additional units because I lost more units against his shields and because of his factories being closer.
- My next move was to upgrade the smuggler to factory to get ahead with the production. I was expecting Menace to do the same, but instead he went for a Sentry. This allowed me to catch up and surpass his unit count, but he still had mobility to gather all his units fast if I decided to attack
- Luckly, my next hire was another smuggler while for menace he hired 2 assasins, while moving most of his army (around 150 units) and his sentry to protect his factory we've been fighting over.
- we continued without any skirmishes and I started to get close to my supply limit (I had around 50 units more than him) so I decided to redirect some of my production to get more generators. he countered most of them but this prevented me from being supply capped and also was slowly wearing down his units ( I still had to production advantage).
- after one or 2 more specialists hire, I noticed that my next specialist was a Double Agent, so I decided to move all my units from where my queen was, to a center generator that allowed fast reaction to all factories.
- this was were Menace made his mistake. Because he saw the queen unprotected (and he was in a hurry), he sent all his 150 units with an assasin to kill my queen, or force me to retriet. He missed the fact that for my next hire I could get a double agent (and I also almost forgot that I had it
)
- so from this point I moved all my units to attack 2 different factories, and used my double agent to destroy his main army.
- I also managed to get back my double agent because I ocuppied the destination outpost of the double agent, before he arrived (and sent a unit to make the exchange)
- from this point I went and captured his other outposts until he only had one, and for the final attack I used a smuggler, navigator, assasin with 160 units.
If he wouldn't have missed that double agent, it would have been a longer game.
Anyway, good game Menace and I hope to fight again soon.
And thank you Mathwiz for the tournament.
Sorry for the long post
Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 8:18 pm