Hera vs Liereyy - Grand Final | The Garrison $40000 AoE2 Tournament

Ladies and gents, here we are. Game

number one of the grand final. We have

Hara in the blue looking for what is it?

His 11th straight S tier. His 10th

straight. I've lost count. I think this

would be 11th I believe. An insane

number. And then we've got Liry on the

other side who knows him incredibly well

and he has gone for the goths and he is

bringing a forward villager to try and

stop there. He's got a camel there. One

of the most brutal openings if it's on a

water map is if your villager dies while

the dock is being built. And Liry can

build the villager corner. Oh man. Liry

deletes the wall, but Hara's right there

with a palisade and stops Liry from

coming in the instant Li deleted that

wall, Hara replaced it. That was

incredible. It's a great opening here

from from and it's really resourceful

from Hera to save his villager. But

that's that's just a disaster class from

L to not recognize he can build through

the diagonal there. Look at where he is

with another villager. He's behind

Hara's base. He sent the villagers

forward to lane. This is what we wanted

from Lir. So early in game one, we're

not even 3 minutes in here. Two

villagers forward from Liry. We wanted

something different. That villager is

going to lame the elephant. She's going

to go after the other hunt over there.

the dock was delayed if nothing else and

Hara still has to be careful about that

villager near the dock as well. So

important adaptation here for Hera if

he's expecting this and obviously he

knows the one villager was there but

it's also just the fact that it's Goths

and we've seen this before. He's not

even moving out for the lumber camp. Now

I need to see his fog of war because

that elephant's kind of in the back. You

normally scout front. Did he notice the

elephant even died? No. Okay, so he

doesn't necessarily know there's a vill

laming just yet and he may move out to a

woodline at some stage. And like we said

before, he didn't actually go Chinese

here. He's gone Mongols, so he has to

get Loom to move out. That will put him

down a vil, but obviously a really good

play if you think you're up against the

Goth militia here. Yeah, Hara finally

moving out to that woodline. He's got

two fishing ships as well. That will

bring in a little bit of food. That

elephant will go down. Hera definitely

knows he's being lame cuz he could see

the zebra bodies south of his TC. And he

probably knows from Lir's score now

ticking upwards that the two militia are

on the way. And obviously he's already

faced up against a similar strat on this

map. Yeah. So I'm curious to see how

much food hair is actually going to have

to work with here because he would have

really liked an additional elephant.

With Mongols, you you hunt very quickly.

You can already see it in the res

collector. That's great, but it

disappears faster. It disappears faster.

Exactly. So you've got to have the

resources then to spend on other things.

Usually you're going to need the wood.

Um so there's a lot on wood there. The

militia are not really going to be here

in time, but there is a weak bill right

there. And Liry scouted that earlier.

He's also, I like this, he's not hanging

around with the camel. Sometimes players

make it so obvious when they're there

with the scout that the Drush is coming

in. And Liry actually goes after the

Zebra instead. Maybe that's a little bit

of respect for Hera. He sees the wood

line. He sees the weak vill, but he

figures with only two militia, it's not

likely Hara's going to let him snipe

them. I think you can make an argument

that this is more effective than even

killing. I mean, we talked about the

food, right? How much food is going to

be under Harris TC? Right now it's a

goat. The rest of it is rotting in the

sun. As Liry comes over here, he's going

to find the extra zebra. I I think he

might just go for those instead of going

for the villagers, but

traps him in. The quick walls from Hera

in game number one have been on point.

Yeah, just that was insane. You know,

the first one maybe I could have some

criticisms Lir's way. That was

absolutely unreal. And that will save

him a pack of deer or zebra, I suppose.

And he's in feud. He can immediately

benefit from feudal age. So don't freak

out if you're leery. The barracks is

just now coming up. It's not like he'll

go for an archer range or a stable. But

this is what the Mongols are best at and

this is what Hera could do uh a lot of

good things with being futile age 2

minutes faster. This tournament, man, I

I've seen more traps and quick walls

from Hera. Obviously, he has the

capability. We've seen it before, right?

But just his focus on trying to trap

units in every single set has been

amazing. I think with the amount of wins

he's stack he's racking up, he just has

confidence he can do no wrong. And

you're going to see that attempt all the

time right now. That villager is hiding.

What? That's no little bit little bit

further. I mean that's you're just going

to get trapped in there. Yeah, he sees

the gold at least. Good scouting from

Liry there. I mean I think Hara spotted

the house. Hara's looking maybe spotted

the villager. He's going up north and he

doesn't see that v. If only there was a

building that was in this game that

could give you vision over an area.

Yeah, but it costs stuff and he doesn't

like that. Okay. And that villager is

still hiding up there. I don't know if

Hara is going to double check. This is a

sneaky dock as well from Larry. This is

this is exactly what we talked about,

right? Like stable, bro. I want Hara see

this with the spearman. Win or lose

today, I want Liry to just go crazy. And

and if if you do lose, at least then

you've done some sort of

surprise. Maybe maybe a little too crazy

though. Maybe a little too crazy. He

drops a palisade wall. That's not going

to do anything, dude. He's just going to

wallally you in. Liry. Oh, Hara walls

him in. The stable is up against the

edge of the map and the I guess the

scouts are going to have to fall off the

edge of the earth and then come back

around. You know what you needed there?

You needed a a gate through that area to

block through. Now, you can still add

scouts, but I think that those scouts

are never getting out. Yeah. So, that

stable is going to be a distraction at

best and a waste of resources at worst

for Liry. He still has food. The Goth

Hunt lasts longer. The elephants have

been coming in, so his resources are

looking okay. And he's going for a

couple galleys just to snipe the fish. I

actually like that better than the fire

galley approach. the fire galley

approach, Hara's going to have time to

uh run his fish and to counter you.

Whereas with the galleys, you can just

show up and kill the fish right away as

Liry will lose this villager. So res

collect, it's pretty close considering

it's a map filled with hunt. It's very

close. I've seen games where Mongols

have a 1500 lead at this stage. So

there's some positives, but Hara's

exactly where he'd want to be. He's he's

up in res collected. He's got some walls

up on the area that's exposed. That

stable's a complete waste. He knows his

opponent is down a military building now

compared to him and uh he can be pretty

pretty chill from here. I wouldn't be

surprised to see a little bit more

walling from Hera and and starting to

think about castle age honestly. Yeah,

resources looking pretty good for him.

Four on gold right now. Almost 200 gold

in the bank. 400 food in the bank

somehow with four vills in the queue.

So, he's done a really good job of

managing the fact that a lot of his hunt

was lamed. Obviously, the three fishing

ships help with that. And look at this

Harz forward. He's got the two archers

and the camel as well. Lir's trying to

clear that up, but Hera is just focusing

down that villager. He won't let her go

and she is going to die. That's two

villagers dead from Liry really early in

feudal age. Really well played. A little

surprised Hara hasn't expected the

skirms and gone for a stable yet. That'd

be a very Hera thing to do. And yeah, GS

will come through. Hara, of course,

could just run home with those archers

and he's just got great value. You you

make three archers, you get two V kills,

everything's looking good. And I think

at this point, you know, you've had

fishing ships and your opponent hasn't

had any. So, you're you're kind of okay

with that situation as well, honestly.

Yeah. At some point, like the fish are

very far away, right? At like what's the

maximum amount of fish that makes sense

on this map? Six, seven, six, six or

seven on two docks even. It's pretty

spread out. It It's like It's not even

that big of a deal to lose water. It's

just the initial bonus of having it that

helps you. and it helped Hara get to the

castle ages. He's on the way up and now

he's adding in some scouts. Yeah, really

interesting stuff here. Hera, yeah, just

playing it perfectly from here. And

sometimes it can take a game or two for

players to feel warmed up. I would say

that the two players that they are the

exception there are these two players.

These guys are almost always at 100%

right at the start. But in Hara's case,

he's he's looking super smooth here.

Again, he knows exactly the situation.

That stable's not going to harm him.

That was a massive loss there for Liry.

And one scout is all you need to push

those skirmishers away. And then we we

could see Lancers. There's so much that

Hera could do with this situation either

offensively or defensively with town

centers.

What do the Goths do against Mongols in

the castle age? Survive. Survive. Yep.

Yep. Survive. Boom. Um, usually you're

not seeing a lot of offensive presence

whatsoever with the Goths. They just

want that eco and they want to get to

Huskar. Mhm. Huskar, halves, if they get

there, it's it's really tough for the

Mongols. The Mongols do have champion,

but champion isn't what the Mongols

excel at. That's not what they really

want to be going for at all. So, oh man,

don't tell me. Oh, Liry with the nice

quick wall there. Things could have got

really nasty for a second. Yeah, Liry

has actually managed to get the majority

of his base walled off. Harris playing

very open around that starting TC, so if

Liry ever has some units, could be

threatened. But Hera goes for the second

town center up on the hill. He's also

going for his first monastery. And there

are quite a few relics out in the middle

that Hera can gather. But look at this.

Liry just diving in, taking out the

archers, trying to save his villager,

which I think he will. And that turns

out to be a pretty good engagement for

him without the range units there. The

walls are actually going to be a lot

more effective for Liry. Liry needs to

wall in front of that TC. None of this

wall to the T TC nonsense. Your opponent

has a stable. Town centers really just

struggle to hit things. So I think you

Gary definitely has to do that. Harold

will be pretty happy with that because

those three archers were not part of his

plans at all. And he did kill a

uh you get ahead, you stay ahead, right?

That's the game plan here. And there's a

hole. Oh, that didn't look like a hole.

I mean, there's a bigger hole right next

to it. Yeah, true. But scouts are going

to get in. And oh man, dude. I mean,

Liry wanted that hot start. He wanted to

bring something different, which he

absolutely did. But Hara in this

position, he might not kill anything

right now, but he's going to be here

while he does everything else behind it.

Yeah, very similar vibe to that land

madness game where ACCM had the three

scouts inside and he just kept killing

Vills all over again. And they're about

to be light, too. So Li actually has to

respect these three. And you can see

he's following these with the

skirmishers, with the spearman. Hara's

going to run around and Hara's going to

get a bunch of information about Lir's

economic state as well if he goes deeper

into the mountain area up there. You can

see the second town center still doesn't

know about the third as Liry tries to

wall him off. He just the level of

distraction from three units. Yep. To

keep Liry completely preoccupied. Thing

I'll say, Lir's on three TCs. He's got

good eco upgrades coming in and he's

transitioning into a boom. And and

what's the one rule of Age of Empires?

Don't let go's free boom.

Don't let go free boom. And uh it's it's

not a free boom, I would say. So it's

it's not that uncomfortable a situation.

I mean, Mongols can do ridiculous things

in him. So you also don't want to let

the Mongols free boom. It's just

normally the narrative with them is

their early game. I just love how Hera

knows right now this is going late and I

need to get value from this and do what

I need to get have an advantage late.

And the way he spread out his TC's is

fantastic. And he's got monks moving

around the map bringing in relics. I

think he might end up getting three or

four relics here. Yeah. And Liry only

added two fish from that dock as well.

So he didn't really take advantage of

the water control. Hara has also got a

fire on there. So Lir's got to be

careful. And Liry finally up to 17 on

food for the longest time. There are

three TCs. He was like seven eight

farms. He wasn't producing. You can see

a little bit of idle TC time. Hara

managed it much better. I think he had

the farms up earlier and it's only a

minute of idle TC time for him. 46 vills

for Liry, 53 villagers for Hera. Dude,

that stable was such a rough situation.

If that was any building elsewhere on

the map, it could have actually gotten

value and it has led to he's never built

a like a follow-up building beyond the

range to be offensive whatsoever cuz it

was just it such an early loss of wood

and obviously the villager as well. But

52 vills versus 58. I've seen a lot of

instances where the gots are behind in

the boom and if the killer blow isn't

applied properly still bring trap him in

revenge. No, Harry's never going to fall

for that. Doesn't walk in through that

hole. Doesn't want to get trapped. What

do you think about making like a single

scout from that stable and just keeping

it inside so that era has to like invest

in a whole wall and think about it. I so

I I haven't said anything, but I've had

to hold back from like saying vodka,

look at the stable. I want to look Thank

you. I just want to see how much space

is there cuz if that's there, that's a

stable that could actually add value in

imp, right? You're like full infantry.

The game gets crazy and then a couple

knights come into your eco there. That's

not something we can forget about. I

think Heram might actually castle it

honestly that he will castle right by

his walls. Uh, it will protect that gold

beyond his walls and then it should also

take out the stable. That was a surprise

that Liry moved out. But, uh, I think

Hara noticed the rewall there and Hara

might move his scout that way to see why

did villagers leave. Hara, move the

castle up the hill. Bro,

doesn't care about the stable. He's

going to spot the TC right away. Hera

has four relics. Four relics already.

And what has Lir been doing? obviously

expanding his eco but also chasing these

two stupid light cav that are still

alive in his base because he knows in

Hera's hands they can still be

dangerous. They can catch villagers

running. They can, you know, hit and run

before he could fight back with his own

vills. And that's exactly what Hera is

doing right now. I honestly think Hera

should castle drop that TC after seeing

it in other sets. I think it's really

smart. There's so much stone and gold

there. And um I I honestly don't think

Mangadai is the best long-term unit

anyway. So you can make a couple for map

control and then that next castle can go

forward.

The light cap usually what from the

other side. That's so smart. But this is

what we mean, right? Like this is why

you have to be Let's see if he stops

himself from being trapped. Yep, he

does. Nice job from Hara. And the light

cave is full HP. So all of that work

from Liry to slowly whittle down the HP

on that light cave for not as the light

cave gets healed from the other side of

the wall. Hara still trying to break

through. He doesn't have much of a

follow-up army, but he is on the way to

Imperial Age with 80 villagers versus 77

from Liry. Now Liry going to have better

eco upgrades than Hera. But in terms of

the timings, it will be advantage Hera.

Yeah, it just it just I I don't see a

way back, an easy way back with how

perfect Hera has played this. I think uh

in Lir's case, he he's thinking of

ideas. He just made a couple cav

archers, lost one to a conversion.

That's frustrating. But the boom is just

so good from Hera. Still very curious on

if he wants to invest in the Mangadai

longterm or is he thinking about

Scorpions? Is he thinking about could

you just go step lancer? I I think he

could choose any option right now and do

very well. I'd be worried about Lancer

because it's fairly expensive on food

and it really pulls you far away from

teching into any of the other options.

Yeah. A and at least if you go for

ranged unit upgrades that benefits your

castles long term, right? Ballistics

helps with scorpions. There's the castle

you wanted right on the hill in between

the gold in between the gold and the

stone with the TC right there as Hera

loses a couple monks. However, he does

convert a cav archer and this is such an

annoying army just slowly making its way

into Lir's economy. He doesn't really

have anything to deal with this. He is

still booming. He is trying to get his

eco up so that he can eventually get

into the goth spam that is so famous.

However, Hera's not going to let him do

that for free. And now Liry has to tech

into elite skirmisher bodero. This is

stuff that he didn't really want to have

to make. Annoying for Liry. Really

annoying. And it's going to get worse.

And honestly, we may see a pretty quick

tap out here once Imp is in. Once he

sees that castle's going up and he can't

do anything to stop

it, what what else are you going to do,

right? Like you're still hoping being

the goths that you can get to stone, get

a castle, get to Imperial Age, but Hera

has just gotten ahead. He stayed ahead

and still hasn't clicked up. Yeah, he

still hasn't clicked up. He's still not

up. He's got 1,000 food in the bank.

He's got 62 on food right now. And he

still has not clicked up to the Imperial

Age. He doesn't even have one Castle Age

building, let alone the two that you

need to go up because he hasn't been

making anything in Castle Age except

farms. We see it a lot where in the

first game if the player's going to

lose, they play on a lot longer. Yeah.

Right. And I think for Liry, that's kind

of part of this right now. Uh but he's

completely dead. Hera dealt with the

chaos very well. It ended up being a

very boommy game and he loves those

games. And game number two is going to

be land madness. Now Hara's gone for the

Mayans here and Liry has picked the

Magars. Okay, so Hara played this

yesterday and he looked very strong and

he's also done a similar thing on

Arabia. So Mayan start with the extra

vill which is actually a bit stronger

here in nine villagers start because he

do not get popcapped and uh Hara went

archers and he went eagles

simultaneously. Now normally you're not

seeing a lot of feudal age eagles these

days because it does take a while to

produce them in the feudal age but if

you just make archers the opponents go

skirms. So it it's a slow buildup here

for Hera. What he did against ACCM, I

believe it was um or Yo, excuse me. Uh

was he went forward with like two units

and then they all got cleared up. So I

wonder if there's an adjustment here

from Hera and he plays even more passive

and just sits back. He knows the Mag

scouts are going to be coming. Wait till

he gets about like five archers, four

eagles or something. I think Hera can

wall his map quite easily, too. Yes, you

see the edges there. He can he can wall

in one woodline, a couple golds, maybe

some hunt and whatnot. That's a crazy

good map, actually. Larry can actually

wall his as well. Yeah, there. He's got

edges of the map that he can stretch out

to, and they're quite far away from each

other, so this might be more of a a

passive uh battle on both sides,

honestly, cuz you look at the path

between them. Woodline's in the way,

hills in the way, everything. They're

going to meet somewhere in the middle,

and I I don't really see an allout

feudal age battle happening. Yeah, I I

think I mean M Mayans don't usually want

that against Magar. If anything, the

Magar player is going to want that, but

I think because so much is assumed about

the matchup

and neither civilization really has big

bonuses at play, plus neither of these

players do any dark age shenanigans,

they might just push in as much deer as

possible and then head out. And that

means if Hera heads out, they're pretty

far away. He might get sniped by a scout

at some point, but you're not able to

wall on the the little rocky terrain.

But what Dave and I are talking about is

you can wall to the edge of the map. And

so anytime someone can wall, they're

going to take advantage of it. And you

need more creativity, but the

possibilities are at least there. Yeah,

Liry can secure one woodline. Hera, if

he gets a little greedy, could secure a

ton. He could secure maybe two of those

at the back. And then he's got also the

gold. The only thing that would be

forwarded is his berries. Yeah, Hara

doesn't have those two pigs up there yet

cuz he's been pushing in the deer. Maybe

he thinks they were stolen or something,

but he's just looping around the back of

his base now and hasn't gone to the

berries yet. And Capture Age is telling

me a villager's on gold. So, I think

it's the same build up from Hera that he

we were talking about. Though, if he

were to go Archer Eagle, he would need

more than one on gold. So, he lacked

Spearman moving forward last time. He

only made spearman after losing some of

his eagles. So he might open with spears

archers at the start. Yeah. And that

that mining camp there was his second

building. So he's gone up with no mill.

The barracks is just now coming up for

Hera. A little bit late there, but

should be an archer range followup. Yep.

And we'll see if it's going to be

archers or indeed eagles. Hara's already

got an eagle in the queue and still has

uh four on gold now. Mhm. What's Liry

going to do? Liri is well stable with

Magarus'

it's it it absolutely you're expecting

it but if you're expecting a range

there's an argument to maybe go for

skirmishers so I was

curious and Liry confirms it's going to

be the range now he won't really know

how the production is going to look like

in the barracks I'm also curious okay

Hera's shifted to five on gold now so it

is going to be eagles and archers but I

think with the timing he'll have to

produce a spearman or two yeah magur is

so so powerful on this map they're very

very popular pick. Their scouts

automatically get forging. They're

cheaper as well. And scouts are the best

unit in extended feudal age battles,

which this map often times go to as Hera

tries to hide that pig from Lir scout

that's forward. And he will reveal the

fact that he's got a couple eagles.

They're on the way over. Archer moving

across guarded by a spearman. And a fast

archery range from Liry. As soon as he

sees this army coming, he's going to

need some skirms to deal with the archer

and the spearman from her. This is the

adjustment from the opening yesterday

against Yo, I know he won the game, but

this is the adjustment. He thought about

it and said, "I needed one spearman, and

if I had that spearman, I wouldn't lose

my army as quickly." Now, it was five

scouts for Yo that he used against four

units. That number could still work

here. But interesting to see for those

that watched that game yesterday, Hara's

adjustment there. Yeah, Hara getting the

blacksmith. So fletching is definitely a

priority. Very low food count here for

Hera. Now he only really needs food to

produce villagers, but still three on

food currently. Very, very low. He might

have some idle TC if he doesn't get it

worked out. I think he won't be able to

produce eagles, which could be

problematic against Skirms. That is not

a good transition economically. Only two

on berries. And this is obviously

dangerous times for Liry, but not

really. Like uh this is not not a a fun

workplace, I guess. But they're you're

going to clear this up eventually. one

archer, no fletching, no foraging,

nothing, right? And you have Maguar

scouts. Like eventually you could just

jump on this. Once you take out the

spearman, there's literally no threat

from this army. The spearman is the only

thing doing significant damage. As Li

jumps, he takes out the eagle. He takes

out the spearman. He takes out another

eagle and then the archer. And Hara's

not going to care too much. That's

already bought him enough time to build

up his farm count behind and start

massing archers. But you let the Maguars

have full map control at this stage of

the game. It's always dangerous. This is

this is going to be tough for him. This

is going to hurt. This is going to be

tough. Now, he's not going to

immediately lose vills because most

likely he'll have walls down, but he

still doesn't have eagle production and

uh he's going to have to be creative.

Now, the archers are moving out. That's

something that Liry won't notice. That's

a bold play. It is a bold play, but but

I mean

Hera

I mean, that's going to be at least

that's going to be at least two dead

builds. This is Liry we're talking

about. I know you're confident against

him. I can't believe Liry didn't dive on

that hill. I don't know what was going

on over there, but he still takes Hera

off of the berries as those archers are

awol. Liry knows that archers are

somewhere. Yeah, I'm going to show you

something so sick. You look at the left

side. So, he's housewalling. You see the

skirm coming back. He knows he's

vulnerable on the side. Harold wouldn't

couldn't have come through the middle or

the right side cuz he likely would have

spotted him. So he's thinking where am I

vulnerable? Where are those archers most

likely going to arrive? And Hara in

desperation mode. If you have to be

pushed off of this many resources, your

eco is not going to be what you want it

to be with the Mayans. Larry has no

fletching. No armor on the skirm. That's

a big problem. Yeah. And and Hara's got

a big group of archers. So you know,

four of those skirmishers are forward.

It looks like he's got seven in total.

So that would mean three of them are

back here. We can see them right now.

And if Hara sees those don't have armor,

he is just going to dive in and start

sniping those. He's also got the range

advantage with fletching. As you can

see, the skirmishers more or less just

distracting. Liry takes out an archer.

That's okay. And the scouts are still

working away on villagers around the TC.

I can't believe Liry didn't finish off

that other vill. Yeah, I mean, well, I I

kind of can cuz he's still micing so

well here. And he he has the lead right

now. Hara lost a villager on a farm. He

wasn't even able to pay attention. If

Liry clears this being down in upgrades,

he will be completely fine here. This is

such a sick hold from Liry. Yeah. So

good. How many times have we seen Hera

have an upgrade advantage and a numbers

advantage like that and just snowball it

and win the game? Yeah. It could have

been so disastrous for Larry. I I think

against Yo in the same situation. Uh he

had the same amount of skims as Liry,

basically like the same upgrades

and Harry just cleared them up like

nothing, right? So Liry is holding

impressively here at home. Hara is still

micering around those skirmishers. He

can't quite take them out and he's going

to lose all the archers. And so much for

the counterattack. Not even a single

villager goes down. Liry is going to

clear that for a second time. Lir's

resources looking really really nice

here as they often do at this stage of

the game. He's maybe thinking about the

castle age. And Hera still under

pressure at the berries. Lir's able to

do this so frequently. He can be late on

upgrades and he can be completely fine

because he just so good, bro. Yeah, just

went just micro, bro. Like, and and the

rule the same rules for you and I do not

apply to these two because they're

they're just that good. And that's an

example of it. Now,

Hara up against it. I've not seen things

quite this awkward for him playing with

Mayans all tournament. He only has two

on gold. That's not what you would want.

He's dropping a market to to clearly

balance out his eco, but he still has a

ridiculous sip. We've been talking about

it for 10 years. The Mayans can shrug

off a rough start, no problem. Dude,

this is just like the most unmaned

feudal eco I've ever seen. Look how many

farms he has. Yeah. Yeah. Like usually

you're wood gold, right? And the eagles

don't cost much food either. But Hara's

got a lot of farms. You would expect

that level of farming from Liry who's

been making scouts as Hera now uses the

market a little bit. He's going to be

slightly behind Liry. Look at Look at

Liry pacing back and forth. He's like, I

see you. I see all the army you have. I

see every decision you're going to make.

If you're going to build another

barracks or an archery range, I will see

that. And he's just keeping track. This

is so so good. Now Hara loves to do

this. He'll just sit in the TC. So he

never has to garrison bills. Oh, on a

villager off guard, Liry. And he takes

another villager out. That was a great

snipe from Liry. He was constantly

prowling around trying to get the

villager on the furthest farm and Hera

thought he could range him with the TC,

which he couldn't. Hera's like all

in, but I don't know towards what yet. I

guess it's going to be crossbowman. He

only has seven. I mean, Liry should have

with the army situation right now and

the castage advantage. This should be a

win for Why are those skirm still back

there when he Oh, he doesn't know where

the archers are anyway. Yeah. Or

anymore, but he had vision on the

archers for so long. It's weird that he

kept them at the wood line. Here's

here's what's weird to me. Hara's

continuing with crossbowman when Liry

has so many skirms. And Liry is

logically thinking that's a bad move.

Mhm. He's going to go Eagles. So, he's

going double stable knights to play into

Eagles, which is probably the play

Harris should do. But Harris is still

going archers anyways. Hara does get the

armor for that eagle, too. So, if Liry

checks that, he's going to think, "Oh,

man. He's already got the armor." Yeah.

You know, maybe a little bit of mind

games here from Hera. If Liri's looking

for clues as to what Hera is going to

make, but Lir's tracking this archer

army. He's got the scouts in front. Can

engage with just those. He needs a

combination of the scouts and the

skirmishers as Lyav plus two armor comes

in immediately from Liry. Harrow will

know exactly what Lir's doing if he

checks the upgrades in a second here.

He's not getting elite skirm. He's not

expecting Hara to actually upgrade these

units. So he the feudal if he tracks

them then he'll see it when the upgrade

comes in and maybe he has time to run

away. He doesn't have he doesn't have

fletching at all though. So if like no

fletching, no armor, his units will

actually die pretty quickly. It's mainly

about the like having the knights. the

like heav are weak. Hera's been able to

make his way in towards a a base that

doesn't have a tower or anything. And so

this is

like it feels like if if Liry played

Elite Scrum, he clears it up no problem.

Massive lead. This could get kind of

dangerous in plus two armor is in and

Crossbow is still 15 seconds away. Lir's

going to dive here. He's got iron

casting as well. I think most of these

die before crossbow comes in. Maybe two

of them left alive at the time of

crossbow being completed. and Liri will

see exactly what Hera is up to. And for

the third time this game, Hera gets an

army cleared up in Lir's base without a

single villager kill. This is so rare.

We don't see this from Hera very often

lately. Yeah, it's it's a very defensive

position now for Harry. He's got seven

crossbows. He's producing two more. He's

dropping the the University for

ballistics. You know, the other big

thing about that, Dave, there's still

nine Skirms alive. You can pivot into

Elite Scourm the second you see this.

You see university go elite skirm right?

You know that hara is committing heavily

to the crossbow still. Well also you

know that you have some time right is

not going to do it immediately. He's not

going to rush it. He's going to add some

more light cav. He's going to add some

more monks and if he needs to because

he's tracking all of the middle of the

map and it'll see that army coming

across. He can add elite skirm and

upgrade that army that's just been

chilling. It's it's crazy to me that

Harris just got vills over on the right

side chilling on that gold. Yeah. No no

no urgency. Yeah. Like I think in Hara's

mind, he's like I should die. And if I

just play

super risks, but there's

vill spots that all those vill should be

dead. I kind of think Hera wants Liry to

go into that woodline. He can like trap

him and then ungarrison through the

tower, whatever. And similar trap

happening here. The knights come into

the gold. Is this trade worth it for

Hera? I mean, he's going to lose a lot

of villagers here. Sure, some knights go

down, but Liri's also killing some

builds on the left side of the TC as

well. And you know that palace might not

even hold if this knight comes over and

attacks the villager, too. Yeah, Hara

will take out the knights. He wants a

snowball with army. So, that's maybe the

key for him. Again, I think elite

skirm like the knights and the like cav

are good. You're being active. You're

being aggressive. You have nine skirms

playing around elite skirmisher and

you're probably in a good position into

the woodline now with the lycap. Harrow

will try and trap again. Just fight

that. Just fight it. Yeah, just take the

trade. Just fight it. You're killing

villagers, right? Like he kills another

one here. The light cap do go down, but

look at the Eco KD. 13 to zero. Eco KD.

Res collected still close, but it's not

going to stay that way for long if Liry

can get elite skirm. Why is he sending

these? Just keep them at home. Get elite

skirm. Get the upgrades and you can

defend perfectly fine. I mean, you can

you can eventually get to enough knights

potentially. Oh, he might find the gold

here. But it could be dangerous. He sees

the army. He might find the gold here,

Tristan, if he keeps going in that

direction with the scrims are behind

him. Realizes it. It feels like Hara

realizes that he's not heading that way.

Yeah. Yeah. He's going to toss away

those skims, Dave. Maybe we're wrong,

right? Like if you go for elite skirm,

you still have to get tons of blacksmith

upgrades. And yeah, maybe you just

commit on to knights. Yeah. I mean, he

has wheelbarrow. He has decent farm eco.

Maybe you just you already have plus two

a siege workshop though. Maybe like if

the knights aren't going to be enough, a

siege workshop could be really nice or

just win all of the fights. Will Hera

get another army cleared up here? He's

trying to micro this down. Remember,

iron casting is in for all these

cavalry. Very, very powerful as the

knights in the lake have chased after.

Here come the skirmishers with no

upgrades as well. Hera is losing units

here. Liry is pushing this back. We have

more knights from three stables now from

Li. Fourth big clear up of the game for

Liry. And the Skirms are still alive.

The Skirms are still getting value. and

he just has not allowed Hera amass his

army. Every time Hara has moved out in

this game, Liri has says, "No, I'm going

to just kill you right back to your

base." Also, that was good micro.

Knights can be really awkward to use at

times against good micro. So, he was he

was grabbing half the group, clicking it

beyond or around the crossbow there. I

like the fact Lir's adding a second TC

now. He's going to completely take

advantage of the fact that Hera is on

the back foot and Hera needs to keep

producing military just to stay alive.

He will get a significant villager lead

off of this. And he's also gone for

horse color. So he's done the eco

upgrade check. He's going to add more

farms and he's going to keep producing

knights. He's honestly finding that gold

on the right away from winning the game.

It may not be like that, but if he just

notices that

gold fails, they're in again. Harris

just so torn right now. He knows he's

behind. He knows he needs a

counterattack, but he has to defend this

otherwise he won't have any villagers on

wood. And there's villagers underneath

the TC as well. Liri has just been

diving. He can go into the gold again.

He goes into the gold. Hara gets the

quick wall, but more are dying. And it's

50 population for Hara who loses a monk

as well. And it is 75 population for

Liry. This is Liri on land madness. We

kind of forgot. Now we're remembering so

many games in the past. Liry doing

exactly this. He's everywhere, right?

And you're right. He's that gold away

from finishing this game. I think a lot

of players would have tapped out by now.

Hara's got that belief. Hara goes for a

TC there, which is definitely not a good

idea because there's four knights and a

light cap just waiting for those

villagers to extend. 38 villagers now

for Hera. Liry almost double the economy

and Liry just stay he could just stay

underneath the TC just keep chasing.

He's killed so many monks so conversions

can't really come in. Okay, maybe

because of the pathing there you back

away. It's hard to get beyond the town

center. 35 bills. 35 bills. This is

going to be Lir's game. I think Hara's

not going to want to accept that. Hara's

going to want him to work for it. And

Hara's also going to do what a lot of

players do when they're starting.

They're going to fight on. Oh, there's

no way. And he attacks the full HP one.

No, he's not able to look, right? He's

not able to look. Hara's monk needs to

go. The monastery needs to send the monk

to the woodline. Nowhere else. Dude,

that wood line was weaker than my

hairline. And he only got he only got

one kill. Boom.

Well, two TCs. Liry, I think, sending

some weak knights back to heal up. And

Liri's going to see this. I wonder. No,

no, no. He's not. I wonder if he reacts.

Hey,

honestly, if this wasn't such a big

moment, I think Lir's like,

"Oh, makes sense now." It makes sense

now. Great quick wall, quick gate there

from Hera. Liry loses a knight. That's

going to help out a little bit for Hera,

but he loses the monk. And the knights

are still on the prow just every time

you look at the mini map. Red dot here.

Red dot there. Red dot circling the TC.

Pig over there that's still in the

corner. The vodka you've been showing

us. I just love that pig, man. He's

selected like four times already. Well,

listen. We normally control the screen

right when we're at home. And it's a

pain when there's random units and then

viewers are like And then viewers are

like, "Oh, look at that thing." And it

ends up being a random sheep or a big

cam. Let's go.

That's the grand finals energy we need.

I'm so lost now.

I think I mean that's still a big ball

of crossbows, but if all the knights can

get here, I think Liry can take a fight

good enough. It's still throwable,

right? Lions with 30 plus crossbows can

micro down lot. Don't go for that siege

workshop. Make it go defensive.

Make it at home. Just keep collecting

the relics. Keep having some knights

picking away at the eco. Make sure you

have enough to keep yourself alive.

Larry's got almost enough stone for a

castle as well. Defensively, that would

be the smart play. There's no need to

rush things because you're so far ahead.

You're double the eco and you have to

know you're double the eco. It is

worrying though cuz the siege workshop

does not exactly defend you right now

and you don't necessarily have the

night. Well, he's going to fight it. Why

not? when you have the eco just take and

a bunch of those crossbows were weak for

trying to go through the knights in

order to escape. I mean, he's got some

good snipes now, but he took a lot of

damage initially, and he's still taking

damage. And Liri's still producing

knights. Liry also has knights at the

back of Hara's base that are coming in

now that he knows Harry's distracted the

woodline. It's going to be a feast. It's

going to be a feast. Liry should know it

as well. He knows that woodline's still

exposed and that hair is full focused on

the front woodline. There it is. There

it is. The villagers are so weak there.

The knights run in. Villagers will die.

Hara is trying to leave, but more

villagers going down. And it's 78

villagers for Li. Oh, another quick gave

from Hara, but the monk goes down. He

does get a conversion. That was a really

quick one. And Liry just keeps killing

villagers. Har,

bro. I mean, he's still got the the

crossbow army, right? I mean, I can't be

critical because he he and some others

who put up insane amounts of fight have

brought back from the dead, right?

Unfortunately for Hera, there was no

king in this game. Yeah. So, there's no

regside win condition. Uh if that was

the case, I'm sure we'd be thinking

there were higher chances, but this is

this is also good like Liry gets to

feel sense of control over his opponent

here for a long stretch of time. Y I

think it's good for the mentals. Great

splits there from Liry. He dodged all

those shots initially. He's still trying

to loop around these crossbows. A bunch

of them were weak from before. Hara's

got some great micro this game for

sniping down the knights, but Liri is

just kind of brute forcing every single

fight because he can't. He has the eco

to do it. He's constantly producing.

Three stables behind as another monk

goes down. Hara still with the crossbow

mass. 48 villagers against 87 bills from

Liry. Hara's not going to resign if he

has 30 crossbows, and he's my end, so

he's always going to have 30 crossbows.

This game may go on until tomorrow. Um,

maybe Gideon could reach out to the

venue. Everyone who's watching could

cancel work. Uh, this is just going to

be a never ending. It kind of feels like

Liry should take a moment here and take

like four or five nights to go raid or

attempt to raid while Hera comes

forward. I mean, he could queue up 10

militia, give them all separate names,

and have a nice little pow-wow in the

corner. He's still probably fine. Yeah,

four relics now for Larry. That's the

fifth right there. He He's good. Um you

could go ballistic scorpions. I I I

wouldn't mind a few more scorpions, but

with this Eco and with how good the

knights are, he he's going to have 20

plus knights here. Maybe we're just

we're going to get that final fight here

in a moment.

So, a little bit of a lull in a game

that's been pretty action-packed to this

point as both players just heal up their

armies and Vodka checks every single red

dot on the map, which we appreciate as

casters cuz, you know, we get distracted

easily. What if does he memorize which

dot is which though? Sometimes I do. So,

he definitely knows where the pig is.

Show the skirm 100%.

Oh, he has.

He has. Knights are in here. Knights are

in. And Hara's crossbow army is on the

wrong side of the woodline. So the

knights are going to be killing

villagers. 57 villagers for Hera. It's a

40 villager lead for Liry. And that wood

line was weak from before. So those guys

or girls are going to go down up there.

Hara doesn't have enough room for all of

the villagers inside of his TC either.

But he's got 40 crossbows. Like you

said, he's not going to resign with 40

crossbows. Yeah, I mean Hara's Hara's

still got a big army, but the problem is

he's not pushing with it. When you're

behind in a game, you need to be

applying pressure. and he's just been

sitting back. Maybe the other times he

moved out, he didn't feel like he had

enough cuz he ended up getting getting

pushed. So, uh, yeah, up to 40 now. Imp

is Imp is never going to happen for him,

though. Dude, from Hera's perspective,

it it feels good that you get your

crossbow mass up, but it also feels bad

because you've given your opponent 5

minutes to produce from five stables.

Yeah. When you have, you know, you're

going to you're going to lose it

eventually. Yeah. I I mean, he might

have thought for a time, oh, we see a

big fight. He might have thought for a

time that Liri didn't have eco, but Liri

clearly has an eco. He's producing so

many knights here. And he could just

keep taking these trades, like just keep

whittling this down, right? He's going

to regroup once more. Harris is still at

38 crossbow, but he's got eight in the

queue. The knights are still killing

villagers. 56 villagers for him. It's a

50 villager lead for Liry and he's just

all in castle age. Just keeps producing

knights. Yep. Hera just still fighting

here. The crossbowman are so strong.

Mayans are absolutely Oh, there's a

scorpion now. Could be a problem, right?

There's a bunch of weak crossbows from

before. Good split there from Hara

around the scorpion. He can't push that

middle area cuz there's a castle there.

But he's actually angling towards a

castle of his own. And Lir says, "No

more knights for you. No more knights

for you." Still producing knights, man.

And he just needs one. He needs to get

beyond them with half the group here.

You patrol one of the some of them and

then you click the others around. He's

been so good at this. But I saw a little

shake of the head. I saw a little shake

of the head there from Liry because he

had such good position and it fell

apart. But speaking of falling apart,

this entire army of crossbows is going

to go down from what a clear for Liry.

The bodies are all blue there. And will

Hara decide to continue this game? 15

crossbows left onto the field. We have

24 knights being produced out of six

stables from Liry. Yeah. And um Hara's

going to play on. And I think Hera, if

you were to ask his chances, I think he

would actually say 100%. But maybe he

just wants to to warm up the fingers a

little bit more here. Clearly, he's

warmed up. He gets the quick walls. It's

crazy to me. It's a slaughter. It's

crazy because he's just been losing

units everywhere, but he's still alive

somehow. Eventually, he's going to have

no gold to take, right? You can see that

gold is running out on that side. The

Knights are in on the woodline. They're

in on this woodline over here. What

woodline aren't they in on as they're

also killing villagers under the TC and

Hera just can't keep up with this. Yeah,

and I can't find new and creative ways

to say that Hara is completely dead in

this game. Uh he's 62 population. We're

42 minutes in and Lir's just played a

perfect game. He's going to tie up our

final TC. Hara has just lost the right

to ever say yo oraccm. Don't Hera.acccm.

Like, oh my goodness, man. Hera, it's

the final thing. 39 villagers. Yeah, he

just keeps looking at that crossbow

count, says this is fine. I mean, is

there a part of this that's strategic in

terms of stamina here because you didn't

have didn't have to play a series

earlier? I think if you were to ask him,

he might say that as his reasoning, but

I think he honestly believes after some

of the miraculous comebacks he's had

that he can make this work somehow. Like

it's just confidence. Y well and

whatever like that we're in the grand

finals, right? We want to see the

maximum amount of age vampires. So if

Hara wants to wall one villager into a

corner like uh let's not go that far.

Like he's walled these crossbows in.

What a slick little play there from

Hara. I mean like Let it go. 20 bills,

bro. 20 bills.

90 night. GG. Well played. Liry finally

takes the victory. Oh, that was fun.

Wow. Hanging on the edge of my seat for

the last 10 minutes there. I don't know

if you I don't know if you caught the

the little smirk from Hara there. He It

was basically a All right. All right.

Yeah. I I think I think he knows if you

were to ask him about that game, he'd

probably be like, "Yeah, I was a little

aggressive with hanging on." No.

Oh, it's Migration instead. Well,

Migration, Hera playing Vikings. So, the

first appearance of the Vikings in this

tournament and it's going to be

Armenians for Liry. I I know what Hara

is going for with the Vikings. I don't

like them that much on migration

nowadays. Okay. So, so why is that? What

What's the reasoning? They have a really

good navy. There's a lot of water, but

it migration usually doesn't come down

to navy. It dictates how like the game

goes into Imperial Age, but in Imperial

Age, it's about fighting on that middle

area. And Vikings don't really have the

greatest land options ever. I agree with

everything you said, but this migration

is not very landy, dude. It's just like

this narrow tiny hot dog looking thing

in the middle. And and all your wood

lines are super surroundable. Like look

at the island. He I if Hera were to not

actually transport and get to 20

longboats, I think TC's, houses,

woodlines, all are going to be

harassable. So, I actually think this

might have been something Hara thought

about. I I'm with you. On other versions

of Migra, I question it, but I see the

potential for lots of water play. This

is an anomaly of a map. Like, if you

look at the other migration maps in this

tournament, half of them have really

thick islands. Maybe a big I don't think

you can plan around that. I think so I

Viper tried Malay and he tried to

essentially go fast imp right and um I

discussed it in the back room like

what's the reasoning and it was somewhat

similar. It's just you get so much value

from the water on this version. So um

we'll see but going fast castle is got

to be really really tough. And on the

other side Armenians are one of the best

galley saves themselves. So Armenians

might be able to even compete in the GI

war. They can both kind of do the same

thing. If you go full water and Li moves

out to the middle first, Li is going to

get all of those relics with the warrior

priests, right? If if Hera hard commits

onto water. So he he's going to have to

be careful to balance it and get at

least his scout over there at a

reasonable time to stop uh Liry from

just taking advantage. There's a lot of

guessing games involved in this and

there's there's tiny aspects that have

big trickle effects. Uh so for example,

if they were to go galleys right here,

they actually are going to arrive at the

starting docks much quicker than any

other game I've seen. They both docked

the left side. They're both a short

distance away by migration standards.

And uh that means fast feudal galleys

would be very good. And it seems like

both are opting for that choice. Now,

when when you're playing migration, are

you the one ship to either side guy or

are you the let's roll the dice and send

all all my ships to the same side? It

sometimes depends on what you see. So,

I'd like to see Lir's fog of war for

example, I think he's a little bit

closer to the middle. But like in L's

position, okay, so you've seen a bit of

land. Sometimes if you see the curvature

and you know you're towards the side,

you go left, right? Um but if you and it

also comes down to your initial dock

position. If you dock more towards the

middle, then you're going to want to

send one either side, but I guess the

answer is it depends. Oh, great. I I

never get a straight I never get a

straight answer. No, no, that was a

straight answer. I That was a I

explained it before I said depends. So,

I'm I'm definitely the just mass up and

send to one side guy. I'm gonna roll the

dice. I play the slots, you know, like

and they always I always lose.

Yeah. Well, Liry able to have a nice

build here. Use one mule cart for the

wood and also for the gold. And

Armenians have the mule carts, which

inherently are good for efficiency, but

the wood and gold upgrades from them are

more efficient than other civs. Gold and

wood upgrades. So,

sometimes some players will actually get

the gold upgrade in feudal age, which is

really rare, but that could be helpful

to bank up lots of gold.

All right. So, GI's coming out from both

from two docks. Lir's going to go for a

third dock here, and we'll discover

which direction they're actually going

to go into. Like T90 said, the galley

war is going to get started very, very

fast if they both go to the left, which

they likely will. Six fishing ships for

Hera, seven for Liry. Wheelbarrow is in

for Hera. But more importantly, like you

just mentioned, the boosted wood economy

for Liry is going to be insane. Yeah,

like wheelbarrel helps you here where

you're sending your vills out of the TC

to another slightly helps with the

efficiency on wood chopping or whatnot.

They're carrying it back, right? Yeah,

it's it's not insane. And uh honestly, I

think they both know what the other's

doing here. They know each other better

than anyone. They they both hit feudge

at the same time. They both have maybe

the two best galley cives in the game.

So I think we see a lot of galleys here

and it's just about who can execute the

best with that. And Hera playing very

defensive with his galleys which is no

surprise. He wants to get to castle age

safely. He wants to get into the long

boats. Yeah. At least we assume. Mhm.

Yeah. I mean Hara is just patrolling

there and he he's just he knows the

pressure is probably going to come

through from one side or the other and

he sees it on this side. Doesn't have

fletching yet, but he does have the

numbers. And this is the downside of

being aggressive unfortunately because

the opponent can jump on you potentially

and Hera trying his best. It's about the

follow-up movement after your shot. And

if you use stand grounds and attack move

and uh that's one option or you can just

click really really fast and perfectly.

You might be able to get the shots here.

I think Liry should be able to get back

here. The one on the front see the

reinforcements coming. Okay, the

reinforcements are selling in now and

Hara might just turn around as soon as

he sees extra ships, right? Liry brings

a lot. So that that is probably three

more than Hara expected to join here and

Hara may manages to take down one ship,

but he's going to lose all three of

these. So great job there from Liry.

Kind of crazy how Hara just said, "Nope,

that's going to die. I'm not even going

to micro that anymore." Wow, that was

really well played. And so, dude, I I

think Liry did a great job there waiting

till he had four to bring them in. And

Kane really caught Hera off guard. If

Hara only saw two coming in, he just

turns around and leaves, right? Yep.

Yep. True. Yeah. I'm not really certain

what happened there. I mean, there's not

a lot of other things happening. It is a

tricky map to play, but I I feel as

though that's a misstep there from Hera.

Like, you should expect he's going to

bring more ships. It's migration after

all. And he's up against Armenians,

right? So, the Viking ships are cheaper,

but in terms of the battles in feudal

age, Armenians are going to have that

extra arrow on their ships, which is

really, really nice. Transport timing is

really critical here because you make a

transport that is the time that your

transport is being produced which means

you know you don't have a galley coming

out and then obviously the resources as

well. Ooh, Lir's mixing it up too. Let's

see if Hara senses this cuz the galleys

aren't coming in anymore on the left

side. Her doesn't have as many galleys

to split up in defense on both sides and

Liry might honestly send those over

there. If the galleys are there in

defense, then he sends this navy in.

He's going to be really, really tricky

with his galley mass as Hara sees that.

Lir's going to back away. Hera can count

those ships and know that there's

probably more somewhere else from Liry.

Yep. They could be coming this way. So,

you have to respect that. I'd like to

see Liry actually not patrol his galleys

on the right side. Y like you don't want

to kill the fishing ship from distance.

You want to get right up next to it and

then kill the fishing ship. That way,

Hara reacts a little bit later. See, he

got a bit closer. Now Hara will probably

have a reaction, but that's going to be

one fishing ship down. Could be two

fishing ships down. And Hara not able to

keep up with Liry right now. Snipes the

bill, too. Gets the bill as well. Great

job from from Liry. He snipes another

fishing ship. He's going to probably get

this galley as Hera sends the other GS

back home. He also knows that Hera is

not on the middle cuz he saw the scout.

Hera would 100% take that scout over if

he already had a transport chip. So,

transport chip timing faster for Liry

here. This is honestly a perfect game.

It's one of those games, we've seen it

before where if Herac claws it back, we

think about it after the finals ends,

right? Um the villagers coming to the

middle is such a big thing here with the

Armenians. You could build the fortified

church, you get a relic instantly, and

then you can use warrior priest to

patrol around and defend the middle. So

he can pick up the relics, he can attack

units in the middle. Hara is trying to

recover massively on military and and

he's actually outgunned right now ever

so slightly with the numbers. 13 ships

versus 17. Hera is 30 seconds away from

Castle. Castle comes in first for Liry.

Bod Canero is going to be the big one

and then Warg slightly behind that as

Liry still continues to push. At the

same time, he comes in with the other

navy. He's doing so well just

distracting Hara on one side and then

pushing in and trying to get whatever

value he can with the other one. He's

hoping to find the transport ship. I

think with that Navy on the right, I

don't think he's going to find one. I

don't think Hara has any interest. I

think Hara knows that this is all about

water here, especially since he's fallen

behind in the numbers and Li goes too

far and a way for Hera to come back now

by killing this navy. This is huge from

Hera. He will lose his fishing ships

potentially and he has been taking

fights with only feudal age upgrades

that now after this there's a potential

for Hera to go full longboat. I see him

in Q now. He has no stone for TCs. Dave,

this is all in. Yeah, that was a that

was a big misstep from Liry to go a

little bit too deep with the galleys,

especially before the war galley

upgrade. He probably should have just

run with those, but he is on the middle

now. Hera goes for that transport ship

as he's cleared most of the navy from

Liry and Lir is going to have some

serious problems on the water. It

fighting up against Longboat even with

Armenian war galleys is not easy at all.

So, I think Hara also knows that Liry

sold stone because he did it after him

and should have seen the difference in

the prices. Now, I don't know if he's

able to think specifically about it and

know that it was only 100 because Liry

did only do 100. Now, um I love the fact

that the TC from Liry is not rangeable.

Yes. By long boats longterm. I don't

love the fact that most your eco is

still rangeable back at the starting

island. So, Navy is king. Yeah. I mean,

he can move a lot of that with the mule

carts, but the wood lines are within

range of the water, like you were

saying. I like the dock he's made on the

shoreline of the main island, especially

in choke points like that, cuz longboats

are actually kind of susceptible to

demos. Mhm. So, if you start like

producing demos and then you have wargs

behind that, you can hold this. But Hera

actually loops around the other

direction as he's now in the middle

going for a TC. And Hara notices that

Lir's units are over there. He did not

see the TC foundation. Yeah. And but you

you know that it's probably a TC.

There's not going to be many other

things out there. And I think Hera might

choose to go for a siege workshop.

Warrior Priest though. Warrior Priest

could take out take that out as Hera

with Ballistics is trying to take out

the navy from Liry. Liry trying to dodge

around ballistics, but Wargies are kind

of clunky. Lir's making them look like

they're dancers though. He's dodging all

those shots. Yeah, he's got to do it on

both sides. This is so tricky and it's

so much easier for the ballistics

player. Hera still trying to

dodge. I don't think crowd expected

fishing ship micro when they showed up

today, but there will be probably be

more of that. Still advancing forward as

Hera. Still no ballistics for Liry.

Lir's got the home field production

though. Dude, L's done such a good job

with these two different groups as so

many players would have fallen apart

here. Lir is defending at home. He just

took out two ships there with a volley.

He's still kind of pressuring on the

front side here and he's got the warrior

priest coming out and grabbing those

relics. How is he winning on both sides?

It's crazy. His mic is insane. He

doesn't have the the unit type arguably.

He doesn't have the upgrades. And this

is Harrow we're talking about. And Dave

like we saying like Liry has to do

something different to be a champion.

Maybe he doesn't. Maybe maybe he could

actually do what he's best at and just

outplay Hera at the same game. He

doesn't have ballistics and it didn't

matter crazy at all, right? He microed

down those units at the front. He

defended himself really well at home as

the warrior priest now chases the

villager. He's not paying attention to

this, so potentially somewhere else. The

warrior priest goes down and so does the

villager and uh Liry will see the TC

from Hera. And Hera went for a monastery

first.

That's That's your standard play to try

and get relics, but Lir's already got a

bunch of relics. Exactly. With the T2

right there with the warrior priest out

and playing as the Vikings who don't

have the greatest monk tech tree ever. I

think I would have preferred like a

siege workshop. I'm very glad my my face

isn't on camera right now as I try and

just brainstorm on what on earth her can

do here. Like, how can he get out of

this? I think a bunch of vills to stone

and you you hope to get towers or

castles between the TCs, but how are you

supposed to do that if Liry already has

a mangadel? Like Lir's already ahead in

sees that. Yeah. So beautiful job there

from Liry. Hara has masked up the

longboats and longboat micro is very

very easy. But Liry, we've seen him with

these wars. I've never seen war galleys

move like this. Look at this. It's

insane. Like he's dodging at the last

second when the shots come in. And guys,

he's not he's actually timing it with

the volleys. He doesn't just click and

hope that certain vol here we go. His

point of view. And you can see him

managing both of these. And now he's got

the mango there, too. And he still has

the micro, the war galleys at the top.

Then he goes to the ones on the right.

It's disgusting. And he can surround.

It's not fair. He's making his way

through. He leaves a galley there on the

wood line. He knows he's got Hera

surrounded. He knows he's got Hara hit

and the TC. The only thing that can go

wrong for for Liri would be on land with

the siege battle. The flank coming in.

But the flank's coming in. The flank

coming in. And Hera just seems

completely out of his depth here.

And this is so rare to see. Liry is just

completely dominating this game right

now. Hara's trying to mass up long

boats, but he's being pressured in the

middle. The navy just keeps coming in.

The long boats are still strong, though.

And Hera did have reinforcements inside

the dock, so he's going to clear up some

of these ships. He might even clear up

the entire navy. The damage though has

been done by Liry. 57 villagers for

Hera. 66 for Liry. Hara also microing

his Manganel. So Hera's doing a great

job too. Warrior Priest. Oh man. Oh man.

Lir's micro is insane.

And he will keep his manganel alive.

Lir's on stone. What do you think about

a tower next to the siege workshop? I

know you want to wait for a castle, but

like I really just want a tower there.

That that area decides the game. I think

you wait for it. You've got two mangels.

You've got the warrior priest. I think

you wait for the castle by the way.

Fifth relic on on the way for Li. So

that is incredibly impressive. And we

think about the Vikings. Well, like like

normal civilizations, you might think

about redemption monks or something like

that. Loom.

It's fine. Hey, dude. If there was ever

a way to throw a game, it'd be trying to

build a castle next to a siege workshop

with no loom. Yeah, that's actually

amazing that he remembered. Yeah, he

didn't have it. That's calculated by

him. He's like, "Well, I I haven't

needed it yet." Okay. So, do you put

that castle if the TC is going to go

down anyway? Do you put that castle

there still? Yes. Okay. Yeah. It just

protects your own TC and and then you

can still play into water much easier.

It protects your relics. It doesn't know

there's a a siege workshop behind, but I

think Hera needs big fight on water to

work. I think Hera is not going to

expect that the level of production on

Navy from Liry while doing the stuff in

the middle at the same time. Lir always

has enough ships as Hera comes out with

the Magal. And of course, he's just

paying attention over there as he's

taking the fight on the water, too.

Villagers going down. The warrior

priests are going in for that Magen.

That thing is not going to survive.

Neither is the TC. Neither is the navy

from Hera. The TC is on fire and there's

nothing to support it. It's castle time.

There's not a lot of good. There's not a

lot of space there to build it. Oh boy,

Harrisville is pretty speedy here. It's

castle time if you're leery. You win the

game with a castle. Just cannot have

this be denied. It's not the best castle

ever. It'll get the job done. I don't

think Hara can stop that. Yeah, it's it

is a castle. That is for sure. And it's

slightly ranging the gold and the stone

over there. Now it's Hara's turn to

dance with the long boat. He is running

out of resources on his home island. And

now he's literally running on the middle

island to get away from this push from

Liry. Hand cart helping out a ton for

Hera as he needs to evacuate. And he

can't make up his mind. Trist, he's

like, where do I go? Do I deny the

castle? Do I kill the Mango? Big shot

there on the vills. This looks like game

one from their previous set. Lir's just

going to be dancing with these Mangels.

Liry up to Imp. Harrow will drop a

castle to secure some mainland control.

His eco is still pretty good considering

the situation here. like having lost the

TC, you'd expect him to be behind more

with hand card as well with Vikings with

16 on food, but Liry can just do

anything at this point. It feels like

with five relics when he's an imp, he

should be able to build more castles,

make more trebuchets, and he still

doesn't have uh a bad situation on water

either. Yeah, only eight long boats here

for Hera. 17 ships for Li. I guess the

question is what are you prioritizing if

you're Li? I I think the tendency would

be to prioritize land and kick them off

there. But if you can take over water

against the Vikings and control that,

you take their one like winning element

completely out of play. The good news is

I think you can do both. That's how good

this situation is. As Ziko's good. Yeah.

Lot of lot of gold in the bank and and

people don't normally have the skill to

do both. You have to commit to one thing

or the other. We've seen it this game.

He definitely has the skill to pay

attention to that. Another castle coming

up there from Liry and the Wargies come

in. And they're going to snipe the

Manganel.

And still no ballistics, by the way.

That's an upgrade you'd love to see here

for Liry. But that castle protects the

position. That castle allows him to

freely trap Hera's castle. Hara is

trying to click up to Imp. But Liry has

just killed more of his own villagers

than Hara has done to him this game. He

killed some of his own warrior priests

earlier, too. Like jeez. 19 to7 Eco KD.

Two of those vill kills were on his own

people. But uh he will clear up the

siege workshop. Hera's still dancing

with the longboats. Great micro from him

and the castle goes up on the hill.

Watch Liry run right into this attack

round that's still ongoing with the

vills. Um that would be a very me

problem. I think Liri will notice it.

Okay, so Hera played on when he was down

really really bad in the previous game.

Does he resign when he sees Imp here? He

does. He does. GG. Lir's up 2-1. Crazy.

He's played so well, dude. He's played

so well. And it was it was essentially a

mirrored opening there, wasn't it? It

was the same build and Lir's micro and

macro combo was so good. And when you

talk about beating Liry,

we always say you don't want to do the

same thing as him. Like a double there.

Could you also play Italians on Fortress

if you think Bohemians is coming out

from Liry? You could. And we're on to

Fortress. It's not going to be Bohemians

for Larry. It's going to be Vietnamese

for Liry. And Hara is going to be

playing as the Burgundians. Game number

four. Lir's up 2-1. Didn't Hera have

another option? I think it was Cumins

for this match. So, he didn't know. I I

I Hara is not super fond of Cumins. You

know that. Yeah, but he it's like anyone

with the Cumins. You You feel as though

Well, I guess it depends on the person.

His thought process has been I will

always ban them because people always

beat me with them and I always lose with

them. Okay. So, maybe like he just

forgot to ban them and he wanted to pick

them. Okay. get them out of L's arsenal

potentially. Yeah. Well, um something to

to think on interviewers for later on,

right? Asking them about this because

they both had two options. This does

then mean Bohemians has opened up for

another map. But Reicide Fortress, this

is the map where Hera had that

incredible comeback as he's just taking

his time with his boar. I think you just

go garrison that scout in the castle and

the boar is going to wander back across

the TC anyway. Well, yeah, I guess. I

mean, maybe the Borl start attacking the

castle. Then you have a problem.

New

bug. And then you've got an issue. Hera

gets it back. It's child's play for

them. Especially on low ping to be

wandering around the scout. You can keep

the board chasing it forever. So Liry

loves his archers, loves his micro.

Vietnamese are perfect for that.

Vietnamese have pretty solid economy. I

don't think the economy is as good as

the Burgundians. Yep. And I wonder how

Hara is going to be thinking about this

because like you know the whole game

plan is based around rats and archers

for the

Vietnamese. The Burgundian skirmishers

are good but they're not great as they

lack armor. So that may not be an option

in his mind. Their paladins are are easy

to get to because of the economy and the

and the cheap upgrades, but also not the

best because they lack some HP compared

to other paladins. I'm kind of thinking

your best unit might be the unique unit,

bro. And just melt the rat and archers

with the charge attack. Just full elite

Castillier. That could be the game plan

here for Hera longterm. I I I don't know

how well they do against Rat and Helb. I

It's just like help would be a problem.

I I think your game plan if you're Hera

has to revolve around stopping Li from

getting that forward castle pressure.

Yeah. With an earlier imp, which is just

so tough with Li, right? I don't think

Lir's game plan is going to be let's sit

back, let's boom, let's make Raththens.

Yeah, I don't think it'll revolve around

a faster Imperial age and some sort of

push against that castle in the in the

south of Paris base. I I get that

thinking, but I actually think there's

arguments that Vietnamese have a better

late game. Yeah. Yeah. And if you think

that's the case, maybe you don't

actually foresee issue. That's not L

style. That's true. Yeah, that's very

true. By the way, guys, yes, the Kings

uh this is their life. If the king dies,

they will lose the game. The scout is

coming out from Usually players are

going to go back home. Scout is coming

out from Liry. Intercept

to the king from Hara. Intercepting the

king. We had a king snipe yesterday by

Hara on Mr. Yo. Larry's found it.

Larry's found it. Larry's found it. He

didn't see or he doesn't want to chase.

Larry was in feudal age man with a

feudal age scout. Hara got getting a

little tempted to bait that scout into

some engagements there. I'm going to

tell you what Hara was thinking. He

wanted the scout to come over. He wanted

to then use his scout to attack and then

as Liry would try and run away with the

scout, he would block with the king.

Yeah, but just get guys get your kings

into the towers. Unless unless your name

is Yo, maybe put it in a TC or

something.

Poor Yo. I mean, Yo's king would have

been safer sitting in the middle of the

map. Yeah. In that game. Yeah. Where's

hair going? They're just scouting, I

guess. Just making sure. Maybe the Maybe

that wood line's a little interesting.

Okay, he's not he's not interested in it

anymore. And he's going back to the

safety of the tower. Is that what a king

sounds like to you? I noticed there was

a bit of a voice there. Maybe that. No,

I mean, it sounded slightly

self-important. I imagine a king would

be. Mhm. Uh but uh kings both garrisoned

at the same time actually into their

towers, which is kind of interesting. At

2 seconds apart. Yep. They're that good.

Even their king garrison time's the

same. Yeah. What's your king garrison

time? Probably like 10 seconds. I I uh

almost pulled uh a yo and an MBL on this

map against Licks and so I garrison much

earlier than I did in the past. Oh, Hara

brought his out again. Just so Hera

needs to see the corner and you

shouldn't leave. You have so much time

early. You shouldn't leave any like

spaces where relics could be sitting,

where there could be golds. Yo didn't

notice the extra golds and stones for so

long. Yeah, right. There's still the

corner over there, but he's got to scout

for that stuff. It's too risky to go for

the king. Liry can see 1 2 3 four relics

already.

Dave, like it everyone who plays Regside

Fortress knows you have 150 stone. And

there was a game earlier in this

tournament where buy and he bought it.

And I'm looking at this right now

and and now the villagers are going to

go out and get the stone there. So he's

going to collect is probably going to be

he just collects the stone and then he's

going to build the TC with those vills

that'll drop it off so they can build a

TC somewhere else. Crisis averted.

Meanwhile, Lir's already in Castle Hage

and making two extra TCs. So really good

timing from Liry. Uh Hara had to invest

a little bit more onto the eco upgrades.

You can see Liry already with the second

farm upgrade. He's got the second wood

upgrade as well. They come in faster for

Vietnamese and he doesn't have to spend

wood on them which is amazing. You can

put that into farms and L's eco is going

to look really strong. I think the

Vietnamese have a comparable economy to

the Bundians throughout like the the mid

game. Yeah, it's just the start, right?

The res collected is higher for Hera.

That will stay higher for Hera by about

that much. Um there's no easy way to

catch up there unless you get the V

lead, which will happen here for Liry.

How how do you stop Hera from getting

these relics super quick is the question

if you're L. Do you want to stop him? I

mean Bani relics are ridiculous, but can

you micro your starting scout and just

just focus on your boom? Like I I am

convinced and you seem convinced that at

least Liri is going to be aggressive and

that if that's going to be the case,

bro, are you still leaving with this

king Hara? What do we have a pressing

engagement somewhere?

What are you What are we doing here? He

could have ratins, bro.

He's just checking. Just checking.

That's the royal dog. King Kings cannot

be converted. By the way, you know what'

be really funny? Test. That's the entire

idea of a king. I I'm tempted to just

like Never mind. That's a thought for a

different time. So is Hara is keeping

the king out there as like bait so that

if the scout comes along, it'll go after

that instead of his monk. Well, no, he

can see it and then he has time. Like

there's no way he loses that king. It

takes a bunch of hits. I can't do that.

Dude, I'm just I'm I'm concerned about

wrath hits if you're here. Obviously, we

know that Liry doesn't have any. But

what if Liry He's been in castle age for

a while. What if he had like five or

six, bro? You know how it is. These guys

convince themselves that they know

exactly what's happening. And 80% of the

time they they do know, but that 20%

chance doesn't come around enough. So, I

think he's going to be fine. King goes

back in. First relic. And first relic.

So, it's three town centers for Hera. We

have 35 villagers versus 36 from Liry.

He's had three town centers for a while

here, but a little bit more idle TC time

from Liry. However, Farm Eco is looking

fine from him now. Obviously, the second

farm upgrade came in before that round

of farms in Castle H, so everything is

going to be lasting quite a while. And

he seems to be able to keep up

production now from all the TCs. If you

don't compete for relics, it normally

indicates early imp timing. And so that

makes Lir's job easy. If that's the

case, this would be a good time to make

some ratins. By the way, now you now you

make them now that your eco's good. Um,

but then from Hera's perspective, you

should also know not to overboom because

you don't want to lose out in the trep

timing. And I think Hera's got a good

civ to maybe go bomber cannon defense.

So curious to see. Hera hasn't mined any

more stone, so I don't think he'll

overboom or just go for an extended boom

with four TCs. But what is Lir Scout

doing, by the way? Like, why is Lir

scout? It's been over there for Is he

Wait. Oh, the relic just disappeared on

the mini map and he's been double

checking. Ah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And now

the scout's swooping in. Ah, now he was

hugging the edge of the map cuz he knew

Hara was going to be scouting over here.

He takes the most optimal path that monk

and he's going to run right into the

scout from Liry. That is a nice sneak

attack. Hera notices immediately, but

there's nothing he can do. He just got

to get this as close to your base as

possible. Monk goes down. Another monk

in the queue. Another monk on the field.

And Hera even with a Casilier over on

that side guarding the relic on the

left. That monk kind of tossed it back

towards the base as well. Here he goes

back to his spot. That's like his

hideout there. I think this is a new

trend for him. He did the same with fire

ships in a migration game yesterday. He

kind of hidden in the corner. Yeah, it's

interesting and it's it's really

annoying as well if you're Hera because

he was really checking thoroughly

waiting for army to come out. He didn't

see Ratson. He didn't see the scout.

Hand cart on the way for Liry. So he got

wheelbarrow faster than Hera and Han

cart is going to make his economy really

efficient. 56 villagers for him. One

behind his hair at 55 and the second

Raten also on the way from Did misclick

his monk? Does he have a monk wandering

back into his gate right now? Uh, no.

It's just another unit. Okay. So, he's

he's really paying close attention.

And the the scout is still waiting.

Yeah. Yeah. But there's a there there's

units there from her. He's he's guarding

it even. Yeah. I think we we rarely see

that, but in these situations, it makes

sense. Unit will defend eventually. It's

a little slow in

defense, but it should be completely I

mean, you can tank a charged up hit as

well. Like Larry's going to notice

immediately. Larry notices the relic

disappears and now he's swooping in.

He's swooping in. Harry's like, "Oh,

I've been expecting you."

I don't think he kills that monk, right?

There's no way. He just He just goes

right through. You need two hits and you

would get killed by He also saw the

other relic disappear on the left. So

maybe this is an entire mind game and

he's just going to run over to the left

side. It doesn't look like it. He's

pulling this thing back.

Ratens don't defend. They're guarding

themselves. When they're guarding a

unit, they don't defend themselves

against wildlife. That's a very

interesting fact. That probably should

have been on the guest the trivia show

earlier. Yeah, true. Uh, and scouts

still running around. Well, it's been a

pretty boommy game. Yep. Imp times are

going to be key. We know it. Everyone

knows it. We said it a bunch of times

and I think they're about to click.

Lir's on the way up. Scout goes home to

heal up. He will get one relic. Hera's

on the way up. And Hara's on the way up

as well. Is on stone. So, he's thinking

about a castle. The question is, can you

get it in a safe spot there in the

middle? I'm not so certain. What is Hera

thinking here with nine on stone? Is

this just for stone to repair your

castle, double castle against a

trepillier as the main unit type? I

think we would see a stable if he was pl

well or multiple stables if he was

planning on going for like paladin.

Three monks, that amount of ratins, this

many villagers. I think he can get the

castle up. I would also love in this

moment to see him wall the left side of

his base to the edge of the map. There's

a gold over there. There's wood over

there. Like he did not do that in the

game uh against ACCM on Fortress. Yeah.

Um when he was playing Kamur against the

Mayans and he really got punished. It's

kind of kind of interesting. I think

some of those villagers had stone in

their hands. He pulled the villagers

that were mining stone. Uh, maybe I'm

wrong with the stone in the hands, but

like the point is is he has to use some

market shenanigans here to get this

castle stone, which he can do, but he's

not actively mining that stone anymore.

He could actively mine this one, though.

And wow, he's not even trying to

disguise this one, but he is.

Dude, this the sneakiness level on Liry

this game has been amazing. And and Hera

just like Oh my dude, I would assume

that my opponent saw that though. Mhm.

Like you're not thinking that you're

getting away with that one. And and Hara

has really good scouting, too. Yeah.

Like Hara might be thinking, "Wo, there

there's nothing coming forward. He's

just going to play that back at his own

base." Meanwhile, Liri is set up. Liry

needs ballistics. I I think ballistics

will be I think ballistics will be very

delayed this game. Also, he hasn't

clicked a wall to let Hera know. Yeah.

So, the castle actually Dude, that's so

crazy. I would always click a wall so I

could start breaking in. Yep. And there

we go. Okay. Hera knows about the castle

now. Free conscription for Vietnamese.

So, that Treb is going to come out a

little bit faster. However, Vietnamese

do not get masonry. They don't get

architecture. They get hoardings. But,

if you're getting into an extended

castle war, Vietnamese are not the

civilization that you really want. You

got to take advantage of the timings

early. How many trebs do you make here

if you're Larry? Uh I think just nontop

I think five or six. He loves having a

big ball of like five or six trebs and

then being very patient with them and

guarding them with his life. And even if

he realizes it's not able to push, he'll

roll them back and use them again later.

He's getting Loom, by the way. So he

walked across the map to drop a castle

without Loom. He was that certain that

he had the army to deal with whatever

Hera had. Even the final wood upgrade

from him. Good eco upgrades, great

efficiency from Liry. Last minute 84%

efficiency which at this stage of the

game is insane. And Ratan army being

built up. More trebs on the way. That

castle from Hera. Looks like he might

let it fall as he just texts in the

skirmishes. Also moving the relics back.

Great play from Hera. Real heads up play

here to recognize that he probably can't

do anything to stop this initial

pressure. Just move the relics back to a

safer location. Our tone is very

positive for Liry now because of this

push and how much he's accomplished. But

Hera has the eco lead. Hera has the

relics. This is a better position for

Hera if he can hold the line. The golds

are an issue though. This could be good

for him. The golds are an issue. That's

the main gold right there. The secondary

gold is on the left. I actually don't

know where the other gold is from Hera.

It should be okay. It's at the back

there. Skirmishers will come through.

Rats and archers are not elite yet.

That's where they become their

strongest. And the castle's very exposed

there for Larry. So he if he takes one

castle down just to lose one. I think

Hera's going to take that trade

considering Liry needs the castles to

produce rat tense. This is the issue

when you want to go treble and also

unique unit at the same time. Yeah. And

he's just making another castle that

Hera can roll on over to and start

targeting next. And Liry abandons that

first castle. He's still got a decent

amount of trebs. Hera has to be careful

here when these treps pack up. They

don't get hit by those trebushe shots.

It was so close. They don't go down

though. And he's kicked off the main

gold, but at the moment that doesn't

hurt him so much. He's still got the one

at the back. Liry will be fine as long

as he has bombard cannon numbers to give

himself time here. Hera doesn't have a

unit to dive underneath the castle. And

so that castle protects him and Liry has

uh two bombard cannons. Hera will have

two in a moment. But you're right, that

gold and even the stone from Hera. In

fact, is he going to be those villains

are just wandering out? They're auto

collecting that stone. Yeah, Hara

notices that big shot from Liry on the

skirmishers, but the bomber cannon goes

down. I think Hera might take that trade

as he tries to finish that off. It's one

hit away and Liry actually escapes with

that guy. There is a Cusilier behind as

more bomber cannon shots come in on the

Skirms. Wow, Hara so used to being able

to dance around with those skirmishers

and get away with it. He loses a lot,

but they're just He got one. Oh my god.

Max range treb shots from Liry. He gets

a treb from Hera as it tries to roll in.

The bombard cannon is being pushed away

as well. Let's see if Hera can snipe the

treb. He's trying to. These engagements

are pretty sick for Li and he's losing

traps though. But I'm just thinking

Ratens. 30 Ratons. Elite can actually

fight off Skirms and the cannons

themselves here. And the bomber cannon

for Hera survives. Oo, two bomber

cannons left at one HP. One from Liry,

one from Hera. Great job saving those as

Hera tries to hold here with the

Burgundian bombards and some

skirmishers, but the skirmishers have

been dying pretty quick. Yeah, it's just

Hara can afford to produce so much more

because his Eco is so good right

now. But Liri's going to be dancing for

us here. I with Hera's resources ticking

up, I'm kind of feeling like we might

have a panic revolution on our hands

again. It's like when someone does

something that no one's done before, it

puts it into everyone's minds. Yeah. Oh,

Hara. Nice split from Hera. That could

have been disaster. He also killed a

cannon there. Yeah, he did. Paladin

switch is on the way from Hera as Thring

and the final armor upgrade come in from

Liry and he's adding a castle in that

space. He previously had one. The bomber

cannons are over there and he deletes

the foundation before Hera can target

that. That was a heads up play from

Liry. Yeah, just build it further back.

Build it further back. Micro is

absolutely right now. Bomber cannon.

Micro. Hera trying to get the attack

rounds. He does. Liry gets one too, but

doesn't do as much damage as he would

have liked. Look at the ratton's mow

down the skirms right now. Do you see

the difference now that they're fully

upgraded? He just runs in. Skirms are no

longer counter. Great attack round there

from Liry. Skirms are no longer an easy

counter. They might be a cost effective

counter, but before they were doing so

much better and Lir starting to gain

some momentum with his military right

now, Dave, lost a bombard cannon for

free, but he's pushing back on the left.

Hara is kind of threatening on the right

here with these bombard cannons and Liry

can't clear them up yet, but he's got

the rats coming in. He can. The ratson

should be able to kill them. One down,

two. Dude, this is horrible for him. No

bombard cannons for Hera. Nine skirms on

the field. 33 in the queue and another

TC is about to fall. This is what rats

and archers can do to you. And Hara's

got Paladin on the way now. Maybe the

only Sith that could recover from this

would be the Bundians. And maybe the

only player who could recover from this

would be Hara. So there are chances. I

The most interesting thing about that

switch is it's outside of his base. So

Liry won't actually get to think about

it or see the switch is coming in. This

has been great play from Liry. He's

snuck in so many upgrades behind this.

He snuck in so many upgrades and he sees

the Cavalier. That that's a warning,

right? Like why would he get the

Cavalere tech for just one? He's making

a switch. Liry needs to identify this

and start the process of teching into

Halvadier I believe. So, so yes, but

only if you can still produce ratins

non-stop. I think if you have to choose

between the two, you keep going rats. 13

on food is not great. Yeah, I think it's

just full ratings. Maybe he just pulled

all the villagers off farms because he

had a decent farming eco before. Maybe

he can put them back on there again as

the ratans push pretty deep here. They

can't take out the trips, but the bomber

cannon still working away. Hera loses

another bombard cannon there. Will Hera

have enough paladins here? Hera's going

to engage with seven. L's got vills. He

goes for another castle. Liry kind of

leaving the trebs out. He'll lose a

trap. He might lose the second, but I

like this castle here from him. And look

at how good the rats and archers are

versus the Paladins. Yep. Liry not even

bothering packing up those trebs and

leaving. He knows they're dead. Yeah,

you don't you don't really have the

time. Ahara did a good job there to run

in, get the snipes, and he's his skirm

is pretty crazy. They're still killing

like weakening the ratens, killing them

here or there. Here comes some paladins.

Great house walls there from Liry. Hera

can't go in and Hera recognizing that

right away. He's providing such a threat

from this position with just a few

paladins and then skirmishers, right?

Farm just don't. He needs to get his eco

set up, man. He's full focused on the

middle. If you can take a minute to just

look back at your own economy, it's

going to help out a ton cuz he's only

got 13 on food. But dude, all it takes

is a minute and you lose the entire

push. I know you lose the entire push.

You have to I think I I remember a game

I think it was Nikov in a qualifier. He

just went 80 rats, five bombar cannons,

and just moved out across the map. I

think that's maybe the type of thing

that Liry has in his plans. Oh no, I see

I I see it. I I kind of see the Hera

comeback here. He's pushing in with the

the Paladin. He's trying to sneak

through there, get the bomber cannons.

The Ratins take priority somehow and the

Paladin are able to cut off the bomber

cannons. All of them go down. Liry is on

the run. Hera clears up this army. What

a push back from Hara. The Paladin

numbers so high and it all falls apart

here. The the castles for Liry are on

the front. He loses these Rats and

archers might not be much of an option

anymore. Yep. Ratens still alive over

there trapped up against the gate though

as Larry tries to micro those down. That

castle dies. Ratens no longer have pro

protection and behind this Lir's

eco like he hasn't taken care of it at

all. 12 on food right now. Yeah. And you

you can fix it now because you have no

real nothing else to do. Yeah. Uh, but I

think it's going to be really tough and

and like Halbs still can go down to

scurbs. You know, a hair's got that this

combination of an archer range just so

strong. I guess that castle forward just

tells you that Liry it reconfirms in in

our mind that he's committed to this

position and I kind of like it at least

considering the relic situation. He's

added some farms but it's still a messy

economy. Remember Harris still cut off

that main gold. So, h how much gold does

he actually have left to mine? He's got

one of the neutral ones over there and I

believe he's got a little bit left on

this side and of course the relics and

Burgundian vineyards which just came in

too. Her just needs patience with the

siege right now in my opinion. The score

that fight this fight that will tell him

that he's got a much better situation.

Is he paying attention to this big shot

from Liry? Oh man. Yeah, he just needs

patience with his siege timing. Whenever

he shows up for that castle, he needs to

ensure that castle ends up going down.

Yeah, he's just going to dive running in

with the paladins. Why not get on the

other side of the rats? The ratans have

to run through the paladins. They can't

do that. The skirmishers are there as

well. And another big ball of raten

archers get flattened. Yeah. And Lir's

just trying to take this bomber cannon

if he can. Whatever value he can, he's

not going to do it. Liry needs to mass

up Ratton's once more. He still doesn't

have haladier to deal with any of the

paladin. Look at the farming here from

Hara. Absolutely insane. 69 farms right

there. What a discrepancy from between

his economy and Li. It's It's

incredible. Liry only has 17 on food.

How many rats and archers does it take

to kill a watchtowwer?

Um, that is a great question. I'm just

saying I I elite ratens.

Not it doesn't have great armor. Not

that much. Unless Unless Hera has and

you can hop out of the tower if the

archers are there, I think. Yeah, I I

think you go for the king here, right?

He's He's got three of them. He can see

the flag, dude. Come on, bro. He's not

going to do it. Don't get excited,

people. Calm down. But he's he's got to

do it. I'd say let's get excited because

the Ratans are coming in. But here comes

the flank from Hera, the Paladins to

snipe the bombard cannons. Liry goes

deep in Hara's base and he's going for

it. And Hara's king went into the

castle. A come on, Hara. No fun for you.

And and Liry he Liry is committing

because he sees the flag. Harris snuck a

villager inside. He's not even going to

weaken the tower to that point. And

Harold deleted it and let him know there

was a villager there. That's funny.

Deliri laughing now and Hara's like

that's more likely. That's a good win

for Hera. Two two. Really good win,

right? They have a lot of sibs that are

good on all of them. As we load in here,

game number five. We are back and it's

Golden Lakes Bohemians for Liry,

Lithuanians for Hera. So, this answers

our question on why Bohemians wasn't

played previously. Liry had plans for

game number five on Golden Lakes. Now,

uh, we've seen a couple games on this

and we have seen a tendency for some

players to not even try and compete for

the additional pawns. Yep. We also saw a

game in Titans League recently with

these two players on a map which is

similar called Cross where Hara sent a

villager very far forward and built his

starting dock on Lir's pond. Do you

think that's a possibility here again?

No. No. I I I think against Bohemians,

it's probably not the the smartest play,

right? cuz Larry is going to might go

for something a little bit more

unorthodox and he might go for land

pressure with Bohemians early like

archer play or something. If he had gone

for land pressure in that specific game

you mentioned, Hera probably would have

died. Okay. Yeah. So, here's what I

think could be really funny. Nice little

nice little game. That game is going to

live in Lir's head. The last time he

played in a similar map getting forward

docked. I'm wondering if we see him

search with his fishing ships more than

he would at this point in Dark Age. I

mean, maybe maybe also we look at the

maps here. If Liri wants to go forward

against Hera, the golds are forward.

Hera is going to really, really struggle

to get the resources he needs to defend

that. And that brings us to an excellent

point. So, it's called Golden Lakes. Uh,

because the majority of the gold is in

the middle here. It's a very big gold

focus map and you only have, I think,

six tiles to work with around your base.

And sometimes like in Hara's position

that three tile gold is not going to be

great. That one can be locked down

potentially.

Looks like there's a bunch of wolves

here too. So sending the villager

forward through those is probably not

great. There's one there. There's one

off to the right as well. T Sorry,

tigers. Yeah, there's one over there. So

sending the vill forward is probably not

the smartest. Yeah. How dare you call

that? How dare you call that a wolf? Um

interesting. Is there one on the left as

well? I'm wondering how like standard. I

think there's one near a relic. uh kind

of towards the middle. Oh, there we go.

All right. So, that that could be a

small reason why we might not see as

many villagers going to the shoreline,

too, right? Like that could also explain

the tendency for some people to just

stay at home. But Bohemians are all

about late game. They don't have a lot

of mobility, so I think Liry will need

heavy walls here. Yeah, he'll want to

turtle up. We could see castage

chemistry. Maybe he'll play crossbows.

Maybe eventually he gets to bombard

Cannons. It's just this map's top tier

on fortress or arena. He's got to create

his own fortress or arena now.

So, if he focuses on the middle, there

might be an instance where it's it's

kind of weird against Lithuanians. How

are you going to mix this up, right? Cuz

you want to kind of contest the relics,

but you also want to contest the gold in

the middle there, if only to deny the

relics from your opponent. Like, how

does that take precedence? Let let me

ask you this, and maybe it won't change

your thinking, but at least in my mind,

it it it does. If Hara was playing

Bohemians here, how do you think he'd

play it? Like read up, right? Just super

heavy walls, don't go aggressive at all.

And Hara may be thinking with that in

mind, it's like, I can't let my opponent

have time to wall. Yep. And he's going

to come forward right now. He's coming

forward with four villagers. Liry is

Larry's check. Lir's checking the pawn,

but it's a natural time for Hera to loop

around with the villager and go for that

forward dock. He's not doing that. Hera

will also see the barracks coming up

from Liry and Liry is going to scout the

dock position from Hera. He can go

around there with the scout because

there's some shallows I believe on the

edge of that water as Hara goes for the

forward barracks. There's a gold there

from Liry that is in an incredibly

forward position. But Lir's barracks

timing and his archer range timing

presumably is going to be a little bit

better than Hera's. Yeah, but the

question is will he recognize it's going

to be skirmishers from Hera because you

do not want to go archers here. He's

looking. He won't see a barracks at this

level. I think after checking the front

and not seeing anything on your pond as

well. He will look. Yeah, you didn't see

anything on your pond either. So,

there's no water contest from Hera. It's

going to be uh it's going to be land

pressure and the spearman is going to

come out here. So, the spearman will

give him some pretty good vision on

these villagers. Villagers spotted. Uh,

strat has been identified. You just need

to finish that range. I'm surprised

there's no quick wall there from Liry.

Never mind. Waits till the last second

and the tower is just going up from

Hera. And Lir's like, "All right,

brother. I've got more villagers in this

area. I can build a tower, too." Hera's

going to abandon that. Lir's not going

to spend the full price of stone. Lir's

like, "Okay, I'll wait, too." And now he

starts to build it. Just I mean, just

finish that, I think. Right. I mean, why

not? You've got a stone further back in

your base. Just finish it. It'll push

Harrow away. He has to walk all the way

around. You have a secure gold.

Whatever. Wow, what a crazy start. So,

Lithuanians h should be having the big

edge here. Faster spears and faster

skirms. It's now going to be a spear and

skirm war, but Hera does have some weak

villagers around. Has to be careful. And

he just loses a unit there. Now, the

scout was weak from Liry. He did attack

something around Harris TC while all

this was happening. Larry, that's

enough. Just I think I think get him

back. We might need to get a replay in

for this, but my my gut tells me that

Liri's scout is weak because he sniped

sheep underneath Harris TC. M there's

nothing there. Yeah, I I think that's

why because the scout came back weak and

it was completely full HP when it was

over at the base. Okay, maybe he just

ran under that as well. Could have been