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My opponent had picked the elite hacker card early on, so I didn't want to commit further into tarantulas. By the time loose formation was clicked I was already out of spiders. Ideally I would have had mustangs a bit earlier as a counter to loose formation

@RoosterUA-cam Ahh that makes sense

The best counter to phantom is going to be overlords. Wasps with range + AA also destroy them, but they are more vulnerable to things like fortress AA and mustangs. Farseer are great too, especially with the missile interceptor tech. In general though, overlords remain the best and mothership can create chaff which will distract the phantoms for a long time.

Woot does a great job at playing both sides of the board and pivoting between them. There is value in that and the fact he knows the limits of his strategy like no other

RAT sadly does not play as much anymore, so I haven't played against him in a while. I think he has uploaded a game of us on his channel in the past tho!

@RoosterUA-cam Speak RAT and he shall appear... ua-cam.com/video/GcG8h9z96Uk/v-deo.html

Ya, Rooster invested a lot into anti missile, and the board was STILL completely on fire in the first 5 seconds. He was just able to contain the fire to his opponents side.

For one Vulcan with only incendiary bombs you need two AM devices and a saber is roughly 0.6 AM device (it's the worst in the game, then you have farseer which is 0.8 AM device). So you'd need 4 Sabers for only one Vulcan and theoretically you'd need 7 or 8 Sabers if that Vulcan has oil bombs on top of that. Now imagine multiple vulcans with double tech and other missiles in the air... AM Saber is only good ad reducing damage, not preventing fire or negating Stormcallers.

@@aiugiamos3057 oof! That is a lot of AM devices. Makes sense why people typically build shields instead of trying to intercept.

Oops 🤣 Spiders are very good into sledgehammers is what I meant to say 🤪

I think playing this setup without improved wasp is quite challenging (remains extremely vulnerable to fortress AA and mustangs, not to mention the lack of dmg to kill big targets). The build is indeed very heavily focused on the carry wasp build, and you have to give up the flexibility of jump drive and of something like shield for chaff.

The fire is from the napalm from the badgers

@@felixbeaudouin1899 I've had a few games where I tried a-m against vulcain missiles, there was no napalm, no firebadgers and still fire landed everywhere on the board. It feels like shooting down the vulcain missiles still causes the fire to fall where the missiles were shot.

Yeah saber antimissile is among the weakest interception techs. It's still decent to stop damage from callers, farseer and phantoms. In this case, I was simply planning to buy more of them so it didn't seem a bad investment.

@RoosterUA-cam Ya, you could drop 5 a turn for cheap... Who needs Sledge Hammers when you can just make a firing line of Sabers? xD

AM from the saver is roughly 0.6 AM device and you need at least 2 really well placed AM devices to block just one incendiary OR oil Vulcan.

Agree. Surely a couple of forts with missiles would already cut out a bunch of wasps (and hence DPS). Once wasps are maybe really, really high level or have shields maybe that's not enough, but iirc it's like 900dmg per missile which is still enough to kill upgraded wasps since there's some AOE and the missiles tend to hit the same general area a couple of times.

@@jordanb722 the problem with aa fort is that if you have improved wasp it's easy to put pantom rays or wraits in front to tank the barrages. And then you hard loose until you unlock (multi)melter

Great question! You are correct that leveled units give more than double the base experience. ​ xp rewarded is double the initial unit cost, where each additional level adds double the initial unit xp. So sniper level 1 gives 200 xp, and level 3 gives 1000 xp (200 + 400 + 400). As for the experience share, when a unit kills an enemy unit, it receives 50% of its xp value + 1/x of the other 50% (where x is the amount of units who got an assist on the enemy unit). So damage doesn't matter, simply whether or not in assisted in taking the unit down. If a unit dies to a spell, then its experience is divided evenly across all enemy units alive. Cards (e.g. mass produced) do not affect how much xp a unit grants.

@RoosterUA-cam Awesome! I think managing my Exp and my opponents Exp is the roadblock to my current progress. I am hovering around 1800-2000 MMR. I think this is exactly what I need to start paying attention to if I want to get better. Thank you for the explainer!

Thanks for the kind message! What do you mean exactly by spoilers? (I pretty much only upload wins so the outcome is hardly ever a surprise😅) As for my accent, I am Dutch. Learned English through Jacksepticeye videos on UA-cam (probably the Irish influence you hear) and had a British English teacher in college. Combine that with 5 years of studying in English at university + American movie influence and you get... well, this😆

by the oppo? going phx into mustangs? not the best idea. although i kinda agree that i dont see any use in mustangs for him

@@EssDubz I think aggro and standard are both equally competitive play styles at the moment. There are players like Flower Fairy (#1 world) who almost exclusively play standard. Top players like Red hair, n_sacco, B-man, Mathismight (to name a few) are often playing standard as well. The reason many people (including me) play aggro is because standard is very prone to mirrors, which can be difficult to manoeuvre and/or turn around once a player gets ahead. Aggro forces an imbalance and will result in less mirrors, giving both players more options overall. I also know that I am a worse standard player than the people I mentioned above, so I tend to play to my strengths.

@RoosterUA-cam maybe I need to learn standard better since I see nothing but agro in my games 1900-2150 mmr. Haven't been able to crack elite levels yet. I just find agro has the pick of what they want to do and standard has to try to predict and also deal with round 1 asymmetry which almost always works against them

@@EssDubz You are right that aggro tends to be ahead early (which is the upside of playing asymmetrical). However, showing your hand early also means that the opponent has plenty of time to mount their defense (losing a couple rounds before stabilising doesn't matter if you win in the end). Aggro is weak to spells like oil as it cannot shield on the defender's side and will often have poorly defended towers which can be attacked. Aggro/Defense games are certainly more complicated than standard (long-range) games, at least in the sense that there are more variables. More units are playable, unit drops can provide immediate answers to problems (or not), spells may favour the aggressor or the defender. Card RNG is a bigger factor in these games than in standard. Getting to grips with all the different scenarios is something that only comes with experience, which takes time. I like that part though, as it keeps things interesting with a variety of available tactics. (P.S. I don't mind defending when I know I will get pushed. I just try to avoid the standard mirrors where possible)

@@letir7561 Stormcallers would probably have been my next addition if I started losing rounds! The shield break and pseudo-chaff clear would fill some of the roles I was lacking

Little blast from the past!

Yes. The portable shield is an energy shield (which is for the unit itself only) while the shield tech is a barrier, which is a field around it. You can tell the difference visually.