How to reach #1 on AWBW 1: Be Elagatua

Wasn't expecting a feature-length movie today, let alone from one of my games Overall I do pick Eagle a lot in T2, but it's mainly about avoiding a mirror if possible (so if I think my opponent will pick Eagle then I'll go for Olaf or Max, but since it's fog I usually end up facing Olaf lol). I definitely wasn't aware of this tcopter variation when playing, and after seeing the infantry capping the com tower my short term goal was to snipe it after the cap with the arty + tank as it happened in-game, guessing there would be little resistance as I thought a lot more cap-skips were needed to get the infantry over there in time. I also make things worse by greedily moving the recon after my tank, hoping the recon wouldn't be in his vision after the infantry died (and again not expecting a lot of resistance). After the initial exchange I end up eating the tank shot, which is honestly fine as it doesn't snowball into a losing front and I can repair it quickly on the HQ along with the bboat, having it active again before the Winter Fury brings it back down, but what ultimately dooms me is that Elagatua does not have a reason to stare down my army with the tower in his hands and my excess artillery/mech builds go from important units that discourage slow trading (what Olaf wants) to immobile liabilities. On turn 13 I confirm that his army is committed to the bottom left and try to lure him to overextend by committing on the opposite side with my slightly superior force, hoping the amount of first strikes I'd get on the next turn would outweigh the impact of WF and let me retreat and stall right after. I do succeed in wiping almost every direct unit he had, limiting the potential of my army getting ran down after snow, but what I can't do is keep the income disparity (or tower disparity at that) at a reasonable level, getting to a point where it's too easy for Olaf to justify inefficient trades and really asking a lot from the Lightning Strike. In the end, the Neotank moving forward + several copter kills being available proves too tempting to resist and I SCOP without having the proper setup to retake anything, and while the damage in value and unit count looks impressive, it isn't enough on it's own to bring me back, I see it as Olaf having a deadlock on his 6k income and 2 tower advantage and resign soon after. In a way it's almost like the positioning mistakes are what baited me into using a LS that cannot win me the game. Very fun one at the end of the day though, and raises some expectations for whenever Elagatua decides to queue again in GL, as he hasn't been there since this game.

"Max needs to win in order to win" duly noted

1738? Jesus christ, I remember when 1600 used to be the top level. The power creep is real!

1:20:27 what a jumpscare Deej, watch out that audio levels!

Thanks for the infotainalysisment Deej.

I've been waiting for new advanced wars content from elagatua, but I never thought I'd get elagatua and deejus, commenting on a fog match, on an eagle vs olaf match, which is my favourite matchup in fog by the way. The hype on this one is unreal.

This might be one of my favourite replays, everything that was said made sense and was used in context. Hope to see more of this!

That T copter moving infantry on Elagatuas sides made the biggest impact of the game. The fact that Elagatua had that much infantry on the front line at all time as suppose to Rips lightning strike being devestating yet had no capture phase follow up, won E man the game. And he mentioned this on like day 5. Great planning.

Great commentary, great game. It's easy to be critical of stally match-ups like Olaf vs Eagle in fog but this was rivetting!

Elgatua vs rip_ with Deej AND "Agoogala" himself commenting ?? This is hype af, thanks for putting it together guys and please do it again sometime!! Best buy 15% off coupons for all

A recurring theme is being able to know or estimate what's behind the fog without directly seeing it. Whether it's vision that disappeared a turn ago because your recon blew up, knowing the map and reinforce lanes, knowing the enemy player or CO, etc. So memory, map knowledge, meta knowledge... It's all very complicated. Respect to these players for being able to factor all that in

Really great video Deejus and Elagatua. I'm not really a fog fan, but if ever I begin to like it more, it would be because of how Elagatua plans his games. Often I see in Discord that in fog you don't need to think as much as in Standard, but watching Elagatua's analyses, that may actually be a myth.

The coolest thing if that is you look at elagatuas old content, he did completely different things, like oot speedrunning tricks. Then, one day, he just felt like becoming the no 1 advance wars player, slow and steady

Loved the opener my last game here the comm towers went uncapped all game, constant brawl on them, did the opener, uncontested clean, watch the other side, he has it too... damn those Elagatua openers how dare they

Damn Elagatua is smart. And he is good at explaining too. I was very surprised by how smart some of the moves were too. Stuff I could have never thought of.

oof what a game and great collab!

He said your name right!

I love Collabs on videos :D Well done! Your guys' dynamic was a bit off at the beginning, but that quickly changed because you both talk about a game you love. That's amazing!

This was an amazing collaboration video! Great great work

The T in T copter stands for Tempo.

This felt like a college lecture but good. Awesome analysis.

Wow, I didn't knew you had Elagatua in there. This guy is so in depth, I watched the first 26 min even tho I didn't mean to, I never play fog.

Loved this so much - encouraging me to try out AWBw and play more AW :D

great video! thanks

I've seen a handful of games on this map and I've played it myself once. It's actually a very good map, I think one of the best so far on the site.

Please Deej, make more HOW TO PLAY CO videos, especially for the weakest ones like Sonja or Grimm, that'd be really cool to watch

Jesus Christ that was a brutal lightning strike, 100k NW flip

Elagatua's analysis are always very in-depth and it's clear that he has a great understanding if the game, and he is very articulate and open about his thought process. My number 1 rule for advance wars from watching these videos and through my very brief time playing is that the opening is the most important part of the game by far! Advance wars is a game where things snowball, so having the time, patience and desire to pre-plan the opening is number 1. Every top player speaks about planning the opening. I don't have the time, patience or desire to do this, but for anyone wanting to seriously make their way up the ladder, taking that time to research and prepare the opening for the map is a sure fire way to do it. Assume your opponent is doing that prep, and if you don't do it too then assume you are starting every map suboptimally and will be punished for doing so. Doing that prep gives you a chance to build. It's harder to learn everything else when you are starting from behind. That little bit of prep before each match can be the difference between floundering around 800 (or dropping to 700) until things click, or making steady progress in your understanding and on the ladder. In my limited games i could always tell who prepped. I won a handful, but it always felt like it was because my opponent fumbled the ball rather than i caught up by outplaying them, and that is because i would start off behind, get days into the battle and then start thinking about what i actually wanted to do! Fun, but not as fun as having more competitive games would be. As they say, "if you fail to prepare, then prepare to fail."

Amazing collab!

Wow rip's Lightning Strike was absolutely devastating holy crap. But Elagatua I think did play better overall

I feel like Rip's strategy in the early game to deny the weak side comm tower was the worst thing for him against the speedy copter capture. I wonder if he played more of a standard opener, would that comm tower rush have been as effective? Would he have had such an income disadvantage.

Loved having a guest on, and reckon you should more Deej. But it was giving me an absolute aneurysm hearing you interrupt homie so many times. Maybe reducing backchanneling, felt coulda been more amicable; granted these vids cant be 3 hrs and you are also Top 25 in the world so..

Up!

I see Elagatua copying the Deej hairstyle. Now if only he wears glasses and bites them in sync will this be uncanny valley.

The thumbnails 😭

this arugula guy is pretty good

Really nice video but Deejus if you could *not* interrupt the guest so regularly it would help with the flow of discussion. It was quite uncomfortable for Elagatua at times...

We come a long way from calling them “agugoogala” 😅

Deejus, I love you, your videos and all. But I really want to see another standard or Highfunds game casted by you. I need my fix, I need the lights on. I'm not a fog-goblin 😵‍💫😵

Can't wait to punish the T.Copter opening with weak side Recon opening.

He got to the top by having a good gaming chair.

This was amazing to watch. But, as some friendly advice, just let your guest air out their thought process and give them time to think, instead of interrupting mid explanation or trying to mind read his thought process. It was a bit much at times. Great to see you two joining forces, though

Me, mashing the Right Arrow Key waiting for y'all to get on with it =\ There's no reason this has to be a feature length film