Tell me what you learned! Or did you not learn anything? I want to know if this was useful or not. I want to make these videos for a different mmr range so there's something for every player. Instruction on how to post a replay to my analysis pool: kzfaq.infoUgkxM04AOqGXepWKeB0MGzzdkEhuSEBJstNA

Thank you for analyzing and commenting my replay, wise lad Ratblud!

Great insights. Loved the explanation on how your were using the flank to pull and create space for beacon. I find that balls are generally really hard to force and are a more reactionary unit now to certain situations.

wonderful, please more of this ! Thank you !

So, I skimmed fast what I recorded and the best starting spec was rhino. Arcs are quite ok now since crawlers are so strong and people keep picking only them. But it worked out with the mustangs since the enemy had fangs. Also I was a bit too focused on the fortresses from the round before so given what the play was here the correct pick for the second unit drop was definitely the lev2 boat and go photon. Also i talk about the flank being too early. It's fine i guess, but if you wait a little bit you give the enemy the opportunity to make mistakes by building more units to be pulled behind the tower. But the enemy does it anyway even though he sees the flank already

thanks Rat - I really enjoyed this - and learned a lot

I read that title as "programer" for a minute there. I was thinking wow they finally hired him!

Great video. =) Making space for ball/beacon was great insight. Usually I just use flanks to pull/distract units so the front line can push harder. I see how clearing a path for a strong tower rush unit is a good strat now.

I loved the analysis, but found it less fun than normal. Maybe space put the coaching videos between regular videos to not burn us out on these. I learned a lot about positioning, countering, and running a push in one side. Overall extremely helpful.

That was SO helpful, thx for the video! ❤

Love this type of content! On a personal note, I have been climbing since coming back thanks to your videos. Unfortunately, as I hover around 1200 I am having to accept that defensive formations are just better. I was playing one side far up, and then "sac" one side by mobile beacon dragging their units with 1 chaf unit. However, if opponent starts defensive, my units will always go to their side. This means late game any field effect is uncounterable. I have lost so many won games because of fire and acid on their side. Sad, but it seems I will be joining the defensive formation side.

This was great. I tend to do exactly the type of mistakes seen here. I can be ahead the first half, and then just fumble the end.

I feel like i learned something every round of your commentary. Why and how to use the front corner flank to create openings (and how to "see" an opening by creating certain draws on unit aggro). Looking for powerful units that the enemy has "invited" you to use (like the boardwide weakness to fort). If a proper fort pivot had been made the turn the enhancement module came down what technologies would you prioritize on them? I would think bubble or LO would be key since Kepals was winning so hard at that point in the game so you could close it out. *note im a 1650 MMR player who is much more comfortable with standard and would love to have a chance to submit a review if his style of video is going to be more common.

More of these videos please!!

would like to see more of these

I would love to send you some 1.3k mmr videos of me losing, I think you could mention A LOT on even lower mmr videos

I feel like the Intensive Training does give you the option to pivot- you can sell that unit for a full refund, at least of the credits, not the levels. So you can invest in a unit and try to force a counter, but not commit as hard as with a technology.

Putting the fortress bottom and over-committing with 2 teches on the balls is what killed him i think.

most of the enemies forces were clumped around the tower, while putting the fort on the other side was the wrong play, those level 3 storms would have cracked the enemy shields that were constantly put down with one barrage, and would have gotten great value with the clumped units. I think would have been the better choice over the fort.

I also would have hesitated to start selling the marksmen since they cost a full deploy each, gotta work on that sunk cost thinking

Looks like Typhoons just behind Sledgehammers is excellent combo. Especially high level Typhoons with shields - it can tank a lot of damage and clear a lot of chaff. Now I'm thinking, maybe shielded Fortress and shielded Typhoons.

round 3, i was more like you : probably skip. But if i was force to pick intensive training, i would have probably level the mustang to level 3. And yeah not picking enhancement module was a big mistake, far too much value with intensive training (even if he didn't use it to switch to a better comp). And the lvl 2 fort on the right tower was inexplicable, just one pack of fang in front to slow a snipe, and missile is clearly enough, we had the hp to tank one big loss anyway.

there were like 1200 dead resources with the fort and phoenix and the wasted haste module + the missile on the second tower. It would have ended in 1 or 2 rounds if all that was on the frontline.

You're one of the programmers?