Voice of Akasha is so big brained it hurts. Holy hell that final move was fucking STELLAR.

Oh man I hope Voice of Akasha keeps playing so Mangs can make more videos about him, he is a legend

Jamberine: Tries to capture one of Voiceofakasha's cities Voiceofakasha: "GET OFF MY PROPERTY!"

"If you have your entire army centered around here then you can attack either side " Sun Tzu probably

I've actually played against jamberine twice when he was a 900. Didn't know that he has grown that much

That kinda felt similar to how a grandmaster chess game might end. Boxing in a neotank to ensure it dies next turn. Very interesting way to close a game.

And moves like that are why I'll never reach the upper echelons of competitive Advance Wars. I would never have even _begun_ to think of a 9001-IQ move like that.

29:13 “Feel free to pause the video and win the game for Voice of Akasha, while I give you a few seconds. For those of you who found it, congratulations on spotting the perfect gift-wrapping technique befitting of true grandmasters.”

Has Voice of Akasha played any of the heavyweights? He's beaten reasonable players but I'd like to watch him take on some of the top 3-5 and see how he stands up.

"And knowing this, Jamberine just resigns." lol poor guy.

Well, I didn't see that one coming. I was completely thinking of ignoring the neotank for that turn and use the fact it was far from the south to push there. At no point did I consider going for the neotank kill. Sure, I'm a bad player-versus-computer player who watches pro-level matches for fun, but still.

It's confirmed, Voice of Akasha is AI designed by CIA.

Holy crap I didn’t know competitive advanced wars was a thing!

I see the greatest mark of prestige in AWBW is for anyone who can change one of Akasha's 0 into a 1. What a legend.

I thought that the "fatal mistake" was that Jambarine's weak side looked like it wouldn't hold against the force pushing against it, not getting surrounded by artillery

It seems like Akasha loves instead of fighting multiple fronts with 2 different sets of units they go for very hard control of the middle of the map and fight with their entire army all together and then slowly spreading out across the entire map using that single strong army to pick apart the typical weak side strong side setup

Absolute banger move at the end!

I've never played a game of Advance Wars in my life, but just from watching some of your other battle comentaries over the last couple days, I was guessing that Akasha's win involved jamberine's neotank in some way. It was over extended just enough. I was certainly not expecting him to just bodyblock the damn thing, holy shit. Would not surprise me if Akasha was a military tactician irl.

For the Pipeseam fix, it has to be done on the awbw website's side and not the Replay Player's side. The website doesn't accurately track what happens to the pipeseam so it doesn't show it in the replay, at least that's what I think happens because it never shows a pipeseam being hit when playing the replay on the awbw website so it makes sense that it wouldn't show in the replay player either.

Love these Jazz Jackrabbit music and Advanced Wars commentary ASMR

Funny thing is, I saw the potential for that trap, was thinking “I mean if you can trap that neo tank for long enough it’s screwed”, but then saw the massive hole leading to the blue team hq and thought “ah! A huge mistake leaving the hq so exposed! That must be the mistake!” But nope, my first remark was the correct one but I second guessed myself. I should have learned by now that I need to trust my instincts rather than my brain

Gotta love this Jazz Jackrabbit 2 music.

30:00 Alright, here is my guess for the winning move, I'll update this comment once I've watched the rest. Akasha can trap the neotank: infantry on the right, tank below, 9 hp artillery above, infantry above the artillery. Put the full hp artillery in range, brings his own neo to the middle, and uses his other units to tip of the walling. I know that last part isn't very specific, but this game has been deleted from the site so I can't use the moveplanner to plan the rest out, but I think I got the most important part right. Again, my guess is: infantry on the right, tank below, 9 hp artillery above, infantry above the artillery. Edit after finishing the video: I had the main idea right, I just took the other artillery and put the infantry one space to the right. I give myself a 4/5 rating.

Fantastic game and cast, thank you Mangs!

losing a piece in chess is not always a bad thing, this game similar to chess is a situation where the position is basically that Neotank is like having an entire Queen up and then you look at your strong side facing the enemy neotank and realize that if he counters the neotank, akasha can just also get another neotank and will always be a neotank ahead and there is no counter to that now

I nerded out on Advance Wars on GBA back in the day so hard, Rank 1 badge, all Mmissions A rank and now these videos pop up with Mangs nerding out about AW2 and high level gameplay?! I am amazed. Great videos!

29:47 I can't see anything other than the HQ being exposed and it might be a target. Akasha is better than everyone here.

sasha's theme would def put me in a christmas mood

This guy: roflstomps the competition, refuses to elaborate further, and leaves.

Very late comment, but when I was watching this for the first time, I sat there for like 5 minutes trying to figure out what the game-ending move was. I did actually think of the artillery box trap, but I didn't notice that jamberine couldn't wallbreak it so figured that wasn't it, and just moved on because I had no idea what it was. I'll take the half win.

So I admit I called the Neotank surround, saw it over-extend. Did NOT expect using an artillery for that. Damn good play.

Yeah no I did not see that move. I figured the neotank was part of it, but all I saw was that Akasha could sack a battle copter for a nice hit on it. That was a galaxy brain play.

I thought voice would combine the artillery to build a second neotank. I'm so used to see artillery be walled around that couldn't think in use it to build the wall.

BTFOing a neo tank with an artillery speed bump is so big brained, I love it.

I dont mind the mirror matches. Level playing field.

Man I wanted to see the brutal counterattack Akasha would have made, but still a good replay

Mangs, i like the Soundtrack a lot, you put in your Advance wars Videos. Would you mind showing which songs you used in the discription or at the end of the Video :> ?

This was my favorite game forever!

Heyyyy. Is that new animation I see??? Player turn switch and cap animations. small detail. love it!

31:00 I gotta say, Akasha is truly a master baiter.

Great commentary!

Rhythmical Bustle is a song name from Melty Blood, a fighting game.

This guy is like a spider. Carefully setting up an invisible web, waiting for a prey to rush into his trap. Glorious.

Olaf mirror matchup with one of Jack JazzRabbit Xmas map themes as BGM... clever. Just for that, have a like

Great to see a video from you mangs hopefully your doing well!

Dang. I figured there was a way to trap the neotank, but I wasn't expecting that move.

i have no idea what this game is, idk what is going on... but im here for it. big brain moves.

29:38 he moved the neotank too far up, so my guess is Akasha pins it to threaten a kill next turn. 1) Use the full hp arty on top to make sure that it doesn't get wall broken by high rolled luck (I *think* it matters for the 9hp one? Either way better safe than sorry, especially when you have enough damage elsewhere to kill it) 2) put the infantry beside it on the city as bonus capture pressure 3) put the tank on city below the neotank 4) move 8hp infantry beside neotank (its health doesn't matter so better to use the lower hp infantry there rather than on the wall) 5) put the 9hp artillery where the 8hp infantry was (threatens units coming for a wallbreak and also damage on the neotank) 6) move the battle copter up two squares to cover the bottom side of the flank **OR** move it up above the city to threaten a wrap-around (its kind of tricky to tell which move is better without being able to use the move planner to plot out both routes. Honestly this is the hardest unit to figure out how to place) 7) move his other tank up onto the plains below the city (not super necessary to protect the artillery but it puts more pressure on the top half of the map where its needed) 8) put infantry below city onto the forest 9) place infantry beneath copter on city between pipe seam and forest 10) move the heavy hitters (med/neo) up the middle to threaten the neotank's death and just generally have cool flexible positioning 11) finally sit the anti-air the pipe seam and put the third tank beneath the forest right above it At this point the rest of the moves are just about consolidating on that vertical line behind the pipe seam to easily readjust north or south and to make sure that any engagements jem takes are from worse terrain and putting artillery in position to shell anyone coming at the wall. Honestly looking at this replay I feel like right after jem moved that neotank they started kicking themselves because that seems like a major blunder to leave your most valuable piece completely exposed like that. Okay now that I've spent like 20 minutes staring at this paused video and writing this up time to see how hilariously wrong I was 👍 e: oh shit I was right! Lets goooooooobut I don't get why he puts the bcopter behind the city instead of two below. I realized after posting that putting it above would be bad since the neo tank could pop the arty and open up room for the aa to snipe it but I think it would've been safe and still been able to threaten in the same way if it were between the forest and the mountain.

Yup. Do more of these!!!

Your videos on this game made me want to buy and play them

Akasha is Mangs's burner. :)

just found these vids, i aspire to be big brain like Akasha someday

OMG Jazz Jackrabbit music! Alexander Brandon FTW

I had no idea this was a thing. Will be starting the my way up the rankings tomorrow. I have 1k hours in the franchise.

Playing against Akasha must feel like playing a Chess AI. You think your doing okay and then BAM 2 turns later you don't see any more possible moves and just resign.

5:50 "discrepancies" mangs.

parity: equal. disparity: not equal.

I can't immediately see anyone else pointing it out, so I'm going to add that I believe pipe seams take the same amount of damage as a medium tank on a road would, but without any rolls for random damage, just the base amount of damage. Side note, all of the Black Hole structures in the AW2 campaign take that amount.

Watching Akasha play reminds me of people using algorithm learning bots on MOBAs to take on the world best teams and win.

I saw the following trap+wall, from top to bottom: inf, 9hp arty, tank, inf, inf. I would complete the trap with a B-copter, and maybe shoot the neotank with the B-copter. I would shift the rest of my units upwards so that a full HP arty and Md tank are in position to destroy the neo next turn (possibly with some help from B-copter or just inf luck-rolls). The rest of my units would just go north and defend my wall. Ideally my neo and anti-air are in position to counter-attack the enemy Md tank and B-copter. Edit: my top inf and arty were slightly wrong, same "mistake" as swagmaster. I probably also took B-copter damage which I didn't need to.

Hey, thanks for the upload! Always love the AW2 video's and casting. Regarding the pipes: in case they ever not update, have you considered video editing a break in it?

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Holiday Hare Level 1 Music for anyone wondering about the music in the background

Very interesting match!

thank you for the nice video mangs :) always a joy to listen to your commentaries ! keep it up you're the best :P

That's just beautiful

I did predict that Akasha could trap the Neotank, but never did I think he would trap it using the freaking artillery! Truly mind blowing!

Hashire sori yo kaze no you ni tsukimihara wo PADORU PADORU

Sun Mangs Tsu the art of advance wars.

legit thought Mangs was wearing Ayanami Rei's plugsuit tshirt

I wonder if the replay viewer's isue with pipeseams comes from them not being classified as units.

ok i was actually considering the surrounding of the neo in the end there but i where thinking infantry and they are way to easy to plow down and get out so i disgarded the idea. MAN i was close tho never in a million years would i have thought that he would block it in with an artilery :D

Okay, I'm noob in AW but gotta try it. If Akasha moves whole army under lower lake, he will cut off amberine from base because of a chokepoint. And amberine's stronger side reinforcements will not make it in time.

29:30 I Think the neotank gets trapped in the north and gets hit with a clean 10 hp arty

The Santa mirror match

damn talking about christmas and its not even december. fun match tho

I found the winning idea, but to be fair you did hint it by saying it was a mistake to go there with the neotank in the first place.

I spotted the trap! Yesss

SPOILERS: I guessed that it had something to do with trapping the neotank, but I thought it'd be wrapped with infantry and I said: Well, that's way too weak. But I don't see another game ending move, so that's probably it? What he did was an excellent move, and now I know that being down 22k/A neo tank is enough to end the game in a match up like this. Good awareness that a high tech unit like this can really end it all if misplayed

Though I'm a longtime AW player myself, highly competitive matches like these terrify me.

Replays on Advance Wars by web don't record pipe seam hits. It's left out of the archive zip. It can't be fixed I believe. Unless replay archives are changed to include pipe seam hits.

This map could be really interesting in fog.

Mangs how would you play the first max mission of aw2 normal campaign deathless?

Well that's a good way to win a game! How to trap a 22k unit using 14k. It's... scary effective.

Incugarch vs Voice of Akasha when?

Advanced War has many similar concepts to chess.

You were close, the word is disparity. Parity meaning equal conditions disparity meaning unequal conditions.

What a Gigachad

yeesss legggooooo

I knew it was the neo tank getting trapped LOL I've seen these kinda plays before where the player gets cocky and sends a lone strong unit against a bunch weak units but the weak units have their numbers as their strength. That is the biggest mistake of the match if I've ever seen one.

I'm at the 14:30 minute mark and I think Amber already fell into a pitfall. The bottom of the map on their weak side their mistake was giving up too much ground. They should have marched their infantry right outside the range of Akashas infantry and artillery. Your opponent shouldn't be able to cross over a river and chokepoint without it being contested. Their second mistake was falling back past the forest and mountain without contesting it. That allows Akasha to just place his infantry safe on that mountain and forest and gives them free reign to prepare his offensive on Amber's base.

Winter is coming.

Aww yiss, another episode of AWBW's Wrestlemania

Akasha be like "Get off mah property!" lmao Regarding the game-ending move, all I can think of is that Akasha might try to go for an HQ cap with all his infantry down there and pretty close to jamberines HQ. But that's probably not what's going to happen, I'm not very good at the game. Edit: Damn, yeah, definitely would not have seen that. lmao, great move.

Just when the therapist convinced me super sayian olaf doesn't exist...

About guessing the Winning move: There is no way in the world I can do that. Let's move on and see what happens. About what happens *after* the winning move: I couldn't have seen that coming. Either way, I don't blame them for ff. Making the chess analogy, it would be like going against Magnus Carlsen and he traps your Queen. Are you gonna recover? Hell no, just move on.

At this point I'm pretty sure this guy works at google or something and is trolling us with one of the Alpha AIs.

Jam could have maybe sacked the two 2-Hp tanks, the 1-Hp anti air, and then attacked with his copter to kill the tank underneath the neo, thus freeing it. Maybe could have come down to a luck roll or maybe it wouldn't have worked at all, might it would have been worth at least trying it.

Up!

When u try to trap artillery but artillery traps u

Thumbs up just to see more voice of akasha