Super-Titan Replay Discussion

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(02-26-2013 10:40 PM)Eijolend Wrote:  Hey, I have an exciting replay I'd like to discuss, where I finally get to DO something with those Vegetables. Maybe my thoughts are useful for someone.

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In this game I try an early Bramble strategy, starting to spawn thorns as soon as Turn 5.
My opponent starts out with a lot of soldiers and no runners, so when he gets vision, the thorns are already in place.
I'm not so sure about my thorn placements on Turn 5&7, but I think the one on Turn 9 is a good place to put it, since it protects the Sniper and is only 3 thorn spawns away from the enemy wit space.

Turn 10: Mag!cGuy finally gets a runner out and sees my thorns, which causes him to reposition his Soldiers away from my witspace-side, so his later attack goes better.

Turn 15: I probably should have spawned an additional safety thorn directly from the bramble between the two obstacles in the north, so that desastrous Turn 16 move can't happen, especially since I have 1 wit left!

Turn 16-19: I thought I was done for, after I lost both my Bramble and my sniper, thankfully my opponent hadn't had enough wits left to spawn reinforcement during all this, so I come out solidly ahead in unit count after Turn 19, if you don't count the mobi. I position my Soldiers for a follow-up strike on the wit space.
I fear if he had moved his soldier first instead of the heavy on Turn 16 I might've been worse off, but he couldn't know I was wide open back there before he actually moved the soldier - so hurray FoW!

Turn 20: I question the decision to spawn a boosted Runner in this circumstance - while Mag!cGuy doesn't know exactly where my soldiers are, he probably could've guessed it. An unboosted Soldier costs the same and is much more useful for defending an attack consisting only of boosted Soldiers. The positioning of the Heavy and the Mobi was good though, as was boosting the Heavy on Turn 22, but boosting it on Turn 20 instead of the runner would've saved 2 medic-moves.

Turn 21-25 shows an important concept. When you're ahead in unit count you can afford to pull back for a turn and reinforce and then immediately jump into the fray again. While I destroy a Soldier in my first wave of attack and lose one in turn, I'm overall set back by one soldier, since I didn't get to spawn one on Turn 21, while my opponent gets one out on Turn 22. That's ok, because I'm still ahead in unit count, but I can't afford to continue throwing units at him, because of the Mobi he is much quicker to reinforce. My Heavy is slow, but a much more terrifying addition to my army than his stream of soldiers - also without it I have no good way of dealing with my opponent's boosted Heavy, since the amount of units I have is tight.
I think this is one of the few situations where a Heavy is better than a boosted Soldier - I don't have so many units, that I need the additional wits the Heavy costs to use them. A boosted Soldier probably costs less to move into the fight, but the Heavy saves me 2 wits when dealing with the big Bear. (4 instead of 6) So that makes up for the cost difference between Heavy and Soldier and the additional one or two wits it costs me to move it there and once I get rid of his Heavy, he has no good way of dealing with mine.
Notice how, the blue Heavy is in reach of my Heavy for Turn 26 - but he just can't afford to take it, since he would lose his mobi and/or his base in the process.

That was an interesting game - gg!

Feel free to comment or shout at me how wrong I am!

How come you didn't kill mobi on turn 17?