I'm rewatching all HoF games in the spare time I have.
I'm unsure how this got into the Hall Of Fame. Squaak should have decided the game way earlier. It shouldn't be possible to lose on 4 supplies against 1 (!) mid tunnel. I'm really speechless how Gambler never expanded to Squaak's original base. This game barely has the same level the other UvG games have. It only has baseswaps included which made it entertaining. Other then that a pretty good game, but definitely not a HoF standard.
I'm rewatching all HoF games in the spare time I have.
I'm unsure how this got into the Hall Of Fame. Squaak should have decided the game way earlier. It shouldn't be possible to lose on 4 supplies against 1 (!) mid tunnel. I'm really speechless how Gambler never expanded to Squaak's original base. This game barely has the same level the other UvG games have. It only has baseswaps included which made it entertaining. Other then that a pretty good game, but definitely not a HoF standard.
I rewatched some of them as well. This game was a bit one-sided like you noted it in term of supply/money and sometimes bad decisions, strategically. However, you should take into account that this game was played in early 2009. At that time, I had only been developing this very aggressive type of gameplay in UvG for a few months (especially in the 2 games against Crematory that had just been promoted to HoF). So much action and base swap in a UvG was totally new at the time. So I guess this replay was very entertaining for early 2009. I think the level of UvG continued to improve after that and the games of the highest level ever were played in 2010, if you look at the few next HoF.