Yea gg, that EMP was wayy too effective vs you though lol
And yea turning round for the gatts was a mistake. He was then trapped in his base which is ideal as the vees dont have much room to maneuvre and if they back off then you can start attacking buildings and chinooks etc which will draw them back to engage, let alone using buildings to hide behind and forcing the vees/mds danger close.
This map looks pretty good for no eco USA tbh as all the china forces are typically coming down the middle, where as on other maps they can be coming from all over the place and its almost impossible to clean up all attacking units and then get to their base.
Hence why I suggested other day in no eco it might be worth selling the supply and using the chinook and money to do a patriot drop at one of their supplys in addition to the 2 vees and ambo, because on some maps its inevitable a gatt will get into your base and kill the chinooks, plus if you lose one or both vees its over really. The only downside I see to this is that you have one less building they need to kill. (to clarify im not suggetsing that strat on this map as china foprces funneled down middle and in theory you probably can clean up most thigns heading to your base unless you drive all the way around the big mountain).
I made the mistake of not building an Outpost+Troop Crawler the first time to counter the EMP, but I figured the battle was lost, until I saw that his micro wasn't on point.
Him turning around for the Gats had me surprised, as I figured I could bring it back at that point.
Most maps favor USA in general, or at least USA going no-Eco, however, this map also allows China to not be trapped in his base. Things can be sent around without the USA player seeing them at first (due to lack of garrisons that USA usually takes for map awareness/control. That helped me a lot.
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