Great game . Arch , if you had taken that first Calliope straight to th15's base, you could have won the game at that point. I see so many games where players seem to be so pre occupied with map control they forget about hitting structures.
This post has been edited by subroutine: Sep 29 2006, 18:20 PM
although most of the game you had advantage on th15 your game play with soldier mannagement was on the face. you didnt use your soldier as they supposed to be used ... most of the battles with tanks vs rifleman you ran before throwing any sticky. th15 had many badly hurt soldiers that he used to regain terretory and you didnt use your infentry to eliminate his squads when you could do it easily. you worst misake and the one i believe brought to the end of the game was entering to the enemy base with 3 tanks when the calipote is in the front hurt and didnt use the special ability. when you let the calipote to be destroyed and got your tank badly hurt you actually gave him the full advantage to push ... then you did the second mistake of using 2 tanks charging on 3 enemy tanks when one of them is tiger and without infentry support. and you didnt focused on none of the tanks you tried to kill 3 at once.
Nice replay indeed, high entertainment AND educational value imo!
Though Arch, some of your descisions turned the game in the wrong direction, like you never really had a long period of VP advantage, like your oponent did. Also the sherman thing was basically suicide, it would've been smarter to retreat or upgrade them with the anti-armor barrel which I think does a lot more damage against other tanks (better then M10?)
In the infantry battles th15 made foolish mistakes like going into close combat 1v1 against riflemen.
Actually when you get the anti-armor upgrade for sherman it does same damage as M10. But IMO it is wiser to build M10s instead of the upgrade because they cost less in fuel and mp than shermans, and you can have 1 or 2 shermans upfront taking damage while M10 own from the sides or back.
Now for the replay, very good, I liked it a lot. Nice infantry usage by both players.
This post has been edited by WNxSoda: Oct 2 2006, 03:59 AM