Here we have an FFA between [ODS]Bashley as cyan empire in the bottom right, HappyWins. as a green random at the top, and H2O|ReadyPlayer1 as a blue random in the bottom left.
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All players start off in a regular manner, peppering in some infantry and getting the scouting in. However, instead of going for a standard mecha bay both empire players (HappyWins. gets empire from the random draw) opt for a 3rd refinery. H2O|ReadyPlayer1 getting allies goes for a naval yard instead of the casual airfield and we move on to the stage of the game that is best described by the word “tengu”.
Both empire players start printing out masses of tengus and harassing each other while not forgetting about the allied player. Bashley proceeds to pull off a successful shinobi forcing the selloff of one of the allied refineries. In the meantime, all players simultaneously decide to go for expansions and expansions only though the allied player does establish an airfield. Bashley managing to amass the biggest tengu cloud in the game is sieged by both players and ends up in a dire situation after losing his mecha bay, a refinery, having one of his harvesters collect on red hp, and the worst part about all of this, the fact that one of his harvesters was left unmanaged and effectively brought him down by another refinery worth of income without him noticing.
After such catastrophic damage was dealt to Bashley the other players shift priorities to each other and allow Bashley to regroup and strike back on both players with his newly found tier 2 tsunami tanks yielding him HappyWins.’s refinery in the top right. This provokes the joint attack on the allied player as he already managed to grab 2 out of 3 of the refineries in the center which he subsequently loses. The allied player proceeds to lose his naval expansion in the bottom as well.
The next in the line to be focused down however is HappyWins. as, during the course of this game, he wasn’t dealt major damage aside from losing a refinery and getting harassed by a couple of tengus. HappyWins. almost gets wiped out by Bashley’s forces but manages to defend with a single chopper-vx exploiting Bashley’s lack of anti-air capable units in his attack force. Now the allied player takes his chance and attacks Bashley with his mix of tier 1,2 and 3 vehicles while at the same time being targeted by the last standing vx of HappyWins. Somewhere in the middle of this chaos, Bashley resumes the collecting of his long-forgotten idle harvester and at the same time manages to defend the allied player's onslaught due to him pulling back from HappyWins.’s single vx which manages to demobilize three refineries worth of income.
The tier 3 force of the allied player who now set up camp in the middle of the map manages to almost wipe out Bashley and kill all the mecha bays on the map with the help of cryogeddon. After some time both empire players get chased to the water making ReadyPlayer1 (the allied player) the king of the hill. Bashley’s re-expansion on land gets thwarted and negated by the forces of the allied player but he manages to get tier 3 naval and chase down the allied player’s MCV. The allied MCV is hastily remade and gets out just in time before the last standing production structure the armor facility of the allies gets decimated by the heroic shogun of Bashley.
HappyWins. is finished off by both players and ReadyPlayer1 takes his chance to rebuild his economy and in the end overwhelms Bashley.
The greediness of the players in this replay is apparent but at the very same time, it seems like they never considered playing defensive as an option and care more about the harvesters of opposing players rather than their own. This match features joint attacks that look coordinated as though the players playing were in the same room talking to each other. Every time when one player gets out of hand and amasses a sizeable force or number of refineries, they are instantly targeted by the two others. This is how an FFA is meant to be played, this selfless behavior from every player provides for an exhilarating experience and a lot of twists up until the very end. I sure do hope that we get more replays like this that feature unprecedently entertaining FFA’s.
Score on my list: 9/10
This post has been edited by Xads: May 19 2021, 08:50 AM
Hello, Can someone explain me why I can't watch this replay (and some other as well). When I go to replay theater, in the "mission" column I normaly have the name of the map but for this replay and the others that aren't working I have something like : "data\map\official\hostile_ hostel[1.12.6]\ho..."
For info: - My replays are in the folder C:\Users\admin\Documents\Red Alert 3\Replays - I can't open the replays direclty with red alert launcher, I don't know why, it just open the CnC online app -I just bought (again) the game 2 days ago after 5 years without playing, and I loved watching those replays so it's very frustrating for me! I bought the game with origin
Hello, Can someone explain me why I can't watch this replay (and some other as well). When I go to replay theater, in the "mission" column I normaly have the name of the map but for this replay and the others that aren't working I have something like : "data\map\official\hostile_ hostel[1.12.6]\ho..."
For info: - My replays are in the folder C:\Users\admin\Documents\Red Alert 3\Replays - I can't open the replays direclty with red alert launcher, I don't know why, it just open the CnC online app -I just bought (again) the game 2 days ago after 5 years without playing, and I loved watching those replays so it's very frustrating for me! I bought the game with origin
You need to download 1.12.6 here is a link Click here
If future problems then come to the C&C online discord for assistance.
For the replay doh. Silver award handed out.
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