That was the most epic fight i have ever seen. Even more epic than the 5 man FFA.
Fat boy after fat boy, in fact i think he could have stale mated the game even longer had he kept doing it, I think he got frustrated and went nukes (which cost him the end game of course)
Ar bee seemed to start off ok, holding off genie on the northern front. But once blue was taken out he seemed to give up and let rapier do the rest.
I'd also agree with the fatboys. If he'd kept that tactic going instead of switching to nukes, who knows, maybe he could have won. I also think that when genie first attacked the others from the northern side with that large titan force, he was rather reckless. He just fed them into the cerberus cannons. He even had a tech 3 mobile arty just behind, but chose to feed his titans to the slaughter instead.
Still, a fantastic match, even if arbee did decide to just hide.
I also found it quite funny that rapier built his monkeylord in the middle of an area it couldn't possibly get out of. Spent the rest of the match trying to walk through the mountain.
He should have stuck with artillery, either sneaking some in the bottom right corner during the big fatboy slugfests or built a t3/t4 artillery instead of the nukes. Green's base was completely unshielded, one shell or one bomber drop could have taken out a lot of his economy.
Rapier would have won alot easier if he had gone with subcoms instead of loyalists. 2 or 3 subcoms with regen and damage amplifier probably could have strolled into red's base.
Red's biggest mistake was wasting approximately 4/5 of his mass when he had the huge economy advantage. I think this was because of him hitting his unit cap, but that is when you start destroying your t1 junk you have lying around. He also should have been building a constant stream of mobile flak from his fatboys to take out the massive amounts of air units flying around above them. Then there was leaving the massive group of siege bots sitting in formation waiting for t3 bombers to blow them up. That bomber paid for itself after dropping one bomb.
How do you win one of thse. I had a fight against a guy last night on Setons where we were both flinging T3 bots at each other, i tried to build a nuke but did not have the ability to out resources him at that point and lost because he finally got T3 into my base. This was a game where I threw 100 T3 bots at him several times and niether could gain a real air advantage.
Edit: By the way, Ar-Bee sucks. Avoid him for 2v2.
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