Thanks! Takes a while but think it's defo worth the bother :D

@@Drone_101 Definitly worth it! Best mechabellum content out there imo :)

Thanks man! Hope you have a blast if or when you do get into the game and one day get cross swords with me in a tourney yourself :D

Thanks for the feedback, really helpful! Yeah, Editing DRN is my way of incorporating that "omg why doesn't he just do [awesome play!] here?!" I'm not sure if it's wise long term for me to break the fourth wall while editing and break the flow of the videos but it's fun from time to time :D Hope you're enjoying the game itself too dude!

Thanks James good to see you again!

2 HP and the dream is real! Now to have a 1 HP comeback game :D

Thanks, appreciate the kind words!

Yeah this was a mighty close game! Gave me quite a fright and those Combat Factories at the end are always pretty scary to be facing - the Scorp with acid melting the level 2 Factory made the game for me, it vanished in seconds!

Can be a tricky starting specialist but scales really well in the late game so fun if you can live that long :D

Thanks dude! Was a fun game to play :D

You're far too kind as always! This was a one of a kind game for me. We could see our opponent's plan and, as a fisherman would say, played the line out for him to nibble on without scaring him off. Knowing we could beat it if he did commit by being prepared. Playing against a Giant Specialist we should've expected the Round 3 Overlord when we wasn't showing any Anti-Air, that was definitely a misplay that I'm glad we survived! Think we both made a few mistakes here though, and if either of us had played better this game could've and perhaps should've been over sooner and more decisively. Replicate Crawlers was a bad call on my part, and Anti-Air Marksmen was a poor choice for our opponent. It happens though, and it's rare for a game to go truly perfectly - the skill sometimes is in accepting mistakes and correcting for them or incorporating them into other parts of the grand plan! Really enjoyed this game and I'm glad I got to share it, thanks for watching as always.

Thanks man! Appreciate the kind words and the quality feedback. Trying to make sure the edits are never over the top but just enhance the experience. Explaining some of my references and trying to make the game more approachable for folks who maybe aren't as familiar as others. Always try and imagine myself playing with a buddy next to me who's interested but hasn't played quite as much so I'm explaining my thoughts - not just the "what" but also the "why" where ever I can.

Thanks Forest! Yeah, was a great game - such a relief when we survived on that smidgen of health.

Haha thanks! I'm sure they were predicting my moves just the same it's part of the fun of close games like this one where you're both making moves off each other's plays. A proper back and forth!

When the reads go well it feels amazing! :D

Thanks man!

Thanks dude! Was an epic game, think we were very lucky to edge it out in the end :D

No worries! We got a bit lucky here that he felt confident enough to play the Factories on a none-free unit turn and then Scorpions landed in our laps immediately after. Think there were lots of small points that could've cost us this game; Range on the Marksmen instead of Anti-air, slightly better missile positioning on round 3, a faster sell off of the level 6 Rhino. At the end of the day I think it was the Top Supply Specialist, paired with our Elite starting specialist scaling into the late game that gave us just enough of an edge to hold out. What would you have done differently if you knew you'd be facing 4x War Factories again yourself?

@@Drone_101 mmm.. actually I now do the "what was good what was bad" end session thanks to your videos and it helps. Often I don't narrow down my problem as good as you do but in this case I had storms and his factories being aggressively positioned I should have gone EMP to disable production I suppose, which would have allowed my scorpions and phoenix (levelled) to take them out. Instead, I unlocked melters and they were totally useless, burried under a mass of freshly produced units... Actually, how do you see your opponent is going for war factory just with chaff positioning? I don't get the pattern.

All good! Reviewing and reflecting on games is defo a skill that takes practise, the more you do it the better the results will be. Yeah, try and always think "one problem, one answer". It can be difficult but this game is centred around hard counters, so picking the best counter for a given situation is often better than having two softer counters to the same problem.

@@Drone_101 good input "one problem one answer" but sometimes i fail identifying the problem in-game. But more and more I can identify it during the end game session with myself or watching the replay to analyse the game more in-depth. Lot of knowledge learned from your videos but I guess practice is the best way. BTW, if you still struggle with your audio editing, I'm still open to give you a hand and see if I can help you streamline the process. You could send me a raw un-edited audio file from one of your past video and I can see if I find some improvement, eventually (not granted but perhaps worth a try) ;) If that's tempting, considering there is no more PM in YT I could leave my email here in a "detached" format to prevent bots spamming my box, you pick it up and I'll delete the message right after (just trying to find a way to get in touch with you outside of YT). Your call and no offense taken if you're not comfortable with it of course ;)

@@Jeeboo007 Thanks! Really appreciate the offer dude but in truth there's more going on than just audio clean up. I move things around to make space for the music segments and to give Editor DRN a spot here and there. The post match review is pretty much "raw" with zero edits now. Most people don't watch them according to KZbin's analytics and doing audio clean up for those 3 to 4 minutes of me just straight talking isn't worth it so I've been leaving the keyboard clicks and breathing sounds alone there and just masking them a little with the music. Apologies if the poor audio in places bothers you, I'm trying to find the happy medium, if I'm not careful I could spend forever on a single video! :D

Haha yeah, that mobile beaconed Crawler making it all the way to the end zone behind our army was great fun.

Yeah was one of the most intense games I've ever played. So glad it was a tournament game so I was recording! His early air power into War Factory was a really nice line of play and almost caught us short, but thankfully we scraped on through :D

Cheers dude! The nuke was sooooo satisfying :D

Thanks dude! This was Editing DRN fixing my mistake from pressing record too late and missing the first round. The game was so good, I couldn't let it end up on the cutting room floor.

@@Drone_101 It worked quite nicely, you could even skip first round and do that all the time :))) but appreciate it's more time consuming. First round doesn't necessarily have such a big impact but hey, pretty cool

Yeah, I get you - think I'd prefer to preserve the entire play experience where I can. Was good to push me out of my comfort zone with the editing process though and it's fun to solve problems with imperfect tools.

Haha, good point - hadn't really though about that. Might have to drop the "Mechabellum" from the title of this one.

Thanks dude! Appreciate the kind words, always makes my day. Commentator's curse is very real! As soon as I say "I'm sure we've got this" we'll instantly lose the round :D

Thanks! It's good to be back and getting on with things again :D

Yep, the fear of them being hard countered by Anti-Missile tech or devices is why I tend not to buy four sets of Stormcallers and instead use a few higher level ones that can threaten to knock over Giants. I see Storms as a "nice to have" unit but never a back-bone of a force, I'll always try to have other sources of Chaff clear and Anti-Giant so if they get countered I'm not completely scuppered. Does mean I sometimes don't buy Stormcallers when I should though!

Thanks dude, was a fun game for sure getting so many Giants on the board! Fire Badgers are great in very specific circumstances - sadly this wasn't one of them I'm afraid. You have to consider how they match up not just against what your opponent has on the board but also against what they're likely to pick from the cards. Never use Fire Badgers against Fortresses, it's painful!

He was tempted to draw the triangles in the analysis discussion too but I gave him the evening off so he could play more games of Mechabellum ;D

Thanks Jesse, glad you enjoyed it! The poetry was something a bit different for me but I've used the phrase "of Mice and Men" a lot and figured it was worth giving some context beyond the Steinbeck classic. Robert Burns has some fantastic work, always sounds amazing when spoken with an authentic Scottish lilt. I've fallen into the trap of pushing that +200 loan too early a few times, think I had a fortnight where I played four tournies and used it almost every game, defo an easy mistake to make! The risk is turning a tempo advantage into a longer term loss and suddenly not being able to close the game out like you expected and then getting out scaled by a late game composition.

Just a guy making videos about games he enjoys :D

@@Drone_101 I enjoy them a lot 😁 It's just the laughing at the end of sentences

Thanks! It's good to be back and cracking on again, hopefully we have more good games ahead of us :D

Find Rhino real risky into Melters! If I'm already running Fort then I'm loath to give them that two-for-one potential, despite how potent the Rhino is, suspect that feeling might be what saved me from being side-swiped by the big fella if he was thinking along similar lines :D

@@Drone_101 Oh heck yes! I meant the first turn you had them but yeah

Haha, thanks man! A lot of them are just the random connections my brain makes firing off nineteen-to-the-dozen, sometimes worry if I suffer from knight's move thinking but then I distract myself with a tangent and forget about the minor worry ;D

Fan of leaving it all in the hands of the Almighty eh? Can respect that but think we have a duty of care to do the best we can for those around us with what we're given in life. Know I'm a massive hypocrite though! :D

@@Drone_101 no its a quote from the hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy.

@@BuzzaB77 Ahha! Has been a couple of decades since I read those, forgive me missing it! :D

No, thank you sir, for both being here and leaving such kind messages, hope you're having a great week!

Yeah, relative to what it 'could' be it's lesser once you already have a buff. From an absolute stand point, +10% is +10% but when you've already gotten +30% from elsewhere then it feels like a smaller gain comparatively, if my thinking makes sense? Particularly when facing damage ramp beam weapons like Melting Points and Steel Balls. Edit - sorry missed answering the follow up question! Dropping the Rhino directly on the Crawlers would kill them but would cost more HP than the Rhino would lose just punching his way through - unless they've got Impact Drill or Mech Rage. Depends if you value speed over surviving HP after the encounter. Haven't done in depth testing on the practise map though so could be wrong!

@@Drone_101 Makes sense, yeah, and it's how you treated it in the video. But like when I check my oven in the middle of the night, despite distinctly remembering turning it off three days ago when last I used it, I was compelled to confirm this was the case. And no worries, communicating an unrelated series of questions in a comment/reply system is weird. Is the drop-in damage just hp cancellation, or is there a multiplier to it? Looking at the wiki, it's five attacks (from level one crawlers) to surpass the hp trade, assuming a 1 to 1 hp trade for landing on them

@@WerdnaTheRed Arrival impact damage is a straight -HP of what is landed on to the arriving unit. Which ever has more HP will survive. The classic is using Heavy Armor Specialist to drop a Vulcan on another Vulcan that's covering a flank for a massive turn over turn.

Thanks! Always appreciate the support. Robert Burns deserves to be more widely known, just wish I could've given more time for his wonderful 'To A Mouse', we barely scratched the surface of it. Strongly recommend you follow Miss Punny Penny for more and better insights into the famous Scottish writer!

My pleasure Jannick, hopefully one day we can cross paths in a tourney like Fifthwiel did this week!

He agrees wholeheartedly! Keeps threatening to release my 'worst of' playlist where I lose every game and make even more mistakes than in this one :D

Thanks, really appreciate the kind words always makes my day brighter! Don't read too much into a voice though, it's an expensive mic and a lot of time finding the right settings, sitting in exactly the right spot in a sound deadened room, and even then Editing DRN has to save me more often than I'd like to admit :D

Thanks dude! I'm doing okay, glad to be back in the swing of things. Had to hash out a few things and work out a more sustainable pace for Editing DRN, he was getting a bit stressed with the "to-do" pile mounting up! Quite agree - not selling the Overlord was a bit of a waste for our opponent and Supply Specialist is really nice for long games like this :D

Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed it! Tournaments last until everyone bar one player loses, in a 128 player format it makes 7 games the absolute max (2^7=128). Usually tops out at 6 because it's rare for everyone to be able to play every game. We play them back to back to back but editing and uploading takes me a bit of time.

Thanks, appreciate the kind words as always!

Love finding the gaps in our opponent's tech choices and exploiting them for our nefarious path to victory!

Just living the good life, enjoying the sun, seeing family and preparing for Shadows of the Erdtree :D

Thanks Jesse! Yeah, really think he should've sold the boat after two rounds of it getting popped like an experience piñata by our Phoenixes.

Haha thanks, it wasn't quite the right word for the moment though on reflection which is what editing DRN was poking fun at :D

Thanks, it's good to be back and cracking on once more I've missed making these!

Hahahaha, I'm so sorry for that one! Editing DRN was mortified when we saw we'd let that one slip through the cracks without correcting it in post! For some reason we had a shared psychosis and didn't fact check it in the moment :D

Thanks dude! Doing my best, needed a little time to sort some things out. If I'd planned it better I should've spaced some videos out in the gap but we live and learn. Hope you're doing well yourself!

Believe me I felt the lure of the Typhoons too! I don't think they counter Overlords really unless you're confident your opponent isn't running Armor on them or their Wraiths otherwise it's too easy to get them stuck on the beefy targets and the Overlord easily out DPSes them. Could've been a good choice as extra chaff clear but I was worried about getting caught flat footed and out ranged by big scary Arclights that hit a bit too hard for the Typhoons to tank. Think Wasps were the correct choice Round 3 in hind sight, forced our Elite Spec opponent to respond to us and not get to progress their Arclight game plan for a few turns. Round 5 I'm not really sure, we were offered 4xLvl2 MM, 2xLvl2 Rhino, 1xLvl3 Typhoon and 1xLvl3 Scorpion(*edit). Our opponent is already showing Mustangs with Range, Arclights with Range, Stormcallers, an Overlord and a lot of Chaff. The Overlord and Stormcallers counter Scorpions pretty hard but are only level 1 so their DPS isn't spectacular, while the Scorpion annhilated Arclights - particularly once it gets range under it's belt. Think you could make an argument for choosing the Snipers but then we'd need more chaff clear to get them on priority targets. Think we always lose the chaff war vs massed Arclights unless we go mass Wasp but that's rough into 3x Mustangs already on the board. Always hesitant to pick anything ground based that's shorter ranged than Arclights into a threatened Arclight Carry game. Still have PTSD from the Demon Unkillable Arclights game so I probably over index on them though! :D