That's so funny. The Viper has skill issues

Actual problem here, for me, seems to be that Viper atm. is not professional enough with his approach (eg. "I didnt know berbers match with gujara camels, armenians was bait etc.). You two with Hera are somewhat similar in skill, albeit different strenghts, but those kind of surprises are not something that should happen in tournaments you wanna win. That said, its more THE viper than you have been in ages

So you rank Armenians C tier on land maps saying they don't scale well, but they were your first pick in Warlords 3 Semis and you played them on a land map? 🤔 Were you planning on an infantry play like Feudal longswords and then felt like that wouldn't work so had to adapt and try playing cav for some reason? Not trying to be overly critical, but honestly just curious about your thinking. PS: I feel like Celts would be fixed completely if they had FU skirms w/ Bracer

Was hoping a video like this was in the works!

feels so noob seeing you lure 3 boars without loom or scout 11

Viper: Let's analize Warlords 3 KZbin: So the game is Warlords III: Reight of Heroes

Smh

I was rooting for you so much. You did amazing! Hoping you bring Wololo back :D

I really enjoyed hearing you talk through and analyze your games! I found it very interesting.

In the Daut Arena game, Viper is surprised at how few villagers Daut has. That's because Daut wasn't producing vills for a solid 15 minutes.

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Viper ojalá algún día vuelvas más fuerte que nunca para derrotar a Hera

When i look at your match analysis, listen to you talk strategy and stuff i always get the itch to play. Then i go and its all pleb kek

The Armenians Longswords game: just a few seconds after you concluded that the mule carts are bait, you swooped 250 resources ahead of Daut because the vills taking deer were all full of meat. Definitely not bait, significant enough eco lead for sure.

Great edit but could you please lower the level of the music next time x

you had 2 times as many farms as Hera in the last game for a very long time, but going into imperial age before the first farm upgrade???? How is that??

the perfect length video to do stretches and workout

Could have gone either way, was amazing analysis, thank you GOAT viper

Muy bien ejecutado el torneo las últimas partidas estuvieron muy bien prácticamente ganadas ,,👍 muy bueno el nivel demostrado

Hera should totally meme it up the next farm talk video

Did you see Hera's video how he handled a forward castle push by Yo as Portuguese on arena? Hera will always expand outwards and he said Yo's mistake was not to prevent his expansion earlier which would have solidified complete map control and prevented him from re-booming for his counter-attack. Hera did the exact same thing here which made me wonder, do you think that it was more the position of your 3rd forward castle which should have been used to deny map control or the fact that you built the 3rd forward castle at that time in the first place?

Arena Turks all-in: I love Khmer against turks on arena. Their ability to shit out units with their incredibly fast eco setup is so nice there imo. Even against FIMP. Problem just is that they are shit if the turk player switches approaches, your lategame is so terrible for arena

Holy effing thumbnail spoiler alert!

at the moment its just that Viper's skill gap compared to top 3-15 its very high, but also the skill gap between Hera (1) and Viper (2) its also very high, there's no match for Hera at the moment, and i dont think there will be in an short time

1:09:00 Spirit of the Law or T-West should make a video calculating if deer is actually bait or not

Great job Viper! Just need to focus more on mobility! Mobility mobility mobility. That’s why Hera has been so dominant.

14:14 😂😂😂

Whenever I see pros play Bulgarians in a tournament, they always make the same mistake but its very rare when the casters call it out, the player loses and people think the civ is bad due to poor tournament performance. THe mistake I'm referring to is being addicted to Kreposts. You can see that in late castle age, after building 5-6 kreposts, Viper ran out of stone and couldn't afford a castle. The casters were excited by the krepost rush, but its just very easy to stop with imp, a castle in a defensive spot the other person would want anyway, and 1 treb. Without a castle, you're just making generic knights, and usually stuck in early imp with konniks that you can't upgrade. Early imp bulgarians should be much better than Magyars, especially in this kind of 5 TC game where you can afford all of the upgrades. But pros always forget about making a castle and miss out on 1) Stirrups 2) Elite upgrade and 3) trebs, all of which is a killer in early imp.

I was gutted for you when he hit those bombard cannons on arena. You are right it wasn't a throw. In my experience bombard cannons walk in a line but on this occasion they decided to make a tiny triangle and Hera got a perfect shot at the right time. With that win we would have seen a game 9. Unfortunate but a great final, thanks to you both.

I do not agree with berbers being better than gurjaras. If viper played to center or did not missplay the major fight on the left he were winning every fight every time that game

Skip to 1:07:28 for Grand Final with Hera.

1:45 2 vills difference wont make you win or lose game, so maybe its like 51: 49 in game time 26:30 , its still 50:50, just 1 minute later Nicov lead by 17 villagers and score its leading bigger to 500 difference so as the times go on, Nicov should win by economic and produce more units , then secure the map and push and destroy you

You looked better then you have in ages! Glad to see it Viper, hopefully it will continue! You were really close, i think if you don't throw that Arena game it could have gone either way in the final game, regardless to that you did amazing! You made Hera bleed so that's good for your confidence forward! Keep working hard G.O.A.T! Grinding the 1's ladder really paid of this tournament i think!

gg

57:30 You could have used the counter to eagles instead of cavaliers.

Amazing content. Love thinking trough these strategies and weighing the pro's and con's. If Arena/Armenians went different you would've won this final.

Farming eco is a duble counting in the total RES collected, in early game the one that use the wild animal has more real avaible resouces but the total res collected are lower compared to cut down tree and use that to generate food (since the wood from tree in counted in res collected, even if is not actually used). Is a bait indicator in early game (one nice things that they can do is actually remouve wood use for farm in the res coll)

We need a 2nd place cup. Hera is unbeatable now

Staying sharp in your 30s = eating healthy and being physically active. Glad you have started to apply this, really showed this tournament!

Seems like you underestimated the power of cav - hussars in arena, cav archers in sacred springs, scouts on alpine. Lack of mobility played a big role on the losses.

nice

Watched this live and loved to hear your thoughts and compare it to your thoughts at the time you were playing. Hope you keep doing this for future tournaments!

Conscriptipn for fun is best conscription

This is very similar to the arabia civ teir list. A and S teir are basically the same

I know its not remembered by you younger ones but if you played this game with siege on any multiplayer game back when it was released you were kicked from the lobby or game lmao. Seriously no siege was allowed for the same reason HOANG plays EVERYTIME.

Without having the stream context, having the video just start with Viper raging on Ganji is hilarious

Wait so the tutorial plays differently than the rest of the game? If its case isn't that some sort of scam? No? Why not just port aoe1 into mobile with UI and mechanics made to fit the mobile playstyle why go through the hussle of whatever this is

I'm dying for someone to make an updated Nomad tierlist. As far as I know no one made one since the great nomad rebalancing. Where they took away all the pre- first TC buffs, that spanish, persians and malians had.

Love Viper but some opinions only apply to top tier players, that are such a small part of the community. Some cheap tech or unique unit can change this all on lower elo. So I would disagree on celts, chinese, berbers, cumans, spanish, tatars, vietnamese, burmese. Check the global stats, chinese have one of the lower win rate and celts are much higher. Most games end in castle age and the imp blacksmith upgrades makes a difference for a small fraction of the games at all levels.

This campaign is honestly poetic