"also the uhh ...guess bit of a skill difference."

Not really fair to criticize the winner of the match, but two points I noticed on Eric's part - 1) A fair amount of unnecessary charging your Irregs in the marshes with missile capable troops 2) That horde of rabble was completely wasted! Of course they're terrible at actually fighting and should overall be held in reserve, but they can zoc from open into marsh, flank threat, fend off lights, or at least be close enough to *look like* they could do those things. It was a huge quantity of points to leave off the board.

Just started watching your content and was wondering if you take challenges via KZbin? I have 1000 plus hours invested in each FoG 2 ancients and medieval :)

Am indeed curious about the mirror. Here, the mass of orcs was definitely a terrible choice, as were the massed archers. That said, the elven units are balanced as part of an exclusively elven army, where their expense ensures a very small army. As allies, the individual elven units are probably somewhat undercosted, but there was no way to reconcile the two when putting the mod together.

Yeah, Mordor-player here, this battle certainly wasn't my brightest moment :D I think I pretty much lost it from the start with my troop selection and deployment. To break it down it a bit before I watch the video (maybe I will spot more stuff afterwards): 1. My assumption was that Gondor would stay back in the forest, giving me time to develop an attack and choose the engagement...since this never happened...bad things followed. It was really unclever to think that this would play out like this. 2. Shouldn't have gone for the Mumakils or this many Orcs. They're to ineffective in this matchup. More lights and mid-tier units would be the right call imo. Also the Nazgul and maybe some cav. 3. Should have given more thought on how to counter the Elves. I approached this like a smaller battle where taking the Elves would certainly mean, I could get some flanks in (because of lacking support units), but in a battle this large, this issue was not as pronounced. I was really not expecting to see the Noldor appear and had no answer for that! 4. Should have deployed in a wider formation. (Like Rosedelio did in the mirror.) 5. I originally deployed the Mumakils and their support against the pass since I thought it would be so heavily defended that any attack was futile anyway. The idea was to swing most of them around to the main battle, while the more expensive Gondor troops would need to stay in the pass...now once I saw the Militia Spears I figured that these might be some easy points to grab and send to Mumakils after them. It kind of worked but with the rest of the battle went so badly that I doubt it was worth it. 6. Losing two generals on the Haradrim Guard and Mumakils was also a pretty big micro mistake. They did basically nothing to change this particular combat and were badly needed in other places. Anyhow, that’s all for now. May add more points later. The game was still very fun, thanks to Rosedelio! And well played of cause!

Thanks for the fun games Rosie and ggwp. Not sure about the evil Dwarves though!

I have asked a bit too much from my poor orcs!

first view I'm a real rosedeliohead

Super close match

Hey dude! Been watching your Germany games for a while now. I love how you always use War Wagons, but I have no reason why because I'm a noob. What do you like about them?

*Smashes the whole enemy left wing in one turn and just says stoically.* - Yea, guess it helps. :D

A very close battle 😊

Great game. I was curious to see this match, as most of your opponents this season were players who are clearly good, but not at your level. Nosy's been the king for going on 7 years now...

Nicely done! Though - tbh - I would have expected an even clearer victory from the Germans in this matchup. Do you think the Swiss Keil was worth it in the end?

Tough matchup for the Catalans given the terrain; their army is squishy and pew pew, and it just couldn't make much of an impression on your mass of heavies, your losses largely coming from the fringes of your army. I think harvey did well overall, but the failure to autodrop your isolated MAA was baffling, that undoubtedly cost him those two cav units for quite a few turns. I don't think that would have changed the ultimate result, but it would have been closer.

FYI title's off on this one, should be Catalan not French

bah, fucking time limit strikes again, I think you woulda had it in one turn.

Haven't the Hebrew people dealt with enough....

nice battle!

ASMR'ing me to sleep

Definitely tough for the unavoidably awful hillmen list, but a few things could have narrowed the margin. Len should have used the skirms more like javelinmen to use ammo to greatest effect, and they could have worked with the axes on the flanks to keep your wargs and skirms off, to force a more head on confrontation; shooting should have been saved for your mounted and lights, and axes are fine against most things, but not impact foot in the open; in this match they should have been saved for flank or forest work, or the points spent on more impact foot.

Nice battle! Surprising that your knights managed to punch a hole through the enemy mid; that seemed to decide the outcome.

Thanks for the balance feedback! I think Gondor/Arnor should be in a better place in 1.3

A very tight battle

I cannot be associated with you anymore

I am just so glad you aren't playing the french

nice vids

Micro yes, but also macro. I shudder to see the number of points futiley chasing after your crappy armored cavalry to your left, massive profit for you.

Oh, that was you... Ouch :D

Randy he was just a noobie :, (

How do they get the maps for these tournaments? Are they approved by the people running the tournaments?

Great example of a passive player allowing themselves to be defeated in detail!

Thanks for these, very helpful. This matchup appears to be overall balanced, or at least close enough.

At the 12:00 minute mark could you explain why you positioned the Dunleading Skirmishers to the right side.

Only real fans are here

omfg that opening general death on your elephant, clearly you have angered the fog gods

Excited to see you using this cavalry

Rare sight of you losing😮 Well, gotta take more lights next time

Hi! I've been watching some of your battles. I learned a lot about the game and like your calm voice, and you're a very consistent narrator. I would ask for one improvement, when a battle is part of a tournament, would it be possible to include that in the video title along with what stage it is? It would help to watch videos and progress through the tournament at a glance. Thanks for considering it and keep on rocking!

After taking numerous lessons (as depicted in our other videos), finally I managed to win once with competent vs competent armies.

This is how I was expecting my Ptolemaic match to go, but my opponent pulled it back fairly well, so I actually ended up scoring better as the Meroitic side. My final ranking though is about as good as you, while I'm a pretty average player, so my next match should be fun... I see you didn't bother with artillery? We both did, but I'm not sure how much it's needed. Worked out pretty well for me, made both his elephants pretty useless, he managed to frag one of mine for a couple of turns, but it still got into contact before teh end of the match anyway. I suppose pikes and stuff can cope with elephants pretty well already.

I have just recently discovered you and i have to say, your videos are really enjoyable to watch. Keep up the good work !

man first round always feels so bad

Thanks again - I will add explanations of mod-specific mechanics to the faction descriptions in 1.1 Are the Dwarves okay, or should they also have additional Light Spear Impact? It would cost 3 points.

Thanks for uploading, this sort of thing is quite helpful. Overall I was pretty pleased with how this played, but let me know if you have any balance thoughts, I am putting finishing touches on 1.1

WHY JORGITO?? Never fight uphill me boys, never fight uphill. Wow, that was a big mistake.

I did not think of disembarking near the rough to use your wagon as medium infantry - that worked nicely.

Just played this mirror against Lennard! Agreed that the horde of Scandi Foot is better than investing much in MAA. The long range shooting was an appalling waste of time and ammo; really the scandis should only be shooting in the approach at close range, esp if they have arty support, or (most importantly) when lancers/strelzy come into close range and are in the way of an advance. This isn't really limited to the Scandi Foot though - I just think Mixed Foot should (almost) never, ever shoot beyond range 2, with the sole exception of if they are supporting close fires from other units and one more shot might cause a critical check, etc etc, and it makes me sad whenever I see it happen.

I thought you were screwed with all the medium foot bearing down on you but the skillful knight micro was too satisfying.