ALWAYS have boats in your deck on a water map!!!!

[@jakubmalinowski1474]

italys water is underrated - you need much less wood early on due to architects creating buildings either for free or reduced cost, so you have more wood for boats. on top of that you can get outposts that are great coastal defense early on. real reason lopside lost is lack of scouting - he never explored closest opponents' herds and never maintained coastal scouting. the moment lopside realised his opponent went water was definitely too late and was already uncatchable with no water cards whatsoever.

[@lionheart9015]

Yup, scouting is really easy to forget during the mid game

[@milanguche-de-sanguinesa]

Love how aztec military is composed of soldiers with super human abilities like the arrow knight or angry speedy furrys 😂

[@gabrielgray7296]

they should change the animation of arrow knights because there are records of indigenous people, throwing arrows a long distance by laying on their backs and using their feet as a propelling force, while coyotes and jags are okay, because they were the elite of the mexica empire.

[@ghus2046]

You a real one for referring to the Aztecs as the Mexica. I never knew about that spear throwing technique, I need to watch a video about it

[@Nyah420]

@@gabrielgray7296 Always for realism in a historical RTS... but how goofy would it look when ~7 or so units all lie on their back to fire? More so if they are de-synced with each other. Might look like they are doing the worm dance.

[@gabrielgray7296]

@@Nyah420 nah... they would look pretty cool, like the animation of packing and unpacking cannons, this technique was used mostly to siege building of rival tribes, so it will be much more accurate than super human archers that can throw arrows that far.

[@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana]

That is such a long time to not go for a completely safe TP route with Stagecoach potential 😱. Also, letting the opponent keep a Stagecoach TP for so long, while being able to pressure it without endangering your army.

[@Nyah420]

16:21 I heard it as "e-girl runner knights".

[@KelleyZhang-k3w]

Can you explain why mass beats quality? I always assumed if like 2 strelets = 1 skirm or 2 steppes = 1 huss, the weaker unit mass would start to lose units (and therefore attack power) first

[@nathanshuster862]

Overkill is a factor I can think of too, but I also didn’t quite get this point

[@RadovanBTD]

I thik what he ment by that is weaker composition (counter-wise) beats better quality composition if outnumbered significantly

[@33mavboy]

if he was defending he should of maxed his towers out first thing, their value is much better than buying 5 muskets that will die anyway, even though they have more dps maybe that would of made lobsided go to age 3

[@TheREALTheRealAdam]

Extra big oof considering that Aztecs have the best water out of all the natives. Also either a replay bug or an actual glitch: around 22:00, you can see three vills just standing by an outpost, but when Lions on Italy's UI, you can see no idle vills. Were they given an order, but the pathing couldn't figure it out so they just go on strike?

[@lionheart9015]

Yeh it s bug, sometimes they just wont move even though they been ordered to do something

[@Renatoioi]

what do you think about the papal zouave unit? it has saved me a lot of times with the charged papal ability

[@lionheart9015]

Yeh its a really good all round unit, and people forget its amazing mixed in with other skirms as they have the deflect ability too

[@lopsidedfluff6495]

kinda crazy that i clean this guy like three times siege buildings and tc have entire map. I guess I should aged after the first fight I won, it's okay Italy is a s tier civ

[@jordanb722]

You let him gather though. You kicked his vils a couple times and just didn't check the water. If he didn't have water you would have come out ahead. Sieging TC was probably net negative given amount of units you lost there. Could probable have mopped his mill units, run around the base belling or killing vills instead?

[@H4NGM4NDVD]

dont get mad, get even

[@fxmorin439]

Italy S tier 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@lopsidedfluff6495]

Yeah I’m always improving my decision making that’s probably the one thing I need to work on most

[@danielmtzgreen8126]

Italy is the worst civ in the game in everygame mode except 1v1 1700+ ELO, and even then it is in the middle...

[@cryptoricardo]

I love you to bits Lion Heart, but teasing a Rissoto comeback video but putting it for paid subscribers only? Smart but it hurts

[@DakkaDakkaDakkaWaagh]

Was painful to watch lopsided not go to age3. I see it a lot from people who start aggressive age 2 . They don't think about how to age up and get thag win condition

[@insertname1837]

First one finally

[@berserker4940]

Z

[@blueeurope]

Aztecs are outrageously broken and should be nerfed to the ground.

[@xaviere.7581]

Get good kid

[@sp1d3rm0nk3y33]

they shouldn't even exist, since the whole reason why they created these stupidly strong civs were the "woke agenda" (i'm actually surprised they didn't create a non existent queer civ based solely on the Sacred Band Hoplites)

[@MrLaTots]

@@xaviere.7581 I'm usually a fervent supporter of the "git gud" style, but it's true that Aztecs have the highest WR at each elo. (Ok, Lakota is higher at 1700+)

[@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana]

They are really vulnerable to turtling 🐢, as they fall off after their major unit shipments and big buttons. The WarChief civs feel *super* rushed. Like the devs were told last minute to implement them.

[@lionheart9015]

They are defo very strong, not sure about nerfed to the ground though lol