Can Kanbei Defeat His Sensei?

[@octosage2861]

At a Snap of Sensei's fingers, retirement homes across yellow comet empty at a rapid rate, the silver horde advancing upon the battlefield grumbling about "how things were harder back in the day" or "these young'uns don't know how to hold a rifle right" meanwhile in the skies above, the buzzing of rotors above drones menacingly weapons primed.

[@evanlee1423]

Yes.

[@theedwardian]

That's why they're not at full health? They're elderly? That's hilarious.

[@superplushtiman7ti075]

@@theedwardian given the theory that Sensei is one of the COs from Super Famicom Wars, it is suggesting that the infantry and mechs are retired veterans

[@Blizz3112]

Sensei: "Back in MY day, my cities actually deployed helicopters" Andy: "See? See? They DO deploy on cities!" Sami: "..."

[@DS-tv2fi]

And people keep telling me to learn what airports are.

[@JJSSBU]

Hachi: How about Megatanks?

[@royalghost4914]

Best comment lmao

[@sturmstorm3714]

@@royalghost4914 what person would you would kill from the wars world *key word person no alien's or robots

[@sturmstorm3714]

I would kill ...............Koal

[@NCHProductions]

at mang's snap of his infinity gauntlet, he DOUBLES the population of infantry. "perfectly balanced as all things should be"

[@DarkenedAuras7653]

Oh hey, didn't expect to see you here.

[@A-Warthog-cc1wm]

wait, why are you here?

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

"Reality can be whatever I want..." * it's raining men plays *

[@grimrapper5202]

You can call it "Infinity Infantry Gauntlet"

[@windwindy5356]

I didn’t know you watch AW too :). Oh btw, make more red alert contents please

[@TheYoutubaki]

This dude is single handedly boosting the series and the fanbase so much not gonna lie Edit: Wow this blew up I was half asleep during a 44°C heat wave in the bus when I wrote this lol

[@deletedTestimony]

Kinda makes me want to upload AW gameplay too.

[@SonicFanDU]

Gets me more hyped for the Switch remake, even if it’s full priced!

[@arrowb.8438]

AND I WELCOME IT WITH OPEN ARMS! FR, this game deserves so much more fun.

[@papastalin4545]

Mangs when seeing Nintendo's promo for Advance Wars: "fine, I'll do it myself"

[@Alexandre-du1re]

I started to play advance wars by web because of him

[@KimeruDerHund]

Oh no, it's me 11:22 It's not only one point of mov, I should have put the inf that just capped in the APC the next turn and the "free" one to cap the next property >early tank Yeah, I didn't realize how bad that was..... >APC use I kneel mango-sama, I will change my mov wasting ways Honestly, thank you, I'm pretty bad at realizing my mistakes and as a kanbei main~ I thought I might have some particular mistakes based on that, but no, it was mostly beginner's mistakes

[@Nitosa]

Early tank's aren't bad, but the match up and build order/reaction are critical for a game. Building a early tank is bad for sensei, but for most other CO is alright. Pumping anti air is great for fighting sensei, but is overkill for other CO's. And then there's Kanbei, transports are not bad, unusual? Yes, because they have to work really hard to make it worth it compared to normal price.

[@Nitosa]

Match ups completely change how you play and if you don't change with it you will lose. Know your CO what are they're strengths and weaknesses. And same with the enemy what are they gonna do the most. example: jess is most likely gonna go with a early recon/tank most of the time. You can predict it and build a tank too. But what if she didn't do it well you than got a early tank use it. Same with eagle if he got a airport he's gonna spam b copters.

[@tobygreenwood5036]

Hey, you did better than I would have done, gg

[@keatonsanborn1430]

There was also a property at the top you never captured either. Don't know if that would have changed the outcome, but that was an easy 1000 a day you were missing out on.

[@bigloulou29]

props to you man

[@Green13Gaming]

Colin: My money is our resource Sensei: your life is my resource

[@LeviathanRX]

Some of you may die, but that is a risk I'm willing to take.

[@JoononoARCHIDES]

Banzaiii go brrrr

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

"I have an army." "We have a wallet."

[@argokarrus2731]

Sensei is an Imperial Guard General confirmed

[@dagdamor1]

Sensei Day 1: Hmm I suppose I’d better head out. Sensei Day 10: *TENNO HEIKA BANZAIII*

[@rensten4893]

Osu!

[@grimrapper5202]

All of sensei's unit: BANZAIIII

[@MenwithHill]

BANZAI BANZAI BANZAI

[@ERuleAmirul]

Although the "emperor" here is Kanbei tho

[@koshi6505]

Sensei's truly unique power is charging future powers with the power he just used.

[@windwindy5356]

Which is kinda insane if you ask me. He literally have infinite units, even strum meteor wouldn’t do anything as killing sensei’s infantries just results in more infantries

[@KingUnKaged]

I think the most unfair thing about Copter Command is that the infantry that you spawn with it also contribute to it recharging as they're destroyed. It seems like by the second time you use it you've basically set up an infinite loop.

[@blahmaster6k]

Keep in mind that powers get 20% more expensive each time you use them, so it's not quite as bad as it seems. Using your COP instead of the SCOP as sensei has the trade-off of making your meter charge slower quicker.

[@soulhoney1227]

@@blahmaster6k who would win hachi or sensei

[@blahmaster6k]

@@soulhoney1227 depends on the map. The bigger it is the more advantage Sensei gets in unit count. The smaller it is, the more hachi's half price power and 5 star scop can make a difference. Hachi and Colin can easily build fighters which shut down copters easily. Also, the cost effective counter to mech spam and battle copters is artillery and infantry backed up by fighters, which hachi is very good at doing. Mechs can't get in range of artillery without eating a free shot so they just get completely zoned.

[@bienhy5120]

@@blahmaster6k sensei infantry is strong to deal massive damage to your meatshield and artillery, mech isn’t really needed to deal with artillery

[@windwindy5356]

Hmm is the increase cost a thing for all AW games? Because I’m pretty sure it’s not the case for dual strike because I can just keep Olaf spamming snow almost every 2 turns

[@ajjax1917]

When you load an infantry into an APC, you are using the infantry's action, not the APC's. This is why you can load up an infantry, move the APC, and unload the infantry on the same turn...provided the APC hasn't already moved. The problem you are noticing at 40:00 is actually that the infantry is loading up *after* the APC's turn, and yet the APC still has it's action available.

[@assault410]

Mangs: "Whats an APC?"

[@orangejuice3235]

the way it works in awbw, you can unload your transports whenever, as long as it's on the right terrain. you can move an apc up to drop off an infantry, leave it in range of an unwaited infantry, then use that infantry to load into the waited apc and immediately unload. this makes it so you can get the full utility out of an apc, while getting +1 move on other unit's turns as well. was a bug, but the devs kept it as a feature because the players liked it. it may not be faithful to the original games, but if you ask me, i think i agree with the decision. i feel like it's actually more intuitive for beginners this way anyways.

[@ajjax1917]

@@orangejuice3235 If every unit worked like this, i could accept it, but the way it is, it's just inconsistent. Other units are told to wait or attack, you can't come back after moving a second unit and tell the first one to attack. Inconsistent game mechanics is #1 on my list of "bad game design." I don't see how it could possibly be called intuitive when this interaction only works with transports.

[@NicoTheCinderace]

@@assault410 AI: "APCs BAD!"

[@orangejuice3235]

@@ajjax1917 I get where you’re coming from, and I guess intuitive wasn’t the right word. But I think that this argument is a little bit of a mess, because transports don’t behave the same as other units in the first place :P I personally think that transports acting differently than other units is excusable, because the purpose of transports is already completely different from every other unit in the game. If you exclude how other units behave, what reason would sitting in place and dropping off an infantry completely immobilize the transport for the rest of the turn? If your argument is that it’s an inconsistent mechanic, then aren’t transports themselves inconsistent, being the only units in the game that are completely unable to attack? I’ll admit that I don’t know the first thing about game design, but I feel like exceptions should be made in the cases of game balance and player convenience. The ability to unload units whenever you want allows you to be more flexible with how you use transports, and more lenient if you made a mistake. Say, you accidentally load a wrong unit into a waited lander. In the official games, you’d have to spend the next turn on both the loaded unit and the transport to unload it.

[@ShadowOfCicero]

According to my calculations, if you spend all your money every turn, and if cities make up at least 56% of your properties, Copter Command outperforms Gold Rush in raw gold. At 70%, it even makes up for Colin's discount on that turn. And that gold is immediately invested in Sensei infantry, ready to move, some already on the front lines. Oh, and your battle copters get a boost. It's official: Copter Command is the best two-star power in the game.

[@Nitosa]

Yea the only ''downside'' is the map which is almost not a problem since there's at least some 6~more property's ar in every map.

[@Nitosa]

And then even that is nullified when you take sensei's 40% stronger infantry and yea...

[@_Bjornfot]

No Colin player spends all their gold evey turn, though. I'm not an AW expert or Colin player but I imagine you want to save up a lot of money before Gold Rush.

[@ShadowOfCicero]

@@_Bjornfot True, but I was theory-crafting with Mangs in mind who almost always insists on spending every penny. I hope he realizes this detail when he plays the Advance Wars R campaign (especially because Power of Money scales to saving habits instead of raw gold). How much would you say you'd defer spending as Colin?

[@leoneldiaz78]

In slower games maybe sitting on a days worth of money before a good rush is best (build just infantry) so you can have most of two days worth of money to multiply.

[@nin10doadict]

This does make Sensei look exceptionally powerful, but to really belong in S rank then we need to see him standing against Sturm or Hachi... That would be a fun match to see. Sensei might be one of the better picks against Sturm actually because Sensei's powers can give him so many units to help mitigate Meteor Strike when it happens

[@BusterBeachside]

Heeey, I recognize that name. :) Seems we are both also Advance Wars fans along with Panel de Pon!

[@SpeakUltimateTruth]

In Advance Wars By Web, Sturm is nerfed to hell. Instead of his +20%/+20% in AW2, he is nerfed to -20%/+20%, reducing his firepower a flat 40%. He is actually one of the worse top-tier COs

[@sebastianlucas704]

@@SpeakUltimateTruth Ya, he's only top tier, by virtue of dominating the tiers below him. In top though, he sucks.

[@RobinDJoker]

@Very Sad Only because AWBW Sturm is just AW1 Sturm instead of his broken AW2 version

[@grimrapper5202]

AWBW Sturm or AW2 Sturm? Depending on the answer can change the context

[@Ricardo_Rick]

As Colin it's easy to win vs Sensei: you just need to build about 13 rockets and shoot at anything that dares to move, the rest of your money is to be used on anti-air

[@Green13Gaming]

you think sensei values lives of mere infantry, he will ram them through to get to the rockets

[@Green13Gaming]

also heli's will make room for mechs to attack antiair

[@Ricardo_Rick]

@@Green13Gaming that's why anti air exists, with collin it would be wiser to capture more cities but advance slowly so that your units are never too far away and can attack together

[@stevengu1253]

I don't think the rockets would work well against a sea of fodder. Just build standard Anti-air. You're better off that way.

[@Ricardo_Rick]

@@stevengu1253 but as a matter of space, ther is only so much vehicles that you can put in the frontline at a time, but missiles can attack safely and from a distance

[@HanakkoLove]

"A" rank matches are always chaotic and fun, looking foward to seeing kanbei take 0 damage while Sensei spams mechs

[@Ywthg5w6gwvyw]

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[@salamence6828]

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[@kingarthur3236]

All I got to say about Sensei is what are you going to do when like 15 9hp infantry march towards you at once as soon as they get two stars And then if you somehow do kill them all that generates enough power for another 15 infantry to spawn Honestly this guy is like the definition of Soviet Union memes where every time you kill their infantry they just get replaced by more

[@FireBurn256]

Funny, a meme in russian part of net about the war with chinese with the same meaning is quite popular. "We have killed that bastard five times already!"

[@Ricardo_Rick]

@@FireBurn256 Jesus Christ in a nutshell XD

[@grimrapper5202]

"They can't hit all of us" quote that match Sensei power

[@aprinnyonbreak1290]

Sami, Colin, and Sensei: What is the value of a human life?

[@jimjamauto]

"The death of one is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic." - Sensei, probably

[@VioletteZero]

What a lot of people don't get is that Sensei isn't just limited to infantry and copters. His tanks and artillery, in spite of being nerfed, are incredibly scary because of his insane ability to build up infantry support. His b-copters absolutely wreck enemy b-copters, meaning sensei doesn't have to invest much into anti-air. Meanwhile his tanks will absolutely shred enemy anti-air.

[@Paulunatr]

Sensei should avoid tanks, but because he builds so much cheap crap building mediums and neos is not unreasonable, especially if he doesn't have access to an airport and is near unit cap. 10% firepower penalty matters a lot less on a unit that's punching down. Artillery base damage is already so high that basically punches down on everything it can hit, so the same applies.

[@squiddler7731]

It just occurred to me that Sensei's power is even more broken because if the enemy manages to wipe out your first wave of troops, that just gives you free meter to send out another one. With enough properties it's literally impossible to fight against cause killing the units just refunds the meter that Sensei spent to spawn them

[@stevengu1253]

Yeah...I think you probably want Sasha to shut down Sensei.

[@orangejuice3235]

​@@stevengu1253 not even. sensei cop is too cheap for sasha cop to really matter in short and long-term.

[@stevengu1253]

@@orangejuice3235 God...guess we're better off using Hachi or something...

[@soulhoney1227]

@@stevengu1253 can hashi discounr save us

[@evanseifert8858]

Co power cost increases every time it's used, so you could eventually power through... ...Then again, that's assuming you can survive the onslaught.

[@thebard9459]

Sensei has the battle doctrine of having more bodies than the enemy has bullets.

[@RobinDJoker]

Works every time

[@portalguy2246]

Sounds like Colin as well

[@Freedmoon44]

@@portalguy2246 Colin is the one that buys all the bullets

[@Jhonny990]

Kimeru is 'to choose' in Japanese. El Perro is 'the dog' in Spanish. He's 'choose the dog'.

[@FinetalPies]

Hm, potential translation: I think dogs should vote

[@DS-tv2fi]

“If you can choose between an airport and a property, why not go for the property first.” Never change, Mangs.

[@Nitosa]

19:27 ''dealt 7 dmg'' did 6 dmg, mangs never change.

[@mauricesteel4995]

The scary thing about Kanbei is thay his infantry are probably stronger than Sensei's. Truly Yamamoto disciple.

[@Loneadmin]

They are not sensei has stronger infantry mech & battle copter but not by much.

[@TheSniperpal]

@@Loneadmin sensei only gets firepower boosts. Kanbei has almost as much firepower but also a huge defensive advantage. In most situations kanbei will beat sensei head on. the issue is senseis insane mech spam vs Kanbeis low unit count

[@morganfitch8325]

Sensei is literally just reverse Thanos, instead of wiping out 50% of all life, he doubles all life and then proceeds to beat you to death with their helmets while they're still wearing them.

[@dagan8536]

Winning with a -23 kill to death ratio, just some Sensei things.

[@yoloman3607]

You can't win a value war against literally free units. Killing them gets you zero economy.

[@blahmaster6k]

@@yoloman3607 killing them actively charges sensei's meter again lol

[@KimeruDerHund]

@@yoloman3607 Actually I destroyed around 30k more value than I lost, sadly it's not visible anymore

[@dpsiduck7832]

We call that transport boost where you unload after a wait the "transport glitch". It's been around forever, and started as a true oversight by the devs many, many years ago. For whatever reason they didn't patch it when they found out about it, and now it's been ingrained into our culture so deeply that seasoned players will defend it. Transport glitch makes transports more viable in openings, since you can unload and boost other units by 1 square in the same turn. It's a really fun tech once you start looking for how to use it.

[@rokuronzoni6274]

I don't fully understand what this glitch is. Heard about it from mangs videos, but don't understand what the glitch is.

[@dpsiduck7832]

@@rokuronzoni6274 In the games you can only unload during a move action, so since you only get one move per unit, a transport only gets one unload per turn. In AWBW you can unload without making a move, so after or before a move you can unload. That means you can load/unload up to 8 times in a day.

[@rokuronzoni6274]

@@dpsiduck7832 thanks for the explanation.

[@TheGameMasher]

I remember when I was just a young lad that really liked advance wars… I… was the unironic Sturm main of my friend group. Yes, I seriously thought the lack of a normal power made up for him just being broken. Don’t worry, my friends and I later moved on to Smash Bros Brawl, where I proceeded to main Meta Knight. How the fuck did I even have friends to play these games with 🤔

[@olie567]

at least it wasnt icies!

[@FlyingSagittarius]

@@olie567 Personally, I don’t think Ice Climbers are that annoying in a casual match. They’re really only broken due to their insane grab game, which requires a lot more skill to pull off. Not saying that Meta Knight is an easy win with zero skill, but it’s a lot easier to spam special moves all day.

[@olie567]

@@FlyingSagittarius key word here being casual

[@memes_the_dna_of_the_soul5487]

@@FlyingSagittarius So what you're saying is just. "Don't get grabbed."?

[@Tangers3345]

Im just staring at how tiny Sensei's power bar is and screaming "why!?" Lol wtf is the reason for his power being so cheap, especially when it completely refills after one turn of your opponent trying to kill them

[@danmiy12]

He was meant to be a veteran co who never lost a match. He isnt meant to be balanced as hes basically either A or S tier with no weaknesses with only cos in the high A tier like Colin or S tier like aw2 sturm or hachi giving him trouble. And he doesnt even fall apart in low city games cause his infintry has immense firepower that you cannot trade even with him. He will almost always hit the unit cap before you kill his last infintry and he can combine them for cash too.

[@Tangers3345]

@@danmiy12 I guess I figured that aside from the unlockable CO's, they were all supposed to be evenly matched and any tier system was a result of a game design fail

[@grimrapper5202]

@@Tangers3345 You csn use Colin and Sensei on Versus & War Room after you beat the Factory Mission on their respective Nation?

[@gigaus0]

Because he's meant to be countered on maps with fewer properties, more bases, and that have access to meaningful sea units. The majority of matches on BW are land only, with few bases and a fk ton of cities. He's not meant for maps like this, and the devs built around that. Players didn't XD

[@LavaCaptain-yf6iu]

It’s his Senior Discount

[@Fedra3443]

For some reason that I don't know, I just love your opponent's name. "Kimeru The Dog"

[@robotsturm6488]

because the word "the dog" sounds funny in spanish

[@Fedra3443]

@@robotsturm6488 I mean, at least here (Chile), it can be used as an insult, or like "bro", or the animal

[@robotsturm6488]

@@Fedra3443 Im chilean and it's a funny word like perro qliao or this guy is pro

[@Fedra3443]

@@robotsturm6488 in that case... weeeena qlo, saludos de Conce xD

[@robotsturm6488]

@@Fedra3443 haha. saludos de santiago. juguemos algun dia

[@stevengu1253]

Yes, Sensei is disgusting but Kanbei could've given him a run for his money if he built the right units: recon, tons of infantry, and tons of anti-air. Instead, he built tanks (like what?) and useless rockets. That's a lot of money wasted. If your field is full of anti-air, Sensei will have a much harder time trying to defeat you since his Mechs are slow and his main mobility of transport copters are weak to anti-air.

[@MarcoTalin12]

tbf, if he had solely built Anti-Air instead of his Tanks and long range units, this could've turned out differently. You would've needed to build more mechs to counter it, and as Sensei you can do that more easily than other COs, but he would've at least been able to last longer.

[@grimrapper5202]

That's also why IMO Sensei isn't really S rank, the highest A ranks among others sure but with Hachi spamming recon and AA with Bcopter for the Sensei's Transport unit? Esp. with 50% disc. price on every city? That kinda stops the Sensei's wave (ofc with the 5 stars price comparing with 2 stars of inf. spam, but still doable IMO)

[@meatandtaders5512]

@@grimrapper5202 I would argue Sensei is S rank. The simple fact that we are theorizing between Sensei and Hachi and the match still isn't clear cut demonstrates the power of fodder spam. I will add that Hachi is certainly stronger, but I think bottom of S rank is fair for Sensei when your only competitions is other S rank COs.

[@gigaus0]

Arguably, he could have spammed recons along side the AA, and it would have been about as effective. FS recon handles the mechs, the AA handles everything else. But, to pull that off, you need to trade infantry, which is needed to stifle his prop gap.

[@spider3944]

These videos are awesome! After playing this game pretty much by myself for 15 years it's finally nice to see what the meta looks like in a multiplayer match!

[@theblackantonio]

Kanbei: *breathes* Mangs: This is a mistake, he shoulda built an anti-air

[@holden3808]

He really should have though, I've been playing Sensei lately and I have to say spamming anti-air is really just the best thing to do. Sure, a tank here and there can work, but mostly you want anti-airs not tanks or rockets or whatever.

[@theblackantonio]

@@holden3808 you definitely want anti airs up the wazoo when playing against an infantry and copter CO 😂

[@Freedmoon44]

​@@theblackantonio and hope you play your positionning well to prevent the "surprise" mech spam from Sensei

[@HanakkoLove]

SONJA MY DAUGHTER! SENSEI HAS GONE SENILE AND IS SWARMING ME WITH A SEA OF INFANTRY I THINK THIS IS THE END FOR ME

[@soulhoney1227]

Sonja: what did you do father to upset the legendary sensei

[@grimrapper5202]

Sensei: Your missing sock won't save you know, c'mere you wannabe emperor!!!

[@aprinnyonbreak1290]

Ahoy, Sonjboy me bob. Sensei is trying to kill me because I made an old person joke. Every breath I take fills my lungs with copter blades, and every step is farther into armed resistance, ackackackackack.

[@soulhoney1227]

@@aprinnyonbreak1290 sonja: father you're impossible

[@grimrapper5202]

@@aprinnyonbreak1290 Mr. Crab-ei Ackackackackack

[@appelofdoom8211]

Genuinely looking forward to that sensei vs hachi match.

[@SagaciousSilence]

I absolutely LOVE these AWBW replay matches with your commentary. Very entertaining and educational.

[@Asmodean1111]

Turn 1 going for that City leads into that unit alone having a chain of caps letting other units push to the center if you can to force some fights for contested caps. Least that's my view on it.

[@dawdawdo]

Exactly right. Since there are no non-cap moves, it's actually best to start with the backwards city. After the same number of turns, your infantry is more advanced.

[@daddysempaichan]

In other words, less idle time the Infantry is spending not capping a property.

[@arcturus64]

Panzergraf noted that Mangs is really good at using his transport to ferry infantries and mechs around in their games. Guess this game shows that.

[@SomeFreakingCactus]

Also explains why he likes Adder so much.

[@The_Rising_Tempest_Emilia]

When facing Sensei and he wants an higher unit cap, let him. Screw winning! Lets see what number of units he'll reach.

[@DustD.Reaper]

Imagine how insane a 4-man free for all between 4 Senseis with a higher unit cap would look like.

[@UltimaDoombotMK1]

@@DustD.Reaper Actually, you should still say no to that. You don't want the AWBW servers spontaneously combusting, now, do you?

[@DustD.Reaper]

@@UltimaDoombotMK1 thats why I said imagine it because nothing would be able to handle 300+ infantry and mechs and over 50 battlecopters with the remaining slots being filled with transports.

[@stevengu1253]

I don't mind. Sounds fun.

[@hadoukenfighter]

@@DustD.Reaper >4 man free for all the site you can have 16 man free for all's so imagine that, but with 16 sensei's

[@RanEncounter]

@ 19:27 another glorious mangsmath moment. Great video!

[@MarioAdNoman]

Its been 2 years, I only mentioned Advance wars to my friend while on the gym while going down memory line, I never even got to complete the campaign as a kid, I'm binge watching this entire man's youtube carreer

[@dragmire3D]

Imagine trying to play Sensei with a 30 second turn limit. Actually, that might be fun to see!

[@garagavia]

I have always found Sensei to be very strong, however this map is also very good for him. A lot of cities and an early airport is basically perfect for him. On maps like these, I would say he is S tier for sure

[@robertobrosful]

I started playing Advance Wars by Web because of these videos alone. And I won against a Sturm with a Rachel without COP or SCOP by either of us and it felt AWESOME.

[@deletedTestimony]

Thanos: I use Super CO power, halve the population Sensei with his own SCOP ready: lol

[@legend6315]

Sensei: Half like a peasant I wipe them all out

[@jeremymore451]

Sensei's gameplan here reminds me of playing Ryota in Wargroove, but the payoff is strategically different of course! When playing Ryota your plan is to suddenly change the the map into a glorified checker board and hop as many guys as possible hahaha!

[@mauricesteel4995]

I think Ryota chains are the funniest thing that can happen in Wargroove.

[@BirdRaiserE]

I once defeated Sensie as Sami with a victory march and a mega tank. The unit cap came to my aid.

[@picallo1]

I use Sami against Colin to destroy his income, but even Sami vs Sensei is rough because his infantry units are stronger than hers and his super power just instantly spawns ready to go units. Thats hard to stop.

[@picallo1]

@@TheMistermastermario Agreed. I think the best way to fight Sensei with Sami would be to counter infantry and Mech spam then back em up with some artillery, of course with AA as necessary. I think its a bad matchup actually Sami just doesnt have enough ability to match up with Sensei.

[@stevengu1253]

@@picallo1 Yeah...you probably need Hachi to counter that disgusting super power...or Colin with tons of anti-air. Or you can try Sasha and just attempt to stop Sensei from getting too much power.

[@picallo1]

@@stevengu1253 Yea my first thought was Colin as well. His basic super would allow you to just keep spamming units as needed or Hachi to do the same but from cities. The problem is Copter Command is two stars...........thats INSANE, who thought that would be even kinda balanced??

[@stevengu1253]

@@picallo1 Yeah...Sensei is broken as heck. If I'm using Hachi, I'd literally have to build Anti-air on each city to counter his mech spam.

[@surehit2496]

If any1 say Colin is the Fodder units machine, show them Sensei.

[@QuantemDeconstructor]

Colin is the "Early [strong unit here]" CO, rather annoying

[@ShadowOfCicero]

We all know he's the best naval CO because two words: twenty-two four.

[@overlordto176]

I was playing advance wars by web recently and this is good fun. You feel so big brain when you win the matches and i hope that the remake has good online as well. Good match between two top tier COs. Also watching all those mechs and infantry is giving me ptsd to my match against hachi.

[@AtillaTheFun1337]

The Gold Comet Zerg Rush! Glad to see a fellow Starcraft player

[@CLSharpman5000]

Ah, never forget, as simple as some of these videos are, they do wonders for someone, somewhere, goin' through somethin'. Don't forget this. Thank you, Mangs.

[@MrCDM6]

At 6:20 I think the rationale behind that infantry move was probably more that he didn't really need the airport right away. Like Mangs said, Kanbei definitely can't afford to be pumping out a bunch of aircraft by turn 4. But moving the infantry the way he did let him get the property in the back, then the next turn jump straight into capping the airport so it's constantly doing something. Meanwhile, if he'd taken the airport first, he'd have to send an infantry back to that city after, then have it just walking for 2 turns before it could reach another city. It was a smart little bit of optimization... that turned out to be kinda pointless if he was going to build an APC on turn 4 anyway.

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

You know what the most broken thing about Sensei's power is? Killing the infantry it spawns charges his meter back up.

[@drhelpmeplease4372]

Sensei is like the imperial guard from 40k just drown the enemy in soldiers, clog the tanks with your dead

[@Exozealots]

Kanbei: Nooo Sensei! Not the belt! Sensei: I would teach you some manners boi. *Grabs holds of Kenbai and hits him with the belt of discipline.*

[@AndrooTheNerd]

36:56 Not the Zergling rush reference. I ABSOLUTELY felt this after you popped the second Copter Command. XD

[@AADP]

6:17 he went for the city to capture in order and save moves for other units, since he is Kanbey, he need to make his move as efficient as he can (even if he spend the money in useless things later on)

[@markjoke3069]

Mangs im addicted to your AW videos keep up the good good content

[@Ovnidemon]

Just want to point out at the start of the video why capturing the building was better than the airport: movement opimization: by capturing the building first, he didn't need to return there (2 turn to capture town + 2 turn to capture airport); in opposite if he captured the airport first, he will need after to go up to capture the town, then lose a turn to return near the airport (2 turn to capture town + 2 turn to capture airport + 1 turn of movement). Same thing even if he use another unit: it will lose 1 turn to reach the airport after capture. It's only useful to capture the airport first if you plan to build a air unit very early.

[@minhtama7334]

I guess the only way to deal with Sensei is setting up units and transports, heading for HQ cap while defending your HQ. Since its imposible for routing (the more damage you deal to Sensei, the more stars he get). Maybe Hachi can achieve Routing win if he can buy enough units to counter push, capture property along the way. In fact, clear as few infantry as possible as Sensei reached his cap, so that he cant build unit to counter your HQ cap-unit escorts

[@_Bjornfot]

Sensei can just delete his units to make room, right?

[@Kantbei]

This is kind of dependent on the map. Large maps with many cities can be a nightmare to fight into vs sensei, smaller maps it's possible to choke him out of the map. Very important for kanbei to contest his cities early on and prevent senseis critical mass of cities. Playing agaisnt sensei is similar to fighting hachi in that regard. But yeah if there's a large amount of uncontested cities, sensei becomes a nightmare. Especially if they turn off unit cap. In the late game its possible to win with just a better army as sensei falls off, but that assumes you survive him.

[@minhtama7334]

If there’s ever a time that I let Sensei player turn off unit cap, it will only be when I get to choose pre-deployed map with few (almost non-existing) cities. Can’t let him single-handedly cause overpopulation.

[@leewolffe7050]

Hey Mangs, really liking those videos! I have noticed something over the past few games, namely that there would have been the possibility of some early HQ rushes. I know that early HQ rushes are not the most exciting kind of content, but maybe a compilation of HQ rushes with non HQ-Rush CO's (Sami, Sensei etc.) just to show how dangerous it can be when you get hit unprepared?

[@YaGirlJuniper]

22:57 I've used APCs to bodyblock before, and while it is effective in the short-term, in the long term you REALLY feel that lack of presence from having no guys with guns on the frontline. Suddenly they have all these tanks, and they might find the APCs annoying, but they'll whittle them down eventually, and once they do, you can't be that aggro with your APCs because they're gonna die. One of the biggest advantages APCs have is that they don't get oneshot by anything below a Medium Tank and can repair and refuel in cities, whereas T-copters have better movement, but they don't benefit from terrain, can't hide in forests, have picky repair and refueling requirements, and get obliterated by B-copters and AA in a single hit. APCs are better if you're expecting to drop really close to the fighting, but APCs should almost never be used to bodyblock unless your infantry are already at the frontline and you __reeeeeally__ need something to not get shot or capped, i.e. you're capping the HQ, or Sami is about to get her Super. Day to day, it's better to run home and get more guys to the front so they can cap and bodyblock, rather than block and be useless for a turn or two while the opponent goes and gets a tank or a copter cuz you left em no choice.

[@grifknotwell6696]

I physically cheered when i saw another online game from you! I love these man keep it up!

[@OwlOwlington]

I love these PVP games. It feels like it has potential to become a long term pillar of the channel, with Mangs excellent post game commentary of course : D

[@gigaus0]

I want to add on point, and then let this be. Around the time you were close to getting your first power, you arguably should have built more T coppers, and positioned them near the center. Several of those units are not going to be fast enough to join the two front lines, and you could have opened up a third front by having two or three Ts dropping units over the sea and onto their doorstep. Even if infantry gets lost, that's likely stuffed any push forward to hold the front line. Biggest thing with Sensei is appearing where you absolutely shouldn't be as another CO.

[@leSmokySmoke]

amazing! thank you so much for this. it was so fun to see sensei in action! I actually like thos CO's with a special gimmik and playstyle.. even though they are op ^^ please give us a grit game at some point where you play him, or at least against a good one :)

[@mauriciomanassero4502]

That APC tips is really good! i didn't think of it :D

[@AlvarO1396]

Hey mangs, really good video as always, I hope I can get to play like that someday. I'm enjoying these commentary videos a lot, and in fact it's what made me try out the game for myself. And in fact, again, I just beat the map where Olaf goes back to his hometown and I'm feeling devastated

[@HomingRocket1]

"I have more men than you have bullets." - Sensei

[@racer927]

"Incredible! Your own army overwhelmed Kanbei's Imperial Elite!" "Heh! I see you still take my old style to heart in the importance of experience." "Yes! Just like your army of old, Sensei, Kanbei's army is well trained." "Nowadays, soldiers don't understand the importance of experience and veterancy unless the apocalypse were to happen or something."

[@oskarrasmussen7137]

Sensei is basically like Operation Neptune with Hueys blasting Fortunate Son as back up.

[@lapintueur4799]

I remember the sturm IA in AW2 was afraid to attack Kanbei's medium tanks when they where on bases XD

[@RexRondo]

Sensei was always my go to when I played this as a kid, best music too.

[@Sanguine_Entertainment]

The most powerful commanders are the ones who get the most of their troops killed. It's not just war. It's Advanced War. Sensei and Colin are masters of their craft.

[@johnsanko4136]

Definitely against Sensei the Anti-Air is the gold standard unit. They crush infantry and copters, just have to try and protect them from being attacked by mechs.

[@danmiy12]

the biggest problem is he can surround your units with his infintry then bring in his mechs to 1 shot them. Sensei has no weaknesses and even if you kill all his free infintry he'll have his power again, then right when you are about to wipe his 2nd wave, in come the 3rd wave except this time its all mechs ontop his purchased units. I really now can see that hes A tier borderline S tier. Maybe even tied with colin of all cos.

[@krissjames7276]

This is great, I was actually really hoping to see AW2 Sensei in action. Gotta wonder how he'd fare against the S-Rank COs.

[@chuuster5445]

You know what's S-tier? These Advance Wars commentary by Mangs!! Like Sensei's troops, keep um coming!

[@uzernamefail]

Probably one of the less mentioned strengths of Sensei (and Colin too really) is that his power literally fuels itself, as killing the extra units he gets through his power will very likely go back into building his power bar up, which will in turn give him EVEN MORE free units.

[@hq8646]

Introducing Sensei's copter. That's 65% more copter per copter.

[@benjiiiiiiiii]

It's crazy that the most broken thing about Sensei, isn't his powers or his copters, it's his theme. It's just way too powerful!

[@soulzero22]

I giggle in my head every time he says battle copter. This episode was pure bliss.

[@zsmith8632]

FIrst you draw a circle, then you slice the STL, add a 40mm fan and presto, it's a Fume Extractor Kirby!

[@xTheGamingGhostx]

Sensei Mangs is the anti-Thanos: he doubles the population with a snap

[@Kizunaut]

I once played a 3 player FFA match with 2 of my friends and one of them went with Sensei. The only reason he did not wipe the floor with both of us completely was that it was like his 3rd game. Absolutely insane CO. We banned the broken tier COs in our games after the Sensei incident.

[@LiroRaeriyo]

i like how you dubbed it "The Sensei incident"

[@Kizunaut]

@@LiroRaeriyo we did not speak of the Sensei incident afterwards

[@velaseriat]

I kinda woke up one day and decided that Advance Wars is objectively the best game ever conceived.

[@Nick-ym4gh]

Senseis tune alone blows out the competition

[@yakuzasoy5213]

Watching all this gives me a craving for Advance Wars all of a sudden. I miss playing these games so badly.

[@kentknightofcaelin4537]

Play it then?

[@krullachief669]

Hell yeah, more match recaps.

[@jwilson14]

Map absolutely chock full of cities, with Sensei at least in control of half of them = Sensei: "I see you have chosen death."

[@ryell0913]

I scroll through youtube waiting for another of your awbw replays. Keep it up mangs!

[@doggod100]

I think the reason for going for the property over the airport on that first turn for kanbei is the movemont afterwards. Taking that property first means afterwards he can continue advacning forward while capping instead of having to go back for the property and then taking an extra turn to get to the porperty below his airport.

[@rompevuevitos222]

Defense is better just because damage also means less firepower. Defense means less damage taken and more dished out. It is an attack buff in a way

[@staniskucharski4491]

With the efficacy of the meat shield indirects while weak would be super safe with this CO. Would be interesting to test it a little to provide a strong wall in between the first 2 infantry recruitment. Plus strong air support.

[@kevindaydreamer]

Sensei's math; Half special, 15 cities, 15000 value. Full special, 15 cities, 45000 value.

[@claymenefee6999]

im currently fighting a friend. my first awbw game. im crushing because of what I have learned from this channel.

[@lagg1e]

Sensei's first Copter Command is probably the most broken thing about the whole CO. This means that on any decent map, Sensei is broken.

[@fumoffu_l]

So glad you elaborated on the APC thing. I've been replaying Advance Wars 1, and you're allowed to load and drop units on the same turn. I wasn't aware that they changed that in 2.

[@malick9549]

It's not changed on any AW game. You can Load, move/stand still, and Unload, but only if the APC didn't move or unload other infantry.

[@lienesauserde7419]

Sensei: back in my day we elderly hid in cities to defend them, hachi: back in my day we hid neo tanks in cities to defend them

[@emilythedragon]

Sensei really emphasizes the point about how infantry is the single most important unit in the game. Spawning infantry in every city seems decent on paper but in practice it's disgustingly overpowered.

[@Ragegamer2]

@Mangs 11:40 There's a weird interaction in AWBW where you can move the APC, load an Infantry, and immediately unload with an APC onto an adjacent tile. The Kanbei player didn't know this nor utilize this, but it potentially could have said infantry into capturing distance of the city east of the APC and allowed the APC to ferry the Infantry in the city that is one tile above it on the next turn. Yeah, it's an exploit and probably shouldn't be on AWBW. That's probably the only reason I could imagine moving an Infantry into a APC, Transport, Lander, or Black Boat on the turn that said loading unit moved. Edit: 40:15 I just noticed you talked about this. I agree, it needs to be fixed.

[@Hastybolt]

GIVE US ADVANCE WARS BEGGINNER GUIDE

[@Albortomagico]

That Kanbei in the thumbnail looks both scared and high

[@Nitosa]

Sensei found the sock stash.

[@Albortomagico]

@@Nitosa Kanbei forgotted where he putted his sock and this happened

[@Artemas_16]

@@Nitosa Sonja, that sock ain't shi-