Mass Tauren Rush - WC3 - Grubby

[@laczlowb2729]

Grubby, I couldn't help but smile as I watched those familiar landscapes and hear the iconic sounds that accompanied my countless hours of gameplay. 20 years later your videos transport me back to a time filled with excitement, camaraderie, and epic battles. your videos serves as a beautiful reminder of those unforgettable moments. Thank you for sharing your passion for Warcraft with the world. Your dedication and love for the game shine through in every frame of your videos.

[@marcberland5951]

Same for me. Think stopped playing wc3 when wow came out. Stopped that a while ago as well. Throwback to audio comments synced to replay files. Nice to watch again- will probably start playing again more myself :)

[@magsec5]

My god imma throw up

[@gasmaskguy2]

@@magsec5 if i had a dolar for everytime a profile anime pic dude tried to act cool in the comments, i would buy youtube just to ban you

[@sh3riffmc]

Same, i used to play with orcs and night elves , i watched all grubby replays and a guy i forgot his name used to play only with warden and panda

[@datuputi777]

​@@gasmaskguy2😂 says the guy with the bladerunner profile.😂

[@louxtwoslb6333]

Your hold at the first push from the hu was sick, it could have been GG here multiple times without a perfect micro. Very well played !! :)

[@pablobarberis5897]

Those tauren deaths just before the healing wave where tough

[@eqsaz]

It's weird how often grubby games have him with what feels like 3 dying peons, a grunt, and a half hp burrow vs 80 supply, then he somehow wins anyway.

[@kblkbl]

That's just Orcs in a nutshell tho. All expensive units that can't be easily/constantly replaced.

[@VBM1]

Thats because the game is alot like chess, you trade your leverage for control over your enemy. He commonly will go into fights just to distract the enemy so he can get his expansion off or destroy their gold mine, or sap the base. Its all about making their army not be where you dont want it, and if you think that the reward from making that control play is worth the loss then it doesn't matter if you lose all your troops (in the rare chance when it can he worth it)

[@LeHaoNguyen]

no rash worms anymore, rash buffaloes.

[@AkariLimano]

Buffaloes can get worms too, so you might be rashing both

[@alpha.dog.training.BC2022]

Rash cows

[@rengarrengar9417]

Rash tuarnes

[@RunninFromTheK9]

Everything shall be MASS RASHED to smack and demolish all personnel who do not far see the rash coming

[@rengarrengar9417]

@@RunninFromTheK9 Oooh that's a good one

[@johnmcmillan7554]

The amount of Only-Grubby-Can micro needed to win using this strategy indicates that this is not for majority of players…

[@bunnyfreakz]

Now you know why Tauren is low tier unit.

[@supervillainvoldemort]

@@bunnyfreakz honestly, I felt like grubby could've used fully upgraded grunts plus raiders, shamans, and demolishers and wouldve been way more easier for him. Like cheaper units and would be the same output. Plus losing a grunt to a dark ranger wouldn't be as painful as losing a tauren, and having shamans ready to dispel the ranger skelly.

[@louie8649]

when i saw the zepp come out i thought it was time for the legendary zepp micro that wins the game, but his opponent was wise to grubby's power with the zepp and focused it down

[@LightningGentleman]

If you count the amount of times that a Tauren got away with 1-5 hit points around the middle of the video... Yeah, this game was perpetually on a knife edge.

[@luckartist]

I swear watching Grubby play Orc is a blessing for decades now. I wish in some alternate reality Grubby still competed. Or just had a lot more "serious" games on youtube vs strong opponents :3

[@gyorficserka]

As many have said, the hold at your base was amazing. A display of insane micro.

[@roligayol8672]

How you hold against him is so fun to watch.

[@matiaspizarro7960]

Holy crap. That was one excellent opponent, I'm truly speechless, keep it up Grubby!!!!

[@Ultes]

"Easy" after the hold, I nearly spat my tea at monitor :D That was amazing Grubby! GG!

[@fo-ef8qo]

12:08 "easy" me: lol Grubby: "...I'm joking. it was super hard" me: LMAO

[@RedCandleWax24]

Hearing the APM ramp up on that keyboard is a key component of these gameplays. Gives a sense of tension as the difficulty increases.

[@TorSkywalker]

Wow, that micro during the first fight near your base was incredible! Interesting game, TIL that dark ranger counters tauren resurrection. GG WP

[@kevin-7091]

Firelord also

[@zachariastsampasidis8880]

​@@kevin-7091same for orb of darkness

[@rendyajadech1957]

"Go now" "I am able to help" "Pray my ancestor watch over me"

[@andrewdupere6689]

In all my years of watching grubby this might be one of the most fun to watch

[@rodripaz1737]

So good micro! Very pleasant to see, thanks for the content!

[@christopherwoodjr235]

Hey Grubby, love chilling and watching you games. This was an awesome match- I personally always loved the tauren unit and it was so cool watching them smash through those pesky rifles and priests! Also you had to really play hard to win this and it was fun watching such a close match. Great job, thank you!!

[@Narsty_Boy]

I still remember my proudest moment in warcraft 3 TFT. 4v4, I was playing undead. got the hero from the shop with the mass teleport ult (the human wizzard guy) rushed necromancers and corpse wagons. put everything into researching the necromancer summons and got the corpse wagons to generate corpses. However, while I was leveling my hero at lvl 5 my team got crushed by the 4 enemy players. All friendly forces devastated, the enemy was quickly destroying the friendly bases. But then I finally got my hero to lvl 6. I teleported into the base they were destroying. I ordered all corpse wagons to drop the corpses they were carrying, and the necromancers summoned an undead army literally so large that the entire base was grid locked. Many of the enemy forces were instantly surrounded and unable to move. They tried to fight their way through my wall of skeletons but it was too late. My numbers were just so great there was nothing they could do. After breaking the enemy team the corpse wagons made quick work of their base defenses and they surrendered the game.

[@heffalump111]

I'd love a transcript of everything Grubby says, his strategic and tactical insights are that useful! Granted, I'd love that for many KZbinrs but still.

[@FrisbeeTF2]

That was such a good game! I can't believe they didn't throw up a gg

[@DarkRedZane]

His opponent can't believe it either.

[@lazyupload]

Who's they? Did he play against 2 people?

[@son_guhun]

@@lazyupload From wikipedia: It [singular they] typically occurs with an indeterminate antecedent. This use of singular they had emerged by the 14th century, about a century after the plural they. It has been commonly employed in everyday English ever since and has gained currency in official contexts. Since we can't know who the opponent was (i.e. the antecedent is indeterminate), "they" can be employed. Technically one could also employ the *generic he* or *generic she*, though their use has fallen out of style, partly because their use is perceived as biasing the reader to assume the gender of the antecedent.

[@lazyupload]

@@son_guhun Really? I thought Old English ones were hīe, heora, him.

[@lazyupload]

that is for all genders

[@DarkRedZane]

This vid is the first thing I watch when I woke up and it's already making me hyped in the morning, good lord.

[@alpha.dog.training.BC2022]

Grubby describes the strategy like a doctor giving you a prescription and providing you directions on how to take your meds 😂

[@snaffu1]

That was absolutely incredible. Massive respect Grubby! Zug zug!

[@POINTS2]

Try-hard games are the best! Extra challenging since like Grubby explained, the Dark Ranger prevents tauren resurrection because of the Dark Arrow making skeletons

[@saimyintmyat9373]

Opponent had almost perfect strat to counter mass taurens. But bad execution especially during first attack at Orc's base. He intentionally let very low HP bulls run away and healing with salve.

[@saimyintmyat9373]

I don't understand what the usage of mass priests there ? I would rather add mass knights instead tho.

[@oliverzettas8286]

Defense wins Championships ⚔️. What an incredible hold to win the game brother 🙏. And it’s always fun to see 3 LV 5 heroes. GG WP @Grubby

[@dededoritos]

Grubby, I've never played W3, but I watch your videos a lot. And I have a question: why Orcs don't usually rapidly go for an expansion, for what seems to be a fairly common strategy with other races?

[@dulaan5689]

Orc expansion needs a stable army to defend it. While other races have their advantages, humans have militias, undead have ghouls, night elves have moonwells, and punching buildings.

[@hko2006]

human can do kill gold mine creeps with milita (peasants called to arms), undead with ghouls (wood workers) and skeletons from Rod of Necromancy (shop item), and nightelf with anticent of war (NE barrack building) and wisp repairing it Orc don't have these options to kill gold mine creeps

[@zachariastsampasidis8880]

The answer is that orcs don't have a cheap unit that can be massed for high dps and tanking (militia/ghouls) nor can their buildings move and regen and fight the mine (nelf) That's why to compensate they have the best midgame overall in 1v1 and the super fast build town centre from shop. Further note: humans have the slowest building town centre but they can power build it (at cost, but it's worth it) plus some light early game macro bonus/flexibility. Nelf also got extra heal for their tree of life and heroes and blight helps ghouls regen and switch them around till cannibalize.

[@dededoritos]

@dulaan5689 @hko2006 @zachariastsampasidis8880 thanks everyone for the answers! understanding this makes me admire even more W3TFT for being such a well taught game for its time

[@werothegreat]

You know it's intense when Grubby stops talking.

[@MarcEmvy]

You can feel grubby getting in the zone holding on to those low healths during those early pushes. What a treat to watch.

[@Saffilol]

That is some FINE micro from 08:00 to 12:00 - super impressive :o

[@InneresWesen]

7:22-12:08 insane.. just insane.. wp Grubby!

[@Aspoooonful]

8:05 - 12:07 Classic Open Mouth Grubby Fight

[@kurzackd]

What an *AMAZING* nifty little game !! :) Though, to be perfectly honest, I thought that *Grubby got a bit lucky to be able to manage to win this one...* Let me explain how and why I think so: *(TL;DR at the end for the lazy...)* -- After the fight at 12:05, the HUMAN player makes the correct decision to very quickly regroup, (maaaybe creep a little), and immediately launch ANOTHER attack on Grubby's base. This was completely to be expected, and inevitable, and Grubby should have known it was coming. However, Grubby, on the other hand, makes the *EXTREMELY RISKY AND RASH decision* to go to the other side of the map to creep a couple BIG / HIGH camps... -- Thus, naturally when the Human's attack on G's base arrives, Grubby is a bit pants-downed... : He is too far away to defend immediately, AND half his army is hurt badly from the heavy creeping. The Human takes advantage of this and dives deep into Grubby's base, attacking his peon line and burrows.... *What I'm about to say next may be a bit controversial:* The Human's TP-out of Grubby's base at 14:43 was *actually a mistake that turned the game from a NEAR-CERTAIN WIN for him to an opportunity for Grubby to come back !!* *THE CORRECT PLAY* in this scenario would have been for the Human to actually STAY in Grubby's base for as long as possible, continuing to harry the burrows, peons and oncoming taurens. ... If you look at the positioning, the Human is actually quite safe, with his rifles and casters being far in the back, safe from Pulverize and Warstomp, -- -- whereas his heroes are in tight little nooks, unable to get directly assaulted and too endangered by Grubby's forces. Theoretically, the Human *SHOULD HAVE STAYED* and continued to wreak havoc, EVEN AT THE POTENTIAL COST OF A FEW UNITS. -- -- because his continued delay on Grubby's economy and the ability to nab a few Taurens in the process would have been a greater benefit for him, potentially a GAME-WINNING one. *...BUT instead* , he TP-ed out too early, and allowed Grubby the time and economy recovery needed to get back into the game. .... *TL;DR: The Human would have won the game if, instead at TP-ing out at **14:43**, he had stayed longer, delaying G's economy and killing as many of his units, even at the cost of a few of his own.* ... *P.S.* Thus, going back to my earliest statement, *let me state what THE CORRECT PLAY would have been for Grubby, after **12:05** :* Heal up, reorganize and start creeping CLOSE LOCATIONS -- i.e. lab, expo, orange that are CLOSE to base. Thus, when the Human attacked again, Grubby could have IMMEDIATELY responded and avoid that entire situation where the Human nested himself deep in G's base. Thus... Grubby would have ended it right there and then. ... *P.P.S.* The human also generally made the mistake of having 1-2 priests too many, and too few Rifles, which rifles also, as far as I could tell, had NO upgrades. Just... a sub-optimal army comp. .

[@maomekat2369]

ty. that s why hu player lost to a nolife pro

[@mrstone645]

love these tryhard games, keep it coming!

[@TrentBattyDrums]

haven't watched grubby since Sc2 days. can tell that he's amazing at this game though. those defenses were clutch. Great vid Grubby!

[@Quillraven]

12:10 "ez" aaaah the DotA player coming through 😂😂

[@RhobarBlack-n7v]

Epic match! Always love to see some minotaurs.

[@thareus20]

Cowcraft III: Reign of Moo Also, I keep imagining a Tauren version of David Goggins, lifting a huge totem and yelling: "THEY DON'T KNOW ME SON!"

[@Mene0]

13:30 casually creeping a red spot while base under atk lol

[@AceVenturaWhenNatureCalls]

That was a wild hold, nice game

[@TheHandsomeSweet]

Not that its anything new, but EXCELLENT micro this game! Making something so complicated seem so easy! Great work....AGAIN!

[@levimogford3202]

grubby helps me get through life i love his content and him as a person

[@phaethos]

Reading chat, glad I'm not the only one who smirked at forehead hunters xD

[@xnaut_g]

This is what Tauren legends are made of.

[@Mac-ek8ug]

i can hear "ECHO SLAM" "RRRAAAAMMMMPAAAAGGGGEEEE" 😂

[@tugkanardal]

i like how you get humble and offensive when its needed towards players you play against, this is why you are the only gamer i subbed on youtube.

[@mrsommer84]

12:09 "easy" 12:20 "I'm joking. 't was superhard" Same thought. your opponent was pretty good. ... haven't watched till the end. let's see who wins :-)

[@C21century]

Tryhard Grubby is my spirit animal

[@Kanikalion]

I AM ABLE TO HELP. -Grubby, doing good deeds

[@burgesj7]

I don't play rts games because I SUCK, watching you play blows my mind.

[@6184aabbcdefg]

gg, what an epic game. It did looks like impossible to hold that mixed human army.

[@WadeSmith-oe5xd]

Wow. Grubby discovered units other than the Blade Master and Grunts exist on his favorite tech tree.

[@pavjoe2]

Grubby doesn't walk, Grubby Windwalks.

[@montanac223344]

Why did you purposely drop your item at 11:51?

[@bernardknoll-ej5nq]

The item gives him str which gives him hp(heals) if he picks it back up

[@warwickthekingmaker7281]

so the Tauren had a healing potion. normally it would just give 250 hp, but by dropping items that give health, it heals a bigger percentage of the hero's health bar. When you then pick up the health item again, it will keep that same health percentage, which means you effectively heal more from dropping health items before healing

[@montanac223344]

@@warwickthekingmaker7281 ahh ok I see. Thanks for the explanation

[@uberfella]

to insult the opponent

[@adrenalsupport637]

Hi Grubby, do you post stream vods anywhere? I live in KR time zone so I can't catch you live, but i'd definitely watch the replays

[@ivand3002]

you played the exact same strategy point by point, against TOD like 2 years ago, and lost coz of the brakers and sorceress

[@jasonk1794]

That was super sweet under pressure micro.

[@kirival117]

Really cool to see such high level play

[@MakiMaki.]

That was really exciting to watch.

[@phrsilva]

This Grubby guy is pretty good at this game. He should go pro.

[@marcusmeins1839]

XD

[@jjs6568]

I used to be able to drive out apm like this before. I'm just too busy now with work and what not to invest this kind of energy in a game. But I used to just love the art of this game

[@dmytroshulga4578]

Hey, Grubby Thank you for the amazing games you've been putting out. minor question - it feels like you're somewhat underutilizing Chain Lightning skill on Farseer. Is it just weak and mana-costly or is it due to micro in combat?

[@kurtkobain7445]

There were a few moments during fights with 2-3 riflemen/casters on low health, and I was waiting for the zap, but it never came haha

[@saimyintmyat9373]

He rarely uses that spell and instead spamming wolves for no reason. I mean why would keep feeding free XP to enemy 's heroes lol ?

[@Sapreme]

What the hell was that defence holy

[@jgcobb79]

Grubby's micro is still insane

[@tomrotelli1355]

Would it have been good to go for armor upgrades?

Got sniped and still won, gg.

[@percymalice3587]

i dun understand why that guy didn't transition to gryphons, it felt like he had a lot of time to do it

[@gilbertng945]

What great micro dangggg! Such a joy to see Orcs hold out against annoying rifle casters

[@AlexKoston]

AWESOME hold Grubby! That was a beautiful game. Remembered me at my heydays back in 2004. 😂😅

[@DrewDalasta]

dark ranger seems pretty good against an opponent that throws workers at her

[@juhel5531]

Imagine the future of AI in RTSes. We can have the single hero level of animation cancelling, positioning, movement etc. of a professional dota2/LoL player for EACH individual unit.

[@101deathcore]

what changed to make ur turens sweep the enemy when they weren't getting anywhere in the early game

[@6184aabbcdefg]

I believe it was hero levels made it different. Level 2 TC stamp and FS chain lighting worked so good against that army.

[@dav666777]

i dont think the taurens really ever did much other than absorb a lot of damage and give time for his heroes to do work, and they did a lot more work once they got levels

[@kevin-7091]

Hero level Devotion Aura from lab camps Walkers to dispel slows

[@Pgoodso]

@@kevin-7091 The walkers were also dispelling the opposing summons, a huge part of am/ranger play, while humans never got anti-wolf/anti-link dispels (or at least they seemed to do so poorly). This provided quite a bit of XP and sustain to Grubby.

[@johnnny5veeoxx]

Wow, what a game! Gg

[@FaatiBomBom]

Read "Tauren Rush" and had to check it out xD

[@dewwwd3431]

I used to love massing taurens on 2 base giving them +3/+3 with backpack and buying them all orb going 100/100 with TC and SH

[@IbrahimPenda]

Hello everyone! got some question - how can i play warcraft online ? with garena or ?

[@yofdldlek]

Tauren very good counter vs Dark Ranger. Was this random?

[@Garrickk100]

What a fuckin game well played!

[@abetlim4046]

Wow just wow! Gg sir

[@matthewosterman9030]

Content vids are the best vids

[@zombieGI]

I'm like omg war stomp.....OMG healing wave lvl 2. That came just at the right time

[@saimyintmyat9373]

Stomp counter those mass casters.

[@filippecha7909]

Why didnt go shockwave+chain for aoe and a few riders for control?

[@saimyintmyat9373]

He went with the rules.

[@DanyPell]

Another amazing game!

[@joelbratt3973]

as a orc player.... holy cow thats insane. Gg

[@Churahm]

Does Grubby have a stream delay setup or something? Some people were calling stream sniping with that DR, and I'm wondering if it would be the case lol. I mean, it could be random chance, but when someone quits without GGing it's always suspicious imo.

[@hommy4850]

damn beautfiully played gg

[@FaisalMY172]

Grubby, can you show the most serious play? like you have to win, you must to win, as if the enemy is extremely strong that you have to level up your gameplay to the max.

[@friskydrinklunkybank1108]

He has some tryhard vids in this channel. I know he uploaded one recently. It even had the tryhard label on it.

[@TMoBD]

What frisky dinky wtv the hell said. Also, the games where money is on the line he usually seems to try hard. Recent one I remember watching is vs IAmPhoenix he is full tryhard.

[@bunnyfreakz]

Just watch his pros competitive play. Also he play serious just will stomp everyone. Technically he doing some weird challenge handicapped himself.

[@yhaolow2878]

Tauren rush also good idea, man

[@Amoeby]

How the heck did you hold that? GGs!

[@miroslavraven1413]

what a game! wonderful

[@krippaxxuseredarlordofthes9940]

Lately ive mass monstrosity rush with dl vampiric aura max. It was really good vs insane computers. Some necros to buff their attackspeed

[@saimyintmyat9373]

DL, Dk and TC can huge buffs mass taurens with auras. 😂. Bloodlust and Unholy frenzy for making those bulls goes steroids.

[@wtfr3nch]

Walk with the Earth Mother.

[@seongmoon6483]

Crazy micro win!

[@WLVNDominus]

The god of micro!!!

[@KnicksNYanks84]

why didn't the earthshakers just use fissure?

[@alcbaz]

Grubby do FFA game with UD and possess human, and make mass slow with sorcs & necro cripple and ur only allowed to kill with DPS, bonus points for making the death as slow as possible.

[@rhaego7088]

Oponent still spam riffle and priest after see taurens for a while gg

[@DreLeila]

This human player was very good

[@scottlloyd5324]

Does your opponent get xp for killing a summon unit?

[@tungnse]

The micro is very special compared to SC2. In my perspective, I say WC3 require more complex micro with hero & unit abilities combined with continuous kiting, while SC2 requires more about accuracy & speed in micro.