Colin VS Sensei, But There's NO Unit Limit!

[@lordFALLEN777]

"You see, bluemoon tanks have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them, until they reached their limit and resigned." - Sensei

[@derkatwork33]

Hilarious reference.

[@JEL625]

Ah the soviet special.

[@SoldierOfFate]

The irony of this is that it's the Japanese using this tactic against the Soviets here!

[@Amalvipls]

man, that was stupid fun "I have 20 megatanks" "that's cute, can they cap?"

[@clownplayer7265]

Unit limit is the only thing that keeps Colin and Sensei *SOMEWHAT* manageable. Now this is just insanity.

[@anonyme4881]

Colin never reached unit cap in this game. In fact he never even reached 40 units lol

[@sadfern0]

'print money all you like, your megatanks are encased by 3 layers of infantry'

[@RinnyThePrincess]

You say that this isn't very informative, but I think this is THE demonstration of unit count being the most important stat most of the time

[@SimoneBellomonte]

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[@thepersonwhocomentz]

If, as Colin, you want to beat Sensei, your #1 priority, imo, is to have some positively ridiculous number of AA. Maybe 15. You can't rely on megatanks to clear Sensei's zerg rush tier flood. Having a few to control key points is all well and good, but Sensei spawns an average of like 8 infantry *per turn* from powers alone. You *need* to be able to clear at least that many per turn, and the only way to do that consistently is with AA. Your infantry can't hold a candle to his, and you can't be wasting money on higher-value units specifically for this purpose. It happens to be a bonus that AA is *also* the proper response to Sensei's Bopters, so spam those damn AAs! 15 of them will pretty much ensure you can wipe 8 from the board per turn, and you force Sensei to build more of the units he's weak with (tanks) in order to handle them. Also, perhaps a hot take, but Neotanks would've been better here than the megatank spam. The slowness of those megatanks was a big handicap for the Colin player. Neos are both good against the units you hopefully want to force Sensei to build (tanks) and do fairly well vs. infantry, *plus* the fact that Sensei suiciding endless infantry into them hurts less from continual luck damage compared to a megatank.

[@art-games6230]

On the other hand, colin does need some megatanks too defeat sensei’s megatanks, aside from that I absolutely agree with you, anti-air is basically like a tank when fighting sensei: the primary combat vehicle that works against the majority of enemy targets

[@clownplayer7265]

The thing is that you need something to counter Sensei's tactics. The factories' positions are not good for a Megatank to close the gap, a faster and cheaper Neo Tank not only is more spammable but also faster at reaching the combat zone and doesn't require as much refueling as the Megatank. Plus, in a defensive situation, Md Tanks often suffice, is not like Megatanks are good against air units either (niche as the tactic is, Sensei's bombers are just as strong as any bomber with no penalty, if he has the funds and sees fit he could build a bomber and take down the Megatank). Megatanks are almost entirely build for single chokepoints because otherwise they're not too practical under normal circumstances even in high funds situations. Neotanks are faster and more fuel ammo efficient, Md Tanks are cheaper and durable enough for most circumstances, Megatanks are glorified monsters that suffer from a terrible logistic weakness.

[@benedict6962]

@@clownplayer7265 Agreed, and in a target rich environment like this, copters do the same job as anti-air while still doing damage to megatanks.

[@thepersonwhocomentz]

@@benedict6962 Copters on this map from Colin are a bad idea for a couple of reasons. 1. Sensei's bopters completely blow them up in general -- doubly so considering that basically every other turn Sensei has 175% power bopters. Yes, they deal well with infantry, but so do AA, and AA can repair on cities while copters cannot. 2. Due to the above, Sensei will always gain a numbers advantage over you because both players only have one airport. You can't out-produce Sensei even if you tried. 3. Colin's better off using said airport to make fighters (and bombers, of course), since they can't be attacked by copters to begin with and are cheaper for Colin, playing into his fast-tech playstyle anyway 4. By going for Fighters/Bombers, you can't even make the copters to begin with, and the ones you could make will get bitchslapped by Sensei's since he's obviously going to have the numbers advantage by the simple fact that you're not producing a copter every turn while he basically almost always will be. It's just not a good idea.

[@dugtrioramen]

Colin AA don't one shot infantry though

[@joaovictornascimentonascim5102]

Stalingrado be like.

[@DatBoi-sl1rw]

Bakhmut 💀

[@SimoneBellomonte]

@@DatBoi-sl1rwBraerdzszghmutrrdrrerdtrddrrrrrrtrfrtrrdrrerdrrrdrrzszmbhzsz? 🤔

[@maxspecs]

No matter how strong your units, they can only clear one infantry at a time, so if you’re not keeping up with Sensei’s production you’ll never get through his wall of bodies.

[@SimoneBellomonte]

AAs: *am i a jokerdzszhvghgvzsz to youerdzszh???* 😭

[@cho4d]

right! colin needs to play down on properties, it doesn't matter when you can gold rush. more tight defensive lines with arty and rockets for max killage.

[@MisterVercetti]

We need this same ruleset, Sensei vs. Hachi. Let us settle once and for all who is the king of unit spam.

[@Tzizenorec]

Sensei: Spawns 20 infantry. Twice. Hachi: Builds 20 anti-air. I think that's GG.

[@ogxh0018]

​@@Tzizenorecreally depends on if hachi can survive until he gets enough money for his units

[@Tzizenorec]

@@ogxh0018 Let's see, should be no problem surviving until his first power (remember Sensei doesn't really have an advantage until he gets 2 stars of power charge), at which point it's usual for a player to be able to save up ~40k of funds. ...which is only 10 anti-air. Might be enough? Certainly not as good as 20, granted.

[@dark_rit]

The Sensei unit count was basically triple there near the end, which is why Colin had no shot because he just walled megatank with infantry there and was capping the lab. When you have so many units it's weird, but unit value doesn't matter because what will the higher valued units do? It takes them turns to break through the wall of infantry and then there's more infantry where that came from.

[@esharpeh]

dont forget artilery. 2-3 rockets and that zombie infantry could outlast anything

[@SimoneBellomonte]

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[@SimoneBellomonte]

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[@HippieInHeart]

Yeah, even a high value unit can only shoot once per turn. So in that sense having 7 infantry would be more valuable than having a single tank because it'll take one enemy unit at least 7 turns to kill all the infantry while he could easily kill the tank in just one turn if he has the right unit to counter and maybe a bit of luck.

[@HippieInHeart]

Damn, that was a lot of fun to watch. "engagements are being taken, units are moving forward" top tier commentary, 10/10 XD Great match and great video.

[@Ghan04]

Thanks for casting this match. Not every AW video needs to be super informative, and this hilarity was awesome to see. 😂

[@Garethaxz]

No-cap Sensei can produce enough units every turn to just walk past you and cap, and there's nothing you can do to stop it lol

[@SimoneBellomonte]

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[@TheGrayAllay]

Black bombs would like to know your location

[@fabiopauli420]

When you have more troops than the enemy has bullets:

[@ChillstoneBlakeBlast]

Before Video: I think Colin will get Bodied. Sure, Colin can Tech up Super quick, but the lack of Firepower will Bite Coling really hard, especially with Senseib easily picking off his infantry like flies with B-Copters. After Video: I guessed it. Even knowing it was HF, I suspected Sensei to Win. Miraculous did not block the cities quick enough, which definitely cost him the game. The Power of Money was definitely a fluke as well, as he could not Print money fast enough. Overall, a Wild match, but very fun to watch

[@art-games6230]

Senseib and coling? Is that some kind of original version name?

[@ravenstires1747]

Nothing about this is diffinitive. Cloin player didn't...quite...choke. To be nice. But other commenters have mentioned how better tactics would have won.

[@SimoneBellomonte]

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[@eighttimesnine]

insane match aside, i love Colin's COP theme from re-boot camp. little kid's got a good taste in ska

[@DemonFox369]

Early Sensei aggression to kill Colin’s infantry is such a strong move

[@Kantbei]

X1234 and miraculous are both Chinese players, so yeah I think they are friends / probably do know each other as old time players in that space. (They even have an unofficial league for fog). Sensei suiciding units into inf is a very common tactic in high level HF games. As you realized, it's to gain power to get a fast COP (which is when Sensei gets to party), but it's also just slowing down Colin's capture game cuz infantry are hard to come by in HF. So if he runs out of infs he can just never get new cities (of course, Colin doesn't care at a certain point if he banks enough + COP) As for suiciding a bunch of units, Sensei is trying to get charge cuz his units are worth more dead than alive (say if you suicide 5 inf to get COP, then your 5 dead inf become like 20 inf)

[@SimoneBellomonte]

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[@schnibist]

love how Mangs doesn't notice the lab cap at all

[@hiokiryuuhei4714]

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[@VainerCactus0]

You just can't kill the swarm fast enough. You just drown in Infantry.

[@notZabami]

If this had been streamed 100 percent there would have been at least a hundred infantry repellant memes

[@SpookSkellington]

Sensei is just a skaven chieftain in disguise. Throw so much bodies at your opponent that they drown in them. "Swarm them with infantry-rats now-now!"

[@bon7029]

Mangs: He who has the most infantry usually win. Sensei: Hold my Asahi.

[@SimoneBellomonte]

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[@ElementZephyr]

Now we need a Sensei and Hachi both with unlimited unit counts.

[@engiopdf8745]

I think Hachi still wins unless Sensei completely smothers him early. While Sensei puts out tons of infantry on power, Hachi mirrors that same output rate with neotanks on super. Sensei definitely gets the early output, but against Hachi specifically I'm not sure he can translate that into closing out against the only other CO in the game capable of city deploys.

[@benedict6962]

@@engiopdf8745 Hachi is probably the only one who can force sensei to go for superpower. Throwing away infantry is not very effective against 20 anti-air constructed in one turn.

[@dark_rit]

Yeah, this is a far more interesting idea because Colin had no chance because he was building on a few bases only, but Hachi is under no such limitation with his super he can go toe to toe in unit count, which is the most important thing in an unlimited units match. Sensei may have dozens of infantry, but Hachi will have dozens of things that will blow through infantry like paper.

[@SimoneBellomonte]

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[@SimoneBellomonte]

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[@DestructivelyPhased]

Sensei, how did you defeat Colin’s megatanks? Sensei: “you see, megatanks have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent in wave after wave of my own men until they reached their limit and shut down.”

[@Eltrotraw]

Looks like Miraculous would've lost the next turn without the resignation anyway: check the labs. There's no HQ, and there was already a full health infantry capping his lab, with not enough units to punch through the infantry walls.

[@art-games6230]

Im pretty sure Sensei takes this 7 times out of 10, no unit limit means that sensei can just swarm Colins defenses, I don’t see him holding up here, especially since x123456789 is arguably the better player here, on the other hand, in high funds the powers of sensei are less effective since the cities are worth 2x as much but still only spawn 1 infantry In retrospect (spoiler alert) Colin simply can’t hold on against the numbers, sure you might have a battleship and carrier, but they can only shoot one infantry at a time, the megatanks too can only kill one unit at a time, sensei could literally replace his losses faster then Colin can destroy them, and eventually Colin would have lost city after city too the swarm, even if Colin managed too go on the offensive, he would still have too make his way through a lot of units giving sensei time too recover and regroup, Colin stood no chance

[@SimoneBellomonte]

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[@legionofpie]

At 6:30, he's not just getting charge, he's also disrupting next turns capture. If sensei isn't ahead on income before this entire game becomes a slog, he loses

[@Tzizenorec]

What do you mean "ahead on income"? Colin's income is basically infinite regardless of properties (once he has popped his power twice).

[@SimoneBellomonte]

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[@SimoneBellomonte]

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[@zerg-rush5797]

I was laughing the entire match, the entire concept was quite humorous and as was the result lol Especially since some high end players are the ones that set it up just for fun

[@NichtcrawlerX]

"I think Sensei is winning?" What do you mean think? He was capturing the HQ/Lab, with just a wall of Infantry preventing every possible incursion.

[@andregon4366]

It was a dumb match. But it was dumb fun.

[@Monsuco]

I kind of want to see two grandmasters do the Colin vs Kanbei matchup again but with black bombs on and have it be hogh funds. AWBW just being as broken as possible.

[@chaoticcosmos7588]

I would surrender to if my lab was being capped and blocked by a dozen meat shields.

[@shanemczane6725]

This is such a brilliantly fun idea!

[@Rocky712_]

Unit count is the most important metric. You can block your opponent and Colin can only build a single unit from every base and port, Sensei will ultimately overwhelm in a match without unit cap.

[@jerry3115]

While high funds does benefit colin a lot, it also means sensei can charge his power that much faster and it allows him to afford sone high tech units to beat colins tech, and he'll have plenty of meat shields to keep them safe.

[@heart3460]

This was the Advance Wars equivalent of a Zerg Rush. This was dumb and I loved it

[@viniciuslorenzini7195]

This shows why Sensei has to be banned in HF global league in any map that has its unit count raised from 50. It was kind of unfortunate that this game ended in a lab cap because Colin didn't take a couple turns to secure an aditional lab. Fun game nonetheless.

[@leSmokySmoke]

I LOVED this video and match! thanks mangs. I want to see more from the very unique COs since they made the game fun for me as a kid. its a shame they are all broken. please cover more of them in the future, I would laso love to see grit and hear from you why you hate him so much.

[@CtisGaming]

Sensei sacs tanks into infantry at the start bc he needs to press his early infantry advantage. It also means Colin has to waste base spawns on it while Sensei's infantry will be free. Building triple transport allows everything Sensei will spawn in the future to be ferried to the front faster.

[@thenextdoor696]

Colins needed to send more mega tanks to the south to protect the lab as that's the only reason colins resigned.

[@crisis8v88]

This is why Zombie matches restrict what kinds of units Sensei can build. XD

[@baldbro3693]

We need a Hachi vs Sensei no unit cap high funds match now Mangs!

[@supazippy3059]

Sensei showing Colin how the Chinese Civil War was fought.

[@ximbabwe0228]

Sensei's theme is fire

[@tonitoni9984]

Now I want to see a Hachi vs Hachi in high funds on a large map really badly

[@Soandnb]

Sensei: Look at me. I am the fodder spammer now.

[@Keeki95]

I wonder how much the lack of a unit cap factored in. Sensei only really went over in those last few turns, but it might've been his win without needing to go over the usual 50.

[@Green13Gaming]

think about it like this Sensei produces 20 infantry a turn that are also tougher than regular infantry which make them very good at walling and capping while colin can at most produce 3 mega tanks a turn yes colin can kill infantry pretty easily with mega tanks but if there are 20 infantry and 3 tanks colin on his turn can only kill 3 of the infantry while sensei will sack his tanks for power so he can have more infantry those same infantry also don't take engagement but only focus on capping in order to increase how many infantry are spawned a turn, and while that is happening no matter what colin can only add 3 more tanks and maybe 1 bomber all of this only possible by the fact that the unit count is unlimited because sensei would get to a point where if he hits the cap (if the game had a cap), the high tech units will begin to catch up in unit count to his infantry and start overpowering with much higher quality units

[@dark_rit]

I'd say no unit cap was the factor because Colin was winning value wise off his broken COP just spamming mega tanks and such by quite a lot, the issue is when you have 30 units to more than double that you can only take so many engagements a turn because Sensei can just not attack with infantry and can just move them forward and cap things or make walls all over to make it a nightmare to get through unless you were on Hachi and able to get one good SCOP off as Hachi before zerg rush happened, which could be doable in a high funds setup like this.

[@masterufall3812]

The only thing I was thinking the entire time was,”FOR THE SWAAAAARM!!!!”

[@MsLoquendo20]

It would have been fun to see sensei use his super power to also spawn mech's, but probably that would have given colin the advantage as sensei's main strenght in this battle was obviously his ability to flood the territory with infantry and be able to stop colin tanks and troops from expanding or protecting correctly his side of the map.

[@dark_rit]

Only realistic way for Sensei to super is if it was completely charged when his turn started or off a few little engagements, but even then chaining multiple COP's sounds better to dominate in the unit count game that it came down to.

[@alcatraz-nc2814]

Sensei snowball Colin so fast by just spamming his COP and the game being high fund with no unit limit, it means he can afford to keep building tanks, Bcopter and whatever he wants. It doesnt help Colin that Sensei's capture game here is pretty solid and the more cities he owns, the more cities he can gets just by sheer number of infantry it generates. At some point, Sensei generate so many infantries that everything Colin can hit is just infantry walls which kinda happens at the end. It doesnt matter if your opponent has like 2-3 expensive unit if your own unit expensive unit are forced/trapped to attack nothing but infantry.

[@matteo7393]

Sensei is actually absurd.... He can literally infantry match forward against basically anything

[@imwastedhere]

This Stalingrad reimagined to be honest

[@rcsfreezer]

I believe it was Napoleon who said "Quantity has a quality all its own." Definitely see that on full display here.

[@SoldierOfFate]

Colin: I have the power of money! Sensei: Your money has no power in the face of sheer manpower, BOY!

[@eldinthings]

Really enjoyed this one Mangs, wild and whacky matchups are fun to watch. more!

[@anakkepri5769]

man this feels like watching an astra militarum vs tyranids player battle in warhammer 40k. a sea of unit and both side just throwing shots. I love this XD

[@timothybell9348]

Yeah that join cap on the lab with no way to interrupt. That was "resign or die"

[@freeman8990]

"For everyone of us falls, ten more will take his place"

[@Corescos]

We need more silly matches like this

[@FIamestalker]

Colin just couldn't kill all the units fast enough, maybe if he had an extra base or two he might have had a chance

[@Orillion123456]

That's a lot of ants.

[@Paulunatr]

Someone asked Sensei what "the battles of old" were like. This is the result.

[@supazippy3059]

Sensei recreates the Chinese Civil War

[@Blue-mr7fe]

with ww1 human wave tactics

[@SoldierOfFate]

@@supazippy3059 More like the Korean War. Once the Chinese joined the fight, their human wave tactics pushed the entire United Nations coalition back - despite the latter having superior air, armor, and artillery support.

[@DiegoG2004]

I'm prepared to see the map flooded by units. Colin is still limited by the amount of bases on the map. Sensei is not.

[@marcoasturias8520]

Hachi tho...

[@marcoasturias8520]

Hachi tho...

[@DiegoG2004]

@@marcoasturias8520 This is not a video about Hachi. But yes, Hachi would not be limited by bases either.

[@Davesknd]

Ah yes, the Zapp Brannigan method. Just send rows upon rows of your men against them

[@koalakyle19]

I think this proves unit count is the most important

[@Telorath]

Easy match for Sensei. Collin can only produce so many units per turn, and no matter how much you pay for a unit it can only shoot once a turn. If your opponent is swarming you with infantry you have to shoot to get to their good units, their good units are getting way more first strikes, destroying more of your good units than you are of theirs, and then eventually those infantry are going to flip more and more properties over to Sensei, giving him an even BIGGER unit lead and eventually allowing him to produce only high tier units himself on top of infinite infantry. Power of money doesn't change much if most of your units have to attack infantry and waste all that firepower, and gold rush doesn't change anything if the units you buy with it aren't getting good engagements.

[@SimoneBellomonte]

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[@Vaerlayn]

Here's a question for you Mangs, who do you think would win a no unit cap game, Sensei, or Olaf in permanent snow?

[@Tzizenorec]

Remember how permasnow Olaf beat Hachi? I'm pretty sure Hachi with a unit cap beats Sensei with no unit cap, so... Granted there _could_ be a rock-paper-scissors thing there, but I'm putting odds on Olaf.

[@napalmcannon2513]

Sensei turns always take forever with all the infantry

[@daddysmurf2266]

this was amazing, i wish they played for some more rounds

[@dynosgarcia7645]

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[@SimoneBellomonte]

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[@SimoneBellomonte]

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[@SimoneBellomonte]

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[@thebrazillianguytm2186]

You could say that miraculous_xp had 123456789 megatanks ok that one was terrible XD

[@lolbittheglitchqueen6871]

I'd even say Hachi would have a hard time stopping this.

[@month32]

Quantity has a quality all of its own.

[@yuphine9001]

id kill for a something about esque animation of this match up

[@PICADALOL]

That's just plain...INSANE.

[@obliviouschipmunk6539]

Today I learned there's a unit limit in Advance Wars. Edit: I'm a bit sad this didn't play out until every square on the map had a yellow infantry. XD

[@Amokhunter]

I think even Hachi would have to resign. The real strength of Sensei comes twofold, the obvious one is the horde of infantry, shielding your expensive units. The second one, you seem to forget: to put up a defense against the horde, you need heavy equipment... while your boots on the ground get annihilated slowly and you can't rebuild infantry, cause you need heavy gear to stem the tide and in the end Sensei will cap the first of your cities and you are finished.

[@The_Nowhere_Man]

Send in the next wave! Fix Bayonetts! Charrrrrge!

[@fasddfadfgasdgs]

Colin got swarmed the lab was being captured and no way of dislogging that wall out to kill it.

[@squiddler7731]

Literally the lord of the rings meme playing out in an actual game, lol

[@franciscomartinez-losaerec2532]

The Colin player should have popped 2 Gold Rushes back to back without spending anything in between to secure himself infinite money for the rest of the match. After that, he would have been able to spam enough megatanks, bombers, etc to simply wall off his half of the map. Having 100 infantry is not that useful if they deal like 1% damage with each attack and only a fraction of them can hit the frontline every single turn anyway. Then, it's just a matter of hoarding enough mega-units to the point where you simply kill more than he can spawn. Yes, he may get like 30 inf every 2 turns, but if you have 30 megatanks and they are killing 1 unit/turn each... Of course, you have to be wary of him buying his own high tier units. But if you can purchase 4 for every one your opponent can, you'll be fine.

[@hartantoanggoro]

Basically the power of money against the power of men? That's really a mad match.

[@likky1]

This raises a good question… why not try this again? I’d like to see it again in the same vein as the sturm vs hachi video

[@valnira1147]

Sensei in this match: UNLEASH THE HORDE

[@TheOnlyMonroni]

I didn't know Wall of Flesh was in Advanced Wars

[@xXXJimboSliceXXx]

Sensei wins because he isn't limited by bases to produce infantry. Colin building 5 Megatanks a turn doesn't mean diddly squat if he doesn't have infantry to convert properties.

[@HerrFinsternis]

Is this really surprising though? Sensei hits a lot harder outside Power of Money, which was now only used to pop a megatank. But those were coming out 2 a turn by that point in the game. Sensei just puts so much stuff in the way and doesn't care at all about sacrificing alla that for chipdamage. Lotsa money doesn't mean much when you can't put your units where they need to go. And what is a lot of money when your opponent owns the capture phase with all those little dudes and build up to a 30% lead on static income? At that point gold rush is an equaliser more then it is an advantage. I feel like this is a terrible matchup for Colin.

[@DragonflyCis]

I spected Sensei to win, there is a point where you just cant handle that zerg rush on steroids. If you kill infrantry, well too bad that gives power to spawn more. But it was fun to watch for sure.

[@JonWood007]

I actually did a rematch against myself and EVENTUALLY, colin won. HOWEVER, it took a LONG time for colin to actually win. If there is a reasonable capture limit or time limit, i expect sensei to win. HOWEVER, it is possible for colin to EVENTUALLY gain a critical mass of megatanks to push sensei back and be able to kill more units per turn than sensei can produce. It takes a LONG TIME for that critical mass to be reached though. Early game, colin does well as he did here as he techs up faster and can just smash sensei with superior firepower. After the first copter command though, sensei starts getting some infantry walls as padding, and given the 2 star power, by the time you do some damage to him, it's more wave of infantry. Mid game, sensei has the advantage from runaway infantry while colin's unit count dwindles, but eventually, colin will be pumping out megas every turn as he has a runaway money effect. And they're hard for sensei to kill. Late game, sensei is trying to build up artillery and rocket walls behind his infantry to take down the megas, and they eventually get too much. Then, given the insane dollar amounts colin has, he can just pull megas and bombers literally every turn. I even employed a couple black bombs in this specific match to thin out his infantry as i forgot to ban them. Although that didnt help as much as you'd think. Colin eventually gets the advantage as he can just amass enough megas to steamroll whatever sensei has. And power of money actually becomes relevant here as you eventually no longer need to pop gold rush and power of money makes all of your megas just 1 hit kill everything. Eventually, between pushing back, putting megas on cities, recapturing cities, and just pumping out an unending stream of megas, sensei's infantry spam eventually becomes less and less viable as a tactic and he's eventually pushed back. Especially on colin's strong side/sensei's weak side. But also to a lesser extent on colin's weak side too, as he is able to push back enough of the spam to reach the labs and go for capture. Whoever wins this, barring properties and time limits, it ultimately comes down to who can capture the labs. If sensei's spam can capture all of colin's labs, then colin loses. But eventually colin should be able to push back the infantry spam. But yeah, enjoy. awbw.amarriner.com/2030.php?games_id=939811

[@dewottgaming1507]

this match was incredibly dumb buf just as fun. I love advance wars for having those ultra broken COs as it gives us matches like these. not everything has to be super competitive, sometimes you just gotta throw the balance out of the window to have some fun

[@leSmokySmoke]

how good/balanced would sensei be WITHOUT his power? I love him just for his playstyle of infantry and helicopters.. I would love to play him more often..

[@tricmagic]

The old folks have come out of retirement to complain about newfangled tech. Lab surrounded to surrender.

[@tatsuyakaiyo416]

One of my first games of AW was Sensei vs Colin (i was sensei), pretty high unit cap, i threw a blob of infantry at his HQ that grew faster than he could kill it Sensei things

[@tenchimuyo69]

Has some China vs UN in Korea energy.

[@Dawn_of_the_Dan]

Straight from the Deej Stream!

[@ScrambledAndBenedict]

Another question for you, Mangs. You ever seen a map that had only one comm tower in the middle of the map, that was up for grabs for everyone? Would that be a good map design, or do we not ever seem to see that for a good reason?

[@Mangs1337]

The reason it doesn't work is that it will give a big advantage to either P1 or P2 depending on the map layout.

[@ScrambledAndBenedict]

@@Mangs1337 Ah, I see. It'd make for a chaotic shitshow though lol

[@gizel4376]

the moment colin spend all his 100k is the moment he lost, he had to hold on that money for 2 more power, property doesn't matter when you have interest rate at 50%

[@nin10doadict]

Infantry infantry everywhere