Liberating Japan by Giving Everyone a Gun

[@TheGrimKleaper]

Play Enlisted today using my link for a free bonus pack with soldiers, weapons, and more: en.live/grimkleaper Basically help me drive a tank into a tree

[@-Galland-]

Sus amogus

[@austenbabineaux346]

I love you Grim Kleeper

[@kamikazekalamari]

What Mod Mask man Used

[@DeathScrew]

Enlisted is fun at the beginning but it gets harder to grind so people usually spend. The grind is worse than Warthunder and World of Tanks. Trust me, Ive played all 3 games and I know what it feels like.

[@Epsilonn-bz6ue]

great video. Hope to see more shogun 2 content. Funnily enough its the game that got me into the series.

[@nagettt]

"Ninjas are pretty great, until they get shot" are my quote of the month for January

[@fuadlabib703]

For the next 2 hours?

[@GirolamoZanchi_is_cool]

And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:13 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. - John 3:16 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out. -Acts 3:19 If you’re in North America, please go check out any of the churches available to you: PCA, OPC, Rpcna/Rpc, Urcna, or a canrc church (These are conservative and actual Presbyterian churches) If you can’t find one of the conservative presby churches then, maybe a Lcms Lutheran church. If you are Scottish, I recommend the Free Church of Scotland and the APC. (Different from the Church of Scotland) If you’re English I recommend the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in England & Wales and the Free Church of England . (Different from the Church of England) Also online you can look up church finders for each of the groups, it will show you locations.

[@GirolamoZanchi_is_cool]

@@fuadlabib703🐪

[@Brandonhayhew]

they need to be agents

[@Skiddlless]

Gunpowder is my favourite seasoning

[@The_whales]

And a spark is my 2nd

[@TheGrimKleaper]

Average Waffle House customer

[@Skiddlless]

@@TheGrimKleaper I’m Bosnian I don’t know what a waffle is

[@seangeorge8760]

didn't even just go for "Waffle House" mans has never enjoyed gods gift to mankind@@Skiddlless

[@ComfortsSpecter]

Respect

[@calebgoldsberry7403]

"Oh look, the enemy has one ship. This will be easy." Said one ship blows up the entire navy single-handedly

[@zyriantel9601]

It’s a shame that ironclads have been outclassed by modern day naval warfare. Just the name alone is fucking awesome.

[@RhysCallinan-bv1wi]

​@@zyriantel9601Aye, but 150 years ago they were more powerful than the entire British fleet.

[@mercce6750]

​@@zyriantel9601same with Dreadnoughts really.

[@RaikoTechnologies]

@@zyriantel9601 yet even at their prime they spent most of the time in the ports, fearing little spikey balls.

[@boopie6635]

🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@majortellandrus2552]

5:47 "During the siege of Hizen, Kleaper left my men and I hopelessly outnumbered. Promises of reinforcements were made... Made, but not kept. He is not to be trusted Dimitri."

[@SunshowerWonderlab]

Damn, he really pulled a DD2 Cadavers on them huh?

[@alduintheanti-dragonborn]

@@SunshowerWonderlab DD2 Cadavers?

[@TheCosmicNapper]

@@SunshowerWonderlab A DD2 what?

[@SunshowerWonderlab]

@@TheCosmicNapper you know, the guys in The Tangle from darkest dungeon 2?

[@satorudo]

Daimyo we have had a general come from the future! They say they have a full proof military tactic that will allow you to unite Japan! Its apparently called * CHECKS SCROLL * Zerg Rush?

[@jonaswhitman8071]

A Zerg Rush-u?! What do you-a mean?

[@Gdsryrox]

@@jonaswhitman8071 I think it’s a future word for mass banzai charge

[@4thSurviver]

It's actually an ancient Korean Strategy. They used to defeat Hideyoshi during his invasion.

[@krieger8825]

3 words: TENNO HEIKA BANZA!!!!!!!

[@rowanmardhi917]

O​@@4thSurviver

[@humanintheflesh9165]

This is literally imperial guard technique. -use weak units but with MANY numbers. -bombarding the place before and in battle.

[@DeezNuts-ju1rj]

They are the Japanese empire, and you know they just through men at a problem until it goes away.

[@ZeroFormLak]

Skaven implemented this tactic to the extreme and added bombs to normal AND elite soldiers alike

[@AsianTrix]

For the Emperor

[@AtticusKarpenter]

You forgot to add that like in this video, moderate improvements implemented to THAT number of soldiers make insane difference. Thats why you shouldnt confuse Planetary Defence Forces (cannon fodder) with Imperial Guard (cannon fodder with +45 accuracy out of 10 and even some actual armor). One of the reason why they use lasguns, not bullet weapon - not only not shipping bullets ease logistical nightmare that existence of Astra Militarum is, but 10 000 people shooting one heavily armored target with lasguns can actually destroy it just by overheat. That trick is not work with bullets, no amount of bullets can penetrate bulletproof armor of tank or fancy chaos spacemarine champion.

[@nerz7548]

@@AtticusKarpenter I wouldn't say you can't penetrate tank armor with 10000 rifles... but the ammo...

[@the.only.mr.president]

Who new all that Japan needed was some good, old fashioned freedom

[@XAORESS]

心を捧げましょう!!

[@captaintitus4637]

Just as mathew perry intended

[@knightlord368]

They need fatmen and 2 of them

[@JM-mg4el]

Knew*

[@akuokami1677]

No? 🙃

[@kamikaze4172]

20:00 apparently, they saw the effectiveness of farmers armed with shotguns

[@MountainMemelord]

Raditz: 💀

[@DeltaComrad]

If anyone is in the south of England, I recommend taking a trip to the historic dockyard at Portsmouth to see (and walk around on) the real HMS Warrior. Quite the ship!

[@RusskiBlusski]

I traveled over in 2019 to visit both Warrior and Victory, quite the trip and well worth it. :)

[@Gurt_The_Hurt]

This video feels like you're playing skaven tactics with poor farmers. love it

[@zyriantel9601]

What are levies if not glorified skavenslaves?

[@kubaGR8]

@@zyriantel9601 Levies are probably hleped by having guns, and not knives or slings lol

[@Brother_O4TS]

He played exactly how he played Vampire Coast

[@this_is_Muffin]

This is actually very historically accurate

[@trihexa3024]

samurai do be loving their guns

[@adbrown10]

dutch moment

[@Teknokraatti]

@@trihexa3024 That's not the only thing; During the 200 years of peace that Japan had experienced during the Edo-period, the standing armies had disappeared and consequently practically nobody had any soldiers. The samurai had as well transferred from a warrior class to a managerial class, as there was very little use for warriors. Daimyos had small, personal retinues, but all actual armies that were actually gathered consisted overwhelmingly of pressed levies with almost no experience, training or formal leadership at all.

[@Rynewulf]

@@Teknokraattioh the Bonshin War's armies were such a mess. There were feudal samurai levies, random conscripted or recruited peasants, political partisans and modern line infantry all jostling for physical position when on the march and in battle based on conflicting class position, samurai ranking and modern reformist ideas. The closest we might get is like Mount and Blade with a warband of mixed farmers, warlord cavalry, assassin snipers, riflemen and local swordsmen all in one line

[@rancorious7785]

Nobunaga moment

[@DatCameraMON]

As someone who has beaten Shogun 2: FotS Legendary, the biggest pain in the ass is having to fight pretty much every naval battle for the entire campaign and the AI just cheats to spawn dozens of ships per faction.

[@VictorrineAurum]

Iron-plated ships and still having to battle wooden motherfuckers numbering in the dozens is a pain in the ass, mot to mention Sado's dumb tactic of naval invasion appearing out of nowhere and Matsumae's near-infinite wooden ship fleet also Aizu's shitfest armies numbering in the thousands. Legendary can be fun *COUGH COUGH* UNITED STATES MARINES AND A FUCKTON OF ARTILLERY ARMY BE LIKE *COUGH COUGH* but holy shit, it can be a slogfest late game.

[@DatCameraMON]

@@VictorrineAurum yep, got curious to try this strategy (as a Shogunate faction) and I'm already remembering why I fucking hated Shogun 2 legendary runs. Early game money issues, Imperial armies running with SIX YARI KATCHI AND THREE YARI KI (plus general and a few levy inf/matchlock) by turn 10, etc. Also, when Grim was talking about the tax-public order reset, I was thinking to myself that I remember that actually causes more problems because it cuts into your town tax over time as people move away from the crushing taxes. I don't remember if the math actually ends up working out for the better on that deal but if your run gets stalled (which it easily can in my experience) you get screwed.

[@Teknokraatti]

@@DatCameraMON The town wealth is not all that important in FOTS. Town wealth can't go negative and building and resource wealth get counted separately and are not affected by things that affect town wealth. Unlike in S2TW main campaign, the eco buildings are very strong in FOTS and can carry your economy quite happily with the tax exploit.

[@DatCameraMON]

@@Teknokraatti ah, alright. Like I said, I didn't remember if the math worked out on it. Thanks for reminding me.

[@nickthenuker7916]

@@DatCameraMONI tried it immediately after watching this video. Let's just say I was able to basically pay my way to any diplomatic agreement I wanted by just sliding a bag of half a million gold in their direction. Honour is good and all but it seems all these honourable daimyo immediately cave to enough money.

[@BaronVonMott]

"Even if the walls of Edo are breached, it would take a number beyond counting, thousands, to storm the keep!" "Tens of thousands!" "But my lord Kleaper, there is no such force!" * *intense sounds of Japanese farmers chanting for blood* *

[@megatech9938]

"My wife even gave birth to a daughter which is how I discovered I had a wife". Imagine having this guy as your father.

[@TheGrimKleaper]

So I keep getting comments about the whole tax thing at around 14:40 *puts on accountant glasses* There exists something called a "Crossover point". That is, the point at which low/normal taxes overtakes very high taxes in income gain. EVENTUALLY this does occur, but even later is the point at which low taxes generate the same total wealth as high taxes. So if the crossover point is turn 30, it still takes another 30 turns for the low tax rate to generate the same TOTAL amount of money. Now this is all great and cool, so you might say, "BUT MISTER GRIM KEPLER, A TURN 30 OR 60 CROSSOVER POINT ISN'T THAT LONG AKSHUSKLLLY". Here's the problem. *This doesn't take into account the opportunity cost of having low vs high taxes.* Lower taxes = slower money gain = less armies, cities, and buildings earlier Higher taxes = more money faster = more armies, cities, and buildings faster This is a financial concept sometimes referred to as "The Time Value of Money" or "The Cost of Capital". Money now, is always more valuable than money later, because you can invest that money now into armies, cities, and buildings faster. By getting the money sooner, you can invest the money sooner, thus allowing you to procure EVEN MORE MONEY sooner as well. More armies, cities, and buildings faster = more money faster = more armies, cities... While in the long term a growth based income overtakes a non-growth one at SOME POINT, it's just too late to make a difference in Shogun 2 FOTS, ESPECIALLY when I'm playing a run that uses levies. The longer the game goes on, the more I get outscaled by better tech units, meaning I want to end the game faster. And the best way to end the game faster... IS TO MAKE EVEN MORE MONEY FASTER tldr: i shat myself and am covered in poo. AITA?

[@soral94]

No you are not. This is beautiful and antiquated

[@jonathanwells223]

Some people don’t understand the concept of a “wartime” economy. Something about forever wars jacking up our taxes and- oh shit I think I hear a Mossad agent at my door.

[@ahmadtarek7763]

As someone who loves math, this was very eye opening, I never thought about the whole "time value of money" thing at all, even tho it makes a lot of sense. Are you of an accounting-engineering background? Also the explanation was amazingly simple yet concise. No, you are NTA.

[@TheGrimKleaper]

@@ahmadtarek7763 Thanks for the kind words, and my education is in accounting. Although more helpful is the combination of KZbin self-employment and accounting , since I have to use the concepts a lot in every day tax stuff ( USA USA USA )

[@99redpontoons]

Spear levies are actually pretty powerful as long as you don't modernize too much. At the lowest level of modernization they start out with enough experience to allow them to tear an enemy line apart if they're screened with normal levy infantry to let them survive to make contact. They can just snowball from there.

[@NaturalHeist]

Now we can see a person commiting worse crimes than Japan in 1945 as Japan against Japan :D

[@Warfrae]

Is it really a war crime against ur own people lol

[@DookRahool]

What ever do you mean? Absolutely nothing happened in Japan or Germany in the 30s and 40s.

[@NaturalHeist]

@@DookRahool my bad

[@Warfrae]

@@DookRahool yeah Germany was out for tea and Japan was building gundams

[@zyriantel9601]

@@Warfrae And Italy was just being their normal, hilarious selves

[@ManeShaker]

Portuguese here, yeah, this happened thanks to us in 1543. We were basically the first firearm dealers in Japan.

[@zyriantel9601]

Bless you for your contributions

[@I.am.not.in.your.house.or.am.I]

I wonder if this was the Chinese’s plan all along

[@generalgrievous2202]

Play the base game of shogun, the Portugese feature in the game. The Otomo clan especially interacts with them.

[@Mistme03]

On a real note tho, enlisted is so much fun with the volume all the way up. Sound design is so good it feels like you're really in a war. I went to bed after playing for 6 hours straight and I dreamt of the sounds of a bomber plane

[@zyriantel9601]

So how many levels of PTSD are you on right now?

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

I mean, that is how it went. As soon as guns were around, the samurai used them. They were mostly archer cavalry and spearfighters, with swords being the weapon once the lines clash. Basically like every pre-firearms army, bows and spears are what makes an army.

[@bowl-of-chicken-soup7107]

I swear I watch that StarCraft cinematic you used at 7:06 every couple of months. Still blows my mind that came out in 2010

[@AtticusKarpenter]

People who not overcrunched and competent in their job > 14 years of technical progress

[@suspectsn0thing]

@@AtticusKarpenter Well, maybe still overcrunched, but certainly competent.

[@Kingsly9802]

Something silly I found out ages ago, in the main campaign if you play as the Otomo clan you start with master gunners, boosted religious conversion, and most importantly, Christianity. Since no one else is christian, you can use your priests to inspire christian rebels in _anyone's_ land, enemy or ally. Christian rebellions *immediately* take over the land, have awful garrison units, and no allies. So you can immediately curb stomp your own rebellion to conquer land without declaring war.

[@camokiler]

I was just checking KZbin for something to watch, perfect timing Mr Kleaper

[@jonathanwells223]

19:00 huge boats, with guns, gunboats

[@NicoTheProtogen]

This man is the most devilish and evil person to play games and I love it

[@_SohamSingh]

Well if only Geneva conventions existed back then, they would have called him a war criminal. Good thing it didn't. Also its damn impressive to see him conquer the whole map with just farmers and by exploiting taxes

[@sadstrawberrycri]

They are going to release early access to protect the continent

[@Teknokraatti]

FOTS is a nice game in that you can stack massive buffs and bonuses to units which makes memestacks such as levy only builds surprisingly viable.

[@lolasdm6959]

but his game ending japanese thou, thats no crime

[@Kaiju_Roo]

fun fact, that tower you showed being imploded is the McDermott in Dublin Ireland, I lived there :)

[@mimmain2673]

Dear god I hope The Spiffing Brit sees all the British parts of this video and you Grim Kleaper: never change, keep on introducing to more "humane" methods of fun

[@JFresh25]

This man's content is so high quality. Honestly one of the best and most underrated KZbinrs. Keep it up Kleaper!

[@sameoldsameold9239]

My Japanese partner just overheard a part of this video, without context and said "I don't think this is good history." No... it's better.

[@jameswhitehouse2713]

I really enjoyed this video! People often say Shogun 2 is where Total war peaked as a franchise and exxcluding the warhammer games, I'm not inclined to disagree. Hopefully you'll do more historic total war videos in the future

[@lelouch19]

I am medieval 2 total war is the goat imo

[@Tom-lr1if]

"To ask the British for help you've got to be pretty stupid or pretty desperate. And I, am all three." Underrated joke.

[@Nyghtking]

As you can see here, Kleaper is attempting to help evolve Blast-Resistant humans.

[@catfishgaming7811]

Fun fact about the HMS Warrior, you can still see it today as it is a museum ship.

[@mosi1234]

When kleaper finds out about ishinshin Rebelion spam it would just be a breeeze until realm divided

[@MARPOLO13]

"I dont even know who these people are, and they are still declaring war on me" Sounds like Total War in a damn nutshell.

[@KSO-73]

I loved this video! I really hope you decide to make more content on this game, I might even consider buying it myself but I would love to see what more silly challenges you can think of! Keep up the work! Love your videos ❤️

[@sloppyjoppy8226]

He's back bois! Lets goooo, hands down some of the funniest total war vids out there, missed ya! (Not that i dont know there is long between each vid, but that just makes it all the more great when one comes out xD)

[@ScarTalon]

Good editing, and I enjoyed watching this. Would love to see more total war videos like this

[@theroguenob]

Yeah it was the same for me, once I realized the north was still "freed" by me in my tosa campaign I kept going until it was all done

[@johnadams2431]

Due to extreme sociopolitical reasons like, “I want all their shit” lmfao im dead

[@ComfortingColourlessLight]

No other video I've seen quite captured how gun powder eventually changed warfare for hundreds of years.

[@chainsawninjalcemist]

For his neutral special, Japan wields a gun.

[@PenguinWithInternetAccess]

I am so happy to see you play shogun /fots, this game has such a good atmosphere imo

[@KarolSzlegier]

Well i am positively suprised that you play a historical tw for a change my favourite too keep the great content going

[@jakeking974]

The reason your allies want an alliance is because you cost them hundreds of men to take Setsuma, but you TOOK SETSUMA. Their original plan was to lose several hundred men to take Setsuma and then FAIL to take Setsuma, so they definitely consider that your win.

[@IPFreelly]

I swear Reggie and Kleaper must be coordinating upload days

[@KibblesJack]

Me at 2:26: "Hey they are actually doing pretty good!" Me 2 seconds later: "maybe not..."

[@mohitbhinge7794]

Insanely good video lol, you explain the game so well that even someone who doesn't play total war can watch and have fun

[@zol0tze621]

Mate the Shogun 2 is the GOAT of The Total War Series, hope to see more of it. Also check out Attila for the horde ride and raiding across the hole map

[@goreobsessed2308]

Makes you wonder what strange magic these "black smiths" were doing to make musket weilding farmers accurate.

[@Robert-cl2ft]

I didn’t know the Soviet army traveled back in time to fight samurai with there special forces

[@ratmanwarhammer]

you should've got the mod that actually makes the obama clan have obama as their leader it's so funny

[@TheGrimKleaper]

Wait what, is that real?

[@ratmanwarhammer]

@@TheGrimKleaper yeah I just looked up Obama on steam workshop it's there I tried to send a link via comment but youtube auto deleted which is fair enough

[@aryokrishnaadiprasetyorade2137]

0:44 what the...

[@edtheminecraftian]

"To ask for help from the British, you would have to be pretty stupid or pretty desperate, and I am all three" Love it XD

[@ОннокорОктябрь]

Local man conquer Japan with double population of Japan (including dead) FOR THE EMPEROR

[@Hidden_Channel7]

The trap card B R I T I S H 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 Got me dead

[@joshleonard8364]

This guy is really funny and single-handedly saving the total war franchise.

[@ErikVRed]

“The final boss of the game… white people” 11:30

[@gwingcommander]

Ah, so this is how the Astra Millitarum wins wars in Warhammer 40k...

[@anzaca1]

19:21 Couple of corrections. The Warrior-class had a crew of over 700, not 300. It also had a total of 40 guns, not 42.

[@233Deadman]

he was talking about the version thats in the game, as you can see from him showing it's unit card at 19:27 Historically, you're absolutely correct though.

[@NoobyChris]

4:43 lmfao

[@dubbed-inirish7813]

11:30 has me cryin this is how tribal people explained Europeans to each other

[@Luna-rj1bb]

I wish there was like an endgame in shogun where you can get invaded by the British or someone.

[@volatile_gaming9475]

A Reggie and Kleaper video all in one day ? what a time to be alive!.

[@guy6169]

Love your content dude , I've already most of your videos , LOVE the TW content , and your humor in general 🫶🏽 Can't wait to see more !

[@NatetheGreat-gf7un]

My votes on the farmers

[@williamsmithee780]

“My wife gave birth to a daughter, which is how I found out that I had a wife.”

[@peterhe6699]

Congrates on doing one of the hardest challenges in Shogun, but you made it harder than it really is because see if you don't have more soldiers than the entire population of japan the challenge gets a whole lot harder

[@anyonenamedMili]

The Grimm Kleaper uses soviet tactics in Japan the video

[@duphasdan]

The British viewers watching the British showing up getting all giddy and excited.

[@weebmaskman]

11:34 that is a qoute I'm using

[@Mrkti]

Solid video. You are doing some special things with the pronunciation of some words, though, like Geisha.

[@notagooglesimp8722]

Glad others are still playing this game. I remember when it came out and was a game we used to benchmark our new PC builds. Good times. I am currently playing as the lowest blue imperial province under Nagasaki and I claimed the empire for myself and made it into a republic and I'm using any units I can to hold on for dear life to build that darn railroad.

[@Just_Adrian_]

Glad to see you tackle Shogun 2, my all time favorite total war game

[@jonathanwells223]

This one time when I was playing laser tag, I was put on a team of prepubescent children when the other team was made up of people around my age group, and most of them were varsity athletes. The only saving grace is that my team outnumbered the other team by almost 2:1 and even the youngest of the children were smart enough to point the gun in the right direction, mostly. I ended up smoking the ever-loving shit out of the enemy team by having double the points of anyone else due to my teammates stunlocking literally all of the enemy team most of the time while I achieved all the objectives. Quantity truly has a quality all its own.

[@connorwinter9257]

I'm drunk off my ass at 12 on a thursday and I like your funny words magic man.

[@TheGrimKleaper]

Unfathomably based

[@TeensierPython]

My favorite game. Glad people are still playing it.

[@DontRightlyCare]

Thoroughly enjoyed that, fella. Cheers.

[@originalcharacterplznostea2749]

This was pretty much exactly my Satsuma playthrough but with Line Infantry lmao, I just can't resist kneel fire and suppression fire.

[@cowboyged9723]

Maurice Pitkethly really was the brake out star from this video the british bruiser in his iron cruiser

[@LemonWithASideOfLemons]

You've got something special here, I wish you nothing but the best my dude!

[@50_Foot_Punch]

"THE GREAT THEFT"

[@Mrfox-YouTube]

Always love your videos you make games look way more fun.

[@mindbutterchannel]

Ngl it's nice seeing kleaper playing a old total war game (the good total war games)

[@Zippsterman]

The fountains of blood spurting everywhere really gives this a strange vibe

[@ryleeculla5570]

Maurice and the ironclad is just the British version of the Bismarck strangling the other enemy navy’s with their bare hands

[@matthewyeldig4608]

Damn, had no idea Kleaper was so derterminded to make his run historicly accurate...

[@FishFlop_The_CatSlap]

Many silly billies and goobers were harmed in the making of this video 😢

[@deathdealer646]

Grim I'm glad I found your videos, your commentary in these cracks me up.

[@sebastianfiems7787]

I have been dreaming of the day when you make a shogun 2 video Best game in the whole franchise

[@AbuddingHistorian]

Absolute Nobunaga moment (Sekigahara and sengoku jidai)

[@colewest7096]

Your comment has the option to translate into english. In peak english language form, literally nothing changes when that option is toggled. Truly, this is the ultimate language. 😌 Also known as: English is the type of language to follow other languages into dark alleys and mug them for loose grammar.

[@zyriantel9601]

English: “Hey, nice loan word!” *pulls knife* English: “Hand it the fuck over.”

[@valkyrie3631]

Just found your channel. What a funny little man, I enjoy your shit man, made me much giggle tehee

[@Sherudons]

I'm a sucker for shogun 2, man so much fun, I remember the first ashigaru gun unit from both 1 and 2, where bullets were bullets and if it landed that was very likely someone who died, slow, cumbersome and utterly devastating, one good unit placement could solo win a siege defence. Now you have things like warhammers one where bullets are damage numbers and go ping off someone's head... and play air guitar in melee.

[@aciuppa281]

Oh boy 2 minutes in and I’m already laughing. “…Giving everybody a gun and calling it Texas” my god that’s both funny and accurate

[@aflyingrat3969]

I never thought one of my favorite youtubers would play my favorite game

[@Gnonne]

20:00 they pulled a uno reverse

[@special_k_kman]

Always a good day when my favorite youtuber right now posts a video! Keep up the work Kleaper!

[@cooperpleasants9250]

Another video added to this guys top-tier lineup