W40k Dawn of War 2 Retribution (Elite Mod 2.9.14) Tex vs Piano Series KN vs TM / MB vs WL / LA vs TM

[@RostamArchives]

Good to have you back brother. Merry christmas

[@Rookzero2]

That triple rav game was crazy to watch live.

[@ZlyLudekPL]

Still gets stomped by balancedmarines because suddenly tyranids stop dealing damage

[@Rookzero2]

@@ZlyLudekPL Yeah well if you go 3 ravs and delay your t2 unit purchases, you deserve to get razorbalanced

[@williampounds5191]

@@ZlyLudekPL he played like crap after that point nothing to do with marines lol

[@brandonuseforge9665]

Keep it up Torpid, some of the most informative stuff out there!

[@huggybear827]

Blyat I missed your videos

[@namethatisnottakenyo]

May the algorithm be with you.

[@jamesd.2776]

great return to casting!

[@FuFuSchmeri]

That first game I have watched 2x now (first live) and just like you I was stunned how Tex pulled it back. Flawless build and map play from t2 with the most effective trukk I have ever seen.

[@piano3485]

the warlock game i tilted after a failed shuri engagement and played like a total dog lmao

[@A_Laughing_Matter]

Feth yeah it's X-mas baby HaHaHaHa STD thanks for the awesome casting as always... Comments fer da Waaaagggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhh Throne!!!

[@matthewspencer2837]

The boys are back in town

[@christivie121]

Thanks for the cast, STD! Always very useful to have your personal insights on how games unfold. It is fascinating how the skill gap between DOW1 and DOW2 players is so palpable. Those DOW2 boys kind of put shame on the title of “pro” player, compared to DOW1 IMO

[@DuckyBolto]

Great to see you back and Merry Christmas!

[@yaxisdrummer69]

Great series!

[@0xAdam_]

This cast is a sweet Christmas gift

[@jcloiseau]

Thank you and merry Christmas!

[@manubaumann7825]

Thank you Torpid:)

[@mad_prophet]

Merry Crysis, Torpid! The second game is crazy - one more proof SMs don't need energy, ahaha

[@andialabisa6167]

finally another video, thanks liked it!

[@SOLID_MATTIC]

All Torpid wanted for Christmas was a squad of Stormboys.

[@seraffares8009]

Hell yeah!

[@GreyKnight7777]

We are SO back, baby!

[@fierymarine3236]

Indeed, WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK

[@FuFuSchmeri]

Also, may I explain the master crafted bolter: The damage increase of 8% may seam super low, but it breaks certain damage thresholds in Ork and Eldar MUs. Standard bolter does 60 damage per hit (per bolt). 120 hp models (burna sluggas, shootas, battle equip gu) take 3 bolts, because they regen 1 HP between the first and second. So they all take 3 bolts to kill from standard bolter but just 2 bolts to kill from master crafted bolter. Therefore this 8% increase becomes a effective 50% dps increase and ubfront burst increase vs 120 HP models and it gets from 4 bolts to 3 bolts vs banshees and stormboys. So there it's still an effective 33% dps increase. Add to that the ability and I cannot understand anyone that doesn't get mcb in these matchups.

[@SenpaiTorpidDOW]

Mickey explained the break points to me. That's actually quite incredible. How nobody seems to have noticed this before I am not sure 🤔

[@FuFuSchmeri]

@@SenpaiTorpidDOW Okay small misstake, one burst of TM bolters is 2 seconds and 4 bolts. So whenever I talked about bolts you need to double it. Vs 120 hp models it's still 5 bolts to kill on vanilla bolter vs 4 bolts to kill on mcb. 5 bolts would require a cooldown in beween bursts so it takes 3,5 sec to kill a model. WAAAAY more if you get an unlucky reload in between bursts. On mcb 4 bolts is one burst so it takes 2 sec to kill a model. Absolute mad advantage! Why wasn't this noticed earlier then? Because that all disregards accuracy! Due to 80% accuracy, you only have a 41% chance to hit all 4 bolts of a burst and actually kill a full hp model in one burst! Kinda hard to notice that a weapon ubgrade gives you a ~40% chance to kill a model ~twice as fast. Accuracy is such a bitch. KN does 140 damage in a burst. But the probability to just kill a 100 HP model in one burst is just ~80%. 110 HP (gu) goes down to 63%.

[@fierymarine3236]

24:00 not a single Kommando or Stikkbommaz squad. That is likely why he won

[@whydoihavetodothiish]

More like sm had so much advantage and time and never attacked the power

[@mizumisa6620]

I swear, mines are so annoying. The fact that they can be spammed so frequently and everytime you have to detect and manually attack each and everyone is so time consuming

[@SenpaiTorpidDOW]

@@mizumisa6620 They are! It is both a literal micro drain but also a mental fatigue tax. Very frustrating to play vs. DH mines are similar

[@Gedainify]

Would having units auto-fire at detected mines when in range nerf mines out of existence though?

[@SenpaiTorpidDOW]

@Gedainify It has been suggested but the existence of melee units makes this a problem - they will suicide themselves auto charging at mines when nearby and detected, hitting them and blowing them up. You could make mines not explode when destroyed but that would ruin a bunch of cool synergies in the game where you intentionally use aoe attacks to trigger mines. Ideally it would be possible to make it so ranged units do auto attack them but melee don't, but I don't think any Devs know how to do that ATM. After that, you could buff mines accordingly.

[@ksanderpapalopous2699]

With a bang

[@piano3485]

also you could only play each hero once, LA game is from the second series and knob from first

[@FuFuSchmeri]

Organisatorical information: Tex and Piano played Semi final and FInal after Tex beat Deimos in losers bracket. Both went close with 3:2. TM vs KN was the very first game. TM vs LA was the grand final. That's why Piano could play TM again. Not because he lost. On that LA vs TM game. Anyone thinks corosive claws could have helped vs that RB? Piano had no detection so LA would have made it there sneaking and with the slow it's easier to kill that transport. It's definetly better then the feeders. On the other hand, RB can just hide in smoke until Venoms are forced off if the nids don't have any heavy melee so probably still not enough. I was shouting at my monitor when he got that 3. rav.

[@SenpaiTorpidDOW]

@@FuFuSchmeri TG and corrosive claws may have gave him what he needed to properly contend with it

[@wrinoO]

in g2 i would have got wars in t2 and switched ravs to melee in g3 i would really liked rifles rangers, cause they can harrass the mek, always keeping him on low hp, so he can’t counter shuri.

[@mathewdavis3129]

Comment for the comment gods

[@Destoffeldv]

if u dont win with ravs in t1 ur eco is so fucked

[@luckylarry71]

Now there's a present I'm eager to unpack! 🦾🤖