Congratulations, this awesome replay was the undoubted winner of our rotw contest . A very cool and exciting, over 1 hour long, game between 2 very good players, a must watch!
Official review by esa|Darkside:
OTTOMAN VS FRENCH
Gento(ottoman) Strat: janis/grenadiers to janis/abus
The ultrafast outpost was a good idea followed by a perfect hunting in early game gave you solid start. The most amazing idea was the use of one card to send a ship for production of janis, grenadiers and abus which saved you ressources for barracks and foundry
You put him under pressure during the whole game and killed countless units and buildings with your basic units supported by some mandschu horse archers so he could never took over the advantage
The unit micro was also fabolous during the whole game, i have never been more impressed
during the midgame you were a bit too carefree and lost some villies and abus guns when tried to lure his cavalry out
Strategy: 9 Micro:9 Overall:9
Draxe(French) Strat: outpost spam/fortress over dragoons/field guns to curassier/x-bow
Solid start with just some little mistakes with hunting when you sent just one coureur to hunt one animal cost you a bit of time. The idea to go for outposts combined with using coureur for infantry keeps you alive. Well done
Your defence was great during the whole game when you rebuilt outposts and TCs followed by fortress card and the time you have beaten his army back was arrived in the midgame
During these midgame you established a great economy which put you in the possibility to spam units and stopped his attacks
The biggest mistake in the early game was picking the card to get black rides, jaegers would have been the right choice. There was a chance to turn this game during the midgame but you decided for the wrong strat with going for dragoons which gave you a bad cost/effectivity relation.
Imo Curassiers and skirmishers would have been the right choice to turn and win this game. You could have also tried with your curassiers(which you built later) to flank the abus guns or attack them from 2 sides
Nevermind, there is no reason to feel ashamed you played also a great game
Strategy: 8 Micro:8 Overall:8
This game is definitely a must watch, full of action, full of tension and a lot stuff to learn including some crazy strats. It was nearly a perfect game but there were too heavy mistakes from draxe to give him a higher rating
So my conclusion on this game is a real honorable and especial 9
A very cool and exciting, over 1 hour long, game between 2 very good players, a must watch!
Official review by esa|Darkside:
Gento(ottoman) Strat: janis/grenadiers to janis/abus
The ultrafast outpost was a good idea followed by a perfect hunting in early game gave you solid start. The most amazing idea was the use of one card to send a ship for production of janis, grenadiers and abus which saved you ressources for barracks and foundry
You put him under pressure during the whole game and killed countless units and buildings with your basic units supported by some mandschu horse archers so he could never took over the advantage
The unit micro was also fabolous during the whole game, i have never been more impressed
during the midgame you were a bit too carefree and lost some villies and abus guns when tried to lure his cavalry out
Strategy: 9
Micro:9
Overall:9
Draxe(French) Strat: outpost spam/fortress over dragoons/field guns to curassier/x-bow
Solid start with just some little mistakes with hunting when you sent just one coureur to hunt one animal cost you a bit of time. The idea to go for outposts combined with using coureur for infantry keeps you alive. Well done
Your defence was great during the whole game when you rebuilt outposts and TCs followed by fortress card and the time you have beaten his army back was arrived in the midgame
During these midgame you established a great economy which put you in the possibility to spam units and stopped his attacks
The biggest mistake in the early game was picking the card to get black rides, jaegers would have been the right choice. There was a chance to turn this game during the midgame but you decided for the wrong strat with going for dragoons which gave you a bad cost/effectivity relation.
Imo Curassiers and skirmishers would have been the right choice to turn and win this game. You could have also tried with your curassiers(which you built later) to flank the abus guns or attack them from 2 sides
Nevermind, there is no reason to feel ashamed you played also a great game
Strategy: 8
Micro:8
Overall:8
This game is definitely a must watch, full of action, full of tension and a lot stuff to learn including some crazy strats. It was nearly a perfect game but there were too heavy mistakes from draxe to give him a higher rating
So my conclusion on this game is a real honorable and especial 9
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This post has been edited by Evry1: Dec 18 2005, 23:06 PM
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