You got to hand it to Finx for playing on after I crushed his first transport drop, took middle Andy left island… This was a lesson I’ll never forget. Well played, Finx.
@@joshnabours9102 You weren't invited to 'provide them a different way of life' to begin with. It was an invasion fyi. If you want to make the world a better place, there's FAR more that could've been done with all those trillions that didn't involve invading a country, which btw has also resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths
@@ArawnOfAnnwn I am aware of the fact that America was not invited to "provide them a different way of life". But the fact is, that is what America chose to do. Whether I agree with these military interventions is a different topic entirely that I did not touch in my previous comment. I did not comment on the initial invasion or loss of life that you had mentioned either. If you understood my comment to touch on those topics then please understand that my comment did not have that meaning. I simply intended to say that if America should never be ok with abandoning our allies and those we have chosen to help and protect. Regardless of if it is an allied sovereign nation, the people of another nation we chose to cultivate into an ally, or a specific subset of foreign people we have chosen to help and protect. If we are going to take action we should do it properly and to completion. These choices are cruel to the people America interacts with and by these actions we slander ourselves to the world.
Honestly, it's fairly typical for the US to cyclically abandon it's allies. What is NOT typical is "forgetting" to blow up our latest tech before letting the enemy steal it. That's a new low. Anything the T don't use themselves is going to get sold to anyone who wants our tech, which will let the T buy literal boatloads of low-tech but cost-effective weapons. The next few years are going to be ugly.
Retreating in defeat is embarrassing sure, but prolonging the war out of a massive ego or a warped sense of moral duty is even worse. It was an INVASION fyi. If you want to make the world a better place, there's FAR more that could've been done with all those trillions that didn't involve invading a country, which btw has also resulted in literally hundreds of thousands of deaths.
The US had to leave eventually, that’s without question. But they should have been more careful not only in their retreat but also in their investment. Spending trillions of dollars maintaining a government just for it to collapse the second you leave it alone is a massive waste. Besides, I cannot imagine how painful it must be for vets to see all their blood and sacrifice over 20 years just collapse in a week.
@@soulgamer612 Can you imagine how painful it is for people to die in their hundreds of thousands? Cos it's the Afghans who've 'sacrificed' the VAST majority of blood here fyi...
@@jmkhenka yeah the Wagner’s are great amphibious units, even against navy. And he could have used stealth for drops as well. Kinda worrying that one of the player councilors thinks this way tbh
Fun fact white rice is just polish rice. They polish off the brown outer shell. This actually led to an issue in japan with "edo sickness." You see rice has vitamin b1 in the brown outer part, polishing it removes that and since the Japanese navy served it as sort of a perk for joining up since white rice was considered a luxury, it led to a situation similar to scurvy. (Interestingly a japanese doctor who studied in the west made the connection after learning of scurvy.) Tangent aside, despite brown rice being actually healthier for you to me it has a dirtier flavor (less intense than quinoa but just as gross to my palate. Some.decribe the flavor as earthy, I call it dirt)
I'll "settle" for comeback games over curbstomp games any day Gyle. Thank you sir. The midlife crisis sportscar purchase is generally done with little regard for the budget. Buying a new car with not so much thought about it isn't so bad, even if it's impractical, but buying an impractical car that you don't need and can't afford is the not so good.
Two comments to say: First is on that brown rice thing, brown rice isn't really as good as white rice imo. Also it's nice to hear that you mentioned the Afghanistan thing, a lot of youtubers don't mention stuff like that, but it's nice to hear that it is really just a genuinely concerning thing in the world. Love you Gyle!
TH-camrs whose channels are based on geopolitics (like Caspian Report) talk about it plenty. Other TH-camrs don't simply because it's not relevant to their channel. And I question why you feel a pressing desire to hear them do so, especially since that concern also doesn't seem to extend to the wars in Yemen or Ethiopia. Are things only concerning when the west is involved?
@@ArawnOfAnnwn he isn't from Ethiopia or Yemen, that's why he doesn't care. A war ending that their country has been involved in for 20 years is much more relevant to them as a person. Why is sharing an opinion on something like this so strange? If they don't talk about news in zimbabwe do they not qualify to talk about geopolitics?
@@jondorf3315 That makes sense as an expectation for Gyle, who's British, not TH-cam in general. It also doesn't jive when you have lines like "concerning thing in the world", cos that applies to all those other major world events as well. The overall impression is of Afghanistan being treated as somehow especially more important than other places, rather than just more personally significant for the peoples involved. And if it is more important, then the pertinent question is - why i.e. on what basis? There're possible neutral answers to that (casualty comparisons for instance, but no one's mentioned any statistics here), but also many biased ones (tarnishing the wests' image being popular in these comments).
@@ArawnOfAnnwn There is some important contextual information that helps reveal why the topic of Afhanistan is more important than other topics in this setting. Firstly, the sudden destabilization of Afhanistan is a very recent development, compared to the more or less status quo situation of Yemen that has been in a state of civil war since the dawn of time. That makes it a more important topic to even an international audience, as the ramifications of the events in Afghanistan will be seen almost immediately. That is compounded by the severity of the news, the defeat of a superpower in an important strategic location in the world like Afghanistan creates a lot of very serious ripples in the world of politics, and opens a new political battleground for nations like China and Russia, but also Iran and Pakistan, which is needless to say very disruptive. Secondly, this channel and it's audience are largely anglophones, and the world's largest anglophones nations are deeply invested in this war, so it makes a lot of sense why, with this considered, this topic is a lot more important than others to that demographic.
Man, Morax had such a great start but then completely failed to capitalize on it. Great plays by Finx, really made a fantastic comeback from his early setbacks.
I mean, you tried being there for a long time in India, but they eventually wanted you out anyway :P Sincerely, A Canadian who's quite happy with our British history and traditions. (Good job kicking those French out!)
Absolutely NOT lol! I LOVE the b%%%%ing back and forth in the chat! You get to see the real emotion of the people getting excited or getting crushed. You wouldn't mute the commentary to a wrestling or a boxing match, plus it gives you insight into what the teams are planning. I LOVE seeing Maverick being all cavalier before he gets smoked and inevitably cusses out everyone, or people falling for misleads.
Brown rice is good!! It tastes a little less refined, has a little more flavor and particularly texture. Also it’s supposed to be a little more nutritious. Definitely good!! Lol for commenting about rice on a Gyle cast.
I remember playing this in ladder back in the day, and if your rank was close enough almost always one of you would offer draw and the other would accept... If your rank was 500 lower than the other guy, you'd still offer the draw, but he would invariably say "naaaaaaaaa"
Really need someone to teach me how to eco. Every game I play I just get annhilated on mass and get so far behind. I know reclaim is a big part but often there is no reclaim to be had and I just get out played. Please help someone!
Many forgett that power = mass. If you ever powerstall, mass is gone. Its a balance though, units vs upgrading mexes. t2 is quite importaint when u have no more t1 mexes. A mod that removes power use from mexes would help newbies alot as powerstalling can cost you 10's of thousand of mass crippling you alot. Just watch some replay for games you loose, ignore unit movements watch how the eco is balanced. Making to much power can be bad as 200 more power income cost you 1 t2 mex in mass, and thats 3 times more mass then 1 t1.
I am about 1200 so take this with a grain of salt. 1. Assist your mex upgrades. If you can get your first t2 mex faster than your opponent who is upgrading three mexes at a time then you can use that initial income to get your 3rd and 4th t2 mexes faster. This will snowball very fast. Sometimes you have to upgrade 2 or 3 mexes at a time or else you will overflow mass but it is always best to add lots of assistance to 1 mex at a time. 2. You NEVER want your mass bar to hit 80%. That means you engies will stop reclaiming as any mass they reclaim will get wasted. Try to keep your mass bar anywhere from 0%-30% full. That gives you enough flexibility to click a mex upgrade and not immediately begin stalling mass. Also any excess mass in your bar could be going towards a mex upgrade or more eco but instead it is just rotting in storage. 3. For players rated 0-900, I see that they don't build enough build power and so they overflow mass. Or they don't build enough energy and they energy stall. For higher rated players, 1000+ they overbuild energy and buildpower. Remember, pgens cost mass. So if you are overflowing an ungodly amount of power you are not just wasting energy but also the mass it cost to make those pgens. Also making buildpower (engies, factories, hives, ect.) cost mass. So if you have too much buildpower, then each individual builder is working at a slower pace, wasting the mass and energy that you put into making those units. 4. In conclusion, good players won't stall mass or energy and they won't overflow either resource.
Generally once your first 4 mexes stand you should constantly have at least one mex upgrading (ringing it counts as upgrading too) at any given time until they are all t3. I'd even say that ecoing is much more important than microing in FAF
If after 20 years the country dissolved in a week I think that proved that whatever you tried to do didn't work and doing the same for longer would not help. You know that quote about insanity, doing the same thing expecting different result? Staying would be insane.
A lot of us expected that. The Taliban reasserting control was not a surprise. The part where they are doing it with Americans still in the country, and with looted American arms...that's a national outrage.
@@visvires6305 So do you not think there would be outrage if the Americans took back all weapons from the Afghan army before leaving? Then the outrage would be that they left the afghan army defenseless. Also a complete and quick evacuation by every country would have been blamed as the cause for why the afghan army lost all morale and disintegrated. There's no winning because regardless what you do there would be outrage. I guess what intelligence existed is not yet clear, but the president spoke about lasting 3 months 3 days before the country was completely lost. Most experts I've heard expected at least another week. All countries had personnel left, with plans on bringing them back the following week or even weeks, so even if it was a US intelligence failure it wasn't just US intelligence that failed.
@@r3dp9 Get out of here with your conspiracies. Your conspiracy has to be world wide, because every country thought they had at least week 33 to finish evacuations. Unless you count the standing recommendation to remain forever as "fair warning".
Totally agree with you Gyle, if it took another 20 years to help protect people, it would've been worth it because entire generations would've been saved / safe.
@@jsteel89 Not trying to get into it, but think about the billions of dollars invested in there when they built schools / roads / farms / gave them technology upgrades / gave them protection / delivered women into freedom from sharia law / etc. A lot of good came out of it, despite if the main purpose by the elite were meant for personal gain.
@@skyvipers Mate, if you really cared about schools and roads being built, then you wouldn't have sabotaged the Russians doing the exact same thing when they occupied it. Secondly, it's telling how much war apologists seem to care about women's rights when it justifies their wars, but not when they're suppressed by close allies (like KSA) and ESPECIALLY not about the mountain of dead (including women). What little good came out of it came at the cost of literally HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of dead Afghans. And no, there's no way the Taliban are gonna exceed that number, assuming their regime is stable - there was never as high a death toll when they were in power before, because WAR really is just that destructive. War doesn't 'protect' people in the first place, it kills them. It was an invasion fyi. If you want to make the world a better place, there's FAR more that could've been done with all those trillions that didn't involve invading a country, which btw has also resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths (did I mention that before? Yep). Ironically, more people died while the country was under your 'protection' than during the Talibans' regime. Not cos the Taliban is particularly humane, but simply because WAR is just that inhumane.
Gyle, being totally pro-Cybran, I usually disagree with your political view but this time I couldn't agree more. I mark your words “We promised these people a better life and if it took another 20 years of occupation for us to get the country to stand on its own two feet that’s what we should have done”. Damn, couldn't have said it better.
Morax had the early advantage but wasteed too much in landspam, not enough in eco, left a lot of reclaim for finx, he simply outecoed Morax and won with that. But always love to see some successfull zthuee drops
I agree with the sentiment of your tangent, but the coalition was never going to uproot the Taliban from Afghanistan without dealing with their international support. We could have stayed another 100 years and ended up in the same situation, and the West was never going to actually deal with the Taliban's support network because it would practically mean a world war. Russia ended up with the same conundrum and they also pulled out rather than fighting against the US and Egypt, who were funding and equipping the Mujahideen. The US wasn't going to fight Pakistan, Iran, and possibly Russia. So we left.
Great game! Very cagey play. Morax never quite regained his mojo - I don't think he attacked at all in the second half of the game. Once he lost map control and eco it was over. Great job Finx!
300,000 trained troops surrendered just a few days after we left. Can't fight it completely for them. They say brown rice is supposed to be healthier but I personally don't like its taste, there's also a texture component that makes it peculiar.
Appreciate talking "average joe" vs "newbs". I appreciate you for the consideration. I didn't even notice. Yeah, it's a much better choice, I'm actually quite hungry for those AJ fests...
For the Taliban mess you can blame any international nation it's a mess since Alexander the great. Seleucid, Perses, Mongols, Mungals, Russian Empire, British empire, URSS, NATO break there teethes there. It's call the grave of empire for some reason x) It's a country that had the bad idea to be in the center of the crossroad of Asia
Hi All Morning Gyle Great Video, BTW, i think you get sent these replays. Anyways, have you ever thought of doing a "Survival Horde" Map 4 Players, maybe at 100-150% health, that would be interesting to see, something different :) Map name is "Survival Horde EE" Cheers
40+ knees are sayin : Nope. I thing collecting wine is usefull and tasty hobby you can do from your home. On top, you can spend same as for a sports-car or less. :-]
Lollygagging from the old british language meaning to not do anything/wasting time. And then there is the other equivalent of Loli gagging which is a whole different can of worms that im not going to open.
The Taliban victory was inevitable. And the fact that they rolled through and took over the whole country peacefully the second the US/UK powers pulled out just shows that the common Afghan people don't object to their rule. It's a good thing the war is over and it's a good thing Afghans will live how Afghans apparently want to live, in an Islamic Eremite.
Yeah, this is it. It's not our place to force our way on every other country and even if we think it is, one thing we've learned from Afghanistan is that it's fucking hard to do that if the people there are against it.
at 28 minutes I could not help but thinking: "why didn't you just made a radar an placed a recon on the far left? you deserved your fate. he also used his air army to distract, it was clear. so why?" and can't figure it out since then. help.
Never be ashamed of being who you are Gyle, you have no obligation to those people in Afghanistan, protecting the weak ensures only one thing: they stay weak. Allow them the ability to change their rescheme to their natural desire. Your only obligation should be towards your family and your countrymen.
And as a westerner and especially as European, I've had plenty of opportunities to be ashamed: ex-Yugoslavia, Africa… but this might be the new tip of shame.
Greatly appreciate your removal of the toxic chats. I was seriously considering unsubbing after a few casts in a row with annoying bitching from defeated players! Chats like the ones in this game i have no issue with offcourse
Westerners are choosing to ignore the simple fact that we were the aggressors who invaded another country as a stepping stone to iraqi oil and spent 20 years avoiding an exit strategy because the next lot will have to deal with it.
@ approx 6:00 it is sad, two things though, you can't occupy a country forver to maintain a shaky stability, the people have to do something. secondly, limited war/operations are effing STUPID when applied to afghanistan or anywhere else with a dedicated fanatical element that has significant resources. all or nothing, half-assed just feeds the defense contractors...they LOVE limited conflicts where not enough force is allocated to end things relatively quickly. yeah, that country is hell to operate in, neighboring countries don't do much to help or provide active support against even if it's just turning a blind governmental eye to what passes through their borders and doesn't directly affect them. ugh...the more you think about it the worse it gets. governmental failure and the planners who should have been listened to were ignored. people who took to heart what the soviets had gone through and didn't want the sequel. almost seems like everyone loses...but there were winners. look who the governments paid the most to over those decades., who profited massively with zero risk. hey, it's a comment, part of the unholy YT triad :p so there's that at least.
We had given them an excellent military with training and equipment, their president betrayed the people and forced the army to stand down in the face of less than 30k.
3:16 I know you are a stinkin' right-winger and I am a stinkin' left-winger, from Germany of all places, but I wholeheartedly agree with you on the Afgahnistan topic. I am ashamed by how we betrayed those Afghans who put their trust in us and our values, many of whom have to pay with their lives for that now.
In regards to "pros" not liking big ocean maps because they want to kill the enemy in 6 min, why even play a RTS then? Got all these different unit types and tiers, but nah I want spam the first unit that can attack and kill instantly. Rushing is the dumbest strategy in RTSs, if you want to kill fast and end the game fast then play COD. If you want to build cool armies and use coordinated strategies then play an RTS.
One of the reasons I fairly quickly stopped playing Starcraft, just got disgusted by having like 80% of the games be my opponent doing a "5-7 minute all in push" strategy they got from some pro player for maximum efficiency in grinding ranks. If they won, great, they get to do it again and again and again for free wins. If I defended it they just instantly quit the game and gave me the win. Neither outcome was enjoyable since I rarely got to actually play the game.
@@TheHuffur I think the worst rush I ever experienced was in 3v3 in the original Warcraft 3 way before Blizzard fucked it. Enemy team went all orc and sent all 15 of their teams starting workers straight to my base killed my workers and any thing I tried to produce or build and my 2 team mates just ignored my asking for help. They killed my main building then I saw them moving off to the next guy before my vision bubble went away.
While I question your knowledge of certain contemporary topics, I appreciate you providing these casts for us to enjoy. I just ask that you consider such topics more thoroughly before discussing them on videos that reach thousands, if nothing more than to avoid disinformation.
I mean, afghanistan is no worse off than before the west interceded. The idea was that the west would go in, force out the Taliban, to give the Afghan government time to establish order and stability and be able to defend themselves. They had 20 years, and the Afghani government were simply unable to create stability. What more could the west have done? At least now the Afghan people have an understanding of the kind of life that is possible outside of Taliban rule, and may one day revolt against them. To be clear, I am incredibly left wing and anti US foreign policy in almost every way - but the Taliban are just straight up evil. Now as for the US being the ones to fund their rise to power, that's a different story...
Corporations fund them, the military fight them. I agree with most of what you said but it is very sad for the young girls who only new US rule in places like Kabul. Now they will be raped and sent off to be married to some bearded extremist who has no interest in her future or interests. I think when you start something you should finish it. The west where there for 20 years!, why not just leave a small force?
@@ryanphillips5341 Without the Afghan government and military being able to sustain themselves, leaving a small force would do nothing but endanger those left there. What could a small force achieve that the coalition forces could not?
"At least now the Afghan people have an understanding of the kind of life that is possible outside of Taliban rule" - they kinda already did when the Soviets invaded, who btw also built schools and educated women, and yet the Soviets lost too. Ironically, partly thanks to America, who didn't seem to care too much about improvements in living standards when it didn't suit them.
@@ryanphillips5341 And with US involvement, a lot of those little girls would just die. Ever wonder why you're hearing so much about women's rights in Afghanistan now, but not the death toll of the war? It's not cos it's small - it's literally hundreds of thousands of Afghans, including women. Women's rights also didn't seem to matter much when the Russians invaded - America still sabotaged them. It's being trotted out now only cos it helps whitewash the war, making it seem moral. It isn't.
You got to hand it to Finx for playing on after I crushed his first transport drop, took middle Andy left island…
This was a lesson I’ll never forget. Well played, Finx.
I'm a U.S. veteran. Thank you for your tangent. I feel the same way.
I am a child of God and a citizen of the world. I feel the same way.
If we were going to provide them a different way of life we needed to see it through to the end. Doing this is just cruel.
As am I, and as do I, friend. It's a damn shame about it all.
@@joshnabours9102 You weren't invited to 'provide them a different way of life' to begin with. It was an invasion fyi. If you want to make the world a better place, there's FAR more that could've been done with all those trillions that didn't involve invading a country, which btw has also resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths
@@ArawnOfAnnwn I am aware of the fact that America was not invited to "provide them a different way of life". But the fact is, that is what America chose to do. Whether I agree with these military interventions is a different topic entirely that I did not touch in my previous comment. I did not comment on the initial invasion or loss of life that you had mentioned either. If you understood my comment to touch on those topics then please understand that my comment did not have that meaning. I simply intended to say that if America should never be ok with abandoning our allies and those we have chosen to help and protect. Regardless of if it is an allied sovereign nation, the people of another nation we chose to cultivate into an ally, or a specific subset of foreign people we have chosen to help and protect. If we are going to take action we should do it properly and to completion. These choices are cruel to the people America interacts with and by these actions we slander ourselves to the world.
Hey Gyle, if the cars and girls are out, the next best midlife move is surely T3 com drop.
Hahaha 😅
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great comment on the current international conflict, "shameful" is exactly what ive been saying about it.
Honestly, it's fairly typical for the US to cyclically abandon it's allies. What is NOT typical is "forgetting" to blow up our latest tech before letting the enemy steal it. That's a new low. Anything the T don't use themselves is going to get sold to anyone who wants our tech, which will let the T buy literal boatloads of low-tech but cost-effective weapons.
The next few years are going to be ugly.
@@r3dp9 The "latest tech" wasn't left behind. It was given to the Afghan military who surrendered and gave to the Taliban.
Retreating in defeat is embarrassing sure, but prolonging the war out of a massive ego or a warped sense of moral duty is even worse. It was an INVASION fyi. If you want to make the world a better place, there's FAR more that could've been done with all those trillions that didn't involve invading a country, which btw has also resulted in literally hundreds of thousands of deaths.
The US had to leave eventually, that’s without question. But they should have been more careful not only in their retreat but also in their investment. Spending trillions of dollars maintaining a government just for it to collapse the second you leave it alone is a massive waste. Besides, I cannot imagine how painful it must be for vets to see all their blood and sacrifice over 20 years just collapse in a week.
@@soulgamer612 Can you imagine how painful it is for people to die in their hundreds of thousands? Cos it's the Afghans who've 'sacrificed' the VAST majority of blood here fyi...
G'morning.
Breakfasts ready, another FAF Cast is up. Day starting out real good :)
Watching these casts may or may not have encouraged me to buy the game on steam
Make sure you play on the FAF client and not the in game multiplayer! I made that mistake 😅
Welcome to the community!
Get the downlord client very cool over there
I've had the game forever and only just found out about FAF last year thanks to Gyle. ^_^
keep the chat enabled. most of the time people actually start talking about tactics there...
Yeah it was definitely a faction advantage.
It definitely wasn't the fact that Finx had literally 2-3x the eco XD
he was much better at harassing. Cybran can do drops to, he had t2 land but never used it for offense with exception of some few t2 vagners.
@@jmkhenka yeah the Wagner’s are great amphibious units, even against navy. And he could have used stealth for drops as well. Kinda worrying that one of the player councilors thinks this way tbh
@Ben Perkins can’t megaliths shoot while walking on water? They’re so big they should be unsubmerged most of the time
Fun fact white rice is just polish rice.
They polish off the brown outer shell.
This actually led to an issue in japan with "edo sickness."
You see rice has vitamin b1 in the brown outer part, polishing it removes that and since the Japanese navy served it as sort of a perk for joining up since white rice was considered a luxury, it led to a situation similar to scurvy. (Interestingly a japanese doctor who studied in the west made the connection after learning of scurvy.)
Tangent aside, despite brown rice being actually healthier for you to me it has a dirtier flavor (less intense than quinoa but just as gross to my palate. Some.decribe the flavor as earthy, I call it dirt)
I'll "settle" for comeback games over curbstomp games any day Gyle. Thank you sir.
The midlife crisis sportscar purchase is generally done with little regard for the budget. Buying a new car with not so much thought about it isn't so bad, even if it's impractical, but buying an impractical car that you don't need and can't afford is the not so good.
Two comments to say: First is on that brown rice thing, brown rice isn't really as good as white rice imo. Also it's nice to hear that you mentioned the Afghanistan thing, a lot of youtubers don't mention stuff like that, but it's nice to hear that it is really just a genuinely concerning thing in the world. Love you Gyle!
Brown rice is supposedly better for you. But I do love White Rice, with a bit of butter salt and pepper. It's a really simple side dish but delicious.
TH-camrs whose channels are based on geopolitics (like Caspian Report) talk about it plenty. Other TH-camrs don't simply because it's not relevant to their channel. And I question why you feel a pressing desire to hear them do so, especially since that concern also doesn't seem to extend to the wars in Yemen or Ethiopia. Are things only concerning when the west is involved?
@@ArawnOfAnnwn he isn't from Ethiopia or Yemen, that's why he doesn't care. A war ending that their country has been involved in for 20 years is much more relevant to them as a person. Why is sharing an opinion on something like this so strange? If they don't talk about news in zimbabwe do they not qualify to talk about geopolitics?
@@jondorf3315 That makes sense as an expectation for Gyle, who's British, not TH-cam in general. It also doesn't jive when you have lines like "concerning thing in the world", cos that applies to all those other major world events as well. The overall impression is of Afghanistan being treated as somehow especially more important than other places, rather than just more personally significant for the peoples involved. And if it is more important, then the pertinent question is - why i.e. on what basis? There're possible neutral answers to that (casualty comparisons for instance, but no one's mentioned any statistics here), but also many biased ones (tarnishing the wests' image being popular in these comments).
@@ArawnOfAnnwn There is some important contextual information that helps reveal why the topic of Afhanistan is more important than other topics in this setting. Firstly, the sudden destabilization of Afhanistan is a very recent development, compared to the more or less status quo situation of Yemen that has been in a state of civil war since the dawn of time. That makes it a more important topic to even an international audience, as the ramifications of the events in Afghanistan will be seen almost immediately. That is compounded by the severity of the news, the defeat of a superpower in an important strategic location in the world like Afghanistan creates a lot of very serious ripples in the world of politics, and opens a new political battleground for nations like China and Russia, but also Iran and Pakistan, which is needless to say very disruptive.
Secondly, this channel and it's audience are largely anglophones, and the world's largest anglophones nations are deeply invested in this war, so it makes a lot of sense why, with this considered, this topic is a lot more important than others to that demographic.
Gyle man, have loved the cast for years, take care of your lungs man, want you around for decades please,!
Man, Morax had such a great start but then completely failed to capitalize on it. Great plays by Finx, really made a fantastic comeback from his early setbacks.
I mean, you tried being there for a long time in India, but they eventually wanted you out anyway :P
Sincerely,
A Canadian who's quite happy with our British history and traditions.
(Good job kicking those French out!)
Absolutely NOT lol! I LOVE the b%%%%ing back and forth in the chat! You get to see the real emotion of the people getting excited or getting crushed. You wouldn't mute the commentary to a wrestling or a boxing match, plus it gives you insight into what the teams are planning. I LOVE seeing Maverick being all cavalier before he gets smoked and inevitably cusses out everyone, or people falling for misleads.
Brown rice is good!! It tastes a little less refined, has a little more flavor and particularly texture. Also it’s supposed to be a little more nutritious. Definitely good!!
Lol for commenting about rice on a Gyle cast.
I remember playing this in ladder back in the day, and if your rank was close enough almost always one of you would offer draw and the other would accept...
If your rank was 500 lower than the other guy, you'd still offer the draw, but he would invariably say "naaaaaaaaa"
This was a good cast. I think you should use your discretion Gyle in deciding about chat depending on if it's just beyond the pale or not.
The tangent followed by "there's a transport full of civilians that's about to get shot down" ... oh my that was dark :-)
Really need someone to teach me how to eco. Every game I play I just get annhilated on mass and get so far behind. I know reclaim is a big part but often there is no reclaim to be had and I just get out played.
Please help someone!
pm me on faf (same name there)
Ask in the "gameplay and training" channel at discord for some advice or ask a personal trainer. discord.gg/6JXvBm7u
Many forgett that power = mass. If you ever powerstall, mass is gone.
Its a balance though, units vs upgrading mexes. t2 is quite importaint when u have no more t1 mexes.
A mod that removes power use from mexes would help newbies alot as powerstalling can cost you 10's of thousand of mass crippling you alot.
Just watch some replay for games you loose, ignore unit movements watch how the eco is balanced. Making to much power can be bad as 200 more power income cost you 1 t2 mex in mass, and thats 3 times more mass then 1 t1.
I am about 1200 so take this with a grain of salt.
1. Assist your mex upgrades. If you can get your first t2 mex faster than your opponent who is upgrading three mexes at a time then you can use that initial income to get your 3rd and 4th t2 mexes faster. This will snowball very fast. Sometimes you have to upgrade 2 or 3 mexes at a time or else you will overflow mass but it is always best to add lots of assistance to 1 mex at a time.
2. You NEVER want your mass bar to hit 80%. That means you engies will stop reclaiming as any mass they reclaim will get wasted. Try to keep your mass bar anywhere from 0%-30% full. That gives you enough flexibility to click a mex upgrade and not immediately begin stalling mass. Also any excess mass in your bar could be going towards a mex upgrade or more eco but instead it is just rotting in storage.
3. For players rated 0-900, I see that they don't build enough build power and so they overflow mass. Or they don't build enough energy and they energy stall. For higher rated players, 1000+ they overbuild energy and buildpower. Remember, pgens cost mass. So if you are overflowing an ungodly amount of power you are not just wasting energy but also the mass it cost to make those pgens. Also making buildpower (engies, factories, hives, ect.) cost mass. So if you have too much buildpower, then each individual builder is working at a slower pace, wasting the mass and energy that you put into making those units.
4. In conclusion, good players won't stall mass or energy and they won't overflow either resource.
Generally once your first 4 mexes stand you should constantly have at least one mex upgrading (ringing it counts as upgrading too) at any given time until they are all t3. I'd even say that ecoing is much more important than microing in FAF
Worked all morning this is my reward! Thanks Gyle
If after 20 years the country dissolved in a week I think that proved that whatever you tried to do didn't work and doing the same for longer would not help. You know that quote about insanity, doing the same thing expecting different result? Staying would be insane.
A lot of us expected that. The Taliban reasserting control was not a surprise. The part where they are doing it with Americans still in the country, and with looted American arms...that's a national outrage.
@@visvires6305 So do you not think there would be outrage if the Americans took back all weapons from the Afghan army before leaving? Then the outrage would be that they left the afghan army defenseless.
Also a complete and quick evacuation by every country would have been blamed as the cause for why the afghan army lost all morale and disintegrated. There's no winning because regardless what you do there would be outrage.
I guess what intelligence existed is not yet clear, but the president spoke about lasting 3 months 3 days before the country was completely lost. Most experts I've heard expected at least another week. All countries had personnel left, with plans on bringing them back the following week or even weeks, so even if it was a US intelligence failure it wasn't just US intelligence that failed.
@@Hedning1390 No, the US intelligence had given fair warning all along but had been deliberately ignored - just like Benghazi.
@@r3dp9 Get out of here with your conspiracies. Your conspiracy has to be world wide, because every country thought they had at least week 33 to finish evacuations. Unless you count the standing recommendation to remain forever as "fair warning".
Totally agree with you Gyle, if it took another 20 years to help protect people, it would've been worth it because entire generations would've been saved / safe.
Did yall think the west invaded Afghanistan to help the people of Afghanistan? I think not.
@@jsteel89 Not trying to get into it, but think about the billions of dollars invested in there when they built schools / roads / farms / gave them technology upgrades / gave them protection / delivered women into freedom from sharia law / etc. A lot of good came out of it, despite if the main purpose by the elite were meant for personal gain.
@@skyvipers Mate, if you really cared about schools and roads being built, then you wouldn't have sabotaged the Russians doing the exact same thing when they occupied it. Secondly, it's telling how much war apologists seem to care about women's rights when it justifies their wars, but not when they're suppressed by close allies (like KSA) and ESPECIALLY not about the mountain of dead (including women). What little good came out of it came at the cost of literally HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of dead Afghans. And no, there's no way the Taliban are gonna exceed that number, assuming their regime is stable - there was never as high a death toll when they were in power before, because WAR really is just that destructive.
War doesn't 'protect' people in the first place, it kills them. It was an invasion fyi. If you want to make the world a better place, there's FAR more that could've been done with all those trillions that didn't involve invading a country, which btw has also resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths (did I mention that before? Yep). Ironically, more people died while the country was under your 'protection' than during the Talibans' regime. Not cos the Taliban is particularly humane, but simply because WAR is just that inhumane.
I'm in 3 week quarantine - please start churning these out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gyle, being totally pro-Cybran, I usually disagree with your political view but this time I couldn't agree more.
I mark your words “We promised these people a better life and if it took another 20 years of occupation for us to get the country to stand on its own two feet that’s what we should have done”. Damn, couldn't have said it better.
I enjoyed your narration. Thank you
About turning 40s in the UK... pushbikes, guitars or bass guitars are quite common :D
Really hoped I’d get to see a solo Cybran win... damn
I really should stop reading the comments before watching the video.
I was hoping to see some Salem walky-walky action but most players forget about them unfortunately
All I ever want to see is Salem walkers, it never happens.
I like boats! Wish there would be more air and naval games.
Morax had the early advantage but wasteed too much in landspam, not enough in eco, left a lot of reclaim for finx, he simply outecoed Morax and won with that. But always love to see some successfull zthuee drops
Great, spoiler first comment yippee - thanks TH-cam for always showing the top comment...
5KM x 5KM = Skirmish. 10Km x 10KM = Battle. 20Km x 20Km = Operation 40KM x 40Km = WAR!
40x40 is more of a game ender rush B(
So what is the air staging beacon?
T1 Air staging facility i suppose. Refuels slower? Refuels fewer aircrafts at a time?
I agree with the sentiment of your tangent, but the coalition was never going to uproot the Taliban from Afghanistan without dealing with their international support. We could have stayed another 100 years and ended up in the same situation, and the West was never going to actually deal with the Taliban's support network because it would practically mean a world war.
Russia ended up with the same conundrum and they also pulled out rather than fighting against the US and Egypt, who were funding and equipping the Mujahideen. The US wasn't going to fight Pakistan, Iran, and possibly Russia. So we left.
Didn't watch the video, just liked it for the extra cuticule protection! (am sub'ed already)
Operation floaty floaty naughty naughty did the job :D
Great game! Very cagey play. Morax never quite regained his mojo - I don't think he attacked at all in the second half of the game. Once he lost map control and eco it was over. Great job Finx!
300,000 trained troops surrendered just a few days after we left. Can't fight it completely for them. They say brown rice is supposed to be healthier but I personally don't like its taste, there's also a texture component that makes it peculiar.
Great content! loads of amazing casts on Patreon also!
Top cast! All the best!
Brown rice has more texture than most rice bit tougher to chew but cooked right 🤌👌 its a tasty Seraphin dish
Please take care of your health, Gyle!
Wow! I can't believe that someone would drop five engies like that and not immediately build at least one AA structure. Crazy.
Appreciate talking "average joe" vs "newbs". I appreciate you for the consideration. I didn't even notice. Yeah, it's a much better choice, I'm actually quite hungry for those AJ fests...
something is wrong with the client, what am I going to do with myself. Oh there is a new gyle vid!!!
Brown rice does taste different a little bit, but the main functional difference is it takes ages to cook by comparison
HADHFASDHFHASDFH I loved your commentary about Afghanistan. I wasn't expecting it
The Taliban comment made me miss the next few minutes because I was laughing...
1v1 cast my favorites!!!
For the Taliban mess you can blame any international nation it's a mess since Alexander the great. Seleucid, Perses, Mongols, Mungals, Russian Empire, British empire, URSS, NATO break there teethes there. It's call the grave of empire for some reason x) It's a country that had the bad idea to be in the center of the crossroad of Asia
One e in the title is missing. Greetings from Germany. Big fan of yours. . .
Someone should order one ton of brown rice and send it to Gyle's home address.
Hi All
Morning Gyle
Great Video, BTW, i think you get sent these replays. Anyways, have you ever thought of doing a "Survival Horde" Map 4 Players, maybe at 100-150% health, that would be interesting to see, something different :)
Map name is "Survival Horde EE" Cheers
You think they'd be smart enough to build some early AA when on maps like this.
we need to see the laddar before the game so we can see the bigger picture ^^
26:23 Motorcycles ;)
Cheaper than a sports car but goes just about as fast
40+ knees are sayin : Nope.
I thing collecting wine is usefull and tasty hobby you can do from your home. On top, you can spend same as for a sports-car or less. :-]
I nearly always wait for Cybran to win but this one was different and nice play from Finx. Great game overall.
We should have either stayed there for 20 more years or left 10 years ago
Brown rice is a crime. My parents would only buy that type of rice when I was a kid, it is sort of like wholemeal bread.
You aren’t 40 years old you’re 40 years young
fails to compete for islands, fails to upgrade mass, fails to protect power
"i lost because frigate dif"
"that's not a request" ... intimidating
White rice taists like off-bland mush. Brown rice I like
Also it's healthier for you, give it a shot, try something new
Lollygagging from the old british language meaning to not do anything/wasting time. And then there is the other equivalent of Loli gagging which is a whole different can of worms that im not going to open.
🤣
But what is/isn't wasted time is subjective
Play FAF with us for midlife crisis Gyle!
Would it be possible to get the video files of the pre-battle screens? They would make for some great video wallpapers for Wallpaper Engine.
The Taliban victory was inevitable. And the fact that they rolled through and took over the whole country peacefully the second the US/UK powers pulled out just shows that the common Afghan people don't object to their rule. It's a good thing the war is over and it's a good thing Afghans will live how Afghans apparently want to live, in an Islamic Eremite.
Yeah, this is it. It's not our place to force our way on every other country and even if we think it is, one thing we've learned from Afghanistan is that it's fucking hard to do that if the people there are against it.
You're only as old as you feel, Gyle. If it makes you feel any better, I thought you were younger.
Name's Morax and he speaks for the trees
If you can't afford a sports car a motorbike is a great alternative, cheaper, more exciting but with the risk of life changing injuries or death.
at 28 minutes I could not help but thinking: "why didn't you just made a radar an placed a recon on the far left? you deserved your fate. he also used his air army to distract, it was clear. so why?" and can't figure it out since then. help.
thx 4 vidya gyle
Never be ashamed of being who you are Gyle, you have no obligation to those people in Afghanistan, protecting the weak ensures only one thing: they stay weak. Allow them the ability to change their rescheme to their natural desire. Your only obligation should be towards your family and your countrymen.
U mean SuprEme Commander FAF Cast right? xD
never tried brown rice. theres also black rice and red rice.
Red rice isn't good.
And as a westerner and especially as European, I've had plenty of opportunities to be ashamed: ex-Yugoslavia, Africa… but this might be the new tip of shame.
Hello Gyle :)
Dude nobody is getting killed in the streets, this has been the most peaceful seizure of a city in almost human history.
Instead of lollygagging, I prefer dilly-dallying.
Good game
Hi gyle
I love the chat. It's juicy.
Gotta check out some lolygagging.
Greatly appreciate your removal of the toxic chats. I was seriously considering unsubbing after a few casts in a row with annoying bitching from defeated players! Chats like the ones in this game i have no issue with offcourse
Westerners are choosing to ignore the simple fact that we were the aggressors who invaded another country as a stepping stone to iraqi oil and spent 20 years avoiding an exit strategy because the next lot will have to deal with it.
@ approx 6:00 it is sad, two things though, you can't occupy a country forver to maintain a shaky stability, the people have to do something. secondly, limited war/operations are effing STUPID when applied to afghanistan or anywhere else with a dedicated fanatical element that has significant resources. all or nothing, half-assed just feeds the defense contractors...they LOVE limited conflicts where not enough force is allocated to end things relatively quickly. yeah, that country is hell to operate in, neighboring countries don't do much to help or provide active support against even if it's just turning a blind governmental eye to what passes through their borders and doesn't directly affect them.
ugh...the more you think about it the worse it gets. governmental failure and the planners who should have been listened to were ignored. people who took to heart what the soviets had gone through and didn't want the sequel. almost seems like everyone loses...but there were winners. look who the governments paid the most to over those decades., who profited massively with zero risk.
hey, it's a comment, part of the unholy YT triad :p so there's that at least.
We had given them an excellent military with training and equipment, their president betrayed the people and forced the army to stand down in the face of less than 30k.
Just got back from AFG, Glad we're out.
3:16 I know you are a stinkin' right-winger and I am a stinkin' left-winger, from Germany of all places, but I wholeheartedly agree with you on the Afgahnistan topic. I am ashamed by how we betrayed those Afghans who put their trust in us and our values, many of whom have to pay with their lives for that now.
In regards to "pros" not liking big ocean maps because they want to kill the enemy in 6 min, why even play a RTS then? Got all these different unit types and tiers, but nah I want spam the first unit that can attack and kill instantly. Rushing is the dumbest strategy in RTSs, if you want to kill fast and end the game fast then play COD. If you want to build cool armies and use coordinated strategies then play an RTS.
One of the reasons I fairly quickly stopped playing Starcraft, just got disgusted by having like 80% of the games be my opponent doing a "5-7 minute all in push" strategy they got from some pro player for maximum efficiency in grinding ranks. If they won, great, they get to do it again and again and again for free wins. If I defended it they just instantly quit the game and gave me the win.
Neither outcome was enjoyable since I rarely got to actually play the game.
@@TheHuffur I think the worst rush I ever experienced was in 3v3 in the original Warcraft 3 way before Blizzard fucked it. Enemy team went all orc and sent all 15 of their teams starting workers straight to my base killed my workers and any thing I tried to produce or build and my 2 team mates just ignored my asking for help. They killed my main building then I saw them moving off to the next guy before my vision bubble went away.
lol i liked that taliban joke.
cool i always love watching gaming vids to help get my mind off of real life, especially ones that inject political commentary into them
GYLE
Finally Ladder Matches again :D
Buy a computer with RGB :-) Better than a sport car ;-)
"Lollygagging" comes from Skyrim.. as in the guards say "No Lollygagging" sometimes when u pass them.
Its way older than that. It's 19th century irish slang.
While I question your knowledge of certain contemporary topics, I appreciate you providing these casts for us to enjoy. I just ask that you consider such topics more thoroughly before discussing them on videos that reach thousands, if nothing more than to avoid disinformation.
sb 4
Booo no UEF (even though it makes sense on this map) I hope for mutual destruction and a draw
SPOILER
More like George_W_CRUSHED
We have no reason to be ashamed! Unless well, you voted for Biden XD
I mean, afghanistan is no worse off than before the west interceded. The idea was that the west would go in, force out the Taliban, to give the Afghan government time to establish order and stability and be able to defend themselves. They had 20 years, and the Afghani government were simply unable to create stability. What more could the west have done? At least now the Afghan people have an understanding of the kind of life that is possible outside of Taliban rule, and may one day revolt against them.
To be clear, I am incredibly left wing and anti US foreign policy in almost every way - but the Taliban are just straight up evil. Now as for the US being the ones to fund their rise to power, that's a different story...
Corporations fund them, the military fight them. I agree with most of what you said but it is very sad for the young girls who only new US rule in places like Kabul. Now they will be raped and sent off to be married to some bearded extremist who has no interest in her future or interests. I think when you start something you should finish it. The west where there for 20 years!, why not just leave a small force?
@@ryanphillips5341 Without the Afghan government and military being able to sustain themselves, leaving a small force would do nothing but endanger those left there. What could a small force achieve that the coalition forces could not?
"At least now the Afghan people have an understanding of the kind of life that is possible outside of Taliban rule" - they kinda already did when the Soviets invaded, who btw also built schools and educated women, and yet the Soviets lost too. Ironically, partly thanks to America, who didn't seem to care too much about improvements in living standards when it didn't suit them.
@@ryanphillips5341 And with US involvement, a lot of those little girls would just die. Ever wonder why you're hearing so much about women's rights in Afghanistan now, but not the death toll of the war? It's not cos it's small - it's literally hundreds of thousands of Afghans, including women. Women's rights also didn't seem to matter much when the Russians invaded - America still sabotaged them. It's being trotted out now only cos it helps whitewash the war, making it seem moral. It isn't.