Fantastic video! Great commentary. Thank you for the walk through and the education. I plan to use many of the notes in my gameplay so I can try to get better.
This game was a joke. Check out the situation at minute 9. Your army is approximately as big as his army - only that you are in Castle Age and he is not, with the corresponding consequences on unit strength (as well as you getting relics while he cannot). What kind of "Feudal Rush" is this supposed to be if you are actually deep into Castle, benefitting from all it gives you before he even commences his attack? Not that he bothered scouting your base to see what you actually have before committing to his all-in, meaning that this was a completely blind attack. So your opponent was a clown, but this video also shows how ridiculously overpowered Byzantines are (as players like Beasty and Lash eagerly confirm in their videos). There is little to learn from it. You played an overpowered civ against an opponent who did not know what he was doing - and literally so, seeing that he amassed a mix of units without any recent recon of what you had and what you were doing. Going for a Feudal all-in and at the same time walling off your own base defensively is also a weak approach (as the investment in those walls significantly delays/weakens your army buildup, which can very well be seen in this game).
@@MochaManGaming I am in Platinum too most of the time (even though I sometimes get a peak of Dia 1). People normally do scout in Plat. Sometimes they are committed to rushing no matter what and thus neglect to do it, but they know enough of setting up a decent econ that if they decide to feudal rush, they manage to have a larger army than an opponent who gathered 1200f 600g and then invested another lot of vill seconds to build a landmark before making any military. That is the key thing here: You made all those investments and still had the same army size as he did! With what you had you could have fought him even if you had still been in Feudal! What you describe is something I'd rather associate with low to medium gold.
@@PrivatePrivateer I totally understand where you are coming from and I agree with you that his plan was poorly executed no matter how you look at it. However, he was in fact plat when we played. I felt a lot of pressure in that game and nearly lost it. The reason I made the video is not because I thought I played extremely well, but because it highlights that unpredictable things happen at the lower levels of play and gold and platinum players do not always properly adjust because we don't know how. That's why I nearly lost a game that wasn't even close. Not all games I post are like that :)
Great vid again!
Great work bro. Found your channel just as my holiday started love it! Might be a byz main for the holiday.
Do it! It's one of the most fun civs in the game and it's very strong
Fantastic video! Great commentary. Thank you for the walk through and the education. I plan to use many of the notes in my gameplay so I can try to get better.
@@jguy2020 Thank you, glad to be helpful
Are you planning to do any guide for mongols? they are not in a very good spot now and i think they are pretty hard to play, but man they are fun :D
I will make a guide for them in the future but it might be a little while. I have a few other guides on my list before I get to the Mongols
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This game was a joke. Check out the situation at minute 9. Your army is approximately as big as his army - only that you are in Castle Age and he is not, with the corresponding consequences on unit strength (as well as you getting relics while he cannot). What kind of "Feudal Rush" is this supposed to be if you are actually deep into Castle, benefitting from all it gives you before he even commences his attack? Not that he bothered scouting your base to see what you actually have before committing to his all-in, meaning that this was a completely blind attack.
So your opponent was a clown, but this video also shows how ridiculously overpowered Byzantines are (as players like Beasty and Lash eagerly confirm in their videos). There is little to learn from it. You played an overpowered civ against an opponent who did not know what he was doing - and literally so, seeing that he amassed a mix of units without any recent recon of what you had and what you were doing. Going for a Feudal all-in and at the same time walling off your own base defensively is also a weak approach (as the investment in those walls significantly delays/weakens your army buildup, which can very well be seen in this game).
@PrivatePrivateer welcome to platinum league my friend. You are completely right, and yet this is what a lot of games at my level look like
@@MochaManGaming I am in Platinum too most of the time (even though I sometimes get a peak of Dia 1). People normally do scout in Plat. Sometimes they are committed to rushing no matter what and thus neglect to do it, but they know enough of setting up a decent econ that if they decide to feudal rush, they manage to have a larger army than an opponent who gathered 1200f 600g and then invested another lot of vill seconds to build a landmark before making any military. That is the key thing here: You made all those investments and still had the same army size as he did! With what you had you could have fought him even if you had still been in Feudal!
What you describe is something I'd rather associate with low to medium gold.
@@PrivatePrivateer I totally understand where you are coming from and I agree with you that his plan was poorly executed no matter how you look at it. However, he was in fact plat when we played. I felt a lot of pressure in that game and nearly lost it. The reason I made the video is not because I thought I played extremely well, but because it highlights that unpredictable things happen at the lower levels of play and gold and platinum players do not always properly adjust because we don't know how. That's why I nearly lost a game that wasn't even close. Not all games I post are like that :)