Some badass play! (Online Battle #63)

Hey, what's up guys? This is Oakley, and it's gonna be a 2v2 battle following up on the Shogun 2 series of games I've been playing. I'm gonna put on slow motion just because this is off to a quick start so right off the bat It's gonna be two players obviously myself right here and this is gonna be sort of a buddy of mine who helped with the series can I documentary and He is gonna be koala from the bear clan, so he's laid up here and just as a disclaimer We're obviously doing traditional armies. I have a veteran army with the individualized units however koala Did not actually have too much play time in Shogun 2 so he's gonna be using actually some vanilla units His build is gonna be basically a front line of Yari Samurai followed up by bow Ashigaru And then on the right he has two mana naginata a hero here his general place on the right flank And then over here. He's put two Yari cav and then a light cav in the back If we want to look at my build have Yari cav in general here And then basically two bow cav are running up in the front, and then I have One matchlock unit here bow warrior monk and naginata samurai paired here And I have two more Yari cav in the forest here And then some heavy naginata samurai with some Yari samurai in the front and then a hero here and then bow Ashigaru, so my build is mostly tailored for probing and Sort of forcing my opponent to engage with my bow cav here. They're highly upgraded. They have great reload skills and Then I was trying to bait the opponent into running into my matchlock Ashigaru or my superior distance bow warrior monks here And then I would have a stable core in the center with some you know Yari samurai for quick response high armor And then also naginata samurai with huge armor and then a katana hero basically to chop up anything that came at them So this was supposed to be my core and then my cavalry units are pretty strong Yari cavalry here Rank 5 and then two more Yari cav 5 and 4 ranks But what we're facing off against is going to be one traditional army here And this is going to be one Steven Seagal and then over here actually is going to be a more modern army and Dado the best 3000 so This kind of throws a wrench in our plans. I completely forgot that the Fall of the samurai they'd have access to cannons So I wasn't anticipating getting bombed that I didn't quite scout out my opponent at the beginning and so you can see his cannons Tearing into my units as they charge out and try and probe so that definitely neuters my ability to do what I want to Do with my bokeh. We can take a look at his army right here He is to katana kachi on that side to katana or no one katana kachi on this side So some melee units you can see these guys positioned right here on the flanks. It's an all-white army basically shogunite infantry here Sort of his more stable and veteran core here And then he is white bear and then black bear and then red bear basically all aligned here So relatively cheap infantry and he's actually brought the most infantry of all the armies and that's something that I'm not gonna hold against him That kind of pisses me off when you're fighting old school versus modern armies Because what they can essentially do is just form a huge line and when that happens, there's no real way to deal with them There's no way to get around them If you try and do an upfront charge They're just gonna blast you and when they stretch out which you'll see him do in the future It kind of causes problem to him. But again, that's nothing held against him It's just the nature of when you do these types of matchups. So mostly the fight is gonna be ongoing here So let's go ahead and cover some of that So I'm poking and probing with my cavalry getting some initial volleys against these like having various other units You can see I was able to pick off a couple of his higher tier. Actually. No, those are just like caps So I'm mostly just probing and I'm losing more men than I'd like to the cannon fire But I'm least forcing him back Testing the water seeing what he has and how his response time is and I have to say Steven Seagal was very good with his response time. Let's take a look as deployment He is exceptionally good at Total War the Shogun game His build mostly relies on what I have seen lately I haven't played Shogun 2 in a while but what I've been seeing as of late is a focus on Naginata and Spear builds with very heavy armor and the reasoning behind that is it allows you to be very steadfast And you can hold firm and then what you put in your army is some of these types of units So high damage dealers for instance, and then you bring high damage dealing cavalry So your infantry core can do well in stabilizing and holding a fight and then your cavalry basically is geared up for smashing the enemy Cav, so let's go through that So on this flank here, he has light cav and then yari cav and then he has bulletproof samurai right here and yari samurai So again the combination of spears and Naginata with cavalry makes for a very potent mix and very hard to crack The cavalry he positions here are good for probing and then what he's done is he doesn't want me to come help my ally So he's positioned these units here. Basically these Naginata tenants are just fodder units but they're enough to hold up at a cavalry charge that I might have and then his Basically long-range matchlocks are positioned right here. Anything I try and do to reinforce He just scoots up and he can pick my guys off. So I'm forced to go and reinforce out through the back His main center line is going to be sort of Sparsely filled with some of these Naginata warrior monks and then Naginata warrior monks So these guys have low armor, but high attack So he keeps these guys sort of in the center, but they're out of range and he's gonna try and push the flank So he's moving his attendants here Positioned over here. He has some I believe more Okay, actually a matchlock unit here. So he does actually cover his center position with matchlocks but onto the cavalry The anal train these guys were very very very much to be feared just base fire cav have astounding attack charge Stats and when he upgraded them, they can tear into any cavalry So he has more light cav and then also additional yari cav position here And like I was saying this is where he puts the meat of his armored infantry And these guys are great for just moving forward, especially when you tell them to do the rapid advance They can close the gap and with their armor. Look at this We have basically koala bear unleashing with the entirety of his force right here his bow Ashigaru, but given the nature of the terrain with the forest and the fact that he's shooting its armor It completely neutralizes those guys. So that's why I think you're seeing a lot of the favoring of these high armor units And he's gonna poke and probe see what the opponent's gonna do And then he's gonna send forward these yari samurai just to try and bait these cavalry in But what you're gonna see is an engagement occur right on this flank. Also right here I wanted to point out that I had tried to poke and probe and take out these light cav with some of my bows but I got in range of his Matchlock warrior monks who activated an ability that allows them to shoot further So these guys are ideally positioned in the woods. I almost forgot about them I sort of knew they're in the vicinity, but I didn't think they could shoot that far He activated his ability and basically snipe my units a very good move on that part My other bow cav unit however was able to get some volleys off so I was able to ward off some of these light cav and you can see my guys have pretty exceptional range and Accuracy so I can start picking apart his units Which is what I'm intending to do with my cavalry and I'm starting to shift more guys to this vicinity I'm also gonna be pouring some of these yari cavalry bringing them over to this flank to try and help out But here you go. This is gonna be the engagement on this side. Sorry. I'm still in slow motion There's just so much going on. But here you go. Anal train is gonna be coming back here Yari cav and then this light cav. Light cav is supposed to absorb the charge of these Heavy units so he was he's gonna provoke a charge from the yari cav and then follow up with other units You can see how he's pushing forward constantly with these spearmen They've really lost almost nothing and they're trying to bait a charge from the yari cav at least trying to hold them and just provide Pressure intercept and then he'll charge in with these calves. So at all points Steven Seagal was being very Tactical with his use of units. However, it looks like what he's gonna try and do right here That is koala bear is actually poke and just sort of go through the gap right here and try and charge at those matchlock samurai However, the anal train units are gonna try and prevent that from happening And as always he has he's not getting out of attendance positioned right behind his guys These guys are very cheap units, but they can hold up against a cavalry charge Essentially what you do is you position them right behind your match locks match locks get off shots They fall back and then these and I get an attendance will basically hold up any additional charge So what he's done is force these guys to expose themselves and now they're kind of in an awkward position where they're pushing up here And this light cab is gonna try and catch them out in the open Meanwhile, these yari samurai are gonna be charging forward Counteracting these own yari guys holding them in place and then here comes the oncoming tide the anal train Basically just went in through here a massive charge Effectively routing this like have right from the start the other yard have took a tremendous hit and they're falling back So what I'm doing at this point is I'm gonna position my own Highly veteran yari cavalry here to try and prevent the flank rolling up, but I don't have enough So I'm pulling in my bow cab more bow cab and then I'm also gonna be peeling off some more units here and my general as for this front, like I was saying, he's basically doing this tactic where he's Stretching across the entire map Again, it's unfortunate. I wish he didn't do this But basically what he's trying to do is just almost create a second red line constantly slow Decreasing the size of the battlefield and he's kind of allowing his ally to do the work of this battle so now that this cavalry strike and The they're sweeping in through here Let's watch some of this Very epic we can actually go ahead and put this on play right now I think I've talked enough in slow-mo, but they're wrapping up the units and then he's gonna pull back a good move And you can see just how quickly he's moving these guys around putting all sorts of different orders trying to react to me So he's realized that he doesn't quite have the ability to crack my unit So he's gonna probe again with the like have as he always does I'm also probing with my own cavalry and every time having these guys cycling in and out one group charging in getting off some arrows And then the other group Retreating so I'm gonna constantly do that and that'll be enough to hold those guys at bay Meanwhile, this Yari samurai took out the other Yari samurai despite having taken so many losses from the archers He does charge with some more Yari samurai into these matchlock samurai those guys are gonna be forced to retreat and what that does is it queues a charge through the center because he's sort of Koala bear that is he's lost the cohesion of his front line Take a look at this. He's gonna get intercepted right here He's not gonna wear amongst have an exceptional attack and they're gonna just be crushing into these Yari samurai What you want to do to counter these Naginata warrior monks is obviously direct the archer fire But all these archers are positioned in an awkward angle where they're mostly firing over here They should be focusing fire on these Naginata's warrior monks because those guys have virtually no armor if he could we'd be able to wipe out these high-value units But instead he was forced to redirect his shots over here And these guys who cleaned up some of the fight here are gonna be just chasing after my cavalry So that's another benefit of bringing some highly upgraded Yari Samurai is they can chase after cav really effectively and all the shots. I'm putting on with my my own bow cav and the additional Bow ashigaru, they're doing almost no damage to this unit So again just to the benefits of using these Yari samurai in combat and that's opening up It's chasing off my cavalry and allowing him to charge in through here. So Steven Seagal is doing a great move match like samurai in supporting position and here he's just breaking through this front Charging in with some more of his cavalry units and now he's into the thick of the bow units So this entire front is gonna start collapsing Now you may be wondering why I'm not reinforcing with all of my forces Well, it's because I'm facing a wall of guns and if I were to just shift position move here He would just collapse on me. So I'm sending kind of forces piecemeal I should have probably sent more but I don't want to over commit especially with what they've done here hidden here I can't really cut across this position right here. He has these What is it the The matchlock warrior monks who can fire exceptionally far So he's holding down that front keeping me from reinforcing in any case You can see the entire collapse of this force running through the forest. You can watch this being pursued by these just high about high skilled units and then the cavalry is returning from where they had exploited my Panicked route that were chased away by his own spears. He comes back and he completes the encirclement So really a devastating assault props to Steven Seagal. He just obliterated this army I feel bad for koala bear But he hasn't played too much of the multiplayer for Shogun 2 and especially heavy discrepancy in unit veterans, he really is a hampering but You know, it really deals with the skill of this player Anyways, we're gonna be continuing the fight on this side and I'm sort of reforming I'm gonna allow the routing army here Hopefully if they don't go off the map, they'll be pulling back to my forces So I've pulled here with my two bow Cav and some more yard Cav to try and save these archers You can see me rolling in through here and I was gonna counter charge his own Cav chase them off the field So I was able to chase them off and sort of allow these Bow and Shigaro to regroup. However, I did sort of run over some of them in the process I'm moving up with some more support right here. And What Steven Seagal is doing is he's reforming in these woods out of range. He knows the danger posed by my bow Cav He's not gonna expose his units needlessly. There you go again I was trying to move into position But he moved his matchlock warrior monks who can have the ability to extend their range These guys are just preventing me from moving forward and reinforcing in any sort of a quick path Anyways, here we go. You can see as I'm reforming. This is where he pushes up his mat his entire line So again closing up this main front What I'm gonna try and do in the face of this is scoot one of my yard Cav around this flank and the only way You can basically defeat these armies is getting around the flank So that's what I'm gonna do soon So you can see me peeling them off over there and I'm gonna wait for his charge sort of in the woods I'm gonna try and get some shots off with my superior range bow warrior monks trying to pick off his units and prep for a Strike on this side at the same time. My katana hero basically has no purpose fighting against these infantry so I'm gonna try and pull him over here and sort of establish a fighting retreat at this position and You know try and pick off these guys the anal train right there I'm getting some shots off with my bow cab, but it's just not really doing enough Some you did a good job of just striking, you know This unit should not be extending too far And I was scared away by some of the match locks again position here and the fact that he has more units there So I really can't encroach on that territory All I can do is approach piecemeal Again the avatar general bodyguard right here got too close and these match locks are really sealing down that position So it's gonna be a fighting Downhill battle at this point. I was able to scoot some of my cavalry around this flank So I'm gonna go after this cannon. Although at this point, it's basically out of ammo I'm still gonna just go and kill them and try and bait some units here and then go for a rear strike on this Position so that'll be sort of a countdown. We'll say and as I'm reforming in this open field here I know I can take them in the open field just because of the versatility the bow cab He wants to charge out with his cavalry. That's fine I can take them Just scoot one in front shoot retreat have another cab that reforms and shoots and all of his cavalry will basically have to deal with the oncoming fire and then some pretty high-level cavalry that I have Positioned here as well as the fact that I've brought over some more negative samurai that I can rally behind These bows are here in the forest to prevent a charge through his position but again Steven Seagal got away with the Obliteration of an entire army and if he were to just fight me one-on-one, it would probably be an even fight I think I would win just because obviously I'm more unmolested in terms of numbers But then we have this entire army back here. That's still alive Here we go for the strike on the cannons. I just want to take out this unit However, here he comes with his own general I don't think he can get off some shots with his pistol some of the Modern generals can but I was still afraid of that. So I charging dealt some damage and then went ahead and retreated So went ahead and pulled back right there. These guys are basically gonna start Sort of routing although somehow they were able to kill a couple of my horsemen. So that was really disappointing I'm not sure how that happened, but it's I was gonna go back and reform and Now we're sort of at a standstill so I pulled my cavalry back behind the safety of these woods just because I want to have the advantage of The woods and I knew I might have to have positioned my own In this area here because you can see the army bearing down I wanted some flexible support to swing them to the right if necessary Now we're having the a little bit of a peace and a lull So let's go ahead and just zoom in on some of these units see some of them here my pink warriors in the forest highly veteran and upgraded guys there are some beast stats and Here you can see my own Boy cigar looking out at the remnants of that army and you can see troop movement in the distance Cavalry running off to the side and on the right they can see this huge infantry formation moving up So this is probably gonna be something worthy of them pissing their pants Let's go ahead and take a look at this infantry movement here. Just take a look at how he moves his forces up It's very methodical. He's got his matchlock samurai here. So basically covering Any of my forces who would move forward these guys are covering against that and then he moves these guys piecemeal Yari samurai always covering and then cavalry following up slowly But surely and he's always staying in the range of cover and now he's gonna sort of allow his ally to push forward And move forward with my match locks out here. They're mostly a meat shield I know I can't take my opponent by why I'm to move up just absorb some of the fire Because you can see I'm moving in with my cavalry I may have done that a bit preemptively, but I wanted them to get off some initial shots Trigger sort of volleys from those two and allow me to push forward and get some shots off with those guys My cavalry were able to scoot around the side and this is exactly what you want when facing an opponent like this is Draw their fire with a low-value unit and then you're gonna want to charge in from the side So here comes my general on the flank His thin line right here is gonna be subject to the charge of my journal and now I can cut through his red bear And they should be crumbling pretty easily So that's gonna be me turning the tide here and then my own cavalry is gonna return from this front I've been peppering them with volleys from my archers. Let's watch some of this And there we go So I'm gonna be able to collapse these two units my match locks are still alive for some additional covering fire My own bow calf for some more fire as well So I'm collapsing this front and I'm gonna decide to sort of break apart his line here Continue the charge with my cavalry along the flank and decide to charge forward with my naginata as considering that he's Not gonna be able to fight back However, the staggered line right here is gonna allow him to get some more fire and his ally Steven Seagal is gonna be poking in Through here with his calf exploiting the gap that I left I charged back because I knew that my cavalry were about to route and the additional Fire that he's getting off with his general was just too much for my force I had to pull back doing so allowed him to unleash some fire on me And these guys are actually gonna try and get a charge off on My katana hero who's sitting here kind of needlessly at the same time They're pushing on this front again with the naginata attendance to soak up the fire and then these match locks in the back His cavalry is now pressing the advantage. So I'm gonna go ahead and try and hold this front I'm getting around the flank with my Yari calf. He's gonna chase me. However, I'm microing somewhere else Unfortunately, we're gonna get caught by his naginata attendance I was gonna charge into these matchlock warrior monks But again, he has an answer that the anal train cab is gonna be coming in through there over on this flank I was able to counter charge his Yari cab some more of them are coming in I'm gonna try and support with some naginata samurai, but that's kind of exposing this force here. No more naginata samurai You can charge into my bows. So at all points, they're being very effective. Let's watch this flank I was not even able to kill this unit after all the forces I threw at them So that's what I really don't like at the traditional versus modern forces Just it's really hard to be cost-efficient, especially if they spread out their lines like this You saw how I got a double strike on this But given the fact that he has more troops even in the distance, even if they get friendly fire They can crack my units. So I got a massive strike on these two forces almost none of my guys lost here But I decided to charge down the line and his forces got some shots off and that's enough to basically route those units And then yeah, I was forced to fall back to the force and it's kind of a damn it if you do Damn, if you don't if you keep committing you'll just get obliterated by the additional forces in the back But if you retreat you're subject to just volleys and volleys into your back So it's a really hard fought battle Especially when you have another opponent here who has almost a half strength army that is extremely potent and that's tearing apart my flank So it's almost a one and a half versus one battle right here again. Nothing to say about You know Nothing against my ally koala bear or nothing. It's my opponent for using this army It's just kind of how it plays out but I do want to say that Steven Seagal was definitely the MVP of this battle doing very well and Yeah, they're just stretching me apart. I am able to isolate some of these attendants who got out too far However, I lost my boy Shigar in the forest. And again, he's being methodical with how he advances wiping out areas of resistance Moving up with these matchlock warrior monks these guys with their extended range can force me back So I'm again forced to pull back from these positions as I pull back He's just gonna scoot in with his fire cav and again his Yari Samurai and some more matchlock So that's a very good way to try and put a stranglehold on me Anyway, I charge back with my nagging a samurai into the thick of this infantry blob. It's a little pink versus white. I Should be able to take these infantry and I'm gonna throw in some more Nagging a samurai and then my own Yari cav is just gonna be thrown into this mix trying to hold back his red bear But you can see with more lines back here. These guys can just collapse on my position And yeah, I'm starting to route some of them, but look at this He throws in his katana kachi. So bring just a couple of fodder katana units He can throw those into the mix hold my guys back He pulls back his bear infantry and they can just get off some more shots My Yari cav was enough to hold them back. So it kept them from firing on my position, but that's not gonna last for long They're gonna go ahead and reform and just murder my guys So it's really hard to combat those forces and I was again here landing some more strikes He's targeting specifically my hero unit trying to bring him down. I counter charge But again, he's just drawing me into the fire of his matchlock warrior monks. Oh, that's a really cool kill animation Throwing the spear and picking it off. But yeah, you can see again Any false move you do against those guys is really hard to predict Just where they're firing distances with the upgrades and again, I'm forced to fall back so as I said, he reformed those guys after throwing in a fodder unit one or two volleys from them is gonna be enough to just Decrease the ---- out of my morale, especially in the long lines. He's in. So there you go He sacrificed one cheap unit and he's able to take out my guys. Even if I punch through that He doesn't care about friendly fire. He's gonna keep pouring on the fire on to my guys obliterate them and Yeah, there's not much I can do in this instance I'm left with these units here not gonna be live much longer and some of these guys are getting off some shots against my bow Cap, I was hoping a target and get some shots off especially with my bow cap in the force I'm doing decent damage against these guys. But again pressing the advantage here Very methodical as always so you can definitely learn from this play style and I brought back my katana hero in the force I figured I'd rather have him face this traditional army than the non-traditional one So he's gonna be pulled back behind sort of my meat shield here And this is we're gonna choose to engage sort of two pink Warrior units fight against each other. So it's a high attack unit against a high armor unit. We'll see how that goes So you can see his high attack getting the most of that initial charge killing some of my guys but now the tie is gonna turn as I throw in some of my katana heroes who have high attack and his low armor is Gonna mean I'm gonna be cutting them to pieces However in the distance more guys are getting into the fight and he's throwing some more Yari samurai around the flank gonna get the backs of my guys I'm gonna try and counter charge this in a little bit with my guys Yaris samurai are gonna try and isolate those guys keep them from getting around the flank My bow cap are doing their best to ward off this anal train. And here we go. He obliterated my forces Field is littered with dead bodies. I'm gonna bring these guys in to try and attack this flank, but mostly he's just crushed this position And here's getting his now you know guys to try and target my bows over here Let's go ahead and watch some of this fight that's developing in here It's a little hard to follow what's going on with the the mix of colors, but I have yellow and pink So you can see me mostly on the left and he's on the right The kill animations and just the animations in general in this game are super awesome I love watching this close-up and charging with my bow cap just to try and uh Change up a little bit of the outcome of the battle However, as soon as they get their charge off They're gonna be fighting it because again the reliance on naginata and spear is gonna be very good against any cavalry units So yeah, very effective So alas, my bow cap did not get very many kills at the end of this. There you go. They're running And his own general is gonna get into the mix try and rally his guys and again He's getting some of these nodachi around my flank and these guys have again huge attack charges So they're gonna be cutting into my guys It's only a matter of time before they can close in on my outnumbered outgunned and almost outclassed katana hero So they're kind of boxed in right here You can see them try and fend off this numerous naginata attack, but the nodachi are forming up behind them So here we go a charge from the back into my katana hero So this is gonna be the last of my troops. We can go ahead and see what else is going on But that's that's basically it it's down to my katana hero. And here we go They're they're massacred so very close Oh, no, I would say a close battle so much but a very interesting battle to say the least So if you guys enjoyed I hope you guys learned from this definitely the tactics of Steven Seagal was very very effective And yeah, hope you guys enjoyed. See you next time