Suebi vs Carthage and Boii (Online Battle #46)

Howdy guys, this is Oakley, and it's gonna be a 2v2 Some of you had requested that I do with multiple players I know you guys like seeing that and also you guys like seeing some of the non-traditional factions in multiplayer So that'll be the Swaby for instance That's who we're gonna be playing as my strategy in this game is also gonna be one of the rush and now I did Intentionally think I would charge out here, and so that's what we're gonna be doing you can see how I selected my general I was looking for that special ability that comes with area vistas But none of those abilities were active at the start of the game, so I was kind of pissed I was hoping to be able to activate this at the start and really get a bonus because part of the thing that that's baby Swaby specialty general has is Sort of the ambush and the first stage of that is like you increase your charge speed and a lot of those abilities I was gonna try and hook that up with a bunch of my worries and just do an all-out blitz but unfortunately it wasn't active a Kind of novel tactic that I'm gonna be doing here And we'll see whether or not it's effective is gonna be fielding five of these scout riders So typically these guys are really shitty. They're not very good on the you know in sustained melee They don't have the greatest stats, but what they are good at is speed And so that's what I'm gonna try to do against an opponent like Carthage who may not be the quickest on its feet And so their point is to scout out what's going on here as their name implies And then also hopefully to pick apart any forces who get Pushed to the sides or left alone And so you can see what I'm doing here is I'm charging forward Feigning a retreat and right here what I have in hiding right next to those guys is gonna be some spears and archers So I was hoping my opponent would do charge those forces there out of the woods and get drawn into my archer fire So that's what I'm doing here So charging forward cycling back it also allows me to probe and see what's on that flank over on the left side I am charging forward with my cavalry that's something you'll often see me Do is just charge forward with cavalry the point for that is to slow down the opponent so you can see here his forces on This side have slowed down however in response He is sending out some cav of his own so maybe not as I intended as it seems to be provoking a battle whereas I wanted it to slow down In any case my opponent here is not taking the bait, so I'm gonna keep moving up my forces here Charge up with some cavalry to pull him even closer my opponent is trying to charge my skirmishers However, I do have more guys here and in the scrub in the foliage here It's gonna slow him down, so he's not gonna get close enough to land a strike however You can see playing around with that is like playing with fire. It's very hard to do So my point is getting out of position on the right however on this left side my point is doing an all-out charge Seems like that's probably the best way to counter What's going on here the fact that I'm split up, so he's doing a very good attack or on this side My opponent did not fall for it. He didn't totally engage. I'm gonna tell my troops to attack I got a micromanaged aside, so I tell my true blood sworn's there to attack his guys I was hoping that his cab would keep charging my cab and as I usually do I would land a flank attack I was hoping my blood sworn would throw some of their missiles from point-blank range into the sides of his cavalry apparently that didn't happen I guess they didn't have enough time and you can see the results that ensued are his cavalry decided to reengage with those guys turn around Charge right through them. I didn't get any shots off and it results in a lopsided Engagement where his guys you can see they're only lost one So that was very very poor for me and especially with the rest of his army descending on me It's not at all what I want to do, so it's not boating well for that engagement Over here my ally is gonna be charging out with his troops supported by spears I'm gonna be circling around the side and you'll see where that leads us to over here I am gonna have to do a very very carefully controlled Fall back and retreat type of strategy and it's gonna be hard to pull off, but my guys here at the front I'm gonna throw into shield wall soak up his cavalry charge That's incoming and allow the rest of my troops to fall back I'm gonna get some of those blood sworn to sacrifice themselves hold back the charge And it should be enough to negate his cavalry over here We are gonna be able to knock out the Carthaginian cab look at this I'm charging with my spears archers raining in some of their fire and Carthage is gonna be adding in more of Their own spears to support, but I'm gonna flank around with my cab Over here. We are getting a bit of a blob have a look at my troop stats at the bottom We're all green for the moment So we're holding in there I'm gonna tell my cab to swing around to the left try and keep his troops from getting around that side in the center I'm gonna charge with my Troops here, especially these berserkers. I want to get them into combat as soon as possible You can also see me popping those abilities generally you don't want to pop them right at the start But considering I'm microing over here I figured I'd just go ahead and pop them in any case just so that they would take effect And I don't have to micro them down the road Here I'm getting around the flank of Carthage and now we're back over on this side, so I'm neutralizing this flank attack over here. I know with those two cavalry They're gonna be duking out for a while my archers in the meantime are gonna target his His own horse that are pretty close I know I want to take out those guys and It looks like I'm holding the line pretty well though some of my blood sworn are gonna start to crumble That's gonna be the kink in my armor over on that side And I'm gonna relocate some of my scout riders over on that flank. They're quick So they're good for repositioning and doing that kind of maneuvering like that supporting different flanks So it looks like we're pretty much enveloping Carthage. My ally has a ton of skirmishers in his center They should be picking apart the African spearmen. That's very good. It's exactly how you want to take those guys out Now my opponent is charging in with two more of his own cav and his general is included in that So that's gonna start tearing into my flank over in the middle. My troops are starting to flash and crumble So because I have so many of my forces over here I'm essentially facing the entirety of the bowie army on the other flanks So we really have to wrap this up as quickly as possible My scout riders are actually doing a surprising amount of damage, so I would say in the initial stages at least It's very very accurate the chaos It's caused and just landing strikes and all the rear of the Punic infantry is very very good Sword masters and more heavily elite troops are holding in there However, you can see right here. My generals abilities did not really get charged until now So I'm just gonna pop them. Anyways, I figure the battles already been done So let's go ahead and keep engaging some of my scout riders that are returning. I'm gonna send them around this flank I don't want these cavalry guys, you know hitting my troops actually looks like I redeploy them on the far side So that's a gamble. I'm taking I'm hoping his cavalry won't go ahead and hammer and anvil me But you can't see I'm redeploying some of my idle troops over here to help me out I definitely need to plug that gap in my line. Otherwise, it looks like we're gonna crumble My own scout riders back here messing with the Carthaginian skirmishers The reason I sent these scout riders to this flank as opposed to the right flank was because I wanted to save my own cavalry I know they're losing. I know my generals there and if I can break his own cavalry there Well, then it opens me up to allow to smash the rest of my opponents forces So it's a pretty desperate fight on both ends I will say we're both racing to Cara Basically carve up the enemy forces and force a domino effect However, the problem is by me moving my troops there Basically, the bowie cavalry is gonna be going straight for the line of our allied skirmishers in the center. That's a problem So the forces that I had sent to plug the gap are now gonna be sent over to help those guys out However, it's gonna be very very devastating for those guys to charge in that's the majority of my allies army troops Basically here. Yes, they decimated the Carthaginian Center, but now they're gonna be getting their destruction paid back with interest And the form of those cavalry guys charging in so I'm not sure if my ally saw this just yet He's clearly not repositioning. So that was a bit of a blender My opponent is gonna see what's going on with my scout riders trying to flank. He's gonna peel off some of his troops However, my guys here did crumble. I wasn't exactly sure what happened How many berserkers were knocked out so quickly, but it looks like we are in desperate straits Over on this side and also take note that on the left flank My opponent has engaged some of his own spearmen. Those are gonna be tipping the fight ruining my cavalry So it looks like all is lost on that flank or at least in mid, you know Uncontrolled fall on that flank. So we have to do What we can to wrap up this flank So it looks like we are able to do that on this wing where we crushed it. However, some of the rear of the Punic Spearmen who were kept behind are enough to ward off my troops and keep my Scout riders from doing too much damage Same time the entirety of my force on the left flank is now collapsing I think the fault probably lies with me not reinforcing enough not falling back quick enough Maybe not coordinating with my ally, but it was also due to the fact that over here We just weren't able to crack Carthage just in time. I think that was a problem probably I'm not quite sure what to blame it on. But you know if we had Reinforced certain areas and made sure to swarm concentrate fire on the skirmishers I think those probably could have been used most effectively But at least I was able to guard the majority of them with my one group of I think spear brothers over here so now it's gonna be down to Essentially two versus one My ally is still alive. However, he's been reduced to essentially skirmishers and the rest of his guys are engaged elsewhere so we're gonna be clumping up here trying to see if we can pick off his forces and You know, it is still a possibility I'm trying to regroup my archers gonna send out some support here to give them covering fire to retreat back to the blob Now this is the last of my cavalry troops. They're gonna be charging into these Libyan Peltas I'm pretty sure it's not gonna work just considering the fact that he has so many guys in number So if any one of his units turns around regardless of the fronting friendly fire, that's inflicted He can massacre my guys and knock them out and it'll probably be worth the sacrifice So yeah, they're charging in and yeah, his spearmen are gonna get me anyway So if I were to pull out right now, you know, his skirmishers would turn around and destroy me So seems like that unit is pretty much lost These Sam night warriors are actually very very strong. We weren't even able to kill them Those guys are pretty much all that remains It's stuff like that that I think my opponent or my ally should have focused on with his skirmishers I think what he did wrong was probably not focused enough on units like that taking out the elite infantry However at the same time I didn't do very well in this battle considering I lost that total The entirety of my side to the boy and they have significant numbers left so a good amount of this defeat has been at least so far can be pinned on me and the fact that my Gamble with that huge scout rider force did not really pay off It did initially I think we had pure chaos and a lot of hammer and anvils going on But we weren't able to capitalize on it and crack Carthage enough So kudos to the Carthaginian player and what he was able to accomplish But at this point with Carthaginian infantry and cavalry swarming from the back and the bowie cavalry right here Yes, we are able to pick off a couple of them But you can see here cavalry troops are just gonna charge right on through I only have two spears to cover the rest of our forces So it's definitely not gonna be enough but cool battle great battle I enjoy these two v2s not much communication other than the markers that we were drawing on the map But I think overall it was a pretty good effort and I'd like to again congratulate my opponents on The battle and my ally. Thank you for having this Again in the comments below you guys can recommend what you like to see. I have been recording these videos These were all in a set that I played right after I finished the documentary So I went ahead and played a couple multiplayer battles Those have been recorded all in first person Then I do what I'm doing right now and commentate over them. So some of you like that style because it gets Well, it has pros and cons. So for example this style allows me to show you my train of thought exactly how I manage my forces what my groupings are when I use abilities stuff like That but it's maybe not as successful as when I use replays where I can look at different parts of battlefield and for example when I had a question of you know, how did my Berserkers die so quickly we could go ahead look at that and dissect it. But yeah, that's gonna be pretty much it for this battle I'll try and get it I'll try and get a mix of both styles Because I know you guys like one or the other so we'll try and mix it up as well as hopefully doing more of those massive battles that I've done in the past if you guys haven't seen those are usually just gonna be me playing with a couple other people in some open lobbies where We just try and put on massive battles take it a little casually and usually try and do historical reenactments and whatnot But so make recommendation recommendations for that other stuff in terms of documentaries and more of those professionally done Things like that, you know those come every once in a while. They take a lot out of me the next one is going to be probably the Third or fourth part of the Punic War series So, you know, I'm gonna be continuing on that. So that's the first Punic War that'll be coming out next I haven't worked on it Haven't put the script together but that whole series is continuing to chug along and then we'll probably have more in the future doing Karai and various other battles Any case that's gonna be it for this conflict very well played on all sides I had great fun and really enjoying the changes and the the different updates to the factions Although I do feel like Swaby has been left behind and I hope they do get more troops more versatility in the future Seeing as Carthage is pretty versatile and very strong right now. But yeah, like I was saying right here I didn't hold up my end of the bargain 822 kills for me not very good. Look at the kills. I think it came down to my longbow hunters they didn't do very much and also the fact that my Blood swarm guys just totally ate it and just crashed I didn't have enough heavy infantry to hold up in a fight like my ally did you can see here his sword masters got You know over 200 kills whereas my own not nearly that many but yeah, that's gonna be it. Thanks so much. See you next time