Oakley vs Indypride - Game 2 (Online Battle #85)

What's up guys this is Oakley and I'm going to be playing as the Lusitani. My opponent is going to be IndiePride playing as the BowieEye. So I am going to play a whole series of battles against Indie. We had a great kind of evening where we played a lot of back and forth. So Indie is a great player. He's on YouTube. Check him out for sure and he's a good player. So last battle I beat him and in this battle we're going to do another sort of barbarian-esque battle. So he recommended I take the Lusitani in a previous talk we'd had. So I decided I would try and fuel them and he's going to be playing as the Bowie. So let's go over the builds real quick. So the core of my force is going to be made up of these veteran shield warriors. Two of them there and Lusitani nobles who are very very strong units. Another veteran shield warrior there. Plugging in the gaps are going to be Iberian skirmishers and then Lusitani nobles on either side. So pretty hefty infantry core in the center although I'm spread thin. And then these guys here to be able to deal death to his own troops as they push in the center. And then I have a lot of Skitarii cav actually. So three in the center and then two of these Lusitani swords women just holding in the back for reinforcements. And then I have two flanking positions Lusitani swordsmen with Balearic slingers and Kopita on the other side. Let's go ahead and watch this engagement. And he is going to decide to send two cav units. Obviously that's going to beat one swords spear unit. So I'm going to try and do everything I can to get some early strikes against his cav. Already these guys are starting to rake up you know a couple kills and a couple hits here and there. And this is heavy horse so I was hoping to be able to catch these guys. And keep in mind that as Indi is attacking there I'm also going to start swinging my cavalry and my forces around here. That's something you always want to do. I know he's going to heavily micro here so I'm going to you know take advantage of this. And I spot he has some hidden heavy horse. I'm going to get a counter charge there while Indi is over here disrupted. And over on this flank I'm trying to do everything I can to just prevent him from getting away with this. So I can keep him from actually killing any units here while at the same time getting a strike there. That'll be a win-win for me. But anyways he's going to get slightly around my units. However he's wasting more and more time trying to dance around my Lusitani spearmen. And that's going to open him up for a Scutari cavalry charge. And he got pretty pissed in this battle. We were in Skype as we were doing this. That he got caught on my spearmen. So you can see this. My Balearics are just barely getting out of there. So I caught him up on those spearmen and I neutered that cav. So that cav is basically done. And he is now desperately trying to chase after my guys. Trying to get something out of this engagement. And he's actually going to get caught again on the spearmen. So in Skype chat he was just like are you ******* kidding me? Because yeah they are basically wasting time trying to chase after my guys. Continuing to get caught on these spearmen who are doing you know a pretty good amount of intercept work. And all the while while he's being you know tripped up. That just means I have more time to move these guys into the fight. So here come my units. So I would say this heavy horse unit is going to get killed because my Scutari were able to get a counter charge and they're engaged with Lusitani spearmen. So that in and of itself is a good exchange. I'm going to lose the Balearic slingers but I'm going to be able to isolate two of his cav which is going to give me an advantage on this flank. And as I said I was microing over on this side because I knew Indi would be distracted. And that's where I got a decisive charge with Scutari cav on his heavy horse. His heavy horse I believe are better units. They're kind of the same. Yeah but anyways he's going to pull out of that fight. He realized that it was not a position he could hold especially with the support I had. And I'm going to push forward and try and bait his main army. But yeah over on this flank he's going to try and disengage with this heavy horse before taking too many losses. So what is that 20 there and about 15 here. So exchanging a decent amount of troops for one Balearic slinger. Maybe it's okay. I mean it's better than keeping them committed in this fight because he was absolutely going to lose this. So it's a good move to actually pull them out. And he's going to see if he can you know pull as many of my guys away from this fight as possible as he starts to drive through the center. I'm not going to allow him to pull away from this position here. I'm going to keep chasing his heavy horse. And in the retreat these guys are going to lose a lot of men. So you can see them precipitously dropping and my Scutari cavalry are going to do a lot of kills. Let's go ahead and put this on cinematic mode. Oh that's weird. Anyways yeah I'm starting to get a lot of damage on his forces. And he's going to start and try and counter charge with his spearmen. And I'm going to decide this is the point where I'm going to disengage. And it's just in time for his heavy horse to break. And I have my own Balearic slingers in the distance targeting his unit. So he's going to push forward in the center. And what we decide to do is just completely pull back. I have these guys on group. And you can see how the group orders are getting really messed up. So I am having to redeploy these guys individually. But anyways what you want to do in this position is I haven't quite secured the flanks yet. And I'm not in a good position. So what you should do is actually pull back and allow your units here for instance to get additional kills. And just pull back. And then what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to leave some of my skirmishers. You can see how I'm pulling back with my forces. And I'm leaving some of these skirmishers to basically hold and cover the back of my force. Absorb some of his charges and then get some early shots off. So that's how I recommend doing these sort of falling back and kiting tactics. And anything I can do to just start picking apart these bowie troops. These guys are heavy, heavy forces. And so I need to score as much health damage as possible. And hopefully, you know, soak up some of the charges. So now I'm going to start reforming my line. I feel like I'm more comfortable on the flanks. I've been able to wrap up this position. Over here my Lusitani spearmen are going to shield wall up. Balerics are going to pull back. Indi is not going to take the bait. But I'm going to be able to counter charge and pull a lot of his guys into this front. And also have some cav in the back. Over on this side I'm continuing to pull back my Iberians. You can see how they soaked up an entire volley. That's, I would better soak those guys up with the Iberian skirmishers than my more valuable Lusitani nobles. So I'm going to get a counter charge and really try and pin up as many of his forces as possible. With my thin lines I'm able to bunch up a lot of his units. So three units here all going to be engaged on just one force. That's exactly what I need. And now I have additional cav in the back. So he's trying to ward off against that. And my own skirmishers are now going to be able to, you know, get additional strikes on him. And then now, look at this. This is very important to when you're playing these battles. Don't tell your guys to attack the unit in front of them. Attack the unit diagonal. Because now he has his sides exposed. And I'm going to be able to get a lot of kills against these forces. And my cav in the back are just striking his cav. Trying to pin up his heavy horse. Really keeping these guys from being committed. And then starting to swarm in on the sides and help reinforce this flank. Because you can see my veteran shield warriors are getting torn to pieces. These units that I have, they have good attack and good stats. But really not good armor. Whereas Indi has, you know, pretty good stats. But very high armor. So I'm, you know, not going to hold up in a grinding match. The only place I'll be able to do that is with my nobles in the center. So I know I'm going to hold the center. The flanks are going to wither away. So that's why I desperately need these skitarii cav to come back. So I deployed a lot of guys here. My Lusitani swordswomen. Let's watch some of these guys in the fight. Or some of these women we should say. So they're holding it pretty well. Getting some decent kills. And it looks like he's going to pull out of this fight. Because he knows that my cav are coming from the rear. He's going to get a good volley against my guys. And my women are now going to be able to chase his men away. So that's good. And just counter on that flank. So I'm holding that up pretty well. Over on this front, I was able to commit on his guys. Pulled away my cav. And they're going to be coming back. Trying to exploit any of these positions. Especially right here. He got an Osworn unit around the back of my guys. And now fully isolated veteran shield warriors. My guys are going to be going down quickly. So I really need to rescue this front. Additional spear warriors coming into the back. Getting my guys. I did get a nice charge at the rear of this block. Which is going to save me sword followers. Or Osworn going down. At basically you know still huge numbers left in them. This is going to allow my Lusitani nobles and shield warriors to take up the fight against spear guys. Which is exactly where I want them. I start breaking this flank. And now I'm going to get my own skitarii cav. They're going to barely avoid this spear unit. And there we go. Get to this position. So I think I was really lucky. I was able to shoot the gaps in a lot of places. And his guys were tearing mine. Kind of tearing them a new one. But I got in just in time to save my forces. So when you're playing as the Lusitani. You really have to be wary of how low health. Or low armor you guys have. And you really have to take full advantage of the cav. Skitarii are pretty good cav. Win the flanks. And then come back in and save your units as soon as possible. With rear cavalry strikes. Or with skirmishers. You know use skirmishers to soak up a lot of enemy fire. And then use them to target individual enemy units. So on this flank. Pretty convinced I'll be able to win. Especially with my cav in the back. And then in the center. It's sort of a hotly contested issue. But at least I'm going to start winning. Yep. I'm knocking out that force. So my again won me this battle. Just like in the last one. My cavalry had huge benefits. So this is how I was able to counter the heavy armor. And stats of the bowie. Or the bowiei. However you want to pronounce it. And now we get to see a little bit of the cool cinematic. So the Osworn are pretty tanky units. I definitely want to be able to take these guys out. But also my nobles are themselves pretty tanky units. So now Indi is going to start collapsing. And there we go. That's the end of battle. So here is my build that you can see. So I think it played pretty effectively. And I didn't have quite as many cav as I did last time. I only had three. But you can see how they were still pretty effective. My own balerics that I had on the flanks getting a good amount of kills. And even these Iberian skirmishers. Who are pretty weak cheap units. Because I had them initially to get early volleys. Retreated and then attacked units from the side. I would say they more than likely paid for themselves. Spearmen getting a good amount of kills. Lucine nobles are particularly where you can get a lot of your kills. And even the swordswomen. Wow, 147. Really, really doing a good job. And Bowie, Indi Pride's force. He went for a more heavily armored core. And then the heavy horse. I think he wasted two of these units trying to go after my balerics on one flank. And I was able to catch them. I would say that's mostly owed to the fact that my spearmen were able to really delay them as much as possible. And then his center core would have just destroyed me. Had I not won the flank. So I was lucky enough that he didn't bring too many cav. I think Indi probably should have brought one or two more cheap units. Because I had a lot of cheap units I could get to surround on him. But yeah, he wouldn't have known that I was going. You know, I could have gone more heavy or whatever. But I think the build I went is something I would definitely recommend. So we'll have more of these battles as we go forward. Indi Pride is going to start to make a comeback in this series. But so far it's going to be myself. I'm two up and basically he's lost both of the two battles. But we're going to have more of these and we'll see how that series goes. I'll see you guys next time.