Shogun II - Online Battle (Cav Inferiority)

Hey, what's up guys welcome back to another online battle. This is Shogun 2 and I'm showing you my forces deployed here So on the left flank, I have mounted gunners followed up by two hidden sword units Then over here, I have two strong Yari cavalry followed by light cavalry and matchlocks in the center I have two speared two spear Ashigara units backed up by these Naginata monks and some more lone swords So these spear units are good against horses the sandwiched units Over on this hidden flank I have two light cav and a bow unit and my opponent on the other hand has a lot of hidden troops Or I shouldn't say that many but he does have a good hidden component in addition to these strong Yari cavalry So right from the start, I have more troops than him, but mine are relatively low quality and he outclasses me in This the skill and the Stats of all of his units essentially his cavalry force is exceptionally Stronger than mine And so what I'm gonna have to rely on is my mobility and this is gonna be teaching you how to effectively use light Cavalry in the face of more experienced stronger Yari cavalry So you can see here my forces just staring off at the distance at his troops My foot soldiers moving up eerily seeing banners moving in the background so they can't get a sight of what's going on over here I feign a retreat as his armies redeploying and then I charge back with my light cavalry right into his bow Cav, so these are heavily upgraded bow cav. They're not very good at hand-to-hand So I charge in get a good amount of kills and then retreat so what you want to do with your light cavalry is They are cheap and they're faster than any other cavalry So make lightning strikes in and out where your opponent least expects them So here I pretended to retreat and all of a sudden attacked right when he thought I wouldn't You know turn around so make sure that you use your light cavalry to again needle your opponent Make it fit make use of the little mistakes that he makes and then go ahead and take on his units that he doesn't want to lose So in this case, I'm kind of throwing away this unit to try and get more kills on his bow Cav I thought I would get more but um What I do is I foolishly let them chase his troops all the way across the front So as we're doing this, I take a tremendous amount of damage from his bows his match locks we were just getting destroyed here and Basically, all I was trying to do was weaken his bow cavalry unit I was not able to inflict that many more kills, but that's the benefit of bringing these light cavalry there I mean, it's it's a bit sad to say they're disposable so I have a lot of those small cheap units and so I'm able to throw them away even if it just gets me a Couple kills against his stronger units now over here. You can see because I have so many of these units I'm able to just swarm around his troops And so that's what I'm doing here I'm managing another part of the battle so he will get a sudden charge with his spears right here I lose five or six troops before I'm able to disengage But you can see I pulled his troops off the hill and now my troops on foot will have a hill advantage as I'm retreating And moving these forces he goes ahead and he engages my motionless cavalry here So my opponent did a good job of attacking my troops. He had good micromanagement at this point I slipped up in my micro But what my opponent did wrong is he engaged all his cavalry right here Trying to pull me in so I'm able to collapse this entire front onto him You know smash up his troops and that's what my opponent did wrong is I have so many more troops than him That I'm able to busy collapse everything on his troops when he gets close So here even though he does score a good amount of kills. I'm able to hit him back with more forces So you'll see that on multiple occasions during this battle My opponent does hit these big strikes with his cavalry But he concentrates his forces too much, and I'm able to do a good amount of damage now The reason he did this is because he does actually have hidden forces in the forest that will be revealed later So what he was trying to do with this, and I didn't know it at the time was basically feign weakness And sort of pull my forces into the center get them thinking that those were the only forces here You can see once again. I'm needling with my light calves I knew his cavalry were retreating and so that's the perfect time to attack because your opponent has to Manually control those forces and so you have to go ahead and attack elsewhere you can see here He had some hidden cavalry on the flank, so that's why he wanted to draw my forces in And so he was able to attack my mounted gunners. I got off some shots, but not enough, and he's routing them So my opponent was smart he had this clever trap Put into place, but I'm able to just swarm him with my sword troops not the best But once his forces stop moving and his cavalry are stationary the numbers of my forces are going to be able to do a good Amount of damage on him they're upgraded and I have reinforcements coming in so my port my opponent had a really good tactics he concentrated his cavalry forces and charged one of my units destroyed them caused me to fold in among on them and What he wanted to do? Was then take those hidden units and hit my collapse forces on the side But I had a hidden units of my own and you can see there I had my bow cavalry shooting in his general you know trying to whittle them down He decides to flank attack try and get rid of these calorie now I deploy a holding force of lone sword ashigaru against his naginata warrior monks So the warrior monks are much stronger than mine, so I have to send reinforcements over here He launches his cavalry again in a big frontal assault Now I'm willing to take the losses of this unit because I know every kill I get is going to be you know helping me out These are really strong powerful units that he's charging in and I don't really care too much about this matchlock I just want his horses to suffer a loss and to get bogged down But you can see here from the perspective of my troops. It's just an utter massacre And as he does that once again, I collapse my forces on him I know he has no more tricks up his sleeve and over here You can see kind of the epic fighting you get in first person stabbing his warrior monks in here So it's a close-hot Contested battle up in these woods And I'm gonna keep reinforcing it and doing some hammer and anvil strikes with my light cavalry into the back of these forces So you can see here once again as my opponent is distracted moving his forces around I attacked once more with my light cavalry So what you want to do is I would recommend bringing at least you know two or three light cavalry units and place them around the back of your opponent and just hold them there and Once you're engaged somewhere else and your opponents distracted, that's when you strike with those forces So that's what I like to do is I like to focus on micromanagement Get my opponent distracted somewhere and then all of a sudden do these lightning strikes out of nowhere with my fast maneuverable light cavalry So again, you can see here an example of his superior cavalry getting bogged down You know here again light cavalry being very very useful They charge in and attack his general at the last minute and I'm able to kill his general So that will have a negative morale effect on his troops, you know, his general won't be able to shoot at me He won't be able to inspire his forces. And on the other hand, I still have my general alive So he has some cavalry behind my lines here And they don't really have anywhere to go. I have spear forces here And so he tries to retreat but I try and I essentially sandwich him corner him with my light cavalry So you can see here. Those are Yari cavalry and I'm able to essentially kill them with light cavalry So even though light cavalry are cheaper and weaker in numbers You'll be able to get your opponent out of position and basically kill his more heavily upgraded cavalry So it ends up being beneficial to you. It just does take a good amount of micromanagement So i've essentially wiped out his forces on this side and i'm going to start redeploying Now what happened now is the tide of the battle has turned around in my favor. I now have cavalry Superiority he has lost all his cavalry units So what that means is he's rendered entirely immobile which allows me to go and attack in and out in and out with these small Forces here expose his troops and you see on the left those forces moved up and I shot them So i'm able to again, I like to use the expression needle him make small jabs here and there until he's finally Uh, you know about to collapse So here i'm doing fake charges with my cavalry trying to get his spears out of position when they finally do move you know another one of my forces finds the gaps and moves in So once my cavalry have made his forces sufficiently disoriented That's when i'm going to deploy my main forces which are going to be you know, my sword units and my spear units So cavalry right now are relatively disposable So I toss them in just to disrupt his lines and then I throw together the rest of my forces for a full-on frontal assault Now this strategy works well, and it's won me many battles, but you are going to lose a good amount of troops so the benefit of my army is it's a cheap army and it's a large army, so When you have that kind of force You won't be able to beat any of his troops head on because usually the opponent who has less forces has more upgraded forces So you're going to have to maneuver around his forces deploy ambushes and use a whole variety of swarm tactics in order to to uh To beat him. So once again, you know, here's the victory and i'm going to go ahead and recap it for you real quick Just so you can uh absorb some of the information and some of the lessons that can be learned from such a victory So let's go ahead and jump right into that again I'm going to emphasize the light cavalry how I turned the superiority of his troops against him I was able to do these lightning strikes with my more disposable units and Wreak pretty significant damage on exposed units. So these bow cavalry here and later, you know archers or various stragglers I was able to attack with my light cheap Cavalry units now on the other hand my opponent had strong cavalry forces He did use them pretty well, but the main flaw was that he concentrated his forces too much You see right here The third unit charging in doesn't really have anywhere to charge So that charge would have been just as effective with two units and the third one could have attacked my reinforcing units So I was able to bog down his forces and collapse in on him now again You saw this was kind of his plan with his hidden forces on the side, but I was able to attack those And hold them down again here my opponent decides that this is a juicy target But because of the fact that i'm able to kill a good amount of his elite units with this disposable force It really doesn't matter. I'm just you know, I have a larger force So anything I can do to whittle down his troops, even if it results in pretty high losses for me I'll be able to take it because I know I have more troops overall. So, you know, I use a variety of common You know tactics to get rid of his cavalry forces this renders him immobile Then I can go ahead and pick and choose where I want to attack him And then I deploy my main forces when I feel he's on the ground and i'm going to deliver the final blow So that's how you want to basically take your cavalry inferiority and make it a cavalry superiority Again using light cavalry ambushes, etc Um, yeah, once again, I'd like to thank my opponent for the battle He fought very well here you can see the number of deployed troops. I had twice as many Troops as he did so that was to my benefit and he actually killed more forces than I did You can see here some of my forces lined up my spear units actually got a good amount of kills And you can see here, you know pretty good kills overall um And when we switch over to his forces, you can see, you know, they were way more veterans So his nuns for example had 75 troops and they killed 211 So he had more elite troops that killed more of my guys, but I was able to whittle them down using my larger Superior force in that way. Anyways, thanks so much. See you guys next time