A buddy of mine sent this replay to me, and it is a very fun match to watch.
The Russian player chooses an unusual rush that totally demolishes the usual French combo of inf/flame/smokers. However, this game does not end too quickly. There are some very neat turning points in this match as France tries to hold out the Russian agressor, while Russia tries keeps France crushed into the corner of the map for a long time.
Note: I also got a good laugh out of comments made by the observers, and their conversation.
This game gets a 3 rating for one and only one reason, ACTION!! There is lots of it. Russia was technically flawed in every aspect. After a good start and a surprising Bomber run early in the match which took the France player off guard it was all down hill after that.
Russia needed either seige factories instead of wasting all his wood and gold on Bombers that were being shot down by French AA guns or he needed to get AC's up a lot faster than he did. Tasking weak conscripts from two barracks and air raids with low hitpoint bombers was not going to get the job done with a Economically focused France player.
The french player did a good job of countering his opponent (specifically with Freedom fighters which won him the match), but lets face it that wasn't so hard to do since for the majority of the match Russia built two units!
And why no hunting by Russia? There was plenty of dear just to the southeast of his base but he decides to farm right off the bat wasting precious wood...
Additional Comments:
If you are a fan of action packed games download, but if you are more into matches which show good countering with lots of different units produced, you may be dissappointed.
Easy_KO
Posted on 11/24/06 @ 03:18 PM
Rating
3.0
Rating: 3
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Additional Comments:
I also give it a 3. I think each player used bad strategys to take down the opponent. Ok im going to give this a full review with only my ideas on how this game should have been played to be better for each player and maybe even change the odds for the winner.
First, the Russian player expects AT and inf combo from the france player, so he should do somthing maybe a little different, but instead he goes with the basic russian rax >> Tank factory. As for France, he does a BASIC france strat too. One word, BORING. We all expect whats going to happen as this goes on for the beginning. France's smoker inf combo will probably fight off russia's rush quite easily because France's inf are stronger and smokers can take down the AC's and smoke enemys. So the rush is fought off, making russia's odds very hard to win if any at all. The game goes on and I dont know what mr cool was thinking he would get to with a double rax.. MrCool went rax