Genius Archer Streaming Season 3 Episode 314
102. The Bigger Picture (1)
The pros and cons of a map are really open to interpretation, but there are definitely maps that are designed to favor certain civilizations.
The rugged mountain valleys are like that.
In a place where 80% of the terrain is mountains, a civilization with a mountain-related faction was bound to have an advantage.
“Now, the Rugged Valley is the worst mountain map among all the mountain maps in Civil M!!”
That’s probably why the commentators look quite excited.
“In fact, when there are too many mountainous terrains, Joseon, which relies on archery, is sometimes at a disadvantage! In this national competition, Joseon is recording a considerable winning rate on mountainous maps!?”
Originally, mountain maps were a burden to Joseon. Although it was good to move faster in the mountains, it was difficult to use the bow properly due to the numerous obstacles.
But this season, Joseon has overcome this in various ways.
“Especially for the current Joseon team, where many players, including Almond, use curve shots! The mountain map is really welcome news!”
They had been training to hit targets behind obstacles, and mountain maps were no longer a major obstacle, at least for the first-line archers.
“Okay, the game has started while you’re talking~ 12 o’clock Rome! Blue! 6 o’clock Joseon! Red!”
The real game has begun.
Blue and red dots on the screen begin to move busily.
“It’s a straight line, so the distance is quite close. It seems like Joseon might make some kind of move in the early stages.”
“On the other hand, Roma could probably prepare for an early tactic?”
“Yes. Many experts said that this final would be a showdown between Joseon, who is on the rise, and Rome, who is holding back. Does it look like the two-game structure will be like that?”
It is a ‘rugged mountain valley’ with steep cliffs rising on all sides.
In this place, most civilizations that do not have a mountain terrain movement speed increase buff like Joseon will have restrictions on their movement.
“Rome will probably have a hard time finding the timing to advance first on this map.”
“It would be difficult to use Rome’s proud Age 2 chariots and such, so there won’t be any strategies that involve speed. That’s probably why they’re gathering together to scout.”
Rome formed a reconnaissance force of ten men each.
Considering that the original scouting strategy was to have 5 people in a group, this is a fairly defensive scouting strategy.
“Ah. Why is it like this?”
“There’s not much to gain in the beginning. So if we meet in the middle of a reconnaissance, we’ll cut it down and eat it. That’s it.”
The Roman scouts are twice as numerous.
The reconnaissance efficiency is twice as slow, but the combat power when encountered is incomparable.
It is defensive for reconnaissance, but offensive for combat.
“North Korea is reading map information relatively quickly.”
Meanwhile, Joseon was increasing its reconnaissance speed.
Although there were five people in a group, when necessary, they split into two or three groups to share information.
“Is Joseon excited right now!? Even if we form a group of 10, we can just run away when we meet Rome anyway?!”
“Ah! Because the movement speed is faster! I see!?”
“Yes. So even though Rome has many numbers, it won’t be easy for them to capture Joseon!”
“Ah… …! Then what should we do to catch Roma?”
“I guess we need to ambush and then attack! In a situation where there is little map information to begin with! That’s not likely to work.”
The side seeking a surprise attack should know the terrain better, but the situation is currently reversed.
Joseon is now more aware of the terrain information.
However, the Roman army still maintains a unit of 10 men.
It did not spread further, and was hidden as if defending a certain terrain.
The intention is to somehow gain an advantage in the beginning.
“Ah. Aren’t you a bit obsessed with early Roman gains?”
King Gul tilted his head at Anto’s judgment.
“That’s right. Are you really giving up on reconnaissance like this?”
The rugged mountain valleys are literally extremely rugged in terms of terrain. Therefore, information about the terrain is directly related to victory or defeat.
Without information like where the uphill and downhill sections are, where you can see where, or where you can get hit… … you could never win a battle to your advantage.
However, Anto did not disperse his troops at all, and only searched the terrain near his base very thoroughly.
“Isn’t this just a matter of getting one caught!?”
As the caster said, it could have been an extreme strategy to somehow gain an advantage just once.
“That’s right. I think… … In this map, if you gain an advantage early on and go in, you can play against Joseon… … Are you thinking like that?”
Sometimes players get caught up in the thought that they are at a disadvantage and take these gambles.
Even in situations where they take such a gamble, it is because they do not know that they are at a disadvantage.
So, Kinggyul must have seen the current scene and thought it was a ‘Just catch one guy, and it’ll work out somehow’ type of strategy.
If it weren’t for Anto being the leader of this strategy right now.
“But, no matter what, this is… … I don’t understand the intention?”
King Gul eventually had no choice but to hold back his words.
‘What the heck?’
He couldn’t read Anton’s strategy.
why?
* * *
‘This map is… … .’
When Cookie first saw the map, he thought back to his conversation with the think tank team.
“Assassinating a priest.”
Assassination of a priest.
Chi Seung’s strategy for winning against Rome.
If beginners had this conversation, someone would have criticized them, saying, “Who doesn’t know that assassinating priests is bad for Rome?”
But they are all experts.
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Their conversation is on a whole other level.
Anto knows that priests are important, Cookie knows that, and all gamers know that… … but it was still a story about being able to assassinate them.
And there’s even a good rationale as to why that would work.
‘I don’t know Anton. That angle.’
A ridiculously odd angle that I discovered by accident.
No matter how much Rome cared for and protected its clergy, it could not prepare for events that occurred outside its own cognitive abilities.
‘If you don’t know, you should die.’
This saying was not a long-standing adage in the gaming world for nothing.
In games, no, in war, if you don’t know, you die.
Cookies start to maximize the efficiency of reconnaissance.
[Run away when you meet the enemy]
And he instructed all his reconnaissance personnel to flee if they encountered the enemy.
[Reconnaissance target is a high cliff near enemy lines]
It also determines where the scouts will report and signal.
As the scouts, who were divided into groups of five, split into groups of three and two, more and more places are revealed.
We also encountered Roman scouts, but it was nothing to worry about.
The North Korean army took advantage of the mountainous terrain and fled in an instant.
Then other scouts dug into the area again and cleared the view.
After that, it’s a repetition.
When we meet, we run away, spread out more, and then run away again… … .
It is overwhelmingly ahead in the information it collects.
Naturally, hunting becomes easier.
But─
“!?”
──Tiing!
A signal is transmitted that an attack is underway.
‘uh?’
Looking at the area where the signal is coming from, it is surrounded by Roman scouts.
‘Why is this number here… …?’
The difference in numbers was ridiculous.
‘Why couldn’t I run away?’
What’s more, I couldn’t run away.
About 7 to 8 Joseon soldiers were surrounded by 20 Roman soldiers.
He can’t go anywhere and starts getting beaten with sticks.
Pubber pubber pubber!
Cookie was momentarily dumbfounded, watching the scene.
‘… … .’
Rome deployed this many soldiers for this one moment.
This number is enough to cover this size of land and prevent Joseon from escaping.
Instead, if this had not been successful, Anto would have had to continue to suffer great losses alone.
‘Anto is taking such a gamble?’
It’s literally gambling.
Cookie was confused.
‘What the heck is this?’
Someone will.
Why would you fall for such an obvious gamble?
But that’s something only people who don’t know anything can say.
‘This can’t be happening?’
Hunting, scouting, management, terrain… … Given the numerous considerations, it makes no sense for this many Roman troops to be deployed here at this moment.
No, you can deploy. If you can risk your life here.
What if you were to grab a passerby and ask them to bet half of their entire fortune on whether they would go back or forward right here?
You will be treated like a crazy person.
But now Anto has made that bet and it paid off.
Does this make sense?
Is Anton just lucky?
Or is he so desperate right now that he has to rely on luck?
If not that… … .
* * *
“With the Joseon army annihilated here… … Rome starts off quite pleasantly?”
It was a fight with a ratio of 20 to 7, so of course the Joseon army was annihilated in an overwhelming manner.
“Ah. So Rome ends up turning this risk into a return?”
“It was high risk, low return, but what if it ended up being a return? Since the risk didn’t happen, it was just a profit, right?”
-What is this?
-Does this work? What the f*ck
-Cookie, you’ve lost all your forms againㅡㅡ
-Why am I getting this?
-You’re being fooled by something that only beginners do.
The viewers are confused.
A strategy that only beginners use? In a way, it’s correct.
‘Wait a minute. Why does it seem like Anto knows this?’
But King Gul saw it differently.
It was as if Anton’s movements knew exactly where Cookie wanted to explore.
“Huh? Again in a row!? There are a lot of mistakes in reconnaissance!?”
Again, North Korean soldiers were cornered and killed.
Rome has once again benefited, albeit on a small scale.
“Rome! Let’s get off to a good start, okay? We’ll also completely take over the hunting rights here! If we do this, 10-person teams and 20-person teams will be efficient!”
You’ll get a little more benefit from reconnaissance.
In fact, this is a map where Rome should not be taking advantage of this.
“Is this a deja vu from the first set from earlier? This map is clearly advantageous for Joseon? Rome starts at an advantage!?”
Sometimes, in fights between experts, even the most obvious compatibility is reversed.
King Gul realized that he was witnessing something like this.
‘I know this. Damn it. I don’t know what Joseon is up to, but I can see that Rome knows.’
The same thing happened twice.
Moreover, seeing all this, he could be sure.
The movement of the precursor phenomenon was so systematic and unstoppable.
This was not the number of people throwing their bets while shaking with anxiety.
Rome is anticipating Joseon’s movements.
But the problem was that I couldn’t figure out what the prediction was based on.
‘What on earth does Joseon want?’
King Gul examines the situation in detail.
“Um… … Joseon is now aggressively scouting the Roman base. This is scouting that doesn’t really need to be this far. For now? In this very early stage, securing the hunt comes first.”
Although subtle, Joseon’s reconnaissance was more active than that of the Roman headquarters.
“Ah. Right. Why would there be such an attempt?”
“If I were to do it, I’d like to see it… … Isn’t that something like that? Actually, if it were normal, I could have just seen it for a bit and then used my fast movement speed to escape… … .”
This is a mountainous terrain.
Initially, there was no way for the Roman army to catch up with the fleeing Joseon army.
So it wasn’t a very risky reconnaissance.
It shouldn’t have been.
“The problem is, do you know exactly which route Joseon will take?”
-??
-Hey lol
-You know where I’m coming from??
-What lol
-Eh?
People expressed their doubts at King Gul’s words.
The reconnaissance phase of Civil Empire is when not one or two, but 200 people move in unison.
It makes no sense to predict all these movements.
Moreover, what Roma is showing now is a pressure-style play where they surround the team with several times more people.
In order to make predictions, you had to know where your opponent was going to come from almost 30 seconds in advance, not even within 2-3 seconds.
Is that possible?
“No, otherwise Cookie wouldn’t have been hit twice! And Anton wouldn’t have continued to take such a gamble!”
– Is this real?
-That’s right
-I just can’t see it
-?
-If you don’t know, just look at it lol
-How do you know that lol
But then, it was then.
It was visible to King Gul’s eyes.
‘uh?’
It was a really big picture, one that could only be seen from the very top.
I had to look at the battlefield at a scale similar to that of a minimap.
Then it finally came into view.
‘… … Are you being herded?’
Rome did not anticipate Joseon’s movements.
He was moving as he wanted.
[Run away when you meet]
This was a trap created by this order.
