List of awesome youtube replays

posted on February 24th, 2011, 12:44 am

[align=center]Boggz as TaQ'roja Klingon
vs.
Old_time_Pro as Optimize Borg

Map: Duel II v1.2 by Boggz

Commentators: Clintsat

Video Database

Youtube - Part 1
Youtube - Part 2[/align]

posted on February 24th, 2011, 1:06 am

Heh, this game is a good example of when sometimes you need to incur a loss or two in order to finish off a heavy Borg ship like an Assim or a Sphere.  There were 2 times when I had Assims down to almost nothing and chose not to pursue them into station fire.  Part of that reason was because I was doing transport war and looking into multiple places so I didn't really notice just how low on health the Assims actually were.

  Ohhhh well .

  Let that be a lesson to all:  even if you're busy microing 3 things at once, make sure you know exactly when you can kill those damn ships .

posted on February 24th, 2011, 2:25 am

Just to clarify: If you start with Dil first as Borg, you run out of Tri for Scubes for Assimilate, and you can't build Dodecas, or go RiF for Opti. It doesn't affect your Scube output at all however.

posted on February 24th, 2011, 2:46 am

I think the B'rel counter thing was for combat assims. Of course even then B'rels will just die (from the massive damage of the 40% torps that hit, plus the beams.)

posted on February 24th, 2011, 3:28 am

Yah I know .  I was just havin' some fun

posted on February 24th, 2011, 9:13 am

as taqqy vs assims i'd stll make a couple brels, otherwise the bop extension wont get used and you will need to build another extension/yard. taqqys bops have torps in addition to pulses so at least some of their weapons dont do 40% less damage lol. the kvort loses 40% of its pulse dps and gets nothing back. the brel gets the TWA back.

and if u run away the first time u get hit you could try get away. dont bother cloaking and revealing your hull as the assim is too slow to catch you and in the 4 second time your brel will get out of long range anyway.

thats not to say rely on brel spam vs assims, just build some to get some dps in your force. veqs could be an interesting choice, weak too, but have their special which helps vs borg a lot. sangs are as always a nice choice vs borg. charghs would work ok against assims, but not great as they are anti short range, and to be honest you dont really need to combat tractor an assim, as its already slower than most of your fleet lol.

posted on February 24th, 2011, 10:12 am

Klingons vs. AA Assims ... DO NOT build B'rels

posted on February 24th, 2011, 12:39 pm

Klingons vs. AA Assims ... DO NOT build B'rels

Of course, thats a given . But those things die to anything with crew. Thats why they are rare to see, combat assims generally work better.

The aa assim should be support not mainline

posted on February 25th, 2011, 1:11 am

[align=center]Mort as Helev Romulan
Old_time_Pro as Helev Romulan
vs.
Boggz as Breen Dominion
Elim as Mijural Romulan

Map: Star Traffic 1.2 by Boggz

Commentators: Clintsat

Video Database

Youtube - Part 1
Youtube - Part 2
Youtube - Part 3
Youtube - Part 4[/align]

posted on February 25th, 2011, 1:15 am

[align=center]Mort as Helev Romulan
Old_time_Pro as Helev Romulan
vs.
Boggz as Martok Klingon
Elim as Puretech Dominion

Map: Star Traffic 1.2 by Boggz

Commentators: Clintsat

Video Database

Youtube - Part 1
Youtube - Part 2
Youtube - Part 3[/align]

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posted on February 25th, 2011, 2:08 am

Last edited by Anonymous on February 25th, 2011, 2:09 am, edited 1 time in total.

[align=center]Boggz as Martok Klingon
vs.
Mort as Puretech Dominion

Map: Duel II v1.2 by Boggz

Commentators: Clintsat

Video Database

Youtube - Part 1
Youtube - Part 2

This is the first in a series (hopefully) of pro tip commentary![/align]

posted on February 25th, 2011, 3:01 am

Wow that's a lot of videos, clintsat    good job!

Is it too late to say that AA assims are better than combat assims?  I tested them thoroughly and was convinced, primarily because AA assims have more than twice the system value.  Combat assims don't regenerate fast enough to be on the front line.

That being said, this only really applies early game.  When the enemy builds large ships (like Elim's B5 or warbirds) combat assims become much more viable.  Their miss rate is too big of a disadvantage when your assims are auto-targeting 1 monsoon, kbeajq, rhienn, bug, or probe.

It's amazing to see how Boggz adding blue nebulas to Duel II 1.2, the most played map right now, has made Borg get played so much more than it was a month ago.  I want to suggest moving the blue lines a little bit farther away from the main tritanium; they provide an important stepping-stone for borg players but are in a bit of a key position.

I definitely want to work blue nebs into the center of my maps from now on, even if they're hard for a borg player to get real use out of.  Since borg can't proxy yard, they need it...

posted on February 25th, 2011, 3:04 am

Just keep in mind that the blue nebs don't really do TOO much for Borg. 

  In Duel II 1.1 they basically allow you to cut down on travel time and make escapes from interceptors when before it was almost impossible.

posted on February 25th, 2011, 3:10 am

That was really cool. I definitely support having more of these types of tutorial replays.

posted on February 25th, 2011, 3:22 am

Did the tutorial call the B-5 a large ship? It's medium.