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welcome back five Aces battle control initialized hey hey people five Aces here this time around without Mr coaster who has decided to take a nap a literal nap he's been asleep for 2 and a half hours so I'm casting in the broader daylight once again but this time around I've got support from the kids are at some of the of the families extended families so they're covered and as such we are free to cover something nelves that something something being the 2v2 tag team tournament ratl team leag and this time around with the other leg of the semifinals and those contestants man that's going to be something we've got ourselves crayo and fazer teaming up against blackand and the do ring Master himself orb uh this just contradicts his uh his color scheme just contradicts his uh naming conventions real hard so it's like that's not a dark ring Master that's a color cheerful um playful green that you're clading your troops in maybe that's just you know all deception I guess and the map is Kosovo brings us back to politics uh one thing I'll have to say I was kind of disappointed with some of the comments last time around oo this engineer by the way bit unprotected some of the comments uh were a little just a little sad because I didn't want to make it too political but uh being against Russian imperialism doesn't mean being pro-american imperialism like those two are not uh mutually exclusive let's just put it that way one can be against any form of imperialism and uh that's certainly but I'm someone who is really closely connected to the Russian culture and language courtesy of me having had a Russian girlfriend for a long time way back when and I also just spent a lot of time in that country so I've got very deep connections to Russia which which makes it all the sadder to see the state that Russia is currently in which is being uh ruled by an uh by an autocrat by a dictator essentially so yeah but that doesn't make uh America that doesn't excuse American imperialism uh let's close the chapter in politics here American imperialism is just as I mean just not as overtly warmongering right now in our part of the world so a lot of caveats here okay let's get back on track we've got ourselves was that a war Factory rush for crayo no he's got two Harvesters oh it's blacken uh CR no nope that's open standard openers where with on third Refinery a pop and we've got ourselves the flame Tower ready for crayo as well as for orb leaves me to wonder whether that's for defensive purposes or whether that's an APC drop because the APC would be ready in theory at least for blackened doesn't matter if you're black and white or white I guess okay first uh blood being shed here by the APC of blacken solid and the flag pack is hunting I really love this build so what this build does it does exert a lot of pressure obviously not that great against uh anything that uh comes packed with armor but the the real kicker here oh that was a nice flank nice attempt the real kicker here is this does scale very very well against an Allied mid game if he can manage to keep those flag trucks alive they can not only rack up veterany like crazy but they can also so just scale like mad against artilleries and helicopters and if you've ever had a like a rank three mobile flag kiting five helicopters at once courtesy of its Superior range and it being uh and it being so mobile that it never the helicopters never catch up to it at least not into firing range it just feels so good so orb maybe going for a Tesla rush because that is a mass mobile flax early on it has been somewhat revealed he's on five already jeez I mean those things that are cheap don't get me wrong and he's gotten his MC out in a timely manner as well huh wow this build is crazy how did he do that how did he manage to squeeze in five light Vehicles into his build queue without delaying his MCV I really would love to rewatch uh just the build order this just appears to be crazy to me cuz everybody else is on one light vehicle everybody else has opted for one APC one light tank and he's just out there just busting out his five stack like just the production time this takes this is insane so an assault is coming their way crayo and fazer are really tempting their luck they've got oh that's a good Crush as well for now they've gotten some really good U progress some really good Avenues but the flag trucks they are starting to shred the infantry ball with no front lines left on no Medics either the Poke is starting to come in man the flag trucks are going to come in handy they are going to rack up kills my goodness I was talking about them scaling well against the tier 2 allies turns out the superior range also allows them to be insanely effective against the tier zero anything yeah who would have known and they're able to scout on everything everying single move has been spotted thus far oh one more thing flag trucks oh this one is probably going to go down H not just yet flag trucks are also really good um not only against Blackhawks because they outrange them but they're also really good against long bows because they can outrun the missiles so here's a little counter push with two heavy tanks now crayo is able to get out on the field he's going to find a lot of rockets that's a pretty choosy Target here oh orb orb basically losing all his Rockets there but he's still got the flags he only lost one and that's all that counts really oh power down we've got ourselves a l power situation or as Rage Against the Machine you put it so eloquently we got to take the power back they're going to be running foul over Tesla coil just in a second zap time Rockets going in first um not sure what that's all about that is fazer feeding his units in like on a conveyor belt and conversely crayo has been lagging behind and now there's just an impenetrable wall in the house just going to start tanking as well some tank and spank going on I think orb's got enough to defend all by himself let alone the Tesla qus coming in h so this is a very very successful defense loses one Harvester but trades it for the entire Army so with that out of the way we are going to take a look at the Eon tab oh two Heavies into the back lines have not found anything just yet yeah there's the rad out for fazer he's the first player to Tech apparently so I was sorely mistaken or not going for a Tesla rush it was just straight up straight up five flag trucks it's just appears to be a build now okay and on the counter push black and has found Harvester and found the mining expansion should probably be taking out the war Refinery it's a freebie it's free real estate really wow what a counter push black and now also expanding to the top left so the front LS are shifting ever so slightly he's trading off and crucially the or refiner does stay alive and there is now time for the tier two to kick in there is a backstab that that is a good good flank okay fazer has found some damage into warp he going to kill off the aura finally that's solid not the worst obviously this Army is forfeit now but that just means he delayed the production he killed the war trucks not too bad that was a nice back stab okay in comes the artillery there is no build radius here though but or doesn't know that so he can't push in he's very good at repairing his tanks though flag tracks could have found an easy flank on the artillery but it was never meant to be there's a tank flank somewhere okay very contested expansion this should be in TLA Quil range at least as soon as the uh as the har Adventures forth just one more cell oh this tank run by the blacken is a a bit of an expensive Scout but the Harvester situation is not not looking that good for fazer let's take an eon toll 51 and 45k we 60 and 39K so overall parody crayo actually with a with a stunning acid lead V2 is now coming in for blackand the front lines are down I think this is not a good idea despite this being a a solid push with a lot of infantry to back it up this is not a good push from blacken not at all he's going to be warded off very very easily and now crayo who has got the asset Advantage can push back I feel unless the V2s are really good they have got to hit hard into the center of mass no wait the front lines are just too sturdy no okay never mind I was sorely mistaken here so apparently that's quite quite even for the time being orb still with two of his Flags alive this Army should in theory be superior to fazs but let's see yeah the Blackhawks are going to be taken down no dice o Gets behind the refinery cover fire being provided blacken still firing away at the defenses so chipping away here a crayo has got some cash left so he can go for his first uh first yuck probably going to take out the rockets in one strafe go the yucks let's see can he shift C properly yeah that is some shift Q micro right there one last Salvo should be in the tank no oh yikes ah in comes the second yuck there we go flamers being mixed in from crayo never that good on the open field expecting a demo from blacken yeah blacken is playing as Ukraine it has got the take no it is Amo tanks though production tab is telling us that there is more to come and he's going M War factory production incomes the all in push but no front lines oh yikes this is going to get flanked real hard here blacken is a bit late to the party but that doesn't matter if or can stay alive for now he just loses his army loses all the flag trucks though wow that was one killer crash that killed a lot of units so orb is being pushed out of this expansion just for a little and I think his Harvester is going to go down no contest H angling it just right there's a very defensive wall here no Siege weapons to break this feel like the fazer being the Allied player would need to protect with an anti-air gun here and just going for some artilleries at least I think that's the smartest call for his money right now oh the Harvester tanking up so much that was a really good Harvester tanked up a lot of the pillbox fire Mammoth tanks now okay in the base right in the base so he's using them to inflict some chip damage and then pull out yet once again okay somehow fazer has out flanked himself I guess oh blackhaw down without doing anything that's not good that is a very very expensive loss more Blackhawks coming in though a mine layer from fazer I really like closing off this choke just means that there can't be a flank from this angle this is very smart black DK um Mass heavy tanks for orb oh on the other side we're seeing the heavy tank from crayo though he's parked heavy tanks on pretty much every expansion slot so the that's some solid player this is a really really good game one delivering real hard uh do we see any Tech migs crayo is going for migs I can respect that so hard artilleries need to be protected here orb has got a lot of mass he's got an absolute metric ton as we say in the industry of heavy tanks so there needs to be a very very good rocket Soldier core ooh if he can angle this my goodness that is painful there was mostly 30s popping up that just means a very very expensive hold yeah and the heavy tank Mass just keeps on growing appears to be the case that team two or the northeastern team do have a slight Edge now simply because um they're just better at replenishing the Harvesters tech center out for orb as well he doesn't have the flag truck okay down goes one of the Yaks I think that was the only spotter Yak that orb actually had okay a counter Mammoth wait a sec crayo oh the parab bombs they are going to be coming in huge potentially a danger close parab bombs n never mind single file formation this ain't going to amount to too much he can just pull back easily yeah yeah that was a wh I really like those reinforcements but orb he's got so much left this cues fazer in fazer into going into defensive lines I guess he just wants to chip away at the harvers that's fine too as long as it can inflict some damage and kill some of the Harvester Fleet off he's going in now this is such a wall of flame H wall of flame wall of pain I don't know if that's worth it oh orbs entire Army collap in and this is going to be the artilleries down as such there is no way of stopping any of the Infantry ball ooh he may have bitten off a little more than he could chew or splitting up his army even very nice Target micro from fazer trying to single out the Rockets but he has now lost his entire Army still has a little pocket left okay he can find some value here getting some Harvesters I mean it's a game of macro after all man what a competitive game this uh area is now completely mined off Iron Curtain is ready crayo does have a a massive shot at at upstaging blackand here oh and he took out the Harvesters with the migs those migs are going to be pivotal that was beautiful recognizes that there is no antier uh those Rockets maybe be you know just firing at the at the or truck instead of just idling are playing the idol game playing Cookie Clicker on their handheld 19 1950s devices all right little little Fleet here H flag trucks hunting and crayo probably knows that he h yep spoted at the mammoth flank that's really beautiful that was such beautiful play and now the flag trucks are also going to be intercepted or they are going to be intercepting you know sometimes you are the Interceptor and sometimes you are the intercepted is there enough anti- armor there is an iron curtain ready do not forget that the Iron Curtain is available here oh that was a nuk truck somewhere right on here okay it blew up the entire Army but also the the MMO tank of orb so I feel like that was a wash unfortunately we missed it you know in those 2v2 crazy team games blink can you miss it but it is still looking good for fazer and crayo despite everything that's happened the CR real creative players also well um mined off the flanks and the Mig is getting some crazy value now he still has the no he fired the an curtain on something I don't know what that was about so the migs wasting their their missiles on freaking rifling infantry yeah look it's Soviet so you don't get to decide what to do with taxpayer money there ain't no taxpayers there's just a collective our money a very risky forward base man this game is delivering in Spades we're 18 18 minutes deep but we've seen pretty much everything artilleries can they need protection though what he needs now is an antiair gun so the number one prime target uh number one priority would be just getting a an anti-air gun out fighting the good fight here on the southern front yeah there's the anti gun a bit too far forward because it has been spotted it's always the deadliest if it's not spotted black and has got some um V2 rocket launchers there is no Allied player here so this could come to bite them in the RS because What's Happening Here is crayo is going to be able to free fire at the V2 Rockets because there's never the threat of an anti-air gun pop and Sam sides do not only have shorter range they can also get outed out ranged oh such a nice play here crayo mes getting some mad value look at this blowing up the V2s okay loses one to the flag track now but that's completely fine Tesla coil in range of the mammoth Tank Man and the Tesla tanks as well oh and the mines they're going to completely stop this assault look at the mine value plon he doesn't know how deep the mine belt goes GG orb throwing in the towel what a game one this was completely unexpected and just absolutely well played master class from crayo and fazer I especially just have to credit crayo for his absolutely insane uh Soviet play let's check the combat tab he's actually negative and fazer has got the higher kill account never mind but it was just such intricate little play little plays that just tiip the scales the migs were absolutely pivotal there was the threat of Tesla Tech coming online there was an iron curtain ready he fired it once to my knowledge at least and on the other side fazer just pushing forward with his artilleries being unanswered this was insane we are going to be back in game number two see you in a hot second one nil up for crayon fazer battle control terminated battle control initialized all righty we're on game number two this time around Creo as the Russians fazer as um as the Frenchies and that's been staying the same black and however is switched over to allies he's also playing the French himself so no chance of demo track this time around sad we missed it what a shame hm curious build both of the players here going for a forward power plant is that going to be be an early push strategy because what that does is it locks uh blacken out of placing a Refinery here perfectly he can usually want to place it as close to the mine as possible so you want the power plant here and then um the refinery roundabout here the reason why I do this is to minimize travel distance and if you go for two for power plants it usually means you just want to place your barracks a couple tiles closer to the center which may be the game plan here we're back on intersection nice highlighting the the path path is clear uh in case you didn't know this is something cool cool you can do you can shift Q even rally points now that was introduced in one of the latest patches which is still you know by by the point probably 2 years old but uh still a nice feature regardless to have beautiful I love those intricate rally points see crayo you Noob just crossing crossing the the grasslands and Crossing those dirty dirty or patches soldiers are going to get their boots kicked in like their boots are going to be looking like little back stab being attempted by blacken H you're going in with the NG first huh he's just going Face Forward same TR for crayo oh no the down goes the NG but there is line of sight Advantage the dog is going to be the king maker on the field if crayo can micro this perfectly and he needs to be real fast wait a sec can he eat that yes dog eats eny beautiful that was worth it that was certainly worth it he doesn't know how many more infantry are coming his way so cray is being very cautious about it but this is super close to his base so blacken knows that uh that ain't going to happen he's calling off the bluff calling off the push here all righty was that again no that was again just two refineries into war Factory for all players orb once more being ahead with his micro timings I don't know how he's doing it maybe it's just that the others are behind because they're microing and or just was sitting back at home okay this time let's take tally of this build he is going double refin War Factory two three flag tracks this appears to be just working is there a dog to reinforce no but blacken is going to get his pushed in honestly he doesn't have enough his numbers are dwindling down goes the medic and that is just the mobile flag surviving there is a medic to heal against that maybe double flag can change something here maybe they can snipe off the medic that would be big No more healing H there's another one Medics are fairly cheap regardless they cost 200 it's not like they do much anyway it's a I guess in in opener in the opener Universe it's very um that's a very quick on the on field education that those Medics are being bit like just basic training and then they're being given a Band-Aid like slap this onto anyone who's bleeding if they're bleeding profusely Prof usually just apply more bandages it's just the that's the extent of the training and that's why they cost just twice as much as a Rifleman we all know The Riflemen are just armed with the garbage ass AK-47s which uh oh God now we're going to get into this gun thing where the gun enthusiasts are going to come out and they're going to say no the uh AK-47 is actually really good gun which may or not may or may not be true I'm not a gun expert at all uh I've heard that it's very reliable in the way that it can be repaired very easily oh the APC APC you later a light tank push coming in as well from blacken so good hustle from crayo shaving off I mean he's losing his D there but that's fine shaved off just a couple units orb is pushing forward Rio ah this is a very very Allin type of style huh he's fighting so close to the base of both players are I don't know if that's the right call that is just windup toys that's light tanks and mobile Flags APC survives so the front lines are still sturdy and Medics being mixed in from fazza on the regular I kind of like this idea this just negates any poke from the flags I guess that's the idea one of the flags being split off to scout APC is doing the same uh I should probably just book it no okay flag claiming their first kill of the game and the second second one was the rifles that was not not as impressive as the first one this is all in flag trucks what the actual did he Tech I mean he's got a service Depot tier 1.5 unlocked what blacken is moving his MCV that's his original is he going gatekeeper style so gatekeeper style would be you move your original MC you're masking it with aggression oh my goodness uh cray deploys just on time flag tracks a flag pack eats uh construction yards for breakfast it's the hard counter or an MCV an unpacked MCV I should say light armor very slow and they can block the deployment but fortunately Creo had the the right State of Mind to deploy just just in time and with the deployment in case you don't know the armor type changes immediately from light armor which the flag trucks are very good against two um wood armor no wait um buildings do have light armor at believe it's just field defenses that do have uh wood armor no no no wait defenses have heavy and buildings have wood that's the way it works again really good positioning from fazer and crayo they have managed to like basically swarm the entire map orb is pretty alone here blacken Army not that impressive still Sports a couple light tanks you know they're been outdated just like the the tanks being paraded around in Moscow Capa Pride know those all tractors that they're selling as tanks AR radome is already out for fazer as well crap we did it again we again went into politics uh oh hey guess it up s and as a result orb cannot really push out yeah there is just a wave of wait what is he doing with a little bit of hard Focus this is dead this is straight up dead that was orbs expansion MCV I feel like this is going to be lights out in game two the armies are converging and Blacken nowhere in position to help with any of this oh my goodness this is a complete surround this is the 360 from all angles panoramic Visions around triple digit deluxe edition oh my a complete allout fight but it appears to be the case that the Infantry was so much better position for crayo because yeah as a result blackens infantry being chewed up they were just nowhere in position blackened I feel not recognizing the situation not reading it right uh the push was coming the artillery timing was perfect and fazer and crayo taking a staggering 2 N lead I think we're going to cap it off of that for this week we are going to be back next week with some more casts uh this is a best of Five series so you know this still has some way to go awesome and Stellar games congratulations thus far to crayon fazer for taking lead over blacken and or for some of the most highly decorated players in open aray let's see oh doesn't show doesn't show at all doesn't show the titles all right interesting maybe that has been changed with a new patch anyway thank you for watching I'll be back with some more political content your favorite political content streamer not controversial at all five Aces out maybe coaster is returning let's see battle control terminated