Maybe something you could try to avoid forgetting to protect your flanks is build something in the flanking route that'll give you an alert if it gets attacked. Put it just behind the furthest back the frontliner protecting that area will retreat to while still holding that front. If the enemy slips through, they destroy your 'canary' building, you get the alert and a bit more time to respond. lol call it the 'Canary Strat'. Anyway, yet again another lesson to decentralize your base. Maybe you could turn it into a routine when you get to the point that you've got all the tech and economy needed to maintain a solid front and are starting to scale up. Time isn't so critical at that point so it'd be worth getting some construction set up in the backline to start producing economic stuff. It wouldn't be a terrible idea, either, to shift some of your construction from static buildings to mobile units. You'd also remove your locational constraints, making it an easier decision to avoid nihilistic decisions. "Well if this dies it's GG anyway". Clearly it's not lol. Even if you decide to quit after getting your main blown up you at least retained some value to hand over to another player. No need to sink your team because of selfish lazyness. You said it yourself in a past video: Always think about what you can do to sway the game. Lowering the value of an enemy's successful strike can make a huge difference. Games don't end in losses just because you yourself faced a huge loss. Snowballing happens often, sure, but plenty of teams with players that quit go on to win out in the end. And maybe by making your main wipe less impactful you'll end up increasing that statistic. In warfare, loss is inevitable and positioning is always important. Not just for your frontlines but the backlines as well. And even if you lose almost everything, you're still a commander with 'leadership' to contribute. Use your micro to eke out some advantage for your team. At the very least, ask for some units to do some commando shit with. Fight till the last!

@Self-replicating_whatnot

5 ай бұрын

BAR is very much a game about infrastructure and how to get the most out of it :)

@treyslider6954

3 ай бұрын

The problem is those thermal gens are basically nukes waiting to happen, and they're all in range of each other. Only way to prevent that would have been to not build *any* of the 5 thermal gens right there.

@FiltyIncognito

3 ай бұрын

@@treyslider6954 or just react to the failing front line ahead of time. All lanes are your lane. The lane assigned to you is just your main concern.

He’s got a fever, and the only cure is more Lazarus.

There is a command, I think its space, which causes your build/reclaim orders to be divided out among the units you have selected. Like if you try to build a box of 16 Nanos with 16 constructors , if you include Space in the command, it will cause each constructor to go build its own Nano causing all 16 to start building. Its great for getting things placed down fast, but I do not know exactly what requirements it has. I think if you have any commands queued before it, it wont work, but it seems like a very useful command to master.

@RedalertnoobieVOD

10 ай бұрын

Holding space while draging with shift or shift+alt will do that behaviour, good when you have a lot of build power in an area already

@chronographer

10 ай бұрын

Yep, minefields too go up super fast with shift+alt+space. And the queue works, say you have 5 builders you can say hold shift space to build 5 dragons teeth at the same time, then shift to build one HLT with all of them working together and then shift space to build 5 more dragons teeth seperately. .

@HonshuHigamori

10 ай бұрын

The issue with that command is that ground based builders will often trap themselves or eachother doing it that way, because they just build willy nilly. Giving each individual constructor its own line of things to build will (usually) keep them from getting trapped, because each constructor constructs in the specific line that you command.

@RedalertnoobieVOD

10 ай бұрын

@@HonshuHigamori the issue there is have that many ground builders by the time you will be mass building, at the point you are mass building the build power used should be air constructors as only the blueprint really needs to be laid down, allowing a dense build

@Anubis7169

10 ай бұрын

ProStatus comment. *The community's mind grows*.

One of your best videos so far, gotta love a comeback

I love how you had fun, regardless of getting a win or not. Good to remember to have fun

So, for the confusion on the plasma shields/deflectors. I tested this out and what I found was that they only work well for "glancing" blows. If the gun is firing right at you and it doesn't have to arc much it will go through and be able to hit the units in the front half of your shield. It works wonderfully when you have two that are slightly offset. The first one disrupts the arc, the second one then allows it to roll off and away.

that was epic af.. loved that you didn't give up dude. good work

Funny thought that might be op... use nanos in base to build AA turrets in base... build/buy T2 air transport and use it to transport AA to front line.

@killz0ne215

7 ай бұрын

Wait... can you actually move AA turrets with transports?

@itwasme2435

3 ай бұрын

Yep @@killz0ne215

5:30 you said you're gonna have to build a nanoturret to reclaim the commander : you could have asked for your mates for an air transport, and transport one of your nanos there, reclaim the commander, then transport it back.

This is the most entertaining game I've seen you play, and I'm at 35 min atm :)

@jammybravo

10 ай бұрын

same. multi-tasking playing + commentary

Super fun match to watch, a lot to learn from all of this.

Yeah, I wanted to leave earlier in the game my self. We start with 3 bottom then 2 once the other left. Their was so many times at bottom where any kinda spam( other then scouts) would of killed me and my team so much sooner. Also wasn't my best either with the new layout with the map. I honestly thought it was over as soon as i saw your teams Adv Geo go boom. Btw i died at the 45:52 when the rags shot slips into our team Adv Geo even though we had like 5-6 shields guarding them. When makeing shield gens apparently you need to make sure that there isnt any "Hills and valleys" in the wall of shields because a round can be forced BY the shields them selves into the ground even though there is a shield their. GG all

@Drongo You not giving up at 18:45 when my clan mate Poledarn did that tiger push of WIN makes me appreciate your channel so much. FAR too many people quit early in BAR these days and frankly they are idiots/poor sports. You can come back in BAR so much more than in other games. It's about ebb and flow so new players watching this, play out your games to the finish. While there are unwinnable conditions there are also so many times and early "GG" happens due to psychology not "fate".

@MrHaggyy

6 ай бұрын

True, most other games are build in a way that you can't rebuild at a certain point anymore. Have to get rid of that behavior myself.

@itwasme2435

3 ай бұрын

You can not come-back if your team do not give you stuff like one AFU or one T2 builder, some people are just careless althrought they play multi-player instead of 1vs1 or 2v2…

So many players need to see you taking ownership for what you could have done better, even though your team dropped the ball.

I would say one of the main weakness of the sniper is that it doesn't seems to leave any reclaim

A strategy I have puting a little thought into. Is for the whole team to share their builds to each other after tier 2 or twenty twenty-five minutes in. That way no one gets wiped out entirely and the enemy team can't really single out a player any more by destroying their economy. Also gives more value and responsibility to the backline techers.

@fabienherry6690

10 ай бұрын

The only issue is getting a bunch of random people to agree to a selfless action xD. I think as a backline i almost ALWAYS share a fusion and converter to guy that died so he can build back.

@NicholasW943

10 ай бұрын

This is a pretty good strat in the late game for something like the Straits. Lots of players near the front lose their bases while the backline has such a massive eco that they simply can't macro efficiently later on. At that point, you have to start donating eco around to make sure the eco is spent efficiently.

This was indeed a very entertaining match! Thanks for sharing.

You should drop Junos in there bases to try and blind them before an attack, and even in between attacks to keep them busy and occupied. The more distractions, the more chances for mistakes.

Did you know that if you hold space+x while having a building selected, you get a red explosion radius for it and a larger yellow one for the self destruct explosion radius.

@Honkwaddle

10 ай бұрын

The fact that "spaceX" gives you a blast radius is pretty poetic

Hey uh.. maybe you know this by now cause of how old this video is, but that "restore" command for builders/rez. Its and order that can be used to lift the terrain back out of the lava. Maybe you learn that later in the video cause im only at that part, but i figured leaving a comment wouldn't hurt.

This was a legendary game, no games will ever beat this, there might be other legendary moments, but none will ever truly beat this spectacle

glorious, would watch another hour long video all over again of such games

You might want to consider trying a mix of spam if someone is using Junos. 2-4 plants spamming Pawns while the rest spam out Ticks might be a good play. That way, you'd at least get a little bit of vision after the Juno.

LOL the amount of resources they threw at you to try and take you down that whole match. You were the perfect bait.

Can Lazarus use restore to fix the terrain?

@BenjaminRay

10 ай бұрын

Yep

@ZachRE88

10 ай бұрын

Yes they can. Works on lava and water maps. I don’t know if restoring the ground ruins the metal wrecks though.

@Komyets

10 ай бұрын

Yes most logistics units can.

@davidmattes199

4 ай бұрын

Apparently! Never played a lava map but I've had bad nuke strikes before and this is cool!

LOL the OS 1 remember the function for terrain restoration!!! What a god

Epic Game Drongo. At least you have fun win or loose. That makes it enjoyable to watch and learn strategy.

I feel like your mind have melted at around 30 minutes, from there on was kind of a meme

you really are living up to your name as Afus_Addict! Always begging for one more hit of that sweet Afus, lmao

I (AimTime) have a lot to learn about playing air, honestly I could've done much more to help. That was a fun match!

Great attitude Dude and great casting :D

Best BAR cast by far! And I've seen too many.

“If you want something fixed, abuse it. At least that’s what I tell the kids” 35:31

holy shit this map gives you so many geos this is a better boom map than glitters by a lot, every advanced geo is basically a 1/4 cost afus

you can repar the holes the res bot could have filled the hole with the comander

@Argonwolfproject

10 ай бұрын

He did eventually realize that.

REALLY thrilling game! good job!

Epic gameplay, GG.

I can help but wonder what might have happened if you stuck with pawn spam instead of switching back and for from tick to pawn due to juno's. every time you have to switch you would pull back effectively undoing any progress in your push. and most of the time when you pushed your crossbows or archangels were too far back to support against their air patrol. had you brought the AA forward with you every time you may have established air dominance and not had to fall back. fun game to watch either way.

"When you do something crazy, you know that the outcome is always possible to be one of these." - Drongo 2023

What a great game and fantastic commentary with it.

what I love about bar is you can loose and still love the game you just had

55:28 could it be the only person in this game who actuality knows what the eco role is for! Get this mann in my games

Well, I guess we are missing the thumbs up for the ending. Here you go!

OMG! Intense, Epic, and Funny at the same time.!

you should make a video solely focussed on pawns. Make sure to say pawns and pawn a lot.

I didn't realize you are AFUS-addict. Actually played forge with you last night.

Drongo you could scale a long time ago, and it could be much faster game :D also try to drain enemy, try to flank.

Valiant hero. Drongo, the Iron Wall.

@matshalvarsson8878

10 ай бұрын

If you were playing Age of Mythology the Titans Expansion, I would have called you an Automaton.

Where I come from, you dont stop building until total annihilation

Sniper can be good but not longest range the only thing is invisibility plus the energy spent for them to fight is massive so they slow your eco until late game. But then normal t3 arty easily deals with snipers, Plus sniper is a support unit so radar jammers and welders are needed and hidden anti air. I think the best unit in game is Sheldon especially with t2 precession fatalities.

For a noob, this video was an education

that is a really sweaty game holy heckeroni

Not sure if you're really gaining anything by switching your spam factories back and forth between ticks and pawns. All the ticks that are walking to the front are already dead, and if you wait for the cloud to end before going back to ticks, you've already lost all the time that new ticks could have been walking. Like, the time to switch to ticks is however many seconds it takes them to walk to the front BEFORE the cloud ends. Easier just stick with pawns the whole way if you know you're going to get juno'd over and over and over?

miss your aoe 4 content :(

Is there a particular reason commanders are almost never ressurected? Like can you get most of the metal but leave some and then rez it? That way you have a Commander and got most of the metal?

@sneediumminer

10 ай бұрын

games almost never end by comm death, they usually end when someone's afus gets touched wrong and blows up 50 minutes of eco buildup

@KyranFindlater

10 ай бұрын

@@sneediumminer because nobody knows how to space out their buildings, it's ridiculous

@luka188

10 ай бұрын

@@KyranFindlater Good luck spacing out 50 minutes of Eco. No map is big enough for that. You'd need to have one afus per base lol.

@Komyets

10 ай бұрын

Usually, I try to preserve my commander, but I accidentally eat him up completely. It is still possible to delf destruct him for the metal, and still revive him later on if yiu leave at least a fraction of metal in the wreckage. However, in order to resurrect a unit that has had metal taken away from its wreckage you need to put back the same quantity you took earlier. Hence why many players dont even bother with it and just reclaim it fully.

Its almost as if your words have... powers 😅😂

there's 28 nuke 8v8 how do i send to you?.

That truely was a Good Game

This was hilarious!

Also I feel like a lot of your losses could be fixed w more communication, idk why people choose not to communicate in team games that need communication 😭 lmao just a few call outs instead of watching could’ve saved you the game

use restore to fix terrain lol

What a game!!

tick spam stops working, time for lazarus spam

Very good game.

why don't people just build a couple of catapults into sniper spam

nice

500 seconds of having a commander givea 2k metal. It's better to restore commander that early incase game goes long.

Ahhh hahah fool me once… 20 mins later. Aghhhh! Thors!😂

I had a blast from watching this. SPOILERS Rebuilding 4 times, it's so funny every geo hits hard. Ofc lazarus IMBA

Bro you have 3 advance geos and your not making an Afus... you have the econ why Que up 2 fusion???

Sharp shooters kill unit diversity in this game though realistically... they need a nerf big time, or cortex needs an equivilent

nice terraforming with (restore)

I don’t know why you watch your team mate miss aim the ragnorok instead of telling him to aim it correctly

TIL Restore lol

Not enough Thor puns, that was your biggest mistake

You sound like an auctioneer

So this map is played with 6 frontlines... That's why i cant win this map LOL

Those tigers could have pretty much done that whenever they wanted tho… way too much HP for a cheap t2

@manumaster1990

10 ай бұрын

no.

1 nuke would have shrecked your frontline haha

omgomgomg

@slowloris79

10 ай бұрын

im noob :(

@slowloris79

10 ай бұрын

have 4 units total in 1 game. 4 con. LOL

man if your gonna make videos cover all aspects you have noobs watching your videos creating builds and playstyles through you. And there just plain bad and wrong. Your just helping them stay where they are.

nerf this anti fun op unit already.