BATTLEFLEET GOTHIC ARMADA 2 | Tau Merchant Fleet vs Corsairs (Ranked 1v1 Battle 43) 

It's about time!

You bring demiurgs for the beam.

@@IIIJG52 Except he was only able to charge the beam once this battle and he was fighting an enemy who could outrun the beams.

Typically I would broadside until I was close enough to cutting beam, but against such a fast enemy with only forward firing arcs, I wanted to keep the chase on to stop them from turning around to face me with confidence. This way I could chase with boost, and use the beam eventually, while taking little damage myself.

Agreed regarding his flagship, as I personally dont own the game yet I am more or less unsure how normal that is strategically but especially when he has one of the smaller ability oriented cruisers as a flagship (ie the Khopesh in his necron fleet) he doesnt seem to afford it the extra care I would personally assume it needs (at the very least to protect against the massive morale loss of losing the flagship, by no means excluding it from the battle simply for the sake of avoiding that). I suppose people who play the game, possibly Party included, may be able to explain away that concept, but I at the very least agree (within the realm of constructive criticism, to be taken with a grain of salt as I do not own the game myself [yet]) that perhaps you (Party) could be less, for lack of a better word, suicidal, with your flagships, especially the less tanky ones.

Yeah I 100% need to be less eager (read: impatient). Taking too many risks with the flagship, but somehow surviving, isn't gonna last forever

@@PartyElite A bit more elite for your flagship while the others can be a bit more party, ok ;) ?

@@PartyElite still you've gotten really good at this game my man, keep it up i love your videos

Actualy party nearly cucked this fight because 1: he ran into the enemy with his flagship alone and 2: he didn‘t use encouraging speech at all to prevent his ships from routing

True but it wouldnt be exciting if he never messed up. And despite his mistakes he clutched it

Reload stance for the engine boost, which paid off in the end. If you switch to bracing for impact, you can't switch right away. Not using the morale boost means you can repair instead if it becomes necessary, and the two ships that actually mutinied were destroyed seconds later anyway. He did use the morale boost the one time it actually mattered.

I'm loving it! Got a new battle I just put up as the nids that showcases it

Toronto, Canada - so they're actually going up at midnight where I live too!

@@PartyElite I see. So you have no need for sleep either.

Yeah on the one hand they were bumping into each other too much, and on the other, the alpha strike potential of that clump meant the corsairs couldn't really isolate them and turn around to pick em off one at a time.

I think he realized there was no choice but to engage - I was staying on top of the enemy fleet, I had an escort ship free to cap points... something had to be done.

Yeah - that's a serious problem of mine. I'm solving them one at a time hah.

@@PartyElite it did work out in the end so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I mean, what was he supposed to do? Keep fleeing while Party's escorts captured all the points?

Damn, sorry to hear that - but thanks for the honest feedback! As somebody who's not very good as the corsairs, it's hard to identify *terrible* play as easily. I thought with my flagship down early and the hot pursuit that forced him to desperately turn and attempt a split which ultimately led to his demise, the battle was interesting. I'll try to put a better filter on which battles end up online!

@@justinthompson6364 Wat? No obviously not as that's what lost him the game >.< I don't get what your point is? I mean is it really so impossible to see the many mistakes the Corsair made towards the middle point+? @Party no matter what, you're still an entertaining caster. I'll explain a few things, that are just basic strategies for any strategy game. We both know from total war you don't keep your whole skirmish line together if it is in danger because that's a great way to get them all dead. Which is what happened with his fleet. How many good wood elf players keep their waywatchers and deepwood scouts together in a ball? We also know that having any non melee capable unit with stealth capabilities closer than required makes no sense. These basic things are on top of basic Corsair mistakes that can easily lose you the game... Such as: Not immediately restealthing when the opponent discovered him (because he purposefully got far too close) disclaimer, you don't need to get into detection range to reliably land torpedoes from stealth Not having target lock on, or at the very least stopping when turning around for a good 5+ seconds on multiple ships because no, you don't need to stop moving to get pulsars off Not killing your escorts for free when he should have known they were capping points, and correct me if I'm wrong but bringing no more than 1 escort of his own, if that (really not ideal) And what we can all agree on (admittedly he might have given up) was the ramming, intentional or otherwise. Again... Waywatchers or deepwood scouts into chaos warriors... Not a good idea... Anyway I'm by no means a top player in really in game because I'm not a competitive person, but I do usually try and keep myself learning new stuff. I hope that in this game and at one point in tw I was slightly above trash Dx

@@TheIceDragon225 You said "he was doing fine for so long", when for a huge chunk of the battle he was just running. Kind of confusing.

@@justinthompson6364 No, I said he was doing fine true, but I also said until about the mid point+, meaning around mid point till the end is where he started making mistakes.