Undefeated Advance Wars Champion Enters Tournament 

Alright, I have a lot of thoughts about this game, but here's just a couple: The pre-capture of the airport is an incredibly important detail for the dynamic of the map. In a normal game, you would usually only start with one non-base property precaptured (your HQ). This provides you with 1k/turn extra in funds to go towards vehicles. In this game they started with 2 (airport and HQ) accelerating the speed at which vehicles come out. This results in a massively abbreviated capture phase and early skirmishing which we can see by how many properties remained neutral even as the weak bases were falling. 18:44 The importance of this move cannot be understated. While the 5 unit sac was very flashy and game winning, this move here was just as important as the sac. Unit count is extremely important AWBW and here if VoA could have built infantry from this base rip's takeover of this part of the map would have been massively slowed down. 30:30 I agree this was the play of the game. The sac was an incredible find and I did not see this coming at all while keeping track of the game. 1-2 unit sacs to wall break are very common for high level players to plan for and see, but this many units in a chaotic game state is something very few players would even consider let alone find. The net result of the above two actions was a massive acceleration of rip's take over of the weak base compared to VoA. The result was that rip maintained a 6-10k income lead consistently over the latter parts of the game and while VoA was able use some initiative advantages and incredible tactics to come back in the game, the income deficit was too great and heavy tank spam secured the win.

Possible reasons that Voice of Akasha barely plays: 1. He's just Grimm guy. 2. He's Just like that

I didn't except to literally see GG at the end. This is going down with style.

That final movement was absolutely insane. Going out in style is something that only a GOAT can ever do.

Mangs has such good Charisma when it comes to commentary. When he mentioned that VoA and Incuggarch were going to face eachother at some point, I got chills up my spine like I was about to watch a UFC champion fight. I love this game so much.

An unmentionned impressive (but maybe not game changing) turn was day 19, where rip_ purposefully leaves no units within 2 tiles of his own HQ. You must have absolute confidence in your calculations to do something like that

Spelling GG with the unites what a legend

Spoilers ahead : Damn, this game was a blast(or a Max Blast if you will haha) I was about to say "It was sad to see VoA being defeated", but the way he ended the game spelling GG with his units was simply worth it, and poetic too

At 31:00, without spoilers to those who read the comments before the video (The PLAY OF THE GAME for those who know) (Edit 2: Updated calcs below! This first calc is actually off, leaving just for posterity.) Attack 1: 5-6% Attack 2: 21-24% Attack 3: 6% Attack 4: 1-4% Attack 5: 63-70% Looking at min values: 5+21=26 + 6 = 32% + 1= 33%, +63= 99%. In short, he'd be 1% off if he was completely unlucky with every single attack. That extra 1% from attack 4 I think matters quite a lot to basically ensure his odds as best as possible, to 'guarantee' that it would happen. I think this was definitely all part of the calculations, IMO. Edit 2: Attack 1 (with the 10 HP infantry who had been chipped): 4-10%. A fellow viewer noted that this infantry had already taken chip damage earlier in an engagement, so it was 100% sure to die. Attack 2: 5-6% Attack 3: 21-24% Attack 4: 6% Attack 5: 1-4% Attack 6: 63-70% 4+5=9 + 21=30+6=36+1=37+63=100. A perfect 100% chance with MIN luck to have this occur. I don't know how big brain you'd have to be to analyze all of this, but this guy saw it coming for a while. A play you definitely don't see in live for sure.

37:44 "It's 90% because of 60% and 3 CoMMs" *Around 10 mins Earlier* "It's 90% Because of 60%, 2 CoMM towers and Power Meter Rare case of Mangs Math being Progressional

One very smart move by rip is when he sees that Akasha will punch him with max Blast + the com tower, he just does an incredible tactical retreat, giving up massive land and taking a risk exposing his HQ, but not losing the game. He knew that he had an edge with funds and he had to weather the storm... but man, what incredible storm it was ! And what incredible defense ! That match was amazing.

Regular players screwing around: *buys missiles* Voice of Akasha: *f pixel(/unit) art* what a chad

Sacrificing 4 units to kill a single tank is either a 700 play or a 1600 play, there isn't really an inbetween

You weren't kidding (though idk why you changed the title of the video, imo the first title was better) Just wow, what a game! rip is an absolute GENIUS when it comes to using wounded units, I have never seen anyone get so much value out of units that people would assume are better for nothing more than meatshields at that point. I agree with your point about where he "lost" the game in that moment (in that it put a countdown to VoA's loss unless he did something big), but I feel a mistake was done at 48:30, when he let that second Neotank go undamaged, when he could've gotten a first-strike with his Neotank (unless I'm misunderstanding unit ranges?). Plus that would've created a stronger wall, and he could've placed his tanks further back rather than basically losing them for free, and that Neotank ended up being a big deal later with breaking the final wall before VoA's capture. Though maybe that would've given rip an earlier Max Blast instead so maybe it was a moot point (still though, a wounded Neotank is a lot easier to deal with than a full HP one). I think he could've won if he did that, but maybe I'm misunderstanding. Plus rip is so good that I wouldn't be surprised that, even if his units were heavily wounded, that he'd have found a way to interrupt VoA anyways lol. Anyways, this was great, thanks for posting this Mangs. Even if legends do eventually fall, that was one heck of a way to go out, I wish it could've lasted a bit longer, but who knows, he might still win the tournament so that would be hilarious lol. Anyways I think Voice of Akasha definitely proved he was at least in the top caliber of players today.

Despite losing against rip, voice of akasha won the overall bracket and the tournament. Rip lost twice against talose and incuggarch. Incuggarch and akasha have 9 points, but in the direct fight against each other, akasha won. So the trophy goes to him🏆

My armchair observation of this match is that despite Voice of Akasha having FTA it was rip_ who was leading the whole time with VoA often following his lead on several occasions. Mind you, I'm not talking about having similar openings but around Days 6-9 or so I started to notice that rip_ seemed to be playing proactively and often forced Voice Akasha to play reactively more often than the other way around. The issue with that being that you can only win on reaction in a game like this if your opponent is so bad that you naturally advance forward while doing so, and once the two started to diverge rip_ incrementally pressured better than VoA up to and even long after the two largest plays on rip_'s part, those being blocking off VoA's east base and later on capping it. Those moments are a great example of what I mean by it felt like Voice of Akasha was following rip_'s lead. For both of those plays it was rip_ who made the strong moves first with VoA doing it second. And once rip_ pulled that off it was just a matter of keeping pressure until victory by attrition settles in. Now to be fair, Advance Wars with its CO Powers and Super CO Powers give the player who is falling behind a chance to make a big push and take control of the map and lead the other player around instead. I don't want to take that away from Voice of Akasha, those were some great plays, but the whole game there were plenty of moments where you can see that rip_, despite moving 2nd this game, was the one to take initiative. That said, it does still require a lot of skill to effectively copy your opponent mid-match, and VoA totally deserves credit for doing as well as he did and for holding out for so long after the two of their strategies started to diverge more and more.

“Close all your other tabs.” I feel attacked.

This is a game that needs to be watched in fullscreen!

I think it's silly to suggest VoA isn't really that good based on his MMR (not saying Mangs is doing it, he's acting as a messenger here I suppose). He is an OG awbw player and MMR has a tendency to inflate over time, 1300 in 2019 is miles ahead of 1300 in 2023. He has also had to beat a few 1500+ players to get to these finals, x123456789 included.

These games are the proof that i can't go on advance wars by web. I would spend my life on it. It feels so intense with the commentaries of Mangs. Thank you so much to give us these videos

Voice of Akasha - what a gentleman! Great game. One, if not, the best I've seen on that channel.

Now this is what im talking about! VoA tournament gameplay? Exciting. Will def drop what im doing and focus.

@Mangs I used Operation Mechstorms's XHKO Calculator and imputed the attack sequence of 10 HP Infantry, 1 HP Tank, 4 HP Tank, 1 HP Tank, 4 HP Infantry, and 10 HP Tank and got a kill chance of 99.3%! That is a really high success rate, but not so high that the RNG couldn't just Devil Axe Rip in the face. I did a 6 hit attack sequence (including 3 sacks) against a Javier 1T Megatank on a Base in the 2nd round of the Amarriner Cup 2. I lead with 3 Tanks (one at half health), and followed up with a Bomber, Neotank, and finally an Artillery which would give me about a 93/94% kill rate. The RNG responded by taking a Devil Axe to my Amarriner Cup 2 run, so no fight against Rimer for me. :(

You inspired and I played again this time in a long while, despite being noob, i won the match cuz my opponent resigned, i just applied the basics of retreating well and with setting up nice walls.

This is handsdown one of your best commentaries, such a great game! It had me hooked the entire way through can't believe an hour went by that quickly.

Truly an incredible match, great plays by both sides but came down to the economy at the end. Rips play on that tank factory was nuts.

Absolutely legendary match right here. Thank you for commenting this match Mangs

Popping max force to spell GG was HILARIOUS

What a treat of a match to watch! Sad that you can’t bring up damage calcs cuz it’s fun to see it done in front of you in real time 😊

every single play of this game would be a POTG in any other match, and both players just kept repeatedly making those big plays and recovering against them. It was such a fantastic brawl from start to finish. If this is what akasha tournament games are always like I don't wanna see anything else lol

The best game of the year -or the decade- INDEED. By the hand of two of the best advance wars players in the WORLD brought to us by the best comentator in this field. Thank you all for making this posible, including you, the fans! Rest well our heroes. You deserve it!

Rip is really good at ripping both his opponent's and his own units

That was such a great game! And I have to absolutely agree with a comment that says your charisma on commentary makes it so good and exciting that we feel like we're going to watch an amazing match in a stadium! I can hardly wait to see the next matches.

At 51:00 couldn't rip have just used his 9 hp Medium Tank to kill the 4 hp tank to its left, and then move his 10 hp Neo Tank in to kill the Infantry capturing his HQ?????? I'm sure he saw that, so why did he choose to go the other route?

At 30:10 I thought in my head "Hey, if rip_ uses enough troops at that tank and each one gets killed, he can weaken VoA's tank until the full health can take it out..." And sure enough. Lmaooo what a play!

One defeat doesn't mean the king loses his crown. I look forward to seeing the results from his other matches.

I love the atmosphere of AWBW matches

Havent seen the video yet, just the intro but thank for it! The intro is really good for people like me who dont know much about tournament rules, the players, the tiers. So you set the stage very well, so I can enjoy the match much more. I'm never lost watching your AW videos, they are really well put together.

That last turn was classy

Akasha gave up on the right side too soon. Should have put a Medium on the base and sent the standard tank somewhere to harass. Probably south would be nice. Earlier bomber would be good too, though I don't believe it was vital. He also allowed the economy to get out of his control. This last point might be the most important. The income disadvantage forced him to try to rush the HQ, devolving the fight into a struggle for decisive battle. Those are flashy, but very unreliable. Sad. Loved to believe the Big A was literally undefeatable.

This was the best match i ever saw and i have no words to describe it I am hyped for incuggarch vs Voice of Akasha and while both are near perfect players, i believe (not influenced by this match) that incuggarch will win

For me, it seemed like he lost on day 9, when he had the whole 3 tanks grouped on that small plot of land with 2 cities... While his opponent had his tanks much more spread all over the map while still chained enough to support eachother, he threatened a lot more ground, while still much better poised to potentially surround the weak base. Those tank chains were so damn impressive!

Mangbang 😏 I liked the longer version of this commentary very much! And the Match itself was very interesting, i'm hyped for the next few finals 😀

This is the age old question. A unstoppable forces vs a immovable object. Who would win

That's what I like to call going out with style.

Good advice for the Internet voice clarity thing (assuming it's not their mic directly) you can ask them to record on their end and send you the file via audacity or another program, I've found success with this before

beautiful match, i agree voice of akasha start to lose from the base loss, and the loss of the side city from middle top and middle bottom speed up the economy gap

Absolute banger of a match. To be 1 hp off of victory is so tragic. VoA had to lose at some point but for this to be the first lost is fitting, a brutal brawl right up until the end, and to take the lose in stride with the gg at the end just *chefs kiss* perfect end to a thrilling game

NOOO! Voice of Akasha you're still a legend in my book!

>Sacrifices tens of infantrymen and tanksmen into certain death "THIS, was the play of the game" -Churchill

Jazz jack rabbit sountracks ROCKS!

I'm watching this probably for the 3rd time, and if I have to say something simple that isn't adressed enough, is that even against a superstar of this game, even with a crazy bad position on the board with the base rush scenario, the fact that the guy had a real tangible chance to flip this until the very end is the craziest fact that make this match the GOAT of AWBW tournament matches.

Woah. VoA fought a tough battle between the mightiest of players. VoA accepted his first defeat with grace. And against one of the best players at that.

Mangs thank you for bringing so much energy and information into these casts! That was absolutely riveting to follow! Congrats rip_, and Voice of Akasha still the respectable champ!

It's always nice to see a high tier competitive match that doesn't involve infantry walls and mass artillery advances.

VoA is still my GOAT for that final move😩

Hands down one of the best matches. I was following this game but unfollowed as it went on because I knew someone had to do a commentary on it. I did not want to be spoiled on who wins. Both players put on a good show too, VoA especially when he knew it was over.

Those HQ defences at the end were insane. The weak base's capture was in the same vein, although less impressive for less experienced onlookers. Looks like rip_'s day to day is a damage increase for each unit lost in the same turn :)

25:40 Max Power tank with 2 Towers vs Infantry on forest: 96%-103%. It was indeed a luck roll.

Respect. Good play and sportsmanship. The GOAT for good reason.

25:13 96 - 103% damage-> roll

VoA gave a new saying: If you're going to go out, do so as a gigachad.

...Damn... That was a hell of a battle. SPOILERS BELOW - Everybody falls eventually, and against one of the highest-ranked players in the game is nothing to be ashamed about.

There's rumor Voice of Akasha is Skynet AI training for world destruction using Advance Wars.

Nice choice of music for the match, sounds very Advance Wars-ey

Thanks for the upload, it was a great match and appreciated the commentary

That match was Legendary

are you going to cast the other bracket winners matches too? a match like rip_ vs talose or vs incugarc could be great aswell :)

An incredible advance wars match, a true banger

Not gonna be like, this is shocking to say that while you don't often get the to see this player going in, it's making an even more surprising fact that... The fact that the now once-undefeated prodigy with 26 WINS prior to this match, has officially lost a match in Advance Wars by Web, for the first time in the history shown here. And beaten at his own game, no less. Though to be credited, rip_ is an Advance wars veteran that has an astoundingly good strategy here, and a pretty good W/L/D ratio here, around 76% win rate before this match. Seems like there's always a bigger fish anywhere in the competitive community of any competitive game.

Exceptional. The game, the commentary - this was really fun to watch!

I looked at rip’s profile and it looks like they’ve never lost a GL standard or high funds game

Pretty sure VoA had to google where the resing button was

you weren't kidding, match of the century right there

it would be cool if the replay viewer could have shown an icon or shading to indicate a gamble attack

Spectacular match and great casting, thanks! :D

Oooh I was following this game, and saw it finished less than a day ago I watched the game and know the result but I will watch it again with pleasure, it was such an amazing one

So the unbeatable player as been defeated a outcome that I couldn't predict and thats great too find out!

Now THIS is Advance Warsing!

Voice of akasha vs incugard when?

Thank you for showing us this game! But to be completely honest, after rewatching it today, it feels like your commentary makes it sound like a less one-sided game than it was: Starting with day 8 base block, rip had advantage on all times, whether it was initiative or more measurable metrics, such as income. While VoA did a good job staying in a game, it was an uphill battle all the time: HQ cap attempt, while executed very well, was absolutely forced by that point in match: there were literally no other threats on the map by VoA and income difference was spelling a quick doom for him already. Imagine seeing this game without context: what would be your reaction? I would (very inaccurately, I admit) wildly guess that it is 200 MMR higher player winning. And don't get me wrong, I am not saying that VoA is a bad player, or that he plays on 1300 MMR level normally - I am well aware of his record during this tournament - but in this particular game he seemed noticeably weaker than his opponent through the whole game.

The chinese player played sami in both games and got absolutely demolished by voa and talose i think

The undertaker of advanced wars

Rip capturing base and Akashas GG were awesome. What a game.

If only Mangs knew there's been a few boxing champions who never lost once... if only

The fact that such insane moves were required to beat VoA goes to show his skill level. You have to be an absolute legend to beat VoA.

Was waiting for this hehe😋 Such a sick game.

lmao at VoA spelling out "GG"

It's always nice to see a high tier competitive match that doesn't involve infantry walls and mass artillery advances. But... **spoilers below** I agree that Voice of Akasha's undefeated streak was not going to be eternal. You can't be #1 forever - someone out there will inevitably surpass you (which is heavily quoted by Darius at the end of NFS Carbon; even the best of the best will be overtaken by someone else at one point). This isn't necessarily a bad thing (especially in this chill community) because giving away your title is another reason to keep improving and hopefully one day, reclaim that title. To me, I believe VoA's fatal move was letting rip dominate all of the east. It gave him a mountain of funds to work with and he only needed to worry about the southern front, whereas the northern front didn't seem to have a lot of action going on aside from a few infantry skirmishes.

Win like a legend, lose like a legend!

Now that I finished watching, it was a fantastic match! That defense at the end was insane, though I am confused why defend in such a roundabout way instead of just blasting through the 4HP tank, really dont understand why. But fun match.

“And as the strongest Commander, Rip, fought against the fraud, the Voice of Akasha, he began to open his domain. Akasha shrunk back in fear, then Rip said, ‘Stand proud, Akasha. You are strong’”

When you feel like your champion can defend a position only to get chipped by a bunch of low grunts and finished off by their own hero.

man that sure was a gg

the saying, once you reach the top, you can only fall. is sooo ture

My ohhhh...MY!!

This was one of the best games I ever saw. Just awesome.

Old advanced wars is where it’s at new advanced wars looks like it was made for children only

I dropped the baby to see this, worth it.

Rip ... sturm in disguise?