Strategy of the Year 2019 - Nominations

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AoE3 Strategy of the Year 2019
With the end of the year in sight, it's good to review just what has happened in AoE3 history. The purpose of this thread is to highlight and commemorate some of the brilliant and precise strategies we saw throughout the year and to celebrate some of the supreme strategists who used their ingenuity to craft excellent games for us. The top 5 or 6 nominations in this thread in terms of Likes will go head to head in a vote next week to crown this year's best strategy, and best strategy player!

To make a nomination:
1 post = 1 nomination. If you want to make several nominations, make several posts. When making a nomination, you are making it for 1 player. If there was a game where you think both players had awesome play and tactics, save that game for in a few weeks when we have Game of the Year nominations. Your nomination should be of a game played this year (2019). If it was played late December 2018, that's fine too.

Not everyone might have seen each strategy, so put some effort into writing a description that explains why your nomination is so great!

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Player: SomppuKunkku

Game: SomppuKunkku vs kynesie on Hudson Bay - New Year's Classic - Round of 8

Link: Recorded Game / YouTube / Twitch

Reason: When we see players do something non-standard, it usually has to with a clever tactic or unanticipated age-up that might have a viewer think "oh wow". However, in this game, Somppu combines not just one layer of unexpected play. Not even two layers of unexpected play. And to say that his strategy combines 3 layers of unexpected play might still be missing something crucial. But Somppu not only had us viewers saying "oh wow", but also "wait, what?", followed by "there's no way this works", and finally "HAHAHAAHAHA" and "LAMER OUTLAMED". Somppu's victory combined every possible mechanic to counter his opponent's strategy into one succinct build order that even included some fake out Age 2 mind-games.
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that game was amazing
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Sepoy urumi ceasfire? Don't think I've seen that strategy around before this year.
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RE Iroquois rush, obviously
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Cba to write descriptions, would be cool if someone can do it for me.
In the following games, the player went for unusual strategies that we very rarely see and it worked out very well.

Tabben's revolt on NE from NWC
Kaiser's merc lame on HP vs tabben from NWC
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note to self: diarouga's iconic build with ship in the pond in NE from NWC
Correlation doesn't mean causation.
http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

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Player: @tabben

Game:@tabben vs @Diarouga AoE3 New World Championships LAN SEMIFINALS (Spain vs China on New England)

Link: Recorded Game / YouTube

Reason: Spain vs China on New England. The context for this game is quite important. Everyone knew Diarouga was confident playing China on this map, he repeatedly won here, especially by abusing his boat in the ponds. He won this exact matchup, of China vs Spain on New England, twice before against @princeofkabul and @Mitoe. Because of that, it seemed crazy for Tabben to go for this strategy. Diarouga was established as one of the best and most prepared players at the LAN, while Tabben was the upcoming underdog that originally didn't even make it into the top 8. It was the young blood against the grandmaster, which made for the best series at the LAN in my opinion. But let's get to strategy: what did Tabben do to win this seemingly impossible matchup? He revolted. Planned out from the start. He build his outpost forward to hint at a fast fortress, got 2 trade posts to get an insane amount of shipments, shipped Spanish Gold to get a constant coin income, build a fort to protect him from any aggression and then shipped factories, heavy cannons, hussars and revolted with imperial hussars. It was awesome to watch, people started clapping when he clicked revolt and it was glorious.

And how did Diarouga not see this coming? Surely Tabben must have practiced this before, right? Well, he did, in the GiveUAnxiety tournament. Tabben knew Diarouga would watch every recording and every stream, but would probably not check that one. Tabben told Diarouga in an post-game interview which showed their mutual respect. Good game, 10/10 would watch the entire series again just to post this.
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Another note to self the turning point of the Japanese meta from Kami to 2v/300w happened this year
Correlation doesn't mean causation.
http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

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BrookG wrote:Another note to self the turning point of the Japanese meta from Kami to 2v/300w happened this year
Nothing crazy tho.
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Nothing crazy indeed, but it's a shift in meta
Correlation doesn't mean causation.
http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

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BrookG wrote:note to self: diarouga's iconic build with ship in the pond in NE from NWC
Tip of the week 1 by 36drew features a ship in the pond on NE.. It's more than 8 years old.
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BrookG wrote:Nothing crazy indeed, but it's a shift in meta
Yes but a very slow shift. It's not like on game changed the meta so it doesn't count imo.
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[Armag] diarouga wrote:
BrookG wrote:Nothing crazy indeed, but it's a shift in meta
Yes but a very slow shift. It's not like on game changed the meta so it doesn't count imo.
Also true, it's just the year when the meta shifted. Neither a single player did it nor it was a new bo
Correlation doesn't mean causation.
http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

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Player: diarouga

Game: Game 2 on hudson bay, snowww (brits) vs diarouga (azzy) − RO8 − ESOC New Year's Classic

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Reason: Tough mu for azzy but diarouga come up into this serie with very creative build order and somehow transforms into kynazzy there, this "strat" is too wtf to explain.
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Player: WickedCossack

Game: WickedCossack vs Mitoe on Baja California--NWC QUALIFICATION SERIES--Game 2 (India vs China)

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Reason: WickedCossack goes for a funky built order, which worked out very good in this match.
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WickedCossack is sending 3 age I cards and stays long in age I (starts Wonder at minute 05:50) while starting to built fishing boats, WickedCossack takes good trades vs Mitoes age 4 army with his unit composition (Howdah/Mahout+later some urumi) and gets the win. This game was very fun to watch and i think the strategie of WickedCossack countered the one of mitoe pretty well.
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Is this way of play French by umeu always good today adapted on re tad?
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Something about that WickedCossack strat:

1) It only works on Baja California
2) It only works when your opponent is China
3) It only works when your opponent plays passive

So Wicked knew exactly what his opponent would do and was able to get away with a strategy that would likely fail if literally anything else happened.
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Mosx wrote:
Is this way of play French by umeu always good today adapted on re tad?
Yeah, it is the standard Samwise build, I remember learning it from this video for the first time many years ago. You usually want to build a trading post in transition in 1v1 nowadays, that is the only difference.
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Cometk wrote:Something about that WickedCossack strat:

1) It only works on Baja California
2) It only works when your opponent is China
3) It only works when your opponent plays passive

So Wicked knew exactly what his opponent would do and was able to get away with a strategy that would likely fail if literally anything else happened.
Doesn't that make it even more awesome?
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RefluxSemantic wrote:
Cometk wrote:Something about that WickedCossack strat:

1) It only works on Baja California
2) It only works when your opponent is China
3) It only works when your opponent plays passive

So Wicked knew exactly what his opponent would do and was able to get away with a strategy that would likely fail if literally anything else happened.
Doesn't that make it even more awesome?
yes and no. A great strat to me is a strat that works in most cases. Which is why arguably diarougas strat on NE was more impressive in that regard. On the other hand it really wasnt anything special he just did a china ff with pond laming, which in itself is not very creative whereas wickeds strat was way more tailored and impressive concerning creativity anticipation of the opponents actions. For example a great strat would be H2os india vs china howdah build. Both very creative and highly viable in said mu.Basically the best of both worlds. But obviously it wasnt in 2019. Just throwing it out here to all the people who said he wasnt creative.
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Are some people really saying ryan wasn't creative lol
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BrookG wrote:Another note to self the turning point of the Japanese meta from Kami to 2v/300w happened this year
Eh, that's some pretty old stuff, like 2007 :D
All in all this year has been very stale in terms of strats, and to some extent that's good.
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