Videos from competitive play - 2015 PBEM Duel Tournament

[hiliadan]

As you probably know, there is currently a 32 players ongoing PBEM tournament (actually 16 + 8 +8 players, which will merge at the end) organized on the Battlefield community website (see https://steamcommunity.com/app/226840/discussions/0/490125103643279432/ for more details on the website).

I have been recording my 2 last matches and commenting them to share with the community. It is round 5 and 6 of the tournament so only experienced players are left and it can probably be considered "high-level" AoW3 play. cbower is ranked 2nd on the Battlefield (ranking: www.the-battlefield.com/aow3/index.php?page=ranking), Eskild is ranked 4th and I was ranked 5th before cbower beat me (he has not yet reported the match when I write this post, so I'm still 5th but not for long).

I made one playlist for each of the match with several short episodes to make each easier to finish in one go (I assumed 45+ minutes videos are too long but please let me know what you prefer). Each episode is about 3 and 22 minutes and show 1 or 2 turns.

Round 5 - Hiliadan vs Eskild (Draconian Necromancer mirror match) - 7 episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVegwVpl7gLENQGy5fjGryvor43W_GA3j

Round 6 - Hiliadan (Goblin Theocrat) vs cbower (Dwarf Rogue) - episodes will be here (I loaded only 1 so far, will add the rest today): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVegwVpl7gLHrpg_45dW0KBT9zEKLmgvz


For people doubting the strength of Necro, I strongly recommend watching episode #5 of round 5 where I (more than?) double the size of my army and just exterminate Eskild which has no way to fight back. It's here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex0xiHzxgJw&index=5&list=PLVegwVpl7gLENQGy5fjGryvor43W_GA3j

I hope you enjoy it and feedback welcome to improve my play (I want to beat cbower next time!!! :D).

+ other players of the tournament are strongly encouraged to record their videos too. Maybe if the feedback for these 2 matches is good, it will encourage them to start recording.

[Sharpnessism]

Commentary is interesting but the recorded game is a bit choppy. Not sure if it's your machine or video recording equipment though.

[hiliadan]

I think it's because I reduced quality to limit the size of the videos on my computer. Do you mean the image quality is bad? Did you try increasing the resolution on YouTube? It seemed ok to me but if other people also thinks image quality is bad, I'll increase the quality of my next recording (which will not happen soon though! I'm eliminated from this tournament). :)
Also, I plan to buy a new headset microphone to significantly improve the quality of the sound, which is quite bad at the moment in my opinion.

[hiliadan]

There is also a live MP tournament ongoing and some videos have been released. Please see the news here:
http://www.the-battlefield.com/aow3/index.php?page=commnews&eingabenewsid=33
http://www.the-battlefield.com/aow3/index.php?page=commnews&eingabenewsid=34