Overview
His only weapon is his will to survive.
Settings
- Game Type: Random Map
- Map: Black Forest
- Players: GeeK + Ralber + Shah_Nadir vs Ruso_ + RuKie + Chero
- Nicks in game: _ArtOfZilla + KuuZilla + ZealZilla vs ThuG_Ruso + ThuG_RuKie + ThuG_Chero
- Civs: Mongols + Celts + Spanish vs Aztecs + Mongols + Spanish
War Story
Black Forest is often regarded as an “easy” map where players only have to wall, boom and destroy. But Aocbox wouldn’t be Aocbox if we couldn’t disprove that statement. Sure, BF is easy to wall, but also the only map to give such a false feeling of security. The secret to success lies in sneaking villagers behind enemy lines before he manages to wall his part of the woods off.
And obviously, that’s what happened in this game, but not by one player, but by two players. One on each team, to keep the odds even. Ruso did a very bold and showy sneak. It wasn’t really much of a sneak but more like some villagers walking in and yelling “here we are!” while wearing fluorescent shorts. GeeK had a much better run then by sneaking into Ruso’s base. Incidentally, Ruso was the pocket and GeeK a flank player, thus drastically shaking up the odds.
Both sneakers asked for a sling, Ruso pulled up barracks and monasteries, probably preparing for a sling straight to the Imperial Age, but this was planned outside GeeK’s knights that started to plunder and pillage Ruso’s hometown. Not only were both Ruso’s allies forced to wall and effectively separated from each other, preventing a trade line, but it also limited Ruso’s escape routes to zero. Ruso only had his two forward villagers left and had to build up a new town behind enemy lines.
In the meanwhile, the other players finished their boom and prepared armies to enter the battlefield. RuKie was the first one and his Mongol horde wreaked havoc on ZealZilla’s sleepy Spanish town. Even in such fashion that Ralber had to come and help him out and together they barely managed to beat RuKie back. Things only started to get worse when Chero retook the pocket position of Ruso, killed GeeK’s army and newly found economy and marched his paladins to the front lines.
In the meanwhile, Ruso was still trying to reboom behind enemy lines. I think Ruso deserves the prize for “cutest reboom ever”. His little town between two ponds could easily feature in a screenshot competition.
However, his luck was soon over, being a small Aztec village between two hostile empires is no more than a countdown to defeat. And this almost happened. Ruso was driven into a small corner and couldn’t do a thing. His villagers fought staunch but stood no chance and eventually he pulled back only 4 villagers behind a single wall next to his pond. Funny enough, this might have won Thug the game as Zilla started to lose faith against the combined forces of Chero and RuKie, not knowing that Ruso was only 4 villagers away from being defeated.
But the four villagers could not be found and even though they didn’t do a damn thing anymore, they probably did more psychological damage than any other unit in this classic match from WCL 3.
