Genius Archer Streaming Season 3 Episode 315
102. The Bigger Picture (2)
As a child, Anto grew up on a ranch.
The ranch was dominated by white, fluffy sheep, with a couple of sheepdogs in charge.
The sheepdogs were border collies.
They were very intelligent.
Anto watched them carefully.
It was interesting to see how they herded the sheep.
First, the Border Collie would run around and bark with its enormous activity.
Then the sheep would run in the opposite direction of his barking.
It was baffling.
Why would sheep be so intimidated by a dog they had never seen before and squeeze into a tightly packed flock?
After years of observation, he came up with one answer.
Fear.
Dogs are descended from wolves.
Dogs, especially border collies, are not cute maltese or poodles.
Like Siberian huskies and pit bulls, there is something of the wolf in them.
They may be gentle and cute, but that’s from a human perspective.
Not so for the sheep.
They resemble their natural enemy, the wolf. They were distant descendants of the wolf.
Even though they weren’t real wolves, the similarity in appearance was enough to make the sheep feel the same fear.
Even though it barked without any attack, they could do nothing.
They just went “meh” and were busy moving to the other side where the dog was.
It’s not like the wolves wouldn’t eat them. They’re just not fast enough.
Still, they move. At least I’m not going to get eaten.
These sheep were so stupid.
But Anto soon realizes that humans are sometimes like these sheep.
Those who overstep their bounds, those who raise their voices unnecessarily, and those who get themselves into even more trouble…… were really stupid.
The root of their stupid behavior was usually fear.
They are no different from sheep.
They think they’re different from animals, but that’s not what Anto observed.
Humans had their own sheepdogs, too.
Only human sheepdogs were not tangible; they were elusive.
Their minds, the fear that lay beneath the surface.
Anto always found it.
Now, two games in, he could see it.
What Cookie wanted to do, what scouting strategy she’d come up with.
What he would be most afraid of.
What his sheepdog would be.
“The terrain.
Commanders are usually most afraid of being given favorable terrain and not being able to take advantage of it.
He’ll try to use the mountainous terrain to his extreme advantage.
He’ll scout aggressively.
Instead, his soldiers will spread out in small clusters, which will make them more dangerous if they encounter the Romans, but there are ways to exclude them.
[If encountered, flee].
They’ll run.
They’re faster here, so if they see you, they run.
That was going to be Cookie’s trick.
And now it’s Anto’s trick.
[Go]
[Go]
[Go] [Go]
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Anto basically kept a large group, scattering a few soldiers here and there.
He didn’t hunt or scout.
Fear creeps into his mind that he will lose resources again.
Anto recognizes it.
He knows he can win by taking this fear.
“If I leave this map without this advantage, I’m done for.
So he makes a decision.
He takes full advantage of his opponent’s dark vision, which he exploits like a ghost.
The Roman army had soldiers roaming around like they had dozens of them.
And when he encounters a Joseon army? He chases them down without a care in the world.
The Joseon army would then flee as if it were a matter of course.
In their path is another Roman army.
Faced with them again, the Koreans take another route.
They think they have chosen their path.
But they don’t.
Subtle placement angles and timing.
And the fear that comes from dark vision.
The optimal route to flee in this situation is already mapped out in their minds.
What’s more, they’re programmed with fear like sheep.
[Run on sight].
This command is embedded in them.
Anto was even more convinced when he saw the reaction of the Koreans.
That they had been given this order.
So he starts to design traps more aggressively.
He even gathers two or three people together to trap the Koreans.
“King! King!
The Romans bark, and the Koreans run away.
“Meeeeeeee~
It was like hearing the bleating of sheep.
At that moment, the Romans reveal their wolf instincts.
[Ambush dismissed]
These were no shepherd dogs.
They were wolves in dog form.
[Attack]
“Uh-uh-uh! Joseon army, annihilation!!!”
“They’ve gone in here!?”
Koo-koo-koo……!
In an instant, a dozen or so Joseon soldiers are annihilated as the Roman soldiers surround them.
“Ah. So the Romans eventually make this risk into a return?”
“It was a high risk, low reward, but if they make it a reward in the end, it’s just a gain because the risk didn’t work out, right?”
To the criminals, it may have looked like a simple high-risk gamble, but there was no risk to begin with.
Anto was making numbers that even the broadcasters with a full view of the map couldn’t read, all while looking at a tiny fraction of the map.
He didn’t need to know all the roads in the first place.
He just needed to keep the enemy on the roads he knew.
“What? Not one after another! That’s a lot of misses on the recon side!”
Opponent’s misses?
They weren’t.
They’re just guilty of being too good.
They are guilty of taking the best route to escape.
That’s why they die.
Good judgment is read.
Bad judgment is punished.
The irony will slowly eat away at your cookies.
“That’s it.
Anto was satisfied.
For two great failures?
Nope.
Taking out a few scouts early on only buys Rome a little more time.
The bigger gain is something else.
Now Joseon can’t come in.
‘I didn’t get a good look at the main camp.
Anto’s biggest sheepdog in this game is his ability to read the terrain inside the main camp.
* * *
“Eh? Lee, if this happens…….”
Qi Seung jumps up from his seat. The situation in Joseon was not good right now, despite the fact that this map was favorable.
[This isn’t all Anto’s fault! Anto was playing the way he knows how!]
[That’s a bit of a loss, isn’t it, Joseon? Oh, Joseon’s going to lose in the end?]
[Well, it’s not really a big deal for Joseon, isn’t it? The hunting situation is still good…….]
No.
Chi Seung shook his head in disbelief.
The broadcasters didn’t know.
Why is this a big deal.
If you do this, you won’t be able to see inside.
“Are we not allowed inside now? No, how did this happen? Anto, did you turn on the map core?”
Gupspear is stunned and babbling.
So does the entire shipbuilding think tank team.
“How the hell am I supposed to position myself to assassinate a priest?”
This is because Joseon’s must-win strategy required exploring the terrain inside the opponent’s main camp.
“I didn’t expect to encounter a roadblock here.
I didn’t see this coming.
As with almost all RTS games, it’s not too difficult to get into the courtyard of the opponent’s base in the early stages of Sybil Empire and take a look around.
With the exception of some very unusual places like ancient city walls, it was all possible.
Besides, isn’t this mountainous terrain?
Why?
How is this happening?
“This…….”
Qi has a hunch.
He’s seeing things differently than Cookie.
And he has a strategy that he’s not sharing with Cookie, unlike King Gourd.
The intersection of these two conditions can only lead to one conclusion.
“Anto knows.”
That Anto knows about Joseon’s strategy.
“……what?”
“He knows we’re going to want to see the terrain inside, he knows…….”
I don’t know what the hell he was thinking to predict this, but it’s happening.
It’s happening now.
Qi Seung is dumbfounded, but he can’t help but speak.
“Look at the movement now.”
The other think tank members stare at Anto’s moving troops.
He’s herding the Joseon army like a shepherd, but he has something else on his mind.
“They’re eating them up near the main camp, aren’t they?”
“Uh.”
The location where he drove the Koreans back, chased them away, and ended up eating them.
It was near Rome’s main camp.
Elsewhere, he wouldn’t have eaten the Koreans if he had the chance.
Only near the main camp did they have this kind of precipitation.
“If we do this, we’ll have no choice but to move forward without knowing the terrain until the second era.”
“Doesn’t this mean we should abandon our plan? Does Cookie know……?”
Water Dumpling behind them asks worriedly.
But Qi shakes his head.
“Nope. He doesn’t know yet.”
From Cookie’s point of view, he can’t make that judgment based on what just happened.
“And…….”
Even if he did, it wouldn’t matter.
“They won’t stop even if they do.”
The strategy wasn’t completely broken yet.
It would only get worse if I changed my strategy just because my opponent was acting weird.
Cookie wouldn’t make that kind of judgment call.
The scary thing is, Anto knows she won’t.
He had already intended to. To force Cookie to go through with her plan.
He was taking advantage, just the right amount.
“He’s a terrible person…… but we don’t have all the cards.”
“Well, what’s there? If we can’t see in, we can’t get in!”
Pfft…….
Qi Shuang gritted his teeth.
“Falconry.”
“Huh?”
“We haven’t used it once yet. We can use it twice. We’ll find out and do something with it.”
Cookie must have sensed something was up, because she saved both of her falcon strikes.
* * *
Still, the referee and spectators are still in the dark about this strategy.
Dudung─]
[Joseon – 2nd period]
Joseon heads to the 2nd period.
“Now. Joseon rushes into the 2nd Age subtly first! Ah, that’s pretty fast after the two scouting troops earlier, isn’t it?”
“That’s right. Well, actually, it’s because Rome’s lack of workers at the beginning of the game affected the second period, but anyway, Joseon. We’re back on track.”
Even though I’m saying this, the gap between the two eras has actually shrunk significantly compared to the first.
Cookie’s screen shows a nervous look on his face, as Game 2 is where the promised strategy begins.
“But I have no information.
At 2:00, I need to enter the opponent’s camp and gain an advantage.
We don’t know where the vantage point is.
We don’t even know the exact location of the cleric.
But that’s not a reason to stop this strategy.
“If I can’t do it on this map, I can’t do it again.
With a map of rugged mountain valleys, the chances of success for Qi’s plan to kill the cleric are extremely high.
Furthermore, if this plan works, it will give them a significant advantage in subsequent matches.
If Rome loses this game, they will be two games behind.
And in both games, they will have lost their Cleric early.
In Game 3, they’ll have to play the Cleric very passively.
That would increase Joseon’s chances of winning.
“It’s a no-win situation.
Of course, I was scared.
He couldn’t see a single thing.
Hee-chul’s gaze naturally turns to the two falcons flying over the heads of the two secondary commanders.
[Flying Falcons × 2]
He still has two falcons.
Normally, he’d use one early on and then quickly run a long, long cooldown, but he didn’t this time.
Just in case.
And-
[Almond]
The first shortbow has been awarded to Almond.
[Leader]
Almond was chosen as the leader.
‘Two hawks, one almond…….’
Cookie nodded weakly.
It was worth a try.
[Infiltration]
A path is plotted toward the Roman center.
