I think cloaky is ok on this map, I just didn't play it well at all. I did some early raiding and got an advantage, then failed to defend anything for a good two minutes which put me very far behind.

One big opportunity I missed was when lauri was pushing up with his comm in the centre, and was alone with 0 static defence, and I had 10 glaives only a few elmos away to the north. If I had attacked the middle instead of south west, I wouldve killed him comm.

Scouting seems to be a great weakness of mine. :(

I think both players took so much unnecessary raiding damage, really not that hard to build radar and few llts with expansion. I'd recommend to Fealthas, expand slower and more steadily, you brazenly walked your cons on both sides, straight to the gap to try and throw up defence and they both died. I would have built a radar, then taken the first mex then build a LLT, then taken 2 more mex and another LLT and only then try to move to secure the middle.

In the mid game I saw an awful lot of wreckages but not much reclaiming from either side, would have expected it more from Fealthas though because wreckage metal is absolutely crucial for making a comeback from economic disadvantage, just spam cons, throw up porc & mass reclaim - best way to make comeback

Support com is great for strong economic start, but once there's plenty of solars and a nano, it's fine to move him out and expand, there's no reason to keep him sitting around. Fealthas didn't do this, I saw the com sitting idle for most of the game, meanwhile Lauri's com won him the game. I thought it was hilarious how he built his entire eco right at Fealthas front door uncontested

Cloaky isn't bad for continuous harassment, which Fealthas started off doing really well, he kept his glaives on the geo spot, waiting for the other party to be in position for 2 pronged attack to split Lauri's forces, it paid off (ofc Shadowfury failed to comment on this) but then afterwards, we barely saw any raiding with scythes etc. I don't think it was necessary to give up on the cloaky lab so fast, you could have spammed zues and maybe a sniper or 2, scorchers are weak as hell

quote: I see a new ZK caster has stepped up.

Who?