Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 593

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 63
22. The Hidden Strategy (3)
Civilizations like Joseon that boasted archery as their strength were inevitably weak in close combat.
Because of this, they typically added supplementary factions to compensate for that weakness.
For Joseon, that faction was the Bamboo Spear.
Of course, its performance was far from impressive.
At least, that’s how players perceived it. You only needed to search “Bamboo Spear” in the community forums to see the reactions.
[Once it breaks, you can’t use it again, and you have to pay upgrade costs on top of that?]
[Compare it to England’s Shield—does this even make sense?]
[Selling disposable starch toothpicks for money lol]
[Upgrade costs? lol Just give it as a passive and balance would be totally fine honestly]
The damage is slightly higher than a basic spear.
That part’s fine.
The problem is the conditions are too restrictive.
Once a Bamboo Spear breaks, you can never use it again, and you have to put down your weapon first before you can pick up a Bamboo Spear.
On top of that, you had to spend quite a bit of gold to upgrade this ability in the first place….
[Who’s upgrading Bamboo Spears in Age 2? We need to get to Age 3]
There was no room in the budget to spend gold on Age 2 Bamboo Spears when there were quite excellent factions appearing in Age 3 to prioritize.
[Skipping Repeating Crossbows, Cannons, and Composite Bows in Age 3 for Bamboo Spears??]
[If a commander spends gold on Bamboo Spears in Age 2, they deserve to get punched]
Thus, Bamboo Spears were merely used as an “entertainment faction,” not a faction for actual victory.
[Does Joseon really not have any other close combat faction?]
[Persia at least has elephants… Why don’t we…]
Korean gamers were constantly starving for a close combat faction other than Bamboo Spears.
[I sent an email to the main office.]
True to the community’s reputation for good initiative and surprisingly many capable individuals, quite a few people had actually sent English emails to the main office.
The developers always sent the same response.
[Expected Response: Bamboo Spear is great~ right? What more do you want? We love you guys~]
A response similar to what users were mocking.
Always the same tone: You already have Bamboo Spears, what else do you want?
-lol I want to punch their pronunciation
-Entertainment broadcast lol
-Ugh, when Japan asked for a Ninja faction, those bastards even considered Naginata lol
└They’d probably add Brain Severing too
└For real, Brain Severing lol
└It’s just that the market is smaller compared to other countries… the market…
-For real, I’m craving Bamboo Spears lol
└lol
└2222
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Chiseung Kim and his think tank team pondered this phenomenon.
“If they have nothing to say, they don’t need to answer, right? So why do they keep responding with bamboo spears?”
“That’s the thing….”
“We need to analyze this once. No one has properly tested it experimentally.”
Could it be that Joseon continuously sending bamboo spears as answers to close-range solutions actually means something?
Unless the developers were simply trying to provoke them.
“Let’s figure it out ourselves. Joseon can’t afford to waste any faction.”
It didn’t seem like a meaningless experiment. The bamboo spear had almost no data.
Since the bamboo spear was patched relatively recently and everyone viewed it negatively, it was rarely used in actual combat.
The think tank team decided they had nothing to lose and began their analysis.
Then….
“Huh!? This… now that I think about it, the traits change to Spearman traits too.”
A fact that hadn’t received much attention until now.
“So what. Of course, since they’re holding spears.”
“No, that’s not it. Does an Archer who picks up a spear on the road suddenly gain Spearman traits?”
“That wouldn’t happen, but we all already knew this, right?”
When you wield a bamboo spear, you gain the traits of a Spearman.
It was something that could be considered obvious.
Chiseung certainly knew this too….
“Wait… wait… there’s something here. Something’s sparking… what is this….”
At this moment, Chiseung realizes he needs to reconsider the concept of the bamboo spear.
“The design intent of the bamboo spear wasn’t just to use a spear as a disposable tool before dying and then retreat.”
He shouldn’t think about the performance of the bamboo spear weapon itself.
When upgraded, ‘everyone’ could use the bamboo spear at least once. That’s what he needed to consider.
“Everyone.”
Everyone… there was a hint in this word.
The bamboo spear can be used by everyone. Though it’s disposable.
“The moment the bamboo spear upgrade is complete, the entire army can potentially transform into Spearmen.”
Becoming a Spearman momentarily, just once.
“The troop composition of the entire army could change in an instant!”
“!”
“There were cases like this in old RTS games too. Like the build commonly called reverse mutalisk.”
“That was incredibly difficult to counter.”
“Right. If we do it well, we can use it that way too.”
Imagine seeing Joseon with their entire army as Archers, so you compose a Cavalry force, and suddenly everyone transforms into Spearmen.
It would be a horrifying battle for the enemy.
“However, that’s on the premise of abandoning the third age.”
“…Can that even work?”
Joseon’s Age III was truly their golden era.
Other civilizations also peaked around Age III, but Joseon’s variance was particularly pronounced.
Would abandoning Joseon’s Age III and attempting a reversal with these bamboo spears actually work?
Chiseung nodded.
“It will. At least once.”

* * *
Thwack!
The moment green spears erupted from all directions.
The Knight thrashed about in panic.
“Wh-what is this…!”
But it was too late.
Almond’s spear had already pierced through his abdomen.
He couldn’t move easily.
“Ugh…!”
[Spearman: When blocking a cavalry charge and counterattacking, inflicts additional damage and stun]
The Spearman’s trait was fully manifested in Almond right now.
‘Damn? This is really the Spearman effect?’
The Royal Knight couldn’t help but panic.
‘I should’ve studied this faction!’
He’d almost never encountered bamboo spears in actual gameplay.
“Thrust them through!”
At Ratte’s cry, Danggeun, Spam, and another Archer thrust their green spears forward.
‘Kyaaaah!?’
Four bamboo spears filled the Knight’s dilated pupils.
Squelch!
Sharp bamboo shafts burrowed deep into flesh.
“…Ugh!”
His health plummeted in an instant.
The Knight staggered.
“I’ll…I’ll take at least one with me!”
Even as he was dying, he swung his sword.
Slash!
A deep wound carved across Ratte’s upper body.
“Damn. Why me of all people!”
But Ratte wiped the blood away without concern and shouted again.
“Thrust again!”
“Thrust!”
Squelch!
Thud!
The brutal combined assault continued relentlessly.
The Knight could not hold out.
Facing five Spearmen alone, he had no chance of victory whatsoever.
Crash…!
He tumbled from his horse.
Moments later, he found himself staring up at four Soldiers looming over him.
“Hehehehe….”
Ratte, especially with his wounds, laughed like a madman, drool dripping from his lips.
Blood dripped steadily from the tip of the green spear he raised.
“Nice color, yeah? Merry Christmas!”
Squelch!

* * *
King Gul—how long had he been holding back for this moment?
“Deeeeath! You bastards aaaaare!!!”
He screamed with all the pent-up force he’d been containing.
-He’s insane
-Wait, they’re actually using bamboo spears???
I can’t provide a meaningful translation for this text as it appears to be random Korean characters and onomatopoeia (ㅋㅋ = laughter) that don’t form coherent words or sentences.
-Bamboo spear cravings(physical)
-Why is this happening lolol
-Did King Gul get stabbed by a bamboo spear? That scream just now was intense
“What!? Noble blood!? Royal Knight!? Let’s make it equal! This is the Donghak Peasant Revolution!”
-Lololol
-Equality has been achieved…
-Donghak Peasant Revolutionlol
-lolololol it’s a revolution
Caster chimed in enthusiastically.
“Ah, my heart feels completely refreshed!”
King Gul spoke with righteous indignation.
“Yes! It was worth the wait! Joseon’s secret weapon! The bamboo spear! You wielded it so perfectly!”
“Is this the strategy you were explaining earlier?”
“Exactly!”
“Explain this strategy precisely for us!”
“So it’s an excellent example of utilizing the bamboo spear—a faction with rather poor cost-effectiveness—very skillfully….”
King Gul explained why the bamboo spear had been such a devastating reversal against the enemy.
-Wow
-That’s what it was?
lol
-So this was the trick
-lol newbies are so cute
“Ah! While you were speaking! The entire front line is undergoing a dramatic shift!”
“!”
King Gul was startled by the Caster’s words.
I knew the idea was to counter Knights with bamboo spears.
But there was an additional effect of the bamboo spears that even King Gul hadn’t anticipated.
‘Wait? Now that I think about it?’
There was a front line where Barbarian Soldiers wielding clubs were engaged in close combat with each other.
Now I realized this was the real problem.
They’d been pulling together every available and unavailable resource to create specialized units, so there were still plenty of club-wielding soldiers.
But what if suddenly only the Joseon club-wielders abandoned their clubs and picked up bamboo spears?
What would happen to the front line?

* * *
The two forces were locked in fierce attrition warfare at the entrance, with no room to spare.
“Bamboo spears!”
“Waaaaaah!”
From the moment the bamboo spear upgrade took effect, the situation completely reversed.
Whoosh!
All the Joseon Soldiers were now armed with spears instead of clubs.
“Form a double-thrust formation!”
Following the Assistant Commander’s orders, the Joseon Soldiers arranged themselves in a two-row formation, allowing both front and rear spearmen to strike within range.
Meanwhile, the Frank Soldiers fought desperately with only clubs and no shields.
“Wh… what?”
“Insane bamboo spears?”
“Why do they all have spears now!?”
They could only suffer helplessly.
The clubs couldn’t even reach while the bamboo spears thrust in relentlessly.
Squelch!
Thud!
“Ugh!”
“Gack!”
No matter how skilled the Frank melee Soldiers were, they couldn’t win against spears and clubs.
“Push! Push them back!”
Waaaaaaaaah!
With a tremendous roar, all of Joseon’s Soldiers began advancing.
Squelch!
Thud!
With each thrust, the Frank Soldiers fell.
“Hiyaaah!”
Assistant Commander Bread charged forward on horseback.
She drove the final nail into the coffin of the crumbling battle line with a decisive strike.
──Shhwaaack!
Red blood scattered from her blade.
“!?”
“He’s dead! The Commander is dead!”
Everyone’s eyes went wide.
The blood on her blade belonged to the Frank Assistant Commander.
In other words, she had severed the Bandit Leader’s head.
The stalemate between the Assistant Commanders that had dragged on until now was decided in an instant.
This was the power of ‘momentum’.
It was similar to soccer.
Wasn’t it true that once a goal was scored, additional goals would sometimes follow with sudden ease and anticlimactic simplicity?
It wasn’t a matter of physical ability—it was a matter of spirit and heart.
In the end, group battles were always mental warfare.
Perhaps the enemy Commander’s heart broke before his neck ever could.
Bread hurled his severed head upward and cried out.
“I’ve taken the Commander’s head!”
The Joseon army’s momentum soared without limit.
The roar of the cheering squad and the cries of the soldiers engulfed the battlefield.
“Push forward!”
“Now let’s go take the Supreme Commander’s head!”
The Joseon army surged as if their forces had doubled.
Thruuust!
Spears pierced through.
Crash!
Bodies collided.
Everyone with one heart tore through the front line.
They continued to push forward.
And finally….
“Ughhhh!”
The Frank Barbarian Soldiers in the rear ranks fell, and a gap opened in the line.
“We’ve broken through! The line is collapsing!”
“Charge!”
“The path to the main camp is open!”
All the Joseon Soldiers began surging into the main camp.
Frank’s disadvantage was incomparable to when only Almond and Pangeo had snuck in.
“Kill them all!”
“Burn everything!”
From this moment on, the Korean cheering squad’s roar engulfed the entire stadium.
“Waaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
Boom-boom-boom-boom!
The war drums thundered across the field as the crimson cheers reached their crescendo.
The commentators, utterly electrified, raised their voices to match the fervor.
[They’ve broken through! They’ve broken through!]
[The atmosphere here is absolutely incredible! Joseon is dominating right now! They’re putting on a truly shocking performance! They’re maintaining control of the match!]
[Meanwhile! The French Cheering Squad is completely devastated!?]
The French supporters’ faces had all turned blank with despair.
Cheering them on only worked so many times.
Their hopes had already been shattered countless times.
And now even the Royal Knight they’d relied on had fallen.
One more Royal Knight would emerge, but….
[Another Royal Knight has just come out! But he doesn’t know where to go, wandering aimlessly! A Knight appeared, but he has to wait for the right moment! He’s just on standby!]
[To turn this tide around, they would’ve needed at least two Knights! Charging in with just one is suicide! Of course he’s waiting!]
The Knight, unable to be deployed in any meaningful strategy, could only pace back and forth near the main base.
[The Joseon Soldiers have begun raising torches! They’re about to set the main base building ablaze!]
[Burn it all down! Reverse the Oegyujanggak! Let’s go!]
[Yes! Burn the Louvre Museum! Hand over the Mona Lisa!]
-lol
-Oegyujanggak lol
-fr we’re almost at the finish line
Mona Lisa is so funny lol
Stop the Byeong-in Persecution…! ㅠㅠ
Haha, that’s hilarious!
Are we really winning? ㅠㅠ
The game was tilting decisively in Joseon’s favor.

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