Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 732

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 202
67. Hill Tank (2)
“Defend the expansion, nooooo!!”
Was it because of King Gul’s anguished cry?
Boom.
Persia’s defensive tower at the 6 o’clock position was ultimately cancelled.
With worker casualties numbering barely a dozen and the lumber camp supply line stretched far too thin, the situation had become critical.
“Right now! The blacksmith isn’t receiving any fire, is it!?”
Persia’s blacksmith could no longer produce bows.
Even wooden structures were failing to go up.
“Ahhh, Daisunsin Choi! How cruel! Perfectly! You’ve perfectly strangled their lumber supply! You’ve completely seized their throat!”
Just as the caster said, Joseon had completely choked Persia’s resource flow.
“So. Can we end this? Is it possible to finish now!?”
“That might be too hasty! By Ril’s count, we’ve only cleanly pushed through to the second tower! Ending it from here would be unrealistic!?”
Above all, if things collapsed like this, Persia wouldn’t deserve the title of turtling master.
“Huh!? The, the workers! Some of the workers heading to 12 o’clock are now going to 3 o’clock!?”
3 o’clock from the main base—Persia’s front gate, so to speak.
By the entire map’s orientation, Joseon’s main base was at 3 o’clock.
“It’s not just workers going!?”
Persia suddenly rallied the forces they’d been accumulating and began charging toward the front gate.
“Could this be a counter-attack on Joseon’s main base?”
“No, Joseon has an opening!?”
Normally, when exiting through the fortress’s front gate, they would inevitably suffer considerable casualties from Joseon’s forces positioned on the walls.
But not now. They’d all been dispatched elsewhere to contest resources.
Persia had recognized that Joseon was pouring all their strength into resource denial, and they seized the gap to break through.
Persia’s forces surged outward.
“They got out so easily!”
“Are they running straight for Joseon’s main base now? Most of these forces are barbarian soldiers… and workers are mixed in too!?”
-Persia cheese rush lol
-For real?
-That’s insane
-What is this;
-Huh?
Persia broke through the front gate and seemed to be rushing toward 3 o’clock, where Joseon’s main base was located.
But they changed course midway.
“Huh!?”
“Ah. They’re doing a multi, aren’t they?”
Multi.
Building structures like new resource camps in areas other than the main base.
Commonly, when a facility capable of producing workers—like a ‘town hall’—is built in another location, it’s called a multi.
The moment one attempts to multitask is always vulnerable.
Yet Persia demonstrated the audacity to attempt multitasking in precisely such circumstances.
“They’re searching for terrain with fortified walls again!”
“Surely they’re not starting a new base?”
This led to the misunderstanding that they were indeed starting anew, but that wasn’t the case.
“That won’t be it. They want to establish a secondary resource point where lumber can be harvested without interference.”
“No, wow… to attempt multitasking so openly? That seems incredibly risky!”
“But from Joseon’s perspective….”
Ting.
The observer briefly switched to Joseon’s field of vision.
A replay appeared.
Only the portion where Persia’s forces charged toward the three o’clock position was visible, with complete darkness beyond.
The midfield of this map had no troops stationed there.
“Joseon believes the final rush is coming straight to their main base right now!”
Joseon was positioning defensive forces toward the nine o’clock direction.
They believed the enemies were coming from there.
That’s what the map flow indicated at this moment.
“By the time they think it’s taking too long, Persia will have already established the secondary base!?”
While Joseon labored under this misunderstanding, Persia used that precious time to secure their secondary position.
The secondary location was at six o’clock.
Ancient fortified walls stood here as well.
“To avoid repeating the previous mistake! Right now, quite a number of soldiers are positioned atop the walls!”
Nearly all the soldiers brought along climbed up onto the fortifications.
The workers immediately headed toward the lumber, established a depot, and resumed harvesting.
Town halls and defensive towers began construction.
“Joseon! They’ve noticed something. Their forces are moving around now!”
Joseon did sense something amiss, but a crucial delay had been created.
“What happens to Persia’s main base then?”
“They’ve completely abandoned everything near the walls and downsized entirely! In true Korean fashion! Come hell or high water, let’s rally to the center! Everyone to the midfield!”
hahaha
-They’re all gathered in the center for real
-First gather mid
-They’re abandoning main base lumber for now
-Wow that judgment is insane
The main base was protecting itself by constructing buildings tightly clustered together.
“Defensive towers are also being placed at distances unreachable from atop the walls.”
With troops withdrawn, they were bolstering defensive capabilities against Joseon’s potential all-in assault.
“Yes. Persia’s resource score is rising again!? This is remarkable!?”
One couldn’t help but admire Persia’s brilliant move.
“This is true experience! The kind of vibe that comes from seasoned expertise, you could say? In this situation, I would’ve lost my nerve and just thrown away troops trying to reclaim the walls! But they just coolly abandoned it!?”
“Exactly! Now that I look at it, that’s actually an expendable zone! As long as it’s not the lumber resources, right!?”
Lumber resources are typically located farthest from the town hall.
That’s why they were vulnerable to attacks from the walls.
But if not for that, losing control of the walls wouldn’t have been such a critical problem.
“With this, Persia escapes the pressure! While simultaneously securing a multi-base through a surprise attack! The fact that such a plan emerges in an instant during this crisis….”
“There’s really no other way to describe it except saying their experience level is exceptional.”
“Yes. That’s correct.”
An operational style that can only be explained by having practiced turtling so many times.
The commentators accepted the situation as such, but the viewers could not.
-How is this happening?
-What the hell is going on
-But can’t Joseon cut off their lifeline here??
-Ugh
-But this is still massive damage honestly
The viewers couldn’t help but sigh at Joseon’s inability to maintain their advantageous position.
At this, King Gul offered an explanation.
Why the game was far from over.
“Think of it like pizza! Joseon just captured the crust of the pizza!? But Persia is like, ‘Huh~ the real pizza is here~’ and just threw away everything near the crust! The pizza is still alive! The cheese is still warm! That’s why the game isn’t over!”
Hahaha the analogy is so funny haha
If you’ve only taken over the bread part of the pizza, then you haven’t really taken over anything at all.
I got tricked into ordering a cheese crust instead of what I wanted ㅠ
hahahaha for real
-Actually pretty good
That guy only did good things for me, haha.
“Still, we need to break out the calculator now, right?”
“Ah. Yes. That’s right.”
“So, Persia did survive. But they’ve spent way too much money! Unexpected expenditures are nearly 70 to 80 percent!”
Building the multi-base, evacuating workers, producing troops and positioning them on the walls. All of it costs resources.
Persia, who had been planning to skip directly to the third age without any expenditure, had to slam on the brakes hard.
They’d already suffered enormous losses.
Meanwhile, what about Joseon? They only dispatched troops and suffered no losses whatsoever. Most of those troops are even still alive.
“Joseon has breathing room right now. So they can say, ‘What? A multi-base? You can wait. Come follow me to the third age!’ ”
“Yes! Now they’re rolling the snowball!”
As if responding to these words, a drum sound thundered out.
Boom.
[Joseon – Third Age]
Joseon reached the third age first.
This was the natural progression.
After all, they’d advanced first in the second age and dealt significant damage.
-Wow
-Haha!
-Now that’s what I’m talking about!
-Go, Admiral Yi Sun-sin!
-Let’s charge~
“Excellent! The 3 o’clock phase! If Joseon advances first, the win rate would be tremendous, wouldn’t it!?”
“That’s right! But Joseon… shouldn’t they be withdrawing their forces from the 9 o’clock wall now?”
The troops on the wall that the Caster mentioned were the ones deployed during the initial fast archer rush.
“Wait. Are they still clinging to the edge of the pizza and waiting!?”
-Controlling the bread lol
-What is this for real
-Pull the bread out!!
-For real they’re stuck
King Gul was surprised too.
They were the aces of Joseon’s archer forces, after all. Leaving them stranded there posed a high risk of disadvantage in the upcoming 3 o’clock phase battle.
More importantly, shouldn’t they be receiving the newly introduced 3 o’clock phase weapons?
The Gakgung, that is.
“Wait, then how are they planning to deliver the Gakgung…?”
Upon advancing to the 3 o’clock phase, they must rearm with the weapons of that era. The efficiency difference was enormous.
That’s why civilizations typically focused on late-game development and minimized weapon production in the 2 o’clock phase.
Once reaching the 3 o’clock phase, all that spending would eventually be wasted.
“Continuing to pressure with simple bows has its limits now. Persia has also compressed all their main base structures… Eventually they’ll advance to the 3 o’clock phase anyway!?”
“But they can’t come down below the wall now and damage Persia’s main base either. Persia has sealed everything up tight!”
With 2 o’clock phase simple bows, there was no way to inflict further damage on Persia.
They couldn’t receive the Gakgung, and they couldn’t attack either.
Yet the Joseon forces on the wall did not retreat.
No order to withdraw had been given.
“I’m not sure about this side’s strategy, honestly. But now that Joseon has reached the 3 o’clock phase, isn’t it time to decide—mounted archers or just pure infantry?”
“Yes. Crossbowmen won’t be effective against elephants at all, so they probably won’t be an option. I’d actually like to see the Tiger-Catching Armored Soldiers again! They utilized swordsmen quite well before.”
“Ah, I see… wait?”
King Gul couldn’t hide his astonishment at what he was seeing.
“They’re going with this!?”

* * *
“What’s going on? Are we staying here?” Ratte scratched his head in confusion.
He hadn’t fired an arrow in over fifteen minutes.
It was good when we were slaughtering the initial workers, but after that, it’s been nothing but waiting. “Joseon advanced to the 3rd era. Shouldn’t we be going to pick up the Gakgung? Did we forget?”
Ratte was overthinking everything.
It didn’t make sense to forget about the front-line archers, but everyone had anxious expressions on their faces.
‘So this is what trust means….’
I understood why they were anxious. It was because the Commander wasn’t Cookie.
These soldiers knew what orders Cookie would give, and even what mistakes he typically made.
If Cookie was the type to forget about troops, they would have returned to base on their own judgment by now.
But what about Daisunsin Choi?
They knew nothing about him.
Regardless of his skill level, they didn’t know what mistakes he made or what he aimed for.
When the game went smoothly, it was fine, but when strange situations like this persisted, the soldiers couldn’t help but feel anxious.
“The standby order is still active.”
I spoke up.
“Then we just wait. I’m the Leader, so listen to me.”
“….”
All the archers suddenly looked at me.
“…Right.”
No one raised an objection.
My tone had been so decisive that it didn’t even seem to allow for disagreement.
They waited as I said.
Even after a long time passed since entering the 3rd era, no orders came down to us.
Boom.
[Persia – 3rd Era]
Now Persia had advanced to the 3rd era.
Pangeo and Danggeun looked like they had plenty to say, but they all remained silent.
“….”
The moment anyone spoke up here, the team would fall apart.
I turned my back to them and looked down below the fortress wall.
A building that would allow them to produce elephants was being constructed.
As if to show off to the people on this fortress wall.
Additional buildings useful for the 3rd era were being added on top of that.
In RTS games, you could think of it as each civilization gaining new capabilities every time a specific building is constructed.
As they entered the 3rd era and more necessary buildings kept appearing, Persia’s construction strategy of abandoning the bread perimeter seemed increasingly strained.
‘Could I hit them with the Gakgung?’
At this point, it felt like I could shoot the workers currently under construction. If I had the Gakgung in my hands, that is.
But no one voiced such complaints.
However, no one voiced such complaints.
[Standby]
The order was still to hold position.
Then─
[Attack]
The command changed.
“Huh?”
Danggeun tilted her head in surprise.
The attack marker was placed where the Workers were constructing. Was I supposed to strike from here to there?
The distance clearly wouldn’t reach. Had they forgotten about the short bow?
Fortunately, the next moment made this command perfectly clear.
[Piercing Arrows – Complete]
“!”
Every archer suddenly had quivers filled with piercing arrows at their waists.
That was it.
Piercing arrows were an ‘upgrade faction’ like Focus or Spear Thrust—they materialized without needing to physically transfer weapons.
“Piercing arrows…”
With a short bow, piercing arrows made reaching that distance possible.
More than that—it was worth aiming even higher.
Perhaps I could even neutralize the gold mine itself.
“Everyone, commit fully.”
Swish.
Following Almond’s words, they all nocked piercing arrows onto their short bows.
It was slightly more cumbersome than nocking onto a composite bow, but these were all archers who had practiced piercing arrows extensively.
The change in bow made no difference.
Creak, creak, creak.
Almond, leading the way, drew back the bowstring.
The light of Focus began to ignite.
He aimed at a Soldier far away atop the defensive tower.
A distance a short bow could never reach.
But with piercing arrows, Focus, and the range bonus from the fortress wall combined, it was possible.
Exactly three seconds passed.
“Releasing.”
After saying this, Almond let the drawn bowstring go.
Twang──!
A sharp, explosive sound rang out.
A small arrow flew toward a Soldier who had no idea he was about to be hit.

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