Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 772

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 242
80. Judgment (1)
The battle for control of the lake in the first era could truly be called a melee.
How else could one describe a fight where hundreds of soldiers tangled together, wildly swinging clubs in every direction?
“Ah! Was I too hasty!? Joseon!!”
This type of battle formation was actually Joseon’s weakest matchup.
No matter how unpredictable Joseon was, no matter how skilled Nalbit was, a direct charge like this in the first era offered no advantage.
Especially against an opponent—Japan, the civilization that loved close-quarters melee combat most.
Joseon’s strategy had been to advance while quickly constructing defense towers.
But even that was burning away and crumbling into failure.
And yet—
[Defense Tower – 12%]
[Defense Tower – 9%]
Additional defense towers being constructed.
“Ahhh! J-Joseon! Defense towers are starting to rise in other locations too!”
“Wh-what!?”
Joseon had no intention of building defense towers in just one location.
“No, this is….”
King Gul was left speechless.
Spending this many resources from the early game could only mean one thing.
“You’re planning to end this in the first era, Joseon!?”
Joseon intended to finish this in the first era.

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Joseon’s extreme tactics were hardly a first occurrence.
The community began to ignite with fury.
[Build more here???]
[Is this even right?]
[I don’t understand this obsession with Nalbit]
[If we lose this, all hell breaks loose]
[He’s not even Cookie…]
[If Japan pulls off a reversal, they’ll ride that momentum and sweep everything…]
Complaints poured in especially from M-bul, who knew Civil M well.
This wasn’t merely because Joseon’s strategy appeared to be nothing but early aggression, but because the current game state was deeply unfavorable.
Just build the enemy defense towers and don’t take them out ㅠ
[Why can’t they see further ahead??]
[I get that he wants to go for the third era but it’s reckless]
Ringo smiling brightly lol
Joseon’s urgent response from the first era was precisely the development Japan desired most.
Moreover, Japan was always a nation prepared for counterattacks.
[Still, if it’s Choi Sun-sin, who knows]
If Choi Soon-shin gets possessed by a spirit with that con, all 200 people survive with 3% health remaining lol
[We’ll only know once we see the club combat unfold]
Of course, since Daisunsin Choi’s performances thus far had largely relied on variables displayed during combat, there were those who didn’t hastily conclude this match.

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Defense towers begin rising one by one where the Barbarian Soldiers gather.
Defense towers are being constructed simultaneously across multiple locations.
“Ahhh! It’s starting!? A multitasking battle!!”
Though Japan had prepared a separate force, they couldn’t block all of this.
“But wouldn’t Japan just be thanking them if they build this many defense towers!?”
“Right!? They just need to fall back and guard only the lake perimeter while wasting resources on defense towers!? Aaah…! A retreat after all!”
Instead of stopping the defense tower construction, they withdrew their front lines backward.
They were securing only the minimum area of the lake they needed to fish.
With this, Joseon’s defense towers become useless in an instant.
“Ringo’s response is remarkably composed!?”
He wasn’t swayed at all by Joseon’s provocative defense tower rush.
From the start, Ringo had a clear line drawn in his mind.
Respond only if Joseon builds a single defense tower to check him.
If they build two or more, then retreat—that was the strategy.
“Japan retreats while building one additional defense tower in their lake base!”
And like driving in a wedge, they construct the tower to block any further advance.
“Ah…! They won the battle, but….”
Joseon certainly drove Japan out of the territory they wanted to claim.
“Something feels unsatisfying though!”
“That’s right!”
They gained very little.
Joseon lost more soldiers and invested more resources.
Of course, Joseon was able to secure a larger area of the lake.
But this wasn’t really that significant a gain.
The fishing boats would operate equally within the lake anyway, and the question wasn’t how much area they controlled but whether they could secure space to build a shipyard in the lake.
In other words, it was meaningless unless they completely prevented the enemy from building a shipyard.
“Now Joseon falls considerably behind in resource efficiency. They might not be able to advance to Era 2 first.”
“Right. They’ve built three defense towers now….”
“Ah. Joseon must advance to Era 2 somehow! They’ll use the Focus faction to check them!?”
“Yes! If Focus had been available now! They could have actually driven Japan completely out of the lake, right? Even if we build defense towers outside the enemy tower range! We’d be in range, right? Then neutralizing enemy towers would be easy!?”
“Yes! They would have gained tremendous advantage from the range difference! But since it’s Era 1….”
There was a reason Joseon typically chose an Era 2 rush.
The core faction Focus appears in Era 2.
Even with a defense tower rush, the standard was to enter just before Era 2, build them, and then check from the moment Era 2 begins.
But now they started in early Era 1 and are currently in mid-Era 1.
The timing of this rush was completely off.
“Ah, the Joseon soldiers are trying to approach gradually, but Japan’s defense towers are completely packed with six soldiers each! It won’t work!”
Joseon soldiers try to push a bit more and enter Japan’s base area.
But Japan’s solid formation and defense centered on defense towers were formidable.
While a standard defense tower has a capacity of four, Japan’s holds six, making it twice as difficult to breach.
“This is because the defense tower is larger! It has nothing to do with being an island nation! Please don’t misunderstand!?”
-Hahahahahahahaha
-Unknown: Because of the faction, their characters are shorter, so more of them fit in the defense tower.
-Yeah~ the defense tower should be bigger~lol
This characteristic of the defense tower meant that in the late game, there would be no significant difference compared to other archer civilizations since bow performance would decline, but in the early game, with similar bow performance, the ability to fit six units was a major advantage.
To breach Japan’s lake encampment with two such defense towers, Joseon would likely have to pay a heavy price.
“Joseon! Suddenly making a wide sweep and forming an encirclement!? You’re not actually trying to break through here, are you!?”
“Are you really trying to take this lake region!?”
Yet the Joseon forces began forming their lines as if they intended to surround and consume that position.
From Joseon’s main base in the west, troops gradually moved toward Japan’s main base in the east.
“Uh, uh? Even in a fit of anger, breaking through would be difficult! The city management is better than expected!”
“The casualties would be severe!”
As Joseon advanced this way, Japan’s lake encampment naturally contracted around the defense towers.
It was a choice made to defend efficiently and properly.
Yet this choice also naturally moved them further from their own main base.
The defense tower built on the lake had been positioned more forward than expected due to Joseon’s attacks.
In other words, by concentrating around the defense tower, they moved further from their main base.
Joseon, stretching their soldiers in a long line as if to encircle, had subtly drawn closer to Japan’s main base.
The commentators hadn’t noticed this yet.
Even their eyes moved around the focal points of Japan’s defense towers and the Joseon shipyard built by the lakeside.
They simply had no time to properly observe what lay outside that center of attention.
“Ah. What should Joseon do!? They spent a lot of money in Era 1! Era 2 is also delayed!”
“If we accept that Japan’s fishing in the lake cannot be stopped… wouldn’t it be better to endure by advancing to Era 2 late, even if delayed!?”
They only thought that Joseon must not enter.
They failed to notice where this formation, created under the pretense of entering, was actually heading, or what its true purpose was.
Then─
“Huh!? This, this!!”
Bang!
King Gul shot to his feet.
Joseon’s formation stretched long like a serpent, Japan withdrawn and distant from their main base.
“Is Joseon heading for the main base right now!?”
“Eh!?”
Caster’s eyes widened as she checked the minimap.
It was true.
Looking at the map with the thought that Joseon was heading for the main base, it was clear to anyone that Joseon was advancing en masse toward Japan’s main base.
What appeared to be a movement to trap Japan was actually an advance toward the main base.
However, from Japan’s perspective of being trapped(?), they couldn’t notice quickly.
The assistant commander’s vision skill is still on cooldown, and for Joseon to advance toward the enemy main base after building three defense towers by the lake would be suicide.
“Joseon will have difficulty with a defense tower rush! Really, unless they throw away their entire future! That won’t work! Instead!!”
King Gul had a reason for jumping up so abruptly.
He had spotted the vanguard of this encampment that Joseon had stretched out long like a snake slithering over a wall.
“We’ll use the arrows from the defense tower! Is that it!?”
“Yes!?”
At the head of this massive serpentine formation stood Almond.
He was holding a bow that shouldn’t exist in this era.
It was a bow taken from the defense tower.
“Look at this range! Right now!”
“!”
Joseon’s formation stretched continuously from the defense tower.
Scattered throughout, there were archers like Almond holding bows.
Twang!
Arrows were shot from the defense tower, then someone picked them up and shot them, and then someone else shot them again.
Passing through this relay, the arrows reached Almond.
Ratte was right beside him.
With arrows being relayed from three defense towers, the quantity had accumulated to about fifteen or sixteen.
“Joseon! We’re charging iiiiin!?”
The two of them distributed the arrows into their quivers and began running toward the enemy base.
In front of them, Barbarian Soldiers formed a protective formation and charged alongside them.
“I mean, I’ve seen plenty of relay strategies before! But I’ve never seen one stretched out this long!?”
The Joseon forces at the head of the serpentine formation numbered barely twenty.
But the remaining soldiers at Japan’s main base were far fewer than that.
Less than five.
Since controlling the lake was the most critical objective, leaving anyone at the main base was absurd.
“Bloodless conquest!!!”
Fifteen arrows, two bows, two archers, and twenty Barbarian Soldiers set foot into Japan’s main base.
The Japanese forces positioned at the lakeside stirred on the minimap.
“Ringo! They’re starting to move urgently!”
“Yes! I’m Ringo the Reversal, but honestly! Right now I’m the most! The most anxious and terrified! Seeing this right now, I’m definitely breaking out in cold sweat!”
The blue dots on the minimap at the lakeside represented his feelings perfectly—the formation completely fell apart as they scattered and rushed forward in chaos.
Everyone had the mindset of getting there first.
However, Joseon’s forces began to subtly block their path.
“Ah! This!”
“Just like a snake slithering over a wall! Slyly! They’re blocking it!? Choi Sun-sin! I thought formation battles were Ringo’s specialty! What is this!? Did they absorb my strategy!!”
-Wow
-Wait, can this actually work!?
-Workers are starting to take damage lolol
That’s weird/crazy lol
-Lmaooo
Beeeep!
Warnings began flashing across Ringo’s vision—the workers were under attack.
“Oh! Joseon! One more archer just arrived at the point where Almond and Ratte departed earlier! Are they really planning to shoot arrows all the way to the entrance of our main base!?”
“The arrow barrage keeps growing! At this rate we’re getting rocket-shipped!?”
“A nation that delivers even to the enemy’s main base! This is Joseon! No, this is the Republic of Korea ahhhhh!”
I’m dying laughing ㅋㅋㅋ
-They’ve gone insane
-Chicken gets delivered to random spots on the Hangang too
-ly
lol
Kyah
-Can we actually catch this???

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