King Of The Planet Series - Sunday May 18, 18:00 UTC

Have you guys not learnt anything?
I am eternal

Not in this patch you aren't.

I love this ego! It's going to be so much fun watching you lose.

I think custard wins game 1 and 2. Matiz wins 3 and custard wins 4. Ending 3-1 custard

I don't think that Matiz will have the meta down in 2 games. He's hardly played at all this patch; only 7 games so far, and in several of those he eschewed fabrication bot combats.

We've seen how fast he can adapt though. I think a lot will depend on maps, too. eXodus-style maps with sparse metal and interesting terrain play a lot differently from some of the other maps out there that are loaded with metal. What maps has burntcustard been practicing on?

We're live in an hour and a half.

I'm looking forward to game 5.

Someone should troll and pick a naval planet.

Matiz will win if he picks a water world for sure. Don't think that he'll have the advantage on any other world though.

Burntcustard hates naval. Matiz might try this

Too much talking, let's have them play already!!

burntcustard has demonstrated good use of the combat fabbers, and makes a good choice of ant instead of grenadier as the unit type for the bulk of his forces. However this is an easy thing to learn (if matiz hasn't by now then he will come game 2). Can't recall if one is weak against the others play style, I'm betting twelvety dollars it's pretty even.

It may depend on who had the best nap prior

#hype

Ants vs grenadiers is interesting and is less binary than people tend to believe. Ants one shot grenadiers and it takes 3 grenadiers to kill a single ant. However, grenadiers do splash damage and that means that when mass grenadiers engage mass ants, large numbers of ants die at once due to the splash damage. This means that although ants are better early game, a massed army of grenadiers will beat a massed army of ants in late game.

I'm in but no one's here

A massed army of grenadiers may beat a massed army of ants in late game. You're right that it isn't binary, everything is fuzzy. A few more points to consider:

• Ants have slightly longer range
• Ants are physically bigger than grenadiers (making splash damage less effective as they are less tightly packed)
• Grenadiers can be microed to dodge fire
• Grenadiers cannot be microed as well in a large blob
• I don't know the splash damage falloff for grenadiers weapons (I do know the radius is 5m, the entire area may not be subject to a maximum 40 damage)
• What if the ants are prepped by giving a short area patrol command to disperse them a little?
• What if grenadiers take advantage of the tank turret turn speed?
• Everything else player decision/micro related
• Other stuff

As always a mix of units will probably win out.

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KOTP is about to go to Game 5 for the first time ever! This is so intense!

Awesome game, GG WP everyone!

So, I had an idea.

What if, at the end of the KotP series of match, the two contenders play one more game together (same team?) against a bunch of foes, like the two Casters or some guests from the public?