Chapter 60: The Locust Swarm
The airdrop also ran to open a double mine, which is definitely not common.
Double mining can indeed bring a certain economic advantage, but this economic advantage is time to reflect, when the first mining, not only will not bring any economic advantages to themselves, but will also let themselves fall into a certain degree of tactical vacuum - this is actually very easy to understand, just like doing business to open a branch, it takes a certain amount of time to recover costs. Opening a branch, whether it is recruiting employees or buying hardware facilities, requires money, but it takes a while to earn this money back and generate net profits.
During this period, there is no doubt that the economic situation of the party that opened the mine will lag behind the other party.
This is what we call a tactical vacuum.
Airdrop is a tactic that needs to seize opportunities, opening double mines will weaken their combat effectiveness during the tactical vacuum, and airdrops may not have such a good effect, which is a problem that needs to be considered.
Unless......
Unless VIVA uses an airdrop-like opening and doesn't play airdrops......
This possibility flashed through Yang Hai's mind like lightning, and then he himself was stunned.
Is that really okay?
Any tactic has its own opening, gathering, building, and technology climbing are mutually restrictive and mutually supportive, and a specific opening can well coordinate the relationship between these three factors to maximize the benefits. If you use an airdrop to start the game but don't play an airdrop, then-
Yang Hai's eyes widened.
He saw that several of VIVA's peasants had revolted, protecting the bloody sword and shield hands, as well as the sword and shield hands that had just been produced in the barracks, and clearing out a mining area.
Visconti was dumbfounded, and the red wine ran down his beard, wetting his chest hair.
Visconti and Yang Hai looked at each other, and both of them were mouth-syncing to say one word:
Messy mines!
"Nima, this trick is definitely not something that VIVA can come up with." Visconti glared. "Did you secretly give him a thumbs up?"
"No, I'm going to the press conference after the morning game, and I've just come back." Yang Hai said: "How can I have time to give him advice. ”
"That's the prince's advice." Visconti pouted his teeth and had a painful expression: "I always thought Prince William was a good person, but I didn't expect to be an undisciplined soul again." ”
Yang Hai also agrees with Visconti's statement that if no one instigates it, VIVA, which has always been more upright, will generally consider airdrops as a clever way of playing, rather than disrupting the tactics of fishing in troubled waters.
"SUCH A MESS ON THE MINIMAP......," VISCONTI LAUGHED, "ISN'T THIS A BLATANT BULLYING OF ICELORD?" ”
"It's not just bullying people with disabilities, it's also about rhythm." Yang Hai thought for a moment. "ICELORD WILL BE FORCED TO CONTINUE CLIMBING TECHNOLOGY AND WILL HAVE TO FIGHT HERIA IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GAME. ”
ICELORD DIDN'T REALIZE WHAT WAS GOING ON OUT THERE AT FIRST, AFTER ALL, VIVA'S UNCONVENTIONAL PLAY WAS ALREADY OFF TRACK BY A BIG ANGLE. ICELORD WAITED AT HOME, BUT HE DIDN'T WAIT FOR THE ENSUING HARASSMENT BEFORE HE SENSED SOMETHING WAS WRONG.
SO ICELORD RELUCTANTLY SENT A PEASANT OUT TO INVESTIGATE.
Of course, the map was not large, and the farmer soon saw the thriving branch mine being built.
"Opened a mine?" FOR A MOMENT, MANY THOUGHTS FLASHED THROUGH ICELORD'S MIND, BUT NO MATTER WHICH ONE OF THEM, A SNEER APPEARED ON THE CORNER OF HIS MOUTH.
If you airdrop. Then I'm still a little afraid, if you don't fight such a promising airdrop, what kind of mine are you going to open, God can't stop you if you really want to die.
ICELORD IS NOT WRONG TO THINK SO. Because in the late game, Zenit is certainly not an opponent for Heria. Heria's three are notoriously strong, and Zenit's three are notoriously weak, not at all on the same level.
So he ignored the split, with the idea that he had basically won the game. THE ICELORD PEASANTS WENT ON TO SCOUT.
It wasn't until he saw VIVA's second subdivision that the look on his face changed.
ICELORD THOUGHT OF A CRAZY POSSIBILITY.
His farmer raced to the other sub-sites to reconnoitre, and then saw the third and fourth sub-mines out of sight.
ICELORD'S COMPUTING POWER IS ALSO OUTSTANDING. Calculated all at once, operating so many sub-mines, VIVA may not have done anything except for farmers with a population of 50, and even if it does, it will be two or three kittens at best.
ICELORD'S HANDS WERE SHAKING, AND HE WAS ANGRY. I bought a watch last year, and I already have two copies, and you are only a peasant—are you despising me?
As Visconti said, mining on such a small map is actually bullying people with disabilities.
ALL OF A SUDDEN, ICELORD WAS CAUGHT IN A SITUATION WHERE HEAVEN AND MAN WERE AT WAR.
He really wants to directly storm the soldiers to dismantle all these mines, but Heria's second book is really not strong, what if VIVA temporarily bursts out with a wave of soldiers and blocks his RUSH with a tough operation?
It's always been someone else who rushes himself, but he never rushes someone else!
ICELORD TOOK A DEEP BREATH AND A TWO-HUNDRED-HUNDRED-APM PLAYER WENT TO RUSH A NINE-HUNDRED-APM PLAYER...... Just that sounds like a joke.
But look at the undefended ore distribution......
FINALLY, VIVA HELPED ICELORD MAKE THE CHOICE.
In front of the farmers scouted by ICELORD, more than a dozen newly produced farmers of VIVA swaggered to clear out another mining area and began to build sub-bases......
ICELORD finally couldn't stand it, and now it's not a question of how to choose, he has to play it now, otherwise when the three books are formed, the scene will become 8 mines of Zenit fighting Heria of a single mine, and VIVA can drag himself to death even if he drags it.
So ICELORD didn't hesitate to use the money used to research technology.
Soon, the two-mage army with a population of fifty took shape, and rushed out of the city with a fierce momentum-
VIVA's response continues to be impressive.
People thought that VIVA would abandon the mine and start a rampage. FIGHT HARD WITH ICELORD.
But this is not the case.
VIVA DISPATCHED THE FOUR TRANSPORT PLANES THAT HAD ALREADY BEEN PRODUCED, BUT THEY WERE UPGRADED AND ACCELERATED, AND MORE THAN 20 PEASANTS RAN TO THE BASE THAT WAS ATTACKED BY ICLEORD.
There is nothing in this base except for a sub-base and five peasants, not even a barracks, not to mention arrow towers and bunkers, it is impossible to stop a wave of RUSH. The mage army of Heria Erben is indeed weak, but it depends on who it is compared to, and it is naturally strong compared to the peasants.
VIVA THREW MORE THAN 20 FARMERS INTO HIS HOME, AND IMMEDIATELY BLINDED ICELORD'S HARDENED KRYPTONITE DOG EYES.
It stands to reason that there really is no deterrent effect on farmers, but there are too many of them. ICELORD ALMOST HAD THE ILLUSION THAT VIVA WOULDN'T BE TRYING TO DROWN ME IN THE PEASANT SEA WITH HIS OWN OPERATIONAL ADVANTAGE, WOULD HE?
But no.
The purpose of VIVA's farmers is also very simple - mining.
ICELORD'S EYES WERE DAZZLED. IT'S NOT JUST ICELORD, IT'S Blum Cathedral where the glasses are shattered, because VIVA actually started directing these airborne farmers to start mining.
Generally speaking, it is almost the same if there are 6 farmers in a mining area who are responsible for collecting resources, and the number of farmers who may collect resources in the initial stage is slightly larger. But now, in a narrow mining area, there are 26 peasants mining, huddled together, almost like Tiananmen Square.
ICELORD TOOK THE PLUNGE AND BEGAN TO SLAUGHTER FARMERS.
But his operation and VIVA's operation are really too far apart. NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT FOUR UPGRADED ACCELERATED TRANSPORT PLANES FLOATED UP TO AND FRO LIKE THE WIND, AND COULD BRING THE PEASANTS IN AT ANY TIME, ICELORD COULDN'T KILL A SINGLE PEASANT WITH GREAT EFFORT—NOT EVEN TO BE DISABLED.
Finally. ICELORD GAVE UP THE UNREALISTIC FANTASY OF SLAUGHTERING FARMERS.
He began to forcibly dismantle the sub-base.
Ten farmers immediately surrounded the base and began to repair it, and the remaining nearly twenty farmers were still working hard to collect resources.
Of course, the speed of repair is certainly not as fast as the speed of the strong force of 50 people, but even so. VIVA still grabbed a lot of resources, and the resources grabbed in this mining area have long been enough to cover the cost of mining.
At the moment when the base of the sub-mine was ignited, four transport planes immediately loaded all the peasants. FLEW AWAY FROM ICELORD'S VISION.
It's as if nothing has happened......
ICELORD HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO CONTINUE THE DEMOLITION.
People are thinking that VIVA should be a rioter this time.
But still no.
Only this time, the number of peasants who went to divide the mines and grab resources suddenly soared from less than 30 to more than 50.
The exclamations in the stands came one after another, and it was really exciting to see more than 50 farmers crowded into a mining area to collect resources in such a world competition. All of a sudden, some theater fans seemed to have the illusion that the peasant, which was at the bottom of the fighting power in the Middle Ages, seemed to have become locusts, a locust was not terrible, but when a group of locusts gathered together, it became the most terrifying predator, and no grass grew everywhere it passed.
ICELORD STILL TRIES TO SLAUGHTER THE FARMERS, BUT VIVA IS DOING JUST TOO WELL. THE FIFTY PEASANTS GATHERED TOGETHER, NOT ONLY DID THEY NOT GET STUCK IN EACH OTHER'S POSITIONS, BUT THEY WERE ABLE TO COVER EACH OTHER WELL, AND THERE WAS A VERY OBSCENE AND LIGHTNING-FAST TRANSPORT PLANE, AND ICELORD GAVE UP AFTER A FEW ATTEMPTS.
When the three technologies were not completed, the mages of Heria did not have AOE capabilities, and they could only pinch their noses and endure such operations. In Visconti's words, it's bullying you with a crippled hand.
ICELORD BEGINS TO DEMOLISH THE BASE.
This time he was confronted with twenty peasants working together to repair it, and it took his mage troops a full minute to slowly destroy the base amid the exclamations of the audience at Blum Cathedral.
WHEN THE GROUP OF FARMERS FLEW AWAY ON THE TRANSPORT PLANE AGAIN, ICELORD LAUGHED AND SAW THAT THE RESOURCES OF THE MINE HAD BEEN EXHAUSTED BY FIFTY FARMERS...... (To be continued.) )