After his amazing win against MbL yesterday, Yo has the potential of advancing straight to the playoffs by winning his match today. The two titans, Hera and Hearttt, played it out yesterday. Hearttt unfortunately lost with 0 map wins.

Hengehold

Both players walling up while both also open up with a quick push. Hearttt is going for full skirmishers, however Yo usually never goes from them. Both players are rather even and almost go to castle age at the same time around 8 minutes.

Hearttt moves around the base and manages to find a big opening in the woodline behind Yo, killing 6 villagers in total, leaving Hearttt with a 12 villager lead.

Both players continue to kill each other slowly, however Hearttt is going for a triple mangonel setup against the infantry. After a big push with those, Yo called gg, giving Hearttt the 1-0.

Stonedrift

Both previous times we saw Stonedrift was with MbL and the chaotic playstyle. Hearttt decided for a galley/fire opening while Yo went for fire/hulk instead with a small advantage for the castle age. Majority of the game was played out on water with a back and forth, no attempt of any land push within the first 10 minutes.

Yo goes for a mix between longboat and fires while Hearttt goes for full fire, trapping him on an island corner, almost losing all longboats. The required mass of longboats to have an effect doesn't seem to be possible. Hearttt however did not manage to keep up with the Viking economy, leaving Yo essentially in full control of the water, leading to a GG from Hearttt after just 18 minutes. 1-1.

Blue Wells

Both players starting rather defensive and going for a fast castle. Yo tried to go for stone and not only fast castle age bud also building one, which caused him to buy a lot of stone with all of his gold, leaving Yo behind.

Hearttt now transfers most of the fights against Yo in his base and is slowly taking control of water as well. Yo is continuing with an unusual combination of Bolas Riders and Konas, securing the middle gold and in range of 1 town center of Hearttt.

Even with over 20 camels, Yo's combo still managed to beat him in a big fight in Hearttts base. Currently its still even for both players, especially considering that both are still in castle age at minute 23.

Behind those fights, Hearttt does run on 3 town centers including a 40 villager difference now, slowly losing the momentum. He went ahead with an aggressive castle in Heartts base, counter castled by him and successfully prevented the castle push.

Due to the huge economy advantage, Hearttt went into Imperial Age early but Yo kept going. Both are raiding each other, and with trebuchets now in play, Hearttt slowly starts pushing away the castles. With an additional aggressive castle from Hearttt yo called the GG, resulting in a 2-1 for him.

Glacis

Both with an extremely defensive approach. No early raids. Hearttt adds additional gates in the front. Both players in castle age at around minute 8. Up until minute 15, we did not see any aggression. Hearttt then decided to up the speed and raid into Yo's base, also getting rid of his mangonels which was huge. Hearttt managed to kill a total of 10 villagers with this push, compared to Yo with 0.

At the same time he move forward, docking Yo's side, essentially removing his option for food. Yo hasn't seen Hearttts based for quiet a while, but both players are going up to imperial age almost around the same time. Minute 27 still even, but more aggressive for Hearttt.

Ethiopian arbelests are extremely strong and Hearttt lost all of his Chevaliers in a big fight in the middle. Yo managed to push Hearttt out of his base again.

Yo now starts his comeback with an aggressive castle in Hearttts base and gain a population lead, a total of 30 units now. Post-Imperial age is barely possible for him to fight and his production is slowly sinking.

Dorothea Quarry Hearttt decided to go for the full agression in Castle Age. Feudal was rather quiet, but right after walling up his own base ans transferring into a 2nd TC, he instantly started to push Yo's base.

Yo was going for full knights at this point, completely getting run over by the massed archers - 20 at 14 minutes in game.

After Hearttt raiding his wood and goldline, Yo called the GG. After a nailbiting series, hearttt finishes everything with a clean 3-2.