Low vs High Upkeep Upset

How did the humans repeatedly beat this orc army, even though the orcs had a larger economy and a bigger force most of the time? In this game I tried using a beastmaster, who has a hawk which spies invisible enemies.

My theory is that the headhunters did not have the range to fully engage at one point. Of course, that could have easily been resolved by ordering the Demolishers to do some landscaping. Instead, the huge army tried to squeeze through bottlenecks. At times, this meant that parts of the orc army were out of formation or trailing behind in disarray.

Although, even if that group of headhunters could not focus their fire, the real problem was being too cavalier with the blademaster. Because the human army consisted of both air and ground units, it was much easier to hero focus. Fragmentation shards ripped apart any units hit by their area of effect, and storm hammers rained down doing more area of effect. Add to that some nice buffs and summons and it is game over for the orcs.

Thanks to Free Music Archive for the music!
Track Listing:
00:00 - 05:25 Neuroleptic Trio - Everyone have secrets
05:25 - 10:17 sanmi - Laptop Jazz
10:17 - 13:24 Mirth Naarc - Maths in Love
13:24 - 15:45 Artofescapism - Train to Ikekeburo
15:45 - 19:30 springtide - Outsider's Paradox

Links to the albums of the songs in order of appearance:
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Neuroleptic_Trio/Beast_Of_2016_-_2012
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/sanmi/_____________________
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Mirth_Naarc/Jazx
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Artofescapism/Midnight_Caravan
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/springtide/Sounds_strange_weird_but_unmistakably_romantic

All tracks were adapted to fit within the timeline of the video.
Low vs High Upkeep Upset (c) by Humpty_Hump

Low vs High Upkeep Upset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

You should have received a copy of the license along with this
work. If not, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.