[Tournaments-HotA] Game of Thrones

In general, the map generated was, to put it mildly, strange. Not only are there problems with the objects and the army, but the zones are also extremely inconvenient: it's a hassle to run around the mountains at the top, and in the underground, you have to crawl through long tunnels (my opponent, by the way, didn't have much luck with this – you should have seen how he had to get to his super treasure zone – it was just epic, crawling through a tunnel to a corner of the map with 8000+ movement points to a teleport:eek: , and that's even though it was closer to me than it was to him, I'll explain why later):D But the super treasure zones accessed through regular teleports in the Inferno are an Epic Fail, of course:D My journey to the green Citadel of Cyth through the wilderness deserves a separate story. In short, I was crawling through the rocks, and then I saw a stone mine. I thought, "Finally, on the 4th turn, I'll take the city and collect the units killed on the rocks." But that's not what happened. In short, there are mountains with bushes all around the city, you can see Cyth, but you can't take it, and you have to go around it for another three turns because the mountains stretched down, so you had to go around even more. Luckily, I didn't go any further, otherwise I would have had to break through 50+ archmages with 1 Angel :smile52: In short, I had a glorious, even brilliant, campaign. :smile49: :smile41: And this green Citadel was never conquered. And that's despite the fact that I even made a second trip to it through another adjacent zone. :D I took a General + Breastplate for Spell Power, some meat shields to absorb the tower attacks, and one Ifrit Sultan. I thought that the towers probably wouldn't shoot at one poor Sultan, let the meat shields take the damage :smile14: Then I'd give him an Armageddon and easily take the city :D, but apparently, the intellectually highly developed barbarian knew about my naive and primitive plan and immediately shot down the Ifrit Sultan :smile40: :smile52: And the plan went to hell. That's why the green Citadel got the nickname "barb-mega-defender". So, let's get back to the wonderful, super-convenient, and comfortable super treasure zone of my opponent :D The main reason why it was closer to his Super Treasure Zone was that the teleport exiting my adjacent zone (zone #25) somehow didn't lead to the adjacent zone of the orange player (i.e., zone #24), but immediately led to the opponent's adjacent zone (zone #21):smile52: What the heck is that? :D :confused: Luckily, the teleport led me to who knows where, to that very infamous tunnel that you have to crawl through. That's why I didn't even realize that it was the opponent's adjacent zone, as I had never seen him there :smile52: The main thing is that the passage and other zones were also bugged. Because from his treasure zone (zone 9), the teleport directly led to my central treasure zone (zone 14). And there was no connection from the purple adjacent zone to another adjacent zone at all! Luckily, the opponent didn't immediately attack, but let me explore, which ultimately decided the outcome of the game. Because I don't know how I would have broken the Dragon Utopia in my respawn with 10 Cyclops and 3 Giants, with stats of 8 8 without Earth :smile32: But with 100+ demons, I lost the 21st turn and 4 Ifrits. Inferno rules, damn it:smile51: And there were wings, a Castle, a General, and 2 All-Faction artifacts. The Castle wasn't very useful because Mary didn't have Earth at that time, and she didn't get it until the 7th slot at the end. And Nimue was the same – she had to be developed through the air. But before taking the Dragon Utopia, something happened:D In short, there's something I should probably keep quiet about, but I'll tell you:D I had another campaign in progress before the second trip to the barbarian.:smile52: I placed Nimue so that she would reach Cyth on 1 Angel, I pressed wait, it seemed like everything was calculated, but then, out of nowhere, a purple Shakti appeared with all her might and attacked. I thought, "What bad luck, I'll shoot her down with arrows and finish her off with the Angel from wait, so that there won't be much meat left." And then morale kicked in for the Manticores, and then for the Trolls :smile52: The result: Nimue is gone, the Angel is gone, the second main hero is gone, the Gloves are gone:smile40::smile15: Not bad!:smile20: At that moment, after these trips to the barbarian, I was already tilted and wanted to quit right here and now :smile52: and not play anymore. But luckily, all's well that ends well) Nimue came on her own at the beginning of the second month, the perches and the Shakti were successfully defeated, the Archmages were built in the pink Castle, Mary finally got Earth, and the game was won.

Thank you to my opponent for this very, very strange, but very fun game!

PS: It was a ranked game.