1) Where did you find my statement that that phrase of mine which you latched onto is valuable in my eyes? That is also a rough guess on your part.
For example, why did you not take into account my other phrase, much more important and overriding any of my ideas about Tanth—this one:
.. based on mine and Krovka's (and even Caliban's :smile41: ) understanding of balance .. no move will be made. :D
2) Not out of nowhere, of course, but based on a vague impression from all the games played. Here is my game history.
If you wanted, instead of quickly typing out your fundamentally important question, you could have checked it yourself, because the answer is available to you.
I don't understand why you fixed on Tanth; as far as I'm concerned, any situation fits where both players started with non-Necropolis towns, and the winner is the one who mained Necropolis.
I double-checked the 2018 year for you—only 10 games against opponents of a comparable level.
Necropolis won 8 of them. Including 5:2 against me by opponents (ihromant, ЯR, mda, silenthill, socola, MercuryDVZ). I won 3:0 in such situations (positive, Andres, GUNAR). I discarded some of my victories against weaker players. Total 8:2 in favor of Necropolis.
Here, for example, are the reports of the game with GUNAR in the SM-Masters—specifically Tanth—mine, his. Without Tanth, the game wouldn't have been carried at all. Shakti came at me almost in a straight line through the Griffin Conservatories and would have killed me. Probably the only hero in the whole game who saved the match was Tanth. He pulled out the first final on a wing and a prayer. And this case certainly stuck in my memory very strongly, and it was primarily this one I remembered when writing my message.
p.s. I kindly ask you—calm down before your next message. Count to 20000, or better yet to 100000. Re-read the first point. Count again.
I may not even reply. Even my angelic patience is not limitless.