Reports on online games and their confirmations (Winter 2008 season).

SS-D (red, Tower)-invisible-looser (blue, Castle),

Another one of my talentless games. I mean, I knew it, I had the advantage over the opponent thanks to a truly wonderful map layout that I got. Just go to him at the start of week 4 with 12 angels, and kill him without any problems. No, as always, greed is what ruined me. In short, I still have much to learn about how to play. The opponent took a restart on 113; I didn't. Such a layout appeared that I simply couldn't believe my eyes. If someone had told me the only thing I was missing was a Dragon Utopia next to the Castle :D. Within a radius of a few cells around the castle, there is an observatory, a monks' external dwelling, an angels' external dwelling, and a stable. The native secondary structure is just a day and a half away :) . I could have taken it on the second day, but I was afraid the opponent would restart, so I took it on the third. The only disappointing thing was the lack of decent heroes, so I leveled up the starting Caitlin to level 8, but then Corbakk arrived as the seventh hero, got Earth Magic and became the daddy. In the second week, I built angels in the Castle; money is flowing like a river, resources are overflowing. And that's what decided the outcome of the match :D If there hadn't been so much money and res, I would have gone visiting on week 4. Instead, I decided to build Archangels, clear the treasuries, and then go and kill him. In the treasury, I got a minimum Dragon Utopia :mad: , and as for parameters, nothing—I got red boots and various junk. I saw three trees standing nearby—again, greed got the better of me. I took those too. Then I saw a library :o , so another couple of days were lost. Anyway, after the library, I rushed back home and headed toward the opponent. The guild gave me nothing, though anti-magic wouldn't have hurt alongside Corbakk's expert Earth Magic.
In the finale, the opponent's parameters jumped up; obviously, I thought, he was hiding them :smile42: . But they were still roughly equal to mine. There is no point in describing the finale—because there was nothing interesting other than implosion. I waited and waited for my boots to resist even once. In two rounds, the opponent killed one of my stacks of archangels and wyverns, which didn't strike a single time. I killed all the nagas, 6 out of 7 angels, and 3 out of 5 titans. At first, I wanted to hit with everyone in round 3 and pay off the rest, until implosion killed the last stack of 8 archangels. I finished off the titans, but didn't have enough money for the buyout. Another minus 6 archangels :mad: . After that, we ran around for a couple more days; I was already level 21 and had upgraded resist to advanced, plus boots—25%. And in the end, not even one damn thing resisted :smile35: . Then it turned out the opponent had a black orb :smile35:
Thanks for the game! I still have much to learn. And I need to overcome my greed. I wanted to play relaxed, develop without rushing and then arrive. I came, I saw, I died! :smile28: