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Good afternoon, dear tournament participants!
Preliminary results of the tournament have been summarized.
The save from Romanuel has not been received, so the results are preliminary. Since I will not be in Omsk, and therefore online, tomorrow, I ask Romanuel to upload the daily saves on the forum in this thread. Dear Kamikaze, please check them and finalize the tournament results (with rating calculation).
RAPER, your save with the bug is very interesting, and it will definitely be included in the unified reference guide for Heroes 1. Thank you for the save.
The saves from Catch have been analyzed, and it was concluded that when the turn transitions from day 4 to day 5, the computer does not act as it should according to Catch (i.e., the save does not reflect reality).
I am familiar with such situations, when the computer actually does not act as it logically should.
Based on my experience, I can say that in such situations, when a stronger computer (and even a weaker one) is left completely alone and without a Castle, it will attack a Castle with 90% probability, especially when it is within its reach. It may not attack only in two cases:
1) The opponent's strength significantly exceeds its own.
2) A game glitch (which may be the case here with the English version of the game).
Since in Heroes 1, the computer's moves when skipping a turn are strongly influenced by the actions of the first player (the computer), the actions of the Barbarian in this case are absolutely logical and consistent:
When skipping a turn, the yellow player, left alone, attacks a less powerful opponent (red) and captures its Castle. The Barbarians scatter in different directions, so they cannot be reached in one game day.
Despite my respect for Catch, I could not achieve the situation where the yellow player does not attack the knight and does not capture its Castle, for the reasons mentioned above, and numerous replays with skipping a turn only confirmed my assumptions, so Catch's save was not counted.
//I am not considering the situation with the computer's inaccessibility to the player in this case//
P.S. Of course, I know how to make the yellow player not attack and not take its Castle, but I think that Catch is not a cheater; he simply encountered a glitch or bug that exists in the English version of the game.
P.S.S. Congratulations to Nzol on his well-deserved victory in the tournament. This strategy differed from all other strategies of the tournament participants, so, acting within the framework of this strategy, Nzol, as it seems to me, did not have to work so hard to generate the computer's actions to scatter across the yellow continent.
P.S.S.S. I also could not achieve the Barbarians not scattering, even though all 4 Castles were captured on day 5...:(
Sincerely, VDV_forever