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

Decontaminator (Blue, Rampart, Ivor, Tyraxor) def invisible (Red, Necropolis, Galtran, Gosha) 2sm4d(3) 136

I was born in the underground. At the start, Gosha had one stack, but the second hero came from the tower. An artifact, the Spirit of Despair, appeared, so I decided to play. My main town was nearby, with a resource and a +4 chain for the Hive faction. In the first week, I only built a converter and two towers in both castles to find a haste artifact for the resource. As expected, it wasn't there. I found another resource not far from my main castle. I checked near the main town – it was level 3-4, so on day 121, I attacked my main town, took a gnome stack of 75, and ran to the second resource. I exchanged on the market for sulfur for liches to have the first turn in the resource. I checked: it had 2-4 angels. I decided to take a risk: if I didn't take it, I would surrender. I took it, losing three liches, but now I have 3 angels. I thought for a long time about where to go: to the surface or to the second resource. I decided to go to the surface to get some money. This cost me the game. On the surface, I took an Angel dwelling, but I saw Tyraxor, who appeared near my main town and the unguarded resource. I could have reached him by attacking on the next turn, but I didn't have enough mana, so I stayed in the castle to replenish mana. Tyraxor cast a detection spell and greedily attacked the unguarded resource (it turned out to have 3 angels). As a result, I was left sitting in the fortress and was attacked. Tyraxor had ballistics and was targeting the gates, but I only had enough mana for one mass haste spell, which he used to kill 3 of my angels by casting haste on the ballista and attacking the angels when they struck. The battle lasted about two hours. In the end, it wasn't without my stupidity (I accidentally moved a centaur out from under the gates, and I opened the gates with a skeleton, but then I made another mistake, as a result of which the gates closed again, and my 350 hungry skeletons were left out in the cold). In the end, I was left with 200 skeletons, bought spearmen and archers, and went to retake the castles. I was afraid to attack the main castle (elves are scary), and in the secondary castle, there was Iona, who could significantly reduce my skeleton numbers. Out of desperation, I went to the treasure, where with only 190 skeletons, I killed 90+ wood, 90+ cows, then I took a minimal Utopia with only 200 skeletons and 20 spearmen!!!. The stats were 14-9, expert attack/defense, expert shield, stone skin, and advanced bloodlust. I rushed at it, hoping for control, but I got a bag of gold :D. I had 84 skeletons left, no castles, so there was no point in continuing.
Thank you for the game!



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invisible (Blue, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) def Foman (Red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) 137 2sm4d(3)
On the first day, I built horses in the castle, revealed a Utopia, two resources, and took a human secondary town. There were no ambushes. On the second day, I took both resources (2+3), revealed another Utopia and two Hive lairs nearby. Ivor got water and defense. I took the Hive lairs (8+4), broke through the guard of the Utopia to take it on days 132-133, but it was maxed out. On the second day, I put gnomes, and the growth was based on them and wood. At the beginning of the third week, I took a Pandora's Box artifact for 5k experience, increasing defense and water, attacked the main town, and ran to the Utopia near the castle. I took it on day 133 - a level 2 town. I have 12 wyverns, 5 angels, 10 horses, 30 gnomes, 17 woods, 50 "pokemon" (likely referring to a unit), and 36 archers from the secondary town for meat. I took it, losing meat, 2 trees, 2 wyverns, and all the gnomes. I got a +4 shield to everything and a book of air :smile23:, replenished mana, and simultaneously built a guild next to the existing berserk scroll. On day 136, I used the Gate of the Underworld (GO) and chose the wrong direction. But on day 137, I ended up right under Valeska's castle through the mountains. I took a nagabrank (likely a building), used the Gate of the Underworld to get to her, who was standing near the castle, and attacked. My stats were significantly higher, I had more troops, and I had a full range of magic against Valeska without a book.
Thank you for the game!