Reports on online games and their confirmations (Winter 2009 season).

KostyaN (blue, all random, Swamp, Mirlanda, Calh) def Kash (red, all random, Necropolis, Charna, Charna), 2sm4d(3), 216.

I was saying goodbye to 4 minutes :) since we started even before I had finally decided to switch to 6. I didn't think this farewell would turn out so successful — I won virtually thanks to free artifacts:D — so I won't go into much detail.

First week: muddy roads, respawn was okay; no fighters in the tavern, but on 111 it helped to run from the zone:D to whatever Calh of level 1 — he's the daddy; 20 upgraded lizards, only one external dwelling — of gnolls; week summary: secondary skill Dungeon, home 1-6 without misses in the Citadel plus +1000; somehow managed to lose a whole Wyvern on some 75 fast undead:mad:; got Loga:cool:; 7 heroes running around.

Second week: crawled through the mud off-road, on 125 beat boots off a crowd of magogs (and there was also a stable there:rolleyes:), but overall my papa was somehow out of shape — this week was passive for me (didn't go into the maximum imp territory, even though I desperately needed mercury; the lads were slacking; didn't break through the guard on this mud along the road to my swamp — a horde of marksmen, I was saving lizards:o, and without mercury I couldn't upgrade the flies...).

Third week: by midweek I already had the Golden Bow and had captured Inferno in the underground, scouted a treasure zone garden:D — 3 trees visible nearby; by the end of the week I shook 2 of them, but they — damn, minimum rewards, and I was losing my contact units on the guards — good grief, without grease (never got Earth:( ); in terms of building — purely developed the economy: Capitol, Municipality, and Town Hall plus a gold mine; the 3rd tree guarded by 100+ blue monks — I'd lose more than I'd find:D, so I left it alone.

Fourth week: by 147 I still had not a single stat artifact:(, only 16 ducks, 9 bulls, and 60+ shooters left in the army, still no Earth — boring to play:smile48:; finally built hydras, in the dungeon — minotaurs in the castle, in Inferno — dogs in the citadel; money to spare — the only joy:) .

Denouement: in short, I took a tier-3 Dragon Utopia, where due to my lousy stats (even with Expert Defense) I lost all the fodder in the first 2 rounds (90+ imps and 100 gnoll marauders), and then another 13 wasps and nearly 30 golden flies, only the cows were decisive there (21 black ones), they gave me what the doctor ordered and what God himself commanded:D with Expert Loga and boots — WINGIES:smile02:, plus a couple of other things; then, as proper heroes teach, I "flew over" a shifted GO, grabbed another minimal beehive on the living dead respawn, and a day or two later approached Vitya's capital, where the final battle took place, in which something as small as me not swapping the boots for sandals could have decided it, but I did swap them:smile51:, well anyway the final:
Calh, 13-14-5-(45), Expert Archery (with Golden Bow) and Defense, Basic Magic Resistance with army: 80 lizard warriors, 21 mighty gorgons, 21 great basilisks, 12+12 wyverns, 11+11 flying serpents
vs
Charna, 11-11-8-(90), Expert Tactics, Attack, Fire, and Earth with army: 9 mighty liches, 2 bone dragons, 4 black knights, 30 vampires, 40+ ghosts, and about a hundred skeletal warriors.
I was saved by the fact that his wonderful towers shot at flies for the first 2-3 rounds:D :D :D, otherwise it would have been hard to counter his mass slow and death wave with 70; I learned my lesson from the last game with Andrey-Britvichka and didn't haste the wyverns until their turn came;).

...And when the necromancer (or necromantress:rolleyes:) was defeated — they finally rewarded me with Earth:cool: .

Thanks, Vitya, for the game!