vitalic (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) def sir (LeBron blue, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) 2SM4D(3) 137
Thanks for the game
I'll start with a general analysis of the map: both got rather heavy guards generated along the paths. Castle has a quick passage to the Barbarian secondary near the Griffin Conservatory and the Dragon Fly Hive — Rampart has 2 excellent external dwellings behind reasonable guards and a Medusa Pond just right to take on day 1 week 2 month 1
Day 1 week 1 month 1 in the tavern: Crobak with flies and native without elves — Kyrre has no elves either. Castle has 2 treasure chests behind a pack of wolves — didn't decide to hit them on the first turn — 1 morale and the striking Centaurs would suffer — and 2 external dwellings are already revealed, including the unicorn one. All Scout Heroes and Kyrre by the end of the turn are on flies. Kyrre and Fuire are 1 square from the stables
Day 1 week 1 month 2 seeing 3 promising paths, I buy a 5th hero — fight off and buy up the external dwelling of Liches with a Gnoll sacrifice — Kyrre runs upward to the Barbarian secondary, taking a Crypt for 5 souls along the way. First mistake: Fuire stayed with Dwarves instead of dismissing them — the severe time pressure shows.
Day 1 week 1 month 3 Kyrre reaches the Barbarian secondary — no guard:confused: I turn around and run on a fly to the 2 treasure chests and the unicorn external dwelling. Fuire reveals a Helmet +3 behind Centaurs and a passage to the Barbarian secondary behind Diamond Golems off-road. And here the mistake of the second turn, when Fuire stayed with a Dwarf, came into play. Realizing I won't make it back with the army, I ignore the passage to the Barbarian secondary — this turned out to be the fatal mistake of the whole match! Right on the passage stood a max Griffin Conservatory that would have been easy to take on day 1 week 2 month 1, and on day 1 week 2 month 3-4 I would have been sitting in Vitalic's Castle with Mass Slow and 4 Angels. But I didn't see the Conservatory.
Day 1 week 1 month 4 Kyrrie keeps running to the unicorn external dwelling, fighting off 4000 gold from 45+ Wolves along the way. Tactical rearrangements
Day 1 week 1 month 5 Kyrrie takes the unicorn external dwelling — they get morale and would have killed the Liches if not for the precautionary placement of flies blocking the Elves due to speed — all Centaurs die :( and again the time pressure showed — instead of leaving Kyrrie the flies in the last 5 seconds, I leave the Liches((((
Day 1 week 1 month 6 strategized for a very long time, in the end there were 59 seconds left for the main heroes' turn. The plan was to take a treasure chest with a scout hero — build unicorns — transfer the army to Kyrrie so she could break into the snow field BUT INSTEAD of that, first Kyrrie runs up to the snow guard — then realizes how she screwed up — returns the army as best she can, but the scout hero can no longer reach the treasure chest — money 3500:smile18: 10 seconds left.. frantically run into the castle.. and with the build... NO NOT THE MARKET!!! as I should have — the Prefecture:confused:
Day 1 week 1 month 7 through the Diamond Golems I didn't break through came Vala — I can't see the troops due to the glitched version (there were show-offs there) and therefore I decide not to rush to the snow — I stop at the Medusa Pond — scout heroes positioned themselves at the mills and external dwellings
Day 2 week 1 month 1 Vala ran away. Kyrrie bought everything she could — took the Medusa Pond — broke through to the snow
Day 2 week 1 month 2 Kyrrie took the Tower — leveled up Earth — mana 60 — bought a spell book — got a Slow scroll — from troops: 30 Grand Elves and 4 Unicorns + some odds and ends
Day 2 week 1 month 3 Scout hero reveals the entrance to the treasure zone — I decide to go there
Day 2 week 1 month 4 I reveal in the treasure zone: a Dragon Utopia, a Pandora's Box behind a horde of grand Woodies, a Sword +5 to Attack behind a pack of Genies and a Lightning Helm
Day 2 week 1 month 5 I attack the Woodies — there are VERY many of them.. close to 80 — I have Slow but only 1 spell point — I drain almost all my mana — Kyrrie grew to level 13 and ended the turn at the Dragon Fly Hive, also taking a Flask
Day 2 week 1 month 6 I take the Dragon Fly Hive for 8, hit 16 Efreeti for the Hive's minimum — lose 10 Pegasi on this — but gain 12 Dragons — I see a Cannon O miracle!!! but besides it, an Efreeti external dwelling, a scroll, and resource piles are guarded — the guard is grand Cows — I don't see how many but I understand it's somewhere around 100 — and I have no mana: (
Day 2 week 1 month 7 I went through in the harshest time pressure! started moving Kyrrie 30 seconds before the turn ended and made probably the main mistake — why did I attack a crowd of Unicorns with no mana — losing all the Horses and 3 Wyverns :smile04: Kyrrie level 17
Day 3 week 1 month 1 took a Naga Bank — with that money bought an army — don't know what to do — no time to decide — I attack the grand Cows — there are 80+ of them
from the army: 45 Grands, 7 Dendroid Soldiers, 6 Unicorns, 50 Centaurs and 9 Dragons — all would be fine but the Elves are somehow in the second slot — I can't cover them in the first round — and in the second it was already too late — the Cows got morale and closed off the archers GG.. win — I won but was left with 20 Grands and 8 Dragons
Day 3 week 1 month 2 I should surrender by all rights — especially since Vala is barely inferior to Kyrrie — but I take the max Dragon Fly Hive — there's hope!
Day 3 week 1 month 3 I take the minimal Griffin Conservatory
Day 3 week 1 month 4 I took Vitalina's secondary Dungeon — doubled mana there — on the same day Vala came
From there on it was pointless to continue, although at home I built a Mage Guild with Town Portal and Meteor Shower. Besides, it was already 4 hours — my eyes were closing
In short, I lost due to my own mistakes resulting from severe time pressure — 4 minutes per turn=:smile18: I don't know how Vitalya manages to play quality on 4...
In any case, thanks for the game!
