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

Paladin@heroes.by (red,Dungeon,Shakti,Shakti) def Hermit(blue,Necropolis,Galtran,Galtran), 2sm4d(3),136

Thanks for the game!

Confirmed. Everything was exactly as described.

The map was horribly skewed, especially my respawn; in fact my opponent captured my sawmill before I did, so I took it already tinted on week 2. But there was plenty of wood. On week 1 I raised a lot of skeletons, but 1,2,4-6 in the Stronghold + 1000. And I even took two horses, on week 2 I'm pushing to the secondary town and lost one horse on Grand Elves on the grass!!! ((((((( The secondary town placement was terribly unlucky ((((( Still, I captured it, with four Knights and skeletons, took two Conservatories, detoured Goshka off the road leading to my home castle and then I see the opponent's heroes coming from the swamp together with Shakti. Goshka with horses, skeletons and Angels found himself helpless against Shakti with Angels and 14 Wizards, and I had already built a castle in the capital and a City Hall, so I had no money for surrender. The map wasn't so much bad, but the path to the treasury was very far through the secondary's respawn and getting to the secondary town was a long, long walk — that was bad and unlucky. The opponent's appearance from the swamp was unexpected; I was afraid of him coming from the sawmill side by the short route... and in that area I never thought I'd be caught... And playing Necropolis was very enjoyable!!! Galtran is great!!! Stronger and stronger with every battle, I reaped >250 skeletons by week 1 and afterwards any Dwarf Cottage and Imp Cottage means not only free money and resources but also a huge increase in army power!!! And Conservatories too.

Many thanks for the game!