Lu41k
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oxygen_hl (Necropolis, purple) def. Lu41k (Preserve, green) — Will and Mind 211, (Expert, 6 min)
We played a random map and decided that we'd only take a restart on the first day, and that's how we went into battle :))
I had only played this map twice, so on Day 1 I was wondering where to go. I managed without restarts. The first day passed in a frantic haze of rushing and wondering who to send where... And only during the opponent's turn did I start to look closely at what I had generated... I looked and got upset... In the level 3 dwellings, I got Earth Elementals... The opponent has the Guardian's robe in the underground. I immediately realized he's playing Death... I thought, "Well, I'm doomed." I felt miserable, but I kept playing. Everything was going quite well. I hoped for 3 dwellings and an army in the underground... Neither happened... only slow-movers... I looked at the artifact lying in the underground on my territory... the Book of Death... Oxy should have had it, not me..
Meanwhile, I'm clearing the territory, taking dwellings, and freeing the army from the underground... The Dark Lords are leveling up in the meantime and brazenly stealing artifacts from under the noses of the stunned neutrals..
After taking the level 3 dwelling with earthworms, I headed for the Book of Nature, guarded by nightmares and medusas... The Ring of Power is there too... My spirits lifted, and I continued to develop. I wanted to go to the island, but I felt I wouldn't make it in time... There were crosses and monks at the gold mine; I brought the army out of the underground and took the mine.
The Phoenixes weren't in a hurry to be built... only on 121... Oh well..
We played out the first week and went to bed... we probably met again a week later, and all my plans had flown out of my head))
Oxy sailed to the island, took the mine and the Book of Chaos; he didn't go for my tree, which surprised me :D and made me happy. While I was clearing the respawn and thinking about what to do next, Oxy crushed the Barbarians and Cyclopes. I flickered there for a bit, but you can't push against Order Mages, Death, devils, and venoms :) It was clear that no matter what I did, I'd be killed anyway :) And that's how it happened; they cast all sorts of nasty things on the cyclopes and shamelessly slaughtered them. Instead, to my horror, I saw 5 well-leveled Heroes... And only then did it occur to me that I was still running around with 3... My stupidity knew no bounds..
I bought 4 Heroes... a druidess, hoping to have time to level her up... visited 2 stones near the city, took a free fight in the hut... And only then did I remember that I wanted to study Death... Cursing myself once again, I went to the university... During the opponent's turn, I thought for a long time about who to actually make her... Now she'll be neither here nor there... But I still decided to buy Death for the sake of Dispel Magic, which I never actually learned, because the druidess turned out to be a fierce opponent of necromancy and flatly refused to study it (which is what I feared); in the end, she grew to expert Nature, I learned antimagic at the nearest shop, and settled for that.
Meanwhile, the main army sailed to the island to get experience, the prisoner, and the treasure. Evil mermaids tried every way to seduce my monsters, but they either didn't have time to move, or I cast a swarm of wasps on them. That's how I quickly sailed, cleared the territory with the dwelling (earth), and went for the Hero (whom I remembered by that point), jumping into a portal... I saw no one, thought I was in the wrong place, and jumped into another portal. I stared in shock at my own city and thought only one thing: then where exactly is the prison??? No matter how hard I tried to find it, I couldn't... I went to ICQ and started grilling the cartographer, who kindly informed me that the prison should be in the underground on the island... I looked again... no prison... I thought that Oxy had captured it and calmed down. I ran further to level up, trying to make a GM Druid and Life out of my heroes... They stubbornly refused to level up as needed... They never grew... And I was hoping for the Sanctuary.. :)
I noticed the opponent started taking suspiciously long turns... The thought flashed that my death was near... I started looking closely at the top right corner and waiting... I had no chance against his army, but I decided to at least die beautifully... and not in one turn.
Noticing my death, I gathered the army, bought drinks (almost for the first time in the whole game; the ulcer-patients were teetotalers)) and decided that hiding in corners didn't suit me... I said goodbye to everyone and went to meet them.
We met. My half-baked Heroes and his super-macho :)
The Tactician with the Guardian's robe was, of course, untouchable... I wanted to cast antimagic on the phoenixes so the evil guys wouldn't cast all sorts of filth on him... But I didn't have time... The phoenixes were cut down by the Hand of Death, after which there was no point. Realizing that I couldn't finish off his Heroes with 4 phoenixes, I decided to resurrect them, secretly hoping to bite someone... later... It didn't work :))
Mass Dispel Magic, of course, didn't let the tactics unfold... With the Druid, I summoned a swarm of Wasps to cover the Tactician. He covered, and at the same time cast weakness on the devils. :) But the Devils decided to break through by killing the druid... They broke through... In short, my army began to melt before my eyes..
It ended quite funnily: my tigers fell victim to hypnosis, and Oxy started playing with himself :) In the end, one (I think) miserable tiger remained, who decided in retaliation to bite the Hero and fall by his hand :)
So that's basically how the battle ended.
After the game, it turned out that Oxy hadn't taken my prison and I simply didn't notice it :( I guess it's time to go to the optometrist..
What else to say at the end..
I messed up a lot (I'd even say too much), gave up too early, and didn't squeeze the maximum out of the situation..
The apprentice hasn't yet grown into a Master :) Need to play more :)
PS thanks to everyone who read to the end :D
Dimka, thanks for the game :)
We played a random map and decided that we'd only take a restart on the first day, and that's how we went into battle :))
I had only played this map twice, so on Day 1 I was wondering where to go. I managed without restarts. The first day passed in a frantic haze of rushing and wondering who to send where... And only during the opponent's turn did I start to look closely at what I had generated... I looked and got upset... In the level 3 dwellings, I got Earth Elementals... The opponent has the Guardian's robe in the underground. I immediately realized he's playing Death... I thought, "Well, I'm doomed." I felt miserable, but I kept playing. Everything was going quite well. I hoped for 3 dwellings and an army in the underground... Neither happened... only slow-movers... I looked at the artifact lying in the underground on my territory... the Book of Death... Oxy should have had it, not me..
Meanwhile, I'm clearing the territory, taking dwellings, and freeing the army from the underground... The Dark Lords are leveling up in the meantime and brazenly stealing artifacts from under the noses of the stunned neutrals..
After taking the level 3 dwelling with earthworms, I headed for the Book of Nature, guarded by nightmares and medusas... The Ring of Power is there too... My spirits lifted, and I continued to develop. I wanted to go to the island, but I felt I wouldn't make it in time... There were crosses and monks at the gold mine; I brought the army out of the underground and took the mine.
The Phoenixes weren't in a hurry to be built... only on 121... Oh well..
We played out the first week and went to bed... we probably met again a week later, and all my plans had flown out of my head))
Oxy sailed to the island, took the mine and the Book of Chaos; he didn't go for my tree, which surprised me :D and made me happy. While I was clearing the respawn and thinking about what to do next, Oxy crushed the Barbarians and Cyclopes. I flickered there for a bit, but you can't push against Order Mages, Death, devils, and venoms :) It was clear that no matter what I did, I'd be killed anyway :) And that's how it happened; they cast all sorts of nasty things on the cyclopes and shamelessly slaughtered them. Instead, to my horror, I saw 5 well-leveled Heroes... And only then did it occur to me that I was still running around with 3... My stupidity knew no bounds..
I bought 4 Heroes... a druidess, hoping to have time to level her up... visited 2 stones near the city, took a free fight in the hut... And only then did I remember that I wanted to study Death... Cursing myself once again, I went to the university... During the opponent's turn, I thought for a long time about who to actually make her... Now she'll be neither here nor there... But I still decided to buy Death for the sake of Dispel Magic, which I never actually learned, because the druidess turned out to be a fierce opponent of necromancy and flatly refused to study it (which is what I feared); in the end, she grew to expert Nature, I learned antimagic at the nearest shop, and settled for that.
Meanwhile, the main army sailed to the island to get experience, the prisoner, and the treasure. Evil mermaids tried every way to seduce my monsters, but they either didn't have time to move, or I cast a swarm of wasps on them. That's how I quickly sailed, cleared the territory with the dwelling (earth), and went for the Hero (whom I remembered by that point), jumping into a portal... I saw no one, thought I was in the wrong place, and jumped into another portal. I stared in shock at my own city and thought only one thing: then where exactly is the prison??? No matter how hard I tried to find it, I couldn't... I went to ICQ and started grilling the cartographer, who kindly informed me that the prison should be in the underground on the island... I looked again... no prison... I thought that Oxy had captured it and calmed down. I ran further to level up, trying to make a GM Druid and Life out of my heroes... They stubbornly refused to level up as needed... They never grew... And I was hoping for the Sanctuary.. :)
I noticed the opponent started taking suspiciously long turns... The thought flashed that my death was near... I started looking closely at the top right corner and waiting... I had no chance against his army, but I decided to at least die beautifully... and not in one turn.
Noticing my death, I gathered the army, bought drinks (almost for the first time in the whole game; the ulcer-patients were teetotalers)) and decided that hiding in corners didn't suit me... I said goodbye to everyone and went to meet them.
We met. My half-baked Heroes and his super-macho :)
The Tactician with the Guardian's robe was, of course, untouchable... I wanted to cast antimagic on the phoenixes so the evil guys wouldn't cast all sorts of filth on him... But I didn't have time... The phoenixes were cut down by the Hand of Death, after which there was no point. Realizing that I couldn't finish off his Heroes with 4 phoenixes, I decided to resurrect them, secretly hoping to bite someone... later... It didn't work :))
Mass Dispel Magic, of course, didn't let the tactics unfold... With the Druid, I summoned a swarm of Wasps to cover the Tactician. He covered, and at the same time cast weakness on the devils. :) But the Devils decided to break through by killing the druid... They broke through... In short, my army began to melt before my eyes..
It ended quite funnily: my tigers fell victim to hypnosis, and Oxy started playing with himself :) In the end, one (I think) miserable tiger remained, who decided in retaliation to bite the Hero and fall by his hand :)
So that's basically how the battle ended.
After the game, it turned out that Oxy hadn't taken my prison and I simply didn't notice it :( I guess it's time to go to the optometrist..
What else to say at the end..
I messed up a lot (I'd even say too much), gave up too early, and didn't squeeze the maximum out of the situation..
The apprentice hasn't yet grown into a Master :) Need to play more :)
PS thanks to everyone who read to the end :D
Dimka, thanks for the game :)
"Как это странно всегда..
Вроде бы взрослые люди,
А в голове ерунда..
Мечтаем как дети о чуде.."
