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

Pavel Dubrovin (Red, Castle, Valessa, Valessa) def numOne (Blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti), 2sm4d(3), 1.4.7.

I confirm!
Not my best game, what can I say...
Spawned in the underground with 3 stacks. On the first week, I broke through the orcs to the Conflux respawn, but the path to the castle was blocked by up to 99 elves guarding a Dragon Utopia... I saw a Griffin Conservatory — a min — took it, ran back to the underground to pop out of another exit. With wood, it was a real struggle, didn't find a single pile until 117. Only at the end did I manage to stick the Medusas, so on the first week — 1-4 in Citadel.
On the second week, I came out to a swamp respawn, the road to the castle turned out to be very long, so I decided to send a scout hero, while Shakti meanwhile with reinforcement troops takes a level 3 Griffin Conservatory.
After that, everything went smoothly — I returned to the Conflux respawn, took the castle, bought the tome, and started looting the hives in the neighboring treasure zone (which, as luck would have it, were mostly minimums). I expertized Air but never found Haste the entire game. Meanwhile, Pasha takes my main town with 30 unrecruited Evil Eyes and 6 Minotaurs; I saw all this and could easily have teleported home to defend, but I decided to finish with the treasure zone, especially since I had high hopes for the 2 Dragon Utopias standing nearby.
At the start of the fourth week, I broke those Dragon Utopias (and this was the Biggest Disappointment). In the first one, a min, I got: a Bag of Gold, a Cuirass +1 to Attack, a Ring +1 to Speed, a Legion Belt :smile07:. In the second one, a level 3: Tome of Fire, Boots of Levitation, a Spell Scroll of Lightning Bolt, and a Statesman's Hat! Splendid! :smile52:
In the Conflux, I had to buy Earth in the last slot and meet Pasha, who had already arrived.
By this time, Val had acquired the Tome of Earth and with double mana swiftly mowed down my ducks with Implosion, and from then on, you know what happened.
Honestly, I was confident of my victory, but those dragons — pack rats — shat on all the fun. :smile48:

Thanks for the game!