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

Smoke_mk(red, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) def Wlk777

Confirmed. The random was not too bad, but I sort of lagged behind in development, threw away troops where it really wasn't needed, and it was also frustrating that out of 6 Dragon Fly Hives, 5 turned out to be minimal. I didn't find a Utopia. On weeks 2-3, I significantly outmatched my opponent in parameters, mainly in magic (Lightning Bolt for 200+ and tons of mana), but I didn't find a path to my opponent, and it was unrealistic to crush 100+ Griffins of the opponent without Mass Slow, and I kept putting off Mass Slow because new good skills kept appearing — I got greedy :( . In the final, of course, I could have put up a fight if it weren't for my opponent's Castle. I sort of rashly attacked the castle, didn't account for 39 Wyverns, thought there would be fewer. :( . Thanks for the game.

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Wlk777(blue, Castle, Valessa) def Babek(red, Rampart, Kyrre) 2SM4d(3) 126
In general, the game was a bit strange. I got an average draw, 26 Archers built, 2 heroes at 350 gold. Not a huge amount of money, but always enough for the essentials. I had big plans, intended to raise many skeletons with my second hero, Vokial the Artillerist, but only managed 50+ as it turned out that my secondary was adjacent to the opponent's zone of control, but I never gave it to him — I built a Citadel and put Vokial there with various leftover troops. On day 117, I accidentally found an external dwelling of Archers, at home — Griffins in the Citadel. At the beginning of week 2, Kyrre with 20+ Grand Elves, 5-9 Unicorns, 10-19 Pegasi, 50-99 Centaurs, 5-9 Dendroid Soldiers came into my respawn; I didn't dare attack, although I also had a decent army — 56 Marksmen, 5 Champions, about 50 relatively weak troops and Skeletons, Lightning Bolt for 110 and 40 mana, stats slightly higher than my opponent's plus Expert Offense. I decided not to take the risk, cut Kyrre off from the chain, sat in the capital for a couple of days building up money, while Kyrre wandered deep into my respawn. I planned to take an unexplored Griffin Conservatory if it had no more than 2, or else take it at the start of week 3 with the new growth, then also at the start of week 3 catch Kyrre, cut off from the chain, with my new growth. But my opponent surrendered and refused to even fight for fun with the armies we both had on day 126. Thanks for the game.