Team Tournament: Spring-2009

Dirty_Player (Tower, Neela, Crag Hack) def КостяN (Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) 145 2sm4d(3)
Thanks for the game, Kostya. Sorry for stealing the win from you in such a dirty way, I'm even a bit ashamed myself :(

Confirmed!

This is truly one of those cases where a 100% won game was thrown away:( ...

111. 5 heroes, of which 2 are resource gatherers and 2 are money gatherers:smile11:, Dungeon (honestly speaking: I was counting on it when picking blue Shakti;) - for me it's somehow easier to start there... ), already see the Griffin Conservatory next to the capital and a harpy external dwelling, and scouting showed 2 medusa external dwellings, the native secondary skill and the Griffin Conservatory, there's also a naga bank and 3 passages - an excellent, IMHO, setup! broke through the passage to the secondary skill.

112. took the native, captured one shooter external dwelling and a telescope, but the opponent also managed to do a lot of stuff the previous day (on 111 he already had a secondary skill and more heroes than my 5 - already a reason to think about restart...), didn't lose a single troglodyte those days - which I'm proud of:D ; another scout: a new (4th) passage is visible and a huge force of dendroids on a ring +1 to speed (must be a quest one...).

113. broke through 14 monks at the Griffin Conservatory and resources, they still shot once at the troglodytes:mad: - total of 112 left, Griffin Conservatory 2-4 (no moooney for scouts:smile05:..... ), and the miner also started getting knowledge instead of combat stats - going in blind is like death.....

114. pushed through the treaders-golems at the teleport (gold and stone), but further ahead is a treasure zone (thought I'd annoy the opponent if I got to him - Tactics expert already:) ), turned to another passage.

115. leveled up to 5th level on the naga bank guard (got Archery - for my external dwellings:D, and Defense), didn't go into the minimal zone dunno why:confused:, probably a noob...

116. came out from underground onto the grass, there the horses found themselves a joy - a hut with Estate:smile12:, fought off various small chests, generally goofing around:smile04:.

117. found a stable on the grass off-road:smile54: ; construction is even in both castles - 1-4, but in one without a citadel (don't know how to properly use double build - decided to try it this way, without higher levels...); Miner at 7th level - simply excellent for me:o.

121. chased off four with the main hero at the head from the stable, he himself flies on a butterfly towards the crypt.

122. 6th hero (such a pace:D ), crypt for 5 rags and with the remnants of the 1st week army I level up Offense on 100+ zombies behind a passage onto snow off-road (fortunately, the horses were chased off on gargoyles:) ); carelessly get on the butterfly again, after dropping extra cash...:rolleyes:

123. at night an enemy scout helped me get back home - thanks for that:) , bought myself out in the capital and didn't wait for a distant "chain", bought 12 medusas, 14 eyes, 50+ troglodytes and some harpies - went to clear out the native underground;) .

124. second external chapel turned blue, 1 horse rushes on a gargoyle around a neutral castle, but there - up to 10 archers, that's sad:( , and the second - scouted as much of the path on snow as he could, until they killed him...

125. on 62 dendroids leveled up Defense (the fight was, gotta say, not hard, but fuuuun: 5 stacks of 12-13 each, the troglodytes had a spread from 200+ to 500+ - meaning even a damaged stack doesn't guarantee kills, and of course by Murphy's law, having hit 6! dendroids total, didn't kill 1, morale saved the troglodytes in the next round - managed to run away from the 12; in the end lost 1 harpy to enemy morale and 1 troglodyte from the retaliation of those undead 6:cool: ), took the speed ring.

126. after checking the Griffin Conservatory, ended up with 4 heroes, but it's fine - it turned out to be tier 3, so I'm sending the main hero that way...

127. upgraded the medusas and with laughable losses: 9 troglodytes, 14 basic harpies, 1 eye and 11 harpy hags - practically without magic (with a 1-round Bloodlust in the 1st round) took 3 little angels:smile19: ; Shakti at 12th level: Archery already leveled, got basic Earth; in the capital built minotaurs and a citadel, in the secondary only 1000 so far, same as in the capital.

131. cheerfully squashed my naga bank, just like in single player - in the 1st round knocked them all out with 4 strike stacks, not giving them a chance to squeak (1 morale was there):smile04: , running to one artifact on contested territory, so that Crag wouldn't get it:p .

132. took from 30 spawn +3/3 to magic and punished an enemy horse - so he wouldn't spy;) and then, apparently, the key mistake of the game, which 10 days later predetermined the miner's untimely death:smile05:: was too lazy to spend an extra 4-5 moves on a well, and there were no other wells anywhere!!!:smile33: although, luck came - blindly the main hero poked into a pillar of 1st magic - and there was Slow:eek: ...

133. like an idiot I rush into a well-scouted treasure zone, where there are 3 chests, a tree, and a little Earth book guarded by up to 50 efreets (and this with unrefilled mana:rolleyes: ...).

134. at night Crag "dropped by" and liked my empty capital so much that he stayed there to sleep:) , Shakti doesn't get lost and runs through the de-Griffined Conservatory passage to enemy territory (goodbye my treasure zone:smile05: ), he (the miner) naively hopes to level up his advanced Earth somewhere else:D .

135. Finale #1: Crag Hack didn't wait and attacked my main hero at night.
Crag 12-9-8-(26): 132 gremlins, 15 mages, 30 gargoyles, 3 giants, 8 naga queens, 7 iron golems and master genies ;
Shakti 5-7-5-(28) (not a single artifact or stat booster for combat pairs:mad: ): 51 eyes, 6 greater harpies, 3 angels, 48 medusa queens and 228 troglodytes + their singles. In general, fought back by hiding in a corner and ended up with about 50 troglodytes + lots of shooters... Chased after Crag, who started acting up (bought himself out in my capital and bought everyone he could there - ran to my second town, not leaving even a single unit in my capital:smile26: ).

136. red daddy left again, with nothing - attacked the 2nd town with trash in his army, and I had Jeddite there with doubled mana and 40 archers on harpies; I "took back" the capital with some single-unit hero:).

137. library on the snow, kindly cleared out by the time I arrived:smile54: , the Miner is looking for the tower-capital with the significant remnants of the "double build":cool: .

141. let red buy up properly:( , but started the siege, blocking their passage along the only road (with double build, IMHO, that was a normal tactic...), captured their empty secondary castle with a horse - there were unbought marks and pokemons (never got to use them:( ).

142. siege holds, slowly start moving helpers with some growth, but with very messy chains:smile33:.

143. at night they also sicced Deemer on me with ice bolt, after his "feat" - killing 3 medusas:D - I was missing some 400-500 exp points to Master:mad: :mad: :mad: ; the horse delivered reinforcements during a secret operation codenamed "Take what you have and be glad" and the army became: 21 medusas, 55 eyes, 84 troglodytes + singles...

144. red with 55 evil eyes, 5 mages, 2 giants, 30 golems and genies-sorceresses-cursed jumped out of the shelter and also with archery at 210 and mana for 10 such shots:smile11: - had to buy my way out with 18 medusas (eeeh, if only I had mana:smile26: ....), and having bought out - sorry for the rudeness, I BLEW the miner through the biggest stupidity of my entire online career: ran around with 2 horses from Crag on his same turn:confused: :confused: :confused: and they buried the main hero forever in the tavern:smile16: :smile34: !!!! No point in continuing after that.......

Thank you too, Kostya, especially for the lesson, and no need to apologize - I'm the one to blame here :( ...