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

SEM_56 (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) def Hermit (blue, Swamp, Tazar, Tazar) 2sm4d(3), 221

I confirm. Yes, there really was a native secondary skill and a lot of free stuff on the respawns, but I spent all of it on rebuilding and, while trying to shove hydras into both towns, I overstretched on turn 127 and blobbed in a naga bank... After that, the tempo and troops were lost. My opponent had a bugged passage next to his capital into a native treasury with a Portal of Glory and two Dragon Utopias... Due to the low tempo, I only managed to take one Dragon Utopia and had no money at all to buy back the army; I could have taken the second and even the third, and there were also three Hives visible there, but I was afraid the opponent would attack, and the GO was standing next to my castle, so I rushed home and hit the GO myself, although maybe in vain, because I still had no money to upgrade anyone anyway, and my stats were lower than Valeska's. On turn 217, I took the red capital with a scout hero, thereby forcing the opponent to attack me in the castle. There was a real chance to fight it out with troops, but Expert Berserk and Implosion didn't even let me take a turn. I shouldn't have passed up those two Dragon Utopias. Surely they would have given either a Cloak or a Chupa-Chups.

Thanks for the game.