Reports of the "Clan Wars: on-line (Summer-2009)" Tournaments

    I confirm. It was a tough, grueling, and exhausting battle on a balanced map with slow roads. Describing the entire game would take a very long time, although, in my opinion, each day deserves a detailed description. Even with an advantage in troops and resources, I really felt the lack of my experience in leading these kinds of wars and the level of my opponent's skill. I made many mistakes: I gave away two growth bonuses from both cities to my opponent and didn't take a single barbarian outpost, didn't build artifact merchants as soon as I had the money, and they were selling rider's gloves, and I didn't level up one or two more heroes like Andrey did. Gurnisson's strength was his expert knowledge of air magic, but he didn't know the tactics, while Orrin, although he didn't know any magic, had expert tactics, and, despite the mass haste, his cover withstood the attacks of the barbarian army while the ranged units fiercely shot at it. Of course, the 50 zombies obtained in Pandoria were an excellent defense for the ranged units, but they slowed down the army, and once, before reaching Dessa, we were short by one tile. I couldn't reach my opponent's heroes! I lost ranged units when sieging cities with single defenders, and the hero-mages attacked them. In the end, there was indeed a turning point, and Gurnisson finally defeated all of Orrin's army. In general, there was a chance to win, but the strategy failed...

    Thank you for what was probably the most interesting online game I've ever played!