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

Forrest (red, Tazar swamp) loses to Scorp (Castle, Valeska) 1-4-1 2sm4d3

My restarts ran out. (First one: center and Medusa and Ice Elemental exits. Second one: long corridor with lots of blocks (killed Gray Gogs and Lizardmen) which never ended on 1-1-3.
In the end, it gave center. Two blind, no Vampires. To pass to snow, both guards need to be killed (Gray Dogs and Wasp Hives). Decided to go to grass. Through a crowd of Ogres, and immediately a block of Mummies there. Took Skeleton, Walking Dead, and Zombie — otherwise it would have been hard to break through. Ended up losing a Goose and the Undead. Then 40 Gogs. Killed them too. With one Goose, 20 Gnolls, and a Fly. Barely managed to get the Castle secondary's Town Hall. By 1-1-6, four heroes (Tazar without Haste barely has enough money for buildings). Finally, on 1-1-7, need 6000 for Hydras. Risk it and go into a lot of Flies (about 40) with 7 Gnolls, a Goose, and 22 Lizardmen. Lost the Goose, Gnolls, and 2 Lizardmen. But there are two treasure chests there. Through one, build a Marketplace and buy Hydras. On 1-2-1, go into a Crypt with 20 Lizardmen, 18 Halberdiers, 4 Wasp Hives, and singles. On grass. Couldn't handle max Skeletons. Only bought Tazar a day later) (Didn't give up. That's what SoD is for)
In the end, I managed to clear that Crypt and recovered a couple of chests. Found two Treasuries on the first map. In one, a block with a horde of Liches. Didn't go in despite having Tactics. On the swamp, a Treasury turned out promising. There's Wood, Dragon Utopias. Eventually, I start this Treasury on 1-3-3 :D Managed to buy Lizardmen and upgrade them. (By the way, Misha had two Castles and two Forts built by 1-2-7 already. Full economic boom going. And 14 Wyverns showing up on 1-2-2). Anyway, take the Sawmill on 1-3-3, another one right next to a Wyvern horde. But then gets lucky and finds another Sawmill. It's a max one. Take it with 3 Hydras and singles. Then immediately Tazar kills that horde for the 8th Sawmill and 10k experience. Total: 29 Geese. Tazar is something like 2-14-4-8. At this point, ГО got Valeska with Archmagi. Little chance, but we keep spinning. With losses, barely take a Nagabank with Gray Gogs. Managed to bring Wyverns for upgrade and send them back. Right after, take that All-6 with 99 Gorgons. Then with 22 Geese and a bait stack, go into a level-3 Dragon Utopia. Lost 2 Geese and the bait (some Wasp Hives and Dungeon hero chaff). Gives All-3 and Chest 4-4. Then immediately another level-2 Dragon Utopia. With 19 Geese and some Lizardman singles. Lost another Goose. Finally, Tazar 13-36-14-16 with the Book of Earth. Split into secondary to regenerate mana. Valka takes the swamp on 1-3-7. With 6 Archmagi and 82 Geese :eek:
And then storm straight towards me. I attack just for show, to show the stats) Well, I think even 82 Geese with 18 attack aren't dangerous with cunning, 36 defense, and an 18-level Zazar. But there's the classic Sphere of Inhibition. A very useful loss. Turns out even such garbage can hold its ground! But Misha's brilliant game naturally left no chance. Although I didn't really believe (double build and 14 Geese from 1-2-2). But still played for the theoretical probability of winning. For example, if there was no Sphere and I had the Book of Air, I could have jumped around. Many thanks for the game!