TC3 League. Regular Season.

Erdem (Blue, Castle, Inferno, Berserker) def KostyaN (Red, Swamp, Stronghold, +2 to speed) 1 : 1

Looks like I learned from my mistakes. My opponent positioned his units very well, but thanks to my more mobile units, I managed to snatch a victory. Thanks to Kostya for a great game! :)

Confirmed! We played this game without pre-selecting heroes and with random map generation. It turned out to be interesting. I wrote to Erdem myself, saying that I was only afraid of the Berserker:D. And suggested he pick it, promising not to pick a counter to it;). Knowing that Berserker was chosen, I didn't pick Offense, which I probably paid for... Instead, I picked Defense and Earth with Water, but Water didn't come in handy - this always happens to me when I pick 2 magic types:(. Well, I did position my units - and then:smile35: :smile34: !... After my opponent cast Mass Slow on me instead of the expected Berserker, even though it was on 4 (!!!:eek: ) stacks, it didn't really help. I cast Mass Slow in response, but it only affected the first stack - but on the Archs:D, which probably became the key event. And then I started to make some really bad moves - I moved units around, some into the forest, some for wood, I defended with cows and birds for some reason, and the rest moved forward:confused: - maybe this was the key mistake, I should have just moved everyone forward at once... My Hydras quickly died from just 2 hits from the Archs and the finishing blows from the Crusaders, without really killing anyone themselves:mad:. Then there was a Berserker attack on the Bears and Flies - it was unsuccessful because they destroyed the enemy Ballista and that was it. I blinded the Devils (they hadn't moved yet - but if they had, I would have targeted the Archs, of course). I almost finished off the Knights, but I couldn't reach the Archs properly with my crowd:(. There was 1 Hydra and 4 Bears left on my side against 9 Archs and 10 Blind Devils on his side + a lot of slowed-down units on both sides - and then I made a simply mind-bogglingly stupid move: I attacked a small stack of Devils with my Birds, intending to kill them in one hit - they definitely should have died, but one of them survived and retaliated:mad: :mad: :mad:, and the funniest thing is that I didn't take into account that the Crusaders were only 3 squares away from the Birds - they almost halved their health right there:smile34:. Despite having 40 Cows, a lot of Ogres (slowed down) and Basilisks (badly damaged), I surrendered - there was no point in continuing, the Archs would have made a stack of 15 Knights and GG 1000%.

Thanks for the game - I've completely lost my edge (although playing against a Berserker is always terribly uncomfortable anyway...).

P.S. Sorry for messing up your nickname in my report, I'll fix it now;).
P.P.S. I forgot to add that, in addition to all my mistakes, which I can only blame myself for, the game was also decided by a very lucky resistance to Blind on the Archs in the middle of the battle - sometimes you just get unlucky. The Archs were generally invulnerable to my units and magic, damn it!!!.