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Report on the first day of the meeting in Kyiv
We started gathering at 9:30 AM near the club, the last player arrived at the beginning of 10.
We chipped in 65 UAH each for 2 days of internet and computer gaming ($8) – that's 300 hours total.
We spent 97 hours on the first day (due to the football match).
Neoandy, as the high master, drew slips of paper with names :)
Round 1.
The following pairs were drawn (the first named won):
1. Captain vs besha
2. Forrest vs rebellious
3. Crag Hack vs Piterius
4. Aldegir vs Armagedda
5. Koстя-Н vs Sem_56
6. Javdet vs Lider
7. Volodymyr vs Neoandy
Gameplay started at 10:35 AM. The last pair, Volodymyr-Neo, finished right at kickoff (6:30 PM). Supreme master Gorbik dropped by, took photos of everyone, left a prize for the winner, and departed for his very important business. Good luck to him!
Interesting highlights:
1. Shared insights on when Pikemen appear in the mercenary camp and when you can even find an Archangel ;)
2. Besha found where in Kyiv they sell vodka with beer, so he conceded on turn 114 and fell asleep. I honestly asked to skip his turns :) – by turn 125 I was already in his castle.
3. I had a lot of free time, so I peeked at the players. Lider was playing the strongest – he quickly built Hydras, easily took the Griffin Conservatory on turn 3, took out serious armies at the brink of defeat – risky play. Neo had two external dwellings of Minotaurs near his castle. But a single stack of Troglodytes showed up and he had absolutely no money, so he only took the external dwellings on week 2. Forrest took down a max Dwarf dwelling with 3 Hydras; on the first round, a large enemy stack with morale dealt 120 damage to a Hydra, but he survived with one Hydra. Then an external dwelling of Air Elementals saved him. Sem got Angel Wings, in principle victory was in the bag, but he went after the castle for some reason (more precisely, it's clear why – he didn't want to drag out the time), and he got killed from the castle.
4. Sat next to Forrest. I got a Swamp and Tazar, and so did he. They gave us nearly identical skill trees – i.e., either Scouting or Navigation, then Advanced Scouting or Water Magic, etc. We had twin overlords :)
5. It was cool that there was a football match that day – we all went to the bar as a group – 14 people. Had a good time over beer, and Ukraine beat England!
Round 2
Forrest vs Captain
Rebellious vs besha
The rest only started their matches; we'll continue tomorrow. For Round 2, we decided that instead of waiting for everyone, we'd play as soon as 2 pairs finish – swap opponents and go.
About my own game. Besha decided to play full random, he offered me any faction. I got Inferno 3 times – he countered that 2 times with Conf :) – we took all the rest; in the last game, I got secondary Snow on turn 112, he conceded on turn 114 on Pegasi.
My second game was against Forrest – pleasant to play, fast, and clean. By turn 124, he showed up with 32 Grand Elves and 35 Grand Dwarves (there was a Pandora's Box for them). Got lucky – an external dwelling of Elves, and also Kiryu's Boots.
Tomorrow we decided to start at 9:00 AM.
They promised to upload photos, our camera holders :)
We started gathering at 9:30 AM near the club, the last player arrived at the beginning of 10.
We chipped in 65 UAH each for 2 days of internet and computer gaming ($8) – that's 300 hours total.
We spent 97 hours on the first day (due to the football match).
Neoandy, as the high master, drew slips of paper with names :)
Round 1.
The following pairs were drawn (the first named won):
1. Captain vs besha
2. Forrest vs rebellious
3. Crag Hack vs Piterius
4. Aldegir vs Armagedda
5. Koстя-Н vs Sem_56
6. Javdet vs Lider
7. Volodymyr vs Neoandy
Gameplay started at 10:35 AM. The last pair, Volodymyr-Neo, finished right at kickoff (6:30 PM). Supreme master Gorbik dropped by, took photos of everyone, left a prize for the winner, and departed for his very important business. Good luck to him!
Interesting highlights:
1. Shared insights on when Pikemen appear in the mercenary camp and when you can even find an Archangel ;)
2. Besha found where in Kyiv they sell vodka with beer, so he conceded on turn 114 and fell asleep. I honestly asked to skip his turns :) – by turn 125 I was already in his castle.
3. I had a lot of free time, so I peeked at the players. Lider was playing the strongest – he quickly built Hydras, easily took the Griffin Conservatory on turn 3, took out serious armies at the brink of defeat – risky play. Neo had two external dwellings of Minotaurs near his castle. But a single stack of Troglodytes showed up and he had absolutely no money, so he only took the external dwellings on week 2. Forrest took down a max Dwarf dwelling with 3 Hydras; on the first round, a large enemy stack with morale dealt 120 damage to a Hydra, but he survived with one Hydra. Then an external dwelling of Air Elementals saved him. Sem got Angel Wings, in principle victory was in the bag, but he went after the castle for some reason (more precisely, it's clear why – he didn't want to drag out the time), and he got killed from the castle.
4. Sat next to Forrest. I got a Swamp and Tazar, and so did he. They gave us nearly identical skill trees – i.e., either Scouting or Navigation, then Advanced Scouting or Water Magic, etc. We had twin overlords :)
5. It was cool that there was a football match that day – we all went to the bar as a group – 14 people. Had a good time over beer, and Ukraine beat England!
Round 2
Forrest vs Captain
Rebellious vs besha
The rest only started their matches; we'll continue tomorrow. For Round 2, we decided that instead of waiting for everyone, we'd play as soon as 2 pairs finish – swap opponents and go.
About my own game. Besha decided to play full random, he offered me any faction. I got Inferno 3 times – he countered that 2 times with Conf :) – we took all the rest; in the last game, I got secondary Snow on turn 112, he conceded on turn 114 on Pegasi.
My second game was against Forrest – pleasant to play, fast, and clean. By turn 124, he showed up with 32 Grand Elves and 35 Grand Dwarves (there was a Pandora's Box for them). Got lucky – an external dwelling of Elves, and also Kiryu's Boots.
Tomorrow we decided to start at 9:00 AM.
They promised to upload photos, our camera holders :)
Дипломатия - искусство говорить собаке "хорошая собачка" до тех пор пока не найдешь подходящую палку.