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

Forrest (red Inferno Marius Marius) def Volland (blue Barbarian Tyrasicor Tyrasicor), TE, balans, 1-3-2

Started without restarts.
1-1-2, 8 heroes and 2 castles. But the opponent already has 3 castles. I find two external dwellings of dogs and an external dwelling of pits. Marius takes the pits. Klava on turn 2 hires two dogs. I think about converting everyone into demons (in the end I felt sorry for the dogs).
On 1-1-3, I take a minimal Griffin Conservatory with acceptable losses. And with the angel, I ran around to the various visitor structures. I'm preparing the conversion into demons: 54 gogs, exactly 20, and I will have exactly 14 pits) I build +1000 dogs, efreet in the Citadel. I level Klava in parallel, already level 5. I take Conflux in the center. There's a Griffin Conservatory 3-4 with Greyj. Its guard is level 7. Scout heroes are preparing to take three Medusa dwellings. On 1-2-1, I take the shield +3 and crash against the monks that guard the passage to blue. With the angel, I run to the liches for converting the gogs. Vistan and Klava take three level 8 Medusa dwellings with normal losses: 1-2 dogs and imps. They raise 6 demons. Marius is almost expert in Earth Magic, Slow in the second. "Offline" battle against liches, 27+27 gogs on Tactics — I place them next to each other. And 7+7 pits for resurrection. The liches happily shoot them. Result: +20 demons. Greyj upgrades the dogs and goats for now. On 1-2-6, I take a max Griffin Conservatory on grass with Greyj. Killed 3 goats and an efreet + singles. On 1-2-7, I break through 35 fanatics to blue's Necropolis. I take it with Fiona, expert Scouting. Right there is a road to the Treasury. Before that, Klava earns a ton of money, becomes Advanced Logistics and Armored. I build the Veil of Darkness in the Necropolis. (strange that such a simple trick is rarely used) It gets captured back the next turn, and Tyrasicor is within reach. I turned off a day early into the Treasury, took a box of 50 Greyj Zombies and a Badge of Courage there.
I attack Tyrasicor on 1-3-2
Parameters are approximately equal.
I have 19 pits, 55 dogs, 46 goats, 50 zombies, 5 angels, 6 efreet
He has 5 simple bears, 10 birds, an angel, 24 orcs, 100 wolves, 50 goblins

Waits, but earlier he had Bless -> Mass Slow, and in the second round all my units struck first => GG

Thanks for the game!

on the second turn, I explored most of the map, there were 5 villages, but nothing interesting anywhere — didn't like the template