Balance-2009

bRitvo4kA (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) def wowa (blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti), Balance, 124

bRitvo4kA (blue, Stronghold, Gurnisson, Gurnisson) def wowa (red, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti), Balance, 137[/B]

that was a thing!)))))

in the 1st game at the start of week 2 I already broke through on a pair of angels to the opponent’s respawn!... :eek: but was one hex short of killing Tamika on the rush — waiting for an attack, but got away with it
didn’t want to push further — decided to clear zones adjacent to the respawn (revealed Pandora’s boxes and conservatories))) and scout the opponent, leveling up earth magic to Expert along the way!.... and that’s how it turned out — he came to me himself and holed up in a Conflux taken from Ciele with all his might
on my turn I ran through battle options: I already had Oil, +1 Speed — in the open it would’ve been a clean sweep, but behind walls?... and what options and prospects for further running if we end up at a stalemate?
well, and along the way I didn’t pay attention to movement technique: after passing the turn, the noob who was supposed to collect chests for delivering reinforcements from home attacked without an army — so without artifacts the whole planned battle went to hell... decided not to continue, though maybe it would’ve been worth running ;)

in the 2nd game, on the other hand, I misjudged the ГО: ate up the entire center while the opponent was farming his own respawn and the adjacent barbarian zone, had about 8 towns, including a couple of Confluxes with forts :eek: had the option to go into the treasure zone — it yielded 68 geese
but on day 137 I was sure I’d sit in blue’s starting Castle — but the ГО there turned out not to be a lot of cats with ghost dragons behind them, but a horde of wolves near another teleport :( so I ran to the village — and was one hex short of seeing the noob standing nearby, otherwise I’d have smashed him.... but as it was, that noob happened to be the exact end of the chain starting from Gurn :smile45:
I could have just sat in the village as the main stack — the chain would’ve ended there, but I stupidly turned toward the treasure zone, and then of course I was attacked with freshly hired angels :smile14:

in the FF too we could have ended at a stalemate, then generated power from 2 Confluxes and the Air Elemental external dwelling — but first morale on the wolf horde against the angels, then luck for blue’s angels against them too, then more angel luck against the nagas, and finally morale — when the capes were already without cover — left no chance :smile45: and so that one time I exposed myself unluckily — and it’s ГГ! :)

thanks to the opponent for the games and congratulations on his tournament victory! :smile49: