Reports on online games and their confirmations (Winter 2009-10 season).

02/24/2010, Dubrovin Pavel (Blue, Rampart, Kirr, Gunnar) def IamInTheTank (Red, Inferno, Octavia, Rashka), 2sm4d(3), 137

Confirmed!!!!
In the first week, Rashka came to the tavern... and a stash of ifrits was visible. I thought it was fate, and I made him my pawn ;)
I cleared a path throughout the first week, gathering gold in the corners, and then I reached an impasse - three roads lay before me, one south to the swamp, the second west to the snow, and the third to the Gate of the Underworld, very close, to the north... Also, there was a swamp northeast of me. I scouted the area, and there were very few artifacts, and they were all in the snow treasure, to the west, but there were also a huge number in the underground. There were only two entrances to the underground that I had scouted - one near the snow respawn, and the other at the very bottom, near the swamp. In general, I don't know exactly what to do in such situations, when there's only a swamp and snow... I went to take a secondary swamp, and along the way, I bought a tent for the ifrits; with it, they are simply invincible :D
I took the secondary, and cleared out various upgrade locations... At the beginning of the second week, I returned home, took an 8*5 medusa with a greased stack, and went to the outpost, which I had opened with a scout a long time ago... it turned out to be a tier 3 outpost. In the first week, since I didn't do very well in the capital - 1246 + stronghold - I lost in the outpost, failing to finish off just one stack of griffins... there was also a stash of demons, but it didn't help, and a stash of imps. I took the auto. Then I took the imp lair, and cleared out various artifacts at the respawn, a skull helmet behind the wyverns (16 of them), tongues of flame CD for a horde of troglodytes, a necromancy shield for 90 gnomes... meanwhile, in my home castle, there was 123456 + castle... there are no money-making buildings at all. So, I had 2 imp lairs and a medusa, and that was it... In the secondary, I placed wyverns. A stash of ifrits was guarded by 80 greased ogres... that's rough. I had expert earth and mass slow, so I only lost about 20 imps when I cleared it out. At the beginning of the third week, I took the tier 1 outpost, near the secondary respawn... it was completely empty!!! And meager... since there was nothing to do, I needed to go to the treasure a long time ago, but there was nowhere to go from, so I scouted the area again, and decided to go to the gate, where Pavel then appeared :D
On day 137, I wanted to take the medusa, and return home to take that tier 3 outpost, and immediately go to the treasure... but then Pavel suddenly overtook me, appearing from those very gates, where I was planning my ill-fated expedition, and reaching the capital :)
I took the medusa, and headed to the mana well - I didn't quite make it, but I was sure that Pavel would attack me now... he attacked, and the battle began, gg.
I didn't even start cutting down the demons yet; I was going to do that in the fourth week ;)

Thank you, Pavel, for such an exciting and intriguing game!!! We played great... and well done, Pavel, you calculated everything correctly with my capital!