Team Tournament Reports (Spring 2010)

FireToSky (blue, Dungeon, Shak, Shak) def Piterius (red, Castle, Valya, Valya), 8mm6, 136

Thanks for the game!

Confirmed.
Properly speaking, I should have taken a restart at 113, but for some reason I wanted to try to pull off a moneyless layout.
The map gave a central respawn in two small clusters, completely moneyless, but with fast roads, a stable, and an external dwelling of shooters. Yes, and the shooters were built. By the time I reached the three-way fork guarded by 50-99 dwarves in the center on 113, I finally decided to play.
Starting army: 28 Marksmen, 20 Pikemen, 7 Gog, and 22 Imps. I bring the freshly built Griffins, break through the dwarves into the subway, where there's a lot of Ogres and further a lot of Ice — I don't go in. I run further — a stack of Medusae hold another part of the subway — that leads to a village, I think. I turn around and head toward the Dungeon player. I run into 5-9 Snipers on the road, guarding two chests and a pile of gold. I bring 9 rays from the external dwelling, lose 12 Marksmen, and with that money I buy horses, run further, and fall 7 tiles short of the opponent. And it's already day 116. Then the opponent attacks himself: 87 Troglodytes, 12 Harpies, 9 Evil Eyes, and 4 Medusae against my 20 Marksmen, 14 Pikemen, 7 Gog, and 6 Griffins. Good thing he wasn't a mage, or I'd have to surrender. In the end, I have 13 Marksmen, 9 Pikemen, and 4 Griffins left. With "triumph," I take the Dungeon town, which has 1-4 in the Citadel with 1000 gold, and capture the nearby Medusa external dwelling — there's another one not far off. At home, the Citadel.
On week 2, I messed around on the opponent's respawn, took three crypts, because there was absolutely no gold to buy an army. There was also a level 1 Griffin Conservatory, and a bit higher in the subway, a level 2 Griffin Conservatory and a mini Hive. Then I chose the wrong direction and ended up in a dead-end village; after scouting around it, I only found a level 8 Dragon Fly Hive and a Pandora's Box with 20 Earth elementals. I rush home to take the Naga Bank and the Medusa dwelling on my own respawn, and to speed up at the start of week 3 by drinking from the fountain of mana. But the Miner shows up, drinks from my fountain :mad:, and stands at the respawn entrance so that there's nowhere to move the army — he'd catch me anyway, and Valya is trapped with nowhere to run. After that, we were simply killed.

Thanks for the game.