05.05.2010 Vernik(Red,Taver,Nelka,Nelka) def Lider1(Blue,Conflux,Moner,Moner) 8mm6a, WT, 231!!!

I confirm and congratulate on the victory!

It was indeed an interesting and tense game, with many mistakes on my part and a dynamic scenario :)

On the first day, I placed birds in the citadel. I begged for some gold. Since we were playing at night, something short-circuited in my head — I attacked a horde of zombies and hit the necrophiles without the wait, -5 air elementals. I was so furious, words can't describe. Oh well. I revealed the brown info, wanted to take it on the rush, but the road was way too long. In the end, he ran out on his own and trashed my army's boasts, what a circus.

On the second day, I took two Griffin Conservatories, 1+2, farmed 26 Vivi, and pulled 25 Energy elementals from a box.
I scouted very little. Yes, and I think the main reason for the loss was that scouting was never granted... I tried to catch it, waited so long, but it was all for nothing...

On day 131, I spot the Red noob, kill him, and see a path to the Red's respawn. But I got a bit nervous — no decent army, no stats, no magic (I thought they'd set up GM2 and blast everyone with lightning), so I decided: forget it, — time to bolt :D and beg for something. I got Learning, well at least something, on the way I grabbed a box for maybe 10 or 15k, and ran along the road for quite a while; it would have been smarter to split. I lost 3 days, on day 134 I broke through to my central treasure zone, sent the noob-killer there, and ran myself to the comp's respawn. Nearby stood a tree and almost next to the castle a Griffin Conservatory. I grabbed it on the way, turned out to be a level 2, but the treasure zone itself was a total disappointment: a bunch of Haspids, Cyclopes, a prison, 2 level-ups, some other trash — what do I need that for?? I turned back from the Conservatory and ran to the revealed Dragon Utopia (as I thought). I was too lazy to scout properly!! I could only see a small edge, it seemed to be on Brown's respawn, but no! Denis was already wandering there with his Conflux heroes, yeah... 10 points for my stupidity. What to do now, who knows — by that time, higher stats had been revealed, I had nowhere to go, my treasure zone was empty. I decided to go through the underground to my town — there was a guaranteed Dragon Utopia revealed and a Griffin Conservatory along the way. At least I had the sense to split.

On day 141, I reached it, there were 2 Angels. On the way to the Dragon Utopia, I pick up a Shield +4 and Cuirass +5. On day 143 at the Dragon Utopia — level 3, Gladius, Helm +10-2, Necklace +2 All. On day 144, I reached the town. On day 145, I reveal one Dragon Utopia, and barely, just by the tiniest edge, I accidentally reveal the second one — just lucky, it's very hard to play without scouting. I grabbed the gifts: a Chalice, Book of Water, Blackshard, Shield +6, and some small stuff. I split to go home to get straight into the stables — luckily they were right next to the castle :)

Day 211 — this... I don't even know what to call it. I saw Nella diving through the metro to the treasure zone, I ran to catch her!! and I didn't suspect a thing! But something glitched in my head — I didn't use the doors twice a day, maybe I thought the noobs had scurried in and she split, or who knows what I was even thinking about. Maybe I fell asleep, damn. I broke through a path to the metro for no reason, wasting precious movement points. I don't know, I just completely zoned out... If I had pulled myself together, we'd have ended it right there. I blundered professionally.

After that, I snapped out of it, but it was too late. I thought, well, whatever — I have 2 DDs, I'll catch up now. I spent another week chasing uselessly, trying to catch up, instead of realizing the enemy had split and run away — it seemed to me I was chasing a chain of noobs and was about to corner them.
Interestingly, in the three central treasure zones, there was nothing tasty except a level-2 Griffin Conservatory.
But on the comps' respawns, there were goodies: on the way, I grabbed 2 trees and a Griffin Conservatory from one. And another Conservatory along the way. I collected 16 Angels, 69 Vivi, searching and searching, thinking how to catch him. And then, seemingly luck on day 225 — he's standing with ones of Angels and Phoenixes. After the game, I thought I'd really blundered by not using the Blackshard, since it removes immunity from all units (I know there are tons of bugs with it in SoD, but here it seems fixed) — I cursed myself up to that moment. But in the end, it turned out that my Phoenixes were affected by his Armageddon, while his were completely immune. So much for the Blackshard — I had no chance there anyway, and it wouldn't have helped at all. So there's that. Well, after the surrender, they hit me with an explosion one more time, and I ran to his castle by day 231 to create the illusion of a finale, since this part is essentially the most interesting part of the game. Where I got brutally ")(*?;%№'d. And that was it.

Thanks for the game! :)