16.07.2010 WishmasteR (blue, swamp, Tazar, Tazar) def Keyla (red, dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) Jebus Cross, 215
We started without rests. The initial handout was pleasing right away - directly under the castle a Dragon Utopia and a treasure of 20-49 gold golems. But it later turned out that the respawn is small (for Jebus) and therefore a bit poor. No more serious treasures, only 2 gnoll ones. 6 crypts (2 of them pre-max) taken in the first week helped a lot. Also the heroes came just right - Gosh, Gurni with a cannon, Moner, Solmyr :cool: I reached both secondary towns in the first week, 1 native :smile20:
In the secondary town I planned to build a Griffin Conservatory - only built the fort. At home, I barely got hydras in the castle (had to trade). And I never took the treasure of the Griffin Conservatory (there was a sword +2+2 nearby)
At the start of the second week, I scout the GO - archangels :eek: I clear everything I can, including 2 beehives (1 max) and Pandora's Boxes with 90 gnolls and 50 lizardmen. No Griffin Conservatory.
In the third week, I finish clearing the respawn (afraid to go near the archangels :o ) and on day 133 I enter the Dragon Utopia - tier 3. It became my salvation. It gave simply insane loot: shield to all, sandals to all, sword +6, armor +4+4, and sphere of fire :smile54: Tazar's stats are 20-20. On day 134 I finally go to the archangels - only 13 of them, with minimal losses... Further in the center is a minimal Dragon Utopia, Pandora's Boxes for experience.
In the fourth week, I take a Pandora's Box for 3 crystals - all of level 5 :smile54: I sit down to recover mana (150 mana). The miner is still at home.
Around day 144-145 I break through the double GO to the red player, then take their capital from the loch with growth. I position Tazar at a crossroads, send scouts and see an unbreakable block above on the road - I decide the folder is below. The respawn is about 2 times larger than mine :eek:
I head down, but the miner isn't there... instead I discover the sphere of earth :eek: Implosion with the sphere deals 2K damage :cool: Meanwhile, I see that the miner went off-road and holed up in the secondary town...
I rush across the entire respawn and finally catch up with Shakti. I prepare to destroy 9 angels on the first turn... and realize I'm wearing the Cloak of the Undead King :smile52: We played with saves over 2 days, so I completely forgot I had it on :o Plus my mass slow was very effectively countered by mass haste :) But even so, Tazar had a big advantage in army size and stats, and he wins.
Thanks for the game!
P.S. I know playing like this on Jebus is perverse, but we're still inexperienced players... :o
yeah, inexperienced perverts=)))
I got a huge respawn, I was just O_o, didn't know where to go. I go down - no secondary town, I go sideways - oh GO to the center, I think, nah, I'll wander, I'll fight when I take the Conservatory, I'll roam the respawn and look around. This and probably my mistake + not setting up a proper hero chain... =( Because besides Shakti, I had a couple of native heroes and with them troglodytes... near the castle there was a Conservatory and a Dragon Utopia, the Utopia had scary guards, I didn't go take it... the Conservatory was minimal, I think with an angel I could take Pandora's Box and the other (non-scary) Utopia. And then this guy finds two Conservatories nearby - max ones, without GS=)! well I dash over there as fast as I can, I'm playing without a mouse and F10=), even speeding up my hero)) in the first Conservatory I got pretty badly beaten... I take the second - and here come guests, oops=) the opponent takes my town, I hide in the secondary town (and he's thinking, where did the miner go=)), if he had wandered longer, I would have fortified the secondary town, it was a barbarian secondary town, but I had no money
at the end I go at the enemy, bravely go) on the way I take a minimal Conservatory and a Pandora's Box for a thousand experience without losses (hoping for maybe 80 troglodytes) and that's it, the final epic battle
The game was great!
WishmasteR, THANKS FOR THE GAME!=)