Reports on online games and their confirmations (Autumn 2010 season).

30.09.2010 Wlk777(red, Conflux, Random, Grindan, Grindan) def JonnyJay(blue, Castle, Valeska, Marius) 136 Panic
It started out pretty well, air built, Rizza in the tavern, birds confidently coming out with money and mercury, the only thing I didn't notice was the complete lack of ore until around turn 115... I never found it in the end, despite heavy trading in the built marketplace (even buying ore for gold), I got psychs in the Citadel. Not far from the castle, Griffin Conservatory level 2-4. On the secondary, guard of 50+ griffins, didn't risk it on the first week. Grindan with Loga and, of course, Mass Earth. On the second week, cleared Medusas, maxed the Gnome Hut, built birds, took the secondary, sacrificing a peon to learn that the Griffin Conservatory was level 3. Decided to postpone until the 3rd week since it's close to stables too. At the start of the 3rd week, I took it with some losses, went looking for the opponent, found another Griffin Conservatory level 3, got Intelligence and Air... Then the enemy boss himself showed up, took the Shield +4 and Sword +2/+2 right from under my nose, nearly burned the 6 Angels and birds I left in the secondary. But then Grindan with KS 9 and 180 mana, with newly acquired Expert GM Meteor Shower and Chain Lightning, put an end to this outrage, shredding the entire Castle army with magic. Thanks for the game.

I hire Marius and Crobak from the tavern, think for a long time who will be the daddy and mommy, take Water offered to Crobak hoping that a hero will come who can transfer Prayer from Lyonis to Crobak, but he never comes, so Marius becomes the mom). Closer to the end of the first week, I take an empty Necro secondary, boots on the secondary's territory, everything's great at home, 2 stacks of Pikemen, 1 of Archers, 1 of Cavaliers, but here's the first mistake, I build Barracks twice so the Cavaliers are in the Fort (Archers not built). On the way to the secondary, I enter a lookout from which the treasure zone is visible, unclear why it has an exit from the first secondary's area. The treasure zone guard is 50-99 Air Elementals, behind them I see a Sword +2/+2 and Shield +4 for free, as well as a Griffin Conservatory. I plan to take all this on turn 122, but...
On turn 121, I made another mistake, flew in with Marius with 35 Archers, 4 Cavaliers, and 30 Pikemen into an imp statue, clicked and clicked but couldn't see which one it was, and was too lazy to retreat. It turned out to be a max one, I lose all my Week 1 army there, Marius runs home, I'm left with 4 horses for the entire second week, with which I no longer dared to attack a horde of Elementals. Then Marius with 4 horses again went somewhere she shouldn't have and couldn't get out, the entire second week is a rescue mission). On turn 131, I get ready to go into the treasure zone (at home, Griffin Conservatory level 3-4 too, I decide to leave it for later, since the opponent might take the Conservatory and artifacts in the treasure zone before me. And what do I see, Grindan flies into the treasure zone on turn 131, with 6-9 birds and 1-3 Angels, grabs the Conservatory I've been dreaming of for a long time and takes a village there. Marius breaks back home, takes a level 3 Conservatory on the way and stands before the Elementals with almost no mana since there was no time to recharge, but had enough for 2 Mass Slows. Here I make another mistake by not leaving her with just the Angels for speed, but with the whole army, since I still saw that the opponent had broken off somewhere and left the army in the treasure zone village. Accordingly, Marius on the next turn, Marius takes the long-awaited artifacts in the treasury and can't reach the village where the opponent left 6 birds and 6 Angels((. The opponent breaks, retrieves his birds and Angels from the village and attacks, I kill 6 of his birds but Chain Lightning with Meteor Shower decided the game.
Thanks for the game!