Round table

Samurai (Fortress) def Readme (Inferno) 8mm6a 141
As I already said, the victory was easy, simply because the opponent offered no resistance throughout the game.
I'll say right away: my opponent complains that he wasn't given any hives or cans, however, in my first 9 resps which I scouted from 111 to 122, there wasn't a single can and one very distant hive. One plus: the external dwellings were great for me (as they were for the opponent): bulls, gnolls (very far), basilisks, lizards, and hydras (strong guard for the first week). On the first week, I took the max gnome with an incomplete and already slightly battered army; I had to leave 2 bulls. Finally, at 122, I found a can on the grass—decided to take it without checking: turned out to be a 3-stack with a upgraded unit. Parallelly, I'm leveling Alkin; he helps a lot in developing resps through scouting. Identified where the opponent is—he doesn't come out, and neither does Landukh with him. There are 2 Dragon Utopias in the center: I can't take them now, but of course, I don't want to leave them for the opponent. Took the computer's castle—the tea-colored one, decided to rush to his brother—the red castle, from there there should be a road leading to the treasure zone. But there was no need to run to the treasure zone: at 124, three cans were found nearby and another external dwelling of angels. After that, it was simple: 3 Dragon Utopias fell (all without control), I spread out in different directions, finally got wings, then a blue hat, killed another computer-castle, upgraded archangels, and took the opponent's castle at 137. According to preliminary estimates, I saw all resps except for 3: the native computers and the opponent's dead-end village. At 141, as expected, I arrived at this village, where Marius died, leaving me books of water, air, etc.

Now about the opponent:

Standard scenario for mm6: about 50 goats on the first week, about 100+ on the second and any Dragon Utopia is ours, along with all cans/hives—who else can do that on VT???

1) NO, NOT STANDARD. The opponent was given 2 dog external dwellings right under the castle; in total, on the first week he grabbed these external dwellings: 2 dogs, 1 imp, 1 gorgon, 1 ifrit—I believe such a layout is significantly above average, but there were only 37 goats on the first week :p. In principle, Readme said right away that he couldn't do 50, maybe only in uber-fat layouts. Well, maybe in single player on same-seed.

On VT Inferno was clearly reworked, it competes on equal terms with Swamp

2) No, it doesn't compete. The game showed that Readme with his Inferno could not create any competition.

even ATG said so!

3) I already said, ATG might say so because he has serious skill. From the game, it turned out that the opponent has neither tempo, nor skill, nor knowledge of 8mm. Average level. At 127 he got control, but didn't use it at all. The opponent circled his own resp for the first 3 weeks; it's unclear why he even challenged me to a game: he could have shown in single player via mikoge how he can cut demons.

readme (19:45:33 16/10/2010)
What I meant was—you can cut 50 pieces on the first week, but that might hit your tempo. And I'm not playing for fun with you, but seriously. Which means, I need tempo.

:D :D :D

Samurai (20:24:54 16/10/2010)
if I win, you promise not to blame the layout and other things and publicly admit that the Inferno castle is not top-tier and apologize for speaking so stupidly about it. if you win, then I will admit the Inferno castle is top-tier and publicly say that I spoke stupidly about it

Samurai (20:25:01 16/10/2010)
deal?

readme (20:26:01 16/10/2010)
yes

and here after the game :

I wonder, can a victory be hard when you have all the cans and hives, and the opponent has not one?

here are the saves:

http://zalil.ru/29895394

Despite everything, as a player README earned very great respect:
1) always adhered to the agreed time
2) during the game, communication in ICQ was polite and professional. This mostly shows that the person understands: disagreements are disagreements, but a game is a game. RESPECT. (censored).
3) mostly (though not always) cooperative regarding discussions of rules and settings. For this, a separate thank you and separate respect from my side.

Result: thanks readme for the game. As I understand it, we won't prove anything to each other with any games; I see no point in winning a second game. Therefore, I have a request to the opponent: play with TERM instead of me. He craves a game with readme. I think I satisfied the opponent's challenge, and I hope readme will respond to TERM similarly.