Dust (Conflux, Monere) def Colt (Rampart, Kyr), 135(?), Kill em all (fixed), SoD with TE interface
Valera and I agreed out of old friendship to play the good old Kill 'em All. One of our favorite "Siberian" fixes. We played on Impossible - 200%, and finished when, in the parallel game, Zadira and Mike were just finishing their restarts and starting the game.
A dynamic game with Phoenixes on my side, with building a second Capitol and Birds +4 (SoD) + Loga on Monere left the guru no chance to fight. :-)
Sort of Round 1, Game 2.
Since everything ended pretty quickly and waiting for the guys to finish their games who knows when on tedious random was a pain, Valera and I started playing an equally old and good G2.
By the way, I should note that it was Valera who taught my brother - Ernie - Heroes about 10 years ago, and he in turn taught me. So thanks to him, I play and win at this Game!!! Too bad they haven't played seriously for a long time, like in the old days... :-(
Dust (yellow, Sorceress, Barbarian) def Colt (green, Sorceress, ???) Teleporters, 200%, 133(?)
Because the last chest at 117 gave an artifact, I didn't build Phoenixes on the first week. Which, honestly, didn't upset me much, since Valera wasn't even planning to build them. But since the resources and money weren't spent, I decided to invest more heavily, because my neighbor above turned out to be a Warlock. On the second week, Green Dragons came easily, which were immediately recruited and sent along the chain to bother the green Sorceress. Of course, 4 dragons with decent attack tore everything apart there.
Total:
2 fixed games ended before the guys played 2 weeks of random. :smile02: Respect your time - play fixed :cool: , besides, after the game you won't need to spend 30 minutes talking about the unfair generator distribution on your side and the opponent's luck. :D
Round 2:
Dust (red Barbarian, Crag Hack) def Deep Mike (blue Rampart, Kyr) SM map, SoD, if I'm not mistaken, something like 137
I don't remember much of what happened here, although the game was quite interesting. Maybe Mikhail will tell more details. I only remember that I was starting to get tired after 2 previous games and the alcohol inside me.
My layout was excellent, I think for SM map: 1 external dwelling of Birds, 1 of Ogres, 1 of Orcs, and 3 of Goblins, all placed on the first week in Castle. I didn't build Behemoths due to lack of gold, there were problems with that.
Actually because of that, I went into the Medusa dwelling at 117 without even checking its quantity, just clicking "OK" on autopilot (lost concentration from fatigue and the good layout of external dwellings). In short, 50 Medusas stuffed me with 0 defense for all I was worth. Lost birds, orcs, goblins, -2500 on the hero... After that, everything wasn't so fun anymore. I played the second week completely losing any tempo, or simply put, wasted it entirely, although I was supposed to eat up my treasure zone with +4/4 Atk/Def, 3 Hives, and something else tasty. All of this was postponed by a week, and the second week I was just looking for gold to recruit the army and still build Behemoths, + scouting Dragon Utopias and Griffin Conservatories.
Anyway, it's hard to say, but I think we discussed after the game that Mikhail should have finished the game there, not letting it get to the point where I had something like 35+ Ancient Behemoths, which after taking +4/4 and 3 decent Hives found a couple of Dragon Utopias, Boots, and somehow managed to assemble the "Elixir of Life" :eek: :rolleyes: The plan was simple: upgrade the Bears, recruit everything, and come through the GO with the Elixir and scary Killer Ogres to the opponent, but then at 137 the game crashed on me for some damn reason :confused: , and we decided not to reload, since Misha had nothing to counter - no good magic was given...
Final:
Dust (red Barbarian, Tyraxor) lose Dirty_Player (blue Conflux, Luna), SM map, 131
Let Kostya tell this part, how he was spinning like a papal figure, taking 3 level 3 Griffin Conservatories with "Wall of Fire", and so on.
My layout was also good. I was given 2 external dwellings of Birds, 1 of Behemoths - I wasn't going to complain at all. Also, 2 Dragon Utopias were scouted, and +6 to All - all that was left was to recruit everything on the first day and go collect the goodies. BUT... at the most right and wrong moment on 127(!), Kostyan unexpectedly captures my capital. Respect to him for that - he didn't mess around, went straight forward, and ultimately deservedly took 1st place.
It turned out that I hadn't noticed the passage to the adjacent secondary town (didn't see the Golem, thought there were solid rocks there - I'm a careless dummy, I was already planning to take the level 3 Dragon Utopia the next day :smile09: )
The game, in my opinion, was worthy of the final, although of course Kostyan, besides 9 Angels, was also given Bronchild, who was already running around with an Explorer and Loga, but after Dragon Utopias and upgrading the Bears, I could have put up a fight... but alas - a tragedy of one tempo. :smile02:
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Overall, I really enjoyed everything: the tournament, the organization, and especially the wonderful company: guys who traveled halfway across the country to our Siberian backwoods to meet up, drink, and play Heroes and poker! Real respect to them, I hope it's not the last time!
P.S. I'm waiting for reports from the other participants, I also want to read, damn it, your scribbles ;-)
Is this a poker table, like a SNG result? )
The football was great, too bad we won't see each other with Siberia soon - a team that plays with soul, with emotions :(
Well, the score was funny ))) We went into the stadium when it was 2-0 in favor of Siberia, we couldn't believe it at first!? )))
