FB-3

Round 8
Captain vs Piterius 0-2

18.11.10 Piterius (blue, Castle, Tyris, Tyris) def Captain (red, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor), 2sm4d(3), WT under SoD, 147

We played a long time ago; I remember it was a very rich map with external dwellings and heaps of money. On the third turn, I took 2 Dragon Utopia, on the fourth another three, built a tank with all the books—basically, the rest of the map fell my way without a chance.

18.11.10 Piterius (red, Stronghold, Tyraxsor, Tyraxor) def Captain (blue, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor), 2sm4d(3), WT under SoD, 125

A small respawn spawned in the center, with Magog paths to the north and Elf paths to the south. After wandering around the respawn for a bit, I upgraded my birds and crushed the elves on the grass; there was a Rampart secondary dwelling there, so I collected some money. For bears in the Castle at 116, I simply lacked 1 ore, so I went 1-5 in the Castle, which turned out to be decent enough. I captured the Orc and Goblin external dwellings. On the second turn, I headed north through the Magogs and here I discovered that after breaking out of home, I ran out without buying a book... Sad, but this is becoming a standard blunder :). Even sadder was the fact that the blues had already fully armed themselves, having broken through via off-road. I see Ivor with a pack of elves in a cell by a gray Castle secondary dwelling and a loh, killing the latter. Ivor settles into the Castle, presumably to replenish mana; I bring my army—it turned out to be 100 gr goblins, 58 wolves, 43 orcs, 9 thunder birds, exp tactics, prod off and diff. I head toward Ivor. He is brought reinforcements: from memory about 70 kents, nearly 30 dwarves, 26 elves, 22 pegasi, 6 uniques. My stats were higher; I immediately hit the long-ears with birds and approached with the rest since Ivor also had tactics. From that side, there was a push on the birds and the shooter. The wood-elves tied up the birds, 13 elves stepped back and fired once at the wolves. Lucky that the birds killed the wood-elves with one hit + thunder; in the next round, I managed to block the elves again and the hacking began. In the end, dwarves with 14 pegasi remained against my orcs. 14 axes survived, Ivor retreats. Then followed a mutual killing of lohs without any understanding of what to do next—no money, no objects, no directions. But Sasha helped with the solution: Ivor, with the remnants of dwarves and wood-elves, returned again to the Castle respawn, where he was caught and crushed by my remaining orcs and freshly bought elves from the secondary dwelling.

Thanks for the games!