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Skorp is a cunning fellow indeed, a sneaky pro :) Congratulations.
We're waiting for those who didn't make it to the finals to qualify in Kingisepp on January 3-7. Exact info from Napalm will be posted tomorrow or the day after.
edited it a little ;)
THANK YOU
When things got rolling, I planned to go just as a spectator, but upon entering the club, two fighters (Artyom and Alexey) and the Referee were already waiting for us :) (Erik) — so I had to play. The draw pitted me against Artyom, and Mizrael against Alexey (their game was quite intriguing).
My Dungeon vs Castle, we started..., then Victor showed up..., started commenting on my mega game — like he immediately knew what kind of player was at the computer (the GG was collecting scrolls on gold 114, etc :smile40:) — PS: no need to even try to convince Victor I couldn't play anymore, he was already making up his own stories )).
On month 3, I took a Dragon Utopia with Dimension Door (stats 3 11 ...), and then Pira (the opponent's GG) shows up with something worthless — I attacked to replenish mana (60 max), Pira ran away... then I took another Dragon Utopia + КЗ and went to the opponent's Castle, without mana I didn't attack the capital with Pira and all the meat — instead I collected stat boosters, and spotted a well, figuring if he doesn't attack, I get the well and the GG, and if he does attack, he buys peace — that's exactly what happened, under 30 of my upgraded Wyverns were halved by an explosion, through wait in the first round I killed 2 Angels, and in the second a stack of Wyverns, then bought peace — and then I was given the victory.
Mizrael and Alexey's game would have been a very long match (another 8 hours), so they offered a draw, and I was automatically pitted against Victor :smile03:
In the evening, with a slightly changed lineup, we started assessing my future opponent's skill on an unfamiliar template... poker
The comrade showed how easily he could be manipulated, and on black he simply beat himself (although I think I had the nuts even with a block — 10% necromancy)
Morning
Even the poker players had slept enough, Erik starts waking everyone up, saying it's time, then someone "nudged" the sleeping Yura — and the phrase "SoD kicked TE's ass"(c) was born...
My struggle wasn't about Castle strength, but about the duration of army transfers — since Victor's only complaint, and only a couple of times, was the lack of a laiter (he was too lazy to download it), the remaining towns were Dungeon and Necromancer — I was hoping Necromancer would be picked, but sadly Victor took a deadly Shakti, I was upset — the plan failed, oh well, time to remember how to play as him :D
The template was 8mm6, immediately one road blocked by 20+ Lizardmen (as it turned out later, 40+ upgraded) and then 50+ Earth Elementals (close to 99) — which disrupted my other plans: +1000 exp --> 10% necromancy --> +1000*2 and then we'd see, and that's what happened, Gosha quickly got Expert Necromancy and was helped by an Advanced Necromancer collecting bones. Then I killed the neutral, well, actually just captured an empty town, left the army there, and on 117 I attacked the capital to break the blocks on which I lost 3 heroes ((. Broke through into 2 portals (fought them off but didn't take the +3/+3 shield) and stood at the Treasury, a scout took 450 bones and dives into the second portal — there's Gunnar (few Angels, several Cats, several Wyverns, 100+ upgraded Troglodytes (180), Eyes) in a cage from the portal — return the army and wait / bones no more than 499, so I had no doubt the miner would be attacked because I had already shown my fishy reputation :smile40: / unfortunately too many bones + haste against a hero without a spell book — and Victor conceded victory.
The third game is hard to describe, there were three home Griffin Conservatories for Conflux, but on 114, Greek Hack was cornered trying to push through to a secondary with 20+ upgraded Eyes and got wiped, unfortunately...
Everything was really enjoyable, especially Victor's persistence in bowling — someone who had never played it, creating suspense with strikes, Victor was on fire :smile40: they said he was left-handed, but he was throwing with his right... strike :D
Huge thanks to everyone for the action!!! and a fun company!!!
for organizing this!!!
PS: almost forgot the most important thing — now there's one more in the clan of SoD players, and he was so happy to play some SoD ;)