"Newcomer-2011. Summer"

31.07.11 KiNB (red, Castle, Valeska, Aislin) def nik312 (blue, Swamp, Tazar, Tazar) 2sm4d(3) 124
After taking a few restarts, we started playing. Valeska arrived with one stack, the second level isn't built — I thought I'd take a restart on 112, but forgot I didn't have one left (only 111 remained) :smile07: . Oh well, we continue playing.
113 - found the Vampire's Cloak, there are 2 necromancers — excellent for leveling Aislin. There's an external dwelling of pikemen and archers, but due to roadless terrain and being far away — decided to leave it for now and head to the secondary.
114 - found an external dwelling of griffins, the passage to the Inferno secondary is guarded by 10-19 trees of growth — nothing to fight them with, went to clear the respawn and gather skeletons
115-117 - scouting and breaking through for gold and resources.
on 117 thanks for the auto (didn't set a castle). In the end, 1,2,4,6 in the castle. Almost no gold.
121 - I break through with the main hero to go home and replenish mana
122 - I buy 3 horses (no more money), preparing to take the Necromancer's Cloak
123 - selling resources, I buy another 3 horses, capture the cloak. The main hero got earth magic — things are looking up.:smile44:
124 - upgrade horses at the stable, break through to the Inferno secondary. Skeletons started growing like crazy. But news arrives about a wipe at the external dwelling of wyverns. Offered auto — opponent refused.
Thanks for the game. Good luck in the tournament!

Confirmed.

Some games are good. Some are bad, and some... are boring.

Let's start with the fact that we again restarted into that banal and tiresome "Castle-Swamp" pairing, and (thanks to the red color) I didn't get Castle..... :mad:

Well, then, we wait for external dwellings of wyverns and a good number of hives. The map gave a castle with the only road blocked by a stack of scorpions guarding the clues. But there was only one restart left, and the second level was built — decided to play.

111 bought out.... 1 hero + main! Super. Gold - 0, no one reached any piles of resources (thanks to the lack of roads). But wyverns and archers are bought — we play.

112 We reveal the scout, see treasure zone on the sand and a Pandora's Box behind a lot of zealots. Make a note of it. Hooray! An external dwelling of wyverns!.... Behind a lot of zealots.... FFFUUUUU! What kind of dwelling guard is that, which you can barely break through even on 131!? :smile21:

113 Ran around the block, bought out 5 heroes, gold is lying around, but hydras are not possible without damaging the economy.

115 Sacrificing all the serpents, a couple of basilisks, and 1 wyvern (here I blundered. Didn't think that a petrified unit, when hit, would still get to move.) I break through a horde of wolves to the Inferno secondary. Heroes exist, but no army and none in sight...

117 So the tally is: almost complete lack of roads on the respawn. A mini-secondary the size of a quarter screen, and barely restored striking power thanks to 3 external dwellings of gnolls.

Also, the scout, while exploring the territory, suddenly realizes that the guard standing so unassumingly in an open field off to the side seems to be the guard of our own secondary! :mad: :mad: How could one possibly misjudge that so badly!?

121 I realize that without the external dwelling of wyverns there's nothing to be gained here, need to urgently restore the army and on the third month urgently clear the treasure zone (which incidentally reveals Angel Wings). Unfortunately, the lot of zealots disagreed with my opinion.

122 I scout with the scout... 40!... But there are 5 wyverns, 105 gnolls, Tazar with expert Armorer and a group of serpents. To block with serpents on the first turn and pummel with gnolls and wyverns... Seems simple enough, if only they don't split into the maximum number of stacks...

124 FB :D Tazar level 4 (1 5 1 2) 105 gnolls, 5 wyverns, a couple of serpents. vs
7 stacks of zealots....

I didn't even have time to squeak. The serpents blocked, but the zealots quickly freed themselves and shot everything that moved... GG
Thanks to the opponent for still finding the time to play :)