Reports of online games and their confirmations (Winter season 2011-12).

06.01.2012 Kluka (red, Castle, Valessa, Torgrim) def Hermit (blue, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar) Balance L-U, 160% 222

That's how it was! My assessment of the layout - unsatisfactory. The only road leads to the ГО - many champions through the monolith. What's on the other side of the monolith was unknown, and when I found out, I was very upset. True, in the witch hut next to the castle they taught Logistics, and all my heroes learned it. The roads are slow, the town is very far away, but I got there on the first week and captured it. With great difficulty, hydras in the fort on the first week. No money at all :( Well, none at all :( I'm going somewhere off-road. I captured an Inferno town. A road leads from it. I went along it and ran into a pack of Elementals of Thought through a monolith. The army was, one could say, from the start of the first week + a hydra - I didn't attack them. Tazar learned Earth, reached expert level by the end of the week, but there's no Slow anywhere. Before getting Tazar destroyed at the home town, I hired Ionna, bought back Tazar - Gundula took his place. With huge expenses and resource exchanges, I bought her too and through Ionna taught Tazar Slow. On day 1, month 3, Conservatory 3 without losses, and at the start of the third week I rush into the Treasury, break through the champions and see a crowd of Fanatics there :( :( :( A thought flashed to surrender, but nothing in the Treasury had been touched yet. I get destroyed again returning to town and go along another off-road path. I go and go and finally capture a Tower town. A road leads from it. I go along it, break through two guards at the monolith... Torgrim!!!!!! with a suspiciously small army, just like mine. I attack. I decided to sacrifice the Angels to kill the archers, and as it turned out, I did the right thing. I managed to win the battle! By the way, shortly before that, Tazar had to learn Resistance so as not to learn a wrong skill. At first I was a bit upset, but in the battle I was even glad - Resistance triggered about three times, saving the hydras from Ice Bolts! Once I even cast Mass Slow on Torgrim myself. The effect was below average, but not zero. I should also mention that Tazar had only 45 mana against Torgrim's 60. After the battle, I wasn't sure that was the opponent's entire army, so I went back to restore mana at the well, increase attack by 1, and bring some more troops. By that time, the opponent had taken the short route into the Treasury and started collecting Wyverns. I didn't figure out where the main Treasury was, thought I had gone the wrong way, though as it turned out I was going correctly—I realized this only after Brissa learned View Air and I could track the opponent's moves, and then I wasted all the time, and also went into the Treasury from the other side myself and missed Torgrim's return :( :( :( Alas, Torgrim returned from the Treasury very quickly, faster than Tazar with a horde of Wyverns. Took my capital, upgraded the Wyverns :(, and I also lost a lot of army killing scout hero mages :(, I should have used Tazar to fight, since he would have reached the city anyway. In short, if I hadn't gone into the Treasury but waited for Torgrim at the exit, gathering troops and resources, I'd probably have had a chance to win, especially if he had wasted his mana in the Treasury. But through my own fault I completely lost the initiative and lost.

Thanks for the game.

I'll start by saying that Vladimir had a VERY native town named Hermitkov :)

Oh, great!!! My people named a town after me, and I didn't even notice :)