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

15.01.2011 AYMAN (red, Stronghold, Crag Hack, Crag Hack) def R55Max (blue, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar) Jebus Cross, 134

The spawn was decent. On the first week, with Crag, I ran around the stat boosters, took two external dwellings of birds, a secondary Tower, and with Crag took a Pandora's Box for the curatives worth 30 wolves. End of the week, Crag at the stable, getting ready to break the hives. Scouting was done well, had 2 Griffin Conservatories, about 5-6 hives, bears at home in the castle, took a couple of external wolf and orc dwellings)).

On the second week, I collected the hives and Griffin Conservatories, with Crag I fought off the Book of Earth, and took an external bear dwelling near the village, and Crag went in and doubled his mana there. On the respawn there was one Dragon Utopia of my own, but I didn't take it because I was in a hurry to get to the center. Crag breaks through a block of bone dragons to the center on 126 and stops near the center; the scout heroes meanwhile finish collecting one hive and one Griffin Conservatory. In the end, Crag has 5 angels, 30 griffin birds, 4 bears, 34 ducks, 70+ wolf griffins, and meat, breaks through the griffin Wyverns and enters the center. There he takes a hive + 6 Wyverns, a Pandora's Box for experience behind a hundred monks, then a helmet + 6 all; three hives are revealed, behind one of them is a Sentinel's Shield.

On 131, I bring up the bears and birds, take the hive and the Sentinel's Shield, see an Inferno village and wings glowing, take the wings, and stop near the Nagas for a Pandora's Box.

On 132, I take the Pandora's Box (12 griffin Efreets), one more hive; with the scout hero I take the Inferno, with Crag I portal through the castles and back to the Inferno. Meanwhile, with the scout hero, I decide to take two hives on the side — one of them I took extremely poorly for 120+ griffin Behemoths + Book of Fire; my stupidity and morale cost me 10 ducks and one Efreet.

On 133, the scout hero scouted the road upward; there the blues were revealed, along with a Pandora's Box with a necklace + 3 all behind red dragons. Crag has Pathfinding, Logistics, and Wings; I reach them, break through the reds, take the necklace — no movement left for the Pandora's Box. Meanwhile, Tazar takes two Pandora's Boxes for griffin Behemoths, gets beaten up, and the chain pulls him back.

On 134, a scout runs further, revealing a scout hero with power, after which Crag catches up to him, and it's gg. Because in power and stats, Crag strongly outclassed Tazar. Andrei entered the center too late due to a bad respawn.

Thank you, Andrei, for an interesting game!!!!

16.01.2011 Tootsie Pie (blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def R55Max (red, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar) 8xm8 147
On the first week, I broke through almost to the red player's ring, left with 60 Troglodytes and level 1-4 in the fort + an external dwelling of Efreets. Maybe I should have preserved the army, but I wanted to find at least some gold. On the second week, I took 3 hives (all mini), returned for a missed Naga Bank (mini) and for magic (Oil) — -4 days((. End of the week — 70 Troglodytes, 12 Wyverns, and 6 Efreets. On the third week, I take a Djinn Lamp for 100+ Genies, encounter the reds. They seem to have millions of gold, a stack of Wyverns and Hydras in the castle((. Then an undiscovered native boat brings joyful news — the Implosion spell — and sinks). I don't dare attack 100+ Archmages for a Dragon Fly Hive and a Sword +12-3 (later I checked — 145 of them, but losses would have been trivial: 30 Troglodytes and 1 Manticore, and the hive was nearly max-level), instead I take a risk (the enemy, apparently, took a Utopia), and run not to the hives left at home, Pandora's Boxes, and the artifact +3 all, but to the Cyclops dwelling on the respawn boat + collecting resources, + on the last day I manage to grab the missing crystals from under Tazar's nose. He attacks: Tazar 21 18 5 7(58) (Expert Resistance (never triggered), Wisdom (Taz, apparently, was preparing for a powerful finale from the first levels), Expert Earth, Expert Archery, Expert Air, КЗ, Shackles of War, 5 Hydras, 18 Greater Basilisks + 8 Wyverns, 7 Necromancy Horsemen, 50 Greater Serpent Flies) — Shakti 17 18 17 15(250) (Expert Earth, Armorer, Leadership (+4-1, never proc'ed;)), Artillery, 4 Manticores, 8 Efreets, 12 Wyverns, 120 Troglodytes, and 50 Gogs from a chest). First turn, Anti-Magic on the Greater Basilisks and Wyverns (to my dismay, but it turned out for the best)) and Implosion on the Hydras, they all fly toward me. Round 2 — Implosion on the Troglodytes — Implosion on the Necromancy Horsemen, and so on. In the end, half the Wyverns, the Efreets, and all the Gogs remained. As it turned out, if Tazar had started with Mass Haste, victory would have been much more complicated, and with Resistance it would hang by a thread — my fear of the swarm of Archmages could have cost me dearly.. but it worked out. Thanks for the game)