Vatya
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26.01.12. iSeeDeadPpl (Red, Castle, Valeska, Ciele) draw Vatya (Blue, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) 2SM4d(3) 147
After all the restarts, the map gave: fast roads, lots of creeps, 2 naga banks, a Dwarf Cottage, an external dwelling of griffins. I start clearing creeps (6 total in the first week) and on the second day I shamefully lose my army in the Dwarf Cottage. I write this to my opponent. He finds it hard to accept this outcome — he wants to play. We agree that I will play for a draw.
In the first week, I placed dwellings 1-4 under Castle. I started leveling Ciele — she immediately got Air Magic and Armorer. We met the opponent near the shifted ГО. In the second week, after upgrading and buying all the griffins, I headed to the grass secondary. It turned out to be a Conflux. Quickly taking the pre-max Crypt and the Medusa Hive (8), I returned to my main to clear the naga banks. Meanwhile, the opponent came out of a teleport half a day's march from my castle. He ran around, scared me with 35 Grand Elves, and went on his way. Stat-wise, approximate equality. Except my Marksman hits for 150.
I took both naga banks without major losses, built Angels, and headed to the swamp secondary. I got a View of Air spell. The opponent apparently went into the treasure zone. In the swamp, I freed a prison with a level 1 Inferno hero, and immediately stumbled upon 2 trogs and a Griffin Conservatory. My Marksman hits for 150, I have Bless, so I went in. The first was a double, the second a triple. I returned to my main and miscalculated something when taking the swamp castle. As a result, Ciele sat idle in the main for 2 days.
On the fourth day, I traded all resources, bought everything, and went through the teleport to the opponent. Along the way, I took the Arena and a +3/+3 Shield. I immediately took the Castle without a fight, bought Luna right away, gave her some tier 1 units to destroy Dragon Fly Hives. My scouts revealed the opponent's main. I built Stables, and Ciele, boosted by Angels, reached the main in one day. There was even some stuff left unbought there. I bought four unicorns, and again Ciele reaches the opponent's last town in one day — a Castle. There sits Alagar, level 20 (3-7-5-9) with 96 marksmen and some other troops. His Ice Bolts for 180 kill two out of 10 Angels. But my army is, of course, bigger.
I chased his scout heroes for another two days or so, and the opponent surrendered. He couldn't get out of the sand treasure zone: he broke his own chain himself, chasing one of my scout heroes at the moment I started my expansion through the teleport. And as a result, he had no way to return his main army to his main.
Thanks for the game.
The start was impressive: a double in the tavern, all max stats, and Ivor with 2 stacks. Total of 28!!! grand elves, 112 of them, and 2 grass secondary towns. Then I hear about the wipe :( and I had just gotten going, so I offered my opponent an autodraw.
Day 121, I took both Castle secondaries (regretted playing Rampart :) ) and an external dwelling of horses at one of them. I would have built horses at both, but there was a bottleneck with wood; both secondaries were fully scouted, and only 1 wood pile was in sight. I decided to go for a rush, but there was no surprise: my opponent scouted my main hero with a scout hero and detected Shackles of War, so naturally he would hole up in his castle. I went into the treasure zone in the sand. The treasure zone was ideal — 3 Dragon Utopias (1 max, 2 pre-max, didn't check the third), lots of Dragon Fly Hives, КЗ, a Cape of Velocity, a Conservatory, and more, but while I was crawling through the sand, my opponent came with a scout hero. I had to pull a scout hero out of my chain to eliminate his, and the next day Ciele shows up with all her power. The chain was broken, I couldn't restore it in time, and I was deep in the sand. Ivor, as luck would have it, got neither Knowledge nor Earth Magic... КЗ was useless. In the end, I was cut off from my main. I freed Alagar from a prison, thinking I would at least cripple Ciele in the castle, but my opponent reached my main while I was regrouping; I sat in a secondary, and the opponent attacked. 10 Angels + a Mass Haste caster + a Marksman quickly tore through all my meat... And I was stuck in the sand and didn't cripple the opponent, just tickled him. In the end, out of desperation, I went into a pre-max Dragon Utopia and lost my army there...