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

25.01.2012 Colorado (red, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) def HellLighT (blue, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) 136 2sm4d(3)

We mildly harassed each other, eventually each ended up with a big fat respawn. GO through a teleport — on my side up to 20 hydras )). Ran around freely, 7 heroes, external dwelling of pegasi and centaurs, barbarian secondary with an external dwelling of rocs, sword +2/+2, revealed a Griffin Conservatory for 3-4 and an external dwelling of dragons. But... there are almost no guards anywhere, nowhere to level up. On day 117, Ivor is level 2 (((. At the start, horses were built in the citadel — not enough money 0_0. In the secondary — rocs in the fort. That was the first mistake. Then I jumped into the teleport, found another minimal Griffin Conservatory on the neighboring respawn, took it. Then I ran around aimlessly. On day 127, Dragons in the castle, I fought off the external dwelling with a weak hero — forgot to give the army to the weak hero (by habit I transferred it to the main hero). The opponent gave auto. Ivor finally got Earth magic, no slow in either castle. Found it in a far corner of the respawn, no scholars — I went with Ivor (luckily not too far from him). Went for slow, got wrecked in the secondary, where nearby a Griffin Conservatory for 3-4 was revealed, before that I decided to take a Pandora's box with up to 20 cyclopes, I lose a turn transporting the army (miscalculated). Then on day 134 I see blue pop out of the teleport and dive back in. I didn't have time to take the Griffin Conservatory — was afraid they'd capture my start "while it's warm," as usual. I get wrecked with Ivor back in the start, bring up the army, buy everything, sit in the castle. Valeska emerges, heads toward me, but doesn't make it by a few tiles. I don't dare attack in the field, no choice — I hole up. Thought Valeska would leave — no, she attacks...

Ivor level 8. 8-10-2 (+cloak for +3 spell power)-2 (40 mana) expert archery, attack, advanced wisdom, basic earth
36 grand elves, 13 dendroids, 133 grand centaurs, 11 rocs, 9 grand horses, 6 green dragons, 35 grand pegasi.
Valeska level 11. 11-7-8-4 expert leadership, archery, attack, earth (without slow!), basic armor.
9 monks, 34 basilisks, 7 angels, 17 champions, 17 wyverns, 49 grand archers.
Valeska starts with mass stone skin, then mass shield, I have nothing decent to retaliate with ((
In the end the opponent slows, waits for a breach, no ballistics, killing my grand elves with the mage's arrow. Having slowed the angels, through wait I hit the wyverns with pegasi and dragons, returning home the next turn. Still, when there are 5 angels left and, it seems, 7 wyverns, the opponent flies into me, not waiting for a breach. Melee began. I don't remember well, in short, the castle was defended. A couple of horses survived, dendroids and pegasi (I don't remember how many, but more than 20).
In principle, the opponent outplayed me. If it were a tournament match he wouldn't have attacked, but calmly controlled the situation — he has an external dwelling of horses, an external dwelling of wyverns, plus a swamp secondary. Next week, with growth, he would have killed me.
P.S.: Thanks for the game, by the way it's up to you — we can record this match as a draw or even as my loss — you really played better ;)