Reports of online games and their confirmations (Spring 2012 season).

8.04.2012 HellLighT(blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Tyraxor) def R55Max (red, Rampart, Ivor, Labetha) Diamond 211

Started a very long time ago, played in 3 sessions, don't remember exactly how many restarts we fought, but the start was, so to speak, unclear... Underdark, Shakti with 2 stacks, but native hero in the tavern - Ciele for harpies = total 80+ trogs is a bit scarce, but the second hero is Galtran! true, with 1 stack. No chests, pretty poor - nothing to level Galtran's necromancy with, on 111 freed a level 5 hero from prison, a mage without a bow who was quite useless ;( revealed an observatory, which showed a Conflux secondary behind a laughable guard, but further down the road a block of 50-99 fire elementals for Necromancer's boots and an external dwelling of minotaurs - sad sadness, all this was absolutely necessary, below the castle there was a作为Griffin Conservatory 2-4 (turned out to be a 2). The second road from the castle turned out to be very crooked, with a blocked branch to a swamp village, fortunately there was a detour, right under the village there is a conservatory - a ONE! 115 take the conservatory with a loss of 15 trogs, immediately take a nearby external dwelling of Wyverns, Galtran went off-road to another steppe, ran into a block, and also they give defense instead of necromancy, having lost 20 out of 40 skeletons he was expelled from the candidates for power, and his role was wanted by Deemer, who was given logistics, but when Tyraxor got earth magic - the king was chosen :D Went through a portal to the surface, took Conflux there. Due to a lack of money in the main, only 1-4 in the fort + portal with Wyverns were built, took another Conflux village (oh god how many there were), with the observatory revealed a small swamp super-hungry respawn (a half-turn's journey away lay 4 Pandora's Boxes, an Orb of the Water, and a Dragon Utopia, further wasn't visible, but it was already very pleasing to the eye) with a Dungeon village, though a sneaking scout hero of the Red player was spotted with a pegasus through the outskirts of the swamp respawn. 123 first contact, I break through to the swamp, take the village and kill the scout, almost having finished my turn, I realized I hadn't watched the opponent's turn, and he burst through a neighboring portal and ran on a speed boost with Piquedame into my underdark near the swamp village, barely managed to kill the scout and the turn ended. And then very sad things start to happen, Labetha runs out of that same portal with an army I wouldn't have dreamed of in my worst nightmare - 2 angels, a devil, 12 efreet sultans, 23 grandmasters, 6 horns of the abyss + small fry... well, well, I realized I had to get out somehow, but they broke my chain, and Labetha didn't want to let me back into the underdark, so the army, which was in no way comparable (angel, 31 storm elementals, 4 wyverns, 7 lightning elementals, and sprites) couldn't be passed back. And then I miraculously notice that the underdark on the Conflux respawn and my underdark connect, but with a block from a Dragon Utopia 5-9 death knights... well, that's a chance too, I break through almost without losses with the miner, and there stands Tyraxor near the conservatory (2) with little mana - I grab it, having lost a few storm elementals due to morale and a single hunger hit, immediately break back to the secondary near the fire elemental block, because the opponent decided not to wait but to squeeze me completely on my own respawn, and 3 angels are not enough at all against such a pile of army. Then begins a chase, like I've never had before :smile13: on the single road there are as many as 2 conservatories (3) and (1), I eat everything that lies nicely, a couple of Pandora's, a Dragon Fly Hive, the opponent goes almost always without speed boost and getting distracted, either by a utopia, or by secondaries and artifacts I hadn't captured, by parameters I'm still losing so without slowing the pace I run on angels wherever my eyes lead, and they looked out onto the snowy surface of a computer player where we found another conservatory (2), by this moment I was left without castles AT ALL! all scouts were caught and dirty castrated without a license :smile05: Almost immediately reached the computer's Tower, where there were already a Capitol and 1-7 in the castle, true without titans but even that's excellent! It was already 135. Due to the fact that the exit to the snow was off-road, the opponent got off my tail! And moved back by chain. The situation is still not the best, through the Tower but from another entrance I got back into the underdark, where I took a Necromancer computer, there was a fork, an exit to the opponent's respawn, where he had already broken through and brought an army, by the way increased due to growth which I didn't have, or into an unknown darkness... the choice is obvious). I ran to a Rampart village, behind which only one small corridor is visible without a road, but nearby there are dendroids with a Pandora's Box which turned out to contain ALL EARTH MAGIC :smile14: - I knew that there would be a holiday on our street too! Town Portal and explosion for 1200+, but I wanted to consolidate the success, because it's unknown what Labetha gathered. Scouts quietly began to push back the underdark villages through which the chase went, as well as the computer's castle knocked out by the opponent, in which only the monastery was missing for angels, and nearby a scout spotted an external dwelling of angels, portal - capture, a cunning plan is being prepared in my head. The opponent realized he couldn't catch up anymore, having taken a couple more secondaries, breaks into the hungry swamp, but couldn't pass the army - the chain was unfinished, which I didn't fail to take advantage of - breaking it with a 20 level Saurug pulled from prison. Then for several turns there is a stubborn struggle - I couldn't capture the dungeon in the swamp to portal there, because Labetha dealt with singles with lightning for 500 on any meat in several sessions, and I in turn don't let him set up a chain - holding a strongpoint in Conflux. And then comes the fateful 147, it's not a fact that the game will end now and I need to place a portal for which I'm short 10k and resources, so I find a cyclops dwelling near one of the secondaries - it turned out to be a maximum, but 10 angels dealt with it without problems and then... the devil made me meddle with those very devils in the inferno dwelling :smile51: although I already had enough of everything, having spent almost a third of the turn, I jump into Conflux and through a hero with scholarship pass a death wave to the mobile scouts! again I run with Saurug towards the swamp, and with Luna I hit 1 hero from the chain from the other side and then I make a mistake, instead of fortifying myself with Tyraxor in Conflux (I generally wanted to stand in the portal but because of the inferno dwelling I didn't have enough movement) I stand in the passage on the road to Labetha, and the fact that they could capture Conflux and buy out Labetha there somehow didn't immediately occur to me (a fail worthy of the elite society of sheep :smile04: :smile35:) That's exactly what happened, this of course was not a defeat, because the angel stack was split into 5 squads of 2 each, enough for a buyout of 8 angels (right after killing one squad with lightning), and the large grandmaster stack would immediately fall from the explosion, and then it was a matter of technique to buy up the angel growth and return via portal through the swamp, which was already at least somewhat accessible to the persistent Saurug :smile25: , but the opponent decided to make a knight's move and attacked with 7 single efreet, apparently counting on multiple attacks with killing the stack by lightning, but here came a death wave for 100 and the dishonorable death of Labetha, followed by surrender. Thanks for the interesting game.
p.s. R55Max, just when we started this game, I wanted to run around more, I think we ran enough )