HellLighT
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13.07.2012 HellLighT (blue, Rampart, Ivor) def hunter98 (red, Castle, Valeska, Nella) 2sm4d(3) 134
We grind like Stakhanovites, starting to play right after the tavern distribution.
111 from me, 112 from hunter, and off we go. A good start: 11 elves from the get-go, a stable, plenty of gold, and treading guards—let's play.
Week 1
On 111, I spread out to 5 heroes, but on the horizon there's a swarm of chests and piles of gold. The secondary turned out to be grassy; the only thing that held me back was 33 dwellings with Griffins on the other side of the portal. Even with 18 elves, it was very tough—lost about 10 centaurs. Ivor gets Earth magic—superb. I pray for a native secondary... and it turns out to be just that—I rejoice, especially since there's a mountain of gold. The richest SMaC distribution I've ever seen; Jebus Cross is... nervously smoking on the sidelines :D. Everything goes well, any crypts are cleared without a hitch, Ivor levels up, but then a problem arises: the secondary Mage Guild has no Slow, and scrolls from sanctuaries are being stingy too. So hunter and I sit around complaining to each other that there are no Griffin Conservatories at all, when toward the end of the week I stumble upon 2 Griffin Conservatories on the outskirts of the secondary. I realize Slow is needed like never before, so I make a smart move: instead of placing Rogues in the main town, I build a Mage Guild where there's also no Slow! Ta-da-dam :{ By 117, I have 1-5 in the main town's castle and 1-3 in the secondary's castle, topped off with a sack of 22k gold :smile54:.
Week 2
I buy out all growth down to zero and race from the stable at full speed to the first Griffin Conservatory. I have Mass Shield and plenty of tanking power. On 122, I climb in, scout—2-4, I jump in without checking—A FOUR... but 56 Grand Elves, 95 Captain Centaurs, 25 Dwarves, 9 Dendroids, and 15 Pegasi were quite ready for battle... however, my professionalism kicked in! I'd rather it had been with Griffins. As expected, I start positioning defense in the bottom corner for the Grand Elves, and deciding that the Griffins would target the Dwarves next to the Grand Elves, I immediately rushed with the Captains to seal off the second part of the external dwelling while also hitting them (after all, 95 is a battle stack) where another Griffin was perched, so the Grand Elves had to wait. The Griffins didn't miss a beat and started splitting my Light Elves... I choked on my dinner and began crying bloody tears, especially after the top stack of 40 Griffins morale-boosted and struck again :smile35: :smile35: :smile35: :smile07: :smile21: :smile05: :smile39:. In a rage from losing 19 Grand Elves, I scattered the remains of the flying chickens throughout the entire Conservatory, but my expected losses were, of course, completely different (screenshot below). Nearby is a well; I refill mana and run to the second one—3-4 with Griffins, which I was incredibly happy about. The three fell with losses of 3 centaurs. Surveying the land, I discover another passage through the treasure zone to the swamp respawn where opponent movement was visible. With Boots of Speed and stables, Ivor with 3+ movement points rushed toward the opponent. In the treasure zone, I casually ate a Pandora's Box for 15k experience and a Sentinel's Shield, after which Ivor looked pretty funny with stats of 2 21 4 4. On 126, I take the swamp; on 127, I take the opponent's main town. There’s no Air magic, so I didn’t know where to chase him, but at least I took the growth, and that’s a relief.
Week 3
I ran into the Inferno treasure zone through the swamp portal, which turned out to be a wrong guess, but I started devouring all the goodies there, gradually snatching 2 more of the opponent's towns with my "noob" moves, after which he became a hobo with a 7-day shelf life :smile09:. In the treasure zone, I picked up KV, a couple of Pandora's Boxes for experience, a Necklace of Swiftness+Spell, and on 134, the opponent capitulates. Thanks for the game
We grind like Stakhanovites, starting to play right after the tavern distribution.
111 from me, 112 from hunter, and off we go. A good start: 11 elves from the get-go, a stable, plenty of gold, and treading guards—let's play.
Week 1
On 111, I spread out to 5 heroes, but on the horizon there's a swarm of chests and piles of gold. The secondary turned out to be grassy; the only thing that held me back was 33 dwellings with Griffins on the other side of the portal. Even with 18 elves, it was very tough—lost about 10 centaurs. Ivor gets Earth magic—superb. I pray for a native secondary... and it turns out to be just that—I rejoice, especially since there's a mountain of gold. The richest SMaC distribution I've ever seen; Jebus Cross is... nervously smoking on the sidelines :D. Everything goes well, any crypts are cleared without a hitch, Ivor levels up, but then a problem arises: the secondary Mage Guild has no Slow, and scrolls from sanctuaries are being stingy too. So hunter and I sit around complaining to each other that there are no Griffin Conservatories at all, when toward the end of the week I stumble upon 2 Griffin Conservatories on the outskirts of the secondary. I realize Slow is needed like never before, so I make a smart move: instead of placing Rogues in the main town, I build a Mage Guild where there's also no Slow! Ta-da-dam :{ By 117, I have 1-5 in the main town's castle and 1-3 in the secondary's castle, topped off with a sack of 22k gold :smile54:.
Week 2
I buy out all growth down to zero and race from the stable at full speed to the first Griffin Conservatory. I have Mass Shield and plenty of tanking power. On 122, I climb in, scout—2-4, I jump in without checking—A FOUR... but 56 Grand Elves, 95 Captain Centaurs, 25 Dwarves, 9 Dendroids, and 15 Pegasi were quite ready for battle... however, my professionalism kicked in! I'd rather it had been with Griffins. As expected, I start positioning defense in the bottom corner for the Grand Elves, and deciding that the Griffins would target the Dwarves next to the Grand Elves, I immediately rushed with the Captains to seal off the second part of the external dwelling while also hitting them (after all, 95 is a battle stack) where another Griffin was perched, so the Grand Elves had to wait. The Griffins didn't miss a beat and started splitting my Light Elves... I choked on my dinner and began crying bloody tears, especially after the top stack of 40 Griffins morale-boosted and struck again :smile35: :smile35: :smile35: :smile07: :smile21: :smile05: :smile39:. In a rage from losing 19 Grand Elves, I scattered the remains of the flying chickens throughout the entire Conservatory, but my expected losses were, of course, completely different (screenshot below). Nearby is a well; I refill mana and run to the second one—3-4 with Griffins, which I was incredibly happy about. The three fell with losses of 3 centaurs. Surveying the land, I discover another passage through the treasure zone to the swamp respawn where opponent movement was visible. With Boots of Speed and stables, Ivor with 3+ movement points rushed toward the opponent. In the treasure zone, I casually ate a Pandora's Box for 15k experience and a Sentinel's Shield, after which Ivor looked pretty funny with stats of 2 21 4 4. On 126, I take the swamp; on 127, I take the opponent's main town. There’s no Air magic, so I didn’t know where to chase him, but at least I took the growth, and that’s a relief.
Week 3
I ran into the Inferno treasure zone through the swamp portal, which turned out to be a wrong guess, but I started devouring all the goodies there, gradually snatching 2 more of the opponent's towns with my "noob" moves, after which he became a hobo with a 7-day shelf life :smile09:. In the treasure zone, I picked up KV, a couple of Pandora's Boxes for experience, a Necklace of Swiftness+Spell, and on 134, the opponent capitulates. Thanks for the game