Pit for LM
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16.12.12. Pit for LM (red, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def TERM (blue, Conflux, random Kalt, Nagash), balance, 137.
Started immediately, without restarts.
111 - Shakti with two stacks, harpies built, immediately upgrade them for speed. Roads are fast, lots of gold - 7 heroes. Castle has a level-2 Griffin Conservatory. Starting village revealed, unguarded. There is one road to the secondary, where a stable is visible by the road. Pyre gave a cannon. Shakti immediately gets armor.
112 - starting village, buyout, upgrade Troglodytes, broke through to the secondary, which turned out to be a swamp.
113 - take the secondary, Pandora's Box for 5k experience behind 10 Vampire Lords. Entire respawn scouted, from hidden caches only Troglodytes.
114 - crypt for 2.5k, running home. Attack and Armor expert.
115 - buy a spell book at home, few useful spells, nothing much except Bloodlust. No scrolls either, so the Conservatory was a bit tricky. Lost 40 Troglodytes and squeezed through Medusas and Lizardmen. Got Mysticism shoved in. Though later it turned out that wasn't so bad.
116 - clearing the respawn, another Pandora's Box for 5k experience, mini Dwarf Cottage. Got Air. Passage to the center found.
117 - Shield +4 and Shakti finally decides to skip a turn near the Monks. Probably could have taken them anyway, but by day 121 there were 50+, so risky. Plus there was a stable right behind them, so would have had to sleep on it anyway, not many moves lost. Built Manticores in the citadel, in the starting village - a portal with Troglodytes, two town halls.
121 - buy Manticores, Troglodytes, some Harpies, Monks go down very easily. From the lookout tower I see a rather unpleasant path to a Necropolis town across rocks.
122 - arena +2.
123 - Valeska takes a castle, Galtran is hired there with two stacks, defeats a horde of Nomads for a Sword +2+2. In a Sunken Ship I find a ring for morale and luck. Shakti runs to the second town, finally gets +1 Knowledge.
124 - second Necropolis town, set up a lookout tower nearby. A mega-tasty treasure zone on lava is revealed, near the town I pick up Gloves and Armor +3 Spell Power. Shakti runs into the desert, but not quite correctly. I kept waiting for the opponent to exit the portal and tried at all costs to run toward the Wyverns, so I left behind a Cloak +2+2 for magic and a Sword +3. The latter, however, was needed by neither me nor him.
125 - reach the entrance to the treasure zone. The guard - very easy, 100+ regular Dendroids.
126 - and at the entrance there are Boots lying! The middle of the second week was devoted, among other things, to finding Haste for Expert Air. Collected all scrolls, visited all chapels, built all guilds - and only in the last, fifth one, was the spell finally given. Through literate heroes, Nila delivered the necessary Wisdom to Shakti.
127 - first Hive, +6 Wyverns. Opponent is in no rush to the center.
131 - opponent stopped at their GO, while I managed to send the growth to Shakti via a long chain. Bought almost everything except some Eyes and Medusas, largely thanks to a Naga Bank for 6k. Took two more Hives and a Gold Mine, where I sped up. Wyverns became 24.
132 - I see mass Hives. Took two, minimal ones.
133 - Nagash entered the center, but he's moving extremely slowly there - apparently no Logistics, no Stables, no artifacts. And he's ramping up on Skeletons. Another 3 Hives, total - 48.
134 - another 3 Hives, total - 70. One left. Found a lot of resources, decide to build a guild for an Implosion scroll.
135 - opponent captures the first central town. Meanwhile, I'm already leaving the treasure zone, grabbing a Cyclops Stockpile of 6 each as a final touch. In the last slot, Shakti finally gets Logistics (after Expert Cannon and basic Offense).
136 - I stop to ramp up at my GO. Nagash farms Skeletons.
137 - Shakti takes the central Necropolis with a very long move along a fast road, chase away a couple of red heroes, scout - the entire army is with Yog at zero. Buy Ivor, transfer artifacts to him, attack.
There - 600+ Skeletons, 50+ Air Elementals, 7 Birds, 3 Angels, 10 Psychos and bad morale. We have - 78 Wyverns, nearly 300 Troglodytes, some Eyes, 7 Manticores, 50 Harpies, 2 Angels. No fight happened, everything is obvious.
Also had a funny second week - Psycho growth +5.
Thank you for the game.
Started immediately, without restarts.
111 - Shakti with two stacks, harpies built, immediately upgrade them for speed. Roads are fast, lots of gold - 7 heroes. Castle has a level-2 Griffin Conservatory. Starting village revealed, unguarded. There is one road to the secondary, where a stable is visible by the road. Pyre gave a cannon. Shakti immediately gets armor.
112 - starting village, buyout, upgrade Troglodytes, broke through to the secondary, which turned out to be a swamp.
113 - take the secondary, Pandora's Box for 5k experience behind 10 Vampire Lords. Entire respawn scouted, from hidden caches only Troglodytes.
114 - crypt for 2.5k, running home. Attack and Armor expert.
115 - buy a spell book at home, few useful spells, nothing much except Bloodlust. No scrolls either, so the Conservatory was a bit tricky. Lost 40 Troglodytes and squeezed through Medusas and Lizardmen. Got Mysticism shoved in. Though later it turned out that wasn't so bad.
116 - clearing the respawn, another Pandora's Box for 5k experience, mini Dwarf Cottage. Got Air. Passage to the center found.
117 - Shield +4 and Shakti finally decides to skip a turn near the Monks. Probably could have taken them anyway, but by day 121 there were 50+, so risky. Plus there was a stable right behind them, so would have had to sleep on it anyway, not many moves lost. Built Manticores in the citadel, in the starting village - a portal with Troglodytes, two town halls.
121 - buy Manticores, Troglodytes, some Harpies, Monks go down very easily. From the lookout tower I see a rather unpleasant path to a Necropolis town across rocks.
122 - arena +2.
123 - Valeska takes a castle, Galtran is hired there with two stacks, defeats a horde of Nomads for a Sword +2+2. In a Sunken Ship I find a ring for morale and luck. Shakti runs to the second town, finally gets +1 Knowledge.
124 - second Necropolis town, set up a lookout tower nearby. A mega-tasty treasure zone on lava is revealed, near the town I pick up Gloves and Armor +3 Spell Power. Shakti runs into the desert, but not quite correctly. I kept waiting for the opponent to exit the portal and tried at all costs to run toward the Wyverns, so I left behind a Cloak +2+2 for magic and a Sword +3. The latter, however, was needed by neither me nor him.
125 - reach the entrance to the treasure zone. The guard - very easy, 100+ regular Dendroids.
126 - and at the entrance there are Boots lying! The middle of the second week was devoted, among other things, to finding Haste for Expert Air. Collected all scrolls, visited all chapels, built all guilds - and only in the last, fifth one, was the spell finally given. Through literate heroes, Nila delivered the necessary Wisdom to Shakti.
127 - first Hive, +6 Wyverns. Opponent is in no rush to the center.
131 - opponent stopped at their GO, while I managed to send the growth to Shakti via a long chain. Bought almost everything except some Eyes and Medusas, largely thanks to a Naga Bank for 6k. Took two more Hives and a Gold Mine, where I sped up. Wyverns became 24.
132 - I see mass Hives. Took two, minimal ones.
133 - Nagash entered the center, but he's moving extremely slowly there - apparently no Logistics, no Stables, no artifacts. And he's ramping up on Skeletons. Another 3 Hives, total - 48.
134 - another 3 Hives, total - 70. One left. Found a lot of resources, decide to build a guild for an Implosion scroll.
135 - opponent captures the first central town. Meanwhile, I'm already leaving the treasure zone, grabbing a Cyclops Stockpile of 6 each as a final touch. In the last slot, Shakti finally gets Logistics (after Expert Cannon and basic Offense).
136 - I stop to ramp up at my GO. Nagash farms Skeletons.
137 - Shakti takes the central Necropolis with a very long move along a fast road, chase away a couple of red heroes, scout - the entire army is with Yog at zero. Buy Ivor, transfer artifacts to him, attack.
There - 600+ Skeletons, 50+ Air Elementals, 7 Birds, 3 Angels, 10 Psychos and bad morale. We have - 78 Wyverns, nearly 300 Troglodytes, some Eyes, 7 Manticores, 50 Harpies, 2 Angels. No fight happened, everything is obvious.
Also had a funny second week - Psycho growth +5.
Thank you for the game.