“Spring 2013” season. Online ranked games (reports, confirmations, discussions).

21.05.13 RoninHW (blue, swamp, Wystan, Tazar) def Defiant (red, stronghold, Gretchin, Gurnison) Skirmish M200%, 134

First time playing on this template and was frustrated by my native respawn. But when I saw Oppa's respawn, I realized... the difference is just colossal, there was nothing there. There wasn't really a FB (Fast Build), the meat advantage was overwhelming.
Thanks for the game!

111 - starting army isn't great, but Gurnison comes with a ballista, near the castle there are 3 tempting piles of gold (as it turned out later, there were only 4 on the respawn:D ), lit the arena for gems, immediately broke through with Gurnisson on easy-mode exp chunks in the form of zombies and pikemen, decided not to take a restart (foolishly).
112 - slightly encouraged by the exit to a grass secondary through a hundred skeletons, but there's an immediate block of horned demons guarding a crappy quest artifact against hypnosis. Bust, I go back to respawn, and here I realize that there actually isn't a respawn, it was generated bugged, about 70-60 percent is mountains, result:
113 - 121 - suffered through some unthinkable nonsense, up to capturing mills, single piles of resources and other trifles. Gurnisson got Earth, found a medal for morale and stables. Home in fort on 125. From a scout point I spotted the opponent with a lot of Greater Lizards, Wyverns and a horde of Gnolls - sadness.
121 - break through the demons, take a Necro secondary, drive in the horsies. The respawn turned out to be tiny, besides the template-guaranteed mines there was absolutely nothing on it, I take those mines, the gold one for Ifrits with a loss of ~20 goblins (the guard had Expert Shield). There's nowhere to go next, blocks around seem to be 80 Grands, 40 Greater Medusas, etc. Up to the third week, more wandering back and forth.
131 - Break through 72 Cerberi with losses, run into a micro-respawn, which again has damned stables and a couple piles of gold. In the castle I build the Mage Guild, get Slow, Haste, Arrow, Shield. Then an exit to the opponent through 82 Griffins, on which all the wolves are sacrificed. In the end I had to attack the opponent, who had a simply huge meat advantage, I had enough mana for 2 Slows, but nothing to hit 51 Greater Lizard and a hundred Gnolls with 7 Wyverns.

After opening the map post-game, my face took on roughly the same expression as the cat in the avatar :)
At the same time, the opponent executed his setup well.

Thanks for the game!