“Summer 2013” experimental season. Online ranked games (reports, discussions).

10.06.13 kalababa (Blue, Tower, Iona, Gundulla) def WiZarDX_576 (Red, Castle, Rion, Brissa), Balance_M-200, 134

Castle, external dwelling of Griffins, and I have an army, money for respawn available, Kirill is in the tavern — we play.
a couple of days later Brissa also arrives. without thinking long I decide to go mother strategy. on the first week 5 heroes + scraped together enough to build tiers 1-4 in the fort.
on 121 the Griffin Conservatory is revealed.
122 — we check — tier 1.
123 — buy everything I can with trading, take it without major losses. only pikemen got bitten a couple of times.
I see a secondary respawn with a castle. seems not far. I think — I'll try to go through it and meet the opponent in the center, with mass haste, before he runs off to the treasure zone.
on 125 Brissa just reaches the portal and stands in front of it. still didn't risk pushing ahead. and rightly so — Gundulla was indeed waiting around the corner :smile10:
126 — I break through the portal, see it's empty on the other side, the opponent's gate is not broken and there's a path going somewhere, apparently to the secondary. missed it. go for gold golems and on to the opponent's respawn.
and the golems are tough guys. no wonder there are legends about losing armies to them. had to think and micro-manage so as not to leave extra troops there. of course the timer ran out after the fight, but at least I got earth expertise.
morale for the game disappeared somewhere, as soon as I felt the opponent was already looting the treasure. thought about following him, but it was right not to run. he had more of a speed advantage and had Loga.
in short, over a couple of days I captured the castles, organized supply deliveries for the 3rd week. set up GM2, learned Lightning, Double Mana, and prepared to meet him with Oil, Mass Haste, and Lightning on 275. I substituted remaining resources for buyback just in case.

I expected a trade of Oil/Haste, something like that, but Expert Water with Cure and Teleport (which on expert costs only 3 mana) really surprised me.
Teleport truly carried the game :cool: a beautiful victory :smile20:
thanks for the game!