M-200% No. 7

06/07/2013 GoD (Red, Tower, Aine, Dermit) def RomarioGrom (Blue, Inferno, Rashka, Luna) 2sm2c 126

The start was very good: Tower on Inferno, decent gold, golem horde, guessed right with the main hero, who got Earth on level 3. By week 1, nagas in the fort.
On the second week, I was clearing the treasure zone, where killing 90 dwarves with Log (a bit tricky without a cart to take them down in 8 shots) gave 5 griffins.
In the middle of the second week, Luna, on her second attempt, finally broke a guard of 10-19 hydras and sat down right next to the Conflux village. The main hero split back home, and the chain returned the army. On her 126th day, Luna attacks my capital and dies.

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15.07.13 KobRa (red, random, Castle, random, Ingham, Sir Mullich) def GoD (blue, random, Inferno, random, Xarfax, Coronius) on 2sm2c at 137

Zhenya took 2 restarts, I took none; I kept getting good drops — either Bron and 6 heroes with Dhemir on 111, or Aislinn and 5 heroes with good roads, or just the Mirror would show up. This time as well, 5 heroes and Sir Mullich didn’t allow me to reject this setup against Inferno. Though my hands were itching for the first 2 turns — oh, how they were itching — since no goodies were found. But on 113, after scouting the center, I saw a Barbarian castle nearby and 2 excellent entrances to both treasure zones. By the end of the week, I cleared crypts with Mullich — even on Necro ground, no problems — and set up at the Medusa tanks near the upper guard. Week's fortification: cavalry in the Citadel. On 121, I bought it and upgraded 70 sprites, and just made it to the upper observatory. No opponent yet, and nearby there are 2 Pandora's Boxes and an Arena. Next turn, I take out 18 Minotaurs, get +5K exp, +2 attack, and Offense! I don’t risk attacking the sharpshooters' stack without Tactics, and I hit the Barbarian castle. The opponent is wandering somewhere nearby, but hasn't hit my Dendroids yet — just scaring me.)
On 124, I take out 60 Orcs, a Pandora's Box with 60 Pikemen for 40 Ogres, and set up by the tree. Where’s the opponent?.. I’m dominating both treasure zones. Day 125 arrives, and my heart skipped a beat — on the replay, it’s clearly visible that the opponent appeared from my portal near the castle, but he didn’t risk hitting several Ancient Bears. And good thing too, or he’d have taken the Fort as well. Next: +8 Wights, +5k gold, and then another +8 Wights. I run to turn in a quest from one treasure zone to another, getting 15k exp — good, perfect to level up the main hero's Air magic (got it as the 5th skill after Earth..). Then the opponent finally appears in the upper treasure zone and jumps into a teleport leading to the lower zone. His army and stats aren’t impressive. I set up a chain to take his castle. The opponent runs closer and closer to me, right into the trap. On 127, I write in ICQ for some reason: "if the timer doesn't end now, we'll finish now," I split with the main hero, take out 40+ trees with a scout hero, take Inferno (-35 sprites), and buy the main hero there. We didn't finish. The opponent doesn’t give up, spending the whole third week testing me, trying to take at least one castle with the Cyclops. But after upgrading the Efreets, I passed the test with honor!
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PS. For the first time at the end of the game, all resources are at 50 each.) All because I nipped any thoughts of Angels and Soul Guilds in the bud))) Mullich level 16 with no artifacts — 12 8 6 5!

I shouldn’t have played the SM game; I should have gone for a scrimish instead. Twice it generated one road to the guard, first through 400 moves on fast roads, then at a distance of one move. Since the first generation was for Stronghold and I saw nothing, I had to restart... Same picture in the second generation for Inferno — little gold, Luna is there, but nowhere to level... another restart...

The last generation, again one road to the guard. Scouting helped choose the right direction to take the village without a road.
At home, I scraped together enough for efreets in the Citadel, won the Chain Lightning and Animate Dead scrolls, but resources were catastrophically low — I traded for Sulfur at insane prices for the efreets. After losing the capital, I tried to Cyclops to take back my capital or find something good in the treasure zone, but all attempts were futile — I found nothing, and the rest was already "stolen before us" (quote), and Artyom made no mistakes.

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18/07/2013 GoD (Blue, Dungeon, Dhemir, Vidomina) def Aiwe (Red, Stronghold, Saurog, Clavius) Scrimish 125

Strangely enough, we played the first generation. Despite a stretch of water almost across the entire map, the goodies like Dhemir, Eye of the Beholder horde, Vidomina in the tavern, and gold around made us play.
In the first week, I slowly Necroed with Vidomina, who on level 2 immediately got Earth and became a main hero. At home, I built 1-3 with a portal, and through wild trading got another 2 harpy hordes with buyback. At home, the Mage Guild didn't give Slow — only Archery and Stone Skin from the useful ones, since by the end of the first week I already had Expert Earth. There was nothing to build a Mage Guild with in the Necro village.
In the 2nd week, I cleared 2 Crypts, managed to buy troops, upgraded the harpies.
On 123, the opponent came through the adjacent zone with 6 rocs and 200 skeletons — I immediately realized he built the Transformer; we simply have no gold for it, and after trading, no resources either, though we have over 100 Troglodytes and a few Gremlins. We run to take back our Necro secondary. Vidomina sets up a day's march away with her army — 67 harpies, 1+1+1+82 skeletons, 92 Troglodytes, 36 Eyes.
On his 125, Clavius, after some thought, attacks with 6 rocs and 220 skeletons, plus a few Pixies and a couple of Lizards.
The harpies and Eyes did their job. Clavius bought back with small fries, while Vidomina, with all 36 Eyes, 56 harpies, 50 skeletons, and 50 Troglodytes, takes back the Necro village and sits down to replenish mana, where the Mage Guild greets her with Slow and Mass Shield.
After this, the red player throws in the white flag.

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