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

06.08.13 Lem (blue, dungeon, Shakti) def Pyre (red, Rampart, Ivor) JC, 134

Took all the resets, started playing. Everything was just fine, but towards the end of the week the opponent discovers there’s no road to the GO. As luck would have it, after the reset Shakti arrived with only one stack.

111. 6 heroes. Revealed the Griffin Conservatory, stable near the castle. On one road, a block of Thunderbirds. Took a crypt, 69 Troglodytes left :(
112. On the second road, a block of Liches. Revealed an external dwelling of Dragon Flies off-road, but nothing to take them with. I decide to take Troglodyte external dwellings. Took another crypt. 8 heroes.
113. I take another crypt and see a Pandora’s Box behind Hobgoblins :) Dragon Fly Hive behind Mages and a Pandora’s Box behind Lizardmen (100) and all this near a secondary hero. Near the Griffin Conservatory I see an external dwelling of Minotaurs behind Crusaders.
114. I take the Pandora’s Box (5000 experience), take the secondary hero (the opponent has fewer heroes and castles). In the castle I build Minotaurs.
115. Splitting, buying a spell book, and basically that’s it.
116. I build Cats, break through the birds. In the prison, Yog level 10. Further down the road, a Library. The opponent still has only one castle.
117. I take an external dwelling of Cats with a small experience Pandora’s Box. Shakti level 9 (1500 short for the Library), has Earth and Slowed. In the portal, Troglodytes.
121. In the portal, Troglodytes again. I run towards the external dwelling of Minotaurs and the Griffin Conservatory. Army: 9 Cats, 130 Troglodytes, 6 Minotaurs. I capture the secondary. The opponent still has 1 castle.
122. Shakti leveled up to 10 and got Earth. I run to the Library. I plan to take the Griffin Conservatory with Yog.
123. I take the lvl 2 Griffin Conservatory. I boost Shakti (by running into the stable) on G. Cats. With a scout hero I break through the Liches and see an external dwelling of Dragon Flies by the road, an external dwelling of Cats, a Pandora’s Box behind Cats.
124. I take the external dwelling of Dragon Flies, position myself before the Cats.
125. I take the experience Pandora’s Box. I level up Learning and Sorcery. And I see along the road: two Hives, two Griffin Conservatories, a Necklace +3, GO Pits and immediately a Castle.
126. I break through everything I saw. After the Pits, there were Devils guarding the passage to the adjacent territory. The opponent is on the other side, saw a mine.
Army: 9 Angels, 8 Cats, 9 Ducks, and a few of the rest.
127. I run with a scout hero to the adjacent zone, which turned out to be mine. With Shakti I take the maxed-out Utopia (Sword +5, Shield +12).
131. I run towards the opponent, see a Griffin Conservatory with a Genie and a KZ behind Cyclopes, but movement points are only enough for the Library and to break through the Bears at the Griffin Conservatory.
132. I take the Griffin Conservatory and the Genie and run to the KZ, but you can’t run on sand :(
133. I take the KZ, break through the GO to the opponent (Arch Devils).
134. The opponent attacks with a scout hero, then Ivor runs through, kills the scout and runs into the treasure zone, placing two scouts in front of Shakti. On my turn I run Gunnar to Shakti, leave only Angels and Cats with her, kill the scouts in one round. I transfer the army back and run after Ivor, catching him right before the Pandora’s Box. In the FB I have 13 Angels, 15 Cats, 9 Minotaurs, 2 Dragon Flies, and fodder. Explosion 2760, Rain 920. The opponent has 10 Angels and 10 Dragon Flies (surprised me, thought if he didn’t come out then everything was bad), also about 50 Elves, almost 50 Ducks, 8 Unicorns. But the stats are an order of magnitude lower than mine.

Thanks for the game.