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

20.08.2013 shameonyou(red, Conflux, Fior) def. Defiant(blue, Fortress, Tazar) Jebus Cross 124

We both spread out and played as best we could. Good start - immediately 3 Dragon Fly Hives for 5-9 champions, with Griffins, a horde of Harpies, but a complete block on one road - a crowd of upgraded Liches. Fior gets sent to the scrapyard, since no one else is more suitable for that role. Due to the block, there's no money at all, but there is an external market, so for the first 4 days or so I just farm resources and gold as best I can. Fior gets Air, then Fire. Naturally, the plan is to buy Earth at the University. I find a bunch more Dragon Fly Hives. The Moon appeared. I burn a couple of Dragon Fly Hive guards (Boars, Harpies), on day 116 I start taking all of this. On day 117 I find another 2 Dragon Fly Hives. WTF, at the respawn there are already 10 of them!!!! I cleared all of that by chaining - all big and juicy - a total of 68 (!!!) Wyverns - with one Dragon Fly Hive missed :D. ГО - a hundred Pit Fiends. I wanted to upgrade Earth magic, wasted a day for that, but I get offered Logistics, I can't refuse. On day 123 I hit the Pit Fiends with full movement, they resurrected 20 Demons from a corpse with a spell, -4 Wyverns, we move on - we see +5 All Stats + +2 All Stats behind Naga Guards, there's also a Dragon Utopia. I clear it, stats are already good. Earth magic experience. Next turn I take Dragon Utopia 1 - it gives Boots of Levitation and a Cart with Ore. I levitated and headed towards the opponent who appeared near the ГО - FB without a chance, his spawn was worse. Thanks for the game!!!

I confirm.

After mutual wasting of restarts, it seemed my spawn wasn't bad: on day 111 a Griffin Conservatory is visible, an artifact +1 Speed behind a pack of Trolls, upgradeable dwellings, Crypts, a Chest behind 50-99 Troglodytes, an Experience Stone (immediate Expert Armorer for Tazar). But in the end, the hope for a decent respawn turned to disappointment: the chest behind the Troglodytes was empty, from external dwellings only 2 Gnoll dwellings, even the second Griffin Conservatory with a chest behind Champions and a native secondary skill didn't brighten the picture. The other secondary hero turned out to be a Dungeon hero, but there was nothing to portal to. Only 1 Dragon Fly Hive was found, and it was... mm.. let's say, deep :). In the end, there was nothing left but to farm Crypts with every available hero, gather gold, and by the end of the week I scraped together enough for Hydras in the Castle and Wyverns in the Fort on the secondary. On day 121 I barely bought the creatures, took that unfortunate Dragon Fly Hive (for 6 Wyverns), and split Tazar into the main. On day 122 I take the Griffin Conservatory (a level 1 one :( ), on day 123 I take the second Griffin Conservatory behind Champions, as well as a Chest for 15k experience, I'm about to break through the ГО (regular Nagas), but I see the Red's scout (expected, considering I knew the opponent's respawn was nearby, and also that he was already in the center), I decided not to waste the already scarce army: 3 Hydras, 3 Angels, 16 upgraded Wyverns, a few Gnolls, ~40 Lizardmen. Tazar didn't level up very well: after Expert Armorer, he got Air, Pathfinding, Wisdom, and at the very, very end he grabbed Basic Offense. In the end, the opponent arrived with 60+ Wyverns, broke the Naga's faces without much trouble, and then, naturally, mine too. No chance.

Thanks for the game.

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Total from all the Dragon Fly Hives at the respawn (and I found all of them, missed 2) I got 84 !!!!! Wyverns. Who can top that? :D :cool:

Gentlemen, that's a record! :smile19: