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

25.08.2013 Juristis (red, random, Rampart, Kyrre) def NumOne (blue, random, Inferno, Ash) 2sm4d(3) 115

We agreed - 2 days for rest. It spawned a castle on a barbarian, 2 roads (ГО and vampires in the basement) and nothing special it seems, but decided to play because of Tamika. On 112 I break through the vampires, and there are grand elves - rest, what to do.
Then it spawned completely unplayable: basement, 2 roads, Ash with 12 imps, gogs not built, no money, nothing, decided not to drag it out.

25.08.2013 Juristis (blue, random, Tower, Tan, Marius) def NumOne (red, random, Fortress, Stig, Crag Hack) 2sm4d(3) 211

Now this game was more interesting. Rich respawn, with an external dwelling of lizards, cows, and gnolls, 4 roads, though one is immediately blocked by elves for a pandora and resources, I run to the lava, break through the golems, and there's an immediate block of grand cows, which can supposedly be bypassed, but I need to hit the hobbits - there are 60 of them in one stack, they instantly get morale and take out 7 of my lizards, also hit my gnolls a bit. I look - and further there's an immediate block of ghost dragons - a turnoff. I run to the last secondary, and there thank god I broke through without issues and colored Conflux.
On the second week I take a mini hive, beat the elves and the pandora for entire 1st level, there's inferno in the basement and some tier-upgraders. Where to go next is unclear, 3 or 4 forks into the darkness, I decide to break into Conflux (there's a stable and a descent to the treasure zone nearby), meanwhile upgrading the cows, thankfully I had enough money. I entered the treasure zone, and there's absolutely nothing - 12 grand necromancers for a sphere of earth, further grand liches for resources and a prison, a crystal mine, a hive, a dead end requiring a keymaster, and a gold mine - which I crash into because the opponent arrived.
131 - I can't buy troops for an attack, I take what I have, only about 17 mana, visit the library and the fight. Thanks to magi and a sphere of water the opponent manages to outshoot me by the skin of their teeth. I ransom, then attack with a scout hero: 2 grand flies and 15 grand lizards weren't enough to kill 5 gremlins :), that could have been the end of it.
Then running around, another treasure zone on the sand (thankfully there's pass-fight), though quite inconvenient, a couple of hives (almost all were mini hives), cloak of desertion, then some narrow passage again, but Dragon Utopias are visible, I go. There, right along the map edge, a block of 38 sultans for a sword +3 and a medal of forgetfulness - they roughed me up good, can't enter the Dragon Utopias anymore, I take 2 more hives and crash. Got upset.
Finally took a secondary inferno and go into the swamp treasure zone, where I get caught by the opponent with shackles. That's about it.

Thanks for the game.