ColdRain
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18.10.2013 Nitro (blue, Shakti, Shakti) def ColdRain(red, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) Skirmish 127
140 Troglodytes from the start. Quickly broke into the treasure zone. Took 2 external dwellings of giants there. Shakti leveled up well. After fireball, opp surrendered. Thanks for the game.
My surrender was also not bad, as far as I remember, for 4 days along fast roads I ran to the secondary zone through mountains, noticed the external dwelling of giants late, took it on day 117, home with ranged units in the fort, no tempo, plus a block of Efreeti, had to wait for Deys with tactics to arrive, Ivor had neither earth nor slow, 20 mana and 1 spellpower, in the treasure zone from the good stuff only a Pandora's Box with 80 shooting Gremlins and a Dragon Fly Hive for 20-49 Mighty Gorgons, although I had 34 giants, I didn't go for it, broke through to the enemy's secondary zone and saw 2 external dwellings of giants there (and immediately felt somewhat sad).
On the next turn, Nitro with roaches and shooters shaved off 7 of my giants, then attacked himself, Shakti's attack and defense are lower but he has tactics, +1 to speed, mass slow, 50 mana and a shooter at 70, meat count even higher than mine, in the fireball despite my 2 most successful morale procs on the giants which shaved off 140 Troglodytes and 3 giants that came into direct shot range – no chance. Later I watched the saves, I could have broken through tempo-wise on week 1 with 19 giants into his secondary zone and taken at least 1 external dwelling of giants and maybe pressured him, but I thought that with my external dwelling of giants I was doing very well and there was no rush. Thanks for the game.
25.10.13 Group D
ColdRain (Red, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) def wariator (Blue, Tower, Nella, Nella) 2sm4d(3) 127
The game turned out nerve-wracking and barely held together. Started without restarts, Ivor immediately broke through 2 blocks, a crypt for 2 turns, a portal to the grass adjacent zone, experted archery, got a lot of gold thrown at me, on day 113, 8 heroes, the adjacent zone turned out to be native, on day 114 the roaches captured a cloak +2/2 to knowledge/power and a scroll of Armageddon, Ivor experted attack and ran along the stat-boosters. On day 115 I freed Xyron from prison, level 5, time was pressing and with him, without dismissing Bones or Inferno meat, I entered the Griffin Conservatory with grand haste, with 20 giants, 2 unicorns, 30 centaurs, 1 dendroid, 15 skeletons, 17 imps and 5 gogs and got wrecked – 5 anti-morale procs on giants, unicorns and centaurs, and 6 morale procs on griffins, and Xyron didn't get out, immediately wanted to turn off the computer and go to sleep:smile05:
I was already thinking about surrendering, asked for auto, found out that there was also a complete loss on the other side, and we continued playing)). Which probably lifted the spirits not only of myself but also of the opponent.
Ivor ran into a couple more stat-boosters, decimated the home zone and stood on the road before the entrance to the underground, and right next to it along the road was an entrance to another grass secondary zone.
On day 121 I finished the Griffin Conservatory, bought up giants and unicorns, and immediately almost got killed again on 1 angel breaking through 57 orcs with grand haste, survived with 8 HP, on the same turn decided to take +1 to speed from 50-99 ogres, went in with 1 angel, 9 giants, 3 unicorns and singles, and there were 70 of them with grand haste, barely survived with the loss of 1 pegasus, lucky they didn't get morale when they shouldn't have.
Afterwards there was unclear running around, found 2 more Griffin Conservatories but they turned out to be strong, the only Dragon Fly Hive deep in the rear of the native spawn, the roaches captured a sword +3, an external dwelling of pegasi, in the castle 4 GM with resurrection and rain, wanted to teach Ivor curse from Solmyr through a level 3 scholar but it didn't work out, on day 126 Ivor with 50 mana, 6 spellpower, Armageddon at 330, shooter at 70 stood at the exit from the underground onto enemy territory next to the GO, next to the exit was an untouched Griffin Conservatory. On day 127 with all the meat – 1 angel, 16 silver pegasuses, 16 high elves, 6 dendroids, 2 unicorns, 28 battle dwarves, 40 centaurs – I surfaced onto snow, took the Griffin Conservatory with a single unit, and stood on the road next to the enemy main.
On his turn, the opponent loses on grass to morale-triggering dendroid guards and surrenders. There were two external dwellings of mages on week 1 and a berserker. Thanks for the game.