Stizko
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mrLeFish (blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Saurug) + Dirty_Fish (green, Castle, Orrin, Neela) def Alone (red, Necropolis, Aislin, Nimbus) + Stizko (tan, Stronghold, mr. Hack) Teamwork, 127
a very tough and drawn-out game, played in 3 sessions.
On turn 1 I run to the central Inferno, spread out there, kill the black GO, free Saurug level 10 with armor and logistics, Kostyan has a Griffin Conservatory, a chest, and a lot of gold, Neela came in, we decided to play.
On 112 I found a Griffin Conservatory, a two-square, Saurug heads there with bless, having leveled offense on the monk along the way. We entered the conservatory with 100 halberdiers (the papal guards from the central Castle), 20 gr crossbowmen, and 100+ trogs, it fell pretty easily, same turn I returned everything to the Castle.
There Neela easily and casually clears 2 level 3 conservatories under mass curse, on 116 angels are being bred, and Neela stands before GO, 9 archers on 116 have already become a classic :cool: , but oh horror!! the opponents reveal a large army power and Kyrre with decent stats :eek:
The black GO falls on quick, then Dragon Fly Hive, sandals +2 all, angel external dwelling, KV, shield +12 all, red orb. Moreover if we hadn't taken the shield, we would have covered Kyrre on 117 and there would have been no options for them. But we decided to play it safe and gathered everything, on his turn red takes a chest for 90 black bulls and gets 3 archers there, they break a Dragon Utopia and run far into the center, where Crag Hack is hired, who is now unreachable. But due to lack of timer Kyrre dies and Nimbus nearly dies on an archer.
Then Neela devours the center which contains 2 more angel external dwellings (3 total), at home in the back alleys she picks up another 2 conservatories with 2 angels each, a red external dwelling, and a couple of naga banks, in one of which an angel died..
The central Dragon Fly Hives are collected and all castles are taken, almost snagged the opponents' central castle, 30 MP short. The plan is obvious, on 127 to control all angel external dwellings and, buying them with growth, destroy any army of Crag Hack, but he himself comes under attack, there are 10-19 angels 1+1 archers and chaff, we have 15 archers 1+1 angel, 35+1 wyvern, 1 gr fly, stats are 15 higher and we have the red orb, visions showed there were 17 angels, the urge to attack sharply disappeared, but there was no way back.
In the finale, morale in the 1st round could have decided (both at +3), but it only procced for the opponents' single archers and our ducks.
Thank you for the game!
I suggested to Egor that he play a practice game with someone before the tournament one, but there was no time, to which I told him that then the game with the Fishes would be a practice, and we would reach the final through the lower bracket :D The game turned out interesting and emotional.... Also I'll clarify that the first 2 sessions we played without communication, but with furious keyboard clacking during each player's turn (after another rush of adrenaline I told Egor that I wouldn't play until he bought a headset). What stood out was when my ally couldn't understand for 2 minutes that he needed to give away 17 pixies, and this when we were already in the treasure zone where every second is worth its weight in gold :smile51: The key moment was the last turn of the red player in the 2nd session of our game, when he gave the castle to the opponents, where on his own turn Crag Hack was supposed to charge in with 3000+ movement, and second on advanced armor and wisdom, upon another level-up they give him expert armor instead of wisdom :smile05: , which prevents Crag Hack from learning Dimension Door, and I have no idea where to get 11K experience on a picked-clean map (there were no trees in the visible area). And then luck was not on our side...
And in the finale LeBron is right, with +3 morale and +1 luck there was hope that one or the other would proc, the only chance (angels dealt 1.1K damage).
Thanks for the game!!! :cool: