Palach HP
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An amazing game that, in my mind, wasn't just played on the computer. I could probably draw some of the subtleties, object placements on the map, and the plans and chains if I were woken up in the middle of the night.
We started playing without rests, I was tempted by Shakti's 3 stacks and Dungeon, saw 2 external troglodyte dwellings. Mullich and Gunnar came in. There are 2 obelisks. Go left to the center of the Archipelago. Shakti gets Wisdom, and I decide to take it as the 1st skill in the hope of Expert and a box for magic at the start of the second week (which actually happened on day 123). There were some doubts about the rest, I didn't have multi-level external dwellings, nor a Griffin Conservatory or signs of a respawn. But there was gold, so I decided to let the elves waste their rests. The elves got 5 Griffin Conservatory at the respawn and external dwellings of Hive and Pegasi.
I run down the road to the fork on day 113, grab Flax, who passes through shifted guards into the treasure zone and later builds a fort in the Flax village, still in week 1! On day 114, I spot the first Griffin Conservatory and go there hoping it's (a level) 1, slightly deviating from the road. The chains are ready to take Necropolis and Inferno in the Underground on different sides; fast roads help. But the distances are still significant. 1 Angel, as I wanted, and the computers living in the Underground acknowledge me as their master. (Right at that moment, Iamsamstan joins the game, having recently successfully suicided on Daimond on day 114 as Demons, and I cheered him up by saying he was the first to bend the knee.) I revealed a Griffin Conservatory near Necropolis and a sign — mood is excellent, but a certain marajan keeps saying I should have rested. In the capital, I build 1-5 in the Citadel without a portal. In the conflux, a couple of dwellings; at his respawn, I saw 2 external earth dwellings.
In the second week, I quickly take the level 2 Griffin Conservatory and the sign and head to Flax's treasure zone, as I know for sure that his village is not far from the treasure zone entrance. And from Inferno, no road was generated into the treasure zone at all! Well, I planned to go to Necropolis a bit later, thinking I'd quickly clear Flax's treasure zone. But the only things I could handle there were 10-19 Champions, from which Shakti grabbed all 5 spells! The rest of the guards are completely impossible, and I also revealed 2 Dragon Utopias. I turned around and headed with Lochs towards Necropolis. My mood was ruined by my own Nagas' morale in Naga Banks, forgetting to buy books for the Lochs, and also by the elf army, which already outmatched me on day 124, and on day 127 I realized that Kyrre had already taken a Dragon Utopia. Reaching Necropolis, Gunnar picked up a couple of experience boxes and even got ahead of Shakti. But because of a Pandora's Box, I still preferred to consider the Troglodyte Lord as the main hero, and he takes the level 2 Dragon Utopia for the Titan's Cuirass. After feeding all the meat there, collecting a couple more Hives, and forgetting to refill mana, I dive into the second Dragon Utopia and they give me the КЗ(ambig). In the army: 1 Angel and 21 Wiverns — that's all.
Kyrre's stats are simply off the charts, and most importantly, she already has Archangels (the computers there are: Barbarian, Castle, and Swamp). There was constantly not enough time, even though we played on Mini-Nostalgia with 8 minutes SoD. From day 132 to day 143, every day was the same: runs by Shakti and Gunnar, who together had over 7k movement points and each didn't forget to use Dimension Door and Town Portal. In total, I took about 8 Dragon Utopias, but I still couldn't catch up in stats. I forgot to rebuild castles; I painted the external Phoenix dwelling and stuck it at the computers; I painted 2 external earth dwellings. The Hives were constantly minimal. I was afraid they would attack me on day 137, but that didn't happen. On day 143, after evaluating the situation with scouts, I thought, so he's not interested in the center treasure zone, and I can intercept it. I spent a whole turn to get there and saw everything was already taken. I stopped in front of the library; if I enter, I won't be able to Town Portal back. I take a risk with an army of 45 Wiverns, 8 Phoenixes, 30 Magmas, 4 Angels, and some other less important units from Flax. I am attacked by 14 Archangels, 29 Gr. Unicorns, 50 Wiverns; the rest is unimportant. Mass Haste from the elves, minus all Phoenixes and 22 Wiverns. His stats are higher; I implode — 14 Archangels, and the surrender goes through, phew...
Then, until the end of the week, I build Pits in Inferno and save meat, looking for the Flask (the last component of the Elixir). I myself organize a raid from the Necropolis treasure zone into the opponent's treasure zone — the distance is astronomical. But Gunnar overcomes it, steals a Griffin Conservatory and 3 Hives there, and gets chased away. I clear out Flax's treasure zone; on the market, I pay gold for the Flask:) , Dimension Door down, there's a Dragon Utopia guarded by Devils who are guarding the same Flask — oh well. It seems we were given completely opposite things in Dragon Utopias: I got Cloaks, Orbs of various kinds. He got battle stats and speed. From month 2, I start replenishing the army with Demons; this was quite difficult since I cannot convert Necropolis or Elemental units. Foreseeing this situation, Gunnar captured a Castle of the opponent, spending the entire turn! and took 44 Marksmen and 20 Swordsmen from there, upgrading them to 4 Archangels. Gunnar and Shakti continue hunting for Pandora's Boxes hoping to find some meat. Only, my treasure zone is Flax-based, and from Necropolis it's Necropolis-based((. I see snow and a bunch of artifacts, but I consider this the opponent's zone. Then it dawns on me that this is my Swamp treasure zone from Inferno which has absolutely no roads. I temporarily stopped expanding towards the opponent. To be continued...;)
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18.03.2014 Palach HP (Red, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def Javdet (Blue, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) Mini-Nostalgia 221 Continued
But the opponent started pressuring my Flax, and as a result, by day 217 I realized I couldn't stay overnight in Flax and would have to continue running, but only if I'm left alone now. Then Gunnar will reach the external Tavern, I'll buy out Shakti from there and attack the Castle. The elves were probably afraid I would steal the growth, as I had attempted such things before. And they took my Flax and capital; if Kyrre had chosen a different direction, he would have found Gunnar there, and then I think it would have been over. But after this, the opponent Town Portals to my Flax, abandoning my capital. On day 221, Gunnar makes a desperate forced march and, leaving himself 450 movement points, snatches the Dungeon; there Shakti doubles his mana. And storms the opponent in Flax. Shakti level 23 (Gunnar level 24) vs. Kyrre level 27, I think. Shakti: 34-32-39 stats and 640 mana, 4 Archangels, 5 Angels, 155 Gr. Demons, 75 Gr. Wiverns, 51 Gr. Magmas, 12 Phoenixes, and 23 Psychic Elementals + Elixir, Pendant of... +3+3 morale, luck, and resistance in the form of the Mantle. Kyrre: 34 45 25 stats, 270 mana, 98 Gr. Wiverns, 21 Archangels, 39 Gr. Unicorns, 29 Gr. Serpents, 29 Gr. Pegasi, 28 Gr. Dendroids, and 70 Gr. Elves +3 speed. In round 1, Anti-Magic is cast on the Archangels; I play with Berserk (probably a mistake); his Wiverns resist it; Unicorns blind my Wiverns; the Elves are completely killed by Unicorns and Dendroids. At the end of the round, -4 of my Archangels from the opponent's Archangels' attack. My Archangels return, Anti-Magic on the Wiverns. Implosion for 4800 on the Unicorns goes through, fortunately without surprises. I realize it's going to get bad and crash maximum into the Wiverns. Then the battle came down to draining the opponent's mana; I did various Resurrections + got lucky with poison from my Wyvern Monarchs, and the Wiverns under Anti-Magic melted away. The elves resurrected by the Archangels under the same Anti-Magic didn't cause problems. For me, after the opponent's Armageddon, the plan was to drag with Firebirds; 156 were summoned per cast. In the end, they did the dragging. A rematch took place!
P.S. We played in 3 sessions. I wanted to surrender after the Implosion on the Unicorns and offered the opponent a draw, because it was already 4 AM, but he said the Shackles were on. Of course, I checked and the battle continued. I didn't believe in my victory mid-battle. The battle was quite interesting and had many possibilities.
Thanks for the game!
We started playing without rests, I was tempted by Shakti's 3 stacks and Dungeon, saw 2 external troglodyte dwellings. Mullich and Gunnar came in. There are 2 obelisks. Go left to the center of the Archipelago. Shakti gets Wisdom, and I decide to take it as the 1st skill in the hope of Expert and a box for magic at the start of the second week (which actually happened on day 123). There were some doubts about the rest, I didn't have multi-level external dwellings, nor a Griffin Conservatory or signs of a respawn. But there was gold, so I decided to let the elves waste their rests. The elves got 5 Griffin Conservatory at the respawn and external dwellings of Hive and Pegasi.
I run down the road to the fork on day 113, grab Flax, who passes through shifted guards into the treasure zone and later builds a fort in the Flax village, still in week 1! On day 114, I spot the first Griffin Conservatory and go there hoping it's (a level) 1, slightly deviating from the road. The chains are ready to take Necropolis and Inferno in the Underground on different sides; fast roads help. But the distances are still significant. 1 Angel, as I wanted, and the computers living in the Underground acknowledge me as their master. (Right at that moment, Iamsamstan joins the game, having recently successfully suicided on Daimond on day 114 as Demons, and I cheered him up by saying he was the first to bend the knee.) I revealed a Griffin Conservatory near Necropolis and a sign — mood is excellent, but a certain marajan keeps saying I should have rested. In the capital, I build 1-5 in the Citadel without a portal. In the conflux, a couple of dwellings; at his respawn, I saw 2 external earth dwellings.
In the second week, I quickly take the level 2 Griffin Conservatory and the sign and head to Flax's treasure zone, as I know for sure that his village is not far from the treasure zone entrance. And from Inferno, no road was generated into the treasure zone at all! Well, I planned to go to Necropolis a bit later, thinking I'd quickly clear Flax's treasure zone. But the only things I could handle there were 10-19 Champions, from which Shakti grabbed all 5 spells! The rest of the guards are completely impossible, and I also revealed 2 Dragon Utopias. I turned around and headed with Lochs towards Necropolis. My mood was ruined by my own Nagas' morale in Naga Banks, forgetting to buy books for the Lochs, and also by the elf army, which already outmatched me on day 124, and on day 127 I realized that Kyrre had already taken a Dragon Utopia. Reaching Necropolis, Gunnar picked up a couple of experience boxes and even got ahead of Shakti. But because of a Pandora's Box, I still preferred to consider the Troglodyte Lord as the main hero, and he takes the level 2 Dragon Utopia for the Titan's Cuirass. After feeding all the meat there, collecting a couple more Hives, and forgetting to refill mana, I dive into the second Dragon Utopia and they give me the КЗ(ambig). In the army: 1 Angel and 21 Wiverns — that's all.
Kyrre's stats are simply off the charts, and most importantly, she already has Archangels (the computers there are: Barbarian, Castle, and Swamp). There was constantly not enough time, even though we played on Mini-Nostalgia with 8 minutes SoD. From day 132 to day 143, every day was the same: runs by Shakti and Gunnar, who together had over 7k movement points and each didn't forget to use Dimension Door and Town Portal. In total, I took about 8 Dragon Utopias, but I still couldn't catch up in stats. I forgot to rebuild castles; I painted the external Phoenix dwelling and stuck it at the computers; I painted 2 external earth dwellings. The Hives were constantly minimal. I was afraid they would attack me on day 137, but that didn't happen. On day 143, after evaluating the situation with scouts, I thought, so he's not interested in the center treasure zone, and I can intercept it. I spent a whole turn to get there and saw everything was already taken. I stopped in front of the library; if I enter, I won't be able to Town Portal back. I take a risk with an army of 45 Wiverns, 8 Phoenixes, 30 Magmas, 4 Angels, and some other less important units from Flax. I am attacked by 14 Archangels, 29 Gr. Unicorns, 50 Wiverns; the rest is unimportant. Mass Haste from the elves, minus all Phoenixes and 22 Wiverns. His stats are higher; I implode — 14 Archangels, and the surrender goes through, phew...
Then, until the end of the week, I build Pits in Inferno and save meat, looking for the Flask (the last component of the Elixir). I myself organize a raid from the Necropolis treasure zone into the opponent's treasure zone — the distance is astronomical. But Gunnar overcomes it, steals a Griffin Conservatory and 3 Hives there, and gets chased away. I clear out Flax's treasure zone; on the market, I pay gold for the Flask:) , Dimension Door down, there's a Dragon Utopia guarded by Devils who are guarding the same Flask — oh well. It seems we were given completely opposite things in Dragon Utopias: I got Cloaks, Orbs of various kinds. He got battle stats and speed. From month 2, I start replenishing the army with Demons; this was quite difficult since I cannot convert Necropolis or Elemental units. Foreseeing this situation, Gunnar captured a Castle of the opponent, spending the entire turn! and took 44 Marksmen and 20 Swordsmen from there, upgrading them to 4 Archangels. Gunnar and Shakti continue hunting for Pandora's Boxes hoping to find some meat. Only, my treasure zone is Flax-based, and from Necropolis it's Necropolis-based((. I see snow and a bunch of artifacts, but I consider this the opponent's zone. Then it dawns on me that this is my Swamp treasure zone from Inferno which has absolutely no roads. I temporarily stopped expanding towards the opponent. To be continued...;)
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18.03.2014 Palach HP (Red, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def Javdet (Blue, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) Mini-Nostalgia 221 Continued
But the opponent started pressuring my Flax, and as a result, by day 217 I realized I couldn't stay overnight in Flax and would have to continue running, but only if I'm left alone now. Then Gunnar will reach the external Tavern, I'll buy out Shakti from there and attack the Castle. The elves were probably afraid I would steal the growth, as I had attempted such things before. And they took my Flax and capital; if Kyrre had chosen a different direction, he would have found Gunnar there, and then I think it would have been over. But after this, the opponent Town Portals to my Flax, abandoning my capital. On day 221, Gunnar makes a desperate forced march and, leaving himself 450 movement points, snatches the Dungeon; there Shakti doubles his mana. And storms the opponent in Flax. Shakti level 23 (Gunnar level 24) vs. Kyrre level 27, I think. Shakti: 34-32-39 stats and 640 mana, 4 Archangels, 5 Angels, 155 Gr. Demons, 75 Gr. Wiverns, 51 Gr. Magmas, 12 Phoenixes, and 23 Psychic Elementals + Elixir, Pendant of... +3+3 morale, luck, and resistance in the form of the Mantle. Kyrre: 34 45 25 stats, 270 mana, 98 Gr. Wiverns, 21 Archangels, 39 Gr. Unicorns, 29 Gr. Serpents, 29 Gr. Pegasi, 28 Gr. Dendroids, and 70 Gr. Elves +3 speed. In round 1, Anti-Magic is cast on the Archangels; I play with Berserk (probably a mistake); his Wiverns resist it; Unicorns blind my Wiverns; the Elves are completely killed by Unicorns and Dendroids. At the end of the round, -4 of my Archangels from the opponent's Archangels' attack. My Archangels return, Anti-Magic on the Wiverns. Implosion for 4800 on the Unicorns goes through, fortunately without surprises. I realize it's going to get bad and crash maximum into the Wiverns. Then the battle came down to draining the opponent's mana; I did various Resurrections + got lucky with poison from my Wyvern Monarchs, and the Wiverns under Anti-Magic melted away. The elves resurrected by the Archangels under the same Anti-Magic didn't cause problems. For me, after the opponent's Armageddon, the plan was to drag with Firebirds; 156 were summoned per cast. In the end, they did the dragging. A rematch took place!
P.S. We played in 3 sessions. I wanted to surrender after the Implosion on the Unicorns and offered the opponent a draw, because it was already 4 AM, but he said the Shackles were on. Of course, I checked and the battle continued. I didn't believe in my victory mid-battle. The battle was quite interesting and had many possibilities.
Thanks for the game!
