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An interesting game with a simply wild pace turned out. :D
On the first week, I took external dwellings at my spawn: Air Elementals, Magogs, and Fire Elementals.
I found Boots behind the skeletons in an adjacent zone, a couple of Pandora's Boxes, some decent scrolls, but money was very tight. Only level 1-5 and that without a Citadel. :(
On the second week, I went to the center, came to the Rampart computer through the teleport. There was Ivor, Unicorns, and 20+ Grand Elves and other meat. I decided to hit and run from there before they could beat me up :D
Then a hero from the Conflux computer popped up nearby, I had to explain to him that he had started this for nothing. And then I took his castle, although he had collected 2 external dwellings of Sprites and an external dwelling of Water Elementals and recruited, so I took a good hit too.
The 2nd week ended with level 1-5 in a Fort in 2 castles.
I started the 3rd week with recruiting and taking a Dragon Fly Hive and a level 2 Griffin Conservatory, my daddy at that point was Gunnar. Then I attacked 97 Fish, but didn't take the box because it looked very much like level 4 and I have no Wisdom. By the way, I was building up the Mage Guild at home, for nobody knows who, but for the scrolls. Although all the scrolls were junk.
Finally, Gelare, the first of my scout heroes, got Advanced Wisdom. Only at level 6 because I couldn't refuse Earth magic. :) Takes the box and it's 10k experience :(
Well, at least there's a promising mage, since he also got Air magic.
Next, the OP stupidly sacrifices Kyrre in the recently captured Rampart of that same computer. Left him on Centaurs and Dwarves in the castle. Gunnar without a spell book gets there and kills him, but loses most of the army, leaving the Fire Elementals with the scout hero, of which there were already a fair amount (the rest were killed by towers and Kyrre's magic). There weren't many artifacts there anyway, but it's still nice. Then Gelare runs to the treasure zone: Library, Dragon Fly Hive, Sword +6, Fire Elemental scroll (GM 5 gave me Fly, GM 4 gave me Resurrection). I had to give the Rampart back (but not without a fight, the OP had about minus 30k gold) because there was a ton of army there, and it's not clear how to kill it yet...
Here Gelare gets Fire magic in the 7th slot :smile51: well, now the main thing is done, I can go to a Dragon Utopia.
I took a level 2 Dragon Utopia with Phoenixes and Fire Elemental summoning (at 146 :smile04: ), almost lost (in HoMM 3 I would have written GG), but I hit-and-ran it pretty well, leaving only a few Green and Red Dragons. Right then, Gunnar, who had managed to gallop from the main hero, finishes it off. The stats it gave were only (Shield +12 / Crown 4/4). But for the first time I had a ton of money, and by the end of the week, Griffins are built in both Conflux towns, and at home even in a Citadel.
Time ran out, and now I have to fight on two fronts. My 2nd front-liner is Tante with Expert Wisdom, Air, and Tactics.
That was the save point.
After loading, I recruited Griffins for Gelare.
(he got the Log book and ran with 3k movement points :cool: ) I first attacked the noob, with an army of 25 Pegasi, Dendroid Soldiers, small fry, and as planned, got the gold for a 2nd recruitment. On the last moves, I also attacked a scout hero, with 4 Giant Lizards and junk, they shouldn't be proliferating. :rolleyes:
Istra showed up with good stats, and Dimension Door (though I haven't noticed more than one cast yet) didn't have a couple of moves left, but Alamar got there, unafraid of Armageddon, and attacked. Well, (though I would only have attacked with Shackles in that case, so that even if I got Armageddon, I could kill the daddy), Gelare has a Bolt for 450, cast it on a stack of War Unicorns, 11+10 (also very strange), killed a Pegasus, and a few Elves, and bought himself off on the last unit (Expert Diplomacy saved me a couple thousand anyway).
I replenished mana at the Well, and rushed to the treasure zone. Tante took the Pendant of Free Will and ended up in a snow treasure zone and found a Dimension Door scroll there :smile13:
The OP also went into the treasure zone where Gelare went, which is not very pleasant. He took a Dwarf Cottage and something else there, but he didn't spot me. I, in turn, took a Dwarf Cottage, a mini Griffin Conservatory, and I spot a Dragon Utopia, but I only have 45 mana left, after a tough and, as it turned out, pointless fight against Master Gremlins.
Next turn, I see that the OP left the treasure zone and out of joy, I didn't have enough time for Gelare to move, but the chain is in place, ready to take the Dragon Utopia.
The OP spotted the Dragon Utopia that was on the Rampart spawn and rushed there immediately.
I took mine, there was a level 5 Helm and a Chalice of Life, and I didn't need anything else. Then I quickly cleared the treasure zone and had the opportunity to attack the OP after his Dragon Utopia (Dendroid Soldiers, Unicorns, Centaurs), but I couldn't reach him and had to take the Rampart in the last seconds. I managed to place the level 5 Helm, but not the Breastplate, the OP didn't attack, I got lucky. But he combined his army and came at me. I decide to equip the Breastplate and attack, since he only has 58 mana, and I have 100 more with equal stats, and if needed, enough gold to buy myself off.
I attack on 217.
Gelare 10 13 21 (148 mana) 5 Angels 12 Giant Lizards 1+40 (approx) Fire Elementals 1+7 Phoenixes, +1 Speed
Istra 13 13 15 (58 mana) 5 Angels 120 Master Centaurs 12 Dendroid Soldiers 15 Master Pegasi 28 War Unicorns 270 Skeletons 34 Arch Liches +1 HP
Round 1: All my units wait and I get a Chain Lightning for 625 on the Phoenixes. No Air magic there, in response, Implosion on the most dangerous stack of War Unicorns.
Round 2: We exchange Land Mines, Angels from wait kill -3 Unicorns.
Round 3: The OP cowers in a corner and starts using Ice Bolt for 300 to finish off my remaining Phoenixes, I resurrect 6 of them in response
Round 4: From wait, I cast Inferno on all the existing stacks :D fortunately I had the Fire Orb.
Round 5: The OP switches from Resurrection to Ice Bolt on the Angels.
Round 6: From wait, I cast Mass Haste, 3 Angels break into the Arch Liches, leaving a couple, and the Phoenixes clean up the Dendroid Soldiers and Angels.
Round 7: Implosion kills the Skeletons, I have 27 mana left, I plow into the OP with everything
2 Angels, 3 Unicorns, 80 Centaurs, a couple of Arch Liches remain, the OP uses his last mana for an Ice Bolt and buys himself off.
Then I captured the Rampart with scout heroes and placed Istra there.
On 221, after 2 Dimension Doors, I replenish mana at the Well and attack, having equipped the Chalice of Life instead of the Helm.
Got hit with Chain Lightning on the Phoenixes again, in response an Inferno for 550 proved my point, Phoenixes and Angels broke in.
Round 2, a Bolt on the Angels and I finish off the remaining survivors in hand-to-hand combat, not letting them move.
Then Tante took another Rampart from the OP, and a village in the treasure zone that he had started building.
On his turn, the OP surrenders.
Thanks for the interesting game!
P.S. Don't judge me too harshly for spelling and punctuation :D
P.S.S. Otherwise I'll end up writing like Bishop :D :D
On the first week, I took external dwellings at my spawn: Air Elementals, Magogs, and Fire Elementals.
I found Boots behind the skeletons in an adjacent zone, a couple of Pandora's Boxes, some decent scrolls, but money was very tight. Only level 1-5 and that without a Citadel. :(
On the second week, I went to the center, came to the Rampart computer through the teleport. There was Ivor, Unicorns, and 20+ Grand Elves and other meat. I decided to hit and run from there before they could beat me up :D
Then a hero from the Conflux computer popped up nearby, I had to explain to him that he had started this for nothing. And then I took his castle, although he had collected 2 external dwellings of Sprites and an external dwelling of Water Elementals and recruited, so I took a good hit too.
The 2nd week ended with level 1-5 in a Fort in 2 castles.
I started the 3rd week with recruiting and taking a Dragon Fly Hive and a level 2 Griffin Conservatory, my daddy at that point was Gunnar. Then I attacked 97 Fish, but didn't take the box because it looked very much like level 4 and I have no Wisdom. By the way, I was building up the Mage Guild at home, for nobody knows who, but for the scrolls. Although all the scrolls were junk.
Finally, Gelare, the first of my scout heroes, got Advanced Wisdom. Only at level 6 because I couldn't refuse Earth magic. :) Takes the box and it's 10k experience :(
Well, at least there's a promising mage, since he also got Air magic.
Next, the OP stupidly sacrifices Kyrre in the recently captured Rampart of that same computer. Left him on Centaurs and Dwarves in the castle. Gunnar without a spell book gets there and kills him, but loses most of the army, leaving the Fire Elementals with the scout hero, of which there were already a fair amount (the rest were killed by towers and Kyrre's magic). There weren't many artifacts there anyway, but it's still nice. Then Gelare runs to the treasure zone: Library, Dragon Fly Hive, Sword +6, Fire Elemental scroll (GM 5 gave me Fly, GM 4 gave me Resurrection). I had to give the Rampart back (but not without a fight, the OP had about minus 30k gold) because there was a ton of army there, and it's not clear how to kill it yet...
Here Gelare gets Fire magic in the 7th slot :smile51: well, now the main thing is done, I can go to a Dragon Utopia.
I took a level 2 Dragon Utopia with Phoenixes and Fire Elemental summoning (at 146 :smile04: ), almost lost (in HoMM 3 I would have written GG), but I hit-and-ran it pretty well, leaving only a few Green and Red Dragons. Right then, Gunnar, who had managed to gallop from the main hero, finishes it off. The stats it gave were only (Shield +12 / Crown 4/4). But for the first time I had a ton of money, and by the end of the week, Griffins are built in both Conflux towns, and at home even in a Citadel.
Time ran out, and now I have to fight on two fronts. My 2nd front-liner is Tante with Expert Wisdom, Air, and Tactics.
That was the save point.
After loading, I recruited Griffins for Gelare.
(he got the Log book and ran with 3k movement points :cool: ) I first attacked the noob, with an army of 25 Pegasi, Dendroid Soldiers, small fry, and as planned, got the gold for a 2nd recruitment. On the last moves, I also attacked a scout hero, with 4 Giant Lizards and junk, they shouldn't be proliferating. :rolleyes:
Istra showed up with good stats, and Dimension Door (though I haven't noticed more than one cast yet) didn't have a couple of moves left, but Alamar got there, unafraid of Armageddon, and attacked. Well, (though I would only have attacked with Shackles in that case, so that even if I got Armageddon, I could kill the daddy), Gelare has a Bolt for 450, cast it on a stack of War Unicorns, 11+10 (also very strange), killed a Pegasus, and a few Elves, and bought himself off on the last unit (Expert Diplomacy saved me a couple thousand anyway).
I replenished mana at the Well, and rushed to the treasure zone. Tante took the Pendant of Free Will and ended up in a snow treasure zone and found a Dimension Door scroll there :smile13:
The OP also went into the treasure zone where Gelare went, which is not very pleasant. He took a Dwarf Cottage and something else there, but he didn't spot me. I, in turn, took a Dwarf Cottage, a mini Griffin Conservatory, and I spot a Dragon Utopia, but I only have 45 mana left, after a tough and, as it turned out, pointless fight against Master Gremlins.
Next turn, I see that the OP left the treasure zone and out of joy, I didn't have enough time for Gelare to move, but the chain is in place, ready to take the Dragon Utopia.
The OP spotted the Dragon Utopia that was on the Rampart spawn and rushed there immediately.
I took mine, there was a level 5 Helm and a Chalice of Life, and I didn't need anything else. Then I quickly cleared the treasure zone and had the opportunity to attack the OP after his Dragon Utopia (Dendroid Soldiers, Unicorns, Centaurs), but I couldn't reach him and had to take the Rampart in the last seconds. I managed to place the level 5 Helm, but not the Breastplate, the OP didn't attack, I got lucky. But he combined his army and came at me. I decide to equip the Breastplate and attack, since he only has 58 mana, and I have 100 more with equal stats, and if needed, enough gold to buy myself off.
I attack on 217.
Gelare 10 13 21 (148 mana) 5 Angels 12 Giant Lizards 1+40 (approx) Fire Elementals 1+7 Phoenixes, +1 Speed
Istra 13 13 15 (58 mana) 5 Angels 120 Master Centaurs 12 Dendroid Soldiers 15 Master Pegasi 28 War Unicorns 270 Skeletons 34 Arch Liches +1 HP
Round 1: All my units wait and I get a Chain Lightning for 625 on the Phoenixes. No Air magic there, in response, Implosion on the most dangerous stack of War Unicorns.
Round 2: We exchange Land Mines, Angels from wait kill -3 Unicorns.
Round 3: The OP cowers in a corner and starts using Ice Bolt for 300 to finish off my remaining Phoenixes, I resurrect 6 of them in response
Round 4: From wait, I cast Inferno on all the existing stacks :D fortunately I had the Fire Orb.
Round 5: The OP switches from Resurrection to Ice Bolt on the Angels.
Round 6: From wait, I cast Mass Haste, 3 Angels break into the Arch Liches, leaving a couple, and the Phoenixes clean up the Dendroid Soldiers and Angels.
Round 7: Implosion kills the Skeletons, I have 27 mana left, I plow into the OP with everything
2 Angels, 3 Unicorns, 80 Centaurs, a couple of Arch Liches remain, the OP uses his last mana for an Ice Bolt and buys himself off.
Then I captured the Rampart with scout heroes and placed Istra there.
On 221, after 2 Dimension Doors, I replenish mana at the Well and attack, having equipped the Chalice of Life instead of the Helm.
Got hit with Chain Lightning on the Phoenixes again, in response an Inferno for 550 proved my point, Phoenixes and Angels broke in.
Round 2, a Bolt on the Angels and I finish off the remaining survivors in hand-to-hand combat, not letting them move.
Then Tante took another Rampart from the OP, and a village in the treasure zone that he had started building.
On his turn, the OP surrenders.
Thanks for the interesting game!
P.S. Don't judge me too harshly for spelling and punctuation :D
P.S.S. Otherwise I'll end up writing like Bishop :D :D
