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Let me state right away that I have a negative attitude toward such accusations of cheating based on speculation.
For everyone discussing this — here is a recording of this game, which Gomunguls uploaded to YouTube.
I decided to watch it; I think the recording provides a clearer picture than saves.
I've watched some of Gomunguls' streams, and I agree that sometimes his actions seem questionable to me.
For example, the final of the Champions League tournament, where Gomunguls, playing as Swamp, spends 4 days with a plowman to go off-road around a blockade to get the gloves — when I watched that recording, that decision seemed questionable to me.
In another game from the same final, Gomunguls showed a textbook game as Castle, which fully demonstrates his playstyle — the playstyle he talked about in tutorial videos and on streams.
Overall, it looks like this: Week 1 — building up, leveling heroes, and scouting objects, forming strike stacks to capture them; Week 2 — collecting those objects, and not just with the main hero. And this is a perfectly reasonable and logical course of action in the game.
Now about the game: in my opinion, a rather unfavorable setup for Gomunguls — a loop-shaped visible road, a very difficult fight on day 111 with 49 ogres for the ring; I think Gomunguls played well thanks to Luna, a good starting stack of eyes, and considering the restarts spent.
His actions are quite reasonable — leveling Gunnar and Luna, subsequently taking the Griffin Conservatory thanks to that same Luna, which allowed him to snowball.
The adjacent zone with the center on snow — one road is cut off by a multiple block of inner treasure. I think many will agree that given a start with Gunnar, it's foolish to push into the center on week 2 with 8mm6a against Conflux in such a setup — thus, the adjacent zone with the corner treasure is scouted.
Given all this, taking the Griffin Conservatory with Gunnar in the underground adjacent zone with the corner treasure looks like a perfectly normal move (there were angels, and getting + more angels to form a single strike stack).
Lizard's plan to rush was executed poorly in my opinion:
1) It should be noted that Gomunguls' actions are made considering Lizard's actions.
2) Lizard wrote that he had View Air, scouted a portal to the Inferno zone of the computer (where Gomunguls had a town). With View Air, he could see the town was close, but the town remained uncaptured, and Crag Hack moved on. (Lizard wrote that at the start of week 3, Gomunguls had no towns left — but on day 132, Gomunguls still has Inferno under control; by that point, that infamous Dragon Utopia had already been taken).
3) Crag Hack's army isn't that scary: a couple (1-4) Firebirds — given it's Conflux, most likely 4 — and a couple (1-4) Angels — Gunnar has 7 angels at the same moment; Gomunguls is only behind due to lower stats.
4) Gunnar with 7 angels in the fog really did end up under threat in one day, but that would have led not to a one-sided wipe but to a trade, and given the possible fight, he could still continue with Luna at Spell Power 10.
5) Because Lizard doesn't capture Inferno, Gomunguls wins the "battle of leftovers" and prevents Lizard from building chains.
6) Lizard doesn't go straight for the opponent's main town — he gets distracted by taking the Arena + the Ring of +1 HP, which looks extremely illogical to me.
7) Naturally, Gomunguls runs his heroes away from the road so they don't get picked off, collects available goodies, finds a Griffin Conservatory on a spawn — next to which there's also a Well; Luna spends the night safely in a Sanctuary, near which there's a Break; she has 10 Spell Power, meaning she can take the Conservatory 1-2.
8) Gunnar levels up, defeats the Orb of +50% Earth damage, and during all this, the Dragon Utopia is found.
What I'm getting at: Gunnar fears Crag Hack only because Crag outstats him. It's perfectly logical that while Crag Hack is wasting time (spending 5 turns with all his power to take the opponent's main and running along a loop-shaped road back and forth), Gomunguls cuts Crag off from chains and looks for power-ups in the zone he still has access to.
He didn't intentionally head for the Dragon Utopia, and when he found it, he turned back, waited for reinforcements, and went to take it. I disagree with Lizard's opinion that only a mini Dragon Utopia is taken. I think a double Dragon Utopia is taken in that situation without issue: Gunnar has Expert Offense and Defense and 8 angels.
9) I disagree that only the Cape of Velocity and the Helm saved him — for example, the Bow of Elven Cherry (with the power-up), stat-boosting equipment (+4, +5, +6 All), or the Gladius could have easily given Gomunguls the advantage.
I haven't watched the second part of the stream yet, but in Lizard's post, only Gomunguls' actions up to day 132 are contested.
Based on everything stated above and the recording I watched, I consider Lizard's claim to be unfounded and unsubstantiated.
For everyone discussing this — here is a recording of this game, which Gomunguls uploaded to YouTube.
I decided to watch it; I think the recording provides a clearer picture than saves.
I've watched some of Gomunguls' streams, and I agree that sometimes his actions seem questionable to me.
For example, the final of the Champions League tournament, where Gomunguls, playing as Swamp, spends 4 days with a plowman to go off-road around a blockade to get the gloves — when I watched that recording, that decision seemed questionable to me.
In another game from the same final, Gomunguls showed a textbook game as Castle, which fully demonstrates his playstyle — the playstyle he talked about in tutorial videos and on streams.
Overall, it looks like this: Week 1 — building up, leveling heroes, and scouting objects, forming strike stacks to capture them; Week 2 — collecting those objects, and not just with the main hero. And this is a perfectly reasonable and logical course of action in the game.
Now about the game: in my opinion, a rather unfavorable setup for Gomunguls — a loop-shaped visible road, a very difficult fight on day 111 with 49 ogres for the ring; I think Gomunguls played well thanks to Luna, a good starting stack of eyes, and considering the restarts spent.
His actions are quite reasonable — leveling Gunnar and Luna, subsequently taking the Griffin Conservatory thanks to that same Luna, which allowed him to snowball.
The adjacent zone with the center on snow — one road is cut off by a multiple block of inner treasure. I think many will agree that given a start with Gunnar, it's foolish to push into the center on week 2 with 8mm6a against Conflux in such a setup — thus, the adjacent zone with the corner treasure is scouted.
Given all this, taking the Griffin Conservatory with Gunnar in the underground adjacent zone with the corner treasure looks like a perfectly normal move (there were angels, and getting + more angels to form a single strike stack).
Lizard's plan to rush was executed poorly in my opinion:
1) It should be noted that Gomunguls' actions are made considering Lizard's actions.
2) Lizard wrote that he had View Air, scouted a portal to the Inferno zone of the computer (where Gomunguls had a town). With View Air, he could see the town was close, but the town remained uncaptured, and Crag Hack moved on. (Lizard wrote that at the start of week 3, Gomunguls had no towns left — but on day 132, Gomunguls still has Inferno under control; by that point, that infamous Dragon Utopia had already been taken).
3) Crag Hack's army isn't that scary: a couple (1-4) Firebirds — given it's Conflux, most likely 4 — and a couple (1-4) Angels — Gunnar has 7 angels at the same moment; Gomunguls is only behind due to lower stats.
4) Gunnar with 7 angels in the fog really did end up under threat in one day, but that would have led not to a one-sided wipe but to a trade, and given the possible fight, he could still continue with Luna at Spell Power 10.
5) Because Lizard doesn't capture Inferno, Gomunguls wins the "battle of leftovers" and prevents Lizard from building chains.
6) Lizard doesn't go straight for the opponent's main town — he gets distracted by taking the Arena + the Ring of +1 HP, which looks extremely illogical to me.
7) Naturally, Gomunguls runs his heroes away from the road so they don't get picked off, collects available goodies, finds a Griffin Conservatory on a spawn — next to which there's also a Well; Luna spends the night safely in a Sanctuary, near which there's a Break; she has 10 Spell Power, meaning she can take the Conservatory 1-2.
8) Gunnar levels up, defeats the Orb of +50% Earth damage, and during all this, the Dragon Utopia is found.
What I'm getting at: Gunnar fears Crag Hack only because Crag outstats him. It's perfectly logical that while Crag Hack is wasting time (spending 5 turns with all his power to take the opponent's main and running along a loop-shaped road back and forth), Gomunguls cuts Crag off from chains and looks for power-ups in the zone he still has access to.
He didn't intentionally head for the Dragon Utopia, and when he found it, he turned back, waited for reinforcements, and went to take it. I disagree with Lizard's opinion that only a mini Dragon Utopia is taken. I think a double Dragon Utopia is taken in that situation without issue: Gunnar has Expert Offense and Defense and 8 angels.
9) I disagree that only the Cape of Velocity and the Helm saved him — for example, the Bow of Elven Cherry (with the power-up), stat-boosting equipment (+4, +5, +6 All), or the Gladius could have easily given Gomunguls the advantage.
I haven't watched the second part of the stream yet, but in Lizard's post, only Gomunguls' actions up to day 132 are contested.
Based on everything stated above and the recording I watched, I consider Lizard's claim to be unfounded and unsubstantiated.
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