Reports of the "Clan Wars: on-line (Summer-2009)" Tournaments Auto-translated

bRitvo4kA (red, Stronghold, Gurnisson, Gurnisson) def Hermit (blue, Castle, Valeska, Orrin), Balance, 247



I lost the first battle, and half of my troops were wiped out. Thanks to having 3 logistics, I controlled most of the map and managed to lure away the opponent's weekly growth. Then I miscalculated a bit and was caught off guard, losing troops and money. Thanks to pathfinding, I was able to successfully and quickly loot part of the treasure. After many battles, I still managed to turn the tide of the game.
Thank you for the game!

Vigo has already left, didn't even write a report on who played what, I hope Dartie enlightens us on this

Vigo (Fortress, Tazar, Kyrre) def Dirty_Player (Tower, Neela, Neela) 2sm4d(3), 212

I'll be honest. I was unlucky with the guards. Right at the exit 20-49 gogs. Secondary skills were guarded by gogs and marksmen. The conservatory was guarded by orcs. The entrance to the treasure zone had grand elves and evil eyes. In the treasure zone there were medusas, liches, and archmages, and tactics or air magic stubbornly refused to appear. :mad:
I left the castle, having lost 7 gremlins. I already wanted to take the re (apparently that's what I should have done), but the naga external dwelling forced me to play.

In the first week I finally built nagas in the stronghold, took the secondary Conflux.

In the second week I took the conservatory-two and everything seemed fine. I go down into the treasure zone. I see 3 Pandora's Boxes and a Dragon Utopia. The first Pandora's Box for 50-99 silver pegasuses didn't please me, because there turned out to be 93 of them. They killed the nagas. But there were 25 diamond golems. Great. I attack the naga queens for the Pandora's Box, it gives me all air magic, but no wisdom. :mad: I see a Pandora's Box for 50-99 archmages. I attack, but it turned out I attacked 20-49 mighty liches. They tore me up horribly. The Pandora's Box gives 25 gold golems. My army is left with only golems :) But nothing, I plan to grab the Dragon Utopia, but the guard of 50-99 queen medusas forced me to postpone that idea until the third week...

In the third week I wandered around some. Didn't have money for buying out troops. Bought a few things, took the minimal Dragon Utopia. It gave the Hat of the Magician, the Shield of the Dwarven King, and the Sword of the Dead Knight. Not bad, I thought. I planned to fly to the opponent through the GO, but with just golems you can't do anything there...

In the fourth week I decided to build two Confluxes, because I desperately needed meat. I took another Dragon Utopia. It gave the Necklace of Dragon Tooth, Sandals of the Saint, and the Crown of the Dragon King. To go on the attack, I again had no army, so I shook the hives. About 40 wyverns.

In the fifth week I buy out 10 firebirds. I jump for the Shackles of War, but I'm one hex short of picking them up. Naturally, Kyrre flies in, picks up the Shackles, and attacks. Huge advantage in meat and the red orb left absolutely no chance.

As revealed by the post-mortem. The opponent initially had 2 native heroes, had built lizardmen. Three gnoll external dwellings, one wyvern dwelling, one hydra dwelling. Two hives and a conservatory. In the first week built 1-7 in the castle :eek: , in the secondary elves and wood in the stronghold. In the third week an interesting move was made. A poorly leveled Tazar was sent as a scout hero, while fast-footed Kyrre started leveling from level one and did so quite quickly.

Thanks for the game, played very strongly.

bRitvo4kA (red, Stronghold, Gurnisson, Gurnisson) def Hermit (blue, Castle, Valeska, Orrin), Balance, 247

I confirm. It was a tough, grueling, and exhausting battle on a balanced map with slow roads. Describing the entire game would take a very long time, although, in my opinion, each day deserves a detailed description. Even with an advantage in troops and resources, I really felt the lack of my experience in leading these kinds of wars and the level of my opponent's skill. I made many mistakes: I gave away two growth bonuses from both cities to my opponent and didn't take a single barbarian outpost, didn't build artifact merchants as soon as I had the money, and they were selling rider's gloves, and I didn't level up one or two more heroes like Andrey did. Gurnisson's strength was his expert knowledge of air magic, but he didn't know the tactics, while Orrin, although he didn't know any magic, had expert tactics, and, despite the mass haste, his cover withstood the attacks of the barbarian army while the ranged units fiercely shot at it. Of course, the 50 zombies obtained in Pandoria were an excellent defense for the ranged units, but they slowed down the army, and once, before reaching Dessa, we were short by one tile. I couldn't reach my opponent's heroes! I lost ranged units when sieging cities with single defenders, and the hero-mages attacked them. In the end, there was indeed a turning point, and Gurnisson finally defeated all of Orrin's army. In general, there was a chance to win, but the strategy failed...     Thank you for what was probably the most interesting online game I've ever played!

5th tour

NN – Order of the Phoenix.

vitalic (blue, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) def Sir Aldegir (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) 2SM4D(2) 137
Played without restarts, many elves from the start, but on the first week constant morale from neutrals, for example boars got morale 5 times in one fight, centaurs hid! Broke through to a Conflux secondary, built magic, hoping to build Firebirds and farm their external dwelling. But didn't have enough money or turns to reach farming. On the second week bought a tome and on 123 Conservative third week fell, then it got easier. Found an external dwelling of unicorns at home and marked the Conservatory, went to take it with Kyrre, and it was the minimum, and then on 126 GO from it drops 49 bone dragons and my opponent arrives, I'm in shock, because I declined attacking, leveled up Pathfinding and didn't finish leveling Earth. I attack him, with 3 angels, 13 silver pegasi, 12 wyverns, 30 elves, 8 unicorns. Valeska slows all of them and starts beating, killed two of my angels, but the meat rules, Kyrre almost wipes out everything. Then conservative third week and searching for a path through wasteland to the Barbarian secondary, but instead ended up in a Treasury, there's a library and a sword +5 to all stats. Then telep and I'm at my opponent's third secondary, the reds have scattered, I take his capital, and on the seventh day, after making a paid teleport, I attack Valeska with 5 angels (raised from zero in a week), I have +1 speed, a dozen silver pegasi, 4 angels, 20 wyverns, unicorns, expert tactics, positioned myself and, having slowed, manage to wipe her out, nearby a scout hero with an army…
Thanks for the game

2nd round
NN [COLOR="Black"]– Vampires[/COLOR]
Alessandro (blue, Swamp, Tazar, Gurnisson) def Erdem (red, Tower, Neela) 211, 2sm4d(3)
The opponent took both restarts and they started playing.
111 - at respawn there are 2 external dwellings of shooters and 1 of lizards (never took the lizards), Bron arrived with 7 basilisks. I decide to play.
112 - took the external dwelling of shooters
114 - took the second external dwelling of shooters, broke the prison guard
115 - I break through the passage to the native secondary town and free Gurnisson from prison with 5000 experience, advanced catapult, advanced offense, artillery, and logistics. I decide to make Gurnisson the main hero.
116 - took the native secondary town
117 - in the capital levels 1, 2, 3, 6 in the Castle
121 - took the clover of luck
123 - I break through to the snow secondary town, built the town
125 - Cloak of Dragon Wings +2 spells and knowledge
126 - Gurnisson breaks through a block of 10-19 monks and instead of taking the snow secondary town, I get distracted by the money from a chest and build the Capitol.
127 - Neela captures the snow secondary town right under my nose and attacks Gurni. 3 5 5 4 for Neela vs 10 2 3 3 for Gurni. Gurni wins with 18 shooters. And enters the snow town. In the capital levels 1-6.
135 - behind 16 champions, Magic Armor (+1 all stats) and a hive of 4 Wyverns are taken, Gurni sets off off-road to the native secondary town
137 - I build Hydras, see a third swamp town
141 - capture of the native secondary town
144 - took a naga bank with 30 nagas, Gurni returns to the secondary town to replenish mana and, unexpectedly breaking through a block of 20-49 Grands on the road, bursts into the opponent's respawn. But the opponent is quicker, kills the scout hero, and approaches the secondary town.
145 - Reinforcements come from the capital and Gurni attacks Neela. SECOND FINAL BATTLE. Gurni 13 8 4 5 vs Neela 4 6 10 5. Gurni wins again, although Lightning Strikes from Neela cause major problems.
147 - Gurni, instead of attacking the capital, steps aside and receives +1 defense and doesn't have time to take the capital. He steps back a bit and waits for reinforcements on 211. But then Neela unexpectedly attacks! THIRD FINAL BATTLE. Gurni has 13 10 6 6 vs Neela 4 6 10 5. And for the third time, Gurni wins! News of surrender arrives.
Thank you for an engaging game.

Alessandro (blue, Swamp, Tazar, Gurnisson) def Erdem (red, Tower, Nella) 222, 2sm4d(3)

Thank you for the exciting game.

I confirm, it was fun! Thanks to Alessandro for the game! ;)

Round 2
NN [COLOR="Black"]– Vampires[/COLOR]
Alessandro (blue, Swamp, Tazar, Gurnisson) def Erdem (red, Tower, Nella) 222, 2sm4d(3)

144 - Naga Bank taken, 40 nagas.

Cool Naga Bank, 8 units per stack :smile54: :smile40: :smile45:

Round 5

NN – Order of the Phoenix.

vitalic (blue, Rampart, Kir, Kir) def Sir Aldegir (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) 2SM4D(2) 137

Thank you for the game

It was... thank you for the game.

Order of the Phoenix - Out of many, one.

Dubrovin Pavel (Red, Castle, Valeska, Dessa) def Decontaminator (Blue, Rampart, Kirry, Kirry), 2sm4d(3), 1.4.2.

Finally, I got lucky with Sanal (hadn't won in a very long time).

Both of us were given good starts (a level 6 external dwelling each, although I was luckier since the Archers' external dwelling was also provided). Interestingly, for all 3 weeks without Archers, heroes still arrived in the Tavern.

On the first week - 8 heroes scattered wherever they could. Although there were 20 Archers at the start, they are built up, so we play. Near the Castle is an external dwelling of Horses, Archers, and a Stable. I took the Rampart secondary site, several Crypts, and the external dwellings of Horses and Archers.

On the second week - Necro secondary site, Mini, Pre-mini, Maxi Hive, 2 Naga-Banks for 4 Nagas. In the First Treasury - Gold Mine; behind 70+ Gold Golems (losing 2 out of 10 Vivs) they gave 15.000 experience. Then I returned to the resps, as I didn't want to push through 10-19 Horses blocking the road for +3 Spell Power without Haste and Slow; I took the Gnome-nest and several Crypts. 54.000 gold allowed me to build Angels. As luck would have it, none of the 3 Castles gave me Slow, although Haste was in the last secondary site. Consa-Mini.

On the third week - at the Rampart secondary site I took Consa-Three; in the Underground Treasury I took several Hives and a Pandora's box for 20.000 experience behind 20-49 Bone Dragons with a Large Stack, losing 30+ Archers that the Large Stack reached. I took Consa-Mini in the Treasury, the Library, Book of Fire, Sword of All, Oracle's Hat, Red external dwelling, and Medal of Luck and morale. It seemed I cleared the whole Treasury; I was heading home and towards Sanal, when suddenly Kirry arrives via a secondary site. Dessa was defeated, into the Main, however Kirry did not attack the Castle but followed the path. I check with a scout what Kirry has. It turned out to be Tactics, +1 Speed, and Golden Bow.

On 1.4.1., having upgraded 8 Little Angels and without taking growth, I attack; Kirry pays off using Tactics.

On 1.4.2. DD via ГО (20-49 Firebirds), I attack Kirry in the Castle. In terms of Military Parameters we are almost equal, however I hope for my Explosion. But it turns out Kirry has a Cloak of Denial. It was a tough fight; we blinded each other (Sanal's Archangels, mine the Elves) but eventually the Archangels got access to the Elves and 20 Monks, and they were both demoralized and judged just in time, almost killing 25 Wood-elves and all Elvises. Then, I blinded 24 Large Unicorns, led my 25 Champs and 28 Crosses through the breach, victory!

Thanks for an interesting game!

Cool naked bank, turns out to be 8 per stack :smile54: :smile40: :smile45:

No way, a bank of 16k, I'd only take those, it's almost Dragon Utopia ))
Vampires, let the reserve player play, I'm leaving soon

Order of the Phoenix - From many, one.

Pavel Dubrovin (Red, Castle, Valeska, Dessa) def Dekontaminator (Blue, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre), 2sm4d(3), 1.4.2.
Thanks for an interesting game!

We started immediately without restarts.
On 111: 14 Elves and 60 Centaurs + 20 Imps and 7 Gog. Some shooters were blocking the castle exit (I don’t remember who or how many). Further, up to 20 Wizards guard the metro and block the road. 3 scout heroes on Imps are looking for wood to upgrade Elves or crystals for Pegasi. Some chests and gold within reach.
On 112: there is a Sawmill, Elf upgrade; Kyrre breaks through the Wizards and in the metro there are 60+ Wolves with a growth stack. On 113: the Necropolis secondary town is captured. Annoyingly, not enough logs for the Tavern.
On the first: 1,3-6 with Elf upgrade in the castle, dwellings, +1000, market in the secondary. Hidden of Horses.
On the second: +1000, market, Dwarves, their growth and wood, Pegasus upgrade at home, Mage Guild in the Necropolis secondary, Tavern, market, Fire elementals in the Citadel of Confusion. Hidden of Fairies and Fire elementals. Taken: second-level Griffin Conservatory, a mini-beehive, Golden Bow, Shield +3, Pandora's Box with 25 Swordsmen for a chain to take 3 Dragon Utopias standing in a row starting from 132.

On 131: Boots and max Dwarves. On 132: Dragon Fly Hive with 8 Wyverns, because I saw a hidden of Monks in the treasure zone; sent scout heroes to look for a hidden of Angels (none, unfortunately). On 133: the chain is still extending, for now 20 Fanatics in the Pandora's Box. On 134: 2 Dragon Utopias (Titan's Sword, Titan's Helm, Armor +4 Attack/Defense, Cloak of Renunciation and a lollipop, as well as Legion's Backside and Head) - the third turned out to be only possible with flight (((. On 135: 2 boxes with all the Earth and Water with basic Wisdom (((. Splitting into the Conflux secondary with plans to go to the next treasure zone. On 136: with views of Earth and Air, I see that I can capture the enemy capital on 137, and I didn't see Pavel's chain. Therefore, the plans change, which was the beginning of a series of mistakes))). On 137: I arrive at the castle, where Dessa is already sitting with all the power (including 8 Angels and 31 Wyverns), and Kyrre was running light without the puppets, so I didn't attack.
Then I blundered (sitting behind the walls, I didn't use the lollipop) and was punished.
Thanks for an interesting game and the experience.

Dirty_Player (Conflux, random = Monere, Monere) def SEM-56 (Castle, Valeska, Valeska) 2sm4d(3) 122

On Random I got a red Conflux, which I was very happy about. Took one respawn and we started. Started with Monere and an external dwelling of air elementals near the Castle. Excellent. Dug up Damacon. Had plenty of gold, took Crypt. Saving gold for birds. By the end of the week, I spotted a passage to the opponent's respawn through an adjacent secondary town. On day 6 I bought birds, didn't even build Stronghold. On 121 I bought 4 Storm Elementals, passed them to Monere through a chain. I break into the blue's respawn, take the stats chest — it's a level-up. On 122, I don't reach the Castle, checked the chest — Tome of Elements. Didn't attack. Valeska ran in and took it (turned out to be a level-up). She attacks and loses. Thanks for the game, Roma, don't throw away red Confluxes anymore ;)

Dirty_Player (Conflux, random = Monere, Monere) def SEM-56 (Castle, Valeska, Valeska) 2sm4d(3) 122

I got a red Conflux on Cherk, which made me very happy. I took one rest and we started. Monere started, and I set up an ambush with air units near the Castle. Excellent. I dug up Damacon. I had a lot of money, so I bought a Crypt. I defended against the bird rush. Towards the end of the week, I saw a path to my opponent's respawn point through an adjacent secondary town. On day 6, I placed the birds; I didn't even bother building a Stronghold. On day 121, I bought 4 ravens and passed them down the chain to Monere. I rushed into the blue player's respawn point, took a single unit. On day 122, I didn't reach the Castle; I checked the unit – it was a Throng. I didn't attack. Valeska arrived and took it (it turned out to be a level 2 unit). She attacked and lost. Thanks for the game, Roma; don't spread out with red Confluxes anymore ;)

I confirm, no comments, you'll lose in every aspect, thanks for the game and advice. I'm going to play Heroes with Van now:smile13:

Cool naked bank, you get 8 of them in a stack :smile54: :smile40: :smile45:

I was wrong. 24+6 nudes :)

Pit for LM (red, Stronghold, Kreg, Kreg) def smoke_mk (blue, Tower, Nella, Nella), 2sm4d(3), 126. 111 - I found a speed amulet in the wagon :smile20:. Pyra brings a ballista, there seems to be enough money, it's okay. 112 - The road leads to a crowd of elves, no outposts, conservatories, or hives are visible. I'm thinking about restarting. 113 - Kreg gets logistics :smile20:. No restart. 114 - There's a +4 chain in the skeleton :smile20:. I easily kill 31 elves with a group of birds. Next, there's a stable and a passage to the grass. 115 - I pass through the mummies to the secondary Castle, take the city, buy the sixth hero there, who frees Alamar from prison. A decent attack stack of 60 troglodytes turns out :rolleyes:. I repel the griffin outpost, see a spearman outpost, and a couple of crypts. Kreg gets defense. 116 - A crypt with 5 vampires, I break through the gnome horde for access to the treasury, repel the second griffin outpost, and enter a +1 attack location. Kreg gets earth magic :smile20:. 117 - A mini-crypt, I stand near the medusa stockpile. I thought for a long time about the build order - I settled on archers in the Stronghold and birds with orcs in the Stronghold. I bought the griffins from the outposts. 121 - A medusa stockpile of 8, I break through to the underground treasury, and there's immediately a group of evil creatures guarding a bag of gold. Never mind. 122 - Kreg enters a +1 attack location, through the stable he heads to the naga bank and the passage to the underground secondary location, Pyra takes the nearby gnome stockpile of 20. 123 - The chain didn't work out, the naga bank turned out to be 3-4 with a large stack, Kreg got scared and went to the secondary location for a book. Visited the arena, almost went in the wrong direction. 124 - Inferno was taken underground, a book with slow was bought (already advanced). I break through 12 ominous knights for Pandora. 125 - There are 10000 experience points in Pandora. There's nothing else to do - there are no conservatories or hives on three respawn points, and I don't really want to go to the treasury. Therefore, I decide to attack the Guardian. I return home and set up a bird formation in front of the cavalry. A cyclops tunic is dropped from the basilisk horde. 126 - Kreg (18, 6, 6, 5 (50)), expert in attack, logistics, defense, earth magic, basic wisdom and tactics, 1+1+1 hobgoblin, 7 thunderbirds, 24 large wolves, 22 large archers, 33 griffins, and a ballista kill 58 cavalry. All the wolves, the ballista, a bird, 4 griffins, and a couple of archers died. But I reached Nella's capital and settled in it. Thank you for the game.