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Blue Tower Solmyr-Gerwulf lose Red Krag Hack-Krag Hack 135
We played with a handicap of 8k, I negotiated myself 1000 by giving away the castle and the color. There was an external dwelling of genies and nagas, and a Griffin Conservatory nearby. As it turned out, there was also a Dragon Fly Hive and another one very far away. But even so, I managed to place nagas and genies in the Citadel, and decided to break out on 123, since I was very tight on gold. As planned, I collected everything from the respawn and broke out through 9 golden dragons. I fought my way to the Sentinel Shield and spotted the Book of Earth out of the corner of my eye. Then I took the book, losing a lot of meat, but the nagas and genies stayed alive. With it, I collected everything I could reach from the village near the exit. On 126 (I think), the opponent came out; I didn't run to her, and that was a mistake. I decided to play it safe, which is what ruined me. Then she ran along the road, while I gathered the rest along the road in the center. On 133, I saw that she probably had wings or КВ. I decided to run and take the blockade in the center from her. She Town Portaled there, attacked, I dropped the implosion, she cast Armageddon, and we parted without heroes. Then she dug up my Gerwulf, and I didn't dig up her Krag. I decided to attack with Solmyr, attacked, but even after killing the entire army with elementalists, she resurrected it with elementals.

Thank you for a fun game!

26.06.2017 Valerie_Rayne (blue, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar) lose Shved1502 (red, Tower, Solmyr, Crag Hack) jebus 132.
The start of the game's ruin was a wipe on 116 at the max Dragon Fly Hive. Then, thanks to external dwellings and other Dragon Fly Hives, I managed to get back on my feet. No artifacts for attack/defense were noticed on respawn, so the stats were very poor. On 126, the Griffin Conservatory of Thunderbirds was breached, with a significant army loss. Right after them were three blocks that couldn't be dealt with without mana. I had to disband in the town and hope for the best. Apparently the faith wasn't strong enough, because on 132 the opponent parks near upgraded Hydras with his Crag Hack at 22 defense. The only hope was a prison behind those very Hydras, but it contained Octavia with highly questionable skills. So everything became clear. Thanks for the game.

30.06.2017 Valerie_Rayne (red, Necropolis, Galthran) def Shved1502 (blue, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar) jebus 137.
An extremely interesting match. I used 2 restarts, the opponent none. In the end I played with a very questionable respawn. There was only a medium Dragon Fly Hive, and a minimal Griffin Conservatory. On the plus side, there was an external dwelling of dragons near the town behind rags, and three ways to exit the Griffin Conservatory. However, those three ways played a cruel trick. Since I didn't have much to exit with, I power-leveled Galthran as best I could and on 126 I broke through the Liches. It was very unpleasant to realize the road ended at the town and no passages to another road were noticed. I had to curse and go break the Rust Dragons (there was also an option of upgraded Scorpicores off-road, but they kind of completed the off-road center from the Liches). After the Rust Dragons, the Green Dragons also fell in the campaign. They guarded a prison with an indecently well-leveled Tyraxor (attack, earth, logistics, pathfinding). So I had to urgently buy him a tome and do unspeakable things. In the first Dragon Utopia, a pair gave Wings and KV. Behind the Champions on the road, KZ was broken through. So with full control I waited for the opponent, while thinking where to get an army, because the two Dragon Fly Hives in the center were minimal and all Pandora's Boxes gave only experience. On 137, the opponent breached the Griffin Conservatory and showed his Tazar with stats 10-20-12-12, and an army of 8 Angels, 11 Hydras, and a stack of Dragon Flies up to 50. But for some reason the opponent decided Tazar needed only the Angels and went to take Dragon Fly Hives with them. He didn't make it. I met him with Tyraxor with an explosion of 975 units. The opponent surrendered then. Thanks for the game!

07/02/2017 izhevsk (red, random, Rampart, random, Ivor) def Apeiron (blue, random, Necropolis, random, Galtran), 2SM4d(3), 125.

The game was played quickly. Galtran was chosen, and he immediately rushed forward. The path was winding, and on the 4th day, he found a mini-resource and took it without much trouble. Then, with one angel, he broke through a series of ranged defense structures and reached the opponent's zone on day 117, having 100 skeletons. In the tavern, I saw that the opponent had recently captured a second Castle, so I wanted to launch a surprise attack while his main forces were away and take his main Castle, depriving him of resources, but I didn't make it to the Castle. It turned out that the opponent's hero was very close, and on day 121, a fight broke out. I didn't have enough mana and couldn't do anything about the oil, losing an angel and half of my skeletons. I retreated with Galtran to the secondary resource and brought 5 horses. I didn't have enough money for a proper purchase, and the opponent, with his reinforcements, easily defeated me on day 125, taking advantage of my mistake and casting oil at the right time. For consolation, I managed to eliminate 35 of his Grand Knights. Thank you for the game!

02.07.2017 Faoz (red, Dungeon, Jedite, Jedite) def Apeiron (blue, Necropolis, Galthran, Galthran), Jebus Cross, 133.

We started without restarts, but unfortunately I didn't notice right away that the map was L size, and that played a nasty trick later on. The respawn was compact and cleared quickly; I found a shield +6. By the end of the first week, dragons were in the citadel. With the growth, I cleared 4 Dragon Fly Hives for 20 wyverns and one Griffin Conservatory. On day 124, I broke through a GO of 60 champions. The center turned out to be extremely poor — one mini Dragon Fly Hive and a couple of chests for experience, not a single Dragon Utopia or decent artifacts. In the end, after scouting everything over 3 days, I realized there was no point in staying any longer and it was time to rush the opponent, especially since his strongest troops were minotaurs, and I thought that meant he had lost his army somewhere. On day 131, I hit a second GO of 22 polar bears; it went hard since I didn't get Earth magic, and in the end only 9 wyverns remained from the army. Then I meet the opponent on the move, and it turns out he does have an army — 75 harpy hags, 150 troglodytes, 30 Evil Eyes, 16 medusas, and 13 minotaurs. One hex was short to cover the opponent's ГГ, so I decided to retreat to the castle to refill mana, counting on Shakti in the tavern, who brought 120 troglodytes. This will be an important lesson for me: the scout hero ran away instead of losing the battle, and overwrote Shakti in the tavern; in the end, 9 wyverns alone couldn't carry the battle. Thanks to the opponent for the game.

07/04/2017 Fill-ua (blue, Necropolis +5k, Tamika, Tamika) def 60pw (red, Fortress, Valeska, Craig Hack) jebus 123.
I could have played faster, but I didn't expect that all 3 boxes would be for troops (20 vampires gave 20 liches and 30 skeletons). I clumsily broke one tier 3 building. And the experience box went to a lucky player who got the "Literacy" skill (Loins). I could have retrained the "Prayer" skill. Tamika had advanced wisdom, advanced attack, advanced defense, stats 6 7 4 5, and the gloves didn't give any bonuses.
Thanks for the game.

05.07.2017 LastHero (red, Castle, Caitlin, Nagash) def xn1 (blue, Dungeon, Shakti) 8mm6a 115
Opponent bought a miner for 2500, I bought the color for 500 and also took a regen. We both respawned, my second hero was Nagash, Castle secondary, there were 3 crypts near the Castle. Nagash quickly got Earth magic. By 115 I already had 17k, Angels were being built on turn 1, I scouted 2 Griffin Conservatories on my respawn and the opponent's respawn, and was about to take the opponent on the next turn, but received word of a forfeit.
Thanks for the game.