Posts from Summer-Autumn-Winter Tournament for fans of Heroes 4.

Dear tournament participants. The week has come to an end, please write reports on the battles that have been played:smile01:
I will post the last battles from the first round tomorrow; I think some of you will have two of them.
P.S. I ask you again not to delay with the reports:smile02:

On Thursday, we played a game with Starhan. We played from 5 PM to 3 AM... Version "Whirlwinds of War", Map "Battle in the Dungeon", difficulty Magister. Starhan - Life, Lu41k - Nature. We played for 3 months, 4 weeks, and 6 days. The battle ended with Lu41k's victory. I got the druid Antikainen - I leveled him up to 18. Fully maxed out Nature Magic up to level 5, including Summoning (thanks to which my army gained 1 Water Elemental every day), and Life Magic up to level 2. In the tavern, I bought Mefalu - an archer - and leveled her up to 19. General: fully maxed out Warfare, Archery, and Magic Resistance, Tactics (Leadership and Attack) at level 2. Life Magic at level 1, just in case (to heal at least a little). Starhan got Kuusinen - he leveled him up to 18, Paladin - Life Magic level 4, Order Magic level 1, and Warfare level 5. He bought Oissin and leveled him up to 19 - General: Warfare level 5, Magic Resistance level 1, Tactics level 3, Defense level 4. The map turned out to be quite difficult and full of battles and neutral creatures, so for the first half of the game, I thought my heroes wouldn't survive until they met Starhan's army. And looking at the Thieves' Guild, I felt even sadder, and I didn't have much money either... So I wandered around with a small group of units, saving up for a Portal. Once, my heroes even fell, both of them, at the hands of neutral creatures. I lost half my army, and there was no one to gain experience from... It was terribly frustrating. I dragged the coffins back to the Castle, and then I started to think that I was developing incorrectly and wouldn't be able to win the battle against Starhan, especially when I looked at the Thieves' Guild and saw that his army was still twice as big as mine. But finally, the pessimistic thoughts were cast aside, and the Portal was built. And then my fortunes began to improve. I gathered a small but quite strong army and went to clear the map, gaining experience and money for the army and construction. Soon, I captured a gold mine and a second Nature town, built it up, cleared the map, and went to liberate the passage to the Dungeon, which was guarded by Monsters on my side and Devils and Poisonous Horrors on Starhan's side, who killed my Antikainen and several Griffins. So I had to take the coffin back to the Castle. I sent a fairy out for reconnaissance and saw that his army was standing not far from the entrance. Well, the decisive hour had come. I bought another Phoenix, drank all the potions I could before the battle, and went on the attack. My army consisted of 21 Phoenixes, 133 Water Elementals, plus I just placed one next to each other, and 15 Griffins. Everything I could buy and afford. Starhan's army: 14 Angels, 85 Monks, 104 Pikemen, 79 Archers, and 7 Squires. The battle was not easy. But I still managed to win. Mostly thanks to Dragon Strength (on the Phoenixes), Summoning, and the Phoenixes themselves. Although Starhan resisted as much as he could, victory was on my side. Starhan, thank you for this game! I wish you good luck!!! :smile02: And I just have to wait for a battle with Leshy:smile23:

I'm back!:smile02: :smile03:
I apologize again for letting you down:smile43:, but I'm ready to go now;) . I hope I haven't fallen too far behind:smile43:.

:) Everything is correct, but why did the battle seem so easy to me? :)
I was completely defeated, judging by the losses.
The only spell that was useful to me in the battle was "Martyr" (no other good ones dropped). It extended the lifespan of the Archangels by 2 or 3 turns at the expense of the pikemen, but even that didn't save me from 20 Phoenixes with Dragon Strength.

Also, somewhere in the second or third week, I lost my entire army (in the Dungeon), and only the heroes escaped. I was already ready to surrender, but after looking at the Thieves' Guild and seeing that my 2 heroes and a couple of monks were still more powerful than Luchik's army, I continued the battle (Conclusion: check the Thieves' Guild :)).

And here are a couple more of my mistakes:
When I saw Luchik's scouts, I moved the main army with the bought-back troops towards him directly, not bypassing him (I hoped that Luchik wouldn't have time to reach me), and directly near the entrance to the Dungeon.

And in the final battle with the Angels, I tried to kill Luchik's hero, Mephala (after looking at the heroes' characteristics, I saw that she had fewer hit points than Antikainen, but I didn't think to look at the skills. Mephala had Warfare skill upgraded, while Antikainen didn't). Thus, I should have attacked Antikainen (he would have died with the first blow) instead of Mephala, whom my battered angels couldn't kill with the first blow.

I acknowledge Luchik's skill and ability; it was a very good experience for me, thank you for the game.

Drakkosha, come out of the Astral Plane, let's fight :)

I would like to finish by September 1st.
I have exams starting on September 1st

Blue group game ranking table
No.		Arandor	ZYbr	Pandora	shadowmen
1	Arandor		---	---	---
2	ZYbr	---		---	2
3	Pandora	---	---	---	---
4	shadowmen	---	0	---

Red group game ranking table
No.	---	Lu41k	LeSHiJ-MaX	Machete	Drakkoska	Starhan
1	Lu41k	---	0	---	2	2
2	LeSHiJ-MaX	2	---	---	---	2
3	Machete	---	---	---	---	---
4	Drakkoska	0	---	---	---	---
5	Starhan	0	0	---	---	---

What can I say, my dear friends. The Tournaments are progressing, and that's the main thing.
It's a pity that technical problems arose in the blue group (:smile33: ), but let's hope they will cope with them:smile16:
The blue table has become a little shorter:smile11: , I think there will also be changes in the red one, if Machete still doesn't find time (it would be a pity).
P.S. :smile49: Play and win:smile49:

Yesterday, 08/30/07, we finished playing with Lu41k.
Map: "Plains of Despair"
Lu41k played as Nature (blue color)
LeSHiJ-MaX played as Chaos (red color)
During the game, I bet on the speed of building Wizards (which turned out to be quite successful). On the 7th day of the first week, the "Dragon Cave" was already built, which was facilitated by the Thief's ability :rolleyes:. By the end of the seventh day, Lu41k had built the "Griffin Roost". However, I was only able to buy it on the 6th day of the second week. Lu41k, in my opinion, was unsure how to deal with the treasure chests and didn't touch them yet. In this game, I wanted to try playing with two Wizards, and since I was given a Thief at the beginning, I had to spend a few days and money on the second mage. In the end, I didn't like the experiment because I didn't have a fighter, only Wizards, and I didn't have time to upgrade their "Martial Arts" skill, which almost cost me the main hero in the decisive battle in the early stages. The map had guarded one-way portals leading to the enemy territory (one for each player); I had a Thief guarding the exit, and Lu41k had a Fairy.
When I accumulated 5 Wizards, I decided to attack the guard of my portal. I almost lost the Wizards because the neutral hero had very interesting artifacts: Great Mage's Crown, War Shackles, Guardian Robe, Dragon Armor, Staff of Power, and the most interesting and dangerous artifact for me, the "Ring of Great Negation." If the neutral hero had attacked my Wizards instead of my heroes, I could have lost 3 or even all of them (and the shackles wouldn't have even allowed the heroes to escape :D). It's a pity that after killing the neutral, I only got "Dragon Armor" from the artifacts :(.
Then, with my main heroes, I took my second city, and I positioned the groups of Thieves (who passed by the Fairy guarding the exit) so that I could defeat all the Fairies standing in important places in one turn. While doing this, I scouted the area and saw that Lu41k's main heroes were on the other side of the river. I didn't delay and went on the offensive. First, I defeated the Fairies, then I captured the city with the Phoenixes and Mantis that were bought there, but without any heroes :rolleyes:.
Next, I encountered the main army. Lu41k had "Theritos" - a level 8 general, and "Vianna" - a level 8 druid. I had 2 "Fire Elementals" - level 12, Fiona, and Leshy :D, and as I wrote above, I almost lost my main heroine, "Fiona," right away. If Lu41k had managed to bring an army from the castle, I would have lost with only 5 Wizards.

P.S. Thank you, Lu41k, for the interesting and educational game :smile20:.
Nature is indeed a powerful faction:smile10: :smile43:

A familiar strategy... In the last tournament, I was also defeated by the Elf!

A familiar strategy... In the last tournament, Leshy defeated me in the same way!

In this tournament, it would have been much more difficult for me playing against you;. I express my regret once again that you are not participating :(.
I was also hoping for the participation of Alex P. and OptiMAL, it's a pity that Opti didn't register for the Tournament right away:smile01:, as he is a very strong (the strongest in my experience) Hero in Heroes 4.

P.S. I'm also sorry that the tournament didn't receive support from the forum, because there are so many HEROES and EXPERTS in Heroes 4 who didn't participate only because the tournament is amateur:smile43: (because such a tournament requires a lot of free time).

Sincerely, LeSHiJ-MaX.

To be honest, if OptiMAL participated in the tournament, I definitely wouldn't be there! You can only defeat such an opponent by some miracle!

Today, our battle with Drakkosha:smile06: has ended:smile43:.
Drakkosha played as Nature (red color)
LeSHiJ-MaX (that's me:rolleyes:) played as Chaos (blue)
Map: Showdown
Overall, I really enjoyed the game. I was very surprised (which I didn't expect from a beginner) by her hero development. Some people underestimate the combination of nature magic and death magic (I rarely manage to combine these magics in a tournament because the chance of them appearing is very rare), but Drakkosha managed to do it. She just lacked a little experience:( and needed to upgrade her death magic a bit more. And Strela also did everything right.
In my subjective opinion, Drakkosha didn't expect Chaos to perform so well:rolleyes:
In the end, Chaos won:o

I hope I finish my games soon too!
P.S. We can draw conclusions from the battles: don't pit Nature against Chaos! Hehe.

P.S. We can draw conclusions from the battles)) – don't pick Sylvan against Dungeon! Hehe.

Arandor, take a look at Lu41k's battle against Drakkosha.:rolleyes:
P.S. I think, on the contrary. Sylvan is the only faction that can stand against Dungeon.:smile02:

The simple truth is that I'm a newbie, and LeSHiJ-MaX and Lu41k are much stronger than me:) That's why they crushed me:) It doesn't depend on the faction;)
I didn't have time to build an army. I bought it, but the heroes were too far away:rolleyes: And they had weak stats:( Pyral and Pearl were level 9, and Rufus and Pythia (or something like that:smile43: ) were level 21. So they would have beaten me even without an army:) I also didn't build the castles very well:( In general, I developed slowly:) One game with Lu41k was clearly not enough to learn how to play online;) :D :)
LeSHiJ, thank you very much for the good game!:smile20: :smile54: :smile01: :smile02: The result was quite predictable for me, you shouldn't say that;) And I still underestimated the speed of my opponent:smile43: This is ruining me for the second time:) I need to admit, Lu41k, LeSHiJ-MaX, you are masters!:smile49:
2 Starhan: I'm sharing a lesson, you need to develop as quickly as possible;)

P.S. I think it's quite the opposite. Sylvan is the only faction that can stand against Chaos.:smile02:

Well, I'm not so sure:rolleyes:

When OptiMAL plays for keeps, he doesn't care who his opponent is! But the main thing I understood from playing online with OptiMAL and Leshy is that even though all factions are equal, you can still find the faction that suits the player. Sooner or later, any player will settle on one faction and start studying it, trying to play only with it.
P.S. But personally, I continue to experiment with the Barbarians.