Posts from "Two Seasons: Winter - Spring 2019-2020"

Thank you for the game!

Thank you for the game!

In general terms, the starting area was dirt — I'm on dirt, the computer is on dirt, and the stables along the road are also on dirt.
At the beginning, though, not everything was smooth: there were no stone piles anywhere, and I had forgotten that Lich requires 10 sulfur, not the Horde's four. On top of that, I had to slot in some zombies as well.
Fortunately, I didn't have to suffer for long: I broke through a couple of 3k stacks, entered an adjacent zone and found good roads, and most importantly and dearly: 3 resource silos next to each other :smile23:
The native Dungeon turned out to be quite close, rattled my nerves a bit (killed 16 zombies in the Citadel), but the boost from its spawn can hardly be overstated: first of all, here I found stone and sulfur, as well as a mini Dwarf Cottage. Besides that, on day 6 with double mana I managed to break the maximum Naga Bank and spread out almost to the maximum! and the best part: a tier 3 Griffin Conservatory the next turn.
After that, things went very pleasantly with slow power-stacking, squeezing out the computer, breaking through into 6k stacks. Got Town Portal on the third try, but Fly on the first.
But,
at the same time, which was a big surprise to me, the opponent was keeping pace with me in army strength and showing decent stats. But I watched the replays and didn't pay much attention to it. As it turned out, that was a mistake!
On 132, Gunnar on 3600 movement breaks the maximum Dragon Utopia, gets Wings, a Shield, a Helm, and 4/4 from it. At the same time, he manages to jump into a one-way portal and take Conflux from me, visiting a well along the way.
The main point is that with Wings and stats, he easily took a couple of Dragon Fly Hives from the nearby portal with pit fiends, which I had kindly left "for later."
At that moment, I hadn't rebuilt Dimension Door yet, and intended to fly to take the Dragon Utopias in Super-Treasure, and that's exactly what I did. Tante took a couple of Dragon Utopias, Town Portaled back, and Vidoma, though not very successfully, flew with Advanced Air through the mountains (didn't have enough mana left for Town Portal after) to take a third one.
I gathered stats, got the key item, but, of course, there was no longer the same confidence in domination. On top of that, I left a couple of good, stabled heroes at my main base to break the defenses. The opponent took the Castle without issue the next day and killed them. But he stayed in the castle, even though Town Portal had already been rebuilt there.
So, the Bone upgrade is going, businesslike Aislin is leveling up properly from two Pandora's Boxes, takes a 4th Dragon Utopia, and gets +4 All Stats from it among other things. Here, I must say, I played validol-style: to move the army out, I had to dig up a 2000-stabled hero — it cost over 30k. But I dug him up, transferred the power, and Tante with 600 mana successfully pinned down Gunnar.
In the end, the deciding factor was that Gunnar only had Basic Earth, and therefore couldn't fly away.

Thanks for the game!

We mistakenly played XL h3dm1 with Castle towns without level 5 guilds. So I traded down to zero on the external market, placed birds and bears in the Castle, and took 2 bird dwellings. After that, I managed to pull ahead of my opponent by breaking through blocks, while my opponent got a bit stuck. But he chose a better path toward Dragon Utopias and started suffocating me with air control. I figured out where the control was and rushed there; he tried to steal it from me, but the timer choked him.

Thank you for the game!

We played with a fresh mod. Vanya spent all his restarts, I didn't spend any: all three deals were pleasant, in one the heroes were imbalanced, in another it gave a lot of starting gold and army, and in the last one the main argument was Galtran peeking out from the tavern. Well, and Necropolis in 3k finally convinced me to play. Overall, development went successfully: on the third day I already had 8 heroes, the beautiful Adelaide got Earth and Logistics from two level-ups, and Goshan first mastered Necromancy, then grabbed Air.
Seeing that the continuation from my native 6k went through a one-way portal, I was a bit upset: I didn't know yet that all the one-way portals here were fake. What bothered me more was the lack of an exit from the adjacent zone to the brown player (it later turned out that the passage was nearby behind an unremarkable "one-way portal" off the road)

Fortunately, I still found the Necropolis, even if as a village in 6k: if it weren't for that, I would have started building the Mage Guild quite late. On day 1 week 2 month 1 I take the home Dragon Fly Hive, on day 1 week 2 month 2, having visited the stable, I start Gosha's campaign to break through the 3/3 neck and I go with Adelaide to the native 6k, find a Castle zone, and an external dwelling of horses next to the village. Here the loss of bones began. I probably played poorly with finances: I hired the horses on day 1 week 1 month 7, but bought them only on day 1 week 2 month 3. I mean, with the horses the losses would have been smaller, and the dramatic fight in the level 3 Griffin Conservatory with the Ghost Dragon would have ended much more successfully. Next I planned to break into the super treasure zone, on the path at that time there was only a passage to the turquoise player. Here the Papal view played its role: noticing several Dragon Fly Hives I found the march to the treasure zone even more justified, and as it turned out not in vain: by day 1 week 3 month 1 I became the happy owner of 50 Wyverns =) meanwhile the mage tower was built decently: Resurrection and Fly on the first try, Town Portal on the second. By the way, there was also Animate Dead, but I had already lost all the remnants of the former hundred. In short, after taking a couple of Utopias I flew to conquer towns, and on day 1 week 3 month 4 I captured the Castle, and the opponent surrendered.

Thanks for the game!

TFP!