Posts from Reports on online games and their confirmations (Winter 2008 season).

vitalic (blue, Castle, Valessa, Kyrre) def Sir Dekontaminator (red, Dungeon, Shakhti) 2SM4D(3) 147
Archers were built, hooray, so I'm playing. Found two external dwellings of spearmen and one of archers, took two Conflux secondary skills on the first week. Horses with the castle were built. On the second week, I dove into the underground and captured the opponent's Inferno. While scouting, I found a Treasury where Valessa stubbornly broke through everyone with a two-week army. It was especially hard to kill Hydras of Haart, two stacks took out these multi-headed ones. Managed to gather about 30 Wyverns. Meanwhile, Kyrre started leveling up actively, and by the third week Valessa and Kyrre were level 16. Kyrre takes a Dragon Utopia and attacks Shakhti
Kyrre 17 19 18 17 (expert armor and earth, badge of courage, water book) 15 Fanatics, 9 Archangels, 6 Champions, 15 Trolls, 36 Wyverns, 17 Crusaders, 65 Marksmen

Shakhti 10 7 7 6 (120 mana, expert earth, air, and armor) 3 Red Dragons, 18 Minotaur Kings, 90 Infernal Troglodytes, 1 Angel, 17 Evil Eyes, 6 Wyverns

Tried to approach the opponent slowly so as not to scare him off, but with 2 Minotaurs he still ran away, I lost one Archangel
Kyrre runs too far, decided not to continue

Thanks for the game

vitalic (blue, Castle, Valeska, Kyrre) def Sir Dekontaminator (red, Dungeon, Shakhti) 2SM4D(3) 147

Thank you for the game and the experience. Good luck.

KAZAK1992 (blue, Rampart, Kirr) vs AnberO (red, Dungeon, Ajit) First, he created 3 players, absorbed all their armies into his main hero, and explored the map, leveling up the player quite well. He captured a second castle and built only a town hall there (I think that's how it's spelled). With some difficulty, he killed a group of some kind of horsemen and took the artifact "Gauntlets of the Rider." He had 7 centaurs left. He walked to the castle, gathered an army, and immediately encountered the opponent's main hero. As a result, with a better-leveled player (level 10, good artifacts) and a stronger army, he defeated him. The enemy surrendered. Thanks for the game.

Added 2 minutes later
By the way, my ICQ is 356 225 615. I forgot to write it last time.

KAZAK1992 (blue, Rampart, Kirr) vs AnberO (red, Dungeon, Ajit)

gg... Waiting for a rematch =))).

Arandor (blue, Rampart, Aeris, Melody) vs. eXeCuToR (red, Inferno, Nimue, Calh)
The beginning was a bit difficult... he was surrounded on all sides, but he managed to break through thanks to the elves and pegasi he built instead of a magistrate and others (he had two town halls throughout the game). On day 7, week 1, month 1 (or 1.2.1), he took a neutral Dungeon. He built harpies there, bought an army, and went back to kill the neutrals. He opened the passage, cleared it out, and captured the mines, which gave him a good boost... but he didn't go any further because the monsters were too high level. He bought an army in Rampart: 30+ upgraded elves, upgraded centaurs, and 20+ pegasi, and went to the Dungeon for an army that already included beholders and upgraded harpies, and troglodytes. He bought them all, killed the orcs, and ended up on the enemy's territory. The enemy hero was outside with monsters from level 1 to 6 (2 ifrits), and only the cerberi were upgraded. He attacked him, using a defensive tactic (shooting). The result of the battle was that Arandor won. This happened in the middle of the 4th week of the 1st month.
They didn't play any further, even though eXeCuToR still had two castles).

They played on a random map, map C, difficulty 160, without dungeons and water.
P.S. The castles were also random

I confirm, that's how it was))) I'm waiting for a rematch))) I hope that next time I won't get a Castle that I don't know how to play with)))

Captain (blue, Rampart, Kirr, Kirr) vs Volland (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) 214 Through partisan tactics from all sides of the map and Kirr's insane speed, he caught the opponent's main hero in the middle of an attack with all his angels. Thank you for the game!

Captain (blue, Rampart, Kirr, Kirr) vs Volland (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) 214

It happened. I couldn't keep up with Kirr.
Thank you for the game.

invisible (red, conflux, Moner, Moner) def ewgeniy (blue, rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) dragons 134
Started without restarts. I saw the entrance to the underground and was surprised because there was no guard. I looked, and it turns out we are playing on one of the funny templates that Wicc wrote about :) - dragons. Apparently, Zhenya didn't install the rmg file. Well, okay, we play. In short, I realized what non-standard, buggy, in short, just lousy templates are. A bunch of mazes, a sea of money, almost no guards - only level 1-2. At the first bird in the citadel, - Moner is only level 4, - well, there's nothing to even level up on. In two weeks I walked most of the underground and surface, took 8 castles, each with +1000 gold and markets, 9 or 10 heroes were not enough not just to collect free stuff, but even to bring growth. It turned out to be very difficult to build a chain from the castle through a bunch of teleports and passages from the underground to the surface and back in 4 minutes :) . The most interesting thing is that after opening about half of the entire map, I saw blue only 2 times, but I couldn't find a passage to him. I took the 8th castle with Moner, bought a spellbook there. On the next turn, I see Kyrre, who came right up to me and pitied me. I attacked:
Moner 6-8-5-4, Expert Earth Magic with Shield, no Slow, Expert Armor, Advanced Offense, 5 Psychic Elementals, 1+1+1+1+1 Sprites, and 4 Snipers.
Kyrre 5-6-2-2, Expert Air Magic, but without a spellbook :) . 11 Elves, 49 Gogs, 35+1+1+1+1 Harpy Hags. After the battle, Zhenya surrendered. He also didn't particularly like this template.
Thanks for the game!

invisible (red, Conflux, Moner, Moner) def ewgeniy (blue, Rampart, Kirr, Kirr) dragons 134
After the battle, Zhenya surrendered. He didn't particularly like this map either.
Thank you for the game!

that's how it was.................................................................

vitalic (blue, Tower, Nella) def Sir Invisible (red, Swamp, Tazar) 2SM4D(3) 141
Whew, defeated the most difficult one!!! Barely managed to snatch victory from this monster.
On the first turn, although troops were few, I played on since there are two exits to the snow. The exits aren't the weakest: 36 earth elementals on one side (broke through only on the second week), and the other passage was air elementals; had a little chat with them and they let me pass. On the first turn, nagas with Stronghold, in the secondary town I started building up the economy. Roads aren't fast; logistics were given on the third week and it became more fun: went into the treasury, killed what I could, cleared out the horses' external dwelling and took a paid Town Portal home. Saved up for 2 angels and exited the snow, where I caught red on the fly. On the next turn Tazar surrendered because I broke his chain, didn't let him take the earth book, Dragon Utopia, or buy up the numerous growth + about 5 external dwellings.
We never even fought; probably around 400 gremlins brought despair to Tazar
Thanks for the game

vitalic (blue, Tower, Nella) def Sir Invisible (red, Swamp, Tazar) 2SM4D(3) 141

it was :o

Wow, defeated the toughest one!!! Barely managed to snatch victory from this monster.

:smile52: You rock))
We started without restarts. I had a huge respawn, almost a third of the map. A Dragon Utopia on it too, 2 external dwellings of Waspworms, 3 external dwellings of Lizardmen, three of Gnolls, one of Flies :) . Though they were scattered all over the respawn and I couldn't collect them all in time. First Hydras in the castle. Before taking the hive, I transferred the Lizardmen to a scout hero for safekeeping, and then used that same scout hero to enter the hive :) minus 34 Lizardmen and morale -1. I wanted to get defeated and take the Dragon Utopia on day 142 (well, I'm afraid to take Dragon Utopias on weeks 2-3 — still too little experience). On day 136 I entered the underground, found a Fly scroll and started building up magic in the Dungeon. Nella showed up and on day 137 she breaks my chain (already morale -2:) ). I take an external dwelling of Red Dragons, break through 37 Fanatics (losing a Dragon) who guard the prison, and in desperation jump on the horde of Unicorns guarding the Book of Earth. Just enough mana for one Slow, but one stack gets morale and blinds my Hydras. I surrendered after that, because I didn't even have single units to remove the retaliation from the Unicorns, and Nella's pack of Gremlins looked intimidating. I didn't have money to buy my way out. Then Vitalik later told me that I had blundered. I could have delivered troops with the hero from the prison, but I didn't think of that. In short, I won't postpone games anymore — the excitement gets lost. In the Utopia it turned out there was a total of +7 to everything, and with Fly and the Book of Earth it would have been nice to continue.
After the reveal I realized that my respawn was nothing compared to my opponent's respawn — almost half the map was in snow, on which stood three Towers. :smile07:
Thanks for the game!

mal1982 (blue Stronghold, dessa) defeated Ugasvelikiy (red Necropolis, Thant) on a map without an underground... The respawn points were very poor, and the wolves weren't built. So, the development was slow. But I got a hero with +1 crystal. And I was also lucky that there was an observation tower, so I could see the enemy's castle and their moves... I built monsters, waited for a time when there was no one in the castle, upgraded logistics, defeated the dendroids, and in one turn, I captured the enemy's only castle. In the castle, he couldn't defeat me with his 350 skeletons.

Decontaminator (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) def Sir SS-D (blue, Dungeon, Gunnar) 2SM4D(3) 221
Lucky with the respawn: 2 cons and 2 Dragon Utopias. Due to problems with the tree (1. Only took back the Sawmill at the end of week 2. 2. Played like a log))) only got horses on the 3rd week, but then immediately with the capitol and angels. The final battle (221 assault on the main city with the main hero) was dramatic; blue was lucky with morale, I was lucky with luck. The mana difference decided it. After the capture, we decided not to play further.
Thanks for the game and the experience.

Alex_R (Dungeon / Gunnar) def Dmitriy767 (Necromancer / Vidomina) 3-2-1
XL map without underground (template 4sm2d)
Played for quite a while.
In general, neither of us sought contact — I liked the growth of 5 Black Dragons, and my opponent stole a Dragon Utopia with Angel Wings from under my nose )))
Anyway, I had to gradually push him out — I took the Dragon Utopia myself and started capturing his towns, since I had one town and my opponent had 4 towns.
I recaptured all the towns easily — Vidomina went on the run to raise skeletons ....
In short, I was also searching for her and leveling up along the way — but I almost threw the game, because at the first opportunity to attack, I decided not to do it with 25 Black Dragons, but just for fun I took the whole army and attacked ....
The battle was worth it. Both our parameters were nearing a hundred, but I had nearly 30 Attack, while my opponent had 39 Spell Power :eek:
My army was weak — 5-6 populations (without Troglodytes), replaced with 5 Angels, and all hope rested on 25 Black Dragons.
My opponent pleasantly surprised me — he had 3700 Skeletons, 9 Angels, and the rest was like a 3-4 week army. But as it turned out, he had fabulous artifacts!!!
In short, Berserk (expert) was cast on him, and Armageddon was cast on me :smile11:
Anyway, after my first attack and his Berserk and Armageddon — 19 Dragons remained against 3200 Skeletons.
My Dragon barely took out 400 Skeletons, so it was decided not to remove Berserk from him — and I summoned Elementals to take the retaliation, then the Dragons struck ... this repeated about 7 times (too bad I never used Morale or Luck )))
Result — the Skeletons, just from retaliation, wiped out 80 Fire Elementals — and on the last 30 mana, I breathed a sigh of relief, as 19 Dragons were now facing 214 Skeletons :smile33:
Thanks for the super game, I'd even say for the super-mega-final battle!!!:smile19: