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

Dreamcatcher (red, Rampart, Ivor) def Мыт@рь (blue, Castle, Caitlin-Valeska) 2-1-1 2sm4d(3)

I was born in chocolate - lots of money, a crypt, a Dwarf Cottage, a couple of nagabanks, three conservatories, two arenas. On the first turn, cavalry in the castle; on the second, dragons.
On the third, I worked three conservatories into 8 angels; on the fourth, I came to visit. Having good speed (spaogs + stable), I reached the opponent's undefended castle. Then searching and surrender.

Thanks for the game!

Dreamcatcher (red, Rampart, Ivor) def Мыт@рь (blue, Castle, Caitlin-Valeska) 2-1-1 2sm4d(3)

Yes. I wanted to take a second restart, but there were same-side resources and the Dragon Utopia nearby; I fell for them, but the respawn turned out to be poor... In the end...
Thanks for the game!

[U]Dmitriy767 (Gunnar's Dungeon) Def Executor (Adel's Castle) I was lucky; there was another dungeon town nearby, plus a Manticore lair. Before the final battle, I took 2 Dragon Utopias and a Pandora's Box with decent magic. My opponent had an advantage in army size, but the Choke spell decided everything.

Exactly! When I saw that I had almost three times the army size, and there was also an enemy castle nearby that looked like the main one, I thought I had won. But then I saw that his stats were twice as high, and how his explosion wiped out all my angels, I almost had an accident! Anyway, thanks for the game, I'll get my revenge next time!

Yakudza (dungeon, blue, Shakter) def Dekontaminator (castle, red, Valeska) 2-1-1

I played the first week absolutely terribly, attacked a horde of cursed pikemen, and instead of waiting with trogs, I ran straight into full stacks of pikemen — in short, I ended up losing over 40 troglodytes there. Then I realized the situation was complete crap. At the teleporter — cursed pegasuses, at the passage to the surface — a horde of magmas, I barely captured a secondary Necro town, but there was no money there at all, so by the end of the first week I only built an Eye and a Citadel :(
In the second week, having found Bless, I decided to break through to the Necro respawn (I could take any one without problems). It turned out to be just a level 2, only killed some skeletons. Then I rushed to the passage to the surface behind it — there was Hippogriff land and treasure sites. Broke a Pandora's Box guarded by Cavaliers (lost a few more skeletons, I felt sorry to waste trogs) — the box gave 25 Diamond Golems :eek: , nearby I found a couple of dragon utopias and Wyvern nests. I decided to take the utopias in the first few days of the second week, after grabbing some wyverns. Then, at the end of the second week — to break through the GO (there were a hundred Wizards on my side). Luckily I had Boots of Speed. But, after taking the first wyvern nest — it was only the minimal spawn, I ran to another one — there were Red Dragon packs as guards (plus an artifact), made it to another one — there were packs of Ghost Behemoths guarding it (and also a Pandora's Box, and there were Behemoths on my own land too, and my only magic was Bless) I decided to get out of there to another treasure site in the underground, where I saw two wyvern nests with normal guards, and a Sword +12-3, and also to learn Mass Slow for Expert Earth Magic. As a farewell, on the surface I beat a horde of Earth Elementals for a Pandora's Box (gave 10,000 gold), another horde of Earth Elementals for a Pandora's Box (all level 3 spells), and a pack of Death Knights — guarding a Refugee Camp and some artifact. Then I resigned, hired a hero in the dungeon — brought troops there, captured a Helm +5 Knowledge from the enemy castle, refilled mana at the Well — resigned, hired a hero in the Necropolis town — and rushed to the wyvern nests (constantly buying and dismissing heroes to transfer the army back and forth). At the end of the second week I took those wyvern nests — damn, both turned out to be minimal spawns too (if I had known, I wouldn't have run). I gave up and went back to the treasure site in the Stone Lands. In the third week I popped out there and immediately went into a dragon utopia, the good thing I got from it was only a Book of Air Magic (but had very little mana), then I took a couple more Pandora's Boxes (mummies in one, experience in the other), a couple of wyvern nests, a Pandora's Box guarded by Ghost Behemoths — got all the Air spells. Then I took another dragon utopia deeper in (Cape of the Fifth and bags of gold) and galloped to a wyvern nest — that was the end of the week (the Stone penalty, after all, and I didn't have a single goblin in any hero's army) I wanted to resign in the third week and break through the GO, but everything was too far, I didn't even have 8 heroes for that. In the third week I still only had Eyes, but with a Castle though (somehow didn't get around to buildings). In the fourth week I took a wyvern nest, a Pandora's Box, a Shield +4 Attack and Defense, and on the 5th day I resigned to refill mana in a secondary Tower town (captured on my second attempt after the cursed pegasuses on the way to the treasure site in the underground), and finally fly to the enemy (I had been watching him for so long moving around on the grass through the mountains). On turn 147 I capture Conflux with fully upgraded birds, skills — something like 20 Attack, Defense, the main stack — over 40 wyverns. I gallop along the path from Conflux to the main castle — judging by the GO. And on turn 211 news of capitulation arrives..

Thank you for the game...

Alex_R (Conflux, Grindan/Mephala) def. Dmitriy767 (Barbarian, Gundula) on the first psychic unit in the castle. On the second, he forgot to cast Phoenixes :(. On the third, he took the secondary resource. On the fourth, he ate one Pandora, gained 10,000 experience, was defeated, and bought himself out in the capital - where there were already 6 Phoenixes... while the rest of the army was advancing, he cleared out more resources nearby. At the beginning of the second month, a Barbarian appeared three turns away from the capital - he combined his army and attacked... him. The army was 2-3 times stronger + had more stats. He took his secondary resource, visited the university, and acquired three Pandoras. He returned to the capital, bought the growth, and jumped through the portal - he emerged on the other side of the territory, on the other side of his capital - and Gundula was already there - with new growth - he attacked again and won... the opponent surrendered. Thanks for the game! Elements are great with mass blessing.

I started off not too bad; I didn't know which direction to go, so I headed that way, but I got lured in by the elf city and ended up losing to Dragon Utopia, plus about 5 Pandoras, and ran into an enemy. I went in another direction, but there was already nothing left there except to surrender. Thanks for the game!!!

Arandor (blue, Necropolis, Septienna, Charna, or Vidomina, etc.) vs. eXeCuToR (red, Dungeon, Malekith, Gunnar) ...I don't remember the beginning very well... it's been a few days... towards the end of the first week, I took Inferno (empty). I was building troops in my home Castle... I developed up to liches, upgraded everyone (except skeletons). The enemy captured the Castle in the upper left corner (I was in the right), and I was below in the middle (both Castles)... I bought Inteus (elementalist), went scouting, took the wood, saw the Castles, and went along the same path to the Castle that my opponent had taken... while he was wandering around looking for resources, he wasn't far from my Inferno... in general, I captured the Castle (empty), bought pikemen and archers (there was a fairy)... and repelled the enemy's attack, which had several minotaurs (maybe someone else... I don't remember)... the second hero (Gunnar) got too close to the Inferno and was killed by its inhabitants, led by Vidomina... After that, I went with my main army to the enemy, we fought near the Castle (I sent reinforcements beforehand)... the result: Arandor's victory. We played on a random map, map C, difficulty 160, without dungeons and water. P.S. The heroes weren't very lucky (they had almost useless specializations... Septienna and Charna were at the beginning). I bought Vidomina later

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Arandor (blue, Necropolis, Septiena, Charna, or Vidomina, etc.) vs eXeCuToR (red, Dungeon, Malekith, Gunnar)

Exactly. Of course, I messed up again and let him capture my secondary castle and buy up all the reinforcements there... That's why I lost...

KAZAK1992 vs Dvitriy767. The beginning was difficult, but by the end of the 3rd week, my opponent surrendered. Thanks for the game.

KAZAK1992 vs Dvitriy767. The beginning was rough, but by the end of week 3, my opponent surrendered. Thanks for the game.

That happened. On day 7, I lost my main hero, and I didn't have enough money to buy him back, nor was there a market. After taking a second town, I lost another hero and decided not to continue playing.

Yakudza (Dungeon, blue, Shakter) def Decontaminator (Castle, red, Valeska) 2-1-1

I want to apologize to Sir Yakudza. I'm just ashamed of my uninspired gameplay, especially considering his decent performance. He tried so hard, and I couldn't pull myself together and played poorly.
Thank you for the game and the experience.

Arandor (blue, Rampart, Ivor) vs. Dmitriy767 (red, Swamp, Gervulf)

The game ended on 1.1.7 (month, week, day). Arandor won.

The map was random, the factions were also random, the difficulty was 160, and the map size was L.

The starting hero was Ivor, with 5 elves and 10+ centaurs. He bought Thorgrim with 4 dwarves and 13 centaurs. He built a manor, adding another 7 elves... He went to the upper part of the map, first with Thor, saw some chests there, and then went with Ivor to get them. I noticed a red flag peeking out of the darkness below, on the way to the Castle. I ran back... I entered the Castle, built a Stronghold, bought a Necromancer, and took some zombies from her. After that, she was killed by the enemy, but he didn't attack the Castle and stayed nearby... The next day, I built Ents and bought all or almost all of them (three in total) and attacked the enemy with an army: about 40 centaurs, 12 elves, 3 dwarves, 3 Ents (Dryads), and 4 zombies... The enemy had: 14 lizards, 4 basilisks, 1 snake, and gnolls +20... The enemy retreated. After the battle, I rushed down to the enemy's Castle... I got lucky and chose the right path out of the two available, and in the next turn, I killed Myrlan with 1 gnoll (or so) and attacked the Castle, which was guarded by the same Gervulf with lizards +10 and gnolls (almost 20)... After capturing the Castle (without a Stronghold), the game didn't end... *In the previous turns, I saw a Necromancer hero in the tavern of the red player, but I didn't pay attention...*... After capturing the Castle and buying 7 snakes and 4 basilisks, I went back to my home city, which was guarded by Thorgrim with 1 centaur, and where an attack was being prepared by a Necromancer with +20 skeletons and several zombies... The city was lost, thanks to the enemy hero's magic...
In general, I reached the city with the main army and captured it... I lost all the elves (the Tower destroyed them), the basilisks (the Pit destroyed them), and almost all the centaurs...
Luckily, I didn't have time to build a Guild in the city.

During the game, I only fought against the player. I didn't manage to kill a single neutral creature... It was the first time that the cities were generated so close to each other online...

Dmitriy767, thank you for the game

Arandor (blue, Rampart, Ivor) vs Dmitriy767 (red, Swamp, Gervulf)

That's exactly what happened! He had no choice but to accept the challenge, and he got his butt kicked.