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

Izgoy767 (Dungeon, Shafts) Def Loi (Castle, Tyris)
No development whatsoever – only built a castle by week 3, lost twice.
But the opponent made a mistake by attacking the Sultan Ifrit horde and lost. After that, the opponent surrendered.

def game kirill castle valeska/valeska vs ewgeniy rampart kyrre/kyrre 2 1 6
Confirmed!
We started many times, and each time my resource spawn was richer and richer. The last time, it generated like this: 3 Necropolises near the Castle, an Imp town. A horse den and 2 resource mines on top. I immediately moved Valeska to the adjacent resource spawn and took a secondary Swamp on day 116. On day 117, horses in the Citadel.
Then I decided to take the resource mines, and accidentally let the griffins peck away at the archers... a silly mistake, I was losing 49 archers and 9 champions. Evgeniy gave me a restart. As a result, I had 3 Angels. Later, on day 141, I saw Kirill. I went to the snow, revealed a resource mine... and then my greed let me down; my army was larger, but the stats were very weak, as I had been taking everything collectively in a chain.
After taking another resource mine, I hung around in the snow for a week instead of going to visit Evgeniy.
As a result, on day 147, I build Angels, and on day 211, it's the month of PLAGUE!!! Then Kirill comes and, with magic combined with his stats, defeats Valeska, having first captured my home Castle and teleported (I was very surprised).
In the end, I lost.
Congratulations to Evgeniy on his revenge!

Izgoy767 (Dungeon, Shafts) Def Loi (Castle, Tyris)

Confirmed. He developed well – knights in the Castle on the first day, and on the second day, 2 secondary units, 2 conscripts – minimal. Believing in victory, he became arrogant and lost. Well, arrogance is punished. The opponent nobly offered to reload – I didn’t think it was appropriate in this situation.
Thank you to the opponent – for the game and for the offer.

invisible (red, Barbarian, Crag Hack, Crag Hack) def Loi (blue, Castle, Turis, Turis) 216 2sm4d(3)
The Barbarians have redeemed themselves. Fast roads, many orcs from the start, weak guards, 3 goblin external dwellings, 1 bird, 1 orc and two "cans" on the respawn. I prayed there would be no re. And so it was. Money was fine, but on the first [turn] bears in the Stronghold, so that by 121 everything could be bought up. All heroes fought with all their might; Crag didn't lag behind. Scouts sniffed out the whole map, but Dragon Utopias were never found, nor were they by the opponent. Found a couple of treasures, picked up 24 wyverns, took a couple of Pandoras, one of which gave me 70 zombies - just right for a Dragon Utopia, but alas. I wanted to break the ГО on the 3rd week when the bears became grey; there was Masslow, but I really wanted to play for pleasure, clear treasures, take art +3 morale/luck, +2 speed, "cans" and much more. Found two angel external dwellings, but took only one as I hurried toward the opponent, and it was not in vain. Turis's respawn was simply fairy-tale: external dwellings of angels, horses, archers, pikes, griffins, basically a full assortment :eek: . Almost paid for my overconfidence by not upgrading air to expert and most importantly - forgot about Turis's tactics. And after Masslow I waited to see what damage the archers would deal - and after the shot I realized it wasn't that bad - 150 units killed only one angel. I had expert tactics, but I didn't have the first move because the opponent had archangels in the finale. I arrived via a secondary [site] and attacked the castle on 216. The opponent had 4 archangels, 28 horses, 150 archers, nearly 50 monks, nearly 200 halberdiers and about 70 griffins, but weak stats of 8-9. I had 21-10, 24 wyverns, 9 angels, 8 grey bears, nearly 100 orcs, 70 wolves, 39 birds and about 40 ogres. The opponent made a mistake by moving horses out of the castle to finish off my angels. Bears with orcs killed all 28 of them immediately.
Thanks for the game!
I ask that the game with Yakuza be counted. Did I win? I won. I confirmed the report and that's it. :smile04:

invisible (red, Barbarian, Crag Hack, Crag Hack) def Loi (blue, Castle, Turis, Turis) 216 2sm4d(3)

Confirmed. This was a very useful game for me in terms of strategic experience. I didn't pay enough attention to overall scouting.
Thank you for the game!

vitalic (blue, swamp, Tazar) def Sir vbn (red, Castle, Valeska) 2SM4D(3) 212
In the first battle, Tazar fought against 60 harpies with a mixed stack, broke through the teleport, and ended up facing 49 crusaders. He decided not to take the risk. He learned the tactics and gradually made progress, built a Wyvern Aerie + Basilisks with a Castle, and fortified the Basilisk lair. At level 11, he received Logistics, which made things easier. In the second round, he retook his native secondary town and the Necropolis secondary town with a vampire lair. He didn't read the rules carefully and didn't know that he could use the abilities of Vampire Lords. He didn't even build them, but his opponent attacked his swamp secondary town with 20 Vampire Lords. At level 141, without any growth bonus, he captured the Utopia maximum. He received zero to stats, three spellbooks, and spheres. At level 143, his opponent, with a powerful army, broke through the defenses and took the capital. Tazar didn't establish himself and took the next Utopia, which had 5 magic, wings, and a shield. Tazar, with a magic skill of 2, wasn't a great mage, but with boots and Logistics, he could fly quite well. He took the opponent's Necropolis secondary town, constantly killed the red player's scouts. Then he flew around, gathered Wyverns, and captured another Utopia. He took his native secondary town, and then his opponent made a mistake. He was afraid that I would retake my capital and settled there, not having time to transfer troops. Tazar takes the opponent's capital with his secondary hero, then Tazar goes there and wipes them out, first the hero with 70 crusaders, then the hero with 8 angels, a hundred griffins, 150 archers, etc., and then he defeats Valeska. Tazar is level 21, with a golden bow, and with his stats and a strike stack of 50 Wyverns, he probably could have defeated Valeska, but everything ended much simpler.

Thank you for the game

vitalic (blue, swamp, Tazar) def Sir vbn (red, castle, Valeska) 2SM4D(3) 212

We were short by 4 game minutes to implement the game tactic;
I didn't have time to pass the troops to the main hero in a chain.
But I think we could have put up a good fight.
A stack of 50+ wyverns wouldn't scare me, I've seen that before ;)

Thanks for the game.

BotINKi (Conflux, Moner/Moner) defeated Izgoy767 (Stronghold, Gundula/Gundula).
The game started with great enthusiasm – Conflux, mmmm:) until the opponent reminded me about the ban on upgrading levels 1, 6, and 7...
The difficulty of 160% initially caused some confusion, but I quickly reoriented my plans, first exploring my territory and collecting everything I could, and then, while looking for a way out, I stumbled upon a Rampart and then an Inferno.
Deciding that I was inferior to my opponent in terms of parameters, I decided to go down to the Dungeon and level up there. Pandoras, Hive of Serpents, guardians of these things, and Utopia increased my hero's stats, but at that time, I lost my main hero. Fortunately, the dragons left me with the Book of Earth, and the Implosion spell helped me. Then, methodically defeating the opponent's army, I waited in a convenient place for the opponent's main hero, after which I attacked and, with the help of Implosion, snatched this seemingly lost victory.
Thank you to my opponent for the lesson in playing ranked games.

BotINKi(Conflux, Moner/Moner) defeated Izgoy767(Stronghold, Gundula/Gundula)

after 2 of my restarts and 2 restarts by the opponent, the respawn was just terrible; only the Dragon Utopia nearby was a comfort. on week 3, Castle with runes, on week 5 bears which I never upgraded. overall, I lost :o

I confirm Invisible's victory.
Regarding the main points:
In the first week, he had Knights in the Castle.
On 1.1.5, he used a secondary castle where he only recruited Archers.
In the second week, on the secondary castle, he acquired the Angel Hut for 50-99 Basilisks.
In the third week, he built the Angel Hut.
In the second and third weeks, he took 2 contracts for 1 and 3 Angels.
In the fourth week, he got the minimum amount of Utopians.
In the fifth week, he got 2 more, the minimum amount, and 2 more, and he got +3 to all for 10-19 Phoenixes. In the Utopian castle, he received armor with +4 Attack/Defense, and nothing else useful.
The opponent arrived, I broke down the treasury and attacked.
But since I didn't have any speed boost, although I had expert air, nor any slow, the opponent killed 6 Angels and bought himself out on his first turn.
There were no resources to upgrade the Angels.
On the next turn, the opponent attacked me in the Castle and killed a Berserker and
about 160 Elves.

Thank you for the game!

invisible (blue, Rampart, Kirry, Kirry) def Dubrovin Pavel (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) 2sm4d(3) 221
It turned out to be a very interesting match. I took both restarts, the opponent only one. At first it seemed like complete ..., but two cans, two elf external dwellings, one of which I took only on the second [week], as I was afraid to push through the horde of demons who were also guarding a +3 shield. Near the castle there was a cloak +2 speed for a pack of gr. unicorns, thanks to which I won. On the first week, horses in the castle. The opponent bragged that he had his native secondary town and my morale immediately dropped -1 :) . I fought through the wilderness to the necro-secondary; there was a Dragon Utopia, an external dwelling of vamps and liches, but I didn't take them due to lack of money. On the second week, capitol, two cans dropped (2+2), got speed boots, gloves, and found the entrance to the treasury. There was a Dragon Utopia, book of fire behind gold dragons, book of air behind black dragons, library, and a sword +5 to all for a crowd of whip-//ers. On the third week I'm recovering money, building dragons. The opponent took my secondary town, but for some reason left immediately, thereby giving me the opportunity to take it back and maintain control. I was afraid he might take the Dragon Utopia first. On the 4th week I take all the above mentioned and went through the secondary to the castle. On 217 the opponent attacks himself.
1 final: Valeska 23-17-13-11, 13 angels (there was their external dwelling), 18 horses, 8 wyverns, 130 archers and the rest of the gang, ring +1 speed, expert tactics.
Kirry 20-34-17-19, 2 green dragons, 4 angels, 17 horses, 141 great elf and small fry, +2 speed :) (I wanted to put on the cloak of renunciation at first, but it's a good thing I didn't).
The opponent made a gross mistake, not checking who had the first move and positioning in tactics such that the angels are under direct fire from the elves. My first move, I mass-slow, kill 6 angels with elves, several horses and 1 wyvern, then buy them out, luckily there was enough money after the Dragon Utopia. I buy back in my own town, take growth, on 221 I break through ГО 4 crystals and 90+ gr. psychos and on the last cell I reach the opponent's castle across half the map (Kirry rules with boots and gloves). Valeska already has 11 angels :eek:, 18 horses, 140 archers and others. I have 160 Elvises supported by the rest. The opponent could do nothing against my first move and berserk on the angels. In three rounds they didn't move once and killed almost all of their own :D . The opponent surrendered.
Thanks for an interesting game!

vbn (red, Dungeon, Gunnar, Gunnar) def dragon20000 (red, Stronghold, Girda, Mullich) 2sm4d(3) 221.

We played according to dragon20000's rules:
- XL with a Dungeon
- any race is chosen by the computer or we choose ourselves
- heroes cannot be chosen but you can play as any of them
- 160% difficulty
- diplomacy is not prohibited, just like everything else...
- restart if stone or wood are unavailable
- you can only develop in your main castle
- other castles can only be developed for money

On day 2-3-2, Gunnar had 20-15-15-16 stats with 72 Scorpions and 51 Sorcerers, etc.
He crushed Mullich's castle with 11-12-5-4 stats and 11 creatures, etc.

The game once again confirmed: diplomacy should be banned!

Thank you for the game.

Sir Yakudza (red, Swamp, Tazar, Tazar) def Decontaminator (blue, Necropolis, Galtran, Galtran) 2SM4D(3) 213
Sir Yakudza (blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def Decontaminator (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) 2SM4D(3) 133
Thank you for the interesting games and experience.

Well, first Invisible made me write a report, and now Decontaminator wrote it for me, even though I didn't want to create reports... Since that's the case, I'll write a report... About the game, where the Swamp (me) won against the Necropolis (Decontaminator). There, I won by a miracle. I gave my opponent a Necropolis. I don't think upgrading Vampires and choosing a hero at the start is forbidden here (when I played with Invisible, I was sure that upgrading Vampires and the Power Amplifier were forbidden...). (Because if you allow the Necropolis to use the Power Amplifier, upgrade Vampires, and choose a hero, it becomes simply invincible, and there are no alternatives in terms of castles, making it uninteresting to play with or against it). The Power Amplifier and upgraded Vampires were the first "pleasant" surprise for me, which I discovered when I visited my opponent. The second was that my opponent had two Necropolis castles with two Skeleton Nests and a Vampire Nest – that's it, game over... I thought for a long time whether to play or not. There was a blockade on the road (and it was the only one), and I had very little money. The only good thing was that there were two Wyvern Roosts near the castle. On the third day, I saw through the mountains that a Guardian of the Order was guarding the passage to the Underground. I thought that maybe my opponent was also in a bad situation and decided not to restart (I couldn't even imagine in my worst nightmare that my opponent had a native Necropolis and so many Nests). As a result, for the first week, I wandered around with Tazar in my own territory. On the second week, I took a small army and settled down to capture the Hive. Later, however, I messed up – I forgot to transfer the army to Tazar (I led the hero to another place, but the troops remained with him :( ). As a result, Tazar captured the Hive with an army of reinforcements, and there were heavy losses. On the third week, with 17 upgraded Wyverns, I went to my opponent's secondary castle (Necropolis). Nearby, I also looted several resource nodes and got good artifacts for attack and defense (+7 to both). Then, the owner of the secondary castle appeared with thousands of skeletons, and Tazar urgently started to retreat towards the explored treasure, which was also near the secondary castle. Galtran started chasing him, but Tazar had expert logistics, so Galtran rushed to my castle. On the fourth week, he captured it (although I had moved the army away from there). Meanwhile, Tazar gathered more Wyverns, got Boots of Speed and the Book of Air, and flew to another explored treasure near the opponent's secondary castle (which I captured with an army I saw from the Swamp, belonging to Galtran). Galtran, meanwhile, broke through the Guardian of the Order (from my side, towards my own castle :) ) and ran to recapture the secondary castle (Citadel) that I had captured. I, meanwhile, gathered more Wyverns in another treasure (there were more than 100, not including the upgraded ones), took a couple of Dracols (Books of Earth and Fire with an Earth expert), got the Sphere of Earth, and teleported to the secondary castle near the opponent's main castle, which he hadn't captured (which probably cost him the game) (and I captured it by sneaking through the treasure, attacking a group of Steel Golems with an Ifrit and 6 Vampires – it was a close call). Then, it was a rout. On the first day, the main castle of the Red faction fell. On the second day, the second Necropolis castle fell. On the fourth day, I took back my own castle and started upgrading Wyverns there :rolleyes: (I ended up with 137 Monk Wyverns). Then, I teleported to the Citadel secondary castle, which Galtran was rushing to recapture, and attacked him with 30/30 attack and defense (all skills at expert level), with an explosion from the Sphere of Earth, expert regeneration, and slow. After 137 Wyverns killed 1000+ skeletons, the opponent surrendered... (In general, in this game, I theoretically had no chance. Decontaminator simply needed to take artifacts and Wyvern Roosts in the treasures, which were all located right next to his secondary castles, and he could see what was there with Observer). In the second game, I (Dungeon) won against Decontaminator (Castle). There, the opponent came to me on the second week, but the Shaman already had good stats and Boots of Speed. As a result, after taking a small army of 2 Angels with minor losses, I entered the Castle and caught up with the opponent, who also had 2 Angels, but practically no other army (one horse, 7 Maximen, and some units). Plus, I entered a Well before the attack, and the opponent had no mana. As soon as the battle started, the opponent surrendered because my stats were several times higher, and I had a much larger army.

vbn (red, Dungeon, Gunnar, Gunnar) def dragon20000 (red, Stronghold, Girda, Mullich) 2sm4d(3) 221.

I confirm that I lost against this player, my rating is dropping))