Posts from [HoMM3 on-line Tournaments] "Favorites to Battle"

SS-D (Dungeon, mines, mines) CR, dudge (Necropolis, Goltran, Goltran) SYN
In the first week, I recruited vampires and liches and took a Citadel... I didn't have enough for a Castle because all the heroes unexpectedly got stuck in dead ends, and Goshka died on golems, losing 3 liches. In the second week, I found resources to upgrade the vampires, and everything got a little better. On day 127, I found a secondary Necropolis. I took a vampire lair. By day 3, I was playing more relaxed... and stupidly attacked 40 Elementals of Thought; the result was 6-8 vampires and all skeletons... but I broke through to the Zhyr and quickly started leveling up... on day 4, I took the 1st Utopia, and on day 5, the 2nd. The result was Angel Wings, the Book of Water, and somewhere I got the Magic of Fire... and I grew a little in terms of stats. I decided not to wait any longer and went to the opponent. 1200 skeletons decided the outcome of the battle.

SS-D (Dungeon, mines, mines) vs. dudge (Necropolis, Goltran, Goltran) vs. Sin
1200 skeletons decided the outcome of the battle.

I read my opponent's account and realized that my own foolishness decided the outcome. I should have gone for 1-4-1 against my opponent, and everything would have been fine, but instead, I went to collect useless resources:smile33: and ended up losing:smile04:.
Thank you for the game

AndreyALN (swamp, expert in vivians, he is) син DEF SS-D (dungeon, shafts, shafts) cr 1 2 2
there were many restarts, either the opponent took [something], or he decided to attack me before day 6 and took a restart, or it wouldn't connect, or the map wouldn't load, then finally everything worked out, and the opponent got the very center (on land, not underground)!!! I got the middle on the right + a teleport to the left center, by day 4 we each took another castle, I took an air castle, and the opponent, I don't know what, then I took an air dwelling and it turned out that it was locked in with neighboring guards, and it remained waiting for help until the next week, I bought a new upgrade and left, well, then the opponent said that he gives up, thank him, it was nice to chat, and a separate thank you for agreeing to play on the TEST server))), of course, I turned off all the unnecessary things and предварительно told the main nuances. courage worthy of respect!!! thank you, I would be happy to play again, and maybe just for fun.

I want to participate in the tournament, sign me up as Light-Knight, ICQ-405464600. I will play as Castle.

When can you play? Everything is so vague in ICQ...

AndreyALN (swamp, expert in vivnas, also known as) син DEF SS-D (Dungeon, shafts, shafts) cr 1 2 2
Thanks, I'd be happy to play again.

I confirm. Thank you for the game and the conversation. If the connection had been better, it would have been even better. We spent about an hour dealing with connection issues before we could even start. Regarding the TE - I liked it; the button to move the entire army into it makes it easy to play without hesitation, plus the hours are interesting, although it takes a lot of time to accumulate them.
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Waiting for instructions from the organizers regarding the end of the group tournament and the addition of games to the table.:smile51:

Izgoy767 (Dungeon, shafts) def Light-Knight (Castle, Christian)
The game turned out to be very fast – it seems I broke through here on the 3rd week, and his father was also there. We attacked, cut each other a bit, and he ran away. I caught up with him in the city and finished him off!
Thanks for the game. It’s a pity that I had to play against a clan member!

Izgoy767 (Dungeon, shafts) def Light-Knight (Castle, Christian)
The game turned out to be very fast – it seems I broke through here on the 3rd week, and my opponent was already defending, we attacked each other a bit, and he ran away. I caught up with him in the city and finished him off!
Thanks for the game. It’s a pity that I had to play against a clan member!

Confirmed:smile15: Thanks for the game))

I've updated the table; please take a look and let me know if it's filled out correctly, if all the games have been counted, etc. I tried my best to do everything accurately, but I might have missed something...
If you notice anything incorrect, please post it here; don't hesitate... I just discovered that when editing large posts (like mine, for example), this nuisance (Opera) tends to insert something extra or, conversely, remove something... which isn't good for a table:rolleyes:

Dirty_Player(Inferno, Octavia, Luna) vs AndreyALN(Fortress, Drakon, Drakon) 1_4_5 DRAW
I started above ground, so I didn't take any restarts. I freed Luna from the dungeon. My opponent allowed me to develop her, and I thank him for that. By week 3, I had 66 demons and went to Utopia. I lost half of my demons but managed to get the minimum. I received Titan Armor and some junk. The money disappeared quickly, so instead of Devils, I decided to build a 4th-tier building. I scraped together resources and built it, hoping for Armageddon. Of course, I didn't get Armageddon there, but instead received Sorrow and Chain Lightning. Furious, I went to the Cyclops depot to build a 5th-tier building. I lost a lot, but I built the building. I received a Fire Elemental. I went into the Metro, took the Alchemist's Laboratory, and set up there to develop. Suddenly, a Dragon descends and, without hesitation, attacks... He has 22 Wyverns, 5 Hydras, and other junk against my 5 Sultans. I realize that I have no chance, and I want to buy my way out, but... the Shackles of War did their job! I thought it was over... I look at his stats, and they are surprisingly lower than mine (apparently, he had nowhere to develop). I summon Elementals with all my mana (52 at a time). The Wyverns rushed at the Ifrits and killed them all. But the entire swamp squad fell under the relentless onslaught of fire! Both heroes died, and it was decided to agree to a draw, as I was too lazy to start over...
Thank you to my opponent for the game! It was very pleasant to chat!

P.S.: Dear organizers. Andrey and I scored the same number of points. I would like him to advance to the next stage, as I will not have time to play. I have work, and school starts on Monday. This was my first online tournament, and most likely the last, as I realized that online play is not for me... I will play offline in my free time! I wish everyone good luck. I will be rooting for Andrey and for Dudge:-)

To be honest, I didn't quite figure out the program for the draw, so I arranged the groups according to my own understanding. I think if none of those who passed the first stage object, I'll gladly put you in the same group;) And you can play right now - if you can't wait - just have to hold back on the report.. Yes, and it's not worth informing the others (including me) yet;)

We played, battled from 8 pm to 3 am, we're holding back on the report, waiting for the bracket (and the result is very unexpected, because on turn 133 I attacked my opponent and lost 22 lives, an angel, 15 silver pegasuses, unicorns, 30 great elves, etc., in general, everything I had gathered, I only bought myself off with 4 elves and 2 phantoms, it was a disaster, but then.... we'll find out in the next episodes)

With Ta, we agreed to play tomorrow. If we don't play, consider it a win for her.

Dear organizers, I haven't been able to contact Muxa and finish our game for the past 2 weeks. If he doesn't show up tonight, I will send the ICQ logs to Evgeny.

Dear organizers. I haven't been able to contact Muxa and finish our game for 2 weeks. If he doesn't show up tonight, I will send the ICQ logs to Evgeny.

A similar situation .......................

Dirty_Player(Inferno, Octavia, Luna) vs AndreyALN(Fortress, Drakon, Drakon) 1_4_5 DRAW

Thanks, I confirm that it was tough with resources, but I'm not used to taking restarts because of playing on fixed maps, and I don't really like it. I prefer the philosophy of playing with what you get – that's the randomness. Playing on a good map is boring, and writing reports about it isn't interesting either: if I get a great setup and win, it's not interesting.
I was wandering around with my main hero and suddenly saw the opponent's leader standing next to an Efreet. I was so happy that I attacked him)), but he was level 5 ((Fire Elemental), and he also wanted to run away)), but with the scattered shackles, he couldn't)), but it was fun: it's a pity that the Ice Arrow didn't help; I ran out of mana, although there were a lot of these elementals, I definitely couldn't shoot them all.
Thanks to my opponent and good luck in offline games!

Okay. Good day to everyone!
Unfortunately, not all scheduled games have been played, including my game with BotINKi:o, so I'm giving everyone until February 13th to complete all games. I'll start assigning technical tasks (I seem to have gotten carried away:smile28:).