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Games within the tournament: "You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours"
Final
vbn (red, random, Castle, idk, idk) def invisible (blue, random, Rampart, idk, idk) 2sm4d(3) 115
I chose all restarts and got into a complete mess... Right next to the Castle, there was a block of 50-99 Grand Elves. Zero Elves from the start, nowhere to go, no mines, not even a single pile of wood to build Elves. I upgraded Centaurs and Dwarves, then broke through off-road to the Inferno respawn. 50 gr Centaurs and 13 Dwarves first killed a horde of gr Dwarves, then 10-19 gr Ogres, leaving 20 Centaurs. I saw Inferno's secondary hero, but a block of a horde of Pikemen, which 20 Centaurs would no longer handle. I captured a pile of wood with 85 Gremlins and a gr stack, then found another one with Deesa... In short, I didn't want to end up with a week's worth of Elves in the Citadel, have an army of 10 Centaurs, and skip turns just to scrape together some army and break through somewhere. I surrendered. The autopsy showed that vbn had so much cash at the respawn that Angels could easily be built on week one...
Thanks for the game!
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Additional decisive final game
invisible (red, Conflux, random, idk, Ciele) def vbn (blue, Conflux, random, idk, Krellion) 2sm4d(3) 211
We chose all restarts. In the end, two out of my three roads were blocked (one guarded by 20-49 Medusas with Dead Man's Boots, the other by 50-99 Magogs guarding a Hive). I went down the third with Luna, taking out crypts along the way, of which there were plenty. By the way, over the whole game I took about 7-8 crypts, but ALL except one (which was 10 Vampires))))) turned out to be 5 Vampires!!! I admit I was pleasantly surprised, because crypts with 5 Vampires are my favorite when playing any Castle.
According to Vitalik, he had a complete mess..., but if he got Birds on his first week, then it wasn't that much of a mess))). Starting on day 4, I had 5 heroes (no more were needed, since there was nowhere to run due to the blocks), and at the end of each day I had 12k cash left after building. This relaxed me, because Birds seemed to be easy to build on week one. I ran to the entrance of the adjacent secondary zone (which later turned out to be his home!!!), but there were 20-49 Storms :(. So I took an external dwelling of Air Elementals next to them and waited for day 121. End of week one: Birds with nothing, 6 heroes, all mages except Ciele, who was already level 6 with Expert Sorcery and Offense. I decided to make her the main hero, considering the prospect of gathering Skeletons (already 50 after week one). On day 121, Ciele stands before a block of a horde of Magogs, a chain was built slightly north to take a crypt beforehand to buy Birds. On day 121, I buy one Bird and Air Elementals, clear the crypt (gave me the second component of the Cloak of the Undead King))), a chain +4 to Attack behind a horde of Pokémon (lost 6 Air Elementals because I put them under Air Elemental blow((()). Nearby, I spot a Dragon Utopia :), buy Birds and Psychic Elementals, hit the Magogs, take a Hive with 6 Wyverns, hit 50 Diamond Golems guarding a Pandora's Box (turned out empty :mad:). I break through to the Underground entrance and send a scout hero with 6 Wyverns there, while I head south to collect cash and gather Skeletons. The scout on Wyverns discovers blue flags standing a few tiles away, and there was nowhere left to go :( . On the next turn, they kill 2 Wyverns and the scout is ransomed. Ciele splits into the Castle, refills mana, and hits the Medusas guarding the Boots; from the lookout, another Hive is visible with 100-249 Evil Eyes, also guarding a Shield +4. I send Luna there with an army to take the Dwarf Cottage and a crypt, while I move towards the Underground to catch the opponent, since his situation there apparently wasn't particularly rosy))), meaning he had even less cash for growth than me. On week two, I build the Citadel and ignore the Castle, as I need money for recruitment. At the start of week three, I take a Dwarf Cottage with 50 Dwarves, a crypt with 5 Vampires :D , buy out everyone except Fire and Earth Elementals, and go into the Underground, where there were already a few skirmishes between our scout heroes and shooters at the entrance. I take the Inferno Castle, build Mages Guild level 1 there, refill mana, the scout kills another blue scout and continues scouting the territory, where he later finds a Shield +4 all, a Naga Bank, and resources guarded by 20-49 Brown Bears. I make a note of this, since the blues surely saw it too. I split into the main Castle, run to the second Hive, kill 101 Evil Eyes, take the Shield, split back, and run to the Dragon Utopia. Skeletons are almost 300. On the way, I take a Naga Bank with 20 Nagas, an external dwelling of Water Elementals, on day 137 build a Castle, and on day 141 take a level-2 Dragon Utopia. I only lost some meat, Wyverns, and 50 Skeletons. It gave me a Sack of Gold and a Chalice :smile12: (though I needed the Control). It also granted me the third component of the Cloak of the Undead King (of course I didn't assemble it:)). But that's fine, I split into the Inferno secondary, run to the Shield +4 all, take it, the Naga Bank, two chests, which gave me 20 Liches and 5k experience. There was nowhere else to go in that direction, plenty of meat, Skeletons already over 400 with the Ring of Life, stats much higher. And then I thought, why don't I break the GO and storm the opponent's Castle, whose stats are zero and who has no cash?)) Sure, I could gather a couple hundred extra Skeletons, but Vitalik might also find some treat. So, I split into the main Castle, refill mana, build the second level of magic: I have Blindness and Lightning Bolt (which hits for 470). Ciele has Advanced Fire Magic and Curse (very useful against Conflux) + Blind. On day 146, she rests at the Birds near the GO, on day 147, she kills 25 Angels + 5 Arch Angels + 3 Crystal Dragons and captures the empty blue Castle on the same turn. Right then, I see zero-level Bron march with troops from where the home secondary was (which the blues had privatized(( ), and he stops during his movement near my Castle, with Krellion himself on a Bird following close behind. On day 147, I'm one tile short of entering the Castle to get a speed boost, so I spend the night with the Skeletons. The next day, which was 211, I'm two tiles short of splitting Ciele to face the shooters((( . So, I transfer all artifacts and troops via the chain to the main Castle, buy Ivor there, and he attacks Bron with all the might, who has all his troops plus three Angels. But my scout's stats were around fifteen. There was no cash for ransom, and Vitalik surrendered.
Thanks for the games!
p.s. :smile49:
