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

Pit - for the sake of LM (red, Rampart, Kairie) defeats Foman (blue, Dungeon, Shakti), 2sm4d(3), 124. At the start, I see Utopia and Conservatory in front of the Castle. I immediately head towards the second town - there's an Archer Tower. On turn 113, the town is mine. The territories are vast and quite rich; on turn 117, I built levels 1-6 with a Stronghold. I could have built a Castle, but I saved the money (although I had 15,000). Then, Kairie appears with a Pegasus near the entrance to the Dungeon - most likely, Shakti was there - the main guard was standing nearby at another entrance. Chains of buildings were constructed; I planned to bring improved archers - 37 of them - and an army from the capital. However, the archers didn't make it, which helped save the Castle from Shakti on turn 123. On turn 121, Kairie goes down into the Dungeon, sees Shakti, carefully avoids him to prevent a red rush, but heads in the wrong direction - towards the Manticore lair, not the capital. Shakti comes out of the Dungeon, presumably planning to capture my capital. On turn 123, I storm the opponent's Stronghold. There aren't many troops there, and I win. On turn 124, Shakti returns to his town and cannot take it - he surrenders. Thank you for the game.

scorp (blue, Stronghold, Gurnisson, Pyra) def Dubrovin Pavel (red, Inferno, Kalh, Kalh) 214

Thanks as always for the exciting game!

I confirm!

I really didn't expect that respected Scorp's metro entrance on his own respawn would be 1.5 moves away from my Main Castle.

I barely managed to set up a defense by the third week, but there was no assault; I had to leave to search for some Dragon Utopia, but in the treasury I found an Orator's Hat and a Helmet +6 to all stats. Papa broke camp before Scorp arrived, but didn't have time to transfer the Retinue...

Even if he had, with my Explosion doing 500 Damage, I wouldn't stand a chance against 10 Brown and 6 Grey Bears, Vivs, and Scorp's powerful Stats...

Thanks for the beating!

Everything mentioned above has been taken into account.
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It's a real pain to have to come up with all these workarounds (Can you please give me more characters in a message?).

Please credit the game in the rating for "Seasons of the Year, Spring Season 2008," as the author was unable to submit a report in this thread due to technical issues:

"Bob I. (red, Rampart, Ivor, Mephala) def Uran (blue, Tower, Ain) Outer Limits 147
I didn't realize right away that I had bought Mephala. She was sent out at the beginning as a scout. Due to lack of time, on day 6, I didn't manage to build pegasi, and consequently, I couldn't build unicorns with the Stronghold.
On week 2, I built dragons without a Castle.
I agree with invisible; there is a shortage of primary resources. I ran out of wood. Therefore, I only built the Castle on week 3 and didn't even build a city hall. But there were plenty of resources overall; I just wasn't lucky with the wood spawn.
I was one tile short from attacking one turn earlier when Ain didn't have his entire army. I was afraid of his first turn (considering spell power). In the end, it was my turn first.
Mephala 19-16-11-12, mass slow, expert tactics
4 dragons, 8 unicorns+, 23 dendroids+, 18 pegasus+, 53 elves+, 34 dwarves, 105 centaurs+
Ain 8-5-15-13, mass slow, basic air, chain +625
3 giants, 13 nagas, 15 djinn+, 26 mages, 41 golems+, 65 gargoyles, 213 gremlins+
Morale and luck dropped; all units were killed on turn 2.

Thank you for the game."

and confirmation of the report:
"I really wanted three mage heroes to appear on the first day, which is what happened, but then I wanted to level up a warrior..., who never showed up (only mages kept appearing)
In the first group, there was a level 1 hero and nagas in the Stronghold (I didn't have enough stone throughout the game).
In the second group, there were djinn, a Castle, golden bow, and lightning bolt at 230 - I wanted to go fight, but somehow I got distracted and didn't properly assemble my army or come to the opponent.
I built a chain and artifact with immunity to lightning. Again, I hesitated for two turns and couldn't break through (the first one had no target, the second one killed a scout and tried to attack the ship, but it only took damage... probably due to mines).
With a chain dealing 600 damage, I wanted to take down the opponent, almost reached him, but I was afraid that he would destroy my titans and take over my nearly empty Castle. I attacked again; with my father, the Castle definitely wouldn't be taken because of the chain (but I should have sent another mage there instead). And the opponent went to attack his own titans)))
As a result, I lost almost a week by sending my father back and forth...
And in the final battle, Mephala's tactics decided everything; otherwise, the chain would have destroyed everyone...
Thanks for the game
Respect to the opponent (hopefully we will meet again in this championship)"

Here is a link to the thread where the reports are written: /topic/4597/

Javdet (blue, Castle, Kaitlin, Andra) def Pit - for the sake of LM (red, Stronghold, Gurney, Gurney). 1.4.3 2sm4d3

In the early game, I focused on building up my Castle, with a secondary focus on the Stronghold. It was unclear what my father would do, but when Andra received her territory, the choice was made.
In the second week, I built two dwarven mines with 75 units each and two minor naga banks. If I had known it would be so weak, I would have expanded in a different direction. I didn't manage to save up for angels. There were no dwellings on either of the two resource nodes. The only good thing was that Andra fought no worse than any warrior - mass slow and ranged attacks (it turns out you can play with mages in random games if you don't drag it out).
But in the third week, a small miracle happened: in the third-tier territory, I defeated the demons and horses, and then I received a level 4 and a level 5 unit in succession. 1.3.7 I see Gurney destroying the Gate of the Abyss, and I, in my Castle with 10 griffin units and 1 angel, am also ready to fly to his territory. He could have easily defeated me with a bit of luck. I didn't quite make it, but after checking his defenses and the presence of a red orb, I attacked. I messed up by casting a spell first, and Peter surprised me with Armageddon. Only 1 simple bear and 5 of my griffins survived. If he had upgraded his bears, I would have been in trouble. In the next two days, I moved through the swamp territories, and then Gurney invaded my territory and was killed.
Thank you for the interesting game.

Javdet (blue, Castle, Caitlyn, Andra) def Pit - in sake of LM (red, Stronghold, Gurnisson, Gurnisson). 1.4.3 2sm4d3

I confirm.
I was learning to play as the Barbarians (my first serious game with them) - it went pretty well, but I was a little unlucky and made a mistake in the final battle, which I could have won.
In the first week, I build levels 1-3, 5, and 7 with the Castle. I take a second city - Rampart, and build Elves there. I saw 2 nests on the cliff and 1 monster lair. In the tavern, Bron arrived with 7 Basilisks - they helped a lot.
At the beginning of the second week, I take boots +1 strength, magic, and knowledge, a pit of Imps, a Medusa hoard, the first nest, then a sword +3, and another Medusa hoard. Gurnisson, meanwhile, travels around the Rampart territory with 1 movement and a ballista, and finds Utopia. He attacks the capital, gets troops, and takes the second nest and monster lair. Ogres are built in the capital.
At the beginning of the 3rd week, I take the Naga bank and run to Utopia, Bron gets the Armor of Wonder. On day 134, I take Utopia with 8 Gargoyles, 27 Thunderbirds, 12 Ogres, 5 Basilisks, and several Goblins, with stats 13/4. In the battle with 2 Black Dragons, 3 Gargoyles and 1 Thunderbird died, and I received the Book of Fire, the Sword of Justice, and a crown +4 as a reward. I decided to go through the Main Guard to my opponent. I didn't upgrade the Gargoyles because I didn't have enough crystals, so instead, I bought Dwarves, Elves, and Centaurs. I made a slight mistake - I didn't notice a well near the Castle and lost 1 turn, restoring mana. On day 136, I stand next to a flock of Phoenixes. On day 137, I kill them; it turned out that they were unexpectedly strong, and there were about 19 of them. I lost all the Dwarves, Centaurs, Wyverns (4 - I took them along the way at a Hive), and Hobgoblins, as well as a couple of Thunderbirds. I have 24 Thunderbirds, 5 Gargoyles, 21 Great Elves, and 28 Orcish Leaders left. As usual, I'm a few squares short of the capital, and on the next turn, Andra attacks me with 1 Angel, 11 Champions, 66 Archers, 6 Wyverns, 23 Cow Gryphons, and some other units.
In the first round, I used Berserk on the Thunderbirds and Orcs; the Thunderbirds kill the Orcs. Gryphons and Champions protect the Archers. After that, I should have won - waiting for the Elves, then, when their turn came back (the Archers couldn't kill them), Armageddon. The second round would have started - and again, Armageddon. In total, I would have dealt 1260 damage to all units, killing everyone except 3 Thunderbirds, including Andra. Instead, I do something stupid - I use Inferno on the Angel and finish him off with Elves:confused: And in the second round, I get an explosion on the Thunderbirds, after which I lost. Then there were no more chances - I saw that Andra was taking Utopia, and I had nowhere to go, and Gurnisson's speed left much to be desired. I tried to go to another city on the grass - I was hoping for a Conflux, where I could hire Fire Elementals, Magma Elementals, and Firebirds with immunity to Armageddon, but it turned out to be a Castle. I tried to go to my opponent's Conflux, but he had a mass speed spell, and I didn't take an army with me - 6 units of 1 Battle Golem and 3 Thunderbirds...
Thank you for the game.

Pit - for the sake of LM (red, Rampart, Kairie) def Foman (blue, Dungeon, Shakti), 2sm4d(3), 124
Confirmed. Lack of funds prevented him from raising an army! :(

Dreamcatcher (Swamp, Tazar) def Loi (Castle, Valeska) 1-3-3 2sm4d(3)

Respected Loi persistently tried to break Valeska's Tazar once more, but the fate of the game was decided not by the battle of Papa against Mama, but by the skirmish of noobs in the secondary town. Thanks for the game!

Fablio (red, Rampart, Kirrh, level 16) def Babek (blue, Castle, Valeska, level 13), 144, 2sm4d(3)
In the first week, I built upgrades for Elves, Pegasi, Dwarves, and Wooden Golems. A scout reported that there were several Pandora Boxes nearby, so all efforts were focused not on finding castles, but on opening the boxes. Over time, I realized that I had made a mistake - the blue player already had 3 castles (and all 3 were native!!!), while I only had 1! Soon I captured 2 castles, but they were not native :( . Feeling superior, the blue player decided to attack, but I took the initiative and decided to attack first, which allowed me to block his archers for several turns while my elves slowly fired. But the final outcome of the rather difficult battle was due to 2 reasons - superiority in attack and magic skills (11.10.7.5 versus 6.10.4.2) and expert speed. Thank you for the game, I had to "turn a few more hairs gray."

I would say it was more about a few stat parameters, and the accelerated angels that struck and blocked my 120 ballista.
And, of course, ironically, when I went on the attack, I didn't take (because I didn't find) 2!! potions! Which later turned out to be for 2 and 4 angels. Hmm.
There were many chances, but I didn't realize any of them. On turns 1, 2, 3, I saw his Kirrh in the dark (using the Watchtower spell), gathered and reinforced my army (clearly superior at that moment), but he turned around and ran in the other direction. After the game, I checked the autosave, and he DIDN'T see my hero. What intuition!!!

Thank you for the game

Dreamcatcher (Swamp, Tazar) def Loi (Castle, Valeska) 1-3-3 2sm4d(3)

Dear Loi persistently tried once more to break Tazar with Valeska, but the game's outcome was decided not by the battle of Papa and Mama, but by a skirmish of scout heroes in the secondary town. Thanks for the game!

It happened. Twice in a row, while transferring troops, the empty scout hero ran off to another in the chain to say hello. Result — the troops are scattered across the chain into three parts, the smallest part gets beaten, and Terek even forgets to leave the fort — shameful. That's what you get for playing on sleep — deservedly punished for blundering. And yet there were chances — the path to the opponent was discovered early enough, which is what I was aiming for.
Thanks for the lesson and the game.

scorp (red, Castle, Caitlin, Adela) def Dubrovin Pavel (red, Swamp, Tazar, Tazar) 146

On the first day, I picked two native heroes: Adela (with Bless) and archers (built and bought) around 30, and pokemons were immediately about 50-60. I went into Imp-inhabited areas with 30 of them, then killed about 50 golems (Griffin Conservatory guards - also blocking the passage), and the next battle was Crypts - maxed out and mana at 0 - that's where they buried me, or rather my entire army :smile16: THAT'S IT, no money, no army, no restarts for me - I was hoping for Pavel's restart at 113 (but didn't get it) - wanted to concede after receiving the turn on day 4, but I don't know what happened, I kept playing. 115: Bought 4 Swordsmen and 6 Griffins and 1+1 pokemon and went to take revenge on 3 Vampires, 8 Witches, 20 Skeletons and 20 Halberdiers - lost 1+1 pikeman, 1 Swordsman and 1 Griffin - got $5000, air seemed to get into my lungs. Then I buy 2 more Griffins and with 3 Swordsmen and 7 Griffins kill 55 Hobgoblins (shooters) and pick up an external Griffin dwelling behind them - things are easier now. Then 33 Orcs (here they scratched me more seriously) and a second external Griffin dwelling. 117: 1-6 without 5 at the Fort +2 external Chicken dwellings, finally inserted Cavalry and the army on 4 heroes: 1 Zombie, 15+1 Griffins and 1 Swordsman. 123: secondary Conflux. 127: 1-6 at the Castle + another external Monk dwelling. 132: secondary Elven. On 133, I (Adela 6244: 4+3 Cavalry) get attacked by Tazar 6824: 20 Wyverns, 8 Minotaurs, 30+ Lizardmen, Zombies and Dragon Flies - I had to lose 3 Cavalry to buy peace (I only took one Wyvern with me, the second archer shot was resisted). Immediately I buy off at the nearest secondary town - kill a scout hero and stand next to Tazar with 1+1+1+1 Cavalry (I didn't attack because of hit-and-run), Tazar doesn't attack and captures the secondary town. I have no choice but to attack the Stronghold and buy peace, then immediately buy at the capital and hit the Griffin Conservatory for 2 Angels. Tazar rushes at me, I run home and speed up. On 137, Tazar doesn't attack but opens a Pandora's Box for 20-49 upgraded Liches and heads to the chain from his native Castle - I can't delay. On 141, I attack him:

Adela 6 3 4 4: 2 Angels, 67 Royal Griffins, 16 Monks, 27 Crossbowmen, 5 Cavalry, 13 Swordsmen, 50+ pokemons

Tazar 6 9 2 4: 19 Wyverns, 8 Minotaurs, 35 Lizardmen, 13 Dragon Flies, 112+1+1 Zombies

My losses: pokemons, archers - against his 15 Wyverns and 80 Zombies - he bought peace

Reinforcements are brought to me and I ran to his respawn, but then changed my mind. Dived into a portal at his respawn; he was exiting almost to my secondary town (Conflux). There I took a Griffin Conservatory for 3 Angels and wanted to insert them at home. On 146, Pavel conceded victory to me.

Thanks for the cinematic thriller and horror, and of course for our game!

Decontaminator (blue, Barbarian, Tyraxor, Tyraxor) def Volland (red, Swamp, Tazar, Shakti) 115 2sm4d(3) All rematches were chosen. Tazar lost almost immediately, and on turn 115, the blue team surrendered. Thank you for the game and the experience.

scorp (red, Castle, Caitlin, Adela) def. Dubrovin Pavel (red, Swamp, Tazar, Tazar) 146

On 146 Pavel conceded victory to me.

Thanks for the cinematic thriller and horror, and of course for our match!

Confirmed!

On the first week - Wyrms and Dragonflies in the Stronghold. There were 2 ways: to the ГО and 20-49 Gr. Cerberi.

Respawn was poorest on gold, but due to the external dwelling of Wyrms I started playing.

On the second week - secondary town of Rampart, took the external dwelling of Wyrms.

On the third week - took a Hive with 6 Wyrms, broke through the guard to the neighboring respawn off-road, see Adela, attack, she buys peace. Take Scorp's secondary town, scout the opponent's meager army in the Main with a spy, go after him with Tazar.

But on the next turn 50-99 Gr. Griffins, 1-4 Angels, 10-19 Monks force me to retreat, I pull back, but Adela catches up and kills my Power Stack of troops with Expert Bless. I buy peace, take the Library, visit the Hive for 4 Wyrms, and surrender, as I saw no prospects for myself.

Thanks for the interesting game!

Pit - for the sake of LM (red, Barbarian, Gurnisson) defeats Lider1 (blue, Castle, Valeska), 143, 2sm4d. The second game as Barbarians went great. In the first few days, I clear out the Earth element and fight my way to the second city - Necropolis. I see an Ogre Fort and a Cyclops Cave. Then I head to another Necropolis. In the end, I have 1000 in two cities, 500 in the third, and buildings from level 1 to 5 with a Castle. I take the Ogre Fort, and they are bought out. In the second week, I get a +2/+2 sword and head to the fourth city - the Tower. I see 2 Utopias in the Swamp treasure, a bunch of Hives in the Barbarian treasure, good artifacts, and 2 nests on the cliff. I go there to take one of the nests - the guard has a few Air elementals. At the beginning of the week, I build monsters, on the 7th day - Cyclops, their cave is taken, and they are bought out. In the third week, I bring the Rukh to the capital, upgrade them, upgrade the Cyclops, and buy an army. Gurnisson breaks into the city, learns Slow, buys a book, and restores mana (found a +4 crown). Earth magic is learned. I take the Hives, get a +2 speed cloak, and gain a lot of experience for a hundred and a half Dendroids and other strong guards. When Earth magic is mastered, I defeat 23 Ghost Dragons (the cloak and native earth gave the Thunderbirds the first turn), take a +3 necklace to everything, and then find a Utopia in the very corner. 141 - I gather the troops and take the minimum Utopia with almost no losses, get the Boots of Swiftness, decide not to delay, and head to the opponent. 142 - I stand at the guard of the passage between my Necropolis and Valeska's capital, use Earth Sight, and see that the opponent has not been here yet - I clear out the guard and speed up on the Thunderbirds on the grass. 143 - I visit the stable and reach the capital, killing a hero with part of his army along the way. The opponent surrenders. Thank you for the game.

Pit - for the sake of LM (red, Barbarian, Gunnisson) def Lider1 (blue, Castle, Valessa), 143, 2sm4d(3).

I confirm Pit's victory.

Started without built archers, but was tempted by two heroes in the tavern with archers + lots of cash: dwarf dwelling, medusa dwelling, naga bank, and crypt. Seemed like a good start. Later it turned out there wasn't a single Griffin Conservatory on the respawn. Options were to go to the opponent (ГО a horde of ghost dragons, as it turned out later due to poor scouting, there was also a turn where I could have passed), to go for the titan respawn, or into the swamp.

In the swamp I found 3 Griffin Conservatories, took them on the 3rd = 1+3+4. That determined the path.

(As always, I of course got lost in thought and ran around the swamp like a noob with one griffin))

Then I went into a treasury in the subway, the cubes gave me some ... junk, peasants, thieves, an empty box, and the only thing that made me happy was 15,000 ) I built Angels on the third.

Overall, poor development and the result as a consequence.

In the castle I didn't skimp and didn't save the troops, of course because I didn't expect Gunnisson to catch up ) Although at that point, everything was already too far gone.

Thanks for the game.