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scorp (red, Conflux, random, Brissa, Luna) def Dekontaminator (blue, Necropolis, Galtran, Galtran) 2sm4d(3), 123

On 115 Luna captures a Barbarian secondary town and builds birds there, then switches to them to avoid terrain penalty and starts clearing the respawn. On 117 Brissa gets 2 Phoenixes and heads toward the swamp secondary town, but it is blocked so she turns into the underground where she encounters blue scouts. On 122 Brissa is standing with only 2 Phoenixes in front of the capital, but the blue player did not leave the underground along my path and did not know this was just a scout, and on 122 the army is moved out right before my eyes and handed over to Galtran. On 123 I capture the capital (Citadel). But Galtran could not handle the preserved army and threw the game.

Thanks for the game.

Dekontaminator (blue, Stronghold, Gretchin, Gretchin) def scorp (red, Fortress, Bron, Gunnisson) 2sm4d(3), 133

On 117 Gunnisson has Expert Logistics and Boots of Speed; build order: 1-6 without 5 in the Citadel + 2 external dwellings of Gnolls, and a secondary town (human) is captured. On 127 Gunnisson is sped up before GO (20-49 upgraded Nagas or 50+ human cavalry), at home there are Hydras in the castle + an external dwelling of Hydras. On 131 he broke through the Nagas because they were in the way and settled in the enemy's empty capital. On 132 he headed for the enemy's last town but did not reach it, and then Gretchin attacks me; both are fighters (attack was 3 times higher than defense), but Gunnisson has Mass Slow, and Gretchin has Mass Haste. There was a second battle, but it was insignificant.

Thanks for the game.

Uran (blk Dungeon Miner Miner) def Ahivog (blu Inferno Pyre Pyre) 2sm4d(3) 133
Manticores in the citadel... not enough money. Barbarian secondary. I see a path to the opponent. Dumping resources and heading to him. On the second, I don't make it in time((. On the third, I took the castle, and the opponent surrendered to 100 pegasi.
Uran won

Uran (cr Dwarf Miner Miner) def Ahivog (bl Inferno Pyre Pyre) 2sm4d(3) 133
Manticores in the Citadel... little money. Barbarian secondary. I see a path to the opponent. Dump resources and go to him. On the second I don't make it((. On the third I took the castle, and the opponent surrendered for 100 pegasi.
Uran won

That was a thing!

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Uran (cr Castle Val Val) def Ahivog (bl Tower Solmyr Solmyr) 2sm4d(3) 135
Cavalry with the castle + external dwelling of archers on the first. Two external dwellings of monks + slow expert on the second. 3 angels + boots on the third, breaking GO - 50+ cavalry, capturing the opponent's castle.
Uran won

I confirm

invisible (blue, swamp, Broghild, Broghild) def Dreamcatcher (red, necropolis, Galtran, Galtran) Jebus Cross 135 TE
Played on a funny foreign template where there is so much money and external dwellings that it's just LOL. On day 4 I took the wood with 6 wyverns, on day 5 another one with 4 wyverns. Built everyone in the Castle, took the external dwelling of hydras, basilisks, flies, and 5 external dwellings of gnolls. At 121 I visit the library, upgrade the hydras, grab a sword +6, shield +5, take the canned food, hit upgraded cows for the all-// helmet, and at 125 through 27 red dragons I move to the center. In the center not a single Dragon Utopia!!!!!, although there should be plenty here. Pathfinding was never offered, but there was expert explorer. Collected some ducks, took 50 swords from Pandora's boxes, took the all-// shield. At 133 Gosha comes out to the center, I move troops back in a chain, and Brogh broke on expert scout going home to replenish mana. Next turn I went off-road for the book of fire, taking a couple more hives along the way. Gosha took my secondary town and followed me into the sands. At 135 FF: Gosha has 30 upgraded horses, 7 dragons, 2 angels, and fifty skeletons, all stats lower. Brogh has 45 wyverns, 9 upgraded hydras, 46 swords, 130 gnolls and small fry. First turn Gosha anti-magic on horses, I mass haste, and in the second round mass slow and smash the horses, removing the retaliation with an angel. Get hit in the face with Armageddon. In the third anti-magic on wyverns, then both summoned fire elementals, but my spell was higher and the horses ran out faster than the wyverns.
Thanks for the game.

That's how it was. A dangerous template! They say the foreigners play it on a galley :smile52: Three external dwellings of horses on the first, on the second - two Dragon Utopias... The opponent's fat hives surpassed my external dwellings, and stronger artifacts were lying on the map than what I had in my Dragon Utopias.
Thanks for the game!

scorp (red, Conflux, random, Brissa, Luna) def Decontaminator (blue, Necropolis, Galthran, Galthran) 2sm4d(3), 123
Thanks for the game.
Decontaminator (blue, Stronghold, Gretchin, Gretchin) def scorp (red, Fortress, Bron, Gurnisson) 2sm4d(3), 133
Thanks for the game.

Gosha couldn't find Haste or Slow in three castles. He watched the phoenixes fluttering about and faded into oblivion))).
Gretchin took 4 angels, 2 artifacts for luck, and 1 for morale. After Mass Haste, luck and morale procced a few times in a cheaty way.)))
Thanks for the games and the experience.

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On day 122, Gretchin with stats 10-2-2-2, 2 Rocs, 110 gr. goblins, 1+1+1+1 faeries noobily threw away the game against max gnomes. As the postmortem showed, he could have just surrendered right away. Tazar at the start of week 4 teleported over ГО with a main stack of 60+ gr. wyverns and a red orb.
Thanks for the game and the experience.

Pit - in sake of LM (blue, Castle, Valiska, Valiska) def zluqaOMG (red, Conflux, random Brissa, Arlak), 2SM4d(3), 135.
Thank you for the game.

:smile07: thanks for the game!

smoke_mk (red Dungeon, Shakhti, Shakhti) def Ahivog (blue, Inferno, Pyra, Pyra) 2sm4d(3) 141
1-1-5 secondary native+external dwelling Evil Eye
1-1-6 portal in the secondary in the capital cats with Stronghold.
1-2-1 Griffin Conservatory level 3
1-2-6 another Griffin Conservatory at level 3
1-3-1 bought all Evil Eyes total 90
1-3-4 I cast vision on Inferno land and a scout hero reports the guard on the Inferno respawn.
1-3-7 I make my way to blue's respawn, take the mini Griffin Conservatory and attack Pyra.
Shakhti 8 6 2 2 with 180 Troglodytes, 90 Evil Eyes and 7 angels. Pyra buys out. Next turn I take the castle with Pyra. Shakhti: expert Ballista and Tactics.
Thanks for the game.

Confirmed
smoke_mk (red, Dungeon, Shafts, Shafts) def Ahivog (blue, Inferno, Pyre, Pyre) 2sm4d(3) 141

invisible (blue, Castle, Valeska, Galtran) def Forrest (red, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) Jebus Cross, 130% ТE 133
There were no external dwellings nearby, except for archers, but that didn't particularly cheer me up, since I needed angels in the Castle and could forget about upgrading the archers. I took crypts unupgraded. I revealed a Griffin Conservatory, bracers, a Dragon Utopia, and 2 beehives. The plan was as follows: take 4 Pandora's Boxes, visit the library, upgrade to Archangels on day 121, use them along with pegasi to take the beehives, Galtran the Dragon Utopia, and smash the Guardian Object to enter the central treasury. True, the Guardian Object worried me a bit (20+ red dragons), but I was hoping for the Archangels. On day 115, I beat 30 ogres for a Pandora's Box: got 25 griffins. Very nice, just some cannon fodder for the Dragon Utopia. I take the mini-Griffin Conservatory and the external dwelling of monks. The second Pandora's Box gave 15k gold: sehr gut, just enough for the Archangels; the third, for 30 diamond golems, apparently gave all the land, but I had no Wisdom :(, though Slow appeared. The plan got slightly derailed because Galtran didn't level up to 10 for visiting the library, but he did exit to the center 1 day earlier, which IMO decided the outcome of the game. I built angels and the Castle on the first turn, took 2 beehives on week 12 day 2, and upgraded the angels. On day 123, I take the mini-Dragon Utopia, got Gladius. While Galtran stood at the ramp on the arch near the Guardian Object, the pegasi scouted into unexplored lands and found an external dwelling of unicorns, a mini-Griffin Conservatory, and a second Dragon Utopia next to a swamp secondary hero. I take all that, and on day 124, I beat 30 red dragons with a hero stack, losing all monks, griffins, and 4 unicorns. No red flags visible in the center yet. I take a Pandora's Box containing 15 wyvern monarchs :) , use a pegasus to reveal the central swamp Castle and behind it a block guarding a prison. I drive Folder farther away, who is camping on the arch, and the troops run to take the beehive and the water power-up. On day 126, Kyrre appears, takes the prison, and tries to take the center Castle with the hero from the prison but fails. Turn passes, Galtran runs home, replenishes mana, meanwhile the chain frees a level 20 pegasus, who takes another external dwelling of monks and captures the swamp secondary hero next to the Dragon Utopia, where I build a fort to upgrade the wyverns from the beehives. On day 131, I take a three-star Dragon Utopia, got chocolate: wings, Helm of the Alabaster, and Tome of Water. Galtran breaks into the main town and runs back to the center. Meanwhile, the pegasus removes the shackles, gets +2 health, and upgrades the wyverns. On day 132, Galtran charges and takes the central Castle (after removing artifacts), hides in it to avoid revealing stats (never showed them in the tavern the entire game). I try to kill a red pegasus hero but mess up: first attacked with a hero with 10 mana on a griffin and got him killed, then took 3 griffins and failed again because the pegasus was well-leveled :D . Only on the third try did I think to give an Archangel to the pegasus, who kills the durable pegasus. I saw Kyrre, who should be near the Castle off-road in the sands. On day 133, a pegasus spots Kyrre, Galtran puts on the shackles and attacks Kyrre, who has lower stats. I have: 7 Archangels, 25 upgraded wyverns, 70 archers, 7 unicorns, 17 fanatics, and a bunch of griffins. Kyrre has: 10 green dragons, 14 upgraded unicorns, 20 nagas, 1 angel, 30 wyverns, 25 grand elves with Golden Bow, and some chaff. Archangels and a 450-damage bolt decided it.
Thanks for the game. I was lucky that Kyrre had little gold, otherwise with 4 external dragon dwellings :eek: I'd have been GG

Pavel Dubrovin (Red, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) def Lider1 (Blue, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar), 2sm4d(3), 2.2.6.

Thanks for the battle! Luck was on my side.

There were several reasons for my loss, but the main one was that I didn't take a single Dragon Utopia. So, let's go through everything in order.

On the first week, Hydras in the fort without Gorgons. Conflux secondary. Took an external dwelling of Waspworts and 2 Gnolls. 2 Crypts.

On the second week, Kyrre came to visit, made a slight mistake in the direction of the castle, turned around, and ran away. Captured an external dwelling of Hydras, Wyverns, Gorgons, and Lizardmen. Hydras in the castle. Everywhere +1000.

On 1.3.3, I saw Pavel eat one of my revealed Griffin Conservatories; my heart skipped a beat, because there were 2 more right next to it!!! A rescue plan was quickly organized to take the nearby Griffin Conservatory with scout heroes and transfer the troops back, but thank God he didn't see them and got defeated. Took 2 Hives, and 3 Griffin Conservatories. From the troops: 8 Angels, 7 Hydras, 28 Wyverns, 21 Waspworts, etc. I urgently need a Dragon Utopia! I'm standing at the entrance to the treasure zone.

But on 1.4.1, Pavel (due to my lack of control — I did have it, but it was off-road, and on the road between us, there was a guard of neutral Elves) comes to visit, which ruined my plans and forced Tazar to get defeated. Fortunately, a chain was set up back home for such an occasion.
On 1.4.2, there's dust in wet weather, and I'm amazed at how far Kyrre got on the fast roads (probably 2.5-3 times the movement of a buffed Tazar =)). If I had reached her from the castle after the defeat, I would have smashed her to pieces! but I have almost no movement points left.
I didn't want to chase her into the underground to the secondary hero, near the treasure zone, because only scraps would remain there, and catching her without control is impossible.
I decided to return to my previously planned treasure zone in hopes of luck, ate 4 Hives, but still no Dragon Utopia... (though I have 57 Wyverns)
And Kyrre grew in stats...

2.1.1. I scout the edge of a Dragon Utopia — well, finally!!! I was as happy and joyful as a child! Now, after this, we'll meet! Getting closer to it, I notice a Keymaster's Tent; what the hell is this about???!!!
Paranoid, I don't power-level the main hero, because I've been caught like that 3 times already; the tent was at my spawn. But I don't dare to transfer the troops home...
Ate 1 Hive and several Pandora's Boxes.
2.1.4 Kyrre ran up and killed a scout hero; I hold my breath waiting to see where he'll run next. After Dimension Dooring somewhere into the darkness, I realized the match was already lost. They'll let me take the Dragon Utopia, but they'll also catch me.

At the end of the week, I get defeated back home; Kyrre took another Dragon Utopia and grew significantly in stats. To not spoil the fun, I decided to meet my opponent and give battle.

Came to visit, was attacked, and lost.

Thanks for the game! The lack of control decided it!

Good luck to you going forward in the tournament.

invisible (blue, castle, Valèska, Galtran) def Forrest (red, rampart, Kirr, Kirr) Jebus Cross, 130% TE 133

I took the rampart :) So it wouldn't be a drag (c) :)

Kirr on the 1st level, 11, 11-13-4-3, mass earth, archers, and diff with a logo. I took 3 dragon and horse nests, one each. No conserves or hives :( The gold is positioned so that you have to attack all the Necropolis groups, Efry, Crystals (3). I thought I'd take it out right away, but the slow speed didn't allow it, and after the second restart (it's impossible without it). I had to stay at the respawn point until I got a Utopia with the Earth book. A rush to the center, hoping for money to buy 18 gold dragons. But there was no Utopia there.
Galtran, with cosmic parameters from a home Utopia, left no chance.
Thanks for the game.

Ahivog (blue, Tower, Solmyr, Solmyr) def. smoke_mk (red, Dungeon, Shahti, Shahti) 2sm4d(3) 132

We played on a medium-sized map with many resource locations... mostly everything is guarded. I bought a hero with lizard archers (total of 21 - they shoot poorly, but still)... In the first week, I decided to find a secondary resource location at all costs. As a result, I ran into 50 obsidian gargoyles (the chain lightning spell was delayed by one turn), I defeated them, and what do I see... a portal leads to a group of stone golems, and my troops are already dwindling! And the path down from the portal ends at pegasus nests... plus, it leads into a swamp. Deciding not to chase after birds in the sky, I start building my castle... as a result, in the first week, I built a goblin mine and everything else up to mages + a prefecture! I wander around my territory, gaining experience for an Earth expert + mass slow... from the observatory, I see red to my right... he's trying to break through to the barbarian secondary resource location... Strange... he didn't succeed (I calm down and in the second week, I build a Stronghold, a Castle, and a Municipality with djinns... at the end of the week, I capture a naga resource location... by the beginning of the third week, there are 4 of them, 6 mages, 9 gargoyles, and 132 goblin throwers... I run around, grabbing everything I can... I see many thunderbirds... they guard a lot of gold and a dungeon... I build master djinns to go in... I see red with two groups of minotaurs... I manage to grab a bone breastplate... meanwhile, he grabs the resource location of my djinns... shocked by such audacity, I split up the gargoyles and attack... I have 15 mana (but the spell costs 2 points)... Shahti is angry, attack 8... the rest is useless... he can't cast spells... 12 and 13 wounded minotaurs... the first turn, mass slow for 7 turns... (the guy forgot about the snow plains and the speed amulet... the minotaurs are confused) I let them get close enough for a direct shot, and then the goblin throwers, with luck, take out half the pack... I shoot at them with everything I have... a complete rout... only the naga was sacrificed in vain... the opponent surrendered... I would have put up more of a fight in his place... although by that time, I would have already cleared out the resource location and been attacking with the chain lightning spell.

Thanks for the game... my first victory... I finally got the hang of it!

Ahivog (blue, Tower, Solmyr, Solmyr) def smoke_mk (red, Dungeon, Shahti, Shahti) 2sm4d(3) 132
Yes.

Paladin@heroes.by (red, Stronghold, Crag Hack, Crag Hack) def zluqaOMG (blue, Tower, Aine, Gunnarsson), 2sm4d(3),141

SoD, 4-minute turn.
Arrived with a specialist in goblins and immediately got about 90 of them +2 growth, meanwhile at Titans also 2 growth of level 1.
113 exit to secondary, 114 capture of it
At home built rocs + orcs on Citadel + market, at secondary built magic + mana vortex (with 2 knowledge))) since expert earth was there and 2 griffin conservatories were visible + building market.
121 scouted 2 griffin conservatories, one is definitely a Treant (scout hero dove), the second is 3-4
122 take +3 angels losing 55 goblins and 2 wolves, remainder 111 goblins 25 wolves 7 birds 20 orcs and with them take another 3 angels, losing 5 air elementals and 10 goblins
124 entered treasury +4 Wyvern +growth of Evil Eyes (came in handy for taking Dragon Utopia)
127 hit a Dragon Utopia, can only organize delivery from the secondary by 131, so I decide to take it with 6 angels, 29 Evil Eyes, 42 Troglodytes, 80+1+1 goblins, 20 orcs...
Treant in the first turn died 99% goblins 50% orcs 99% Troglodytes, mass shield and -5 red dragons, second turn all died except Evil Eyes and angels (and the SIXTH angel had less than 10 health, the presence of armorer helped) mass stone skin, dragon losses finished off the last red and -5 green, in the third-fifth turn all dragons died and the angels remained alive, and also 50% of Evil Eyes survived, gave +12 attack +4/4 attack/defense +water skill book
133 scout hero losing 8 ogres and 18 Evil Eyes gets ring of health +6 Wyverns, then +25 gr. Evil Eyes from pandora's box.
134 pandora's box all 4th )))
136 +8 Wyverns and exit to GO
137 didn't reach the castle
141 10 rocs 18 Wyverns 6 angels 30 wolves 1+1 ogre +25 Evil Eyes 28-10-7(50)(20 level) mass haste and slow, Gunnarsson 10-6-5-(70) mass haste 1 angel 10 gr. nagas 350 marksmen 20 mages 30 gr. golems 35 gr. gargoyles 3 giants...

Thanks for the game!

Monstro_aka_h3 (blue, Inferno, Ignat, Aiden) def Smoke_mk (red, Dungeon, Shachti, Shachti), 2sm4d (3), 137
Week 1: Ifrits in the Citadel, Week 2: Devils in the Castle. In week 3, the opponent breaks through to my territory - acts boldly and aggressively, decides to attack my castle with 6 Manticores, 6 Minotaurs, 4 Cavaliers, and 218 Trolls. In the castle: 1st level Aiden, 9 Ifrits, 3 Devils, 7 Imps, 4 Horned Beasts, 100 Imps - the attack failed, and the opponent decided to surrender.
Thank you for the game!