Posts from HW vs HB

For several days, I couldn't access our website, and I had no communication with the Captain. As a result, a lot has accumulated... First, I want to dispel all doubts and speculations regarding the "strange draw" in my third game against Samurai. In the early fourth week, the opponent violated the rules (upgraded a Fairy in the Conflux). When I pointed this out, he immediately replied that it was a technical error. I thought it was too harsh for such a minor infraction. I rarely encounter rule violations and don't know what to do in such cases. I suggested postponing the game so I could consult with the captain of my team. Samurai insisted on it being a technical error. I wanted to finish the interesting game. We reached a compromise – we assessed the rule violation as half a point. These negotiations significantly disrupted my focus and consumed a lot of my game time (we communicated during my turn – the clock was ticking). A series of clumsy technical errors followed. The lack of experience playing on TE-lite also had an effect. And in the end – a fatal and utterly idiotic mistake – I forgot to equip the artifact necessary for FF (I remembered by pressing the pass turn button), with which I would have most likely won. The fact is, I lost, but I don't feel like I lost the game. Therefore, we agreed on a draw. Respect to the opponent for his will to win. I apologize to the team for not bringing us a full point. Second, the captain of the heroes.by team made an offer to continue the match. Roland from Gilead: Anyone who wishes, whether a participant in the match or a fan of their team (Bai, Portal, World), can participate in the continuation of the match! Each game will be counted as 0.5 points. A small restriction: team members are not allowed to play against players who are not members of the teams. But they can fight against other members of the teams and further help their team. Almost immediately, I received an offer to play from AlexTheGreat. I didn't refuse, on the condition that I wait for a decision from my captain. The game turned out to be very dynamic and exciting. I am posting the report and saves here – Interportal game, not counted in the tournament. Pit - In sake of LM (blue, Castle, Valeska, Galtran) def AlexTheGreat (red, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar), 135, 2sm4d(3). Perhaps my most successful game ever. Archers are not built, but from the start 27, roads are average. On turn 112, I upgrade the archers and break through the prison behind the group of harpies – and there is Galtran (how could it be without him in an interportal game!) level 5 with expert necromancy and defense and half a hundred skeletons. I lead him along the only road – the second is blocked by diamond golems guarding the cloak of speed, and in the GO, there are angels right away. The skeletons gather very quickly, immediately providing logistics, then earth magic, there is a scroll of slowing on the path, the archer tower is painted, on turn 114 I take the secondary Castle. On turn 115 – the arena, I stand in the conservatory with two units. I think for a long time whether to attack or not, but I still don't decide, I turn to the monster lair, after which I return to the griffins. On turn 121, 2 monsters and 200 skeletons easily take out two angels, I break into the capital. 122 – I take the cloak of speed and with mass slowing, I easily take the conservatory with three units. 123 – the necklace of speed. Then I go to the Inferno, where I gather skeletons, take a couple of cyclops. There is nothing for money, but I manage to upgrade shooting to expert, on turn 125 I break into the capital and stand near the GO, having previously defeated Valeska there – there are a little more than 20 angels, but there is a group of skeletons. I buy almost everything and attack, the archers hit the spearmen, so the losses are only all the spearmen and 40 skeletons due to morale. I sit in the swamp capital. On turn 131, I take Tazar's native secondary town, I realize that I cannot catch him in the swamps and return to the long-exposed utopia. On turn 133, I defeat it (2 CH), they give wings, the book of air, a shield +3 +3 and a ring of life. You couldn't ask for better! I return to the swamp, fly to the bubble of life and then to the opponent's Rampart, where Tazar was wandering. On turn 135, DD allows me to reach the city, I buy a scout there, I see Tazar on a fly, I buy another one, I give 3 angels and +3 speed and attack. The tactic allows you to escape, but there are no prospects. Thank you for the game. Third, regarding my upcoming games with HP. The captain of the HP team made a substitution, and I was offered to play with Gynnar. I was unable to get approval or disapproval from Nagan. I could not refuse the tempting offer to play against a player of such a high level as Sir Gynnar. Today, at 10-00, we started our first game of the interportal tournament. At 13-30, I found a message on the HB website from Nagan-4, stating that he does not agree with this substitution in the HP team. The game smoothly turned into a regular game, the report of which, by mutual agreement, we place in the reports of seasonal games on both websites. Fans of analyzing saves can download them from us. I am waiting for the captains of the teams to decide who will be my opponent.

It's hard to follow the discussions about the match with Bai and Portal. The Heroes game is basically over. It's actually a good thing our forum wasn't working, otherwise the discussions would have spilled over here too.
Match with Bai. It seems we've finished, winning 6, losing 16, and one draw.
The score is 1.5 to 7.5. Mizrael and Pit stood out for us. Mizrael defeated the excellent player from St. Petersburg, Alex Great, and Pit's victory is undeniable in my opinion.
Fair play is still valued.

1. Nagan-4____- Roland from Gilead 0-2
2. Uran__________ - Stinger.______1-2
3. Mizrael________ - AlexTheGreat. 2-1
4. Pit-In sake of LM- Samurai._____1.5-1.5
5. Invisible_______ - Mike_Spb.____ 0-2
6. Scorp_________ - KobRa_Spb.__ cancelled
7. Alex R_________ - Napalm______ 1-2
8. Dekontaminator - DC_Vasya.___ 0-2
9. Dudge_________ - Paladin _____ 0-2
10. Dubrovin Pavel - Markon._____ 1-2.

Portal. I'm not up to date because of problems with the forum and ICQ, so let me know how things are going and how everyone played. I'm counting on our star players - Uran, Pit, Scorp, Mizrael, and others. If there are any issues with opponents, write here or to me on ICQ - 443-670-065.
We need to finish the match with Portal as agreed.
Good luck to everyone!

.....If there are any misunderstandings with opponents, write here or to me on ICQ - 443-670-065.
We need to finish the match with Portal, as agreed.
Good luck to everyone!

Give me an opponent, please!:smile13:

I've gathered information about the match against Portal, and here's what we have:

1. Alex R – LeBron - ?
2. Decontaminator – Alone ekb 1-2.
3. Pit-In sake of LM - Deep Mike
4. Uran – ZluqaOMG - ?
5. Dudge - Vitalic 0-1 - ?
6. Invisible – Chudozavr 0-2
7. Scorp – Hardcore - ?
8. Dubrovin Pavel – Kebazavr 0-2
9. Mizrael – Lesgor - ?
10. Javdet (substitute) - Neoandy - ?. The score is 0-3 in favor of Portal. Of course, we had a long forum outage, and Portal postponed their match against Bye – but let's decide whether to finish the match or not. In principle, it's the New Year, and there are new Tournaments coming up – we could just end it. But... it feels a bit lackluster.
I know that Uran was looking for his opponent to play, and Mizrael was too. And Vitalic wants to play a second match against Dudge...
Therefore, I ask the players: Alex R, Pit-In sake of LM, Uran, Mizrael, Scorp, Dudge, Javdet to write about the situation with their match, whether their opponent wants to play or not, any problems that have arisen, etc. I think that together with the captain of the Portal team, Neoandy, we will resolve the issues.

I've gathered information about the match against Portal, here's what we have:

1. Alex R – LeBron - ?
2. Decontaminator – Alone ekb 1-2.
3. Pit-In sake of LM - Deep Mike
4. Uran – ZluqaOMG - ?
5. Dudge - Vitalic 0-1 - ?
6. Invisible – Chudozavr 0-2
7. Scorp – Hardcore - ?
8. Dubrovin Pavel – Kebazavr 0-2
9. Mizrael – Lesgor - ?
10. Javdet (replacement) - Neoandy - ?.

The score is 0-3 in favor of Portal. Of course, we had a long forum outage, and Portal postponed their exciting match against Bye - but let's decide whether to finish the match or not. In principle, it's the New Year, new Tournaments - we can just end it. But... it feels a bit lackluster.
I know that Uran was looking for his opponent to play, and Mizrael was too. And Vitalik wants to play a second match against Dudge...
Therefore, I ask the players: Alex R, Pit-In sake of LM, Uran, Mizrael, Scorp, Dudge, Javdet to write about the situation in the match, whether the opponent wants to play or not, any problems that have arisen, etc. I think that together with the captain of the Portal team, Neoandy, we will resolve the issues.

1. Alex R – LeBron - ? In my match, there was a replacement - Alex was replaced by VBN - we played one match - I was lucky, 1-0 so far - as soon as I have the opportunity, I will play the second one ;)

There was a change in the Portal team. Instead of Deep Mike, Medium is playing. Today, we finished the first game. Game 1. Medium (blue, Rampart, Kairic, Kairic) def. Pit - in sake of LM (red, Castle, Valkyrie, Valkyrie), 2sm4d(3), 127. In the first week, I didn't find a single crypt or free chest in the vicinity of the capital and my secondary town. With only 4 heroes, I thought I wouldn't be able to build any cavalry units. But I went along the road to the Dungeon secondary town, where there was more loot, a couple of chests, and a crypt. I bought a couple more heroes and built cavalry and griffons in the citadel. I bought a stack of archers and upgraded the spearmen. The beginning of the second week went quite badly. I couldn't move the army to the capital in one day due to a lack of heroes. I only managed to take the capital with Valkyrie on day 123, and the nagas she took were minimal... I'm heading to the Hive and a couple of artifacts. I take 6 wyverns, a shield +3, and armor +1 to everything. Next, the conservatory and the Hive in the secondary town, +1 angel, and +8 wyverns. Then, Kairic arrives at my next target - the conservatory in the Dungeon secondary town. I rush there, take Pandora for 5000 gold, and the maximum gnome warehouse, but I have nowhere to spend this money... On the next turn, Kairic takes three angels and attacks. In the battle, the pegasi and accelerated angels reached my archers in the first round, and both squads were wiped out... And I had much fewer troops left. I lacked tactics. Thank you for the game.

Game 2.
Pit - in the name of LM (blue, Tower, Nella, Grindan) defeated Medium (red, Stronghold, Kreg, Kreg), 2SM4D(3), 131.
The opponent took both restarts and the game began.
On day 111, I see two conservatories and a Hive at the enemy castle, Grindan arrives, and there are enough resources. On day 112, he gathers a group of gremlins and, with Nella, breaks through to the secondary Inferno castle, where I see another Hive and gold. Then, I give the troops to Grindan, transfer the golems to him, and he goes off-road to the enemy's grassy secondary castle. There, it turns out to be a Conflux. Nella takes the empty Inferno castle. But there are problems with resources; there aren't enough resources for mages, and I can't gather them anywhere... Well, never mind - 1-3 in the Stronghold, Tower, and Conflux. There are also no hidden resources. Grindan was given ranged attack.
At the beginning of the second week, I level up earth magic on the zombies. On day 122, I get expert slow and attack the conservatories. I check the first one - 3-4, not good, there are no troops... I go to the second one - a single unit, okay, I take it easily. With an Angel and water elementals, I kill the guard at the Hive of 40+ ice elementals and take the minimum Hive. I check the conservatory, losing a hero - a tier 3 unit, already good, I take it. With 4 Angels, I take the second Hive, which is also a minimum, and I attack the Conflux, it seems the opponent isn't doing very well... On day 126, I invade the barbarian lands, but the road is long, I only reach it on day 131 and kill Kreg in his castle with Angels and magic.
Thank you for the game.

Something besides me nobody writes here.

Game 3.
Pit - in sake of LM (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) def Medium (blue, Rampart, Kyre, Kyre), 2SM4D(3), 131.
First week - everything is bad, respawn is tiny, no gold or external dwellings. On the secondary Inferno there is a block of mages and ice elementals. Took the crypt, maximum. Went to the second town underground, killed the bandits and boars quite easily. On the way to Dungeon, lost 2 archers to hobbits and 3 at the town itself, 5 evil eyes were guarding. Barely had enough wood for cavalry thanks to a pile found at the last moment. On 117, after the centaur horde, took Pandora's Box for 5000 gold, money for buying appeared. Building cavalry with griffins in the citadel and evil eyes in the citadel.
On 121, buy cavalry, upgrade them to champions and go through the shooters to the secondary. Valeska meanwhile goes to the dwarf stockpile. The Inferno lands turned out to be quite rich, which allowed buying a couple of heroes and splitting once. The dwarf stockpile turned out to be 20 each, good. Going for the +4 attack chain, check the conservatory underground - a 3. Buy evil eyes, archers, troglodytes and attack the griffins. Advanced Slow for 1 round helped win almost without losses, only traded troglodytes and pikemen for 3 angels. Refill mana at the well and run through the dungeon to the opponent's conservatory, medusa dwelling and naga bank. On 127, emerge, Vistan takes the medusa dwelling for 10 and naga bank for 3, and Valeska takes 3 angels, already had Mass Slow and Power 2, so no problems arose. Griffins and swordsmen are bought and led out, as blue scouts appeared near the capital. On 127, Kyre kills the block and sits in my capital with the citadel.
On 131, Valeska transfers artifacts and army to Vey 1 level and he kills Kyre. In the first round, angels took out 54 gr. archers (there were 2 external dwellings on the secondary), the opponent didn't have many other troops.
Thank you for the game.

Well, besides you, no one has won against Portal yet. Good job! But the match will have to be finished next year, as the holidays are starting, and I think people won't be in the mood for playing.

As always, Pita's gameplay is top-notch!!
He's a great example to follow, playing confidently with calculated risks!!
Congratulations!!

Dear friends. The inter-portal matches have generated great interest; we fought valiantly against the strongest team from Baia, and Portal also played well against them. Perhaps such a triple match should have been held earlier. We have already held many joint tournaments with Portal; the communities are gradually getting closer, and each player has many friends on the neighboring forum. And now, to my surprise, I noticed that after the games with Baia, the driving forces behind the match have waned; the players simply have nothing to compete for. The sentiments are roughly as follows: "Oh, alright, I'll play, but a little later; is this really that important?" The approximate score was as follows: Decontaminator – Alone ekb 1-2. Invisible – Chudozavr 0-2 Dubrovin Pavel – Kebazavr 0-2 Pit - in sake of LM - Medium 2-1. Therefore, I propose to suspend the match; anyway, only one pair has played in the last month. And since almost all players are involved in the tournament organized by Javdet (not only from Worlds, but also from Portal), plus the World's top league tournament is being prepared, there is no need to spread ourselves thin; we will have to play a lot. Many thanks to the players for demonstrating their fighting qualities and skill. Although we have slightly more losses than wins in the matches so far, we must remember that we played against the best active players from the post-Soviet space. For a forum where random online games have existed for just over a year, that's not so bad. Respect for the gentlemanly behavior in controversial situations; in my opinion, our team had nothing to be ashamed of. Good luck and new victories in 2009!

Respect for the gentlemanly behavior in controversial situations; I think our team didn't bring shame upon itself.

Absolutely +1, well done! :-)
I understand that, by mutual agreement, your match with Portal has ended, and the tournament has come to a close?

Exactly +1, well done! :-)
I understand that, by mutual agreement, your match with Portal is over, and the tournament has come to an end?

2 Dust HL.
Alexey, thank you for the fair judging in the three-way match. I hope that in the next match there will be a team from the Heroes League veterans as well.