Posts from [DUEL TOURNAMENT] Reports from the "Snowstorm" matches.

Here, we post reports about the games played. Please remember that this thread is only for reports; all discussions should take place in the main thread for the tournament.

snaiper133 (Sylvan) lost to СТРАННиК (Haven) 1:2

I played with my favorite Sylvan faction against Haven. In the first game on a mini-map, I focused on ranged combat (elves, dryads, FD) and lost because I lost my druid early and couldn't take down the mage in the end. In the second game, due to the presence of a tactician and a large number of troops, I focused on a quick melee attack and eliminating the mage. It worked, and I won. In the third game, on a large map, I also planned to conduct the battle in the same way as in the second game, but there were many mistakes. Странник managed to quickly eliminate my tactician and came up with many clever ways to keep the mage alive, and in the end, he deservedly won. Congratulations! And I can congratulate myself on finally having my first final battle with an online opponent.)) I hope to get my revenge in the future!

snaiper133 (Sylvan) lost to СТРАННиК (Haven) 1:2

In the first battle, I took Titans, Giants, and Mages. I removed one Giant, and divided the rest evenly into two slots. I managed to quickly defeat the Druid and place 58 Velves on Blind, and then slowly finished off the rest with the Titans.

I lost the second battle even before it started. I formed a square formation, and my opponent immediately sent Phoenixes to attack me. There was no chance.

In the third battle, morale played an important role, which was given to my heroes and the Titan, but not to the Phoenixes. The Lord immediately casts Accuracy on the Titan, which removes the immobility from the tactic, and my mage forces the Phoenixes to finish off their own tactic.

Thanks to Sniper for the game :)

LordZezuk (Haven) lost to STRANNiK (Necropolis) 0:2

It was a quick match.
Thanks for the game :)

LordZezuk (Haven) lost to STRANNiK (Necropolis) 0:2

it wasn't a long match
thanks for the game

STRANNiK (Barbarian) won against WisTrit (Death) 2:1

It was a very tough match. I lost the second game without a chance, and in the third, I won with all my remaining strength.

WisTrit, thank you for the game.

STRANNiK (Barbarian) won against WisTrit (Death) 2:1

It was very difficult. I lost the second game without a chance, and in the third, I won with all my remaining strength.

I confirm :)

In the first game, I made a lot of mistakes) to put it mildly)
It was fun, I hope we can fight again.

Lu41k (Haven) lose ZYbr (Necropolis) 0:2

She lost in every aspect; it seems she has completely forgotten how to play. There's nothing more to say!
Haven is finished...
Thank you for the game!

Lu41k (Haven) lost to ZYbr (Necropolis) 0:2

In the first match, the tactically trained devils and bone dragons did all the work. In the second, it was simply the dragons with support from the assassin:)

Thanks for the game;)

ZYbr (nature) def LeSHiJ-MaX (haven) 2:0 In the first battle, I wanted to rush, but my opponent didn't let me. He slowed down my griffons, the phoenixes managed to get through, and even removed the immolation from my mage, but then they were hit by hypnosis. Fortunately, due to their slowness, the valkyries moved last, so I quickly cast fatigue on my own phoenixes to avoid getting hit hard by them at the beginning of the next round (and considering the care... :). In short, I methodically cast antimagic and other useful spells and destroyed the Haven army. In the second battle, I didn't change anything, the same army, but different problems. Here, due to the considerable size of the enemy heroes, I had to work a little harder, but 64 griffons under antimagic killed almost everyone. Thank you for the game.

I confirm. I ate it and didn't even choke...
After eliminating Strength and Death, Zubral for some reason:D chose Nature. And I just didn't know which of the remaining factions could be used to counter it...
Please :D.

Dr Motor (death) def ZYbr (barbarian) 2:0 He started first and eliminated nature because I didn't like all this scary zoo, especially with a starting hero. Zybr (for some reason) eliminated life. Since tactics are key in the first game, and only death had it left, he chose death. Zybr chose barbarians (again, I don't understand why). Oh well. In the first round, it was about advancing enemy troops across the map towards my headquarters, i.e., towards my heroes, because it happened slowly, as half of the opponent's key units were aged by my ghosts. His heroes had nothing to do but move forward, while mine made a pretty good contribution to the victory – the necromancer always has something to offer, and the tactician methodically threw bottles filled with various nasty things at the enemy units. All this was happening while my devils and skeletons were thrown across the battlefield. The most formidable enemy force (in my opinion) – the cyclops – were alternately blocked by devils and ghosts. This was done with varying success – and stones were periodically thrown at my supporting units and heroes. As soon as the enemy was weakened enough, and my devils and skeletons were buffed by the vampire's touch, the planned destruction of the enemy units began, because by that time they had almost reached my heroes. The second game was roughly the same, only it was much harder because the opponent also had a tactician. This time, my devils and skeletons were completely destroyed (although they were later resurrected), and the cyclops were throwing stones incredibly hard. Everything was decided when I decided to sacrifice my necromancer – instead of drinking a shot, he cast a mass cancel to remove the burning effect from the enemy units, and was successfully killed. Both of the opponent's heroes were also killed, and I was left with the tactician, two skeletons, and three devils against 12 behemoths and about 20 cyclops. The devils summoned ice devils and quickly died, and the ice devils miraculously froze the behemoths. That's when it all ended – the skeletons ate the cyclops, and the tactician shot down the behemoths. I ask my opponent to correct me if I misrepresented or confused anything. Thank you for the game.

Dr Motor (Death) defeated ZYbr (Barbarian) 2:0

Well, it seems everything was done correctly.
In general, the opponent initially did what I feared the most: he removed Nature and left both "strong" factions, Death and Barbarians. Since he chooses first, there was little point in removing either Death or Barbarians.
Therefore, I had to remove something from the weaker factions, and I decided to remove Life:)

Next, as I feared, the opponent chooses Death. And to avoid being overwhelmed by numbers, I took Barbarians as a counter.
I didn't expect much from the first battle, except perhaps a mistake from the opponent, but that didn't happen, so I lost the battle:)
The second battle was long and tense. I won't go into detail, but I'll highlight two moments.
First, somewhere in the first half of the battle, I risked finishing off the KD with creatures and placed them within range of Death. I didn't manage to block it, and as a result, I lost half of my squad.
But this didn't seem too significant at the time, as Berserkers and Centaurs were successfully breaking through the opponent's defenses and were almost about to reach the heroes.
The turning point was the infamous mass cancel. It was a beautiful and risky move, but it worked. I didn't have time to drink an Immolation potion, nor to protect my hero (tactics). And when my tactician fell in glorious death, everything was almost decided:)

Thank you for the interesting battles:) especially the second one, it was very interesting:)

Dr Motor (life) def Lu41k (order) 2:0 They analyzed and analyzed, and in the end, they decided that in this match, powerful holy defense would face sophisticated mind magic. The first game turned out to be very interesting, long, and tense. Well, there isn't much choice for the Life faction – they came to the battlefield with angels, crosses, and ballistas. The opponent, in turn, brought titans, djinns, and mages. In the first turn, the opponent's mage cast Berserk on the angels, and I retreated, thinking that they would remove the Berserk from the angels, but that wasn't the case... In addition, for some reason, he also fired ballistas – as a result, my angels scattered them to smithereens. Meanwhile, the opponent showed sleight of hand, removing the illusion from the titans and poisoning my heroes. Then the angels and crosses rushed to the front, because all these wonders and tricks needed to be stopped immediately. They did reach the front, but the tricksters turned out to be too tough for my holy warriors... What began was almost every round my angels stood with their mouths open, listening to the enchanting music of the djinns, while dying under the blows of the mighty titans. Fortunately, there was some benefit to this – the titans lost the ability to defeat my heroes. But it's not difficult for the holy warriors – and the angels, being on the verge of departing to the next world, were resurrected every time (probably about three times!), and with the support of the valiant crusaders, they slowly but surely killed everyone in this circus, which ultimately brought the result – the tricksters turned into rabbits. The second game didn't have such an exciting plot, although there were some quite interesting moments there as well. It all started with a surprise for me – unlike the first part of the Marlezon ballet, the opponent brought not titans, but a marvel of science and technology – dragon golems, and my army was in the same composition as before. This time, I didn't wait for the fakirs to do something tricky – and in the first few rounds, the djinns and mages died. At the same time, my holy warrior vigorously waved the censer, which gave my army incredible power – and he succeeded – the mages stole it and became even more powerful. Well, never mind, we survived. Then the enemy machines entered the battle – they rushed towards my ranks to grind the heroes into mincemeat, but... they didn't make it – they were destroyed – the angels turned out to be good mechanics. Nothing remained of the opponent's army, but the heroes remained – I must give them credit, they showed incredible resilience and vitality, surviving on stolen immortality, and then they started drinking some kind of incomprehensible concoction from bottles, as a result of which they could not be defeated in any way – they always resurrected from the dead. But everything comes to an end – and so did their potion – first for the warrior, and then for the mage, who, at the end, even presented a surprise – he jumped into the rear, where he valiantly defended himself, surrounded, while also performing tricks, until my holy warrior threw away the censer and took up the sword. Thank you for the game

Dr Motor (Life) defeated Lu41k (Order) 2:0

It started with a quick exchange. My opponent played Nature, I played Death, and he, without hesitation, chose Life. I paused to consider; I could have picked Barbarians... but I wanted an interesting game :) Magic against Magic :)

The first game was simply amazing!
It's been a while since I played Order, and I enjoyed it so much that I got carried away))) As a result, I lost control of the initiative and lost :) But I wasn't upset at all, because the battle was exciting and intriguing! When I looked at the clock, I was a little shocked... the battle lasted about an hour and a half, but it felt like only 15 minutes had passed...

In the second game, I decided to replace the Titans with mechanics. Well, I won't describe everything in detail; my opponent has already described it all :) In general, I had as much fun as I could, trying one thing and then another. In the end, my Heroine was left to jump into the enemy's rear, trying to survive and come up with something useful... The enemies were getting closer and hitting harder... The poor girl started drinking more and more alcohol, managing to occasionally pull off some tricks in her drunken stupor... But one is not a warrior in the field...
Now I realize that I made a lot of mistakes, but unfortunately, the realization came too late :)

I took a risk and lost, but I got a lot of pleasure from the game :)
Thank you, Dr Motor, for the game, especially for the first battle :)

I will keep learning, learning, and learning... and waiting for a rematch:))