Posts from New Year's Duel Tournament.

Alex_nv (Fortress, Erling) defeated Lord Vampire (Stronghold, Goshak)
Alex_nv (Stronghold, Tilsek) defeated Lord Vampire (Fortress, Ingvar)
Alex_nv (Dungeon, Sorgall) defeated Lord Vampire (Academy, Nazir)
Result: 3-0 in favor of Alex_nv

Alex_nv(Stronghold, Keegan) defeated Zilo(Dungeon, Sinithar)
Alex_nv(Dungeon, Sinithar) lost to Zilo(Stronghold, Haghesh)
Alex_nv(Stronghold, Krag) lost to Zilo(Necropolis, Lucretia)
Result: 1-2 in favor of Zilo

In the first and second games, the Barbarians utterly crushed the Dark Elves with a wild cry (I especially liked the Cyclops attack with luck against Black Dragons and Hydras - as a result, 8 dragons and 17 hydras died).
Third: Zilo got Chaos and used it skillfully, even though his magic power was 14. He only took troops of levels 1-4 and 12 Archliches. It's cool to see a necromancer with pyrokinesis. I thought everything was great (he got a Ring of Banishment and an artifact that silences magic), but things turned out differently. Thanks for the games. Good luck in the future!

[/U]From the match that started a week ago and ended today:
Leolopus - ArhAngel - final score 2-1 in favor of Leolopus

_ArhAngel_ vs JackFromShadowLand
_ArhAngel_(Humans, Iris) won JackFromShadowLand(Inferno, Jezebel)
_ArhAngel_(Inferno, Grok) lost JackFromShadowLand(Humans, Iris)
_ArhAngel_(Dungeon, Erin) won JackFromShadowLand(Dwarves, Brand)
Final score 2-1 in favor of ArhAngel

The third game was very difficult for me, even though my hero had good magic skills. My opponent had resurrection, which made the game very difficult for me – I had to stand on the corpses so that he wouldn't resurrect them. I won purely by luck here. Luckily, my troops and hero reached his hero first.

JackFromShadowLand, thank you very much for the games!

Alex_nv(Sylvan, Talanaar) lost to Zealot(Stronghold, Keegan)
Alex_nv(Stronghold, Shakarukat) won against Zealot(Sylvan, Anven)
Alex_nv(Necropolis, Lucrezia) won against Zealot(Necropolis, Vlad)
Result: 2-1 in favor of Alex_nv

In the first game, there were no decent Light spells (only Word) or Chaos spells (only Chain Lightning), and the artifacts were against the Barbarian :( The heroes were (starting Dirael, and Anven and Talanaar in the tavern). I somehow took Talanaar (probably because of Leadership) and decided to go into Chaos with a rain of enchanted arrows. I quickly regretted not taking Anven and waiting for Light :) Horde of Wrath, in a quantity of 5, quickly decimated the ranks of the Elves, starting, of course, with the Archers :( Empathy and high morale didn't help. And Chain Lightning was successfully deflected by resistance. I managed to kill the Executioners, Centaurs, and Cyclops, 2/3 of them. But the Daughters of Earth, who had reached level 3 of Wrath, together with the Warmongers (level 2) and Shamans (deflected magic once), quickly began to finish off the Elves :( Unicorns fought like lions, charged very often, but blinded only once (and that was with soldier's luck) when everything was already decided :(
The second game was basically similar to the first, but in reverse :) Horde of Wrath and all that...
The third game was quite long and interesting: I had improved attack and defense, more magic, slightly higher stats, Phoenix, Elementals, Crystal, and Mass Speed; my opponent had improved Luck, Elemental Equilibrium, Phoenix, Elementals, and Traps. And the troops were also a little different. Gradually, my warriors overcame his, although the traps caused a lot of trouble. Thanks for the games! Good luck!

Zealot (Orc, Haggesh) def Gastello (Dungeon, Irbet)
Gastello (Orc, Garuna) def Zealot (Dungeon, Sinithar)
Gastello (Necromancer, Zoltan) def Zealot (Dungeon, again Sinithar?)
Final score 2-1 in favor of Gastello
Only the 3rd game was tough, the Necromancer slowly but surely eliminated the Dungeon, and Zoltan helped with his special ability...
Thanks for the game!