Posts from Reports on online games and their confirmations (Winter 2009 season).

Kash (Blue, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) def drunkenstein (Red, Dungeon, Gunnar, Gunnar), 2sm4d(3), 134

First week, Pegasi at the Citadel with an external dwelling of Dendroids, secondary town is Castle, but only a Tavern there.
Second week, I found another secondary Castle, closer to the opponent. Home is Castle, both secondary towns have Citadels, three Mage Guilds — no Slow anywhere, and Kyrre only gets Earth magic at level 11, so it's already irrelevant.
131 Gunnar attacks the secondary town and immediately retreats — Kyrre is there with Centaurs and Elves. 133 Kyrre with 36 Grand Elves + 57 Grand Archers + all Pegasi and Unicorns half a turn away from the opponent's capital, and he decides not to continue.
Thanks for the game. Gunnar for Dungeon — that's bold

Kash (Blue, Rampart, Kirr, Kirr) def drunkenstein (Red, Dungeon, Gunnar, Gunnar), 2sm4d(3), 134

confirmed

Mizrael (red, Castle, Caitlin, ?) def Oelm (blue, Fortress, Tazar, Gunnar) 2sm4d(3), 115

Was born in the center, starting army was a bit weak (17+36), was 1 tile short of the scouting view, chose a suboptimal tactic blindly. Instead of using Taz to capture the external dwelling of wyverns and then push through with a decent army, I moved straight to the adjacent respawn of a Castle secondary hero. Decided to save dragonflies for the crypts on 20 basilisks:D went in with goblins and wolves. Despite not positioning optimally, they also petrified the goblins twice in a row, resulting in -20 gnolls, 2 stacks. Then I needed a boost, built cows, and a chain for gathering resources. But I noobishly lost a cow immediately on centaurs, took the auto, and then even with Gunnar couldn't break through 50 gr zombies. Considering that I saw a passage to the opponent's likely Castle secondary, I decided not to continue, as the tempo was nonexistent.

Thank you.

SpiriTT (red, Conflux, random, Moner) def Ahivog (blue, Stronghold, Kreg, Kreg) 146 2sm4d(3)

Confirmed... due to diploma and work... I won't be playing for a while... I apologize for the delay!

Thank you for the game.

LeBron (blue, necro, Gosha) def Loi (red, dungeon, Shakti) 126 2sm4d(3)
Only Moner or Gosha can be stronger than Shakti :)
Born surprisingly at the top: 2 stacks and Ignat with 2 stacks:smile13: on the first turn I knocked out Moner with fairies for speeding up
112 Scouted the Griffin Conservatory: stronghold is too early
113-117 hiding liches, vamps, skeletons already under 200 scouted the entire respawn, scout heroes broke through to the secondary, took the snow took a castle
121 Gosha takes the Griffin Conservatory with just skeletons without losses (a previously scouted two-unit stack) and breaks into the tower
Then we go into the treasure zone along the road - there's only a Dragon Fly Hive for 4 :(
We come out to the necro secondary - and the reds are already there in full swing
I take the necro castle - I wanted to upgrade the skeletons but the opponent had already spent the building - I had to do without the upgrade - I see the Griffin Conservatory, I thought Shakti had already claimed it. Checked with a scout hero stronghold+Logs:smile49: capitulation
Thank you

LeBron (blue, necro, Gosha) def Loi (red, dungeon, Shakti) 126 2sm4d(3)

It happened. I spawned in the center in the Underground with one slot, after picking up Resource Silvers where a Harpy Hag regularly visited me. I improved slightly with 2 Troglodyte pickups, but Shakti went the wrong way into a dead end, losing three turns on the return—which is unacceptable when playing at such a tempo. On the second turn, I spent a scout on a Trog maximum-level Griffin Conservatory, then ran to another Trog Griffin Conservatory. Then the blue player arrived; I only managed to pick up a Treant, and tried to make it to the maximum-level conservatory, but alas—LeBron didn't give me a chance. After he took the maximum-level conservatory, my slim chances turned into ghostly ones.
Thanks for the game!

Vigo (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) def Злой романтик (blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) 2sm4d(3), 115

There were several restarts. And then I get a micro-restart, practically with nothing, but an artifact for archers! - let's play!
Scouting revealed a secondary Swamp with a sunken ship, artifact +2 attack/knowledge and easy passage through wasteland to the Conflux grass.
D1, take artifact for 14 gold with demons.
D1, Valka 5.3.3.4 and breaks through to Conflux. The opponent didn't have luck.

Thanks for the game.

P.S. And with 50 troglodytes at Шахтёр's - even I take the maximum crypt ;)

Vigo (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) def Злой романтик (blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) 2sm4d(3), 115

It was a thing... on the only road there was a pack of Efreeti, out of the entire crowd exactly 50 Troglodytes remained, and after casting the view spell, I saw there was nowhere to go, all exits were blocked by shooters and not a single external dwelling. I decided not to drag it out...
Thanks for the game

Loi(red,ramp,Kyrre,Kyrre)def Hard Case(blue,dunj,Shakti,Shakti) 2sm4d(3) 134
On the first week got horses in the Citadel, weird central spawn, nothing there, ran through the long tube to the secondary Castle. On the second saw blue blinks behind the guard of an adjacent zone, broke through into the secondary Dungeon, sent a scout hero into a pile of gold, but blues didn't attack for some reason. Quick Kyrre quickly hoovered everything around, blues left — presumably into the treasure zone. At the start of the third learned Mass Slow and, after dividing, stood in front of the green treasure zone, where a Dragon Utopia had been spotted since the first week. Then came the news of the surrender.
Thanks for the game.

Loi(red,ramp,Kyrre,Kyrre) def Тяжелый случай(blue,dunj,Shakti,Shakti) 2sm4d(3) 134

I blew a good setup)) In the first three days, I took a single Griffin Conservatory, an external dwelling of minotaurs, and built a portal. And then, for almost three weeks, I horribly stalled)) At the end of the first week, I took the swamp and the conflux one after another. On the second week, I ran into the opponent's respawn, transferred the minotaur offspring (ended up with 20 units), but didn't attack. I took a minimal naga bank and left. Then there were pandora's boxes with 10k experience and 20k + 5k gold. At level 15, after diligently leveling Wisdom, I ventured deep into the treasure zone, lost half my army, and smiled as I discovered I had no spell book))) There was no one left to go forward with, and going back would be long and foolish)
Thanks for the game)

LeBron (red, swamp, Vistan) def Blacpoint (blue, Castle, Valya) 136, 2sm4d(3)
Excellent start — archers are built, Vistan has 3 stacks, the second hero has 4 flies(!) straight out of a TE game :) roads are slow and long though, but that's the swamp for you :)
Right away I started messing up — instead of upgrading the archers, I placed nothing at all on the first turn :confused: ended up without an upgrade on the first week
on week 1, day 1, I broke through to grass via Gargoyles, near the castle I uncovered an observation post — 2 Gnoll stacks and Boots — but very far away on an adjacent roadless respawn
On week 1, day 2, 2 crypts are activated, collected some gold, built Dragon Flies, the main hero was 1 tile short of reaching the Castle secondary hero
On week 1, day 3, the main takes the secondary and a crypt with 5 Vampires using only archers and Gnolls with almost no losses
On week 1, day 4, delivery of 2 Wyverns and the next crypt in the backyard — maximum! On the grass I manage to take it with a loss of 8 Gnolls :cool: got Earth Magic
On week 1, day 5, further I set up a chain for the Boots — put the best mage, Brissa, at the spearhead
On week 1, day 6, the scout hero for some reason charges into a 200 Imp fight :confused: loses 30 Gnolls due to a clumsy setup, the Boots are called off :(
On week 1, day 7, Vistan breaks through to the second secondary, revealing a Griffin Conservatory along the way, bought Gosha, at home week 1-6 in Castle — was thinking of building Hydras, but decided to buy more archers on week 2, day 1
On week 2, day 1, the main finally reached the Conflux secondary — bought a Spell Book, transferred army to the opposite flank for the Boots
On week 2, day 2, took the Boots, transferred back to the main, who takes the Minotaur Conservatory and breaks through home — there's GM1 Slow — hurray!
On week 2, day 3, I run off-road toward the Griffin Conservatory and Dragon Fly Hive, Brissa scouts the respawn for Valya and doesn't find her yet
On week 2, day 4, Griffin Conservatory — tier 3 without any losses, Dragon Fly Hive with 6 Wyverns
On week 2, day 5, I run to the previously spotted portal in the treasure zone
On week 2, day 6, Griffin Conservatory — minimal, I enter the portal — Desert :( totally bleak without Passthrough, I built Hydras at home
On week 3, day 1, I run to the next portal — thought it was the treasure zone!!! But there the blue player kills a no-growth hero — I want to bring reinforcements next turn. On hand: 5 Angels, 47 Greater Basilisks, 4 Mass Slow spells each lasting 6 rounds, 12 Wyverns, 8 Manticores, and single stacks of Dragon Flies — I was sure Valya would get scared and hole up in the castle — but no! She attacked. She has 8 Angels, 10 Champions, 20 Marksmen, and some small fry :eek: has a book with Cure — so Mass Slow is no longer relevant — Valya's parameters are higher — has Offense and Armorer — in melee almost no chance — I decide to play for attrition — take down 5 Angels and 6 Champions, retreat all Marksmen
On week 3, day 2, I rebuy at the secondary and run as close to Valya as possible, set up with Flies+Boots+Stables +++ and then Valya pulled off something that took me a long time to recover from :eek: she stood next to the teleporter with 1+1+1 Pikemen!!!
On week 3, day 3, with Tactics and 26 Flies I kill Valya, run to the opponent's castle — he breaks through home with the scout hero — didn't dare attack — after all, Hydras aren't assault creatures — I run to find the 2nd treasure zone and almost find it... but
surrender
thank you!

StickyFingaz (red, Rampart, Kyrre) def злой романтик (blue, Castle, Valessa) 113 2sm4d

LeBron (red, swamp, Wistan) def Blacpoint (blue, castle, Valya) 136, 2sm4d(3)

The beginning was promising, as always. Archers were built, and I managed to get 25 marksmen, which isn't bad. Not far from the castle, I found a training ground and a gold golem spawn:D, which can be taken on the first turn. I break through to the lava and take Inferno. Blacpoint scouts and finds 3 (!) resource piles standing next to each other:cool:. On turn 116, with 2 champions (the stable was right next to the castle:)), I attack with 25 marksmen, 4 cruisers, 17 + 1 + 1 + 1 spearmen, and a ballista, killing almost 40 golems with minimal losses. I take the horse hut. On turn 117, I take a minimal medusa hut. On turn 121, I get 10 horsemen, naturally upgraded. Then, with 3 resource piles + 8 angels. At home, I finish building the guild of mages and monks. The plan for turn 3 is to get a horseman upgrade, a resource pile on the lava, and Utopia there as well. And then, to rush the blue player with arachnids. But it didn't quite work out. Already on turn 131, Wistan, looking like a formidable battleship, stands at my gates, having previously killed Blacpoint. He killed him, I think to myself, clearly without a turn 131 upgrade, otherwise, it would have been a red rush, so on turn 132, he'll get the upgrade, and who knows what he has in store. Either now or never, I attack. He has a tactic. He positions his units to protect his archers. And after a wait, he uses angels to slow me down with a magic power of 6:smile11:. I thought it was over. But Valkyrie's dad was a plumber and taught her not to give in to anyone, so moral principles kicked in, you know. And we started pushing the swamp creatures with a broom. That's it.
After that, my younger brother played, because I can't bring myself to offend people, I just can't.:D
Thanks for the game :)

StickyFingaz (red, Rampart, Kyrre) def злой романтик (blue, Castle, Valeska) 113 2sm4d

It happened..After all the resets, the most awkward respawn, even to take the ore mine I had to go around a shifted GO...

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Злой_романтик (Blue, Stronghold, Gurni, Gurni) def AZ (Red, Inferno, Pirr, Pirr) 2sm4d(3) 212
on the first map I saw 3(!) external dwellings of cyclopes, I had to change my entire tactic and focus on them. Somehow on month 1 week 1 day 7 I plugged them into the fort and took 1 external dwelling
On the second map I took the remaining 2 external dwellings + a secondary dungeon. At home a severe lack of gold — only the Stronghold... Afterwards I ran around, took 2 naga banks, where because of morale I lost almost all my birds, and the minimal hive... On month 2 week 1 day 1 I cleared everything possible on my respawn, decided to hit GO, stood nearby and waited for the losers with additional cyclopes and fodder.. Then I see from the other side that Pirr herself attacked GO, broke through, but didn't come at me.. On month 2 week 1 day 2 having gotten another 10 cyclopes and some fodder I attacked myself... thanks to 38 cyclopes I managed to win quite easily...
Thanks for the game.

Zloy_romantik (Blue, Castle, Gurney, Gurney) def AZ (Red, Inferno, Pyrrh, Pyrrh) 2sm4d(3) 212

I confirm. Honestly, I should have restarted the game back on turn 111 when I saw that I only had one road, and it led to 98 nagas... But I was stopped only by the fact that the hut near the castle gave a "scout." And I ended up in a situation where, on turn 211, due to the insane morale of the nagas – especially the royal ones – I decimated half of my Inferno army. Although my army would have been able to defeat the opponent's army even if he had broken through my defenses without any losses... But what can you do....