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

LeBron (red, Castle, Vale) def bRitvo4kA (blue, Barb, Gurney) 132 balanced
The template honestly deserves to be called unbalanced :D
From the start, the archers were decent but they weren't upgraded — 3rd hero is a dwarf, no one to level up — in the first battle I didn't turn off autobattle — lost 7 archers and 7 spearmen :( somewhere around 114 took a native village. At home I built cavalry in the Citadel — in general, everything was quite modest :)
By 124 I had 13 angels :D
126 I break the GO from 2 sides — crystal dragons and 99 skeletal liches
Ran around a bit more and then went to sleep :)
Thank you!

OUTLAW (red, Rampart, Kirr, Kirr) def Maggot (blue, Stronghold, Gurnisson, Gurnisson), 2SM4d(3), 1-4-6
We each took 113 res and 116 per meeting....
Started with 7 elves, then broke their external dwelling +7 more, roads were slow((. Broke into Danju's crypt, there broke 2 minotaur external dwellings, built a summoning portal — bought everyone out, at home — horses in the castle. At the native respawn — a utopia. On the second month I exclusively farmed gold. I goofed off the last 3 days (we played on 4-minute turns) and didn't upgrade the minotaurs or buy them from the portal, which would have given close to 50 total minotaurs by the finale, but it wasn't meant to be....
On the 3rd month: consuls — (2)-(2)-(3)-(4). Kirr gets skills like a seasoned mage, it's sad :mad:. I attack a utopia on day 141 — gave Sword +5 All, Shackles, Helm +4, upgrade for remaining troops, speed boost before GO (horde of mighty liches) and on 145, having broken through GO, I take the empty capital, take the consul (2) next to the castle... On his turn, Gurn retakes his hometown and on 146 dies there from 13 Angels, 85 Grands, 33 King Minotaurs, 13 Unicorns, 20+ Silver Pegasi, 20+ Grand Dwarves, and 20+ Grand Centaurs.....
Thanks for the game, Evgeny, and good luck in your future games!!!
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LeBron (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) def bRitvo4kA (blue, Stronghold, Gunnison, Gunnison), Balanse, 132

The opponent ate cans at his respawn (2+2+2+4+4) and also luckily found my capital quickly, which prevented me from moving out the growth. Continuing the game is hopeless, the army is 3 times stronger. Thanks for the game.

Wlk777 (blue, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar) def Дубровин Павел (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska), 2sm4d(3), 144.
In general, nothing very interesting. I got a great spawn: 3 Griffin Conservatories at the respawn and 2 at the start of the neighboring area, a Dragon Fly Hive with 6 Wyverns in front of the castle, and an external dwelling with Serpents. Nothing good happened on the first week; I frantically clicked around the respawn looking for money and barely managed to get the Wyverns into the Citadel. On the second week, I took that Dragon Fly Hive with 6, cleared a lot of Crypts, took a Conservatory with 2, a Naga Bank with 3 Nagas. Mass Slow appeared. By the third week, I started taking the remaining Conservatories — turned out to be 2 with 3 and another 1 with 2, for a total of 12 Angels. No speed Logistics or artifacts. Then a glitch happened: my capital turned gray, and I couldn't take troops from it for the rest of the game. All that was left was to go at the opponent with an army of roughly 12 Angels, 13 groups of Wyverns, and 30+ groups of Serpents. In short, I caught the opponent in the castle and won thanks to Tactics and Mass Slow. Although the victory is more the generator's than mine. Thanks for the game.

Wlk777 (blue, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar) def Dubrovin Pavel (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska), 2sm4d(3), 144.
Thank you for the game.

Confirmed!

The map width is the size of a screen square, there are no mines for Ore, and the secondary Fortress costs 10-19 Gold. Pegasi cannot break through with 22 Archers. There are Horses in the Castle, which I had to fight for and defend against Archers (Lizards and Water Elementals) with 2 groups of Trees, because the mine had no Trees at all.
The other secondary Fortress was taken on the second week.
The third week - a secondary Castle, no Conflux, nothing, the treasury was also empty, I lost more than 30 Archers there due to the Champions and Horses losing morale... but it wasn't just about the Gloves...
I didn't like the map; I had to survive rather than play...
Restarted...

Thank you for the game!

OUTLAW (red, Rampart, Kirr, Kirr) def Maggot (blue, Stronghold, Gurnisson, Gurnisson), 2SM4d(3), 1-4-6

Confirmed.
Well, what can I say, my skill level is extremely low. This time, I played terribly, reaching level 3 in the second week :(( On one hand, it's funny, but on the other, it's frustrating). By the final, the GG had the strongest stack, with 8 horned creatures.:D
OUTLAW, thank you for the enjoyable time :)

DioNIX (red, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) def Maggot (blue, Castle, Valeska, Valeska), 2SM4d(3), 142
Mojno skazat'eto bilo tehni4ekiy win, t.k. na poslednie 3 dnya vse vremya zanovo gruzili saves, t.k. viletalo, posle gde-to 10 popitki nadoelo...
113 vzyal vtori4ku Fortress, srazu je vyvernov vikupil
ne smog do konca nedeli postavit'edinorogov, t.k. ne nashlis'vovremya crystalli dlya pegasov, hotya na4inal s bonusom ih.
132 zahvatil conflux, srazu eshe na capitolliy hvatilo.
bral prakti4eski vse podryad, gnomyatnu, sklepi, medusyatnu raznie
k 141 Kyrre 4/8/4/7 10 lvl logistica i archery expert, armor, offence, resistance basic i adv wisdom, planirovalos' vzyat' earth a air v univeristete confluxa!
u oppa v eto vremya ne bilo voisk i vtori4ki...
spasibo za igru ;-)

DioNIX (red, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) def Maggot (blue, Castle, Valeska, Valeska), 2SM4d(3), 142

I confirm, there's nothing more to say.
Thank you for the game.

LeBron (red, Swamp, Wistane) def numOne (blue, Castle, Valya) 131 2sm4d(3)
took both rest zones — out of stupidity :D the third one generated quite tolerably.
111 Bows not fortified, their 25 — we scatter noobs on flies
112 Wistane takes the crypt for 2k and the attack upgrade for walking experience in the form of zombies :)
113 all exits on the roads are lit — in one spot 20-49 gr. stone golems or 20-49 gr. medusas, in another 10-19 sharpshooters, in the third 20-49 gr. fire elementals — so we'll just farm for now :)
114 ran across the entire map with my main to the dwarf dwelling hoping to see 50-100 dwarves — but there's a hundred — didn't go in without gr. bows :) noob got a sword +3
115 noob clears the niche, taking 3 treasure chests and a pile of gold; Wistane stands on the crypt
116 noob transfers the army to Wistane — he clears the crypt and hits the guard for the grass: 20 gr. fire elementals
117 Peak stupidity — losing my Wyvern on 17 gr. ogres :confused: I sit in Castle — homes 1-6 without Valya in the castle
121 army delivery — I take one Griffin Conservatory and stand on the angel near the Dragon Fly Hive
122 I take the Dragon Fly Hive for 6 and enter the treasure zone — on the other end of the map, Boots are lit; the army is transferred there — Wistane on the angel in the treasure zone is upgraded, the little noob takes the Boots; on the way, bows are being upgraded
123 the army rides to Wistane — we kill 75 ogres for the Cloak of Condemnation — got a log
124 Dragon Fly Hive for 4 for 12 efreets
125 another Dragon Fly Hive for 8
126 for 10 gr. hydras I take a shield +3+3 and a Dragon Fly Hive for 6; I break through back home — Wistane is level 14 with expert earth, tactics, earth, archery, and armor — I stand before the GO
127 the little noob takes that dwarf dwelling that Wistane was afraid to go in on the first turn — turned out to be the maximum! — with that money, upgraded 27 Wyverns — I hit the GO and sit in Castle of Valya who already stuck angels on the first turn
on 131 she attacks — no chance, GG
Thank you!

LeBron (red, swamp, Wist) def numOne (blue, Castle, Valya) 131 2sm4d(3)

Confirmed!
GO - a horde of hydras, coming from my Castle. I felt something was off the whole game, knowing LeBron's pace :smile09: and in the end I was right - end of the second week - gg.
I got a decent roll too, archers not built, but plenty of gold and resources were paid off, external market. I immediately decided I'd build Angels in the first week and managed it. Valya moved quickly up on the first turn - turned out to be GO. I head down, there's also swamp terrain behind a group of Gr. Pegasi. I cleared (the back guard, though they roughed me up quite a bit) and moved to pick up a secondary hero - but there's a block of a horde of Magma Elementals guarding a suspension... yep, turn back. I ran around near the Castle to gather some gold for feathered ones. I took a max tomb with 19 Marksmen, 4 Swordsmen, and 2 Wasps, losing 2 Wasps and 2 Swordsmen.
Second week - Medusae, Dwarf dwelling, Imp dwelling. I move towards the Grif. Conservatory. Scouted with a scout - a triple, hmm.. No mana, but I decided to take it anyway. Bought the rest from the castle and went in. Came out with only 3 Angels and 5 Marksmen :smile04:.. And on the same turn, Dima breaks the GO and takes my Castle. That's essentially it...

Thanks for the game and the experience.

Pavel Dubrovin (Red, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar) def Blacpoint (Blue, Castle, Valeska, Turis), 2sm4d(3), 1.4.4.

On the first week - external dwelling of Lizardmen, native secondary. 1-6 without Basilisks in the Castle. Scouted a Dragon Utopia on native and a Dragon Utopia on secondary. Both got native secondary towns.

On the second week - on native, 2-3 moves from Main, 2 external dwellings of Gorgons and 1 of Dragonflies were captured, secondary of Tower.

On the third week - 2 Mini Hives, a Minimal Dragon Utopia (Angel Wings), in the Treasure took a +3 Necklace of All, in another Treasure a Dragon Utopia is revealed, I'm standing at it.

On the fourth week - on 1.4.1. I lose Main, because the opponent came breaking through 20-49 Bone. I take 2 Double Dragon Utopias (Hat +4+4, Helm of All, Book of Fire, Black Ball, Golden Bow), I take Main back.
We meet with Mains, on my side 50 Gorgons, 120+ Lizardmen, the rest of the army was stronger than the opponent's army.

Thanks for the game, why aren't all respawns such freebies:) !

Dubrovin Pavel (Red, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar) def Blacpoint (Blue, Castle, Valeska, Turis), 2sm4d(3), 1.4.4.

In the only available match, I didn't find anything good. Plus, on turn 121, I lost 50 copies and 5 champions, and a couple of maxed units, and I thought I was going to lose, but the morale that came at the right time helped me win that battle. As a result, I had to use the money I earned to buy and upgrade griffins. I didn't find any Utopia, so half of my units remained unbought.
It was a good game. Thank you for the match.

bRitvo4kA (blue, Rampart, Kirr, Mephala) def KostyaN (red, Stronghold, Gurnisson, Gurnisson), 2SM4d(3), 137
-my heroes-opponent's heroes
I prepared for a long game, 3 main heroes + a mage who knew the "Raise Dead" spell.
Thanks to Kostya for the game!

bRitvo4kA (blue, Rampart, Kyrre, Mephala) def KostyaN (red, Stronghold, Gunnisson, Gunnisson), 2SM4d(3), 137

Confirmed!
The most awful game in terms of my stupidity turned out:mad: . And the fact that, as you can see from the screenshot, with Expert Earth there's no spell book - that's not even the worst part:D .
But generally speaking, I played online as Stronghold only the second time, and even then the 1st was "for fun" looong ago with Cash, where he wiped me out with an Expert Armageddon on a Miner around month 3, despite all my external dwellings (of all levels, except cyclopes:eek: ).

111. 4 heroes, already have 2 useful artifacts: a medal for morale and a ring for attack/defense:smile02: , from the scout saw 3 roads, 2 orc external dwellings.
112. +2 heroes, the first external dwelling behind the blue caps was taken by a scout hero.
113. +another 1 scout hero - a money one:) , all passage guards are revealed: over 20 gray harpies on the snow, a horde of gogs - into the underground, ГО are united, well, and suspicious up to 100 white centaurs guarding nothing - could it be the native secondary town:p ?? sent dad on thunderbirds + stable:smile02: .
114. scout hits the centaurs, but still doesn't reach the secondary town along the very long and also slow roads, clearing the respawn besides resources and gold brought a skull +2 to Knowledge.
115. finally Stronghold №2, Gunn gets Tactics.
116. mice fuss:D - neither dad levels up, nor anything useful is done at all, except that the scout near the secondary town was recaptured...
117. at home bears crammed into the fort with last strength and partial resource exchange, in the secondary town - rocs in the fort as well.

121. the whole mob did God knows what all day, but the save clearly shows that in the evening the whole gang rushed to the stables together, elbowing each other and whatever came to hand - as is customary in the best Barbarian houses:D - it's really very funny to watch how their "trajectories" interfered with each other only:rolleyes: ...
122. the scout hero ran to capture the second orc external dwelling, while dad is only level 3:p - a new noob record (and can you manage to "stall" like that for 10 days:D ?), learn while I'm alive:cool: .
123. also nothing worthwhile:( .
124. dad hits golems, drunkenly stumbles into an unchecked booth with Leadership (good thing it's not Eagle Eye or Navigation:rolleyes: ), and his meager wit isn't enough to buy that book for Advanced Earth:o ...
125. I beat 30+ nimble eyes, run along the tricky road to the snow secondary town.
127. the Tower secondary town is painted, Gunn is level 5 - damn:smile35:, in Stronghold I frantically built citadels:D .

In short, I got tired of describing this disgrace:( . By week 3 all forces were directed at a patch of native respawn with a Cloak +2 speed, Griffin Conservatory, Hive and Dragon Utopia. The cloak for 45+45 flies was taken by a zero-level scout-mage, and then Gunn took 2 angels and 6 ducks, checked the Dragon Utopia - tier 3, wanted to turn back, but since my Stronghold secondary town had already been taken and there were no bright prospects, nor money, I decided to give battle to the greedy dragons - with an army of 3 bears, 2 angels, 6 Wyverns, 16 yellow birds and fodder:D :D :D and without a spell book:smile52: . The outcome is clear to any remotely competent player... Seriously - it was my only chance to buy decently on 141:confused: .... Later I checked what was in it: sword +5 to everything and shield +12, holy crap(((, and with 2 more bears it would have been taken with the loss of all the fodder, 2 bears and a few birds...

PS. And Andrey's treasure zone was such that when I looked at it after the game - my jaw dropped to my knees: 90% of guards are walkers, artifacts as if picked on purpose (КЗ, ГБ, boots, wings etc.), a couple of Hives, a Library and 3 Dragon Utopias nearby, and a scatter of Pandora's boxes with external dwellings for his necro-secondary town:eek: :eek: :eek: . The generation just works out that way sometimes!
PPS. But in my first generation I had a random wonder: boots + gloves on 111 without any losses to my troops on them:cool:

Thanks to Andrey for the game and the lesson in how NOT to play as Barbs:D !

Pavel Dubrovin (Red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) def numOne (Blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti), 2sm4d(3), 1.4.7.

Respawn tiny, completable in 1 turn, and so in each direction. There were no external dwellings, well at least Cons gave me my own Generator.

In the first week — road only to 1 secondary with 20-49 Earth Elementals with a Gr. Stack. Took Rampart and an external dwelling of Pegasi. 1-4 in Castle. Didn't have enough Wood for Horses at all, because the Wood Mine was thrown somewhere behind a Mountain and blocked. And on the Secondary it was also thrown and blocked.

In the second week — broke through the road to the Treasure, sent a scout there, who found the Book of Earth among useful things and +5 to Spell Power.

In the third week — Shield +6 on the Native, 3 Conflux level-2 dwellings, one on the Native and two on the Rampart's Respawn. Broke through off-road to another Rampart Respawn. Stopped 1 move from Teleport.

In the fourth week — on 1.4.2. I take Andrey's empty Main, thankfully Shakti wasn't there, Valya went to the Treasure for the Book of Earth (10-19 White Bears) and +5 to Power (40 Cyclopes). In 4 Castles they didn't give Slow, went for the Bears without it. Got these Artifacts exactly on point, barely managed to Town Portal to the Dungeon to Andrey, who decided to take it back with scouts along the 2nd chain and by sending Papa there. Revealed with my scout a Dragon Utopia on the opponent's secondary Respawn (Conflux). With 5% probability that it hasn't been taken yet, I don't reach it by 1 cell. Shakti is right there, attacks.

Both had Explosion. At 1000 for me and 1300 for Shakti, it's a pity that 4 Angels halved my Archers, and my 6 Angels were taken away by Explosion on the very first move.
From Andrey's army, the good stuff was 40+ Viv, the rest was small stuff. Having an advantage in Mana amount, 140 to 80, emerged from the Battle with 2 Resurrected Angels and under 100 Spears with 1 Champ.
Andrey bought himself out and went to his Main, where there was a Well and the opportunity to not be caught by Valya. Valya fortunately had enough moves to take Conflux and to run through Town Portal to the Dungeon to Shakti, who capitulated.

Thank you Andrey for the game!