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Oelm (blue, random Dungeon, random Deyja, Ciele) def Captain (green, random Swamp, random Tival, Greendan), Divided Loyalties, 137

I have never been this close to defeat before. Started off great, took a secondary town on 112, and revealed the entire map. Blue has the advantage of taking the top artifact before everyone else, so I head that way. Naturally, green comes from below and approaches the main castle; there was no Derty table yet at the time, and for some reason I gave the castle to green, whether I was confident in victory anyway or simply made an error in chain construction, I don't recall worrying about it. I pick up the assembled artifact — and it's the Statue of Legion! A good artifact, of course, but why did I give away the castle then?? An artillery unit settled in the castle, lots of various trash, I go down to the castle with Ciele, pick up bracers on the way, since I'm moving all troops together with no speed boost, I approach — there are efreets, wyverns and various trash; I can't take the castle, and she doesn't dare attack me in the field. Then I go to the bottom right teleport right under green's nose, there's the Sphere of Air; the game was postponed on 125. When I looked at the save, I thought for a long time about how to turn things around. It seemed I couldn't take back my own castle, and just running for the artifact would take too long — green would already gather troops. But on the other hand, I could reach red. So I do that, setting up a cunning chain to grab the artifact on 121 without losing main hero turns, and I plan to take the underground tree with Ciele. Here there was a blunder that could have cost the match. I placed Ciele in the castle (red Citadel), but didn't equip the artifact, resulting in the regular Citadel growth but with bears. The game was postponed again. The opponent offered to surrender 3-4 times already, but I think that with the Sphere, and the possibility of a Hive creature, it's too early to surrender. (This is especially for Roman, who thinks it's better to surrender and not torment the opponent.)

I take the tree — 17 Wyverns (6 necro), the opponent takes the Griffin Conservatory he was heading to, I take orange's main, there are no phoenixes or even citadels, so the Citadel cannot be given away. I go up to the library with Ciele, and bam — still level 9, 700 points to the next one, hmm. I go up, see the Boots artifact, well, at least I won't waste a turn for nothing, go there, visit the stadium and +1 to attack, go back to crash into the lizards.
Meanwhile, Greendan with Archmages crawls through the swamp toward my castle, and I foolishly recruit some golems guarding treasure chests. Well, now I have a bolt for 337, +29 golems, not bad. I go with Ciele to upgrade them and prepare for contact. Greendan moves away, but now I can reach him from the other side of the road. I crash into him with Ciele, take an external dwelling of Wyverns, and attack with bracers. I have everything around 10 somewhere + Intelligence + Implosion Bolt and Magic Arrow. But there are 2 Archmages, 8 Master Genies, 11 Master Minotaurs, and other meat. He casts Mass Slow on me, I cram everything into a corner and go into defense. In the second round, the Archmages fall, then I strike the Monarchs so they don't accidentally Age me. And in the end, it was clear I was winning, although only 5 golems remained. The opponent, not ready for such a turn of events, surrenders (and there were still many plans: taking the bottom Griffin Conservatory, the Hive creature, grabbing the Cyclops Tunic, and of course the possibility of upgrading the freak birds, etc., plus an advantage in control thanks to stables and gauntlets). But everything was decided much more simply.

Thank you, it wasn't easy!

P.S. Romantik never showed up.

Then there were glitches with diplomacy – the troops wouldn't join, but would just freeze. I checked in offline mode – the game crashes at this point if you attack.

Pit for LM (red, random Rampart, random Melody, ???) def invisible (blue, random Dungeon, random Deis, ???), Divided Loyalties, 116.

He refused to include a lottery with collections of items.

I don't understand the point of such a game or even a tournament.

Of course, there will be talk about imbalance - one player has a good hero, a stronger castle, and better artifacts...

Pit for LM (red, random Stronghold, random Shiva, Jabarkas) def Oelm (blue, random Conflux, random Thunar, ???), Divided Loyalties, 113.
The opponent opened the Cartographer on the third day, and realized that everything was bad for him and everything was good for me, which he immediately reported.
Thank you for the game.
01.05.2009 22:57